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From: "Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "Gordon A. WATTS" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
Subject: 'Gordon
Watts Reports' - new column online Dec 19, 2007
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:31:40 -0800
Greetings All.
For those interested, the latest issue of 'Gordon Watts Reports' is now on line
at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0105.htm
Topics include:
* Library and Archives Canada (LAC) - Services Advisory Board
* Canada-wide Genealogy Association
* More about the former Canadian Federation of Genealogical and Family History
Societies (CFGFHS)
* More grave marker photos on line
* Merry Christmas
May I take this opportunity to wish everyone reading my post the very merriest
Christmas and the happiest New Year ever. May the coming year find you
prosperous and in good health.
If you are traveling to be with family or friends for the Holidays (as I will be
Thursday morning), I urge you to do safely. Take the time to arrive safely, and
to return home the same way. A few minutes, or hours, difference in travel time
is not worth the heartache and suffering that could result from being involved
in an accident because you are in a hurry.
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
Permission to forward this message without notice is granted.
From:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
Subject: Update from the
Original Record, Dec 19, 2007
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:15:37 +0000 (GMT)
Added this week:
1196-1307
Lancashire Feet of Fines
Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership
of land in Lancashire. These abstracts were prepared by William Farrer for the
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society and published in 1899, under the title
'Final Concords of the County of Lancaster, from the Original Chirographs, or
Feet of Fines, preserved amongst the Palatinate of Lancaster Records in the
Public Record Office'. They cover the period from the 7th year of king Richard I
to the end of the reign of king Edward I, with a couple of fragmentary survivors
from earlier (1187 and 1194).
1201-1202
Antigraph of the Great Roll of the Pipe 3 John
The Great Rolls of the Pipe are the central record of the crown compiling
returns of income and expenditure from the sheriffs and farmers of the various
English counties or shires. This is the oldest series of public records, and the
earliest surviving instances of many surnames are found in the Pipe Rolls. Two
sets of pipe rolls were prepared, not exact duplicates, the main series being
the Treasurer's or Exchequer rolls, the copies (of which fewer have survived)
being the Chancellor's rolls. The Chancellor's roll (or Antigraphum) for the 3rd
year of king John became separated from that series at some date, and found its
way to the miscellaneous records in the Chapter House at Westminster. As it
happens, the Chancellor's roll for that year is in a better state of
preservation than the Treasurer's roll, so it was chosen for publication by the
Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom, by whom it was printed in
extenso in 1833.
1342
Year Book Trinity 16 Edward III
Year books containing reports of English law cases survive from 1220 onwards:
they contain descriptions of difficult legal cases and decisions, and as such
give the names of parties to the cases, but few other names. The Year Book for
Trinity Term in the 16th year of the reign of king Edward III was republished in
1900 as part of the Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during
the Middle Ages, edited and translated (from the Anglo-French) from manuscripts
in the Temple, Lincoln's Inn and the British Museum (Harley 741 and Additional
MSS 16560 and 25184) by Luke Owen Pike.
1398-1570
Aberdeen Burgh Records
Extracts from the first 27 surviving volumes of Aberdeen burgh (borough) records
were made by John Stuart for the Spalding Club and published in 1844. Although
it is believed that the town records were preserved on parchment rolls until
about 1380, and in book form thereafter, by 1591 the town clerk remarked that
there existed of the earliest records only 'peces and partis of four ald
imperfyt and informall buikis conumitt and eitten be mothes, for aldnes and
antiquite euill to be red, yit to be keipit for a monument be resoun of the
antiquite'. The regular series of books surviving comprised 61 folio volumes
from 1398 to 1745, and these contained the proceedings of the Council of the
Burgh, of the Baillie Court, and the Guild Court.
1693-1696
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies,
from January 1693 to March 1696. These also include records of the appointment
and replacement of customs officers such as tide waiters and surveyors. The
calendar was prepared by William A. Shaw for the Lords Commissioners of His
Majesty's Treasury and published in 1935, from letters patent, privy seals,
royal sign manuals and warrants, treasury warrants, commissions, orders,
letters, memorials, reports and other entries, all not of the nature of Treasury
Minutes.
1702-1703
State Papers Domestic
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain,
Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State, as
well as other miscellaneous records. 1 March 1702 to 31 May 1703. The calendar
was prepared by Robert Pentland Mahaffy, with certain classes of document
extracted and placed in separate appendices (called Tables): I, caveats; II,
church and university appointments, &c.; III, commissions, warrants for
commissions, notes of commissions and notes of warrants for commissions in the
English army for 1702; IV, lord lieutenants and deputy lieutenants; V, Irish
warrants; VI, weekly lists of ships of the Home Fleet with their stations and
orders; VII, passes, notes of passes, post warrants and licences of absence;
VIII, orders on petitions; IX, Scottish warrants and commissions; and X,
miscellaneous royal warrants (to the Attorney or Solicitor General; in criminal
cases; diplomatic; military warrants; miscellaneous warrants; secret
ary's warrants, allowance of bills, &c.; and notes of warrants for the
appointment of almsmen). The source material in the Public Record Office that he
drew on in making this complication is referenced throughout, and is from the
State Papers Domestic (and Military, Naval, Signet Office, Various, and Letter
Books and Entry Books), State Papers Scotland (Correspondence, Letter Books and
Warrants), State Papers Ireland (and King's Letter Books), and State Papers
Channel Islands.
1937
Civil Service Commission
The Civil Service Commission issued a monthly report listing certificates issued
to civil servants of various grades on their initial appointment (whether after
open competition, or without); assignments to higher grades; and transfers
between departments. The report for June 1937 lists all manner of civil
employees from the various departments of state.
We now have over 6.3 million entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
guaranteed authentic.
Purchase sets of scans, or buy open access for the surname(s) of your choice,
including variants.
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Date: Tue,
18 Dec 2007 18:24:34 -0800
From: "M. Diane Rogers"
<diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject:
BC
Historical Federation Conference, 2008, New Westminster
To:
webmaster@bcgs.ca
British Columbia
Historical Federation Conference, May 8-11, 2008
Information and
registration forms are up on the web now for the B.C. Historical Federation
conference, May 8-11th, 2008, in New Westminster.
Many good speakers and
events are included in the plans with a visit to Fort Langley, Royal Engineers
living displays, and walking tours of Queen's Park in New West. For the Sunday,
you can book a paddlewheel tour or a tour of Fraser Cemetery.
http://bchistory..ca/conferences/2008/index.html
One of the
pre-conference workshops on May 8th is "British Columbia's Historic Land Records
- the inside story". This will include a tour of the New Westminster Land
Titles office. Since the British Columbia Genealogical Society is a member of
the B.C.H.F. , B.C.G.S. members can register for these pre-conference workshops
at a special
From:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
Subject: Update from the
Original Record, Dec 11, 2007
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007
18:26:50 +0000 (GMT)
Added this week:
1050-1326
Charter Rolls
This abstract of the surviving charter rolls for 1300 to 1326, in the reigns of
kings Edward I and II, was prepared by C. G. Crump and A. E. Stamp and published
in 1908. The charter rolls not only recorded royal grants of lands, liberties
and offices, but also enabled landowners to have their existing charters, their
deeds of title, registered by the process of inspeximus and confirmation. After
the Statute of Mortmain of 1279, this was of particular importance to religious
houses, now greatly restricted in their ability to receive new donations of
land, and anxious to prove title to their ancient property. Consequently, many
charters of great age were copied onto the charter rolls.
1272-1281
Patent Rolls
The Patent Rolls are the Chancery enrolments of royal letters patent. Those for
the 1st to the 9th years of the reign of king Edward I (29 November 1272 to 17
November 1281) were edited for the Public Record Office by J. G. Black, and
published in 1901. The main contents are royal commissions and grants;
ratifications of ecclesiastical estates; writs of aid to royal servants and
purveyors; and pardons. 1337-1352
Letter Book F of the City of London contains enrolments of recognizances between
inhabitants, particularly citizens, for sums of money lent or due; grants of
pieces of land or property; and various records relating to the city
administration, minor infractions, &c. The book includes an assessment of the
inhabitants in 1346 (pages 143 to 149) listing many householders; a list of
mayors and sheriffs from 1189 to 1548 (276-303), and records of the city's use
of infangthef (summary execution of certain criminals) down to 1409. The text
was edited by Reginald R. Sharpe and printed by order of the Corporation of the
City of London in 1904.
1342-1362
Registers of Popes Clement VI and Innocent VI
These are abstracts of the entries relating to Great Britain and Ireland from
the Regesta of popes Clement VI and Innocent VI, from the period when the papal
court was resident at Avignon. Many of these entries relate to clerical
appointments and disputes, but there are also indults to devout laymen and women
for portable altars, remission of sins, &c. This source is particularly valuable
for Ireland, for which many of the key government records of this period are
lost. Clement VI was consecrated and crowned 19 May 1342 (the day from which his
pontificate is dated); Innocent VI was crowned 18 December 1352 and died 12
September 1362. The extracts were made by W. H. Bliss and C. Johnson from
Regesta cxxxvii to ccxliv, and published in 1897. The registers are almost
complete for these two pontificates. At his accession, Clement VI promised to
grant benefices to all poor clerks who should come to Avignon and claim them
within two months of his coronation. As many as 100,000 are
said to have come, and the register for the first year of his pontificate runs
to twelve volumes.
1504-1507, 1581-1587
English Pilgrims in Rome
Registers of English pilgrims staying in Rome, preserved among the archives of
the English College, were extracted by W. C. Trevelyan and communicated to the
Rev. John Hodgson, who published them in 1838. By a bull of Gregory XIII of
1579, rich and noble pilgrims were entitled to three days' free board and
lodging at the Hospital of the English; poor pilgrims to eight days'. The lists
give date, full name, and diocese of origin in England and Wales.
1670-1739
Lewes Archdeaconry Marriage Licences
Sussex was in the Diocese of Chichester, divided into two archdeaconries -
Chichester for west Sussex, Lewes for the east. Both archdeaconries exercised
active probate jurisdictions, and issued marriage licences. Those issued by
Lewes Archdeaconry court in this period were recorded in a series of registers
(E3, E4, E5 and E6), which were edited by Edwin H. W. Dunkin and published by
the Sussex Record Society in 1907. Each entry gives the date of the licence, the
full names of bride and groom, with parish for each, and often stating whether
the bride was a widow or maiden. To obtain a licence it was necessary for the
parties to obtain a bond, with two sureties. One of these was often the
prospective husband; the other might be a relative or other respectable person.
From the bonds the names of the sureties were also copied into the register,
together with the name of the church at which the wedding was intended to take
place. These details are usually given until 1701; there
after sureties and intended church are usually omitted. One deanery in Lewes
archdeaconry, that of South Malling, was an exempt jurisdiction (or peculiar) of
the Archbishop of Canterbury, which had separate probate and issued its own
marriage licences, also recorded in a series of registers. This volume also
includes the contents of registers C1 to C6 of the Deanery of South Malling, for
marriage licences from 1620 to 1732. The details recorded are as with the main
series, similarly lacking names of sureties and intended church after 1721.
South Malling deanery comprised the parishes of Edburton, Lindfield, Buxted,
Framfield, Isfield, Uckfield, Mayfield, Wadhurst, Glynde, Ringmer, St Thomas at
Cliffe, South Malling and Stanmer.
1834
Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping was established in 1834,
following the demise of two earlier societies for registering shipping in
Britain. The new register in 1834 was created from an alphabetical list of
British ships with no more detail than name, master's name, tonnage, and port to
which they belonged. Lloyd's insurance syndicate provided Ł1000 for the
establishment of a new system of surveyors, and as the year progressed many of
the entries in the register were then annotated with additional information -
type of vessel (Bk, barque; Bg, brig; Cr, cutter; Dr, dogger; G, galliott; H,
hoy; K, ketch; Lr, lugger; S, ship; Sk, smack; Sp, sloop; Sr, schooner; St,
schoot; Sw, snow; Yt, yacht), place and year of build, owners, destined voyage,
and classification of the vessel and its stores, with the month (indicated by
the final number in the last column) of inspection. Underneath each of these
amended entries details were given of construction and repair, wit
h year - s., sheathed; d., doubled; C., coppered; I. B., iron bolts; s. M.,
sheathed with marine metal; s. Y. M., sheathed with yellow metal; F., felt; PH.,
patent hair; Cl., clincher; len., lengthened; lrp., large repairs; trp.,
thorough repairs; ND., new deck; M. TSds., new top-sides; W. C., wales cased;
NW., new wales; Srprs, some repairs - and, in italics, the timber of the ship
is described - B. B., black birch; Bh, beech; C., cedar; E., elm; F., fir; G.,
gum; Ght., greenheart; Hk., hackmatack; L., locust; L. O., live oak; P., pine;
P. P., pitch pine; R. P., red pine; Y. P., yellow pine; S., spruce; T., teak; W.
O., white oak. The sample scan is from the main list. The third column, reserved
for masters' names, is not particularly wide; with short surnames, an initial
will be given; but longer surnames omit the initials, and even longer surnames
are abbreviated. Often new masters had been appointed by the time of survey, and
their names are added in slightly small
er type under the original master's names in the third column. We have indexed
the masters, the owners, the committee members, subscribers and the surveyors.
We now have over 6.2 million entries directly available online.
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From:
Brenda L Smith
To:
radaniel@dccnet.com
Sent:
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:08 PM
Subject:
From the Midland Ancestor
Of interest to some
members
In the latest issue
of the The Midland Ancestor--Journal of the
Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry vol. 15
no. 12:
"Annie
Staple--Gatekeeper" about the keeper of the East Gate to Banff National Park for
32 years, from the park's opening in 1916. Her adventures include spotting three
men wanted for murder by the RCMP.
Brenda
Brenda L. Smith
Education Chair
British Columbia Historical Federation
604-466-2636
education@bchistory,ca
Plan to attend in New
Westminster May 8-10, 2008
www.bchistory.ca
Date: Wed,
05 Dec 2007 12:39:34 -0800
From: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject:
A
Wealth of World Jewish Records, lecture by Michael Goldstein, December 13,
at the Jewish Museum, Vancouver
To: Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Please pass this notice
on to the BCGS e-mail list.
Thank you, Diane R
The
Jewish Museum and Archives and The Jewish Genealogical Institute of BC is
sponsoring the following:
What: A Wealth of World Jewish Records
Who: Michael Goldstein a Jerusalem-based professional genealogist.
When: Thursday, December 13th, 7-9:30 pm
Cost: JGIBC members : no charge
Non- members:$5
Where: Jewish Museum and Archives, Third Floor, Jewish Community Centre, 41st
and Oak
Learn about Israeli archives and Internet sites that have developed large
collections of historical and contemporary information about Jews from around
the world, including Poland, Russia, Spain, and China. This presentation will
offer general guidelines about contacting and accessing Israeli archives. We
will also share interesting case studies and data on how family mysteries were
solved by using some lesser-known Israeli archives. This program is appropriate
for newcomers and experienced genealogists alike.
Date: Wed,
05 Dec 2007 06:58:10 -0800
From: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject:
Irish census -1911 -Dublin
index on-line
To: webmaster@bcgs.ca
Hi, Bob;
Please
pass this on to the BCGS e-mail list.
Ireland's 1911 census
index, for Dublin only as yet, is up and running...I see 199 IRWINS!
Kerry is coming next.
Then Antrim and Down, and so on...
See all the info &
search link:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
Thanks to John D. Reid
of the Anglo-Celtic Connections Blog for this heads up
Diane R
Date: Tue,
04 Dec 2007 13:01:25 -0800
From: Harold Leadbetter (BCGS Member)
Subject:
Re: United Church Archives
To: BCGS <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Efforts are not in vain. Checkout:
http://www.united-church.ca/en/communications/news/releases/071025
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From:
"Conference 2008 Promotion Committee" <darce@execulink.com>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject:
Conference 2008
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007
19:18:21 -0500
We are pleased to invite
you to the largest genealogy and technology Conference in Canada. Conference
2008 is sponsored by the Ontario Genealogical Society.
Join Dick Eastman, Steve
Morse, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Geoff Rasmussen, Fawne Stratford-Devai, Louise St.
Denis, Valerie Adams, Paul McGrath, Dick Doherty, Halvor Moorshead, Rick Roberts
and 13 other speakers as they explore how technology and the internet can
enhance genealogical research. We will have 48 presentations. The Marketplace
will have the most complete selection available of material relating to family
research in Ontario as well as for other provinces and countries.
Please see the
attached information. Page two
of the attachment is a poster which we hope you will print and display at your
meetings or in your offices. We would also appreciate it if you would present
this Conference information through your newletters, websites, and meetings.
Much more will soon be
available at
www.ogs.on.ca/conference
Promotion Committee
Date: Sat,
01 Dec 2007 10:14:53 -0600
From: sgs <sgs@accesscomm.ca>
Subject:
SGS Seminar 2008
Saskatchewan Genealogical Society's
brochure for the 2008 Seminar is now online.
We are asking for your help in promoting this seminar by linking it to your web
site and/or by advertising it in your newsletter.
Go to
http://www.saskgenealogy.com/events/sgs_events.htm
A copy of the brochure is
attached for you. Please forward this e-mail to your branches.
Lisa Warren, Executive Assistant
Saskatchewan Genealogical Society
Regina SK
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Date: Fri,
30 Nov 2007 16:44:20 -0700
From: Jean Crozier <jecrozier@shaw.ca>
Subject:
A new book of interest to
genealogists
To:
bcgs@bcgs.ca
I have recently
published No Corner Boys Here, a book about my mother's family:
Fred and Nellie Thurston. Like many thousands of others, they left their home
and family in Wales in 1927, and immigrated to Canada -- with 8 children in tow!
I often wondered what had induced them to forsake their loved ones and their
customs, and to risk their all. Fred was the only one of ten siblings to take up
that challenge.
The book is described on the website:
www.NoCornerBoysHere.com. It's only been out since October, and is selling
well. The comments are coming in now: 'there must be adhesive on these books,
once I pick them up I can't put them down', and 'what a fascinating story', and
'what interesting people your aunts and uncles were'.
Do contact me directly if you have any questions. You may use your credit card
to order online -- if you prefer to use a cheque, please order directly -- I'll
attach a form.
This book would make an excellent addition to your library. Best regards, J.
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "Gordon A. WATTS" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
Cc:"BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>,
Subject:
'Gordon Watts
Reports' - new issue online Nov 30-07
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007
15:15:34 -0800
Greetings All.
FYI. The latest issue
of 'Gordon Watts Reports' is now online at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0104.htm
Topics include:
* Time for a Canada-wide
Genealogy Association?
* Revised hours of service at Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
* Grave marker photos on line
* Welcome to small and special
Gordon A.
Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada
Census
Committee
Port Coquitlam, BC
Permission to forward
without notice is granted
From:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
Subject: Update from the
Original Record Nov 30/07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007
10:26:07 +0000 (GMT)
Added this week:
1250-1540
The Register of the Bishopric of Moray
The mediaeval diocese of Moray comprised the shire of Elgin and Forres (or
Moray), Nairnshire, and a large part of the shires of Inverness and Banff, in
the sheriffdom of Elgin and Forres (Moray). The cathedral was attacked and
burned by the Wolf of Badenoch (Alexander earl of Buchan and lord of Badenoch):
but about 1400 an attempt was made to piece together surviving archives into a
bishop's register. The Liber Episcopi contains the canons and constitution of
the church, and charters relating to episcopal privileges and properties; the
Liber Decani is the dean and chapter register. A fair copy of these records,
plus later charters and writs, was made in 1540 and is called the Red Book of
the Church of Moray. These manuscripts, together with other material to as late
as 1623, were collated for the Bannatyne Club and printed in 1837.
1294-1303
Yorkshire Inquisitions
Inquisitions post mortem are inquiries as to the real estate and heir of each
person holding in capite or in chief, i. e. directly, from the Crown, or whose
estates had been escheated or were in ward. The age and relationship of the heir
are usually recorded. Inquisitions ad quod damnum enquired as to any activities
(including maladministration by local officials) that had resulted in any
material loss to the Crown. Proofs of age are inquiries into the precise date of
birth of an heir, usually involving local inhabitants recalling those
circumstances which fixed that date in their mind. Yorkshire inquisitions for
this period were edited by William Brown for the Yorkshire Archaeological
Society, and printed in 1902. This index covers all names mentioned, including
jurors, tenants, &c. The volume also includes two stray inquests, from 1245 and
1282.
1309
Channel Islands Assize Rolls
John de Fressingfeld, John de Ditton, William Russel and Drogo de Barentin,
royal justices in eyre (itinerant) visited the Channel Islands in the 2nd year
of the reign of king Edward II, and heard civil and criminal cases. Their assize
roll was edited for the Societe Jersiaise and published in 1903, with expanded
Latin text facing an English translation. There are common pleas, crown pleas,
gaol delivery and quo warranto for Guernsey and Jersey (separately), as well as
pleas heard on Sark, and crown pleas on Alderney.
1620-1651
New Plymouth Colony Deeds 1620-1651
(New) Plymouth colony was settled 120 Puritan families from England who landed
there in 1620. New Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were united in 1692 as
Massachusetts. The manuscript volume in which the earliest records of the colony
are entered is entitled "Plymouth Colony Records, Deeds, &c., Vol. I, 1627-1661"
and "Book of Indian Records for their Lands". This book was edited by David
Pulsifer and published in 1861 by order of the legislature of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts. The principal contents are records of the establishment of the
colony, the initial land grants, distribution of the few cattle brought across
the Atlantic, and the subsequent deeds by which land transfers took place, and
servants were indentured.
1836-1900
Nottingham Borough Records
In 1956 this ninth and extra volume was added to the series called Nottingham
Borough Records, containing precis of selections from the council and committee
minutes for this period.
1930
Crockford's Clerical Directory listed all Anglican clergy in the British Isles,
India, the colonies, Europe, Asia and South America. The 59th annual issue, for
1930, is based on returns from all the individuals listed. The details given
are: name (surname first, in capitals) in bold, prefixed by an asterisk in the
case of university electors, and by a dagger whether the return had not been
made, or it had been imperfectly filled up; name of theological college and/or
university, and degrees, with years; a bold d followed by year and diocese
signifies date of ordination as deacon and by which bishop; then a bold p,
similarly for ordination as priest; posts (C: curate; I: incumbent; V; vicar; R:
rector) with parishes and years; address; telephone number; and lists of books
&c. where appropriate. In the case of the man then holding an English, Irish,
Scottish or Welsh benefice, additional details are given - a bold P signifies
the patron of the advowson; then the income, with
items such as Q. A. B. (Queen Anne's Bounty), Eccles(iastical) Comm(issioners),
Fees, e. o. (Easter Offerings), Pew Rents, T(ithe) R(ent) C(harge), Gl(ebe), &c.
Some clergy disappeared from view, neither making returns to directory nor
holding any benefice: but their entries were carried forwards year by year. In
the 1930 issue all of these clergy that had been lost track of since 1907 were
omitted; but an appendix included all such names from 1908 to date. A supplement
covered appointments made while the volume went to press; another covered
ordinations in the same period.
