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101 Things to do now and at Home and outside London...

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Nonconformist Ancestors

Having ancestors who refused to confirm to the accepted pattern of attending service in Church of England is a mixed blessing. Before national registration, there are no other records except church records they say. This is not so. Given reasonably good fortune, your Nonconformist ancestors will leave as many tracks as the good churchgoers. More in some cases. This publication will lead you throug...

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Old Parish Churches of Cheshire

By Mike Salter. This series of publications describes all the features of interest to be seen in the parish churches and chapels of ease of the English counties, dating from the Saxon period to the 1890s. Each volume contains a detailled gazetteer and is well illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings. 88 pages (A5)...

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Old Parish Churches of Staffordshire & the West Midlands

By Mike Salter. This series of publications describes all the features of interest to be seen in the parish churches and chapels of ease of the English counties, dating from the Saxon period to the 1890s. Each volume contains a detailled gazetteer and is well illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings. 76 pages (A5)...

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Parish Registers

A McLaughlin Guide...

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Pedigree Book and Work Sheets

How to put some organisation into your research...

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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...

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Picturesque Chester

A Well Illustrated Book of Old Pictures of the City of Chester...

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Pre 1841 Census

Population Listsings from less used Sources...

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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...

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Railway Records

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Seven Households

Life in Cheshire & Lancashire 1582-1774...

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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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