Archive CD Books:History, Topography & Genealogy Books on CD:Great Britain:England:Westmorland:Directories
The Poll for Knights of the Shire to Represent the County of Westmorland.
To be entitled to vote in the general election for Parliament, people (males only!) had to be a freeholder owning a house or land. This book contains lists of all of the voters, with their place of residence, place of the freehold, and the candidates for which they voted. There was no secret ballot in those days! Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
A very early and rare directory which covers the market towns and principal villages of the county (Please note that smaller villages and hamlets are not included). The descriptons of each place are excellent with lots of details about schools, hospitals, churches and other institutions plus detailed histories and directories of the nobility, gentry, clergy and classified directories of tradespeople. Also included is an excellent county map.
The places included in this directory are;
Ambleside, Appleby, Brough, Burton and Holme, Kendal, Kirkby Lonsdale, Kirkby Stephen, Milnthorpe (with Heversham and Beetham), Orton, Ravenstone Dale, Shap. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
An excellent early directory for the county, describing each place and its facilities, churches, post, carriers and coaches, etc., plus comprehensive listings in each place of its inhabitants with trades. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
A superb and very comprehensive directory of Westmorland. Each place is described in great detail and includes lists of gentry and clergy plus those 'ordinary' people with trades.
This was part of a much larger directory of The Northern Counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland, with Liverpool and Manchester. We have split the book (not literally!) into sections in order to keep the cost of individual counties' CD's to a minimum.
The whole book is available on one CD, see below for details. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Note: includes ref 0535 as above. Also Cheshire, Cumberland and Lancashire (with Liverpool and Manchester), all of the advertisements and beautiful county maps. Price: £16.17 £19.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
Lists every person in the county who owned 1 acre of land or more, with name, place, extent of land and its value.
Also see the full set for all English counties Price: £8.94 £10.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
An excellent and very comprehensive directory. Each town, village and hamlet in the county is decribed in detail with information about the churches, schools, hospitals and othe institutions that your ancestors may have actually used in their daily lives. Each place also has lists of private residents and commercial traders.
Also included is a court directory of private residents, a classified trades directory plus an incredibly detailed map of the county.
This book was kindly loaned to The Archive CD Books Project by The Family record Centre (the PRO) in London. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
Each place in the county has an excellent description of its history and facilities such as churches, hospitals and schools etc., plus directories of private residents and tradespeople.
Also included is a county wide alphabetical list of private residents, a comprehensive classified trades directory and a county map. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
Every parish in the county is included in this book. It is primarily a directory of private residents and commercial traders in each place.
The book also serves as a gazetteer, giving a topographical account of every town, parish, village and township and descriptions of the principal buildings and objects of interest.
Full information is given on the County Council, Wards, Unions and Court Districts; the cathedral, churches, land owners, hospitals, charities and schools, agriculture, markets and fairs, and conveyance by railways, etc.
This book was kindly loaned to the Archive CD Books Project by the Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle.
Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Five huge volumes comprising the earliest directory for Great Britain, and one which is probably the most important directory for genealogists and historians that we have released on CD. For towns and villages the descriptions of the places are excellent, with details of their facilities, etc, and includes those residents with trades (even those such as farmers, hay-binders, labourers, bakers, shop keepers, etc.) and their addresses.
Although titled "Great Britain", this directory covers places in England and Wales. Volume 1 of the five is devoted to London, volumes 2 to 4 cover the places in the England and Wales in alphabetical order, and vol. 5 contains a number of the subsequent amendments and additions published in the next few years.
"The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture, comprehending Lists of the Inhabitants of London, Westminster, and Borough of Southwark; and of all the Cities, Towns, and principal Villages, in England and Wales; with the Mails, and other Coaches, stage-wagons, Hoys, Packets, and Trading Vessels. To which is added, a genuine Account of the Drawbacks and Duties chargeable at the Custom-House on all Goods and Mechandize, imported, exported, or carried coastwise, with a particular of the Public Offices of every denomination; His Majesty's Court, and Ministers of State; The Peers of the Realm, and Parliament of Great Britain; The Court of Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Common-Council, of London; together with an Historical Detail of the Antiquities, Curiosities, Trade, Polity, and Manufacturers, of each City, Town, and Village. The whole comprising a Fund of useful and important Information, equally interesting to the Nobleman, the Gentleman, and Man of Business." More details about these volumes Price: £29.79 £35.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
