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==Schools and Education==
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==The Family Tree Forum Timeline==
  
* http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians
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Our ancestors (like us) were shaped by the world they lived in and the sudden movement of a family, for example, from their birthplace to another part of the country could be explained by what was happening in the wider world.
  
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education
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'''[[The Timeline]]''' will help you to put the personal life of your ancestors in context with the social and political situation of the time.  
  
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==Museums and Galleries==
 
  
*http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury
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==Pathé News Online==
  
*http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s
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Until 1970 cinemas all over Britain showed Pathé newsreels. Now you can view the entire collection, over 3500 hours, online at:
  
*http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire - Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2
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*[http://www.britishpathe.com Pathé News]
  
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford – factory and village, built by millowner & philanthropist Sir Titus Salt.
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It is necessary to register, but whilst there is a charge for high-resolution copies of the films you can view low resolution versions free of charge. Almost all are in black and white, and the very earliest footage is silent.
  
*http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition
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The earliest films date from 1896! Pathé display a Top Twenty on their site - the most popular when we checked was a film of the Titanic, but an early favourite of ours is the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901.
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*[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Online]
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==Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions==
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==Related Pages==
  
*http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies
 
  
*http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors
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*[[Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen]]
  
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*[[Evacuation_and_Evacuees#British_Home_Children|British Home Children]]
  
==Political Parties and Movements==
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*[[Canals and Canal Carriers]]
  
=====The Suffragettes=====
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*[[Charitable Organisations]]
  
*http://www.cjbooks.demon.co.uk/suffrage.htm
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*[[Costume Past and Present]]
  
*http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM
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*[[Law and Law Enforcement]]
  
*http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm
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*[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]]
  
*http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm
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*[[Emigration and Immigration]]
  
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*[[Entertainment]]
  
==Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums==
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*[[Evacuation and Evacuees]]
  
*http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/MAB/MAB.shtml Establishment of hospitals, asylums, hospital ships, smallpox & TB
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*[[Fairground/Showmen/Travellers]]
  
*http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/english_asylums.htm Asylum information
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*[[Farming and Agriculture]]
  
*http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp TNA's Hospital Database search facility
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*[[Inns and Public Houses]]
  
*http://www.coram.org.uk/heritage.htm CORAM Foundling Hospital Association
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*[[Irish Political and Social History]]
  
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*[[Maps and Photography]]
  
==The Industrial Revolution==
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*[[:Category:Military and Maritime History|Military and Maritime History]]
  
*http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation
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*[[Mining and Heavy Industry]]
  
*http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry
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*[[Nursing]]
  
*http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History
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*[[Places of Worship]]
  
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*[[Railways]]
  
==American History==
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*[[Religion and the Clergy]]
  
*http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites
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*[[Sport]]
  
*http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm America in World War One
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*[[Stonemasons]]
  
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*[[Trades and Occupations]]
  
==Irish Political and Social History==
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*[[Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums|Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanatoriums]]
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This section has been moved to its own page due to its size. [[Irish Political and Social History|Click here]] to view it.
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==Schools and Education==
 
 
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==Civilian Transport==
 
 
 
*http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching
 
 
 
*http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/BritHorseTrams/index.html Horse trams
 
  
*http://www.lvta.co.uk/history.htm Horse cabs and Hackney carriages
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Parliamentary Legislation]
  
*http://www.flying-bike.demon.co.uk/helistuff/heli.html Helicopters
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education]
  
*http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 Bicycles
 
  
 
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==Architecture and Old Buildings==
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==Museums and Galleries==
 
 
*http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, the first Garden City
 
 
 
*http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_cadbury/social_pioneers/bournville_village.htm Bourneville village (founded by the Cadburys)
 
 
 
*http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/page.asp?pageid=history Port Sunlight (founded by William Lever)
 
  
*http://www.jrf.org.uk/housingandcare/newearswick/ New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)
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*[http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum - The Story of the Infantry of Berkshire and Wiltshire]
  
*http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses
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*[http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham. Northern Life in The 1800s & Early 1900s.]
  
*http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, mostly American
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*[http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp Theme Museum Malton, North Yorkshire. Centred on The History of WW2.]
  
*http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Researching historic buildings in the British Isles
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford. Factory & Village Built by Millowner & Philanthropist Sir Titus Salt]
  
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*[http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Salts Mill - Home to The David Hockney Exhibition.]
  