1934
The Half-Yearly Army List, issued By Authority, 30 June 1934, lists all officers
of the British Army and the Indian Army in active service at that date, and this
list was evidence of the status and rank of the officers contained in it. The
entries are set out as a gradation list, by rank, from field-marshals to
lieutenants, and within each rank in order of seniority at that rank. Each
officer's name (surname first, in capitals, then christian name and present rank
(with date of achieving that rank) and regiment &c. are given, for convenience,
in bold type, with any national decorations in italics after the name. Each
entry also gives date of birth, number of days service in the ranks, dates of
service in each rank of officer, particular offices and postings (with dates)
and, where appropriate, a summary of war service, and medals. For all but the
oldest of the officers then serving, the war service details are for the Great
War (1914-1921), and campaigns in Iraq, Waziristan,
and the North West Frontier of India. War services are not given in this
edition for Indian Army officers, except in that their entries are preceded by a
crossed swords symbol where they have seen war service in a theatre of war
overseas. After the gradation list of officers, there is a section for the Royal
Malta Artillery; and then (pages 1152 to 1185) warrant officers - staff or
garrison serjeant-majors, educational serjeant-majors, serjeant-major (physical
training and educational) instructors, regimental serjeant-majors (and
corporal-majors, farrier-serjeant majors, master gunners, assistant instructors
in gunnery, experimental serjeant-majors, artillery clerks,
farrier-serjeant-majors, artificer serjeant-majors, clerks of works, mechanist,
superintending clerks, draughtsmen, 1st class staff serjeant-majors, transport,
supply, conductors, sub-conductors, armourers, armament artificers, headmasters,
schoolmasters, marine gunners, and bandmasters. The section for the Ro
yal Army Chaplains' Department lists all chaplains (1st to 3rd class); and that
for Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service has all matrons, sisters
and staff nurses. The lists of nurses do not give date of birth: all are
unmarried. The book concludes with the Yeomen of the Guard, the Honourable
Company of Gentlemen-at-Arms, and the King's Body Guard for Scotland, in each
case giving name (surname and initials, not christian names), honours, name of
late regiment, and date of appointment.
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findmypast adds two
major new sets of records
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007
11:22:55 -0000
From: "Debra Chatfield"
<Debra.Chatfield@titleresearch.com>
Findmypast.com is delighted to annouce the release of two new resources for
family historians on its website:
NEWS RELEASE #1
Not for publication or broadcast before 00.01 hours GMT on 29 November 2007
10 MILLION NATIONAL BURIAL INDEX RECORDS GO LIVE AT FINDMYPAST.COM
Family history fans can now search for their ancestors online across six
centuries
Premier UK family history website
www.findmypast.com today announced that it is adding a major new acquisition
to its existing online collection - data from the National Burial Index for
England and Wales.
The National Burial Index is a finding aid for burials that took place in
England or Wales between the years 1538 and 2005. As such, it pre-dates the
civil registration of deaths in England and Wales, which only came into effect
on 1 July 1837, therefore enabling family history enthusiasts to delve even
further back into their ancestors' pasts.
The details of over 10 million burials are contained in the database. It
provides the full name, date of burial, age at death, (when given in the
original source), name of the county, parish and the church or chapel where the
burial took place.
The burial data brings together in one easy-to-search central place the
disparate records from local parishes, which members of local family history
societies have been compiling since 1994, under the guidance and encouragement
of the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS). It includes records from
parish registers, non-conformist registers, Roman Catholic, Jewish and other
registers as well as cemetery and cremation records. It will complement the
Latter Day Saints' International Genealogical Index (IGI), which contains mainly
baptisms and marriages.
Thanks to the cross-database search facility at findmypast.com, you will be able
to search for your ancestor by surname across all the records on the site
without needing to know where in the country they came from.
Previously some of these records were made available to the public by the
Federation on CD ROM and at its own pay per view website
www.familyhistoryonline.net but following a landmark agreement between the
Federation and findmypast.com in September this year, burial records can now be
searched online alongside findmypast.com's existing collection of over 550
million records. The records at
www.familyhistoryonline.net will be transferred to the findmypast.com
website in phases over the next few months.
Elaine Collins, Commercial Director at findmypast.com said "We are very excited
that we have been able to gather together so many local, quality records which
pre-date 1837 and present them at findmypast.com. Now family history enthusiasts
will be able to extend their family tree further back from the comfort of their
own home - even if they live overseas. Who knows, they might find ancestors who
were contemporaries of Henry VIII."
Geoff Riggs, Chairman of the Federation of Family History Societies, added: "We
wanted records from our enormously successful National Burial Index to be the
first set of data available under our new partnership with findmypast.com. As a
result, many more researchers world-wide will now be able to benefit from the
invaluable information they contain."
The NBI data records can be accessed as part of an Explorer subscription package
or with pay-per-view units.
ENDS
Notes to editors
For further information, please contact:
Elaine Collins / Gillian Stevens / Philippa McCray
findmypast.com / familyhistoryonline.net / ffhs.org.uk
020 7549 0956 / 0118 947 8743 / 01455 203133
elaine.collins@findmypast.com /
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CIVIL SERVICE EVIDENCE OF AGE INDEX GOES LIVE AT FINDMYPAST.COM
New online resource helps family history enthusiasts find their elusive
ancestors
UK family history website
www.findmypast.com today announced that it is adding a major new acquisition
to its existing online collection - the Civil Service Evidence of Age index.
This new online resource contains the dates of birth or baptism for some 64,300
people born between 1752 and 1948 many of whose births do not appear in the
central birth registers for England and Wales.
Findmypast.com has been working in partnership with the Society of Genealogists
to publish online the index to this fascinating set of records held at the
Society's London headquarters. The records were created after 1855 when the
Civil Service Commission came into being and required applicants to both the
Civil Service entry examinations and its pension scheme to provide evidence of
age. For those whose births had not been registered in England and Wales,
declarations as to birth were submitted, often in the form of handwritten
letters.
The records mainly relate to lower-ranking Civil Servants, including prison
officers, postmen, museum workers, messengers and engineers. The collection
covers both successful and unsuccessful applicants to the Civil Service who were
otherwise unable to prove their date of birth. This was either because they were
born before 1 July 1837 when Civil Registration began in England and Wales, or
they were born overseas, or their birth was not registered. This new online
resource will therefore enable many family historians to fill some longstanding
gaps in their family tree.
Visitors to the findmypast website will be able to search the records by
entering the name of their ancestor, which will produce a free list of results
showing the name, year and place of birth or baptism. To view the full details,
customers will need to register on the site and either purchase pay-per-view
units or an Explorer subscription. Full details will provide the exact date of
birth or baptism and the reference number to the original source documents for
that person. They will then be able to contact the Society of Genealogists
quoting that reference to order copies of the original documents for a fee of
Ł14. On average the Society holds three pages for each person listed in the
index.
Among the records can be found applicants to the Indian Civil Service, workers
at the Australian Royal Mint and the Admiralty dockyard in Valletta, Malta. In
total the Society of Genealogists is storing around 190,000 pages, filled with
fascinating human interest stories.
Elaine Collins, Commercial Director at findmypast.com said "This is great news
for anyone who has hit a brick wall in their family history research. All the
people included in the index are there because their birth was not recorded
centrally, making them near impossible to find until now. We're particularly
excited that our customers will have the option of ordering the original source
material from the Society of Genealogists as these documents add colour to the
lives of our ancestors and it is so rare to find examples of their handwriting."
ENDS
Notes to editors
For further information, please contact:
Elaine Collins / Sue Gibbons / Else Churchill
findmypast.com / sog.org.uk
020 7549 0956 / 020 7702 5484 / 020 7702 5408
elaine.collins@findmypast.com /
librarian@sog.org.uk /
genealogy@sog.org.uk
Case Studies from the Civil Service Evidence of Age Records
Annie McCullough of Dublin, born 1835
An extract from a letter from a previous employer to support her statement of
age:
"She while with them became attached to a young man, also in their employment,
but being at the time a Presbyterian while the young man was a Roman Catholic,
there was no prospect of their being married. To remove the barrier, she became
a Roman Catholic but so inopportunely did she make the change that at the same
time the gentleman became a Protestant, leaving the difficulty just as it was."
Alfred Joseph Lowe of Balham, Surrey born in 1847, Boulogne, France
An extract from a letter in Alfred's own hand:
"I was born on or about the 15th day of May 1847 at Boulogne sur Mer in the
Republic of France. That I have been informed repeatedly of this by my father
and mother who are now both dead.
At the time of my birth the country in which I was born was considerably
disturbed by revolution and the deposition of the then King Louis Philippe and
that no register was then kept of births at Boulogne sur Mer."
About findmypast.com
Findmypast.com (formerly 1837online.com) was the first company to make the
complete birth, marriage and death indexes for England & Wales available online
in April 2003.
Following the transcription, scanning and indexing of over two million images,
the company launched the first website to allow the public easy and fast access
to the indexes, which until then had only been available on microfiche film in
specialist archives and libraries. The launch was instrumental in creating the
widespread and growing interest in genealogy seen in the UK today.
In April 2007 findmypast's holding company Title Research Group received the
prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2007 in recognition of
their achievement in digitising and making available the UK birth, marriage and
death indexes.
Findmypast has subsequently digitised many more family history records and now
offers access to over 500 million records dating as far back as 1664. This
allows family historians and novice genealogists to search for their ancestors
among comprehensive collections of military records, census, migration,
occupation directories, and current electoral roll data, as well as the original
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As well as providing access to historical records, findmypast is also developing
a range of online tools to help people discover and share their family history
more easily, beginning with the launch of Family Tree Explorer in July 2007.
Over 1.7 million people in the UK have researched their family trees and
findmypast.com has over 800,000 active registered users, revealing the mass
appeal of genealogy and findmypast.com's position as the leading family history
website based in the UK.
About The Federation of Family History Societies
The Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) is an educational charity
formed in 1974. Over the years, membership has grown to over 200 societies
throughout the world, including national, regional and one-name groups. The
principal aims of the Federation are:
to co-ordinate and assist the work of societies or other bodies interested in
family history, genealogy and heraldry
to foster mutual co-operation and regional projects in these subjects
to represent the interests of its member societies, and family historians in
general, on numerous national and regional bodies involved in such pursuits. The
Federation provides an authentic, audible, and respected voice for the many
thousands of individual family historians.
Membership is open to any society or body specialising in family history or an
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Education is a vital element within the Federation. This is achieved by member
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other events, and also formally through seminars and national conferences. To
encourage member societies to produce their own high quality journals and
websites, the FFHS presents awards each year to those making the best
contribution to family history.
Achievements in national and regional projects is something the FFHS takes great
pride in with millions of records transcribed and indexed by local experts for
the benefit of all family historians. FamilyHistoryOnline was established by the
FFHS to publish online these records which include indexes or full
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monumental inscriptions; census returns for the counties of England and Wales;
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The FFHS looks forward to the challenges in the future of supporting its
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encouraging new family historians to join a family history society so as to
discover and enjoy the fascinating journey into their past in the company of
other enthusiasts.
About The Society of Genealogists
The Society of Genealogists (SoG)
The Society of Genealogists is an educational charity the purpose of which is to
"promote, encourage and foster the study, science and knowledge of genealogy".
The Society's premises in Central London house the largest family history
research library in the UK. The Society of Genealogists' Library is open to
members and paying non-members.
Holdings include:
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Subject: Update from the
Original Record Nov 20/07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007
16:33:47 +0000 (GMT)
Added this week:
1100-1600
Hastings family deeds
John Harley of the Historical Manuscripts Commission was invited by Reginald
Rawdon Hastings to examine his family's extensive archives at the Manor House,
Ashby de la Zouche, in Leicestershire. Harley produced a detailed calendar, of
which is the first volume, published in 1928, Hastings himself having since
died, and Harley having been killed at Gallipoli. This volume covers four
categories of the records: the Ancient Deeds; Manorial and other Documents;
Accounts and Inventories; and Miscellaneous Papers. Most, but not all, of the
material is mediaeval. About half of the deeds relate to the family property in
Leicestershire; then there are sections for Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire,
Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire,
Northumberland, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, London, Wiltshire,
Somersetshire, Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, &c. The manorial
section includes a partitions of the estates of the Earls of Leicester and
Wilton about 1204 and 1277; manor court rolls are mentioned, but
not extracted. Choicer items from the family accounts and inventories are copied
in extenso for 1596 and 1607, and thereafter summarised. Most of the later
material is merely dipped into for curiosities.
1200-1216
Oblata or Fine Rolls
All the surviving oblata or fine rolls of the reign of king John were edited by
Thomas Duffus Hardy and printed by the Commissioners of the Public Records in
1835. These are the oblata rolls of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the reign, and
the fine rolls of the 6th, 7th, 9th, 15th, 16th and 17th years. These rolls
contain notices of the oblations or fines offered to the Crown to procure grants
and confirmations of liberties and franchises of markets, fairs, parks and free
warren; for exemption from tolls, pontage, passage and murage; to obtain justice
and right; to stop, delay or expedite pleas, trials and judgments; and to remove
suits and processes from inferior tribunals into the King's Court. Fines were
also extracted for licence to trade, or permission to exercise commerce or
industry of any kind, and to have the aid, protection, or goodwill of the King;
to mitigate his anger or abate his displeasure; to be exempted from knighthood
either for a term or for ever, and from
attending the King in his foreign expeditions; they were also demanded for
seisin or restitution of ancestral lands or chattels; for allowing delinquents
to be replevied or bailed; for acquittal of murder; and for pardon of trespasses
and misdemeanours; for the 'year and a day' of the lands and goods of felons and
fugitives. Almost all entries have the county in question indicated in the left
hand margin.
1440-1441
Sheffield Manor Court Roll
The Duchess of Norfolk allowed T. Walter Hall to examine the early archives of
her Sheffield estates, and in 1926 he published a volume including abstracts (in
translation) of the Sheffield manor court roll from October 1440 to September
1441. In this roll was also the Sheriff's tourn 18 April 1441 of the superior
jurisdiction of Hallamshire, covering the sokes of Sheffield, Hannesworth,
Bradfield, Southawe and Ecclesfield; and this is also printed. Hall found
fragments of a Bradfield court roll of 1385; and devoted the latter half of his
book to extracts from the Register of Copyholders' Surrenders, showing
surrenders and admittances of copyhold tenants of the manor of
Sheffield from 1403 to 1634; plus some miscellaneous deeds and
documents relating to the manor and to Hallamshire. The index covers all these.
1611-1660
London Marriage Allegations
London, Essex and part
of Hertfordshire lay within the diocese of
London.
In the later 17th century the individual archdeaconry courts issued marriage
licences, but for this period the only surviving material is from the
overarching London Consistory court. The main series of marriage allegations
from the consistory court was extracted by Colonel Joseph Lemuel Chester, and
the text was edited by George J. Armytage and published by the Harleian Society
in 1887. A typical later entry will give date; name, address and occupation of
groom; name, address and condition of his intended bride, and/or, where she is a
spinster, her father's name, address and occupation. Lastly we have the name of
the church where the wedding was going to take place. For the later years
Colonel Chester merely picked out items that he thought were of interest, and
his selections continue as late as 1828, but the bulk of the licences abstracted
here are from the 17th century.
1660-1775
The Black Books of Lincoln's Inn
Lincoln's Inn is one of the ancient inns of court in London exclusively invested
with the right to call lawyers to the English bar. The Black Books of Lincoln's
Inn are the main administrative records of the society, containing the names of
those filling the different offices year by year; the annual accounts of the
Pensioner and the Treasurer; regulations; punishments and fines for
misdemeanours. This edition, printed for the inn in 1899, covers the volumes
from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to 1775 (with accounts as far as 23
January 1776), supplemented by material entries from the Red Books, which deal
with orders concerning and admittances to the chambers of the inn, and the
Serle's Court Book (begun in 1694) dealing with that court of the inn.
1892
Report of the Anglican Church Congress
The 32nd annual congress of the Anglican church was held at Folkestone on the
4th, 5th, 6th and 7th October 1892. Moral and social questions were discussed as
well as the purely theological and ecclesiastical - The Relation between the
Authority of the Bible and the Authority of the Church; the Attitude of the
Church towards Labour Combinations; the Work of the Church of England on the
Continent; the Result of the Neglect of Religious Instruction in Elementary
Schools; Canon Law; the Duty of the Church to the Agricultural Population;
Christian Ethics; Meeting of Women; the Temperance Movement; Physical
Recreation; the Permanent Value of the Old Testament; Thrift and the Poor Law;
Vivisection; Preparation for Clerical Orders, and of Laymen for Evangelism;
Foreign Missions; the Duty of the Church towards Soldiers; Christian Doctrine
and Christian Life; Preaching in the Church of England; and the Church's Work at
the Seaside. The sermons, letters, addresses and discussions (of
clergy and laity) were all published in this, the official report of the
congress. The speakers, correspondents, committee members, vice-presidents and
guarantors have all been indexed here.
1930
Liste du Rat for the parish of St Peter, Jersey
The ratebook of the parish of St Peter lists ratepayers in alphabetical order
within each vingtaine. An initial in the first column indicates the ratepayer's
parish of residence; then a sequential number; name (surname first, and
christian name; house name; and then the rateable value in quartiers, divided
into amounts for foncieres (landowners), and for occupants (occupiers). The rate
was assessed at 2s 4d per quartier. There are also summary accounts for the
parish; a list of all civil and ecclesiastical officials; dogowners (by
vingtaine); and men licensed to carry weapons. These are all indexed here.
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From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "Gordon A. WATTS" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
Subject:
LAC Services Advisory Board
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007
13:49:05 -0800
Greetings
All.
The initial meeting of the Library and Archives Services Advisory Board has been
set for 9:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m., Friday 30 November 2007, in Library and Archives
at 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa. Please note that this is not an open meeting,
but is for only those who have been invited to participate on the Board. I have
indicated my intention to attend in person.
I have not yet received the full agenda of the meeting, however it is known that
one subject to be discussed will be manned hours of service at Library and
Archives Canada. This is an issue that, at least in part, was likely responsible
for the formation of the Services Advisory Board.
If you have been a visitor to the LAC in Ottawa, or expect to visit in the
future, and have concerns regarding manned hours of service that you would like
to see expressed to the Board, please send an email to my address below, with a
subject line of 'LAC SAB'. Please advise also if you would like to see other
subjects, relating to LAC, addressed at future meetings of the Service Advisory
Board.
Thank you.
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
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From:
Marion Kelch <czardust@telusplanet.net>
Subject: NEWS from the
EMPRESS OF IRELAND Committee
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007
20:28:01 -0700
To:
undisclosed-recipients:
Hello
Everyone!
It
has been quite some time since I've sent any progress report. The reason for
this is because there have been negotiations taking place that I was not able to
reveal to the general public.
Today,
November 15, 2007
is a great day for the Committee.
Because of
generous donations from supporters across Canada, USA, and Britain, The Empress
of Ireland Artifacts Committee was able, in the past 4 years, to purchase 55
artifacts that had been retrieved from the wreck of the liner when it was still
legal to do so. Many of these artifacts were taken on tour to the following
locations: Camrose AB, Revelstoke BC, Salmon Arm BC, Kelowna BC, Vancouver
BC, Mortlach SK, Grande Prairie AB, Provost(Rosenheim) AB, and Calgary AB.
During
this time we came in contact with thousands of people who had a connection to
the liner. Some had relatives who had perished on the final voyage but a much
larger number had relatives who had come to Canada on the liner. During its 95
successful voyages, the Empress of Ireland brought to Canada 117,000 passengers
of which a large proportion went on to settle western Canada.
It is with
great pride that the Empress of Ireland Committee turned over 55 artifacts, 4
replications, 7 archival pieces, and 1 model to the Royal Alberta Museum located
in Edmonton. The RAM accepted the collection within the mandate of its Western
Canadian History department. Here is a report in the Edmonton Journal:
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=b35e4a8a-d299-4812-95f3-3d381fe1fdf6&k=62536
Tonight
there was coverage of this gifting on Global TV. CBC Radio and CBC TV most
likely will cover this too. Here is information about the museum:
http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/human/wcanhist/intro.htm
The
Royal Alberta Museum, due to undergo a $200,000,000 renovation and renewal next
fall, is one of three provincial museums in Canada, the others being the Royal
BC Museum in Victoria and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The committee is
delighted that such a prestigious museum will be home for the collection.
In
May, the RAM will open an exhibition of Empress of Ireland artifacts. All of
our supporters and contacts will be receiving an invitation to attend this
event.
In the meantime, the
Committee will continue to work for the procurement of the rest of the
artifacts.
Thanks so much, Marion
Kelch
Empress of Ireland
Artifacts Committee
From:
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Subject: Update from the
Original Record, Nov 15, 2007
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007
18:37:15 +0000 (GMT)
Added this
week:
1275-1295
Yorkshire Inquisitions
Inquisitions post mortem are inquiries as to the real estate and heir of each
person holding in capite or in chief, i. e. directly, from the Crown, or whose
estates had been escheated or were in ward. The age and relationship of the heir
are usually recorded. Inquisitions ad quod damnum enquired as to any activities
(including maladministration by local officials) that had resulted in any
material loss to the Crown. Proofs of age are inquiries into the precise date of
birth of an heir, usually involving local inhabitants recalling those
circumstances which fixed that date in their mind. Yorkshire inquisitions for
this period were edited by William Brown for the Yorkshire Archaeological
Society, and printed in 1898. This index covers all names mentioned, including
jurors, tenants, &c.
1301-1413
Chester Recognizance Rolls
The county of Cheshire had palatine status, being in some measure independent of
the rest of England: moreover, from the Statute of Wales of 1284, after king
Edward I's subjugation of North Wales, until the union of England and Wales in
1536 to 1543, much of the administration of North Wales (county Flint in
particular) was directed from Chester. When the Chester Recognizance Rolls were
moved from Chester
to the Public Record Office, they were placed among the Welsh Records. These
rolls, so called because they do include recognizances (of debts &c.) among
their contents, are in fact the Chancery Rolls of the palatinate, containing
enrolments of charters, letters patent, commissions and other documents issued
under the seal of the palatinate. Deeds and other evidences of a private nature
were also enrolled on them. A calendar of the Recognizance Rolls from their
commencement to the end of the reign of Henry IV was prepared by Peter Turner
and included in the 36th Annual Report
of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in 1875. We have now indexed this,
dividing the enrolments into decades. This is the period from the 1st to the
11th years of king Henry IV. Turner also looked through the rolls from the
reigns of queen Elizabeth and king James I, and copied into this calendar
abstracts of enrolments of early deeds (many undated) of the 13th century (with
some later items). We have indexed these too.
1314-1337
London Letter Book D
Letter Book D, or the Liber Rubeus (Red Book) of the City of London contains
enrolments of recognizances between inhabitants, particularly citizens, for sums
of money lent or due; grants of pieces of land or property; and various records
relating to the city administration, minor infractions, &c. In addition, this
volume includes the record of admissions to the freedom of the city by
redemption (payment of a sum of money), and the binding and discharge of
apprenticeships for the same period. Without freedom of the city - which
could only be gained by birth (patrimony), apprenticeship or servitude, or by
redemption - no man could open a shop, sell goods retail, or even reside
within the city walls (except for a limited time, and then only in the houses of
freemen and under frankpledge). The text was edited by Reginald R. Sharpe and
printed by order of the Corporation of the City of London in 1902.
1377-1509
Lancashire Feet of Fines
Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership
of land in Lancashire. These abstracts were prepared by William Farrer for the
Lancashire and Cheshire
Record Society and published in 1905, under the title 'Final Concords of the
County of Lancaster, from the Original Chirographs, or Feet of Fines, preserved
amongst the Palatinate of Lancaster Records in the Public Record Office'. They
cover the period from John duke of Lancaster to the end of the reign of king
Henry VII. In addition, there are abstracts of fines paid for various Lancashire
writs from 1377 to 1509, and a fine of 1195 that had been discovered during the
preparation of the volume.
1648-1660
Committes for Compounding with Royalist Delinquents in county Durham and
Northumberland
King Charles I was executed 30 January 1649, the kingship was abolished and
government by a Council of State was established 14 February 1649. Oliver
Cromwell became Lord Protector 16 December 1653; died 3 September 1658; and was succeeded by his son Richard, who abdicated
24 May 1659. Charles II was
established on the throne 29 May 1660. From 1648 to 1660 parliament sequestrated
royalists' estates, restoring many by a process of heavy fines called
compounding; this was administered by the Committee for Compounding, working
through county committees. These raised considerable amounts of money, money
which was vitally necessary for maintaining the parliamentary army's campaigns
to subdue opposition in the three kingdoms - England, Scotland and Ireland.
