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| − | ==Schools and Education== | + | ==The Family Tree Forum Timeline== |
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| − | * http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians
| + | 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. |
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| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education
| + | '''[[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==
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| − | *http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury
| + | ==Pathé News Online== |
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| − | *http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s
| + | Until 1970 cinemas all over Britain showed Pathé newsreels. Now you can view the entire collection, over 3500 hours, online at: |
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| − | *http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire - Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2 | + | *[http://www.britishpathe.com Pathé News] |
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| − | *http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford – factory and village, built by millowner & philanthropist Sir Titus Salt.
| + | 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. |
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| − | *http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition
| + | 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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| − | *http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies | |
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| − | *http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors
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| − | ==Political Parties and Movements== | + | ==Related Pages== |
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| − | =====The Suffragettes=====
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| − | *http://www.cjbooks.demon.co.uk/suffrage.htm | + | *[[Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen]] |
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| − | *http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM | + | *[[Evacuation_and_Evacuees#British_Home_Children|British Home Children]] |
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| − | *http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm | + | *[[Canals and Canal Carriers]] |
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| − | *http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm | + | *[[Charitable Organisations]] |
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| + | *[[Costume Past and Present]] |
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| − | ==Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums==
| + | *[[Law and Law Enforcement]] |
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| − | *http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/MAB/MAB.shtml Establishment of hospitals, asylums, hospital ships, smallpox & TB | + | *[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]] |
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| − | *http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/english_asylums.htm Asylum information | + | *[[Emigration and Immigration]] |
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| − | *http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp TNA's Hospital Database search facility | + | *[[Entertainment]] |
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| − | *http://www.coram.org.uk/heritage.htm CORAM Foundling Hospital Association | + | *[[Evacuation and Evacuees]] |
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| + | *[[Fairground/Showmen/Travellers]] |
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| − | ==The Industrial Revolution==
| + | *[[Farming and Agriculture]] |
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| − | *http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation | + | *[[Inns and Public Houses]] |
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| − | *http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry | + | *[[Irish Political and Social History]] |
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| − | *http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History | + | *[[Maps and Photography]] |
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| + | *[[:Category:Military and Maritime History|Military and Maritime History]] |
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| − | ==American History==
| + | *[[Mining and Heavy Industry]] |
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| − | *http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites | + | *[[Nursing]] |
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| − | *http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm America in World War One | + | *[[Places of Worship]] |
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| + | *[[Railways]] |
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| − | ==Irish Political and Social History==
| + | *[[Religion and the Clergy]] |
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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.
| + | *[[Sport]] |
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| + | *[[Stonemasons]] |
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| − | ==Civilian Transport==
| + | *[[Trades and Occupations]] |
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| − | *http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching | + | *[[Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanitoriums|Workhouses/Hospitals/Asylums And Sanatoriums]] |
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| − | *http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/BritHorseTrams/index.html Horse trams
| + | ==Schools and Education== |
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| − | *http://www.lvta.co.uk/history.htm Horse cabs and Hackney carriages | + | *[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Parliamentary Legislation] |
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| − | *http://www.flying-bike.demon.co.uk/helistuff/heli.html Helicopters | + | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education] |
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| − | *http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 Bicycles
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| − | ==Architecture and Old Buildings== | + | ==Museums and Galleries== |
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| − | *http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, the first Garden City
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| − | *http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_cadbury/social_pioneers/bournville_village.htm Bourneville village (founded by the Cadburys)
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| − | *http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/page.asp?pageid=history Port Sunlight (founded by William Lever)
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| − | *http://www.jrf.org.uk/housingandcare/newearswick/ New Earswick (built by Joseph Rowntree)
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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
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| − | *http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Researching historic buildings in the British Isles | + | *[http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum - The Story of the Infantry of Berkshire and Wiltshire] |
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| + | *[http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham. Northern Life in The 1800s & Early 1900s.] |
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| − | ==The Law and Social Legislation==
| + | *[http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp Theme Museum Malton, North Yorkshire. Centred on The History of WW2.] |
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| − | *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. | + | *[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.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.saltsmill.org.uk/ Salts Mill - Home to The David Hockney Exhibition.] |
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| − | *http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/ccourts.htm A brief description of the 19th Century Criminal Justice System | + | *[http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/ History of Woollen Cloth in Trowbridge] |
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| − | *http://www.met.police.uk/history/index.htm History of the Metropolitan Police | + | *[http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/DServe/DServe.exe?dsqServer=localhost&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Index.tcl The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA)] |
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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] |
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| − | ==Crime and Punishment==
| + | *[http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors] |
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| − | [[Crime and Punishment]] has been moved to its own page due to size considerations | |
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| − | ==The British Monarchy==
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| − | *http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web | + | *[http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/browse.php Bryant & May Matchworkers Strike Fund Register 1888] |
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| − | *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. | + | *[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/catalogues/unions/ Trade Unions and Similar Organisations] |
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| − | ==Emigration and Immigration== | + | ==Political Parties and Movements== |
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| − | =====Highland Clearances=====
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| − | 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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| − | If you google "Metagama" you will get some ship passenger lists from 1920's.