==The Law and Social Legislation==
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*[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge]
  
*http://www.oldbaileyonline.org This has the transcripts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834. You can search by name or place, (the name search includes defendants, witnesses and jurors). Also has old maps and other info about London history.
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*[http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/DServe/DServe.exe?dsqServer=localhost&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Index.tcl The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA)]
 
 
*http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/forewords/A138.pdf  although written as an introduction to the Apprenticeship Register for Dawlish, Devon, this provides a good description of the Parish Apprenticeship system in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
 
 
 
*http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/ccourts.htm A brief description of the 19th Century Criminal Justice System
 
 
 
*http://www.met.police.uk/history/index.htm History of the Metropolitan Police
 
  
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*[[See How Your Ancestors Lived]] 
  
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*[http://www.oldandinteresting.com/ Old and interesting - History of Domestic Paraphernalia] 
 
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==Work and Trade Associations / Unions==
  
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*[http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Affiliated Friendly Societies]
  
==Crime and Punishment==
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*[http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors]
  
[[Crime and Punishment]] has been moved to its own page due to size considerations
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*[http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/browse.php Bryant & May Matchworkers Strike Fund Register 1888]
  
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*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/catalogues/unions/ Trade Unions and Similar Organisations]
 
 
==The British Monarchy==
 
 
 
*http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web
 
 
 
*http://tribalpages.com/familytree.html Tribal pages uses the British royal family for its family tree tutorial. If you think you have royal connections it might be worth browsing.
 
  
 
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==Emigration and Immigration==
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==Political Parties and Movements==
  
=====Highland Clearances=====
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*[http://chartists.net/ Chartist Ancestors]
  
For those interested in the Highland Clearances there is loads of info here - I only looked at 6 of them and have already found a missing person.
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*[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM Give Women The Vote!]
  
If you google "Metagama" you will get some ship passenger lists from 1920's.
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Famous Suffragettes]
This is a small example - 404 names on this list mostly from Scotland.
 
Departed Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, June 22, 1923
 
Departed Belfast, Ireland on Saturday, June 23, 1923
 
  
'''Trans-Atlantic Sailing to Quebec and Montreal, Canada, July 5, 1923'''
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*[http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm What Did The Suffragettes Do?]
THIS was a C.P.R. liner, come to Lewis to take on those whom Manny Shinwell later described in Parliament as "the best of Scottish manhood".
 
The Metagama sailed on Saturday the 21st of April, 1923. From all over Lewis, they crowded into Stornoway on the Friday. Cromwell Street echoed with the banter and excited anticipation of those about to leave, mingling with the sadness of those who had come to say goodbye.
 
(This is From West Side historical Society on Google - out of the 300 who sailed that day only 20 were NOT young men, the average age was 22.) It decimated the Island Communities and to this day they have not recovered.
 
 
 
=====Links=====
 
*http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ Ulster ancestry has a lot of information on its free pages, both passenger lists and some lists of emigrants...
 
 
 
*http://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/ A Scottish emigration database
 
  
 
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==Inns and Public Houses==
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==The Industrial Revolution==
  
*http://www.norfolkpubs.co.uk/ Norfolk Public Houses
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*[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum]
  
*http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/pubs.html Pubs in Victorian London
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*[http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm The History of The Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands 1700 -1830]
  
*http://www.1881pubs.com/ Pubs in 1881
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*http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/towns/worcester/worcestershire/ Worcester pubs
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==American History==
 
 
*http://www.bristolslostpubs.com Pubs lost in Bristol
 
 
 
*http://londonpublichouse.com/ London & Essex Pubs History & Trade Directory
 
 
 
*http://www.hillfields.org.uk/History/Pubs/Index.htm Pubs in Hillfields, Coventry
 
 
 
*http://www.midlandspubs.co.uk Midlands pubs
 
 
 
*http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/pubs/index.html Warwickshire pubs
 
 
 
*http://www.sfowler.force9.co.uk/page_27.htm Tracing ancestors who worked in pubs
 
 
 
*http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Dir/StaffsPubs1818.html Staffordshire pubs
 
 
 
*http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/Index/PubsInnsBeer.html Index to Pubs Inns and Beer Houses
 
 
 
*http://www.edinburgh247.com/edinburgh-pub-guide.asp A modern guide but handy list of Edinburgh pubs
 