The raising and delivery of these monies was the responsibility of the Committee
for Advance of Money (C. A. M.). The records of these committees were detailed
and extensive, amounting to about 300 volumes, and were calendared
for the Public Record Office by Mary Anne Everett Green. Abstracts of the
county Durham and
Northumberland entries were collated by Richard Welford with a manuscript
transcript of the proceedings of the parliamentary commissioners in county
Durham surviving in Durham cathedral library, and published by the Surtees
Society in 1905. The persons named in these abstracts are not only the
delinquents themselves, and those who succeeded them in their estates, but
tenants, debtors and creditors, and local constables and officials of the
committees.
1752-1799
Hertfordshire Sessions
Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a
wide range of criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the most
cases (362) concerned assaults and rioting, and larceny (378), but there is a
large variety of other matter, as extensive as the jurisdiction of the courts.
These highly condensed abstracts of the entries were prepared by William le
Hardy, and published for the County Council in 1935. Appendix IA is a list of
justices of the peace for the county mentioned in the records for the period. In
each case there is just the full name of the justice and the years in which he
is recorded. Appendix II is a list of signatories to a petition to Parliament
for leave to bring in a bill for building the new Shire Hall. Appendix III is a
list of signatories to a protest against a petition to Parliament. Appendix IV
is a list of licences granted to badgers, higglers and drovers: and this is the
index to the licensees. In each case full name, parish, B. for badger, H. for
higler, or D. for drover, and the year(s) (e. g., 65 for 1765), is given.
Badgers were buyers of corn and other commodities; higglers bought up poultry
and dairy produce, and also sold or exchanged smallware in return; drovers moved
flocks of sheep and herds of cattle across the countryside. Each applicant for a
licence had himself to sign a bond for Ł10 and also to find two sureties in Ł5
each. As a rule these sureties were themselves applying for licences, but these
are the names of those who stood surety, but were not applying for licences. In
each case full name is given, parish, and the year(s). Appendix V is a list of
Sacrament Certificates: under the Test Act of 1673, holders of public offices
were required to produce a certificate that they had taken communion in a parish
church. For each such communicant the list gives full name (surname first); date
of taking communion; name of the church; name of the minister; name of the
church
warden(s); and names of two witnesses. Appendix VII is a list of gamekeepers
registered under the various acts of parliament regulating the keeping and
hunting of game. The gamekeeper's full name (surname first) is given; the manor
on which he was responsible for preserving game; the name of the lord of the
manor; the date of entry and the dates of the game certificates. Appendix VIII
is a list of persons granted two-guinea licences for killing game: in each case
the full name (surname first) is given; occupation; residence; and the years
during which licences were purchased. We have indexed these appendixes
separately.
1826-1827
Russell's Reports, Volume 2
James Russell, barrister-at-law, prepared reports of cases argued and determined
in the High Court of Chancery during the time of Lord Chancellor Eldon. This is
the volume for the 7th and 8th years of the reign of king George IV. Russell
normally sets out for each case a narrative of the evidence presented to the
court; then the arguments of the counsel for both sides, usually with reference
to legal precedents; and then the judgment, in detail. The evidence in these
cases is often extensive, and of historical and genealogical interest; the
incidents leading up to the suits usually took place in the preceding ten years
or so, but in some cases the narrative stretches back much further, even to the
16th century.
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Father Leo Klosterman was a BCGS Director (1991 & 1992) and President (1993 & 1994)
KLOSTERMAN,
Fr. Leo Jerome C.S.B. 80 years. Born into eternal life on
November 3, 2007 at
Windsor Regional
Hospital, Metropolitan Campus. Beloved brother of Margaret Klosterman of St.
Louis, Missouri, Joe Klosterman of Clearwater, Florida and his late wife Rita
and predeceased by Lawrence, George, Leonard and his wife Josephine. Also
survived by several nieces, nephews and their families. Fr. Klosterman was
professed as a Basilian on
August 15, 1947 and ordained to the priesthood on
June 29, 1954 .. He received his B.A . from the University of
Western Ontario in 1949, an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Detroit in
1963, and a Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Kent at
Canterbury, England. He taught chemistry at
Catholic Central
High School in Detroit, where in 1967 he received the Metropolitan Detroit
Science Teachers' Association Distinguished Service Award, and in 1970 the James
Bryant Conant Award of the American Chemical Society. After receiving his Ph.D.
degree he taught at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, then at St.
Mark's College,
University
of British Columbia. His research interests were the history of chemistry
especially in the nineteenth century, and the genealogy of the Klosterman and
Janisse families. He succeeded in tracing all of his parents ancestors back to
the 17th century on both sides, the one to Germany, the other to France. After
leaving St. Mark's, he returned to
Windsor.
He was Chaplain for Council #1453. 3rd Degree Knights of Columbus, Windsor. He
was also a member of the Dean Wagner 4th Degree Knights of Columbus. In
kindness, memorial donations made to the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre or the
Charity of your Choice would be appreciated as your expression of sympathy. His
family and the Basilian Fathers thank all those at the Cancer Clinic and at Met
Hospital who cared for Leo so compassionately. Visiting at Janisse Bros-Marcotte
Funeral Home, 1139 Ouellette Ave, Windsor, (519-253-5225) on Monday 2-5; 7-9
p.m. with Knights of Columbus 3rd and 4th Degree prayers and presentations will
be made on Monday 7 p.m. followed by parish prayers on Monday 7:30 p.m. PLEASE
NOTE: Friends are requested to meet the family on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at
Assumption Church for further visitation from 8:30 a.m. until the hour of Mass
of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. Interment in Heavenly Rest Cemetery. A tree
will be planted in memory of Fr. Leo Klosterman in the Janisse Bros-Marcotte
Heritage Forest . A dedication service will be held in September 2008. All are
welcome. The Family invites you to sign a Book of Condolence and share your
memories on www.janissemarcotte.ca
Published in the Windsor Star on 11/5/2007 .Klosterman, Fr.Leo
From:
"John Romein" <john.romein@gmail.com>
To: <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
The Master Genealogist for half
price
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007
20:34:57 -0800
Could you broadcast this
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checking out this program.
If anyone is interested
"The Master Genealogist" genealogy program is being offered at half
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See you at next week's meeting, John Romein (BCGS Member)
From: "mary"
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@priv-edmwaa05.telusplanet.net>
Subject: Fw: [LAN]
London's Great Ormond Street children's hospital
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007
11:50:45 -0800
Hope this helps someone,
Mary
London Children's Hospital Puts Historic Records Online 84,000 child patients
who were treated between 1852 and 1914
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2007/11/03/london-childrens-hospital-puts-historic-records-online/
Direct Link to their website:
http://www.smallandspecial.org/
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>,
Subject:
'Gordon Watts Reports' - new issue on line
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007
17:22:47 -0800
Greetings
All.
For those interested, the latest issue of 'Gordon Watts Reports' is now online
at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0103.htm
Articles in this issue include the following:
-- Lest we forget
-- 'Informed consent' discriminates against thousands
-- Manned hours of service at Library and Archives Canada
-- Library and Archives Canada creates Service and Advisory Board
-- United Church Archives finds a new home
-- Alberta Family Histories Society call for papers
-- Generations Network bought out (Ancestry, MyFamily, etc)
-- On a personal note
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
Subject:
Announcing
findmypast's new image viewer without plugin
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 09:32:17 -0000
From: "Debra Chatfield"
<Debra.Chatfield@title-research.co.uk>
Reply-To: "Findmypast
Marketing" <Marketing@findmypast.com>
NEWS
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Not for publication or broadcast before GMT 12:00 hours on 8 November 2007
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Findmypast.com, the UK family history website, today launches a new image viewer
to simplify the process of accessing the historical records on its website.
Previously, findmypast's customers were required to download a "plugin" (a small
computer programme) onto their computer to view images of the millions of
historical documents on the website. From today, new customers will be able to
view the images without downloading a plugin, thanks to the new default
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will continue to be able to view images using what is now called the "enhanced
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"Until today we've required all our customers to download a plugin because that
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findmypast.com. "Our new standard viewer allows us to make our images easier to
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The new viewer has been developed in-house by findmypast's development team and
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From:
"Peter Whitlock" <whitlock@one-name.org>
To: <bcgs@bcgs.ca>,
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:17:33 -0600
Subject:
UK Guardian free access
to archives for 24 hrs
Thought other members
might be interested in this. You can scan a lot of articles in 24 hrs!! (good
to end of Nov)
Peter
Whitlock
----- Original Message -----
From: Dianne Sutton
To: whitlock@one-name.org
Sent: Wed
Subject: Fwd: Did you know the UK Guardian currently has free 24 hour access to
its archives and there are mentions of the race walker Whitlock from the 1930s?
http://archive.guardian.co.uk/Default/Skins/DigitalArchive/Client.asp?Skin=DigitalArchive&enter=true&AW=1194825120519&AppName=2
From:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
Subject: Update from the
Original Record Nov 8, 2007
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007
18:04:53 +0000 (GMT)
Added this week:
1428
Worcestershire Lay Subsidy
An inquiry was held at Worcester 30 September 1428 into the ownership of the
knight's fees from each hundred in the county (but not the city) of Worcester.
The jurors based their findings on a previous inquiry a few years earlier, so
that for each fee or portion of a fee the name of the previous freeholder is
also given. This inquiry was used as the basis for the raising of a subsidy from
the laity, taxed at 6s 8d per owner of an entire knight's fee, 1s 8d for a
quarter of a knight's fee, smaller fractions being exempt; in addition, the
population of each parish was taxed by a formula based on earlier taxations
dating back to 1290; but the taxation of the parishes was levied by the parishes
themselves, so there is no return of individual householders. The names that
appear in these records (the inquiry and the subsequent lay subsidy roll) are
thus those of the major freeholders, the jurors, assessors and collectors. The
rolls were edited and translated by John Amphlett for th
e Worcestershire Historical Society and printed in 1902.
1485-1547
Nottingham Borough Archives
The muniments of the borough of Nottingham include extensive mediaeval archives.
A selection from these from the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII was prepared
and edited by W. H. Stevenson for the Corporation, and printed, with
translations of the passages in Latin, in 1885. The principal sources used are
the borough Court Books, largely dealing with civil cases, for which an almost
complete series survives for this period; Sessions Rolls (92 survive for the two
reigns), in which crimes and misdemeanours are recorded; a Mickletorn or Leet
jury roll; detailed chamberlains' and bridge-wardens' accounts; and the Hall
Books, or council minutes. There are lists of burgesses enrolled; bakers
admitted to bake; and fines for licences to trade. A subsidy roll of 1523-4
lists householders by street, and there is an appendix of local deeds, including
some material dating back to the 14th century.
1504-1635
Cambridge St Mary the Great Churchwardens' Accounts
Cambridge comprised fourteen ancient parishes, plus the university (which was
extra-parochial), in the diocese of Ely. The church of St Mary the Great (as
opposed to St Mary the Less) in the Market Place (juxta forum) has
churchwardens' accounts surviving from 1504 onwards. Those from 1504 to 1635
were transcribed by J. E. Foster for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and
published in 1905. The two churchwardens were chosen annually: the previous
year's churchwardens each chose another parishioner: those two then each chose
three other parishioners: the resulting eight then chose the new year's
churchwardens, the wardens of the Light of the Rood, and the wardens of the Mass
of Jesus. Auditors were also chosen, usually out of the eight, to examine all
the wardens' accounts at the end of the year. The churchwardens' accounts are
largely concerned with the costs of repair of the church and its furnishings,
and include the names of tradesmen and workmen. Each Easter a rate called
Easter money was raised was raised from all householders in the parish, and
additional rates are occasionally levied for unusual expenses, such as steeple
reconstruction. These 'Easter book' lists give a complete list of householders
for the parish, excepting the poor. The church's income also included the rents
from some houses in the parish, and the names of the tenants appear. The offices
of the Light of the Rood and the Mass of Jesus were abolished during the
Reformation. The accounts of the Light of the Rood, i. e., for candles burnt
before the crucifix, often include a list of sums received for funerary diriges
(dirges) for the year, from which the year of death of the more prosperous
parishioners can be traced in this early period.
1586-1660
Black Books and Red Books of Lincoln's Inn
Lincoln's Inn is one of the ancient inns of court in London exclusively invested
with the right to call lawyers to the English bar. The Black Books of Lincoln's
Inn are the main administrative records of the society, containing the names of
those filling the different offices year by year; the annual accounts of the
Pensioner and the Treasurer; regulations; punishments and fines for
misdemeanours. This edition, printed for the inn in 1898, covers the volumes
from the 20th year of the reign of queen Elizabeth to the end of the
Protectorate, supplemented by material entries from another series, called the
Red Books, surviving from 1614, which deal with orders concerning and
admittances to the chambers of the inn.
1673-1692
Massachusetts Court of Assistants
The only surviving complete volume of the records of the courts held by the
Governor and Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay is for the period
1673 to 1692. It was transcribed by John Noble, and published by order of the
Board of Aldermen of the City of Boston, New England, as County Commissioners of
the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts. Under English law overseas colonies were
generally deemed to fall under the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, and were
subject to English law varied by local circumstances. These Courts of Assistants
therefore also function as Courts of Admiralty; the courts had jurisiction over
criminal cases and also in civil disputes between parties. In practice, many of
the names that occur in the record are just those of the members of the grand
jury and the lesser juries (appointed from among the adult male householders of
the colony) before whom the cases were tried.
1704-1706
House of Lords Manuscripts
Private bills dealing with divorce, disputed and entailed estates: petitions,
reports and commissions: naturalisation proceedings. This abstract of the
archives from the beginning of the third Session of the first Parliament of
queen Anne, 24 October 1704, to the end of the first Session of her second
Parliament, 19 March 1706, was prepared by Cuthbert Headlam and J. B. Hotham and
printed in 1912 in continuation of the volumes issued under the authority of the
Historical Manuscripts Commission.
1845-1849
Annexation of the Punjab
By 1845 the Sikh state of Lahore was the remaining substantial military power in
the Indian sub-continent outside British rule. Its khalsa army was well
equipped, disciplined, tenacious and had three European officers among its
commanders. The sikhs controlled not only the Punjab, but Pathan tribes as far
as the border with Afghanistan, and the whole of Kashmir. The river Sutlej
formed the boundary between the Sikh state and British India. In early December
1845 the Sikh army crossed the Sutlej and invested the British garrisons at
Ferozepore; 13 December 1845 the British declared war. After defeat in a series
of battles, at Moodkee (18-21 December), Ferozeshah (21-22 December); Budhowal
and Aliwal (23 December, 28 January); and Sobraon (10 February 1846), the state
of Lahore submitted to the Treaty of Lahore, ceding the Punjab between the
Sutlej and the Beas, Kashmir, and paying half a crore of rupees. The state of
Lahore itself continued under the durbar as a British protec
torate during the minority of the young maharajah; and the Sikh army was put
under British command. Kashmir was sold by the British to the ruler of Jammu for
a crore, and the submission of Kashmir to Jammu was effected by a Sikh force
under British officers. British garrisons were placed in the Punjab, but the
fort at Multan refused to submit, and had to be besieged. During the siege a
Sikh regiment defected to join other khalsa remnants, in defiance of the durbar
at Lahore, and raised a rebellion (August 1848 to January 1849). Battles at
Chillianwalla (13 January 1849) and Gujerat (21 February 1849) destroyed the
Sikh army. The British then annexed the whole of the Punjab, incorporating it
into British India. This account of the Annexation of Punjab by Arthur D. Innes
and General Charles Gough was published in 1897, but with a poor index; we have
remedied that. The account also includes a description of the battles of
Maharajapore and Puniar (29 December 1843) by which the
army of Gwalior was destroyed.
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From: Ron
MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
To: Undisclosed Recipients <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject:
Scots/Irish in Canada SFU
History Course
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007
09:41:49 -0800
Greetings, a message about an upcoming SFU history course on the history of the Scots and Irish in Canada by Jack Little and Willeen Keough. Regards, the other Ron
(see more info, in MS Word Doc: history 391
From:
"Brenda L Smith"
To: "Webmaster" <Webmaster@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
Cemeteries on CBC Radio One
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007
18:56:19 -0800
CALLING ALL TAPHOPHILES
You will
want to listen to "Ashes and Bones", "a meditation on cemeteries (and their
future), burial, and cremation, by Canadian writer and broadcaster, Marian
Botsford Fraser".
The feature will be
broadcast on CBC Radio One (AM) on the program "Ideas", Wednesday, 26 December
2007, 9:00 to10:00 pm.
"Ideas" can be heard
throughout Canada and the northern United States on the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation. After being aired, it will be available for four weeks as a CBC
Ideas podcast, to which the link to the library is
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/podcast.html
From:
"Federation Of Family History Societies" <ezine@ffhs.org.uk>
Reply-To: ezine@ffhs.org.uk
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
FFHS Archives Liaison Survey
Dear Member,
“Please may we encourage you and your members to complete the survey which has been placed on the Federation’s website (http://www.ffhs.org.uk/archives/survey2007.php).
The survey has been prepared by the Archives Liaison sub-committee to help it gain a better understanding of the overall situation concerning archives repositories in England and Wales. There are also questions to help the Federation understand how best to serve its members with regard to archives.
You can download the survey either as a PDF document which can then be printed, completed and returned to the Federation at the address on the form, or as an Excel spreadsheet which can be completed electronically and then emailed to the email address on the spreadsheet.
The survey was originally added to the website a couple of weeks ago. If you have already downloaded a copy, please may we trouble you to obtain a fresh copy as there has been a slight amendment to the original version.
While the survey is aimed principally at member societies in England and Wales, replies will be welcomed from all members of the Federation and from individuals. The more information we get, the more reliable the findings.
Please
submit answers as soon as possible but no later than
31.12.2007.
Roger Lewry, Archives Liaison Officer”
From:
"Matthew Smith" <echobase@tiscali.co.uk>
To: <echobase@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject:
Images From England Service
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007
17:17:57 -0000
Wildcard Photography would like to bring an exciting new service to your
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For a fixed fee, experienced photographers at "Images From England" will take
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From:
"Brenda L Smith" <emmalou@telus.net>
To: "BCGS-Webmaster" <Webmaster@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
United Church Archives-New Home
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007
13:40:32 -0800
The United Church
Archives Finds a New Home
http://www.united-church.ca/communications/news/releases/071025
From:
"Federation Of Family History Societies" <ezine@ffhs.org.uk>
Reply-To: ezine@ffhs.org.uk
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
FFHS - Important Notice
IMPORTANT NOTICE,
CHANGE OF CONTACT DETAILS
With effect from Monday 29th October 2007 Maggie Loughran and Philippa McCray will become Joint Administrators for the FFHS. They will be operating a job share due to Maggie Loughran’s relocation to Beijing, China for the next two years.
The new contact telephone number for the FFHS will be: 01455 203133
The
existing postal address:
Federation of Family History Societies
PO Box 2425, COVENTRY CV5 6YX
Will remain in operation until further notice, all general correspondence should continue to be sent to this address.
Maggie Loughran can continue to be contacted on her existing email address; admin@ffhs.org.uk (Please note Maggie will be on Annual Leave Nov.1st-Nov.30th inc.)
Philippa McCray can be contacted on admin2@ffhs.org.uk
During the transitional period there will be no break to the Administrative service offered to our member societies. If you have any questions/queries regarding the above please contact Philippa McCray in the first instance.
From:
"Rachel" <rachel@tribaljunction.com>
To: <Webmaster@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
New Resource for Genealogy
and family trees
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007
16:52:45 +0530
Organization:
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Subject: Update from the
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To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:54:56 +0100 (BST)
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1241-1242
Pipe Roll
The Great Rolls of the Pipe are the central record of the crown compiling
returns of income and expenditure from the sheriffs and farmers of the various
English counties or shires. This is the oldest series of public records, and the
earliest surviving instances of many surnames are found in the Pipe Rolls. This
is the roll for the 26th year of the reign of king Henry III, that is,
accounting for the year from Michaelmas 1241 to Michaelmas 1242. Most (but not
all) of the entries in which names appear relate to payments for grants of land
and fines or pardons arising from the proceedings of the justices. The text was
edited by Henry Lewin Cannon for Yale Historical Publications and printed in
1918. The name of the county is given at the head of each page, and variant
spellings, omissions and additions found in the duplicate Chancellor's Roll [C.
R.] are given in the footnotes.
1307-1327
Staffordshire entries on the Assize, De Banco and Fine Rolls
Extracts of Staffordshire entries from these three series of records for the
reign of king Edward II were made by Major-General the Hon. G. Wrottesley, and
published by the William Salt Society in 1888. The justices in eyre (itinerant)
holding assizes not only tried all civil actions outstanding on their advent,
pleas of the crown and common pleas, but also interrogated the juries of each
hundred and borough as to the Articles of the Eyre, inquiring into the king's
proprietary rights, escheats, wardships, and questions of maladministration. The
court of King's Bench (de Banco) sat in Westminster, similarly dealing with
court cases brought in from throughout the country. The fine rolls record part
of the government administration in England, with orders sent out day by day to
individual officers, and commitment of particular responsibilities and duties.
Wrottesley's extracts are far from exhaustive, as he confined his attention to
those landed gentry families that he considere
d of importance.
1550-1563
The Diary of Henry Machyn
Henry Machyn was a citizen and merchant-taylor of London. He had a professional
interest in the lavish funerals of his fellow citizens, and in October 1550
started a note book giving brief details of these occasions. Soon he added
political news, and (in an age before newspapers) he had a journalist's eye for
accidents, hangings, the preachings and suppression of heretics, and the
fortunes and misfortunes of dissidents. He lived in interesting times; the early
death of Edward VI; the failed attempt to install Jane on the throne; the
succession of queen Mary, and a lurch towards Catholicism; her marriage to
Philip of Spain; her death, and the accession of queen Elizabeth. Machyn's
humble journal, written for his own amusement and with a resolute indifference
to orthography, became in its time an important historical source, used by
Strype, and then edited by John Gough Nichols for the Camden Society and
published in 1848.
1647-1658
Yorkshire North Riding Quarter Sessions
The Quarter Sessions minute books for the North Riding from October 1647 to
January 1658 were edited by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson for the North Riding Record
Society and published in 1887. These are abstracts of sessional orders, minutes
of criminal cases, memoranda and other entries of record concerning the
administration of the riding.
1685-1799
Sackville Papers
R. B. Knowles of the Historical Manuscripts Commission was invited by Mrs
Stopford-Sackville to examine her family papers at Drayton House in
Northamptonshire; and after his death the work was continued by W. O. Hewlett
and published in 1904. These were chiefly letters, reports and other official
documents from and to lord George Sackville, the third son of Lionel first duke
of Dorset. The papers edited in this volume relate to the Monmouth insurrection
1685-1686; letters of Mary princess of Orange to lady Mary Forester; Sackville
family papers and letters 1706-1799; home affairs 1755-1784; letters from lord
George to General Irwin 1761-1784; Ireland 1731-1783; the war of the Austrian
Succession 1743-1748; Cherbourgh and St Malo 1758; the Seven Years War
1758-1759; Minden 1759-1760; Spain 1778-1780; prince William Henry duke of
Gloucester 1771-1779; India 1776-1784; and Minorca 1776-1782.
1699-1700
State Papers Domestic
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain,
Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State, as
well as other miscellaneous records. 1 January 1699 to 31 March 1700.
1859-1933
Wellington College Register
Wellington College, near Wokingham, was originally founded for the education of
sons of military officers. A register of boys entering the school from First
Term 1859 to Michaelmas 1933 was compiled by F. G. Lawrence for the Old
Wellingtonian Society. In each entry the boy's name is given in full, in bold,
surname first; age at entry (usually 11 to 14); then, in brackets, the name of
the dormitory or house to which he belonged, in italics, with the years of his
stay; then his father's name (usually surname and initials, but not christian
name) with military decorations where appropriate. School prefects and captains
are noted as such; if the boy played cricket for the school, XI with the years;
academic honours, scholarships, &c.; a brief biography; and date of death, or
(where known) address in 1933. Year of marriage is given, and sometimes the
wife's name and/or her father's name. Clearly, those boys who kept contact with
the school and/or had distinguished military career
s have detailed entries; others disappeared into oblivion on leaving.
