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Book - Ref: FHP-018
Fifth edition. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson. 52 pages. ISBN 1-86006-134-6.
Bishop's Transcripts were copies from parish registers sent annually to the Bishop of the Diocese. Marriage licences were permissions to marry - an alternative to Banns. The allegation (the statement by the couple) may include residence, occupation, and age - maybe extra information not in the marriage register. The bond (up to 1823) may have names of friends or relatives who are bound in a sum of money if conditions are not met. The extensive range of documents and indexes available for England, Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man is described with explanations and dates of the records throughout with useful county maps detailing ecclesiastical jurisdictions.
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Book - Ref: FHP-020
Third edition. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers. 48 pages. ISBN 978-1-906280-13-0
.The new, throughly revised edition, of this indispensible guide is an attempt to itemise all extant coroner's records in England and Wales which are now in public repositories. It is intended not only for genealogists, but also for a number of other potential users of these records, such as historians, archivists, sociologists, criminologists, police, and for the coroners themselves, who are not always aware of the records which their offices have generated over time. Although there are special rules concerning access to records less than 75 years old, and material in some areas is regularly being destroyed once it is over 15 years old, a wealth of information may still be available
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Book - Ref: FHP-113
By Jeremy Gibson. 64 pages. ISBN 978-1-906280-08-6
With parliamentary reform of 1832, official Electoral Registers came into being. These were annual lists of names and addresses of those with the (property) right to vote, extended periodically to end with the universal adult suffrage we know today.
This new Guide to Electoral Registers completely replaces the similarly named Guide that last appeared in 1990.
The listing is now arranged, under county, by constituency, showing the boundary and name changes of 1885 and 1918, and concluding before those of 1948. This has cleared ambiguities in the earlier Guide. Of major importance is the inclusion of the vast British Library collection, previously omitted, and much expanded coverage of that of the National Library of Wales. Record Offices were circulated and extensive searches by archivists have clarified and extended details of holdings countrywide. Whilst since 1948 the British Library has a complete collection of these Registers for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, for earlier periods, particularly before 1914, survival in much less comprehensive. This Guide brings together as far as possible information on all holdings of Registers, in contrast to the excellent British Library Guide to Parliamentary Constituencies (1998, new edition in preparation) and catalogues for other record offices and libraries, which are all confined just to their own collections.
Also included are Burgess Rolls of voters in Borough elections, often preceding 1832 and continuing into the twentieth century; and any similar-seeming lists.
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Book - Ref: FHP-024
Second edition. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson, Mervyn Medlycott, and Dennis Mills. 72 pages. ISBN 1-86006-054-4
The Land Tax was introduced in the late 17th century and was only finally abolished in the mid=20th. Its value to family historians (and indeed many others) is that it lists, year by year, the names of the proprietors of land in each parish, and also (in theory) the names of the actual occupiers. It can also give some indication of the economic standing of those named. The same can be said for Window Taxes, although not so many of the latter records have survived. A county-by-county listing shows the dates and whereabouts of Land and Window Tax returns for England and Wales, and associated sources.
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Book - Ref: FHP-023
Third edition. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson and Mervyn Medlycott. 52 pages. ISBN 1-86006-052-2
There are an unexpected quantity of 'quasi-censuses' pre-dating the decennial national census, whose records survive in unexpected quantity. They include locally retained census enumeration lists made for 1801-1831 which included names of individuals, and many others in earlier centuries. For the first time these are comprehensively listed for the whole of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
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Book - Ref: FHP-015
Second edition. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson, Brett Langston, and Brenda W. Smith. 82 pages. ISBN 1-86006-157-5
Newspapers are a quite different source to most of those used by family historians. They respected no county boundaries, and by their ephemeral nature it is amazing that any have survived at all. The long-awaited second edition of this invaluable guide lists all newspapers published locally in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man between 1750 and 1920 (except for titles which lasted for less than four years). The basis for the guide is the catalogue of the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, supplemented by information provided by libraries and record offices throughout the country. Indexes to personal names or obituaries, births, marriages and deaths are also noted where known.
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Book - Ref: FHP-028
Ninth edition. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson, Elizabeth Hampson and Stuart Raymond. 36 pages. ISBN 978-1-906280-02-4.
All family historians will know that the most elusive vital facts in their research are the marriages of their ancestors. This comes down to the simple matter that it has always been normal for the wedding to take place in the bride's parish, but thereafter, of course, they live in that of the groom.
enealogists have always recognised this problem, and a century ago Percival Boyd was probably the earliest to attempt a wide-ranging series of marriage indexes. Most of these were confined to individual counties, though he also initiated a miscellaneous index transcending county boundaries. Since the advent of family history societies, marriage indexes have proliferated, and exist in some form for most if not all counties, at least in England and Wales. The need for family historians to be aware of what marriage indexes are available has long been recognised in the Gibson Guides series, with the first appearing almost 20 years ago. There have been many editions since, some including Census Indexes and Specialist Indexes. Such is the growth of these finding aids that this new edition, the first for seven years, is once again confined just to Marriage Indexes (a new edition of Specialist Indexes will be published shortly). For the first time internet websites and email addresses are featured prominently.
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Book - Ref: FHP-019
Fourth edition. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson and Meryvn Medlycott. 48 pages. ISBN 1-86006-123-0.
During the 18th and early 19th centuries parishes were liable to provide a small number of men from training, but these were initially chosen from most able-bodied men. Thus lists of all those eligible had to be drawn up, from which the ballot was made, and where these survive (between 1757 and 1831) they provide a quasi census. The Posse Comitatus (1798) and Lev
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Book - Ref: FHP-171
Second edition. By Jeremy Gibson, Colin Rogers, and Cliff Webb. 72 pages. ISBN 1-86006-038-2.