 
 
*http://www.ensignewart.demon.co.uk/ensign/html/history_of_the_pub.html The story of the Ensign Ewart pub
 
  
*http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/sutton/pubs/others.htm Notts Pubs
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'''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/USA#Military_History See Separate page]'''
 
 
*http://www.pubhistory.freeserve.co.uk/ The Pub History Society
 
 
 
*http://www.easywell.co.uk/pubs/ Gloucestershire Pubs and Breweries
 
  
 
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==Civilian Transport==
  
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*[http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching]
  
==Religion and the Clergy==
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottinghamshire_and_Derbyshire_Tramways_Company Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company.]
 
 
*http://theclergydatabase.org.uk/ The Clergy of the Church of England Database
 
 
 
*http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/cfhs/index.htm Catholic family history
 
 
 
*http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/methodist/methguid.html Methodists Archive and Research Centre
 
 
 
*http://www.methodist.org.uk/static/factsheets/fs_primitiveandwesleyan.htm The Methodist Church – factsheets (Wesleyans and primitive Methodists)
 
 
 
*http://www.answers.com/topic/primitive-methodism Primitive Methodism
 
 
 
*http://www.crockford.org.uk/ Crockford’s Clerical Directory: a directory of the clergy of the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church,
 
 
 
*http://www.kinderlibrary.ac.nz John Kinder Theological Library
 
 
 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends Religious Society of Friends - Wikipedia
 
 
 
*http://members.lycos.co.uk/JennySteel/quakers.html Famous Quakers
 
 
 
*http://www.rootsweb.com/~engqfhs/ Quaker Family History Society
 
 
 
*http://www.hull.ac.uk/oldlib/archives/quaker/bihrlink.htm Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
 
 
 
*http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/quaker/quakint1.htm Quaker Archives Database, West & North Yorkshire
 
 
 
*http://www.special-coll.bham.ac.uk/ The archives for the Church Missionary Society are kept at Birmingham University Library in their Special Collections. The catalogue can be searched online here
 
 
 
*http://www.jgsgb.org.uk The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
 
 
 
*http://eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk:8080/cce/index.html Another database of Clergy of the Church of England
 
 
 
*http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/librariesandarchives/familyhistory/index.html Anglican Sources for Tracing your Family History
 
 
 
*http://www.catholic-history.org.uk
 
 
 
*http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk
 
 
 
*http://www.scmo.org.uk/bishops_conference/diocese/today
 
 
 
*http://home.att.net/~Local_Catholic
 
 
 
*http://www.newadvent.org/cathen
 
 
 
*http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/rec.html
 
  
*http://www.churches-online.org.uk/salfordarchives
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*[http://www.lvta.co.uk/menu/lvta-taxi-history/ London Horse Cabs and Hackney Carriages History]
  
*http://www.stphilipsbooks.co.uk/crs.htm
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*[http://asms.k12.ar.us/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/helicptr/webpage.htm The Evolution of the Helicopter]
  
*http://www.catholic-library.org.uk
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*[http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 A Brief History Of The Bicycle]
  
*http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/famil2.pdf.
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*[http://www.alcester.dial.pipex.com/localpast/94au/oral.htm Oral Account of Coach Building, Early 1900s]
  
*http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/LatinNotes.html
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*[http://www.railwayancestors.org.uk/ The Railway Ancestors Family History Society]
  
*http://www.pro.gov.uk/leaflets/Riindex.asp
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*[http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/Auffret-onyxnet.co.uk/railways/railways.htm The North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway]
  
*http://www.swinhope.myby.co.uk/NRO/RCatholic.html  
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*[http://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/index.html Seaside Travel and Nostalgia]
  
*http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/nra2.htm
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*[http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/ukregistrations.html History Behind British Vehicle Registration System]
  
*http://www.catholic-heritage.net/archives.htm
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*[http://www.britishtaxdiscs.co.uk/tax-disc-history.php History of The Road Fund Licence - Tax Disk]
 
 
*http://www.scan.org.uk/aboutus/indexonline.htm
 
 
 
*http://www.sierratel.com/colinf/genuki/CAV/RC.htm
 
 
 
*http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/northowram
 
 
 
*http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/history/catholic.htm
 
 
 
*http://www.otherdays.com
 
 
 
*http://www.stbedes.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/br
 
  
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Transport Times Past - Transport]
 