| + | *[http://chartists.net/ Chartist Ancestors] |
| − | This is a small example - 404 names on this list mostly from Scotland.
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| − | Departed Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, June 22, 1923
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| − | Departed Belfast, Ireland on Saturday, June 23, 1923
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| − | '''Trans-Atlantic Sailing to Quebec and Montreal, Canada, July 5, 1923'''
| + | *[http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM Give Women The Vote!] |
| − | 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".
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| − | 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.
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| − | =====Links=====
| + | *[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm Famous Suffragettes] |
| − | *http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ Ulster ancestry has a lot of information on its free pages, both passenger lists and some lists of emigrants... | |
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| − | *http://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/ A Scottish emigration database | + | *[http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm What Did The Suffragettes Do?] |
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| − | ==Inns and Public Houses== | + | ==The Industrial Revolution== |
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| − | *http://www.norfolkpubs.co.uk/ Norfolk Public Houses | + | *[http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum] |
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| − | *http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/pubs.html Pubs in Victorian London | + | *[http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm The History of The Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands 1700 -1830] |
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| − | *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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| − | *http://www.bristolslostpubs.com Pubs lost in Bristol
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| − | *http://londonpublichouse.com/ London & Essex Pubs History & Trade Directory
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| − | *http://www.hillfields.org.uk/History/Pubs/Index.htm Pubs in Hillfields, Coventry
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| − | *http://www.midlandspubs.co.uk Midlands pubs
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| − | *http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/pubs/index.html Warwickshire pubs
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| − | *http://www.sfowler.force9.co.uk/page_27.htm Tracing ancestors who worked in pubs
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| − | *http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Dir/StaffsPubs1818.html Staffordshire pubs
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| − | *http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/Index/PubsInnsBeer.html Index to Pubs Inns and Beer Houses
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| − | *http://www.edinburgh247.com/edinburgh-pub-guide.asp A modern guide but handy list of Edinburgh pubs
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| − | *http://www.ensignewart.demon.co.uk/ensign/html/history_of_the_pub.html The story of the Ensign Ewart pub
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| − | *http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/sutton/pubs/others.htm Notts Pubs
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| − | *http://www.pubhistory.freeserve.co.uk/ The Pub History Society
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| − | *http://www.easywell.co.uk/pubs/ Gloucestershire Pubs and Breweries
| + | '''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/USA#Military_History See Separate page]''' |
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| | + | ==Civilian Transport== |
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| | + | *[http://www.georgianindex.net/horse_and_carriage/carriage_door.html Carriages and Coaching] |
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| − | ==Religion and the Clergy==
| + | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottinghamshire_and_Derbyshire_Tramways_Company Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company.] |
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| − | *http://theclergydatabase.org.uk/ The Clergy of the Church of England Database
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| − | *http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/cfhs/index.htm Catholic family history
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| − | *http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/methodist/methguid.html Methodists Archive and Research Centre
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| − | *http://www.methodist.org.uk/static/factsheets/fs_primitiveandwesleyan.htm The Methodist Church – factsheets (Wesleyans and primitive Methodists)
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| − | *http://www.answers.com/topic/primitive-methodism Primitive Methodism
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| − | *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,
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| − | *http://www.kinderlibrary.ac.nz John Kinder Theological Library
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| − | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends Religious Society of Friends - Wikipedia | |
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| − | *http://members.lycos.co.uk/JennySteel/quakers.html Famous Quakers
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| − | *http://www.rootsweb.com/~engqfhs/ Quaker Family History Society
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| − | *http://www.hull.ac.uk/oldlib/archives/quaker/bihrlink.htm Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
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| − | *http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/quaker/quakint1.htm Quaker Archives Database, West & North Yorkshire
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| − | *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
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| − | *http://www.jgsgb.org.uk The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
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| − | *http://eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk:8080/cce/index.html Another database of Clergy of the Church of England
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| − | *http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/librariesandarchives/familyhistory/index.html Anglican Sources for Tracing your Family History
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| − | *http://www.catholic-history.org.uk
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| − | *http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk
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| − | *http://www.scmo.org.uk/bishops_conference/diocese/today
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| − | *http://home.att.net/~Local_Catholic
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| − | *http://www.newadvent.org/cathen
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| − | *http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/rec.html
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| − | *http://www.churches-online.org.uk/salfordarchives
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| − | *http://www.stphilipsbooks.co.uk/crs.htm
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| − | *http://www.catholic-library.org.uk
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| − | *http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/famil2.pdf.