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Subject:
Cloverdale Library: Canadian Genealogical Resources - New edition now
complete!
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:37:21 -0700
From: "Cooke, Laurie" <LCOOKE@surrey.ca>
To:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
We're
pleased to announce the publication of the 15th edition of the Cloverdale
Library's genealogy guide. The best news is that it will be available free
on-line at:
http://www.spl.surrey.bc.ca/Programs+and+Services/Genealogy/Canadian+Genealogical+Resources+Guide.htm
It's searchable
by using Ctrl+F & the Table of Contents is also hyper-linked.
Print copies will be showing up in the collection soon. We will also be making copies available for sale for the public and all the ordering information is available on our website.
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Subject: Update from
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Thu, 18 Oct 2007
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:13:00 +0100 (BST)
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1246-1272
Fine Rolls
The fine rolls of the 31st to 57th years of the reign of king Henry III record
part of the government administration in England. These excerpts from the rolls
list in transcript applications by plaintiffs for various writs (such as 'ad
terminum' and 'pone') and for assizes to be held by the justices in eyre to look
into their grievances. A fine of half a mark (6s 8d) or a mark (13s 4d) was
usually levied; the cases are normally identified by county, and record that the
appropriate sheriff had been notified. There are also more extensive records, in
which more detail is given. The excerpts were made by the Record Commission and
printed in 1836.
1400-1484
Somerset Feet of Fines
Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership
of land in Somerset.
These abstracts were prepared by Emanuel Green for the Somerset Record Society
and published in 1906. They cover material for the county from the reigns of
Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III.
1471-1484
Papal Letters
These are abstracts of the entries relating to Great Britain and Ireland from
the Lateran and Vatican Regesta of pope Sixtus IV. Many of these entries relate
to clerical appointments and disputes, but there are also indults to devout
laymen and women for portable altars, remission of sins, &c. This source is
particularly valuable for
Ireland,
for which many of the key government records of this period are lost. Many of
the names in the text were clearly a puzzle to the scribes in Rome, and spelling
of British and Irish placenames and surnames is chaotic. Sixtus IV was
consecrated and crowned 25 August 1471 (the day from which his pontificate is
dated) and died at Rome 12 August 1484. The extracts were made by J. A. Twemlow
from Vatican Regesta dxlvi to dclxxxi and Lateran Regesta dccxiii to dcccxxxviii,
and published in 1955. Not all the Lateran registers survive from this
pontificate, but were still in existence in the 18th century, when indexes were
compiled giving rubricel
le, or brief summaries of the papal bulls; nor, indeed, have all these indexes
now survived, but Twemlow added an appendix listing all the rubricelle relating
to the British Isles extant for the reign of Sixtus IV.
1521-1610
London Marriage Allegations
London, Essex and part of Hertfordshire lay within the diocese of
London.
In the later 17th century the individual archdeaconry courts issued marriage
licences, but for this period the only surviving material is from the
overarching London Consistory court. The main series of marriage allegations
from the consistory court starts 7 December 1597, and these were extracted by
Colonel Joseph Lemuel Chester; Colonel Chester then discovered earlier material,
back to 5 January 1521, in Vicar-General's Books of the Principal Probate
Registry. The notices in these books were much briefer, but as well as extending
back so much earlier, they included additional material for 1597 onwards. All
this he collated with the consistory court extracts, and the text was edited by
George J. Armytage and published by the Harleian Society in 1887. A typical
later entry will give date; name, address and occupation of groom; name, address
and condition of his intended bride, and/or, where she is a spi
nster, her father's name, address and occupation. Lastly we have the name of
the church where the wedding was going to take place; or the words Gen. Lic.
signifying a general or open licence.
1626-1638
Durham Court of High Commission
Sexual and religious behaviour, marriage and probate were under the purview of
the ecclesiastical courts in England at this period, exercised through the
individual dioceses and archdeaconries. The diocese of Durham included the
whole of county Durham, Northumberland (except for Hexhamshire) and Alston in
Cumberland.
The High Commission Court dealt with cases from the whole diocese, and a book of
court acts from 1628 to 1639, and another of depositions from 1626 to 1638,
survived in the dean and chapter library, were edited by W. Hylton Dyer
Longstaffe, and published by the Surtees Society in 1858. This is not a complete
abstract of the record: there are hundreds of cases for contempt of the ordinary
jurisdiction, of which only a few were selected as examples 'in consequence of
the rank of the persons proceeded against or other contents of interest'.
However, all cases in which the nature of the offence occurs are traced from
start to finish, but omitting much of the proceed
ings in between. The names and ages of all the deponents are recorded.
1676-1677
State Papers Domestic
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain,
Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as
well as other miscellaneous records, including lists of passes to travel abroad.
This edition by F. H. Blackburne Daniell, covers the period from 1 March 1676 to
28 February 1677, and was published in 1909.
1816
The Gentleman's Magazine
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military
promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences. Mostly from
England and Wales, but items
from Ireland, Scotland and abroad. July to December 1816.
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Date: Wed,
17 Oct 2007 06:13:39 -0700
From: "Mark Elliott" <MElliott@mrl.ubc.ca>
To: <Webmaster@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
United Church Archives Closing
Dear
Bob
This was sent to me from a mailing list I belong to. Would you be able to send
this out to the BCGS membership. I have used the Archives in the past and
planned on using it further in the new year as I my families have strong United
Church ties.
Thanks
Mark Elliott
I received this today.
Perhaps some on this list might want to participate in an effort to save the
United Church Archives:
http://www.savethearchives.ca/
The more people who participate, the better chance there is. Responses from
U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, England, UK would help too.
Date: Mon,
15 Oct 2007 21:16:41 -0600
From: Gary <gnstill@shaw.ca>
Subject: New Peter Fidler Website
& Forum
I’m introducing a new website for anyone interested in exchanging information
about descendants of Peter Fidler, the famous surveyor and explorer. www.PeterFidler.com.
If you could add my website as a Link on your website it would be greatly
appreciated.
Gary Still
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Subject: Update from
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To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007
16:54:11 +0100 (BST)
Added this week:
1178-1474
The Ingilby Manuscript
This manuscript, containing part of a chapter act book, and a considerable
fragment of a 14th-century cartulary, bound together some valuable early records
surviving from the mediaeval collegiate church of St Peter and St Wilfrid at
Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The manuscript was edited by Canon J. T.
Fowler and published by the Surtees Society in 1908. The church had the
patronage of many local advowsons, and the act book includes presentations and
institutions to these, as well as other matters of internal administration. The
cartulary is a compilation of copies of deeds by which local benefactors granted
land to the college: most of the earlier ones are undated. The names that appear
are those of the donors, of occasional tenants or occupiers of adjoining land,
and also the witnesses to the charters. Most of the land granted was in the
immediate vicinity of Ripon.
1241-1283
Yorkshire Inquisitions
Inquisitions post mortem are inquiries as to the real estate and heir of each
person holding in capite or in chief, i. e. directly, from the Crown, or whose
estates had been escheated or were in ward. The age and relationship of the heir
are usually recorded. Inquisitions ad quod damnum enquired as to any activities
(including maladministration by local officials) that had resulted in any
material loss to the Crown. Both sets of inquisitions for this period were
edited by William Brown for the Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical
Association, and printed in 1891. This index covers all names mentioned,
including jurors, tenants, &c.
1275-1298
Liber Horn or the Lesser Black Book, now known as Letter Book A of the City of
London
This contains enrolments of recognizances between inhabitants, particularly
citizens, for sums of money lent or due; grants of pieces of land or property;
and various records relating to the city administration. The letter books are so
called because they were lettered from A to Z and from AA to ZZ, not because
they were books of letters. Letter Book A was edited by Reginald R. Sharpe for
the corporation and printed in 1899.
1309-1329
Register of Bishop John de Drokenesford of Bath and Wells
The register was edited by Bishop Hobhouse and published by the Somerset Record
Society in 1887. It contains general diocesan business, mostly relating to
clergy, but with some parochial affairs and disputes with names of parishioners.
There are no ordination lists. The diocese of Bath and Wells at this period was
almost exactly coextensive with the county of Somerset.
1327-1509
Leicester Borough Archives
The Corporation of Leicester commissioned the publication (in 1901) of extracts
from the borough archives of 1327 to 1509, edited by Mary Bateson. This volume
brings together several important sources: a coroner's roll of 1327; the
merchant gild rolls; tax returns; court rolls; rentals; mayoral accounts, &c.
All the Latin and French texts are accompanied by English translations. Not all
the tax rolls surviving for this period are printed: but full lists of names are
given for tallages of 1336 (pp. 34-40); 1347-8 (69-71); and 1354 (93-99);
subsidy rolls of 1492 (331-334) and 1497 (351-353); and a benevolence roll of
1505 (370-374). There is a calendar of conveyances (388-446), and a list of
mayors, bailiffs, and other officials (447-462); and, finally, entrants into the
merchant gild from 1465 to 1510. Membership of the merchant gild was by right of
inheritance (s. p. = sede patris, in his father's seat), or by payment of a fee
called a 'bull' (taurus). Those marked * paid t
heir bull, and were thus, by implication, not natives, or at least not
belonging to gild merchant families. By 1400 membership of the gild merchant had
become the equivalent of gaining freedom of the borough (being a free burgess):
but thitherto the two were not necessarily the same, and some of the merchant
gild members were not resident in the borough, merely traded there.
1406-1535
The Register of the Gild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary and St John the
Baptist of Stratford-upon-Avon
The Hospital of the Holy Cross was founded in 1269; in time this fraternity
became a social and religious gild. The register, edited by J. Harvey Bloom,
rector of Whitchurch, and printed in 1907, is a record of admissions to the
gild, an account of the fines paid by new members, and the names of those in
arrear. Each year's record usually starts on the Monday after Ascension Day (the
sixth Thursday after Easter), when the new aldermen, master and proctors of the
gild were elected, all duly named. Then follow the admissions to the gild,
including payments for prayers and candles (lights) for the faithful dead; and
the names of the sureties for these payments. Interspersed with this are
occasional proclamations and memoranda concerning the fraternity. A peculiarity
of this publication is that the years given at the head of each page (e. g.
1502-3) are those of the regnal year (in that case 18 Henry VII) in which the
Monday after Ascension Day fell. The regnal years of Henry IV,
Henry VI, Richard III and Henry VII all started after that day in the
calendars of 1399, 1422, 1483 and 1485; so the gild registers during those years
actually cover the following year to that shown in this printed text (in that
case, 1503-4).
1550-1667
Reading St Mary Churchwardens' Accounts
The borough of Reading
in Berkshire comprised three ancient parishes - St Giles, St Lawrence and St
Mary. The churchwardens' accounts of Reading St Mary from 1550 to 1667 were
transcribed by Francis N. A. Garry and A. G. Garry and published in 1893. The
accounts, usually signed off by the two churchwardens and two surveyors of the
highways for the year, listed the income and expenditure of the church. Income
included annual payments for seats in the pews; rents from church property; fees
for the use of the pall and for tolling the knell (knill) at funerals, and for
opening graves; and sums received for 'gatherings', i. e. money gathered from
communicants at Easter, Hocktide, Mayday, Hallowmas, Christmas and Whit.
Expenditure was largely on maintaining the church fabric, and paying the minor
officials - most of the names found on this side of the account are of local
workmen busy with repairs.
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To:
Undisclosed Recipients <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject: Lectures
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007
11:14:07 -0700
Greetings, a reminder about upcoming lectures presented by SFU’s Centre for Scottish Studies.
These
lectures are open to all and are free.
For details contact
James Acken at
acken@sfu.ca or Leith Davis at
leith@sfu.ca
Regards to all, the other Ron
Upcoming Lectures at the downtown campus of Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre:
Place &
Family in Celtic Mythology
An exploration of the
themes and sources of Scottish and Irish Gaelic mythology delivered by Dr. James
Acken.
October 17th, 7pm
Fletcher Challenge
Theatre
Edinburgh: A Brief History
A broad look at the history of Scotland’s most famous city in anticipation
of Ian Duncan’s forthcoming lecture.
(Delivered by Dr. James Acken)
November 2nd,
7pm
Labatt Hall: room 1700
“A Rage
for Works of Fancy”: Edinburgh in the Age of Scott
This year’s St. Andrews
and Caledonian Society Lecture. Writing in the Edinburgh Magazine in 1819, a
reviewer commented on the great change that had taken place “within these few
years in the general taste and literature of Scotland”: In a strange reversal of
“the usual progress of the human mind,” the “grave and metaphysical propensities
of our countrymen” had succumbed to a “rage for works of fancy.” Novels, poems
and tales by Scottish authors, focusing on Scottish history and Scottish
national character, dominated the international literary market following the
publication of Walter Scott’s Waverley in 1814. The reviewer points to a larger
historical context for this rage for Scottish fiction – the displacement of the
curricular genres of the so-called Scottish Enlightenment (moral philosophy, the
human sciences) by the commercial genres of periodicals and fiction in the
Edinburgh publishing boom that took place after 1800. Beginning with the
question, What happened to the Scottish Enlightenment?, my talk will explore the
remarkable flowering of imaginative literature that made Edinburgh a rival to
London in the first third of the nineteenth century.
November 15th,
7pm
Fletcher Challenge
Theatre, reception to follow
‘The Rise
and Fall of the Gaelic Empire’
A broad look at the
shape of Gaelic culture and History during the Middle Ages: delivered by Dr.
James Acken.
November 28th,
7pm
Fletcher Challenge
Theatre
The BCGS Education Committee Needs YOU!!
We are
currently looking for a couple of group facilitators:
- do you have an area of expertise?
- do you have an
interest in learning more about a specific area?
- can you facilitate a
group 2 -3 times per year?
If you answered YES to
any or all of the above questions, then the BCGS needs you.
We are
currently looking for Group Facilitators for:
- The United States Group
- The Canada Group
- The European Group
As well as people
interested in presenting the 4 basic topic sessions to Beginning members.
You don't have to be an
expert, we'll give you the format, hand-outs.
Please contact the
Education Committee - Eunice Robinson or Lorraine Irving via the BCGS
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Subject: Update from the
Original Record Oct 4, 2007
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007
11:16:57 +0100 (BST)
Added this week:
1219-1220
Curia Regis Rolls
The Curia Regis, king's court, of mediaeval England took cases from throughout
the country, and its records are among the most important surviving from this
early period. Rolls 71 and 71B for Michaelmas term of the 3rd and 4th years, and
72 and 73 for Hilary term and Easter term of the 4th year of the reign of king
Henry III (Michaelmas 1219 to Easter 1220) were edited by C. T. Flower of the
Public Record Office and published in 1938. Each entry is copied in full, the
Latin extended from the abbreviated original, the personal and place names given
as in the original; where these vary between duplicate rolls, variant spellings
are given in the footnotes. The county of each case was marked in the margin in
the originals, and this is shown in italics at the start of each entry in the
printed edition.
1272-1279
Somerset Assizes
The records of the assizes held by the royal justices in eyre (itinerant) in
Somerset during this period were edited by Lionel Landon and published by the
Somerset Record Society in 1926. The justices not only tried all civil actions
outstanding on their advent, pleas of the crown and common pleas, but also
interrogated the juries of each hundred and borough as to the Articles of the
Eyre, inquiring into the king's proprietary rights, escheats, wardships, and
questions of maladministration. Appendix I adds some scattered Somerset items
from rolls for 1204, 1218 and 1240.
1413-1416
Patent Rolls
These are the Chancery enrolments of royal letters patent. Those for the 1st,
2nd and 3rd years of the reign of king Henry V (21 March 1413 to 20 March 1416)
were edited for the Public Record Office by R. C. Fowler, and published in 1910.
The main contents are royal commissions and grants; ratifications of
ecclesiastical estates; writs of aid to royal servants and purveyors; and
pardons. The commissions of the peace issued for the English towns and counties
and entered on the rolls, being largely repetitive, have been consolidated in a
single appendix.
1546-1548
Yorkshire Chantry Certificates
Chantries were established to perform services for the souls of their founders
and other faithful dead, including annual obits and anniversaries at which alms
were usually distributed. The chantries could be at an existing altar in a
parish church, a new altar in a side chapel of an existing church, in a new
chapel in the churchyard or some miles from an existing church: few were founded
before 1300, and most date from 1450 to 1500. Hospitals were places provided by
similar foundations to receive the poor and weak; there were also religious
guilds, brotherhoods and fraternities, and colleges (like large chantries at
which three or more secular priests lived in common). An Act of Parliament of
1545 gave king Henry VIII the power to dissolve such chantries, chapels, &c.,
the proceeds to be devoted to the expenses of the wars in France and Scotland.
Commissioners were appointed 14 February 1546 to survey the chantries and seize
their property, and from 1546 to 1548 the commissio
ners produced these certificates giving brief details of the establishment and
nature of each foundation, with an inventory of valuables and rental of lands.
The individuals named in the certificates are thus the founder, the present
incumbent, and the tenants whose rents provided the chantry's income. All the
surviving certificates were edited by William Page for the Surtees Society, and
published from 1892.
1642-1649
Massachusetts Bay Records
The Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England was established by royal
charter in 1629, the area being settled from 1630 onwards; the charter was
withdrawn in 1684. The colony at this period did not include Plymouth or Maine.
This court book, compiled by the Increase Nowell, company secretary, also
includes memoranda concerning land grants and disputes, official appointments,
&c. There are separate lists of those taking the oath as freemen of the colony.
The records were edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, and printed by order of the
legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1853. Months are given in
the dating in Puritan fashion, i. e. March is 1mo, April 2mo, &c.
1835-1836
Central Criminal Court
Henry Buckler copied in shorthand the proceedings of trials at the Central
Criminal Court in London, and his transcripts were printed. This volume (iii),
from 1836, covers sessions i to vi of the Copeland mayoralty of 1835 to 1836.
The bulk of the cases were from London and Middlesex, with separate sections for
Essex, Kent and Surrey, but, preceding all these, Capital Convictions. The names
of the accused are annotated with an asterisk to show if they had previously
been in custody; an obelisk indicates a known associate of bad characters. Most
cases resulted in a guilty verdict, and a large proportion of these led to a
sentence of transportation to Australia.
1840
Hart's New Annual Army
The New Annual Army List, corrected to 7 February 1840, was published in London
by Lieut. H. G. Hart. It lists all serving officers, first of all a list of
General and Field Officers by rank from field marshal down to major; and then by
regiment, including all ranks down to ensign, with paymasters, adjutants,
quarter-masters, surgeons and assistant-surgeons. These lists are all annotated
with dates of rank in the army and regiment, and with symbols indicating the
officers present at Trafalgar (T), in the Peninsula or the South of France (P),
and Waterloo (W). A superscript p indicates that the commission was purchased;
an asterisk that it was temporary. The regiments and units are listed in order
of precedence: Head Quarters staff; Life Guards; Horse Guards; 7 regiments of
Dragoon Guards; 17 regiments of Dragoons; 98 regiments of Foot; the Rifle
Brigade; two West India regiments of Foot; Ceylon Rifles; Royal African Colonial
Corps; Cape Mounted Rifles; Royal Newfoundland Vete
rans; Royal Malta Fencibles; Recruiting Staff; Royal Artillery; Royal
Engineers; Royal Marines; Commissariat; and the Medical Department. The section
entitled 'Officers on the Retired Full Pay and Half Pay' lists all such
officers, by rank from captain down to ensign, with paymasters, adjutants,
quarter-masters, medical staff and chaplains. (Officers above the rank of
captain were retained in the main list of Field Officers). These lists are
annotated with dates of successive ranks, when placed on half-pay, and the name
of the regiment, &c., and with the symbols P and W. Names of officers on
retired full-pay are given in italics. The list covers not only the regiments
of the line, but also the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Marines,
Staff, and Military Departments. The section entitled 'Officers on Foreign
Half-Pay' lists all such officers, by rank from captain down to ensign, with
paymasters, adjutants, quarter-masters, and veterinary surgeons. These lists are
an
notated with dates of rank, and when placed on half-pay, and with symbols P and
W. The officers were from the German Legion, Brunswick Cavalry, Brunswick
Infantry, Chasseurs Britanniques, Corsican Rangers, Dillon's, Greek Light
Infantry, Maltese troops, Meuron's, Roll's, Sicilian, Watteville's, York Light
Infantry, Veteran Battalion, Waggoners, and Medical Department. There are also
sections identifying those officers who held various British and foreign honours.
The lists are annotated with the name of the regiment, &c., and with symbols P
and W. The honours covered are Knights Grand Cross of the Bath (GCB); Knights
Commanders of the Bath (KCB); Companions of the Bath (CB); Knights Grand Cross
of St Michael and St George (GCMG); Knights Commanders of St Michael and St
George (KCMG); Companions of St Michael and St George (CMG); Knights Grand Cross
of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order (GCH); Knights Commanders of the Royal
Hanoverian Guelphic Order (KCH); Knights of the R
oyal Hanoverian Guelphic Order (KH); and a miscellany of honours from Austria,
Bavaria, Belgium, France, Greece, Naples, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal,
Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, Saxony, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Tuscany and Wirtemburg.
The main lists, the retired lists, the foreign half-pay and the honours lists
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bcgs@bcgs.ca
From: Guido Deboeck <gdeboeck@mac.com>
Subject: Fwd:
Just released: book that integrates conventional and genetic genealogy: "Flemish
DNA & Ancestry"
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007
10:39:58 -0400
Dear Sir/Madam:
It is my great pleasure to inform you that a book on the above subject has just
been released by Dokus Publishing in Arlington, Virginia.
This new book is about the history of three Flemish families over five
centuries. The research for this book was based on conventional genealogy
complimented with an innovative part on genetic genealogy. The conventional
genealogy part shows how to find and document family history given the vast
resources made available on the web and in Family History Centers. After
an introduction to genetic genealogy this book includes concrete DNA results of
several of the three family histories described in this book It also discusses
the deep ancestry of Flemish people, hence anyone with Belgian or Flemish roots
can find out where their oldest ancestors came from.
The scope of this book also includes elements of war, business and immigration
history, which Professor van der Wee, a well known historian called "very
informative, even fascinating". The enclosed file provides the complete table of
contents of this book.
The full title of this new book is Flemish DNA & Ancestry: History of three
families over five centuries using conventional and genetic genealogy.
You can preview or take a tour of this book at
http://www.FlemishDNA.com
Copies of this book can be ordered via the order form on the above website or
the form enclosed.
Would you please make this information available to all genealogical and/or
history societies in your state that may have an interest in this work. Thank
you.
Yours sincerely,
Guido J Deboeck
c/o Dokus Publishing
3850 North River Street
Arlington, Virginia 22207-4650
phone/fax 703-534-8827
From:
"Brenda L Smith" <emmalou@telus.net>
To: "BCGS-Webmaster" <Webmaster@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
Preserving Family Memories
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007
13:15:23 -0700
Attention all members
concerned with organizing, storage, care, retrieval and presentation of
photographs!
Michele Correa of Photo
Express will present "Preserving Family Memories" in the Building Family
Memories Series at Maple Ridge Library 07 November 2007, at 7 pm. Michele is
well-known and respected for her knowledge and skill presentation, especially to
those who attended the Abbotsford "Roots Around the World" 2003 Seminar.
Pre-registration is
required for this free program. Call Maple Ridge Library 604-467-7417.
Date: Sat,
29 Sep 2007 23:44:07 -0700
From: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject:
New CBC Show-starts Oct 11, 2007
To: Webmaster@bcgs.ca
CBC
is going to be showing a new genealogy program. This is the Canadian version of
"Who Do You Think You Are", the British Show that has had such an impact on the
genealogical community in the UK. Here is the link
http://www.cbc.ca/whodoyouthinkyouare
Canadian celebrities whose family stories will be told include Randy Bachman,
Don Cherry, Mary Walsh, Sonja Smits, Margot Kidder, General Lewis MacKenzie,
Steven Page, Chantal Kreviatzuk, Avi Lewis, Margaret Trudeau, Scott Thompson,
Shaun Majumder and Measha Brueggergosman.
The first show will be on Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 and features Shaun
Majumder, Gemini-award winning comedian and actor.