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==Maps and Photography ==
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Go to [[Railways]] Page
 
 
*http://www.motco.com/MAP/ -Historic maps of London – most have indexes of place names
 
 
 
*http://www.motco.com/print/ Historic prints of London and other parts of Britain
 
 
 
*http://www.motco.com/panoramas/ Panoramic views of London and the Thames
 
 
 
*http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/oldmap/index.asp Lancashire County Council - Environment Directorate: Old Maps
 
 
 
*http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ Historical map archive searchable by place name, address or coordinate (OS Grid Reference)
 
 
 
*http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/index.html Maps of Scotland 1560-1928
 
 
 
*http://www.nls.uk/pont/index.html Ponts Maps of Scotland
 
 
 
*http://www.nls.uk/maps/military/index.html Military Maps of Scotland (18th century)
 
 
 
*http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/index.html Ordnance Survey town plans 1847-1895
 
 
 
*http://www.countyviews.com/
 
 
 
*http://www.countyviews.com/beds/church.htm Bedfordshire Church Photographs
 
 
 
*http://www.countyviews.com/beds/index.htm Bedfordshire Town and Village Photographs
 
 
 
*http://www.countyviews.com/bucks/church.htm Buckinghamshire Church Photographs
 
 
 
*http://www.countyviews.com/bucks/index.htm Buckinghamshire Town and Village Photographs
 
 
 
*http://www.countyviews.com/oxford/index.htm Oxfordshire Photos (very few at the moment)
 
 
 
 
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==The Landed Gentry ==
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==Architecture and Old Buildings==
  
*http://www.sledmerehouse.com/intro.html Sledmere House and Gardens website
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*[http://www.churchplansonline.org/ Church Plans Online]
  
*http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0601sykes.html Biographies of family members; papers of Sykes family held at Brynmor-Jones library, University of Hull
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*[http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, The First Garden City]
  
*http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere stud
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*[http://www.cadbury.co.uk/CADBURYANDCHOCOLATE/OURSTORY/PHILAN/Pages/bvttoday.aspx Bournville Village (Founded by Richard and George Cadbury)]
  
*http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/leisure/tourism/pdf/leaflets/sykes_trail.pdf Churches restored by Sir Tatton Sykes
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*[http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/ Port Sunlight founded by William Lever]
  
*http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/index1.htm Sir Mark Sykes & the Wagoners Reserve (with link to attestation details of individual men)
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*[http://www.jrht.org.uk/Your+community/Communities+by+location/New+Earswick New Earswick Village built by Joseph Rowntree]
  
*http://www.r-alston.co.uk/country_house_database.htm A database of country houses in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and some of the surrounding islands, with brief histories.
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*[http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/castles.html#A British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses]
  
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*[http://www.victorianstation.com/architecturemenu.htm Victorian Architecture, (mostly American)]
  
==Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen ==
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*[http://www.buildinghistory.org/ Researching Historic Buildings in The British Isles]
  
*http://www.blisworth.org.uk/images/index.html
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*[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ Explore Victorian London]
  
*http://www.canals.com/resource.htm
 
  
*http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/collection/family-history.htm
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*http://www.hnboc.org.uk/ Narrowboat
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==The British Monarchy==
  
*http://www.bargeman.co.uk/ Bargemen
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*[http://www.royal.gov.uk/ The Offical Website of The British Monarchy]
  
*http://www.silsden.net/useful/Leeds_andLiverpool_canal_timeline.htm Leeds and Liverpool Canal
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*[http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web]
  
*http://www.virtualwaterways.co.uk/Home.html
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Royal%20events Times Past - Royal Events]
  
*http://www.canaljunction.com/craft/index.htm Boats and Barges
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*http://www.canaljunction.com/canal/boat_people.htm Canal People
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==The Landed Gentry==
  
*http://www.geocities.com/thameswatermen/index.htm The Thames Watermen - 1555 to 1700
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*[http://www.sledmerehouse.com/ Sledmere House, Home of Sir Tatton Sykes]
  
*http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.142/chapterId/2955/Thames-Watermen.html History of London Watermen
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*[http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0601sykes.html Papers of Sykes Family- Held at Brynmor-Jones Library, The University of Hull.]
  