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| − | *http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/LatinNotes.html
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| − | *http://www.pro.gov.uk/leaflets/Riindex.asp
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| − | *http://www.swinhope.myby.co.uk/NRO/RCatholic.html | + | *[http://www.lvta.co.uk/menu/lvta-taxi-history/ London Horse Cabs and Hackney Carriages History] |
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| − | *http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/nra2.htm | + | *[http://asms.k12.ar.us/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/helicptr/webpage.htm The Evolution of the Helicopter] |
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| − | *http://www.catholic-heritage.net/archives.htm | + | *[http://www.ba-gb.com/index.php?ps=8 A Brief History Of The Bicycle] |
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| − | *http://www.scan.org.uk/aboutus/indexonline.htm | + | *[http://www.alcester.dial.pipex.com/localpast/94au/oral.htm Oral Account of Coach Building, Early 1900s] |
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| − | *http://www.sierratel.com/colinf/genuki/CAV/RC.htm | + | *[http://www.railwayancestors.org.uk/ The Railway Ancestors Family History Society] |
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| − | *http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/northowram | + | *[http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/Auffret-onyxnet.co.uk/railways/railways.htm The North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway] |
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| − | *http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/history/catholic.htm | + | *[http://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/index.html Seaside Travel and Nostalgia] |
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| − | *http://www.otherdays.com | + | *[http://www.fleetdata.co.uk/ukregistrations.html History Behind British Vehicle Registration System] |
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| − | *http://www.stbedes.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/br | + | *[http://www.britishtaxdiscs.co.uk/tax-disc-history.php History of The Road Fund Licence - Tax Disk] |
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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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| − | *http://www.motco.com/MAP/ -Historic maps of London – most have indexes of place names
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| − | *http://www.motco.com/print/ Historic prints of London and other parts of Britain
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| − | *http://www.motco.com/panoramas/ Panoramic views of London and the Thames
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| − | *http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/oldmap/index.asp Lancashire County Council - Environment Directorate: Old Maps
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| − | *http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ Historical map archive searchable by place name, address or coordinate (OS Grid Reference)
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| − | *http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/index.html Maps of Scotland 1560-1928
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| − | *http://www.nls.uk/pont/index.html Ponts Maps of Scotland
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| − | *http://www.nls.uk/maps/military/index.html Military Maps of Scotland (18th century)
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| − | *http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/index.html Ordnance Survey town plans 1847-1895
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| − | *http://www.countyviews.com/
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| − | *http://www.countyviews.com/beds/church.htm Bedfordshire Church Photographs
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| − | *http://www.countyviews.com/beds/index.htm Bedfordshire Town and Village Photographs
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| − | *http://www.countyviews.com/bucks/church.htm Buckinghamshire Church Photographs
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| − | *http://www.countyviews.com/bucks/index.htm Buckinghamshire Town and Village Photographs
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| − | *http://www.countyviews.com/oxford/index.htm Oxfordshire Photos (very few at the moment)
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| − | ==The Landed Gentry == | + | ==Architecture and Old Buildings== |
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| − | *http://www.sledmerehouse.com/intro.html Sledmere House and Gardens website | + | *[http://www.churchplansonline.org/ Church Plans Online] |
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| − | *http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0601sykes.html Biographies of family members; papers of Sykes family held at Brynmor-Jones library, University of Hull | + | *[http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/heritage/index-3.htm Letchworth, The First Garden City] |
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| − | *http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/sledmere.htm The Sledmere stud | + | *[http://www.cadbury.co.uk/CADBURYANDCHOCOLATE/OURSTORY/PHILAN/Pages/bvttoday.aspx Bournville Village (Founded by Richard and George Cadbury)] |
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| − | *http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/leisure/tourism/pdf/leaflets/sykes_trail.pdf Churches restored by Sir Tatton Sykes | + | *[http://www.portsunlightvillage.com/ Port Sunlight founded by William Lever] |
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| − | *http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/index1.htm Sir Mark Sykes & the Wagoners Reserve (with link to attestation details of individual men) | + | *[http://www.jrht.org.uk/Your+community/Communities+by+location/New+Earswick New Earswick Village built by Joseph Rowntree] |
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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. | + | *[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)] |
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| − | ==Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen ==