Back to Top
Date: Sat,
29 Sep 2007 19:43:45 -0700
From: Chuck Davis <chuckdavis@shaw.ca>
Subject: web site on history of
vancouver
To:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Hi. This is a brief note to alert you to my web site www.vancouverhistory.ca on the history of Vancouver. I now have more than a thousand pages there on the history of the city and its surroundings. You’ll have members with a connection to Vancouver who may enjoy wandering through those pages!
Best
wishes,
Chuck Davis
From:
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Subject: Update from
the Original Record, Sept 25, 2007
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007
16:53:18 +0100 (BST)
Added this week:
1202-1285
Lancashire Assizes
All the surviving records of the assizes held by the royal justices in eyre
(itinerant) in Lancashire during this period were extracted by colonel John Parker and published
by the Lancashire and
Cheshire Record Society from 1904. The justices not only tried all civil actions
outstanding on their advent, pleas of the crown and common pleas, but also
interrogated the juries of each wapentake and borough as to the Capitula
Itineries, the Articles of the Eyre, inquiring into the king's proprietary
rights, escheats, wardships, and questions of maladministration. Only a dozen
complete rolls survive for this period; but Appendix I (pp. 218-253) gathers
together from the Patent Rolls of the reign of Henry III (1216-1272) a schedule
of Lancashire assizes for which justices were assigned; and Appendix II
(306-342) adds the fines and amercements before the justices during that reign,
as recorded on the Pipe Rolls.
1332
Warwickshire Lay Subsidy Roll
This records the tax of a tenth and a fifteenth on the laity of the county at
Michaelmas 1332. The record is arranged by boroughs, ancient demesnes, and
hundreds, and within hundreds by township. The roll was translated and edited by
William Fowler Carter and published by the Dugdale Society in 1926, with an
appendix printing the lay subsidy rolls for Stratford-upon-Avon of 1309, 1313
and 1332, and a brief extract from an assize roll of 1323 inquiring about
irregularities in the levying of the tax.
1484-1508
Testamenta Eboracensia
Wills and testaments from the diocese of York (Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire,
Hexhamshire, Lancashire north of the Ribble, and southwest Westmorland)
registered at York.
Richmond and Southwell archdeaconries had their own lower probate jurisdictions,
so the wills registered at York are predominantly from the East and West Ridings
and the eastern part of the North Riding of Yorkshire. In theory, wills dealt
with real property and testaments with personal property, but the distinction
hardly applies in practice: most of these wills are in Latin, but some are in
English. Being before the Reformation, they commonly start with benefactions to
churches, chantries, chapels, &c., and with provisions for the burning of
candles ('lights') and saying of masses. This publication in 1869 by the Surtees
Society as Testamenta Eboracensia iv is an edition by James Raine of selected
wills from the period. Some additional material is included from the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury and the York
Dean and Chapter archives.
1590-1591
Acts of the Privy Council
The Privy Council of queen
Elizabeth
was responsible for internal security in
England
and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters. 1 October
1590 to 24 March 1591.
1645-1647
State Papers Domestic
The State Papers Domestic are the main series of records of internal British
administration for this period. The volumes printed in abstract here (Charles I
dx to dxv) run from July 1645 to December 1647, a period of defeat of royal
power by the parliamentary forces. Parliament's victory at Naseby in June 1645
led to the collapse of the Royalist cause and the imprisonment of the king in
Carisbrooke Castle towards the close of 1647. During all these events the
administration of government continued, largely using the same institutions,
leaving similar series of records as before: but executive power is now
represented in these books by the Committee of Both Kingdoms (England and
Scotland). The State Papers Domestic for these years are largely concerned with
the prosecution of hostilities, the movements and supply of troops, and the
treatment of 'delinquents'. Chronologically interleaved with the abstracts of
the main volumes are details from the series of Proceedings of the Co
mmittee of Both Kingdoms, but these are lost for the years 1646 to 1647, brief
notes only surviving in the Indexes to the Day Book of Orders. There are also
appendices relating to the victualling and disposition of the Navy, taken from
the Letters and Papers of the Committee for the Admiralty and the Committe of
the Navy, which also include some petitions from sailors, victuallers,
officials, or their dependants, seeking redress or relief.
1704-1705
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for
January 1704 to March 1705. The text covers a huge variety of topics involving
all manner of receipts and expenditure, customs and revenue officials, civil
servants, pensioners, petitioners and postmasters figuring particularly among
the individuals named.
1910
Imperial Calendar
This gives lists of officials and office-holders throughout England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland
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Subject: Update from
the Original Record - Sept 20, 2007
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007
14:10:05 +0100 (BST)
Added this week:
1103-1327
Leicester Borough Archives
The Corporation of Leicester commissioned the publication (in 1899) of extracts
from the earliest borough archives, edited by Mary Bateson. This volume brings
together several important sources: the borough charters; the merchant gild
rolls (from 1196 onwards); tax returns; court rolls (from about 1260 onwards);
mayoral accounts, &c. All the Latin and French texts are accompanied by English
translations. Membership of the merchant gild was by right of inheritance (s. p.
= sede patris, in his father's seat), or by payment of a fee called a 'bull' (taurus).
The sample scan shows part of a gild entrance roll; those marked * paid their
bull, and were thus, by implication, not natives, or at least not belonging to
gild merchant families. By 1400 membership of the gild merchant had become the
equivalent of gaining freedom of the borough (being a free burgess): but at this
period the two were not necessarily the same, and some of the merchant gild
members were not resident in the bo
rough, merely traded there. Not all the tax rolls surviving for this period are
printed: but full lists of names are given for a loan for redemption of pontage
and gavelpence of 1252-3 (pp. 44-46); five tallages of 1269 to 1271 brought
together in a single table (128-1450; and tallages of 1286 (208-211), 1307
(255-257), 1311 (272-274) and 1318 (310-313). The portmanmoot (or portmote) was
the borough court dealing with minor infractions and civil suits. Finally, there
is a calendar of charters (from c.1232 onwards, 381-400), and a list of mayors,
bailiffs (reeves), receivers and serjeants (401-407).
1119-1300
Guisborough Cartulary
The Augustinian (black canons) priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Guisborough
(Gyseburne) near Middlesbrough in north
Yorkshire, was founded about 1119 by Robert de Brus. The 1100 or so
grants of land (mostly in
Cleveland)
made to the priory from then well into the 13th century were copied into a
cartulary or chartulary which survives as Cottonian Manuscript Cleopatra d ii
(British Library). This was edited by W. Brown and published by the Surtees
Society in 1889. The texts have been stripped of repetitious legal formulae,
retaining the details of the grantors, the property, and the witnesses: so the
individuals named are mainly local landowners and tenants, canons, servants and
wellwishers of the monastery. The charters before 1250 are often undated.
1215-1255
The Register of archbishop Walter Gray of York, containing general diocesan
business, mostly relating to clergy. The diocese of York at this period covered
all of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, as well as Lancashire north of the Ribble,
southern Westmorland, and Hexhamshire in Northumberland. The register survives
as two rolls (called the Major and the Minor), in all amounting to nearly 71
feet of parchment. It is thought that a third roll or more has been lost,
because the acts of the archbishop for the last ten years of his episcopate are
missing, as are all the ordination and ecclesiastical discipline records for his
reign. The then unpublished parts of the register were edited for the Surtees
Society by James Raine and printed in 1870, with some additional material
included in appendices.
1392-1805
Chester Freedom Rolls
Lists of admissions of freemen of the city of Chester from the earliest
surviving records to 1805 were compiled by J. H. E. Bennett and published by the
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society from 1906. These lists were extracted
from the mayoral yearbooks (dating back to 1392) and twelve freemen's rolls
covering 1538 to 1612 and 1636 to 1805; and a list of admissions for 1505-1506
in Harleian MS 2105 (British Library). The record does not become more or less
continuous until about 1490: in all, 12,426 freedoms are recorded. Freedom of
the city, necessary to practise a trade in the city, could be obtained by birth
(in which case the father's name and occupation are usually given); by
apprenticeship to a freeman (p.: the master's name and occupation being given);
or by order of assembly. Both the freemen and the masters listed are indexed
here.
1700-1702
State Papers Domestic
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain,
Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as
well as other miscellaneous records. Includes lists of passes to travel abroad.
This abstract covers the period from
1 April 1700 to 4
March 1702, with an appendix of items dating back as early as 1689.
1840-1844
Registry of Merchant Seamen: BT 112/4
The registry of merchant seamen, including fishermen, sought to identify
individuals securely in this series of registers by assigning to each man a
unique number, grouped together by surname, and then by christian name, whereas
in previous registers names had been jumbled together under the first two
letters of the surname. Each man's age and birthplace was recorded, together
with any number brought forwards from previous registration, i. e. the number
assigned to the man in the registers for 1835 to 1840. Then each voyage is
listed, with his status (e. g. S for seaman, M for mate, &c.) on that trip, the
identification number of the ship, the date, and then the name of the ship. In
the event of it becoming known that a man had died during the course of a
voyage, that information is written across the remaining empty columns. This
volume (BT 112/4) covers mariners whose surnames start with Be or McBe.
1851
Newington Census Returns
The 1851 census return for St Mary Newington, Surrey, registration district: St
Peter Walworth sub-district: in the ecclesiastical district of St Peter
Walworth, and in the borough of Lambeth. National Archives HO 107/1567. Includes
Newington Workhouse.
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To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007
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this week:
1422-1586
Black Books of Lincoln's Inn
Lincoln's Inn is one of the ancient inns of court in London exclusively invested
with the right to call lawyers to the English bar. The Black Books of Lincoln's
Inn are the main administrative records of the society, containing the names of
those filling the different offices year by year; the annual accounts of the
Pensioner and the Treasurer; regulations; punishments and fines for
misdemeanors. This edition, printed for the Inn in 1897, covers the first five
surviving volumes.
1586-1588
The State Papers Foreign of queen Elizabeth consist mainly of letters and
reports concerning England's relations with continental Europe. June 1586 to
June 1588.
1632-1637
Founders of New England
Samuel G. Drake searched British archives from 1858 to 1860 for lists of
passengers sent from England to New England, publishing the results in 1860 in
Boston, Massachusetts. Adult emigrants transported to New England in the period
1632 to 1637 had to take oaths of allegiance and religious conformity, certified
by parish priest, mayor or justices, and these certificates form the core of
this book, but it also includes a list of 'Scotch Prisoners sent to
Massachusetts in 1652, by Order of the English Government', and various other
passenger lists and documents, dating as late as 1671. The early lists included
the children, and normally gave the full name and age of each person. This is
the index to the passengers.
1656
Suspected Persons in Kent
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and
Ireland, divided the country into military districts under Major-Generals and
their deputies, among whose duties was to forward lists of suspected persons to
a central office in London. The register of suspected persons for Kent survives
as Additional Manuscripts 34013 (A) in the British Library. Whenever a suspect
travelled to London, he had to certify to the central office the place of his
lodging, this information being recorded in another register (34014: B). A.
Rhodes compiled a list of these suspects and their movements from these two
books, and from correspondence in a third book (19516: C), and this list was
published in Archaeologia Cantiana in 1898. The suspects are listed by parish,
the name of the parish being given in capital letters. We have indexed both the
suspects and the London lodginghouse keepers &c.
1788
The Annual Register for 1788 contained a section entitled 'Chronicle',
summarizing the year's major events in London, Britain and abroad: and to this
was added an appendix containing the texts of interesting dispatches from
correspondents. There are also lists of births, marriages and deaths,
promotions, and sheriffs.
1873
The Baptist was a weekly newspaper, with some general news and political
coverage, but mainly devoted to chronicling Denominational Intelligence, i. e.
the doings of the Baptist churches in Britain and Ireland. January to June 1873.
1915
Hart's Annual Army List, Special Reserve List and Territorial Force List for
1915 includes this section entitled 'War Services of the Officers of the Active
List', covering not only serving officers of the regular army, but also officers
of the militia (marked (m)), special reserve (r), territorials (t), volunteers
(v) and yeomanry (y). The detailed descriptions of the officers' war services
relate not to the Great War, but to previous campaigns, particularly those in
South Africa, Egypt, India and China. The regiment &c. in which the officer was
currently serving is shown in brackets after his name.
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From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>,
Subject:
Informal discussion
at Library and Archives Canada
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007
22:33:05 -0700
Greetings
All.
In the last issue of my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports', I included an article
relating to the reduction of manned service hours in Library and Archives Canada
in Ottawa. The hours of 'manned' service were being reduced without there
having been any known public consultation.
It seems that someone in LAC listened to the concerns expressed by myself and
others.
Library and Archives Canada has extended an invitation to its clients to an
informal discussion where they will be able to ask questions and obtain
explanations on the latest changes related to client services.
The session will be on September 19th from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in room "A" in
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
I would urge anyone living in the Ottawa area that has concerns regarding the
cutback in service hours at LAC to attend this meeting if possible. I would
appreciate someone attending advising me as to what takes place at the meeting.
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
From: "mary"
To: <Webmaster@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
UK New BMD site have a look!
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007
23:55:37 -0700
There is a new site opening on 14 September this year where you can access hidden BMD's, Here is the link http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/launch_info.php
Mary Turnbull
Date: Tue,
11 Sep 2007 22:31:35 -0700
From: "M. Diane Rogers"
Subject:
FFHS-NEWS CLOSURE OF FAMILY
RECORDS CENTRE
To:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Hello, Bob;
I received 2 news messages today from the Federation of Family History Societies
about changes to access at the Family Records Centre in London, England. Both
messages are copied below.
This news will ultimately affect all doing family history research in English &
Welsh records, even if from afar. For example, Free BMD volunteers are now
trying to take as many photographs as possible of 'unreadable' index book pages
before access is taken away.
Please pass this information on to the BCGS e-mail list.
Diane R
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maggie Loughran FFHS Administrator" <admin@ffhs.org.uk>
To: "FFHS NEWS" <ffhs-news@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:55 PM
Subject: FFHS-NEWS CLOSURE OF FAMILY RECORDS CENTRE
CLOSURE OF FAMILY RECORDS CENTRE
The Federation of Family History Societies has received the press
release (below) from the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)
To read the full background behind the closure of the FRC visit the FFHS website
<www.ffhs.org.uk/archives/gro/civil-reg-0707.php>
Or the report in The Times <
http://tinyurl.com/2u99fd>
An E-petition to ensure that the General Register Office completes ASAP,
as promised, the digitisation of, and online index to, the national BMD
ledgers dating back to 1837 previously held in the Family Records Centre in
London, has been created on the Prime Ministers Website for more information
visit http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BMDonline/>
Maggie Loughran
Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies
www.ffhs.org.uk
PRESS RELEASE PUBLIC AND COMMERCIAL SERVICES UNION (PCS) CLOSURE OF FAMILY
RECORDS CENTRE WILL MEAN POORER SERVICE Public access to records of births,
deaths and marriages will be significantly reduced as a result of plans to close
the Family Records Centre (FRC) in Islington, according to the Public and
Commercial Services Union (PCS). The union represents twenty staff at the Centre
who are set to lose their jobs as a result of the closure. It said that
customers ranging from legal firms to genealogy societies would lose out and
described as 'misleading' claims by management at the Office for National
Statistics (ONS), that the same information would be available online and by
microfiche. PCS National Officer, Peter Harris said: 'If the Centre in Islington
is closed, all that the public will have left is the ability to view indexes of
certificates on microfiche at the National Archives in Kew. This would be a poor
substitute for the current service, which allows customers to search the indexes
in book form and to consult trained and experienced staff. Management has
suggested that customers would be able to access the same information online,
but they have recently conceded in discussions with staff that plans to digitize
the records are not achievable until long after the Centre is closed, if at
all. The loss of the FRC staff also means that it will no longer be possible to
order copies of certificates in person, but only online. This is turn, requires
customers either to consult the microfiche records in person, in order to obtain
the certificate numbers, or to pay to get this information from a commercial
website. The proposed arrangements are bad news for customers without internet
access, those who have difficulty in using the internet and people requiring
documents urgently - for example, in support of passport applications and
benefit claims. The ONS decision represents a compete withdrawal of services
that the Registrar General has a duty to provide.' . For further information
please contact Norman Bishop, PCS ONS Group President, on 07763 352221 or Darren
Williams, PCS Wales campaigns officer, on 029 20 666363. . PCS, the Public and
Commercial Services Union is the union representing civil and public servants in
central government. It has over 320,000 members in over 200 departments and
agencies, and also represents workers in parts of government transferred to the
private sector. PCS is the UK's sixth largest union and is affiliated to the TUC.
-- News message 149 from the Federation of Family History Societies To
unsubscribe, e-mail:
ffhs-news-unsubscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk To report problems, email:
ffhs-news-owner@maillist.ox.ac.ukCHANGES TO FRC SERVICES ON THE GROUND FLOOR
FROM OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2007Removal of Index Books During the month of October,
the paper indexes will be removed from the ground floor and transferred to ONS
Christchurch for
storage at which point there will be no further public access. Set below is the
timetable for the move:13/14 October Births, Deaths, Marriages 1947-2005
inclusive20/21 October Births, Deaths, Marriages 1865-1946 inclusive27/28
October Births, Deaths, Marriages 1837-1864 inclusive27/28 October Overseas All
years The paper indexes for Adoption records will be retained by the FRC. Maggie
Loughran Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies
www.ffhs.org.uk--News message 150 from the Federation of Family History
Societies To unsubscribe, e-mail:
ffhs-news-unsubscribe@maillist.ox.ac.ukTo report problems, email:
ffhs-news-owner@maillist.ox.ac.uk
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Original Record Sept 6-07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007
09:36:55 +0100 (BST
1001-1500
The White Books and the Red Book of Wells
Three early registers of the dean and chapter of Wells - the Liber Albus I
(White Book; R I), Liber Albus II (R III), and Liber Ruber (Red Book; R II,
section i) - were edited by W. H. B. Bird for the Historical Manuscripts
Commissioners and published in 1907. These three books comprise, with some
repetition, a cartulary of possessions of the cathedral, with grants of land
dating back as early as the 8th century, well before the development of
hereditary surnames in England; acts of the dean and chapter; and surveys of
their estates, mostly in Somerset.
1176-1177
The Great Rolls of the Pipe
These are the central record of the crown compiling returns of income and
expenditure from the sheriffs and farmers of the various English counties or
shires. This is the oldest series of public records, and the earliest surviving
instances of many surnames are found in the Pipe Rolls. This is the roll for the
23rd year of the reign of king Henry II, that is, accounting for the year from
Michaelmas 1176 to Michaelmas 1177. Most (but not all) of the entries in which
names appear relate to payments for grants of land and fines or pardons. The
large number of payments of fines for forest transgressions has been interpreted
as a form of compounding for pardons by those who had rebelled during the
recent years of unrest. There is a separate return in each year for each shire,
the name of the shire being here printed at the top of each page.
Wales
was still independent, in separate kingdoms, at this period, and is not
included, except for 'Herefordshire in Wales'.
1623
Visitation of Shropshire
A heraldic visitation of
Shropshire was taken in 1623 by Robert Tresswel, Somerset Herald, and
Augustine Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms, marshals and deputies to
William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. At this visitation, county families
claiming the right to bear coats of arms registered these together with their
pedigrees, often stretching back through many generations. A copy of the
visitation (Harleian MS 1396) was edited by George Grazebrook and John Paul
Rylands, with additions from pedigrees of
Shropshire gentry taken by the
heralds in 1563 and 1584, and other sources, and published by the Harleian
Society in 1889. Additions from Harleian MS 1241 are shown in italics; from
Harleian MS 615 in italics within parentheses; and from a copy of the 1623
visitation in Shrewsbury School library, in italics within square brackets.
1814-1818
Wesleyan Methodist Minutes.
There are many strands of interesting information in the minutes produced by the
Wesleyan Methodist connexion's conference each July, and from these we have
indexed all those containing substantial personal information:
A comprehensive list of Wesleyan Methodist ministers arranged by station and
circuit in Britain,
Ireland and abroad, was prepared each year at the church's annual conference.
This includes supernumeraries and missionary preachers. New Wesleyan Methodist
preachers were admitted for three years trial as preachers in the church. After
three years 'on trial' new Wesleyan Methodist preachers were admitted into full
connexion with the church. Each year a number of Wesleyan Methodist preachers
withdrew from the ministry by reason of ill health, resignation, &c. There are
short obituaries of Wesleyan Methodist preachers who died in the previous year.
Major expenses incurred by Wesleyan Methodist preachers and reimbursed by the
church are detailed in the annual accounts. The great majority of these expenses
are the costs of moving to and between circuits, and give an indication of where
a preacher has come from. There are also some items relating to serious
illnesses and funerals. Wiv
es of Wesleyan Methodist ministers were supported by the church, either
centrally or through the local congregations: lists of wives were therefore
printed in the annual minutes. Unfortunately, the ladies' Christian names are
never given; where it is necessary to distinguish between wives of ministers
with the same surnames, the husbands' Christian names are given. The S.
preceding each name signifies 'Sister'. Examining these lists is nevertheless a
good way to trace approximate dates of marriage for a minister, and approximate
dates of death of wives that predeceased them. Sons of Wesleyan Methodist
preachers could be educated by the church at their schools at Kingswood and
Woodhouse Grove. For each girl 8 guineas was allowed by the church to her
father; for each boy not attending the schools, 12 pounds; these sums are listed
in the annual accounts, with the child's full name, arranged by school year,
giving us an idea of age. These schools were supported by subscriptions
and donations raised in local congregations throughout England and Wales, and
in some years the individuals making larger donations are listed in the annual
minutes, grouped together by congregation. The Merciful Fund paid annuities to
preachers' widows and there are also payments in the accounts to the aged,
afflicted and infirm.
1889-1899
Wimbledon High School Magazine
Wimbledon High School produced a yearly magazine, issued in December, starting
in 1889. Each issue contained general school news, sporting and scholastic
results, essays, reports from the school societies (circles and clubs) and news
of old girls, with their marriages, births of their children (giving both maiden
and married surnames), and deaths. The old girls were organized into what was
called the Wimbledon High School Union (W. H. S. U.) and there is news of the
Union's activities. The school opened in 1880, and the
Union was formed in 1889-1890.
1895
Thacker's Indian Directory: List of the Principal Native Inhabitants
Prominent Indians of the cities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, and throughout
the Indian Empire. Profession is usually stated, and an address - a station,
or for Calcutta a full address.
1958
The Post Office Telephone Directory for the Cambridge area for June 1958 lists
subscribers from Bishop's Stortford (Hertfordshire), Brandon (Suffolk),
Buntingford (Hertfordshire), Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk), Cambridge, Downham
Market (Norfolk), Dunmow (Essex), Ely (Cambridgeshire), Epping (Essex), Fakenham
(Norfolk), Great Dunmow (Essex), Harleston (Norfolk), Harlow (Essex), Haverhill
(Suffolk), Hertford, Hunstanton (Norfolk), King's Lynn (Norfolk), Much Hadham
(Hertfordshire), Newmarket (Suffolk), Ongar (Essex), Royston (Hertfordshire),
Saffron Walden (Essex), Sandringham (Norfolk), Sawbridgeworth (Hertfordshire),
Stansted (Essex), Swaffham (Norfolk), Thetford (Norfolk), Walsingham (Norfolk),
Ware (Hertfordshire), Wells-next-the-Sea (Norfolk), and the surrounding
countryside.
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From:
"Gloria Beek" <glorbeek@hotmail.com>
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
Beek History written
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007
16:53:53 -0400
Hi
Fellow Genealogists,
I have completed "Beek Family History", ISBN 978-0-9784397-0-5 180 pages 8x11"
with photos maps etc.
It deals with Joseph Beek b. 1776 and his 10 offspring. Among those that
arrived in British Columbia were Joseph Beek, carriage builder, Maitland family,
Gregg family , Rhones etc.
I think it would be a logical location for my book. If you wish a copy, let me
know. I don't know protocol, do you pay for the printing, shipping, tax or do
I? Kind of a disgusting thing to talk about money... but after spending 1000's
on research and then asking for $15. at the end of it all.