This comprehensive listing comes in four volumes: Parts 1-3 list the records of the Unions created under the New Poor Law of 1834, until their abolition in 1930. Records of earlier combinations of places to relieve the poor under Acts of Parliament are also included, but not the old poor law records of individual parishes. Locally held records are mostly in county record offices, and smaller borough archive collections, and there is also a great deal of material for all unions in The National Archives. Detailed references are provided in these listings, and county sketch maps show union boundaries.
Vol. 1 in this series covers Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, London, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, and Sussex.
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By Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers. 69 pages. ISBN 978-1-906280-10-9.
This comprehensive listing comes in four volumes: Parts 1-3 list the records of the Unions created under the New Poor Law of 1834, until their abolition in 1930. Records of earlier combinations of places to relieve the poor under Acts of Parliament are also included, but not the old poor law records of individual parishes. Locally held records are mostly in county record offices, and smaller borough archive collections, and there is also a great deal of material for all unions in The National Archives. Detailed references are provided in these listings, and county sketch maps show union boundaries.
Covering Cheshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Durham, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Westmorland, Worcestershire, Yorkshire (East, North, West Ridings).
For this new edition (the first since 1997) record offices have been freshly circulated. Archivists have gone to great trouble to ensure that entries reflect the fresh cataloguing of the past decade. Numerous changes of repository are also updated. New finding aids and publications are shown.
For this new edition (the first since 1994) record offices have been freshly circulated. Archivists have gone to great trouble to ensure that entries reflect the fresh cataloguing of the past decade. Numerous changes of repository are also updated. New finding aids and publications are shown.
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Book - Ref: FHP-173
Second edition. By Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers. 72 pages. ISBN. 1-86006-040-4.
Covering Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire & Bristol, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and all of Wales
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Book - Ref: FHP-174
Second edition. By Jeremy Gibson and Frederic A. Youngs Jr. 76 pages. ISBN. 1-86006-062-5.
A county-by-county listing of each poor-law union and its constituent places in England and Wales. Also useful when seeking places within civil registration and census districts
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Book - Ref: FHP-029
Fifth edition. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson, with assistance from Else Churchill, Tony Foster and Richard Ratcliffe. 40 pages + inside covers. ISBN 978-1-906280-02-4
Quarter Sessions records are potentially the most useful source for filling in the background in family history research. In addition to the Sessions' role as judicial authority in cases of minor crime (which continued until 1972), they were the administrative body of each county before the establishment of county councils. Dating from medieval times, their records often extend back to Tudor times (or even earlier). Although not intended as a genealogical source, records of settlement and, occasionally, apprenticeship may provide such direct evidence. More relevant is the 'lucky dip' which may mention family members as magistrates, offenders or witnesses, holders of minor administrative office and a host of other occupations. Categories of likely use are listed on the inside cover. Much depends on the current organisation of the records, their condition, cataloguing and indexing. This Guide will tell you just what is there, what is reasonably accessible, and so on, in the usual style of a Gibson Guide. Quarter Sessions Records, first published in 1982, has been a valuable part of the series and this new edition, the first for twelve years, and now incorporating internet website and email information, will be widely welcomed.
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Book - Ref: FHP-021
Compiled by Jeremy Gibson and Alan Dell. 84 pages. ISBN 1-86006-006-4.
The Protestation, a form of oath of loyalty, ostensibly to the King, but in fact to Parliament, was initiated in the House of Commons in May 1641, when Members themselves took it. Nine months later the scope was very vastly widened, when instructions went out that it should be taken by every adult (male); very ocasionally women were also recorded. Closely associated with the Protestation was the Collection in Aid of Distrssed Protestants in Ireland; The oath was taken and the collection made, often simultaneously, in February 1641/42 and March. Parliament-approved taxation records recommence, after Charles I's eleven years of personal rule, with Tudor-type Subsidies, to be collected during 1641. In July 1641 a Poll Tax was voted, but few records of this survive. Thirdly, an Assessment or Grant was agreed, to be collected in May and November 1642. This Assessment had a much lower tax threshold, and consquently many more taxpayers are named. Whilst these three groups, Protestation, Collection and Taxation records, provide the most important sources in the Guide, the far fewer records of the previous decade and the following years of Civil War and Commonewalth have also been included. With this finding-aid, it should be possible to draw valid conclusions about people and places in the 1640s, a demographically obscure period before the Hearth Tax Returns of 1662 and subsequent years.
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Book - Ref: FHP-126
Third edition.Compiled by Jeremy Gibson. 64 pages. ISBN 978-1-906280-14-7
Inns, pubs, hotels, taverns, call them what you will, licensed premises often have a longer ascertainable history than most buildings apart from churches and major houses.
Their inhabitants will have been ‘ordinary people’, not clergy or gentry. There were and are thousands of licensees, of course with numerous descendants.
What is more, these buildings and individuals appear in records since Tudor times.
This new, thoroughly revised and updated edition (the first for twelve years), tells family and local historians just what records, national and local, survive and where they can be found.
Jeremy’s co-compiler, the late Judith Hunter, has provided an authoritative and detailed introduction describing the many classes of records and the information they may provide.
"If you descend from a keeper of an ale house or tippling house, this is a very detailed guide on the type of records you may use for finding your ancestor. ...a must for those with Victuallers in their families."
Ancestor (Genealogical Society of Victoria [Australia])
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