| + | *[http://www.buildinghistory.org/ Researching Historic Buildings in The British Isles] |
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| − | *http://www.blisworth.org.uk/images/index.html | + | *[http://www.victorianlondon.org/ Explore Victorian London] |
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| − | *http://www.canals.com/resource.htm
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| − | *http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/collection/family-history.htm
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| − | *http://www.hnboc.org.uk/ Narrowboat
| + | ==The British Monarchy== |
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| − | *http://www.bargeman.co.uk/ Bargemen | + | *[http://www.royal.gov.uk/ The Offical Website of The British Monarchy] |
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| − | *http://www.silsden.net/useful/Leeds_andLiverpool_canal_timeline.htm Leeds and Liverpool Canal | + | *[http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web] |
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| − | *http://www.virtualwaterways.co.uk/Home.html | + | *[http://www.pasttimesproject.co.uk/lsl_browse.php?subsite=ll&cat=Royal%20events Times Past - Royal Events] |
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| − | *http://www.canaljunction.com/craft/index.htm Boats and Barges
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| − | *http://www.canaljunction.com/canal/boat_people.htm Canal People
| + | ==The Landed Gentry== |
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| − | *http://www.geocities.com/thameswatermen/index.htm The Thames Watermen - 1555 to 1700 | + | *[http://www.sledmerehouse.com/ Sledmere House, Home of Sir Tatton Sykes] |
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| − | *http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.142/chapterId/2955/Thames-Watermen.html History of London Watermen | + | *[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] |
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| − | ==Jewish history ==
| + | *[http://www.leighrayment.com/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page - a database of MPs] |
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| − | *http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm Jewish history in London | + | *[http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/wagon/ Sir Mark Sykes Bart] |
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| − | ==Stonemasons == | + | ==Jewish History== |
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| − | The January 2007 issue of Your Family Tree has an article about stonemasons.
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| − | Covers many different aspects including some historical background.
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| − | 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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| − | 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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| − | 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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| − | I am told there is no centralised record of these.
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| − | 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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| − | 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.
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| − | Salford (holds 1865-1918 yearly audits of members etc.)
| + | [[image:Ark and pulpit Brighton Synagogue.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ark and pulpit. Middle St Synagogue, Brighton]] |
| − | http://www.wcml.org.uk/holdings/operative_stonemasons_annual_audit_contents.htm
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| − | Warwick has an extensive collection of Trade Union records
| + | *[http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/londweb.htm The London Jews Database (pre-1850)] |
| − | http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ | |
| − | the relevant unions:
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| − | Friendly Society of Operative Sonemasons of England, Ireland & Wales (1833-1919)
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| − | Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and Allied Trades of England and Wales (1919-1921)
| + | *[http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/index.htm Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies] |
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| − | this became the Amalgamated Union of Building Workers in 1921 & further evolved into the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians in 1971.
| + | *[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy] |
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| − | You will have to visit in person to look at any relevant records.
| + | *[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] |
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| − | The following websites mentioned in the article may also be of interest
| + | *[http://www.joodsmonument.nl/article.php?thg_id=HELP&lang=en Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands] |
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| − | *http://www.finestoneminiatures.com/dictionary.htm A Stonemasons Dictionary | + | *[http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/ Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain] |
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| − | *http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/james_smith_diary.htm Diary of a stonemason
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| − | ==Emigration in the 1800's == | + | ==The Celts== |
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| − | *http://www.ellisisland.org/?gclid=COanpMTCtYcCFUxqMAod7jCcRA Ellis Island | + | *[http://www.family-ancestry.co.uk/history/celts/anglo-celtic/ Family Ancestry - The Anglo-Saxon and The Celtic Age] |
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| − | *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 == | + | ==Slavery== |
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| − | =====Counting sheep - East Yorks =====
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| − | 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.