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*[http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere Stud, Driffield, East Yorkshire]
  
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*[http://www.r-alston.co.uk/country_house_database.htm A Database of Country Houses in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Some of The Surrounding Islands, With Brief Histories]
  
==Jewish history ==
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*[http://www.leighrayment.com/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page - a database of MPs]
  
*http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm Jewish history in London
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*[http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/ Sir Mark Sykes Bart]
  
 
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==Stonemasons ==
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==Jewish History==
  
The January 2007 issue of Your Family Tree has an article about stonemasons.
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[[image:Ark and pulpit Brighton Synagogue.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ark and pulpit. Middle St Synagogue, Brighton]]
  
Covers many different aspects including some historical background.
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*[http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm The London Jews Database (pre-1850)]
  
The earlier you go back, the more likely your stonemason would have been a very skilled craftsman, with an apprenticeship of 15 years to learn all the different aspects of construction. However, in later times (17-1800s onwards), this term covered all sorts of trades other than the skilled carving we think of today... such as quarrying, fashioning door lintels, paving stones and all sorts of other things related to building & construction (think farm buildings & houses as well as bridges & viaducts etc). These folk probably start off as builders labourers, and most of the people who change their occupation between censuses probably fall into this category.
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*[http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/index.htm Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies]
  
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*[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy]
  
The article does not give any sources for apprenticeship records; where they still exist these would presumably be included in the records offices.
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*[http://www.saudades.org/ Saudades Portuguese Sephardic History]
  
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*[http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_9E The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names]
  
Master masons did have their own "marks". Earlier ones are often symbols, later ones can be initials. You can sometimes see these on gravestones (low down and possibly buried by now).
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*[http://www.joodsmonument.nl/article.php?thg_id=HELP&lang=en Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands]
I am told there is no centralised record of these.
 
  
Master masons may have belonged to a Guild, and here the Worshipful Company of Masons may be able to help, but you have to access the records in person. (Southgate, London N14) www.masonslivery.co.uk
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*[http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/ Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain]
 
 
It is also suggested you may find relevant records in old Trade Associations (which are now our modern trade unions of course) and sources for these include the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, and the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University.
 
 
 
Salford (holds 1865-1918 yearly audits of members etc.)
 
http://www.wcml.org.uk/holdings/operative_stonemasons_annual_audit_contents.htm
 
 
 
Warwick has an extensive collection of Trade Union records
 
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/
 
the relevant unions:
 
Friendly Society of Operative Sonemasons of England, Ireland & Wales (1833-1919)
 
 
 
Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and Allied Trades of England and Wales (1919-1921)
 
 
 
this became the Amalgamated Union of Building Workers in 1921 & further evolved into the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians in 1971.
 
 
 
You will have to visit in person to look at any relevant records.
 
 
 
 
 
The following websites mentioned in the article may also be of interest
 
 
 
*http://www.finestoneminiatures.com/dictionary.htm A Stonemasons Dictionary
 
 
 
*http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/james_smith_diary.htm Diary of a stonemason
 
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==Emigration in the 1800's ==
 
 
 
*http://www.ellisisland.org/?gclid=COanpMTCtYcCFUxqMAod7jCcRA Ellis Island
 
 
 
*http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/county/ntt/emigration/southafrica-1820/nttsa.htm Nottinghamshire Colonists to South Africa 1820
 
  
 
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==Farming and Agriculture ==
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==The Celts==
 
 
=====Counting sheep - East Yorks =====
 
 
 
Maternal grandfather and his father were shepherds. Grandad passed this on to Mum and she to me. There are many deviations on the count to 20, and each area of Yorkshire has it's own version, especially each of the Yorkshire dales. The land there is often hilly and impossible to cultivate, so sheepfarming is one way of utilising the land. The word pattern is usually based on groupings of five, to correspond with the digits on one hand.
 
 
 
yar
 
tar
 
tethera
 
methera
 
pip
 
 
 
teeza
 
leeza
 
catra
 
nova
 
dick
 
 
 
yardick
 
tardick
 
tetheradick
 
metheradick
 
bumper
 
 
 
yardibumper
 
tardibumper
 
tetherabumper
 
metherabumper
 
jigger
 
 
 
 
 
=====Working the land, in the East Riding =====
 
 
 
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, those working on the land could be categorised as:
 
 
 
#farmers and their male relatives working on the land
 
##owner occupiers
 
##tenant farmers
 
#farm servants
 
#agricultural labourers
 
#casual workers
 
 
 
 
 
Agricultural labourers were, generally, those who were married or had dependants. They were paid daily or on a weekly basis, or at busy times (such as harvest) by piece work rates. They lived in their own homes and made up 43% of the farming workforce.
 