Embarrassing.
If you are interested one way of the other let me know. Libraries are on strike
out there so can't find out if the Archives wants a copy too or not.
Sincerely,
Gloria Beek
703 Rideau River Road,
Merrickville, ON
K0G 1N0
Canada
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For <bcgs@bcgs.ca>;
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:57:00 -0700
Subject:
findmypast.com and Federation of Family History Societies in online partnership
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007
15:55:53 +0100
From: "Marlene D'Silva"
<Marlene.D'Silva@title-research.co.uk>
NEWS RELEASE
FEDERATION
AND FINDMYPAST.COM IN ONLINE PARTNERSHIP
Findmypast.com to host the Federation of Family History Societies’ Family
History Online data
The Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) has today announced that it is joining forces with premier UK family history website findmypast.com to host the FFHS’ pay per view data service at www.findmypast.com.
Until now the FFHS has provided online access to data submitted by local family history societies at its own pay per view website www.familyhistoryonline.net. These records will now gradually be transferred to the findmypast.com website, joining a collection already exceeding 500 million records.
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Elaine Collins, Commercial Director at findmypast.com said “Family History Online has a valuable data collection that deserves to be brought to the attention of a wider, international audience. We are very excited by the prospect of adding quality records which predate 1837 to the existing findmypast collection.
As the largest UK-based provider of online genealogical data, findmypast.com can provide the appropriate platform to drive much greater traffic and usage to the data. This will result in greater awareness for currently underused datasets such as the National Burial Index, generating increased revenue and recognition for the Federation’s member societies.”
Family historians accessing the FFHS data from its new home on the findmypast website will also benefit. Findmypast.com has earned a strong reputation for the quality of its data and transcriptions, and particularly its customer service. The availability of telephone support and customer transcription error reporting facilities, as well as email support and automatic password reset facilities, sets it apart from other commercial genealogy websites.
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For further
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Following the transcription, scanning and indexing of over two million images, the company launched the first website to allow the public easy and fast access to the complete indexes, which until then had only been available on microfiche film in specialist archives and libraries. The launch was instrumental in creating the widespread and growing interest in genealogy seen in the UK today.
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About The Federation of Family History Societies
The Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) is an educational charity formed in 1974. Over the years, membership has grown to over 200 societies throughout the world, including national, regional and one-name groups. The principal aims of the Federation are:
Membership is open to any society or body specialising in family history or an associated discipline. Full membership is open to properly constituted organisations in the British Isles and associate membership is available to overseas family history, genealogical and heraldic groups as well as to other bodies within the British Isles for whom family history is a secondary interest.
Education is a vital element within the Federation. This is achieved informally through regular meetings, fairs, seminars and national conferences conducted by member societies and FFHS committees; also formally through the many courses on family history organised around the world. Excellent publications too are produced which cover family history and genealogical subjects at both national and county level. To encourage member societies to produce their own high quality journals and websites, the FFHS presents awards each year to those making the best contribution to family history.
Achievements in national and regional projects is something the FFHS takes great pride in with millions of records transcribed and indexed by local experts for the benefit of all family historians. FamilyHistoryOnline was established by the FFHS to publish online these records which include indexes or full transcriptions for such as baptisms, marriages and burials; monumental inscriptions; census returns for the counties of England and Wales; and other specialist subjects.
The FFHS looks forward to the challenges in the future of supporting its members, ensuring the continual preservation of, and access to, archives, and encouraging new family historians to join a family history society so as to discover and enjoy the fascinating journey into their past in the company of other enthusiasts.
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Marlene
D'Silva
Marketing Executive e-mail: marlened@findmypast.com,
www.findmypast.com
24
Britton Street, London, EC1M 5UA, United Kingdom
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From:
"Maureen Kelly" <maureen.kelly@xtra.co.nz>
To: <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
New websites for genealogists
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007
22:13:13 +1200
Hi,
Just
letting you know there are two new websites for genealogists: http://www.oldnewsbios.co.nz -
birth, marriage and death notices from newspapers with over 13,000 names
and
http://www.honeastindiaco.com -
Hon East India Company - includes some birth, marriage and death notices
Please
pass this along to those interested.
Cheers, Maureen
From:
"Chris Cunningham" <fasterthanlight@accesscomm.ca>
To: <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
A Documentary Film on
the British Home Children
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007
14:45:56 -0600
Hello.
My name
is Leslea Mair, and I am a documentary filmmaker in Canada. My grandfather was a
BHC – a “Barnardo’s boy”.
I am making a documentary about descendents of British Home Children attempting
to find and make contact with relatives of their ancestor in England. I have
support from a national broadcaster.
I am looking for people who would be willing to allow me and a small camera crew
to follow their journey through their search for information and accompany them
to England
to meet their relatives.
This will be a vehicle to tell the story of the British Home Children in Canada
and their descendents. It has potential for not only national broadcast in
Canada, but possibly in the UK and beyond.
If you or anyone you know are interested in this project and are planning or
would like to plan to travel to England next spring or summer, please contact
me.
Leslea Mair
Zoot Capri Entertainment
Phone: (306) 565-3311
Website:
www.zootcapri.com
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>,
Subject:
'Gordon Watts
Reports' - new issue on line-Aug 30-07
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007
13:43:43 -0700
Greetings
All.
FYI the latest, long overdue issue of 'Gordon Watts Reports' is now online.
It can be accessed at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0102.htm
Topics in this issue include:
* Meetings in Ottawa
- Canadian Census
* Library and Archives cut hours.
My wish for all of you is to have a great Labour Day weekend. If you are
travelling, please do so carefully and return home safely.
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada
Census
Committee
Port Coquitlam, BC
For <bcgs@bcgs.ca>;
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:49:51 -0700
Subject: UK's First
White-Label Family History Website
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:48:26 +0100
From: "Marlene D'Silva" <Marlene.D'Silva@title-research.co.uk>
BREAKING NEWS
Findmypast.com
and the Telegraph Media Group launch the first white-label family history site,
Telegraph Family History.
Please see the
attached press release for further information.
Kind regards
Marlene
D'Silva
Marketing Executive e-mail: marlened@findmypast.com,
www.findmypast.com
24 Britton Street, London, EC1M 5UA, United Kingdom
Tel: 020 7549 0900 Fax: 020 7549 0949 DX 53347 Clerkenwell
From:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
Subject: Update from the
Original Record Aug 29-07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007
18:05:54 +0100 (BST)
1296
Lay subsidy roll for the rape of Lewes in Sussex
This roll of a tax of an eleventh assessed on the inhabitants of the rape of
Lewes in Sussex was delivered to the Treasury in May 1296: the roll, remaining
among the Carlton Ride Manuscripts (E. B. 1781) was edited and annotated by W.
H. Blauuw, and published by the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1849. The rape
of Lewes comprised the hundreds of Barcombe (Barcombe, Hamsey and Newick);
Buttinghill (Ardingley, Balcombe, Bolney, Clayton, Crawley, Cuckfield, Hurst
Pierpoint, Keymer, Slaugham, Twineham, West Hoathly and Worth); Dean (Patcham);
Fishergate (Aldrington, Hangleton and Portslade); Holmstrow (Newhaven,
Piddinghoe, Rodmell, Southease and Telscombe); Lewes; Poynings (Edburton,
Newtimber, Poynings and Pyecombe); Preston (Hove and Preston); Street (Chailey,
Ditchling, Plumpton, St John sub Castro, Street/Streat, Westmeston and
Wivelsfield); Swanborough (Iford, Kingston, Westout and Southover); Whalesbone
(Brighton and West Blatchington); and Younsmere (Falmer, Ovingdean a
nd Rottingdean).
1661-1663
Surrey Sessions Rolls and Order Books.
These are abstracts of sessional orders, minutes of criminal cases, memoranda
and other entries of record taken from the Order Books from October 1661 to
January 1663, inclusive, and the Sessions Rolls for October 1661, January 1662,
April 1662, July 1662, October 1662 and January 1663.
1669
State Papers Colonial: America and West Indies
This compilation of abstracts of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West
Indies, preserved in the Public Record Office, edited by W. Noel Sainsbury, was
published in 1889, and has been reindexed by us. The key materials were drawn
from the Colonial Entry Books. For 1669 there are Entry Books for Barbadoes (No.
5); Bermudas (15); Carolina (20); Jamaica (28); Maryland (52); Montserrat (55);
Nevis (57); New England (60); Newfoundland (65); New York (68); Surinam (77);
and Plantations General (92). Book 102 is for Lists of Acts 1668-1688. Some
other sources were collated with these, especially entries from State Papers
Domestic entry books. The contents vary from grave matters of state to the
transportation of individual felons.
1709
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for
January to December 1709. These abstracts of the Treasury minute books and
corresponding warrants for this period covers a huge variety of topics involving
all manner of receipts and expenditure, customs and revenue officials, civil
servants, pensioners, petitioners and postmasters figuring particularly among
the individuals named.
1808-1810
Smith's Bankrupt Register
William Smith's abstracts of bankruptcies for England and Wales from 1 January
1808 to 1 August 1810. Bankruptcy causes abrupt changes in people's lives, and
is often the reason for someone appearing suddenly in a different location or in
a different occupation.
1811
Subscribers to the African Institution
The African Institution was founded in London 14 April 1807, with a view to
'diffusing useful knowledge and exciting industry among the inhabitants of
Africa', and to publicising in Britain the agricultural and commercial
possibilities of the African continent, in view of the imminence of the end of
the slave trade. Among the society's first ventures was the establishment of
cotton plantations in Sierra Leone. A subscription of 60 guineas or upwards at
one time constituted a hereditary Governor; of 30 guineas at one time, a
Governor for life; of 3 guineas a year, an annual Governor; of 10 guineas at one
time, a Member for life; of 1 guinea a year, an annual Member. Members of the
council of the society are indicated in this list of subscribers with an
asterisk.
We have added a total of 47,728 new entries this week. We now have over 5.3
million entries directly available online.
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From:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
Subject: Update from the
Original Record-Aug 22-07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007
13:26:16 +0100 (BST)
1307-1485
Norfolk Feet of Fines
Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership
of land in Norfolk. These abstracts were prepared by Walter Rye.
1380
Oxford City Poll Tax
The poll tax granted in 1379 was assessed and raised in the following two years.
Every lay person, man or woman, aged over 15 was to be taxed. The returns for
the city of Oxford, edited by J. E. Thorold Rogers, were printed for the Oxford
Historical Society in 1891.
1659-1661
Surrey Sessions Rolls and Order Books.
These are abstracts of sessional orders, minutes of criminal cases, memoranda
and other entries of record taken from the Order Books from Midsummer 1659 to
Midsummer 1661, inclusive, and the Sessions Rolls for Easter and Midsummer 1661.
1698
State Papers Domestic
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain,
Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as
well as other miscellaneous records. Includes lists of passes to travel abroad.
1832
Eastern Division of Norfolk Poll Book
Under the Reform Act of 1832, the County of Norfolk was allotted four Members of
Parliament, being two Knights of the Shire for the Eastern Division and two for
the Western. The Eastern Division included the hundreds of Blofield, Clavering,
Depwade, Diss, Earsham, North Erpingham, South Erpingham, Eynsford, East Flegg,
West Flegg, Forehoe, Happing, Henstead, Humbleyard, Loddon, Taverham, Tunstead
and Walsham. The franchise was available to freeholders worth 40s a year or
over; copyholders and long leaseholders of Ł10 or more; short leaseholders and
tenants of Ł50 or more: but limited to adult males. Voting took place on 20 and
21 December 1832. This poll book lists the voters for each parish, with the
votes cast. Voting was not compulsory, and non-voters are not listed. Each voter
had two votes: the votes are indicated in the columns C. (Lord Henry
Cholmondeley, 2852); P. (Nathaniel William Peach, 2960); K. (Hon. George Keppel,
3261); and W. (William Howe Windham, 3304). The
voters were not necessarily resident in the parish, but derived their franchise
from the land there; so some of the names have addresses outside the parish.
After the name there may appear the abbreviations cop. for copyholder; oc. for
occupier; or le. for leaseholder: the rest are freeholders or annuitants.
1852
Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette
Notices of bankrupts, bankrupts' estates, assignees, insolvents, and dissolution
of partnerships for England and Wales; Irish bankruptcies; and Scottish
sequestrations.
1885
Phonetic Journal
Lists of members of the Phonetic Society, reports of Shorthand Writers
Association and other meetings, news and advertisements, from the Phonetic
Journal.
From:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
Subject: Update from the
Original Record Aug 16-07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007
10:10:45 +0100 (BST)
Added
this week:
Patent Rolls
1278-1279
Calendars of the patent rolls of the reign of king Edward I are printed in the
Calendars of State Papers: but these cover only a fraction of the material on
the rolls. From 1881 to 1889 the reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public
Record Office also include calendars of other material from the rolls - about
five times as many entries as in the State Papers - predominantly mandates to
the royal justices to hold sessions of oyer and terminer to resolve cases
arising locally; but also other general business. The calendar for the 7th year
of king Edward I [20 November 1278 to 19 November 1279], hitherto unindexed, is
covered here.
Intended Brides and Bridegrooms in Yorkshire
1626-1628
William Paver, a 19th-century Yorkshire genealogist, made brief abstracts of
early marriage licences (now lost) in York Registry. His manuscript, which
became Additional Manuscripts 29667 in the British Museum, was transcribed by J.
W. Clay, F. S. A., and printed in various issues of the Yorkshire Archaeological
Journal: this is from the volume for 1903. Paver did not note the dates of the
licences, merely listing them by year: his abstracts give the names and
addresses of both parties, and the name of the parish church in which it was
intended that the wedding would take place.
PCC Year Books of Probates
1630-1634
The Prerogative Court of Canterbury's main jurisdiction was central and southern
England
and Wales, as well as over sailors &c dying abroad: these brief abstracts,
compiled under the title "Year Books of Probates", and printed in 1902, usually
give address, date of probate and name of executor or administrator. They are
based on the Probate Act Books, cross-checked with the original wills, from
which additional details are, occasionally, added. The original spelling of
surnames was retained, but christian and place names have been modernised where
necessary.
Patents for Inventions
1852-1853
Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1
October 1852 to 31 December 1853:
giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is
then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.
Police Gazette
1923
The Police Gazette was published by Authority by the London Metropolitan Police,
and circulated, as confidential, to the police forces throughout Britain and
Ireland. The contents were based on the information routinely submitted to the
Criminal Record Office. There are several sections of particular interest:
Apprehensions Sought, in which each police force gave details of people for whom
arrest warrants had been issued and were now on their Wanted list. The details
given are: the name of the police authority (in bold) seeking an arrest; a brief
description of the crime; the suspect's full name (in bold); C. R. O. number,
year of birth, height, complexion, hair colour, eye colour, distinguishing marks
such as scars; clothing &c. There then follows a resume of previous convictions.
It was then sometimes additionally thought worthwhile to publish photographs of
the wanted person: these do not repeat the details given in the original Wanted
notice, but merely give the number and date of that item.
In order that the forces receiving the Police Gazette could keep their copies up
to date, it was necessary to publish notices of those suspects who had in due
course been arrested, and these were given in a section headed Apprehensions.
The name of the arresting force is given (in bold); then the full name of the
suspect (in bold), the C. R. O. number, and the case number and date of issue of
the original Wanted notice from the Police Gazette.
If one of these persons happen to die before being arrested, a death notice was
inserted in the Police Gazette. Details given were: full name (in bold); C. R.
O. number; case number and date for the corresponding initial wanted notice;
place and date of death.
Persons in Custody: in which each police force gave details of people taken into
custody on remand or awaiting trial. The name of the arresting force is given,
with duration of remand &c., and nature of charge; then the full name of the
suspect (in bold), the C. R. O. number; year of birth; height; complexion;
colour of hair; colour of eyes; occupation; birthplace; and details of previous
convictions.
Re-Convictions: in which were given details of people sentenced at the various
criminal courts round the country (with occasional notices of discharge &c.).
First of all, the full name of the suspect is given (in bold), the C. R. O.
number; the court; date; penalty or length of imprisonment; nature of crime.
There is then usually a cross-reference to the details of the case as previously
advertised in the Police Gazette, with number of case and date of issue.
Suspects: Sometimes in the description of a crime a suspect (but for whom no
arrest warrant had been issued) is named.
Notices were given from time to time of known swindlers, doubtful traders and
unregistered charities.
Aliens Expelled or Deported: The details given are full name (surname in bold);
C. R. O. number, sex, year of birth, height, complexion, hair colour, eye colour,
identifying marks such as scars; nationality; occupation; port of departure, and
date; and the name of the police authority (in bold).
Aliens Wanted for Crime. The details given are full name (surname in bold); C.
R. O. number, sex, year of birth, height, complexion, hair colour, eye colour,
distinguishing marks such as scars; nationality; clothing &c. There then follows
a resume of the crimes concerned, with the name of the police authority (in
bold) seeking an arrest.
Aliens Whose Whereabouts Are Sought. The details given are full name (surname in
bold); sex, age, nationality, and last known address, and date when last heard
of. There then follows the name of the police authority (in bold) seeking to
make contact. In most cases an arrest was not sought, merely the establishing of
present whereabouts. When the individual aliens had been traced, their names
were published under the heading Aliens Traced, with no more detail than the
name of the police authority, full name, and item number and date of the issue
of the Police Gazette in which the first request had been posted.
Convicts on Licence, Persons under Police Supervision and others whose
apprehensions are sought for failing to comply with the requirements of the
Prevention of Crimes Act: The details given are: the convict's full name (in
bold), with any aliases; C. R. O. number, year of birth, height, complexion,
hair colour, eye colour, distinguishing marks such as scars; occupation;
birthplace. There then follows a resume of the previous conviction and details
of release; reason for revocation of the licence (usually failure to report to
the police); name of the officer proving service of the notice; name of the
officer proving identity; previous convictions; names of police forces that had
had contact with the indivudual in the past. Often there is a police portrait.
We have compiled separate indexes here for prison and borstal inmates.
Deserters from the Armed forces. This gave, for each soldier: Office Number (i.
e., number in the deserters' list); Name; Regimental Number; Corps; Age; Height;
Complexion; Hair Colour; Eye Colour; Trade; Date and Place of Enlistment; Parish
and County in which Born; Date and Place of Desertion; and any Distinguishing
Marks (usually scars or tattoos) and Remarks. For each sailor: Office Number (i.
e., number in the deserters' list); Name (surname and initial(s)); Ship Deserted
From (and whether straggler or deserter); Date; Rating; Where Born; Age; Height;
Complexion; Hair Colour; Eye Colour; and any Distinguishing Marks (usually scars
or tattoos) and Remarks. For each airman: Office Number (i. e., number in the
deserters' list); Name (surname and initial(s)); Regimental Number; Unit; Age;
Height; Complexion; Hair Colour; Eye Colour; Trade; Date and Place of
Enlistment; Parish and County in which Born; Date and Place of Desertion; and
any Distinguishing Marks (usually scars
or tattoos) and Remarks. Some of these men rejoined in due course, so there was
a subsidiary list of 'Men Reported as Deserters or Absentees who have Rejoined
or who, for any other Reason, are NOT to be Apprehended'. These might be from
the Army, Navy or Air Force. The list gives: Name (surname and initial(s));
Regimental Number or Rating; Corps or Ship; Police Gazette in which Advertised
(date and number).
Lists of soldiers in the British Army or the reserve discharged for misconduct.
This gave, for each soldier: Office Number (i. e., number in the list); Name;
Regimental Number; Corps; Age; Height; Complexion; Hair Colour; Eye Colour;
Trade; Cause of Discharge as stated on Parchment Certificate (misconduct,
convicted by the civil power, or with ignominy); Parish and County in which
Born; Date and Place of Discharge; and any Distinguishing Marks (usually scars
or tattoos) and Remarks.
All these sections have been indexed by us separately. Variations of surname
spelling and aliases are noted in the descriptions, and these variants and
aliases have also been indexed.
We have added a total of 96,689 new entries this week. We now have over 5.3
million entries directly available online.
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To:
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Subject: Scots language
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007
14:31:12 -0700
Greetings, an interesting BBC website, courtesy Norman Calder. regards,
the other Ron
Scots 'mither tongue' goes online
An archive of the Scots language is now available all over the world
thanks to a comprehensive new website. Researchers at
Glasgow University have
completed work on the online resource, which contains more than four million
words in Scots and Scottish English.
As well as meaning and usage, the project also has audio links, allowing
people to hear words being spoken.
The site, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, can be
accessed at
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk
People from the
US, Australia, China, Japan and South America have already logged on to use the
service, as well as people in Scotland.
It is one aspect of a long and flourishing cultural heritage.
Dr Wendy Anderson, Project researcher
The website currently includes text from 1945 up to the present day,
with researchers working on expanding it.
They are building up a new resource for older varieties of language,
dating from 1700 to 1945.
Once completed this should allow people to trace the development of
features of Scots and Scottish English over time.
Project researcher, Dr Wendy Anderson, said: "The Scots language is a source of interest across the world as it is one aspect of a long and flourishing cultural heritage.The website will be a useful language resource for academic researchers and students, language learners and teachers, dictionary writers and secondary school language teachers, not to mention for the large number of general users who just want to satisfy a curiosity about the Scots language."
Date: Fri,
10 Aug 2007 11:01:59 -0700
From: Anne Christiansen
Subject:
Ancestral Roots
tayroots.com
To:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Hi Bob,
I just
came back from Scotland
and had visited Dundee, and their library. Next year in Sept. 2008 they are
having a Roots Festival. A whole week of genealogy and tours, ceilidh etc. for
499 pounds.
It sounds very
interesting!
Members can view all
info at
www.tayroots.com
Anne Christiansen
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Suffolk Lay Subsidy
1568
By Act of Parliament of December 1566 a subsidy of 8d in the Ł on moveable goods
and 4s in the Ł on the annual value of land was raised from the lay (as opposed
to clergy) population. These are the returns for Suffolk, printed in 1909 in the
Suffolk Green Book series.
Wandsworth Parish Registers
1603-1788
The ancient parish of Wandsworth in
Surrey comprised the single
township of Wandsworth,
including the hamlets of Garratt, Half Farthing and
Summers
Town.
It lay in the archdeaconry of Surrey of the diocese of Winchester:
unfortunately, few bishop's transcripts of
Surrey parish registers survive earlier than 1800. Although the original parish
registers of Wandsworth doubtless commenced in 1538, the volume(s) before 1603
had been lost by the 19th century. In 1889 a careful transcript by John Traviss
Squire of the first three surviving registers was printed, and we have now
indexed it year by year. The burial registers are considerably more bulky than
the baptism registers, because the burying ground was used by Dissenters, who
formed a large part of the population. These include a French Protestant
congregation that worshipped in a church (the registers of which do not survive)
in a courtyard immediately opposite the parish church. The burial registers of
the early 17th century
are particularly important because they contain the names of adults born well
back into the 16th century, a period for which the parish registers no longer
survive.
State Papers Domestic
1703-1704
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to
Britain, Ireland and the
colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as well as other
miscellaneous records. Includes lists of passes to travel abroad. June 1703 to
April 1704.
Treasury Books
1705-1706
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for
April 1705 to September 1706. The text covers a huge variety of topics involving
all manner of receipts and expenditure, customs and revenue officials, civil
servants, pensioners, petitioners and postmasters figuring particularly among
the individuals named.
The Gentleman's Magazine
1819
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military
promotions, clerical preferments, general news and domestic occurrences, as
reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items
from Ireland, Scotland and abroad. July to December 1819.