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| − | tardick
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| − | tetheradick
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| − | yardibumper
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| − | =====Working the land, in the East Riding =====
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| − | During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, those working on the land could be categorised as:
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| − | #farmers and their male relatives working on the land
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| − | ##owner occupiers
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| − | ##tenant farmers
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| − | #farm servants
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| − | #agricultural labourers
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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.
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| − | In the East Riding, lots of the casual labour force were itinerants from the Dales or Ireland.
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| − | 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.
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| − | They were subject to legally enforceable contracts of employment, and in East Yorkshire, these contracts ran from Martinmas (23rd November) to Martinmas.
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| − | Annual statute Hirings were held at Beverley, Bridlington, Driffield, Hedon, Hornsea, Howden, Hull, Hunmanby, Malton, Market Weighton, Patrington, Pocklington, Scarborough, Selby and York.
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| − | =====Farm servants - The Hirings =====
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| − | Male and female servants would gather at the hiring venue to bargain with prospective employers and so secure a position for the coming year.
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| − | '''''“Driffield Times” 15th November 1873'''
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| − | “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”''
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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.
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| − | Contracts were usually oral. What few written contracts there were rarely specified more than the agreed wage and the termination date, e.g
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| − | “I Samuel Ellwood engage to Mr Francis Johnson as waggoner from Martinmas 1897 to Martinmas 1898 for £19 – nineteen pounds. Signed ……”
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| − | =====Farm Servants - Wages =====
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| − | "Malton Messenger" 1874
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| − | *Girls 12 – 18 yrs £6 - £8
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| − | *Upper servants & housekeepers £13 - £15
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| − | *Boys 13 –15 yrs £10 - £12
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| − | *Boys 16 – 18 yrs £18 - £20
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| − | *Good shepherds, experienced foremen £20 - £30 (Some asked for and were engaged for more)
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| − | "Driffield Times" 14 Nov 1874
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| − | *Young foreman £25
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| − | *Experienced foreman £30
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| − | *Young waggoner £18
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| − | *Experienced waggoner £20
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| − | *Strong ploughboy £13 - £15
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| − | *Young maid-of-all-work £9 - £12 | + | *[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/eabolition.asp International Slavery Museum] |
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| − | *Housemaid £12 - £14 | + | *[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces The Transantlantic Slave Trade Database] |
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| − | *Experienced cook £20 | + | *[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm The Slave Trade - 1700-1930] |
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| | + | *[http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas] |
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| − | Farm servants were paid annually, on the completion of their year, minus any subsidies they had been given.