 
 
Casual workers, (including women and children) were hired as additional, supplementary help at busy times in the farming calendar, such as shearing, haymaking and the corn and potato harvest.
 
In the East Riding, lots of the casual labour force were itinerants from the Dales or Ireland.
 
 
 
Farm servants were unmarried, or occasionally widowers with no dependant family members, who were hired and paid on an annual basis and who received their board and lodging as a part of their annual wage. In the 1850’s, this group provided 33% of the East Riding farming population.
 
 
 
They were subject to legally enforceable contracts of employment, and in East Yorkshire, these contracts ran from Martinmas (23rd November) to Martinmas.
 
 
 
Annual statute Hirings were held at Beverley, Bridlington, Driffield, Hedon, Hornsea, Howden, Hull, Hunmanby, Malton, Market Weighton, Patrington, Pocklington, Scarborough, Selby and York.
 
 
 
=====Farm servants - The Hirings =====
 
 
 
Male and female servants would gather at the hiring venue to bargain with prospective employers and so secure a position for the coming year.
 
 
 
'''''“Driffield Times” 15th November 1873'''
 
 
 
“Early in the morning, the great stream of humanity rolled into the town, conveyed thither in every conceivable appliance that could be obtained for the occasion; but conspicuous amongst the rest were the heavy waggons with their living freight, which were deposited amid the greetings of those who had chanced to outstrip them in the drive to town. Other vehicles, from heavy waggons to the humble donkey and cart were to be seen threading their way through the streets, to their several destinations. The Railway Company, too, brought hundreds into the town by special and regular trains, which were literally packed. At about nine o’clock, the bustle was commenced in earnest, for by that time most of the servants had congregated”''
 
 
 
 
 
If a bargain was struck, the farmer gave the Lad a “fest”, or fastening money – a small sum in recognition of the hiring. The amount of the fest varied; usually 5s for a waggoner and 2/6d for other workers.
 
 
 
The whole range of working conditions was subject to an implicit informal agreement, which both the farmer and the worker assumed to automatically be part of the agreement – hours of work, holidays, sick pay.
 
 
 
Once the fest money had changed hands, a legally binding agreement had been entered into. If either party withdrew before the year was up, magistrates and judges had special powers to enforce the contract.
 
 
 
Contracts were usually oral. What few written contracts there were rarely specified more than the agreed wage and the termination date, e.g
 
 
 
“I Samuel Ellwood engage to Mr Francis Johnson as waggoner from Martinmas 1897 to Martinmas 1898 for £19 – nineteen pounds. Signed ……”
 
 
 
 
 
=====Farm Servants - Wages =====
 
 
 
"Malton Messenger" 1874
 
 
 
*Girls 12 – 18 yrs £6 - £8
 
 
 
*Upper servants & housekeepers £13 - £15
 
 
 
*Boys 13 –15 yrs £10 - £12
 
 
 
*Boys 16 – 18 yrs £18 - £20
 
  
*Good shepherds, experienced foremen £20 - £30 (Some asked for and were engaged for more)
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*[http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry - The Anglo-Saxon and The Celtic Age]
 
 
 
 
"Driffield Times" 14 Nov 1874
 
 
 
*Young foreman £25
 
 
 
*Experienced foreman £30
 
 
 
*Young waggoner £18
 
 
 
*Experienced waggoner £20
 
 
 
*Strong ploughboy £13 - £15
 
 
 
*Young maid-of-all-work £9 - £12
 
 
 
*Housemaid £12 - £14
 
 
 
*Experienced cook £20
 
 
 
 
 
Farm servants were paid annually, on the completion of their year, minus any subsidies they had been given.
 