London Metropolitan Police Register of Joiners
1830-1842
The Metropolitan Police Register of Joiners (MEPO 333/4) lists policemen joining
the force through to 31 December 1842 (to warrant number 19892). The register is
alphabetical, in so far as the recruits are listed chronologically grouped under
first letter of surname. It is evidently a continuation of a similar earlier
register, not closed until its alphabetical sections were filled: consequently,
there are no entries in this register for the initial letters N, O, Q, U, V, X,
Y or Z; and the sections of this register start at different dates - A 18
April 1840 (warrant number 16894); B 11 December 1830 (5570); C 7 September 1830
(4988); D 27 May 1833 (8445); E 15 December 1838 (14476); F 30 March 1832
(7372); G 1 December 1835 (11,184); H 25 April 1832 (7457); I and J 13 February
1837 (12449); K 2 January 1838 (13457); L 3 October 1834 (9905); M 15 November
1832 (7999); P 4 October 1831 (6869); R 4 September 1837 (13021); S 30 March
1835 (10366); T 6 April 1840 (16829); W 30
December 1833 (9096). The register gives Date of Appointment, Name, Number of
Warrant, Cause of Removal from Force (resigned, dismissed, promoted or died),
and Date of Removal. Although the register was closed for new entrants at the
end of 1842, the details of removals were always recorded, some being twenty or
more years later. Those recruits not formerly in the police, the army, or some
government department, were required to provide (normally) at least two letters
of recommendation from persons of standing, and details of these are entered on
the facing pages. Recruits transferred from other forces or rejoining the force
did not normally need recommendations - in the latter case, former warrant
numbers are given - but some recommendations are from police inspectors, even
other constables. Recruits coming from the army sometimes have general military
certificates of good conduct, but most often have a letter from their former
commanding officer; recruits recommended b
y government departments (most often the Home Office) similarly have letters
from the head of department. But the great majority of the names and addresses
in these pages are of respectable citizens having some sort of personal
acquaintance with the recruit. Where more than two recommendations were
provided, the clerk would only record one or two, with the words 'and others'.
Tradesmen are sometimes identified as such by their occupations; there are some
gentry. Although the great bulk of these names are from London and the home
counties, a scattering are from further afield throughout Britain and Ireland.
Where a recruit was only recently arrived in the metropolis, the names and
addresses of the recommenders can be invaluable for tracing where he came from.
All surnames (10,121 recruits and 17,583 recommenders) have been indexed.
Registry of British Merchant Seamen
1840-1844
The registry of merchant seamen, including fishermen, sought to identify
individuals securely in this series of registers by assigning to each man a
unique number, grouped together by surname, and then by christian name, whereas
in previous registers names had been jumbled together under the first two
letters of the surname. Each man's age and birthplace was recorded, together
with any number brought forwards from previous registration, i. e. the number
assigned to the man in the registers for 1835 to 1840. Then each voyage is
listed, with his status (e. g. S for seaman, M for mate, &c.) on that trip, the
identification number of the ship, the date, and then the name of the ship. In
the event of it becoming known that a man had died during the course of a
voyage, that information is written across the remaining empty columns. This
volume (BT 112/3) covers seamen whose surnames start with Ba or McBa.
We added a total of 62,720 new entries last week. We now have over 5.2 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
guaranteed authentic: no input from users or from databases.
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including variants.
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Subject: Update from the
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To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007
16:54:00 +0100 (BST)
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1524
Inhabitants of Suffolk
The lay subsidy granted by Act of Parliament in 1523 was a tax on the laymen (as
opposed to clergy), levied on householders, landowners, those possessing
moveable goods worth Ł1 or more, and all workmen aged 16 or over earning Ł1 or
more per annum. Real estate was taxed at a shilling in the pound; moveable goods
worth Ł1 to Ł2 at fourpence a pound; Ł2 to Ł20 at sixpence a pound; and over Ł20
at a shilling in the pound. Wages were taxed at fourpence in the pound. Aliens
were charged double; aliens not chargeable in the above categories had to pay a
poll tax of eightpence. The records of the assessment for the
county of
Suffolk,
mostly made in 1524, survive in 64 rolls in the National Archives. From 42 of
these a compilation for the whole shire was printed in 1910 as Suffolk Green
Book x. This includes a list of defaulters of 1526 and a subsidy roll of 1534
for Bury St Edmunds.
1577-1603
London Inquisitions Post Mortem
Full and complete abstracts of inquisitions post mortem for the City of London
in this period. These are inquiries as to the real estate and heir of each
person holding in capite or in chief, i. e. directly, from the Crown. The
precise date of death of the deceased and the age and relationship of the heir
are usually recorded. This index covers all names mentioned, including jurors,
tenants, &c. This abstract also includes a handful of earlier items omitted from
previous volumes.
1603-1625
Middlesex Sessions Books
Incidents from the Middlesex Sessions Books. These are abstracts of sessional
orders, minutes of criminal cases, memoranda and other entries of record taken
from the three volumes of Gaol Delivery Register, four volumes of Sessions of
Peace Register and two volumes of Process Books of Indictments for the county of
Middlesex from the reign of king James I. The references at the end of each item
indicate the volume in question, the abbreviations being G. D. for Gaol
Delivery, S. P. for Sessions of Peace, and S. O. T. for Session of Oyer and
Terminer; occasionally preceded by S. for Special or G. for general, or followed
by R. for Roll or Reg. for Register. It should be noted that, in the case of
'true bills' or indictments, the abstract starts with the date on which the
offence took place, the date of the conviction &c. being at the end of the
entry.
1691-1700
Lancashire and Cheshire Marriage Licences
Licences for intended marriages in Chester archdeaconry, which covered Cheshire
and Lancashire south of the Ribble (by far the most populous part of that
county). As shown in the sample scan, licences to practise midwifery and to
teach are also included. The index covers bondsmen as well as brides and grooms.
1706-1707
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for
October 1706 to December 1707. These abstracts of the Treasury minute books and
corresponding warrants for this period covers a huge variety of topics involving
all manner of receipts and expenditure, customs and revenue officials, civil
servants, pensioners, petitioners and postmasters figuring particularly among
the individuals named.
1820
Gentleman's Magazine
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military
promotions, clerical preferments, general news and domestic occurrences, as
reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items
from Ireland, Scotland and abroad. January to June 1820.
1835-1840
British merchant seamen
At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles
involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a
quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were
British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but
there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament
passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act a large register of
British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and
Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. A parliamentary committee
decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and the
original register was abandoned after less than two years: the system was then
restarted in this form, with a systematic attempt to attribute the seamen's
(ticket) numbers, and to record successive voyages. The register records the
number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthp
lace; quality (S = seaman, &c.); and the name and official number of his ship,
with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men
recorded were born in the
British Isles,
but not all. The system was still very cumbersome, because the names were
amassed merely under the first two letters of surname; an attempt was made to
separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second
(b), and so on. This section of the register (BT 112/2) covers numbers 1 to 2952
and 20200 to 23034, 5786 different entries, of men whose surnames began with the
letters Ba. During 1840 this series of ledgers was abandoned, and a new set
started with names grouped together by surname.
We added a total of 83,535 new entries this week. We now have 5.2 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
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STEELE _ Margaret Winifred (nee Payne) August 31, 1923 - July 27, 2007 (Memorial Service Date Correction)
It
is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our cherished wife and
mother. Margaret slipped away after suffering a stroke the previous day. She
will be lovingly remembered by her husband Tom, son Murray (Anne Marie),
daughter Leslie (Mark), and grandsons Nikolas and Graeme. She will also be
dearly missed by her sisters, Dorie (John) and Eleanor (Al), their children and
grandchildren, and her many friends. Born in Vancouver and raised in Woodfibre,
BC, Margaret graduated from McGee High School and later worked at the American
Consulate in Vancouver. After her marriage to Tom in 1949, she chose to devote
the remainder of her life to home and family. In the years after the war
Margaret was an active member of the Mt. Seymour Ski Club. In the 50's and 60's
she volunteered her time with the Mary Matheson unit of the Willingdon United
Church. In the mid 70's she and Tom became very involved in researching their
family histories and joined the BC Genealogical Society. Margaret devoted many
voluntary hours to the society's library in her 21 years as a member. She was an
avid gardener and all will remember Margaret's love of life, devotion to family,
and her great sense of humor. We are all the richer for having known and loved
her. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, August 3rd, 3:00 pm
at the Pitt
Meadows Heritage Church, 12109 Harris Rd. A reception will follow. In lieu of
flowers, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia would
be appreciated.
Published in the Vancouver Sun on 7/31/2007.
http://www.legacy.com/can-vancouver/Obituaries.asp
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www.theoriginalrecord.com:
1310-1333
Lancashire landowners and their tenants.
This compilation of abstracts of Lancashire inquisitions, extents (surveys) and
feudal aids (taxes) was prepared for the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society
and printed in 1907, from originals in the national archives of the Public
Record Office. Almost all the material has been translated from the original
abbreviated Latin: where surnames have been Anglicized, the original is shown in
italics.
1352-1374
Inhabitants of London
Letter Book G of the City of London contains enrolments of recognizances between
inhabitants, particularly citizens, for sums of money lent or due; grants of
pieces of land or property; and various records relating to the city
administration.
1458-1471
Clergy, the religious and the faithful in Britain and Ireland
These are abstracts of the entries relating to Great Britain and Ireland from
the Lateran and Vatican Regesta of popes Pius II and Paul II. Many of these
entries relate to clerical appointments and disputes, but there are also indults
to devout laymen and women for portable altars, remission of sins, &c. This
source is particularly valuable for Ireland, for which many of the key
government records of this period are lost. Many of the names in the text were
clearly a puzzle to the scribes in Rome, and spelling of British and Irish
placenames and surnames is chaotic.
1674
Suffolk Hearth Tax
Hearth tax was raised by assessing each householder on the number of chimneys to
the dwelling. This provided a simple way to make a rough judgment as to the
value of the dwelling: paupers were issued exemption certificates, but they too
were listed at the end of each return. The returns were made by township,
grouped by hundred. A complete copy of the hearth tax return for each shire was
sent to the Exchequer: this is the return for Suffolk for Lady Day (25 March)
1674 (E 179/257/14) as printed in 1905 as Suffolk Green Book no xi, vol. 13. The
numbers given are the numbers of hearths: where two or more people are grouped
together with one number, it may be assumed that they were heads of separate
households sharing a single building with that number of chimneys.
1700-1710
Hertfordshire badgers, drovers and kidders
This is a list of licences granted to badgers (B.), drovers (D.) and kidders (higlers)
(K.) in the Hertfordshire sessions records. The numbers refer back to a key
indicating on which particular sessions rolls the licences are noted: scans of
the key are included with the scans of the entries.
1700-1752
Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a wide range of
criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the the most cases
(240) concerned assaults; presentments about repairs to roads and bridges (67);
larceny (63); unlicensed and disorderly alehouses (33); nuisances (28); and
trading without due apprenticeship (24). This calendar gives abstracts of all
entries in the Sessions Books and Minute Books for Hertfordshire sessions for
the period. Also a list of Justices of the Peace for the County of Hertford
mentioned in the Sessions Books for the period.
1702-1706
Hertfordshire office holders taking communion.
Under the Test Act of 1673, holders of public office were required to produce a
certificate from the minister and a churchwarden of their parish church
testifying that they had witnessed him receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper there on a particular date. A bundle of these Sacrament Certificates
survives among the Hertfordshire sessions records: this list shows, as well as
the name and address of the communicant, the names of the minister and
churchwarden and the church in question.
1702-1732
Inhabitants of Hertfordshire.
These people signed various rolls at Hertford, mainly concerning allegiance. The
letters are the key to the rolls involved:
a. Oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration under an Act of 1 George I:
1727 to 1732;
b. Oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration under an Act of 6 Anne: 25
April 1715;
c. Oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration under an Act of 6 Anne: 21
August 1714 to 21 April 1718;
d. Oath for naturalizing Foreign Protestants under Act of 7 Anne: 10 May to 15
August 1719;
e. Oath of allegiance under Act of 1 Anne: I. 13 July 1702 to 19 July 1714; II.
13 July 1702 to 19 February 1709; III. 13 July 1702 to 8 October 1708;
f. Declaration against Transubstantiation, under Act of 1 William & Mary: I. 13
July 1702 to 9 January 1710; II. 12 July 1714 to 21 April 1718; III. 25 April
1715; IV. 10 July 1727 to 17 April 1732.
1723
Inhabitants of Hertfordshire
An Act of Parliament of 9 George I required all men aged 18 and over who had not
done so previously to swear allegiance. From 17 August to 24 December 1723 the
greater part of the men of Hertfordshire attended at various inns in the county
to sign the oath of allegiance: women were exempt from the act, but almost as
many attended and swore. This list indicates the place of attestation by letters
A., B., C., &c., for which there is a key, scans of which are included with the
main scan for the surname.
1745
Hertfordshire Loyalists
This list of the members of the Rebellion Association, 'an association of the
noblemen, gentlemen, clergy, freeholders and inhabitants of the county of
Hertford', preserved among the Hertfordshire sessions records, also records the
amounts of each individual's subscription or voluntary donation to the cause of
maintaining the Church and Crown of England.
1840-1844
British merchant seamen
The registry of merchant seamen, including fishermen, sought to identify
individuals securely in this series of registers by assigning to each man a
unique number, grouped together by surname, and then by christian name, whereas
in previous registers names had been jumbled together under the first two
letters of the surname. Each man's age and birthplace was recorded, together
with any number brought forwards from previous registration, i. e. the number
assigned to the man in the registers for 1835 to 1840. Then each voyage is
listed, with his status (e. g. S for seaman, M for mate, &c.) on that trip, the
identification number of the ship, the date, and then the name of the ship. In
the event of it becoming known that a man had died during the course of a
voyage, that information is written across the remaining empty columns. This
volume (BT 112/1) covers seamen whose surnames start with A or McA.
1862
Gentleman's Magazine
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military
promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the
Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland,
Scotland and abroad. July to December 1862.
We now have over 5 million entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
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Date:
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:26:53 -0700
From: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject:
More
info-FRC London closure-Society of Genealogists response:
To:
bcgs@bcgs.ca
More info-FRC London closure-Society of Genealogists response: http://www.sog.org.uk/latest.shtml
From:
"Federation Of Family History Societies" <ezine@ffhs.org.uk>
Reply-To: ezine@ffhs.org.uk
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
ONS
TO VACATE PUBLIC SEARCH FACILITIES AT FRC BY 31 OCTOBER 2007
ONS announced at a meeting of the Family Records Centre User Consultative Group on 25 July 2007 that they will be vacating their ground floor public search facilities at the Family Records Centre (FRC) Myddelton Street, London by 31 October 2007.
From 31 October until the previously announced date of closure at the end of March 2008, access to the Indexes for Births, Deaths and Marriages will be on the first floor of the FRC on MICROFICHE only.
Ordering of certificates will be ONLINE only and there will be no provision for certificate collection.
The ONS and General Register Office (GRO) were left in no doubt by the unanimous protestations of the Family Records Centre User Consultative Group. Full details and a copy of the Public Briefing Paper can be found at: www.ffhs.org.uk/archives/gro/briefing070725.php
Alternatively for more information on this or other Archives matters please contact FFHS Archives Liaison Officer Maureen Bullows email archives.liaison@ffhs.org.uk
Maggie Loughran, Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies www.ffhs.org.uk
From: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
To: "Robert Daniel" <radaniel@dccnet.comSent:
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:18 AM
Subject: Delta Cemetery Tour-August 11, 2007
Forwarded by Diane R
For immediate release
Delta, July 20, 2007 - Coming events at the Delta Museum and Archives
COMMUNITY PROGRAM - Walking Tour: Boundary Bay Cemetery
Join Veronica Foxall and the Delta Museum and Archives for a walk through the
historic Boundary Bay Cemetery on Saturday, August 11, 2007, from 10:00am -
11:00am.
Veronica will share anecdotes about many of Delta's families dating as far back
as the late 1800's. Participants will also hear about the symbols, styles, and
materials used in the cemetery's grave markers and landscaping up until present
day.
The municipality of Delta originally purchased the plot of ten acres of
land from William Ladner, one of the areas' first settlers. Ladner settled
here, along with his brother Thomas in 1868. The cemetery became the final
resting place for many of Delta's pioneer families and in October 1893 was
officially recognized as the municipal cemetery.
Pre-registration for this event is required. The tour costs $10.00 per person
but if you register by August 1^st , pay the early bird price of $8.00 per
person. To register and for more information please call the Delta Museum
and Archives at 604-946-9322 or visit us at 4858 Delta Street, Tuesday to Sunday
10:00am - 4:30pm.
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From: Ron
MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject: Celtic Connection Article
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007
15:52:08 -0700
To: Undisclosed
Recipients
jrmacleod@telus.net
Greetings,
Harry McGrath asked me to send out the undernoted web address. Harry recently
visited the Isle of Raasay, Scotland, and while there went to the north end of
the island where my father and mother were born and raised. He subsequently
wrote an article for the Celtic Connection based on his travels. Regards, the
other Ron
http://www.celtic-connection.com/features/feat2007_07_03.html
Date: Wed,
18 Jul 2007 23:54:45 -0700
From: cgmassey@telus.net
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
Baptismal Project completion
Dear BCGS :
I thought I would inform you of the project I finished and which is now online.
This is for the interest of your members and any other interested individuals.
In late 2000 I was working for the Genealogical Society of Utah in Victoria.
While microfilming Vital Stats records I inquired about two huge index volumes
of B.C. Baptisms which I had noticed buried in a cabinet in the Vital Stats
building.
I received permission to view them and asked what they were. Apparently between
the years 1948 and 1960 (?). B.C. had in its laws one which required all
churches to send to Vital Stats their Church registers for microfilming. Most
churches complied and the registers were filmed. The Index volumes represent a
key entry of all the names in the microfilmed registers. The index volumes
contained between 250,000 and 300,000 names and included names from 345+
parishes from all over the province.
The volumes listed the following information:
name, place of baptism, date of baptism, date of birth, reference number (volume
and page number).
The volumes have names from the earliest performances of baptisms dating back to
1836 when the first ones occurred. They included thousands of pre-colonial
events. I estimate 40-50% were aboriginal baptisms. The two volumes were alpha
sorted by name; one being A-L, the other M-Z.
Although a dynamic record, these volumes were of minimal use to family
historians especially in light of the fact that a large number of the records
were a single name given to aboriginals by the Catholic priest. For instance
there were over 1000 Marie's and any researcher would find it almost impossible
to find which one was theirs from the scanty information.
Furthermore the government would not allow me to microfilm them because of
privacy concerns. They treated them the same as birth records and would not
allow the public access with any events less than 100 years (now 120 years).
I would not take NO for an answer and asked if they would allow me to create a
separate database of all names which were releasable under the FOIP legislation.
They granted permission and over the next year my band of extractors picked out
60,000 names of baptized individuals all born before 1901.
Because the data was so minimal, I checked out the reference numbers to see if
they referred to the microfilms. Sure enough they did! I sorted the names by
reference numbers and recreated the order (roughly) of key entry from the films.
I next received permission to add the added information on the filmed volumes
which was missing from the indexes.
Over 5 years later the database is complete and on the bcarchives website. The
intervening years have seen painstaking care taken to add this data to the names
and make them very valuable to the researcher. Added information includes
parent's names, aboriginal names (english equivalent), places of birth and
anecdotal notations made by the clerics such as relations names. The slow nature
of the project,s completion was due to the nature of the condition of the
microfilms and the often below standard microfilming of that era. Combine this
with the often illegible handwriting of some priests and that they invariably
were either in french or Latin and the pace was extremely slow.
Be that as it may, it is now available for the world to see.
Some severe obstacles were placed in its path for full release including the
vehement objection to it being categorized the same as birth records. FOIP
clearly states that its legislation refers to government records only. During
the completion of the project one ill informed Minister in charge of Vital Stats
decided on a whim to change the release date legislation from 100 years to 120
years. Though strongly objecting and tfying to show him the error of this change
he forged ahead. Consequently only part of the database is released up to
1880's.
My reason in part for writing you this rather lengthy E-Mail is to request your
assistance in using your reputation and clout to get the B.C. government to
possibly release the rest of the names up to 1901 for research. Now you know the
background in more detail and are aware that the government renegged on their
original promise to me to release the whole database, perhaps you would have
more success than I.
As of March 2007 I have relocated to Alberta and am in the midst of trying to
get more Alberta records released.
Thank you
Chris Massey
(780)454-8930
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From:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
Subject: Update from the
Original Record July 18-07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007
12:55:19 +0100 (BST)
1699-1850
Hertfordshire Sessions Rolls
Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Rolls. These cover a wide range of
criminal and civil business for the county, with presentments, petitions, and
recognizances to appear as witnesses: many of the records concern the county
authorities dealing with regulation of alehouses, religious conventicles,
absence from church, highways, poaching, profanation of the Sabbath, exercising
trades without due apprenticeship &c. Unlike the Sessions Books, the decisions
of the justices are not recorded on the rolls, which serve more as a record of
evidence and allegations. This is a calendar of abstracts of extracts: it is by
no means a completely comprehensive record of the surviving Hertfordshire
sessions rolls of the period, but coverage is good.
1759-1761
Apprentices and their masters
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per
pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade,
address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the
date and length of the apprenticeship. 12 April 1759 to 21 July 1761.
1822
Monthly Magazine
The Monthly Magazine or British Register included a section each month called,
enthusiastically, 'Provincial Occurrences, With all the Marriages and Deaths'.
There were also lists of bankrupts, dividends, ecclesiastical preferments, and
marriages and deaths in and around London. This covers the 53rd volume, 1
February to 1 July 1822.
1877
Ashton Guardian
The 'Ashton Guardian, Stalybridge, Dukinfield, Droylsden, Denton and Mossley
Courier' was issued weekly, and included birth, marriage and death notices for
this area of Lancashire and Cheshire.
1891-1892
Belgrave St Michael Parish Magazine
The new Anglican church of St Michael and All Angels, Belgrave, was consecrated
22 September 1887, and it was assigned an ecclesiastical district comprising
about two thirds of this suburb of Leicester. A monthly parish magazine was
started in January 1891. The issues included parish news; baptisms (with date of
baptism and full name of the child), marriages (with date of marriage and full
names of groom and bride), and burials (with date of burial, full name, address
and age of deceased); and lists of contributions, subscriptions, Sunday School
prizes and summary churchwardens' accounts.
