Archive CD Books:History, Topography & Genealogy Books on CD:Great Britain:Books for all of Britain
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This pocket book sized book is fantastically useful to explain the mysteries of Parish Registers. A delightful book to read, a vital, must have for beginner and advanced family historians alike. Packed full of interesting snippets of Parish Registers from around the country, the book explains the type of information that can be found, how to read it and what the entries really mean. Parish registers are some of the most frequently used and most important documents in researching family history, this book helps you to get the most out of the entries and ensures you won't miss a thing when researching baptisms, marriages and deaths.
It gives you access to small details that are easy to over look but can add a lot to your research such as, the years in which there were excessive numbers of deaths i.e. Plague years and the terrible Influenza of 1728.
It describes the varying spellings of some names to give you a guide of how your name may also have changed, for example;
Dyngley, Dinely, Dingley, Dingleye, Dingly, Dinglye, Dinley and so on.
It even has a chronological table outlining the history of Parish Registers, how Thomas Cromwell started them, to the times they were regulated, when registers were imperfectly kept and other interesting dates such as;
1667 - A law is created insisting everyone was buried in wool, to bolster the wool trade.
1735 - The new law forbids keeping records in Latin.
It gives you a brilliant idea of what to expect of Parish Registers, how they changed over time, what exactly they contain and much much more! It's full of details that will enlighten your research and deepen your understanding of Parish registers. Price: £5.00 £5.88 Including VAT at 17.5%
Translation and edition of 1722 by Gibson, complete with all of the 1695 maps by Robert Morden. This is the definitive early history and description of the whole of Britain. An absolute must for anyone's collection. Two immense and extremely rare volumes, worth thousands of pounds, and yours on CD for just £17.75
These books are not dry! They give wonderful accounts of the places, their history and geography, lifestyle of the people at the time, etc. and provide invaluable background information for your family history research.
More details and samples Price: £15.11 £17.75 Including VAT at 17.5%
Written by Percy Enderbie and published in 1661, this is an extremely ancient and rare history and description of the country during an incredibly turbulent period of history.
It also goes into details of the landed gentry and heraldic coats of arms.
This is one of the oldest books that we have scanned, in places it mentions people such as Sir Walter Raleigh (executed in 1618) and it is very strange to think that, to the writer, this was modern history.
Whilst this is hardly a 'light read' it is a fascinating book which any historian would be proud to own. Price: £17.87 £21.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
A wonderful little leather bound book published in 1790 that lists all of the Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland. Many coats of arms illustrated (mainly of the most important families). Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
A concise A-Z of Surnames in the United Kingdom by Henry Harrison, published 1912.
The book includes an essay on the origins of our surnames, which discusses such topics as the necessity for distinctive nicknames in Scotland, French surnames, Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian names, Flemish names in S. Wales and more. There is also an appendix of principal foreign names found in British directories.
Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Road routes throughout Great Britain, with distances, information about places passed through on each route, turnpikes etc. Price: £15.11 £17.75 Including VAT at 17.5%
A book for the traveller. Each road has a list of towns and main villages, bridges, crossings, etc. along its route, with distance tables from the starting point and from place to place, plus lists of names of prominent people and their residences along the way.
Contents: Alphabetical list of all the cities, towns and remarkable villages in England & Wales; Index to the Scottish Roads; Principal and direct roads in England & Wales; Cross roads, Circuits of the judges, Directions for passing over at Aust and the New Passage between England and Wales; Tide table directing the proper times for passing over Foss Dyke and Cross Keys Washes in Lincolnshire; Principal and direct roads in Scotland; Cross roads in Scotland; Rates of postage &c. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Road routes throughout Great Britain, with distances, information about places passed through on each route, turnpikes etc.
Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
John Stodard gave lectures on many subjects which he then turned into a series of ten volumes , this is the ninth volume containing his views on Scotland, England and London. It is beautifully illustrated with black and white sketches and photographs of places and people of interest. The text describes the history of each place in an enthusiastic tone. This CD provides a veritable tour around Scotland and England, re-telling some of its most fascinating stories from the past. Price: £15.11 £17.75 Including VAT at 17.5%
Superb histories and illustrations of many places and waterways in Great Britain and Ireland with dozens of fabulous illustrations and plates. The places included are:
Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge, Leeds, The Cinque Ports (Dover, Sandwich, Ebbsfleet, Richborough, Hythe, Rye, Winchelsea, Hastings and Pevensey), Dumfermline, The Plym, Crowland, Ludlow, West Cornwall, Edgehill and Naseby, The Clyde, Burghley, The Weald of Kent, The Dee, Woburn, Dublin City, Scarborough and Whitby, Bristol, Derwentwater, Liverpool, Chester, Bedford, St Andrews and the coast of Fife, Durham, Derbyshire down the Wye & Derwent, The Menai Straits, The Malvern Hills, Lichfield and Coventry, Isle of Skye, Exeter, The Wye from Ross to Monmouth, Londonderry, Sedgemoor, Cambridge, Gloucester and Tewkesbury, Birmingham, Exmoor, Cork, Hatfield House. Price: £15.11 £17.75 Including VAT at 17.5%
4 CD set More details and examples of this CD book Price: £23.83 £28.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
An extremely comprehensive book containing the names, details and genealogies of hundreds of Peers of the Realm. Price: £15.11 £17.75 Including VAT at 17.5%
Almost 900 pages of testimonies and interviews, covering various types of factories and work in a wide variety of places in Britain.
An amazing and fascinating insight into conditions of work and peoples' lifestyle in 1842 in their own words.
Did your ancestor work in a factory?
Put meat on the bare bones of your family history by understanding how they lived and worked. More details and examples of interviews Price: £16.98 £19.95 Including VAT at 17.5%
Published in 1760, and in the old fashioned typestyle typical of the period. A fascinating collection of a great number of testimonies of Quakers. Wonderful reading for anyone with Quaker ancestors. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
An invaluable book for those interested in the mining industry or with mining ancestors.
The book covers the whole of Great Britain and Ireland and contains a directory of mine owners, mines and managers listed alphabetically in counties complete with geological maps of each county's coalfields. There are also tables of statistics and details of the 1887 coal mines regulation act
Price: £11.50 £13.51 Including VAT at 17.5%
This excellent book of over 2,000 pages lists all of the doctors, surgeons, dentists, etc, together with short biographical details of each.
Includes:
The London Medical Directory
The Provincial Medical Directory
The Medical Directory for Wales
The Medical Directory for Ireland
Together with: The Medical Directory of Registered Practitioners resident abroad; The Medical Directory of the Naval, Military and Indian Services; Licentiates in Dental Surgery; also statistical and general information of the universities, colleges, schools, hospitals, dispensaries, lunatic asylums, societies, sanitary medical service, public services, etc. in the United Kingdom.
This book was kindly loaned to the Archive CD Books Project by the Cumbria Archives, Barrow in Furness.
Price: £21.28 £25.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
Over 1300 pages.
This excellent directory not only covers the subjects described in its title, but all associated trades and businesses, for example, newsagents, bill posters, music sellers, book binders, album manufacturers, cardboard box makers, copperplate engravers and printers, envelope manufacturers, dealers in fancy goods, libraries, illuminators, map makers, lithographers, newspapers, ticket writers, and so on.
This directory has several sections: Places in England with the names of persons carrying on business in each, arranged alphabetically by counties, then places within each, and then business types, and names in alphabetical order. As above, in separate sections for Scotland, Wales. A list of trades arranged alphabetically, (London & Suburbs, England, Scotland and Wales). Places in Ireland with the names of persons carrying on business in each, arranged alphabetically in Towns. List of trades arranged alphabetically for Ireland, and then two final sections covering the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Price: £20.00 £23.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Containing a complete list (arranged in alphabetical order) of every railway station, town, village, hamlet, parish and place in Great Britain!
For each place it gives the details of the population from the 1901 census, locality, post offices, money order and telegraphy offices. It also has the particulars of various railways arrangements for shipping goods around the world.
Most importantly it lists every place even if they didn't have a railway station and tells you where and how far the nearest one was. Plus it tells you which companies ran over which lines.
For those interested with ancestors employed in railways, this book could help you discover for whom they worked. Also ideal for railway enthusiasts.
An alphabetical listing of the titled, landed and official classes. Each name in the book has a brief summary of their genealogy and career.
Fully searchable, so you might even pick up on ancestors and connections you weren't expecting.
A huge volume with over 1200 pages containing the details of thousands of people from all over Britain, including genealogical, personal, military and career information. Listed alphabetically and fully searchable, this is an easy resource to use.
Price: £13.62 £16.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
A huge volume with over 1800 pages containing the details of thousands of people from all over Britain, including genealogical, personal, military and career information. Price: £13.62 £16.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