 
 
The wage of an agricultural servant was divided equally between a cash payment and his keep
 
e.g. 1900, an average waggoner’s wage was £25 cash & 5s fest
 
£25 board and lodging
 
Total – £50-5s
 
 
 
 
 
=====Links=====
 
 
 
*http://www.ruralhistory.org/nof/victorianfarming/index.php History of British agriculture 1700-1914
 
 
 
*http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010136ernle/010136ch10.htm Large Farms and Capitalist Farmers 1780-1813
 
 
 
*http://www.answers.com/topic/british-agricultural-revolution British Agricultural Revolution
 
 
 
*http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/climate/wxevents.htm Historical Weather Events
 
 
 
*http://www.foxearth.org.uk/oxen.html Use of oxen for working the land and transportation
 
  
 
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==Shipping and Passenger Lists ==
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==Slavery==
 
 
*http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html Sources for transcribed passenger records and indexes
 
 
 
*http://www.theshipslist.com/ The Ships List
 
 
 
*http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=23 Unassisted Immigration to Victoria
 
  
*http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=24 Assisted British Immigration
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*[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/eabolition.asp International Slavery Museum]
  
*http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=42 Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1876
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*[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces The Transantlantic Slave Trade Database]
  
*http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm The Slave Trade - 1700-1930]
  
*http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/plist.htm Convictions Australian Shipping
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*[http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas]
  
*http://www.list.jaunay.com/ausnzpassengers/ Gateway page to Online AUSNZ Passenger Lists
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*[http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html#A North American Slave Narratives]
  
*http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/assisted_immigrants_1839-96_366.asp NSW Assisted Immigrants 1839-96
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*[http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/slavery/index.htm?cids=Google_PPC&cre=Slavery The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Abolition Movement] Time Line of Key Events
  
*http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html Passenger lists on the internet
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*[http://www.brycchancarey.com/index.htm Slavery, Emancipation, and Abolition]
  
*http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/research/index/immigration.asp#immigrationindexes Queensland Indexes - Immigration 1848-1884
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/ Abolition of The Slave Trade]
  
*http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020110_e.html Child emigration from Great Britain to Canada between 1869 and the early 1930s
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*[http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade 1502 - 1841]
  
*http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/emigration.htm Highlands and Islands to Australia
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*[http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/subIndex.php?sit_id=1 Bristol and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade]
  
*http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/emigranten/en/ Searchable database of Emigrants from the Netherlands to Australia between 1946 and 1991
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*[http://www.recoveredhistories.org/ Recovered Histories- Reawakening The Narratives of Enslavement, Resistance and the Fight For Freedom]
  
*http://www.geneaknowhow.net/digi/pass1.html Dutch passenger lists pre-1736
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*[http://www.revealinghistories.org.uk/ Revealing History - Remembering Slavery]
  
*http://www.geneaknowhow.net/digi/pass2.html Dutch passenger lists after 1736
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*[http://www.abolition200.org.uk/ Abolition 200 The Bicentenary of the Abolition of The Slave Trade Act]
  
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*[http://compensations.plantations.bb/ Slave Compensation Claims]
 
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==Some Old Legal Terms ==
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==Current Value of Old Money==
 
 
Some of those funny words that we find on old wills etc.
 
 
 
MOIETY......... A half .....part..... portion or share of property etc. Note: Such is usually based on family or unilateral descent.
 
  
GAVELKIND...... Equal shares among qualifying heirs.
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*[http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html Current value of old money]
 
 
ECHEATS......... Reversion of land to the manor etc. under feudal tenure when lacking legal heirs.
 
 
 
MESSUAGE...... House or dwelling.
 
 
 
SIEZED............ To be in legal possession of, from the feudal concept of "seisin"
 
 
 
INTER ALIA..... Among other things
 
 
 
DEMESNE..........Land of a feudal lord retained for his own use i.e the grounds of a Mansion etc.
 
 
 
TERRIER........... A form of Register of Land belonging to an estate etc..
 
 
 
FEALTY............The fidelity owed to a Feudal Lord
 
 
 
FRANKPLEDGE....Anglo Saxon system in which 10 households or tithings were grouped together and became responsible for each others behaviour or conduct.
 
 
 
CAPITE.............means the Tenant held the property in 'Capite' for the landlord to whom he paid rents
 
 
 
ATTAINDER........Common law - The state of an offender who had been sentenced for a capital offence.
 
 
 
ATTAINTED..... disgraced......... or to pass sentence of attainder against....
 
 
 
ENFEOFFED.... to invest with a Feudal estate or fee.
 
 
 
DEVISED.......... Give land or property in a Will. Or to plan and contrive.
 