1898
Navy List
The Navy List, published by Authority, corrected to 18 December 1898, includes
several important sources. Firstly, there is a list of the officers on the
Active List of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines. Each officer's surname,
christian name, and any middle initial(s) is given; with rank, date of seniority
in that rank, and 'where serving', the last being the number of his ship. The
ranks are: A, Admiral; A E, Assistant Engineer; A F, Admiral of the Fleet; A P,
Assistant Paymaster; Art E, Artificer Engineer; As Ck, Assistant Clerk; B,
Boatswain; Bandr, Bandmaster Royal Marines; C, Captain; Car, Carpenter; Ch,
Chaplain; Ch B, Chief Boatswain; Ch Cr, Chief Carpenter; Ch E, Chief Engineer;
Ch Gr, Chief Gunner; Ch P; Paymaster-in-Chief; Ck, Clerk; Cr, Commander; D I H,
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; E, Engineer; E Ins, Inspector
of Machinery; F E, Fleet Engineer; F P, Fleet Paymaster; F S, Fleet Surgeon; Gr,
Gunner; H Sch, Head Schoolmaster; I H, Inspector-
General of Hospitals and Fleets; L, Lieutenant; Mid, Midshipman; N C, Naval
Cadet; N I, Naval Instructor; P, Paymaster; R A, Rear Admiral; S, Surgeon; S C,
Staff-Captain; S Cr, Staff Commander; S E, Staff Engineer; S L, Sub-Lieutenant;
S P, Staff Paymaster; S S, Staff Surgeon; Schm, Schoolmaster Royal Marines; St
Ma, Sergeant Major Royal Marines; V A, Vice Admiral; W O, Warrant Officer Royal
Marines. The column 'Where serving' also may have these abbreviations: AdC,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen; AO, Clerk to Secretary to a Flag Officer; CG, Coast
Guard; CGP, Coast Guard Pension; DY, Dock Yard; GH, Greenwich Hospital; GHP,
Greenwich Hospital Pension; GSP, Good Service Pension; NH, Naval Hospital; NID,
Naval Intelligence Department; NP, Naval Pension (late Out-Pension of Greenwich
Hospital); PW, Pension for Wounds; Sec, Secretary to a Flag Officer; TP, Travers
Pension; TS, In the Transport Service; VY, Victualling Yard. Parallel with this
is a list of officers on the Retired List
s; and one for officers of the colonial navies - the New South Wales Naval
Defence Force; Naval Artillery Volunteers; South Australia Naval Defence Force;
Queensland Naval Defence Force; Victorian Naval Defence Force; and the Naval
Brigade - and the Royal Indian Marine. Then there is the Active List of the
Royal Naval Reserve and of Honorary Officers of the reserve. Each officer's
surname, christian name, and any middle initial(s) is given; with rank, and date
of seniority in that rank. The ranks are: A E, Assistant Engineer; E, Engineer;
Hon A P, Honorary Assistant Paymaster; Hon Ch E, Honorary Chief Engineer; Hon
Cr, Honorary Commander; Hon L, Honorary Lieutenant; Hon P, Honorary Paymaster;
Hon S L, Honorary Sub-Lieutenant; L, Lieutenant; Mid, Midshipman; S L,
Sub-Lieutenant; Sen E, Senior Engineer: and a matching Retired List. There is
also a list of the officers of the late Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, which
had been disbanded 1 April 1892. Each officer's full
name is given; with date of commission, and name of the brigade in which he had
served. There is a list of officers authorised to fly the Blue Ensign of Her
Majesty's Fleet on their British Merchant Ships. Each officer's surname,
christian name, and/or initial(s) is given; with rank, the name and official
number of his vessel, and the number date of last issue of his Blue Ensign
warrant. Finally, we have the officers of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines
receiving pensions. Each officer's surname, christian name, and any middle
initial(s) is given; with rank, and date of pension. There are recipients of
Good Service Pensions; Pensions for Wounds &c. received in the service; officers
late on the Out-Pension of the Greenwich Hospital; and officers in receipt of
Travers Pensions.
But the navy also had a large civilian administration throughout the Empire. We
have lists of officials in the Department of the Secretary of the Admiralty;
Hydrographic Department; Department of the Director of Transports; Victualling
Department; Department of the Controller of the Navy; Department of the
Accountant-General of the Navy; Contract and Purchase Department, Whitehall;
Department of the Medical Director-General of the Navy; Director of Works'
Department; Department of the Civil Engineer-in-Chief; Greenwich Hospital
Department; Office of the Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves; Royal Marine
Office; Naval Intelligence Department; Royal Observatory at Greenwich; Nautical
Almanac Office; and the Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope; staff of the Royal
Naval College Greenwich; the Council of Naval Education; the Engineer and
Dockyard Schools; and the Royal Hospital School at Greenwich; as well as the
names of the officers then studying at the Royal Naval College;
officers of the Royal Navy dockyards at Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth,
Devonport, Pembroke, Portland, Gibraltar, Malta, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Bermuda,
Jamaica, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, Trincomalee, Hong Kong, Esquimalt
(Vancouver's Island), Sydney, Bombay and Calcutta; officers of the Admiralty
jurisdiction of Great Britain and Ireland, principally judges, assessors and law
agents; surgeons and agents of the naval sick quarters throughout Britain and
Ireland, as well as dispensers in the medical establishments at home and abroad,
and sisters of the nursing staff.medical officers of the Royal Navy and Royal
Marines, with dates of appointment. It covers the Royal Hospitals at Haslar,
Plymouth, Yarmouth, Haulbowline, and Chatham; Royal Marine Infirmaries at
Portsmouth and Walmer; Royal Marines Barrack Dispensary at Plymouth; Royal Naval
Sick Quarters at Portland; Royal Naval Cadets' Sick Quarters at Dartmouth; Royal
Naval Sick Quarters at Yokohama; and Medical Establis
hments at Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, Halifax, Jamaica, Ascension, Cape of Good
Hope, Hong Kong, Esquimalt, Coquimbo, Trincomalee and Sydney; and officers of
the navy victualling yards at Deptford, Gosport, Plymouth, Haulbowline,
Gibraltar, Malta, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Bermuda, Jamaica, Cape of Good Hope,
Trincomalee, Hong Kong, Esquimalt and Sydney.
1936
Palestine Gazette
Changes of name in Palestine under the British mandate were advertised in the
Palestine Gazette. These are the changes listed from July to December 1936. This
was a period when there were many arrivals of persecuted Jews from eastern
Europe, and in many cases the new names replaced German, Polish, Lithuanian &c.
surnames with Hebrew surnames: but other faiths and nationalities are
represented. Each person's original and new name is given, together with their
nationality and address (no more precisely than, say, Haifa or Tel Aviv).
We have added a total of 50,653 new entries this week. We now have over 5
million entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
guaranteed authentic: no input from users or from databases.
Purchase sets of scans, or buy open access for the name(s) of your choice,
including variants.
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Date: Mon,
16 Jul 2007 07:46:47 -0700
From: "M. Diane Rogers"
<diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject: Fw: FFHS-NEWS
The UK National Inventory of War Memorials wants your opinions to help shape
its future
To: Robert Daniel
bcgs@bcgs.ca
Forwarded...Diane R
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:12 AM
Subject: FFHS-NEWS The UK National Inventory of War Memorials wants your
opinions to help shape its future
The United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials is carrying out
an online survey to find out what you think about their website and how it can
be improved.
The survey will only take a few minutes and your opinions are vital to ensure
they make the most of this unique resource. To complete the survey please go to
www.ukniwm.org.uk/survey
Maggie Loughran
Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies
www.ffhs.org.uk
For the very best bargains in genealogical books visit
www.genfair.com
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Date: Mon,
16 Jul 2007 06:41:37 -0700
From: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject:
Footnote.com ---free trial offer
To: Robert Daniel
bcgs@bcgs.ca
If you have family who
lived in in the U.S., or if you're interested in U.S. history, check out
www.footnote.com
Right now, Footnote.com offers mostly images of documents in the National
Archives of the United States. Coming soon, data from The Center for Research
Libraries, including U.S. ethnic newspapers and more military records.
This is an 'interactive' networking website---you can annotate a document you
find, for example, and there are many free features---make a story page to
share, add your own photos, etc.
Footnote.com has some free databases---info from the Pennsylvania Archives and
from the U.S. government's UFO (Blue Book) project.
Searches on Footnote.com are free, but to view most documents you will need to
pay for view or subscribe.
Register for a free membership to check out the free features. No credit card
needed.
Footnote.com does have a free 7 day trial for the full subscription right now,
but you will have to give a credit card # to qualify for that.
Diane R
From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
The
Original Record.com- another117k BUMPER new entries added
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007
18:47:47 +0100
Hi,
Bumper new additions
this week to the
www.theoriginalrecord.com are:
1268-1301
Clerks and Clergy in Worcestershire and southwest Warwickshire.
The register of bishop Godfrey Giffard of Worcester, containing general diocesan
business, mostly relating to clergy, but with some parochial affairs and
disputes with names of parishioners. The diocese of Worcester at this period was
almost exactly coextensive with the county of Worcester (minus its western
finger), plus southwest Warwickshire (including Warwick itself). The register
also includes ordination lists (as in the sample scan) of subdeacons, deacons
and priests.
1509-1583
Citizens of Oxford
These selections from the Oxford city records were printed in 1880 under the
direction of the Town Clerk. Much of the material comes from the council
minutes: 24 common councillors were elected out of the citizens at large each 30
September. Apart from the general administration of the city, a large number of
cases involve people brought before the Council for using improper language, or
other misbehaviour. There is an almost unbroken series of hanasters, or
admissions to freedom of the city, listing the names of those who by purchase,
birth or apprenticeship were admitted to the guild merchant.
1559-1759
Tradesmen of York
No man or woman could trade in the city of York without having obtained
'freedom' of the city. Their names were recorded on the 'Freemen's Roll', or
Register of the Freemen of the City of York, which contains about 16,600 names
for this period. A list of names was prepared for each year. Each annual list
starts with the name of the mayor and the camerarii or chamberlains. The
chamberlains were freemen charged with the duty of receiving the fees of the new
freemen; of seeing that only freemen traded in the city; and of preparing this
roll, which was compiled from the names on their own account books from the
receipts for the fees. There are three groups of freemen: those who obtained
freedom after serving out an apprenticeship to a freeman; the children of
freemen (per patres); and a handful who claimed freedom by 'redemption', i. e.
by purchase or gift from the Mayor and Court of Aldermen.
1658-1700
Hertfordshire Sessions
Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a
wide range of criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the the
most cases (759) concerned not attending church; presentments about repairs to
roads and bridges (247); unlicensed and disorderly alehouses (226); assault
(156); badgers, higlers, &c., trading without licence (142); and trading without
due apprenticeship (117). This calendar gives abstracts of all entries in the
Sessions Books and Minute Books for Hertfordshire sessions for the period.
1703
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for
1703. The text covers a huge variety of topics involving all manner of receipts
and expenditure, customs and revenue officials, civil servants, pensioners,
petitioners and postmasters figuring particularly among the individuals named.
1756-1759
Apprentices and their masters: England and Wales
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per
pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade,
address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the
date and length of the apprenticeship. 13 September 1756 to 12 April 1759.
1936
Officials of the British administration in Palestine
Each weekly issue of the Palestine Gazette listed Appointments, Acting
Appointments, Termination of Appointments and of Acting Appointments,
Resignations, and Leave for the officials of the British administration in
Palestine.
We have
added a total of 117,070 new entries this week. We now have over 5 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search.
All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records guaranteed authentic:
no input from users or from databases.
Purchase sets of scans,
or buy open access for the name(s) of your choice, including variants.
Hope you find what you
are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our WISH LIST and we
will email you when we have some records for you.
Good
Hunting. Kind regards,
Sue
The Original Record Team
email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Date: Sat,
07 Jul 2007 22:23:33 -0700
From: Jacquie Jessup <jmjessup@shaw.ca>
Subject:
NFHS AncesTree Newsletter
To:
<Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Newsletter Exchange
Announcing the first ELECTRONIC
Nanaimo
Family History Society "AncesTree" Newsletter.
Nanaimo
Family History Society is trying to go green and save a few trees. If anyone has
any problems, concerns and/or items, queries please contact Jacquie Jessup,
editor c/o NFHS.
You will be notified when a newsletter becomes available.
NFHS AncesTree Newsletter link: http://www.members.shaw.ca/nfhs/ancestree_on_line.htm
Subject:
Family Tree Builder
launched on findmypast.com
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:14:46 +0100
From: "Marlene D'Silva"
<Marlene.D'Silva@title-research.co.uk>
Findmypast.com enhanced its offering to family historians with the launch of an
innovative, new, free, online family tree software – Family Tree Builder.
The online
application allows customers easily to create a tree from scratch or upload a
GEDCOM file exported from any existing family tree programme.
Elaine Collins, Commercial Director of Findmypast.com, commented: ‘Web applications that encourage you to store details of your family history have been around for a while, mainly for the purposes of matching other trees, but none has come close to meeting the needs of the serious family historian and replacing traditional software.’
The Family Tree Builder software was developed for the site by leading US genealogy firm PedigreeSoft, which was acquired by findmypast.com in May 2007. The original version was described by Dick Eastman, of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, as ‘…an excellent online genealogy application…and a snap to use.’ Founder and lead developer Matt Garner has rewritten the acclaimed product as a more fully-featured Web 2.0 and Flash-based application.
He commented: ‘Customers now demand easy-to-use web design that allows them to get started immediately. But we’ve designed this to adapt to the needs of the professional genealogist but also to be intuitive the beginner.’
‘If you’re going to put in the effort to enter in your ancestors’ details, it needs to be a service that you can use regularly to store all your source details and notes, photos and memorabilia in one place while providing full reporting, tree-building capability and collaboration tools that will become especially useful as your tree grows larger.’
The current launch is a beta version available free at findmypast.com. Paul Yates, Head of Product Development, stated that the intention is to provide a permanently free service, although enhanced paid options, with extra storage and family trees, will be introduced later in the year and made available to findmypast’s Explorer subscribers.
Further enhancements and features will be added over the summer, as well as full integration with Findmypast’s extensive collection of historical documents. ‘It will soon be a seamless process to feed an original record of your ancestor into your family tree,’ Yates commented.
Why online family
history software?
The
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have to load onto your hard drive, are clear:
**You
can access the latest version of your research from any computer with internet
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Please do
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Kind regards
Marlene
D'Silva
Marketing Executive
e-mail: marlened@findmypast.com
www.findmypast.com
24
Britton Street, London, EC1M 5UA, United Kingdom
Tel: 020
7549 0900 Fax: 020 7549 0949 DX 53347 Clerkenwell
Subject:
Findmypast.com Launches Another Decade to Outbound Passenger Lists
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:07:28 +0100
From: "Marlene D'Silva"
<Marlene.D'Silva@title-research.co.uk>
1890-1929 Now Available for UK Outbound Passenger Lists
Ancestorsonboard.com has added another decade of records to the UK Outbound
Passenger Lists currently available. Records now include an incredible
15,749,960 names within 97,614 passenger lists spanning 1890 to 1929.
There’s
more information available on the original images than in previous decades, such
as each passenger’s last address in the UK, making it easier than ever to fill
in the gaps in your research.
The
1920s - bright young things and abdicating kings
It was the era
of decadence and glamour. The Jazz Age in America, epitomised by the works of F.
Scott Fitzgerald, in Europe it was The Golden Twenties. With music,
entertainment and art people looked to purge themselves of the horrors of The
Great War; modernism flourished in both literature and an embracing of
technological advances.
In this
decade people were beginning to travel not purely out of necessity, but for its
own sake. People still emigrated and travelled on business but were now also
able to visit their family abroad, enjoy cruises and participate in
international sporting events. Immigration to the USA began to tail off as, in
1922, the States looked to close their borders. This led to a growth in people
seeking to make Canada and, increasingly, Australia their new home.
Famous Names
Amongst the
passengers recorded in this new decade are those from the burgeoning world of
entertainment and sport.
Noel
Coward, Cary Grant, under his real name Archibald Leach, Albert Warner of the
Warner Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford can all be
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Kind regards
Marlene D'Silva
Marketing Executive
e-mail: marlened@findmypast.com
www.findmypast.com
24
Britton Street, London, EC1M 5UA, United Kingdom
Tel: 020
7549 0900 Fax: 020 7549 0949 DX 53347 Clerkenwell
From:
"Carl Stymiest" <kjoseph@novuscom.net>
To: "Shirley Dargatz" <ksdargatz@shaw.ca>
Subject:
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS
EFFECTIVE TODAY,
Carl Stymiest
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007
09:37:22 -0700
Organization: Karel
Joseph Consulting
Hope this
reaches the 800+ emails in my present address book. I know some of yours has
changes as well so if you wish me to update your address, send it to my NEW
ADDRESS.
Please use the new email
address effective today 05 JULY 2007 and delete ALL OTHERS!
cstymiest@gmail.com
Carl
Stymiest UE, ONA., B.Ed. M.Ed. CG
Vancouver Branch UELAC-Genealogist:-
http://www.novuscom.net/~kjoseph/index.html
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Family Web Site:_
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To: "BCGS"
<bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: Fw:
Woodlands
Memorial
Garden,
opened June 22, 2007
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:27:19 -0700
Sent: Wednesday, July
04, 2007 11:07 PM
Hi, everyone;
Info about the opening of the Woodlands Memorial Garden, June 22, 2007
If you click on the photo, it will take you to an album of photos...http://www.communitylivingcoalition.bc.ca/WoodlandsGarden2007.htm
There is more info on this website about this project to commemorate the burials
in the Woodlands cemetery:
http://www.bcacl.org/index.cfm?act=main&call=ACDC4A06
> Diane R
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From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To"british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
The Original
Record.com- 150k BUMPER new entries added
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007
14:40:54 +0100
Hi,
Bumper new additions
this week to the
www.theoriginalrecord.com are:
1272-1558
Tradesmen of York
No man or woman could trade in the city of York without having obtained
'freedom' of the city.Their names were recorded on the 'Freemen's Roll', or
Register of the Freemen of the City of York, which contains about 19,900 names
for this period. A list of names was prepared for each year, the year being here
reckoned as starting at Michaelmas (29 September) until 1373, and thence at
Candlemas (2 February). Each annual list starts with the name of the mayor and
the camerarii or chamberlains. The chamberlains were freemen charged with the
duty of receiving the fees of the new freemen; of seeing that only freemen
traded in the city; and of preparing this roll, which was compiled from the
names on their own account books from the receipts for the fees. There are three
groups of freemen: those who obtained freedom after serving out an
apprenticeship to a freeman; the children of freemen; and those who claimed
freedom by 'redemption', i. e. by purchase or gift from the Mayor and Court of
Aldermen.
1577-1700
Nottinghamshire Marriage Licences
Nottingham Archdeaconry, which was almost coextensive with the county of
Nottingham, lay in the diocese and province of York, but it had substantially
independent jurisdiction for both probate and the issuing of marriage licences.
These are abstracts of the archdeaconry marriage licences: they usually state
the groom's address, occupation, age, and condition; the bride's address, age
and condition; and the names of the churches or parishes at which it was
intended the marriage would be celebrated. Not all licences led to marriages.
Where the age given is 21, it should be construed as '21 or over'. There was no
obligation for the marriage to take place at the parish suggested, but the
licence would only be valid within the county. These abstracts have been
annotated with extra information found on the marriage bonds. 26 Nottinghamshire
parishes (Beckingham, Darlton, Dunham, Eaton, North Leverton, Ragnall, Rampton,
South Wheatley, Cropwell Bishop, Bleasby, Blidworth, Calverton, Caunton,
Edingley, Farnsfield, Halloughton, Holme, Kirklington, Morton, North Muskham,
Norwell, Oxton, South Muskham, Southwell, Upton and Woodborough) lay within the
small peculiar jurisdiction of Southwell, which issued its own licences:
abstracts of these for the period 1588 to 1754 are also included here.
1691-1849
Gravestones from Calcutta St John
The old Anglican church of
St John
in Calcutta was the last resting place of many of the British community in the
city. These monumental inscriptions are recorded in the Bengal Obituary of 1851.
1754-1756
Masters and apprentices
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per
pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade,
address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the
date and length of the apprenticeship. 2 August to 31 December 1754.
1835-1851
Gentlemen amateur rowers and watermen
Rowing was one of the English sports covered in detail in the pages of Bell's
Life in London, and from these was compiled a compendium called the Aquatic
Oracle. The text is divided into two main parts: Gentlemen Amateurs and
Watermen. All the entries are cross-referenced, and use these abbreviations: w.,
won; l., lost; b., beat; bn., beaten; sc. ma., scullers' match; o. ma., oars
match; do. sc. ma., double scullers' match; 4 o.ma., 4 oars match; 8 o. ma., 8
oars match; sk., stroke; cox., coxswain; as., a side; Oxon., Oxonian; V. to P.,
Vauxhall to Putney; W. to P., Westminster to Putney; P. to M., Putney to
Mortlake; M. to P., Mortlake to Putney; dis., distance.
1867
Wesleyan Methodist Magazine
The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine was issued monthly, and much of its contents
related to obituaries of the faithful: memoirs and portraits of featured
preachers; biographical sketches; recent deaths; and notices from the annual
conference of ministers dying during the past year. Necessarily, the obituaries
concentrate on the spiritual life of the deceased - early influences,
conversion, obiter dicta, fortitude in the face of calamity, hopeful utterances
in articulo mortis. The Wesleyan Methodist church in England and Ireland held
annual conferences, abbreviated minutes of which were printed in the Wesleyan
Methodist Magazine of September and October each year. These minutes include a
complete list of the stations of the ministers for the coming year, with the
names of the preachers 'on trial' and supernumeraries, arranged by district. The
32 British districts are covered, but not the ministers in Ireland or abroad.
1908
Journal of the Institute of
Bankers
The annual examinations of the Institute of Banking were held 13-15 April 1908.
A list of students passing the Final and Preliminary levels was printed in the
Journal of the Institute of the following October. Each student's name is given
in full, with the name of their bank; and, for the Preliminary level, their home
address. An examination was held 16 March 1908 at the end of Mr Campion's
lectures on banking at Nottingham; another was held 19 February 1908 at the end
of the Gilbart Lectures on banking; one was held in March 1908 at the end of
Professor Kirkaldy's lectures on banking at the University of Birmingham; one
was held 24 January 1908 at the end of Mr R Storry Dean's lectures on the law of
bankruptcy; and annual prizes were given to banking students of the Manchester
and Liverpool District Banking Co. out of the Thomas Williamson Memorial Fund.
Lists of all the successful students were duly printed in the institute's
journal.
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From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "Gordon A. WATTS" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
Subject:
Gordon Watts
Reports' - new issue now online July 4
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007
22:30:07 -0700
Greetings All.
The latest issue of "Gordon Watts Reports" is now online at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0101.htm
Topics in
this issue include:
* Meeting with Statistics Canada
* Review of 'informed consent ' question - a correction
* Working with alternate characters
* Looking for grandpa in FBI files
* Ecclesiastical source for Slave Societies
* Memories of Nova Scotia
* 'Planters and Pioneers' reprint
* BHC documentary in the works
* Cloverdale library offers free access to Ancestry.com
Enjoy
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edmwaa05.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject:
SFU Course
Correction
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007
19:48:24 -0700
Greetings, apparently there was an error in the course
outlines emailed on June 27th. Cancel HUM 332-4. The correct course is listed
below. Regards, the other Ron
HUM 305-4: Medieval
Studies: The Rise and Fall of the Gaelic World
Department of Humanities, AQ
5115, 604-291-3689
Semester: Fall 2007
(1077), E1, Burnaby
Instructor: James Acken
Prerequisites: 45
credit hours
Course Description:
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Subject: July 2007
Newsletter
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007
17:12:56 -0400
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From:
"Federation of Family History Societies" <manager@genfair.com>
Reply-To: manager@genfair.com
To:
bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
Closure of FFHS
Publications and Distribution
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007
12:57:45 +0100
Dear Reader
I don’t know if you were aware but the Publications business is being closed.
There are various plans for the individual sections of Publications, like
Genfair, FamilyHistoryonLine and NBI to continue to operate, albeit under
different ownership/partnership/license agreement or whatever. However books are
being closed and the Bury offices shut down. I have no deadline for that at
present.
We have two objectives for the books. One is obviously to convert them into cash
as best we can before we are closed and the remaining books are pulped.
But we also want the Societies to try to do what we can no longer do and
stockpile these books for future use within the Family History world for several
years to come.
Therefore this weekend we announced to the FHS Societies at the York fair that
we intend discounting the books to the societies by 67%, i.e. one third of RRP.
We are hoping that this will encourage the Societies to buy in now, those titles
they feel will continue to be required by Family Historians in the future, so
they are not lost forever.
Alongside this we are making a major push to sell to the general public via
Genfair at up to 50% discount. The society discount of 67% will still provide
some margin for the societies vis-a-vis the general public during the close down
period, but when we close, the discount to the public will cease.
Note that this will only apply to FFHS Publications, I do buy in other
publications which you would normally get 25% discount on and this would
continue for the time being. These titles I usually only stock in small
quantities so they don’t present the same problem as our own publications where
we have printed several thousand on occasions.
Because of the lead times for adverts in magazines the Genfair 50% offer was
made public a day or two before our official announcement, but this was a timing
issue and it was never our intention to offer to the public better discounts
than we were giving to the societies.
I hope this explains the situation, and you will be able to help preserve the
titles which will be of benefit to Family Historians over the next few years
Best Regards
Ron Eyre
Operations Manager
FFHS Publications Ltd
Company No 2993798 (England)
Registered Office: Unit 15/16, Chesham Industrial Centre, Oram Street, Bury,
Lancs BL9 6EN, VAT Reg No GB 616214959.
Tel: 0161 797 3843. Fax: 0161 797 3846. E-mail: manager@ffhs.co.uk
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