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Parish Registers
A McLaughlin Guide...
Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B226
Parish Registers in England: Their History and Contents
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Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B031
Pedigree Book and Work Sheets
How to put some organisation into your research...
Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B285
Period House Fixture and Fittings 1300-1900
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Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers
2nd edition (1995). Described as 'the most useful single reference work for those tracing ancestry', the main section of the atlas contains maps showing the pre-1832 parish boundaries, colour-coded probate jurisdictions, the starting dates of the surviving registers, and the position of churches and chapels where relevant. And facing each 'parish' map is a topographical map, showing the contempora...
Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B100
Picturesque Chester
A Well Illustrated Book of Old Pictures of the City of Chester...
Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B262
Pre 1841 Census
Population Listsings from less used Sources...
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Profiles of Middlewich
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Quarter Sessions: Your Ancestors and the Law
The law, rules and regulations affected by the life of every one of our ancestors. This guide deals with their contacts and conflicts at local, county level, not only when their activities were criminal, in all their interaction with their neighbors and authorities, Matters which now occupy the attention of a hundred and one local and national civil servants and statutory bodies were then under th...
Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B189
Searching for Surnames
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Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B131
Seven Households
Life in Cheshire & Lancashire 1582-1774...
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Starting your Family Tree
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Stockport Dark Cloud
The Great War 1914-1919...
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Surnames and Their Origins
How our surnames arose is an endlessly fascinating subject, which has produced much speculation, some of it very far from the mark. It is never safe to break down a modern name into the apparent meaning of its parts Catchlove has nothing to do with ensnaring young ladies and a lot to do with wolves of another sort. Our earliest ancestors made do with the one identifying name or grunt to which they...
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The Country House Explained
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The English Abbey Explained
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The English Canals Explained
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The English Castles Explained
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The Female Line, Researhing your Female Ancestors
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The Growth of British Education and Its Records
2nd edition (1992) by Colin Chapman. An in-depth look at the variety of and types of records generated by the British education system, including church and local board schools, grammar schools, universities, charities and militaryschools. 84 pages (A5)...
Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B091
The Impact of Civil War on a Community
By Jill Groves. The turmoil of the English civil wars in the seventeenth century affected all parts of the kingdom,dividing both the county and individual families. There were other ramifications as well, in terms of the local economy and the damage caused by the war. This book looks in detail at the effect of the conflict on the parish of Northenden, south of Manchester. This second expanded edit...
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The Industrial Revolution Explained
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Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B326
The Local Historian's Glossary of Words and Terms
3rd edition (2001) by Joy Bristow. This reference book is as essential to family historians as it is to local historians. Its 256 pages are not only filled with explanations of words and terms you also wondered about, but also contains information on Latin terms and phrases, regnal years, early currency and its value, bibles, saint days and festivals, moveable feast days, sittings of the Supreme C...
Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-B136