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BARRETTS PAGE
a host of useful links on the Isle of
Wight EARLY 18TH CENTURY NEWSPAPER REPORTS,Trials at the Old Bailey, Hangings at Tyburn, Famous Criminals, Mobs and the Pillory,Love and Marriage, Abandoned Children, Rape and Infanticide, Sodomites and the Drury Lane Ladies.Popular Amusements from Bear-Baiting to Fashionable Assemblies, Races, Magicians, Music, Plays and Literature, and the Latest Fashions and much much more HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Rossbret
Institutions Website
A comprehensive and great website for anybody with an interest in
family history, poor laws and much more
ENGLISH CALENDER This
site is intended to replace handbooks of dates for
students of English history and literature. It is also
accurate for European history outside of England, with the exception
of the period 1582 -1752. Students of Continental history will need to
CLICK HERE if they wish to date documents from this
period OLD OCCUPATIONS a site that lists many of the old trades and occupations found on certificates and no longer going by that name. IF THE ONE YOU WANT IS NOT ON THE LIST then please email us as we have an encyclopaedia of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations and would be happy to look them up for you. OLD BOOKS Service that offers to scan old books and manuscripts and hold books on CD PEARLS PAD a handy link for people doing genealogical research in New Zealand with loads of links to both NZ and the UK TOMBSTONES & MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS a website with absolutely loads of information including UK, Australia and NZ among others. THEATRE UK a mailing list and website for people interested in tracing families in showbusiness EAST MEON Transcript of Parish Registers and Memorials and the Green family website
THE
LETTERBOX STUDY GROUP The aim of the Group is to encourage research, preservation, restoration of letter boxes and the documentation of types and their locations.This is mainly restricted to the British Isles and also those countries where British boxes have been in use. However, foreign boxes are not neglected and our quarterly Newsletter very often includes articles and information on letter boxes in other countries of the world. The UK English Place Name Information Service helps people understand the meaning of UK English place names.How did Great Slaughter get its name? What does Giggleswick or Great Snoring mean?And why did the original inhabitants of your town or village name the place in the way that they did? Was it something to do with the people there? Or was it because of the flora, fauna, or geography?All place-names have meanings. The UK English Place Name Information Service can help you discover what they are. UNION WORKHOUSES A useful guide to those interested in life in the workhouses, take the guided tour. SOUTHAMPTON CANAL SOCIETY interesting facts and history on the waterways, history of the Itchen Navigation My British India Family History Website, a fascinating website with plenty of links to help in tracing your family history in India HAMPSHIRE SURNAMES LIST a new website that is endeavouring to collect birth, baptism, marriage and burial details of people from Hampshire. Comprehensive and has a good Help is at Hand system. HAMBLE VALLEY RAMBLES a lovely site with some stunning photographs by Robert Byrne HENRY COOK Gosport, 1824-1893Friend of seafarers and children.
POST
OFFICE WORKERS for
those wishing to find relatives that worked for the Royal Mail Their website is at: MASONIC HISTORY An LDS website giving the history of the Masons world wide INDEX OF PUBS, INNS & TAVERNS for England 1801 - 1900 a new website still in its infancy. Two fantastic links to Alan Tupmans website, a must for genealogists PASSENGER LISTS SITES WITH GENEALOGICAL SOURCE MATERIAL (EMIGRANTS)
ISLE OF WIGHT PHOTOGRAPHERS Gordon Childs great website MEDICAL LINKS Genealogy Library: Archaic Medical TermsNEONTOLOGY another list of archaic medical terms Dictionary of Genealogy & Archaic Terms "buzzwords", terminology and legal words found in genealogy work
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