 
 
DEFEASANCE ...... Forfeiture or annulment of something or some legal right (usually because some original condition has not been complied with; e.g. not paying the mortgage)
 
  
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*[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/money.htm  Pre-decimal Sterling Coinage]
 
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==Workhouses ==
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==Uncategorised==
 
 
*http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
 
 
 
*http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/
 
  
*http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/StMarylebone/
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*[http://www.britishfarthings.com/Tokens/17th-Century/17th-Century.html 17th-Century Farthing Trade Tokens]
  
*http://www5.surreycc.gov.uk/dtcgi/nph-dtweb.exe?DThs=SurreyNoOrderNaturalLanguageFrame.htm Surrey History Centre Collections Catalogue
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*[http://www.footrule.com/1/conversn/oengothr.htm?sr=homepage&ac=0 Old English Weights and Measures]
  
*http://www.highlittletonhistory.org.uk/ High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records
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*[http://home.clara.net/brianp/index.html Weights and Measures]
  
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*[http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html Nova Roma Guide to understanding Roman Numerals]
  
==OLD OCCUPATIONS (miscellaneous) ==
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*[http://www.roman-britain.org/numerals.htm Roman Britain. understanding Roman Numerals]
  
[[Trades and Occupations]] moved to its own page,
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*[http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html Day of Week Calculator]
  
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*[http://homepages.tesco.net/~jk.calisto/calisto/ A Calender Program for Western Europe AD 326 - 2999]
  
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*[http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html Ecclesiastical Calendar Calculator]
  
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*[http://www.londonlibraries.org/servlets/llil/archives London Local Studies Libraries and Archives]
  
==Ireland ==
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*[http://www.arewerelated.co.uk/ Are We Related? (A Forum)]
  
Before the last ice-age, there was no Irish Sea, English Channel or North Sea, Europe was all one land mass and the fairly sparse population was of European origin . The encroaching ice pushed out most humans although one or two tribes may have held out on the West Coast of Ireland where the gulf stream raised the temperature, probably to something like Alaska's today. After the ice-age, about 10,000 years ago, the melting ice caps raised the sea level and created the present islands which were populated by European Celts who were gradually pushed westward by fresh influxes from Europe (mainly Germanics) and Scandinavia. Ireland in particular received quite a lot of Spanish. Trade by sea flourished so there were other additions to the gene pool, e.g. Viking, and later Spanish.
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*[http://www.weddingspastandpresent.co.uk/ Weddings Past and Present]
  
The island of Ierne (Ireland) was settled by a Milesian race, who came from Scythia (Middle East) by way of Spain, and established the Kingdom of Tara about 500 BC. The supremacy of the Ardri (High King) of Tara was acknowledged by eight lesser kingdoms (Munster, Connaught. Allech, Auriel, Ulidea, Meath, Leinster and Ossory) ruled by descendants of the eight sons of Miled.
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*[http://home.snu.edu/~dwilliam/f97projects/contraception/history.htm a Brief History of Contraception]
  
Although little is known concerning the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, there are many traces of Neolithic man throughout the island. In the later Bronze Age a Celtic race of Goidels (Gaels) appears to have invaded the island and in the early Iron Age Brythons from South Britain effected settlements in the South East, whilst Picts from North Britain established similar settlements in the North. Towards the close of the Roman occupation of Britain (they never got to Ireland), the dominant tribe in the island was that of the Scoti, who afterwards established themselves in Scotland. Gypsies, a nomadic race, originally from India, are also well represented. The overall population remained sparse, under 3 million until the 20th century
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*[http://www.genealogyprinters.com Family Tree & Chart Printing]
  
With the separation of Britain, in the reign of Henry Vlll, from the Roman Catholic Church, Spain aggressively attempted to isolate England and sought to strengthen ties with the rest of Europe, including Ireland which remained predominately RC, culminating in a disastrous attempted invasion of England in 1588. The Armada came to grief after being forced through the English Channel, into the North Sea and rounding Scotland. It is believed that hundreds of Spanish sailors got ashore on the Irish coast and disappeared inland.
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*[http://www.netserf.org/glossary/ Hypertext Medieval Glossary]
  
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*[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Youth%20groups Tales from Youth Organisations]
  
==Clothing and Fashion ==
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_Group Woolworths History]
  
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*[http://www.examstutor.com/business/resources/companyprofiles/marksandspencer/history.php The History of Marks and Spencer]
==Mining and Heavy Industry ==
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==The Celts ==
 
  
*http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry Celts Anglo-celtic
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