| + | *[http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html#A North American Slave Narratives] |
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| − | The wage of an agricultural servant was divided equally between a cash payment and his keep
| + | *[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 |
| − | e.g. 1900, an average waggoner’s wage was £25 cash & 5s fest
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| − | £25 board and lodging
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| | + | *[http://www.brycchancarey.com/index.htm Slavery, Emancipation, and Abolition] |
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| − | =====Links=====
| + | *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/ Abolition of The Slave Trade] |
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| − | *http://www.ruralhistory.org/nof/victorianfarming/index.php History of British agriculture 1700-1914 | + | *[http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade 1502 - 1841] |
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| − | *http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010136ernle/010136ch10.htm Large Farms and Capitalist Farmers 1780-1813 | + | *[http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/subIndex.php?sit_id=1 Bristol and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade] |
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| − | *http://www.answers.com/topic/british-agricultural-revolution British Agricultural Revolution | + | *[http://www.recoveredhistories.org/ Recovered Histories- Reawakening The Narratives of Enslavement, Resistance and the Fight For Freedom] |
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| − | *http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/climate/wxevents.htm Historical Weather Events | + | *[http://www.revealinghistories.org.uk/ Revealing History - Remembering Slavery] |
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| − | *http://www.foxearth.org.uk/oxen.html Use of oxen for working the land and transportation | + | *[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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| − | ==Shipping and Passenger Lists == | + | ==Current Value of Old Money== |
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| − | *http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html Sources for transcribed passenger records and indexes
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| − | *http://www.theshipslist.com/ The Ships List
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| − | *http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=23 Unassisted Immigration to Victoria
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| − | *http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=24 Assisted British Immigration
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| − | *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://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
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| − | *http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/plist.htm Convictions Australian Shipping
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| − | *http://www.list.jaunay.com/ausnzpassengers/ Gateway page to Online AUSNZ Passenger Lists
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| − | *http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/assisted_immigrants_1839-96_366.asp NSW Assisted Immigrants 1839-96
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| − | *http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html Passenger lists on the internet
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| − | *http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/research/index/immigration.asp#immigrationindexes Queensland Indexes - Immigration 1848-1884
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| − | *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://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/emigration.htm Highlands and Islands to Australia
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| − | *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.geneaknowhow.net/digi/pass1.html Dutch passenger lists pre-1736
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| − | *http://www.geneaknowhow.net/digi/pass2.html Dutch passenger lists after 1736 | + | *[http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html Current value of old money] |
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| | + | *[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/money.htm Pre-decimal Sterling Coinage] |
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| − | ==Some Old Legal Terms == | + | ==Uncategorised== |
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| − | Some of those funny words that we find on old wills etc.
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| − | MOIETY......... A half .....part..... portion or share of property etc. Note: Such is usually based on family or unilateral descent.
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| − | GAVELKIND...... Equal shares among qualifying heirs.
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| − | ECHEATS......... Reversion of land to the manor etc. under feudal tenure when lacking legal heirs.
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| − | MESSUAGE...... House or dwelling.
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| − | SIEZED............ To be in legal possession of, from the feudal concept of "seisin"
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| − | INTER ALIA..... Among other things
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| − | DEMESNE..........Land of a feudal lord retained for his own use i.e the grounds of a Mansion etc.
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| − | TERRIER........... A form of Register of Land belonging to an estate etc..
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| − | FEALTY............The fidelity owed to a Feudal Lord
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| − | FRANKPLEDGE....Anglo Saxon system in which 10 households or tithings were grouped together and became responsible for each others behaviour or conduct.
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| − | CAPITE.............means the Tenant held the property in 'Capite' for the landlord to whom he paid rents
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| − | ATTAINDER........Common law - The state of an offender who had been sentenced for a capital offence.
| + | *[http://www.britishfarthings.com/Tokens/17th-Century/17th-Century.html 17th-Century Farthing Trade Tokens] |
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| − | ATTAINTED..... disgraced......... or to pass sentence of attainder against....
| + | *[http://www.footrule.com/1/conversn/oengothr.htm?sr=homepage&ac=0 Old English Weights and Measures] |
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| − | ENFEOFFED.... to invest with a Feudal estate or fee.
| + | *[http://home.clara.net/brianp/index.html Weights and Measures] |
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| − | DEVISED.......... Give land or property in a Will. Or to plan and contrive.
| + | *[http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html Nova Roma Guide to understanding Roman Numerals] |
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| − | 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)
| + | *[http://www.roman-britain.org/numerals.htm Roman Britain. understanding Roman Numerals] |
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| + | *[http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html Day of Week Calculator] |
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| − | ==Workhouses ==
| + | *[http://homepages.tesco.net/~jk.calisto/calisto/ A Calender Program for Western Europe AD 326 - 2999] |
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| − | *http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ | + | *[http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html Ecclesiastical Calendar Calculator] |
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| − | *http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/ | + | *[http://www.londonlibraries.org/servlets/llil/archives London Local Studies Libraries and Archives] |
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| − | *http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/StMarylebone/ | + | *[http://www.arewerelated.co.uk/ Are We Related? (A Forum)] |
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| − | *http://www5.surreycc.gov.uk/dtcgi/nph-dtweb.exe?DThs=SurreyNoOrderNaturalLanguageFrame.htm Surrey History Centre Collections Catalogue | + | *[http://www.weddingspastandpresent.co.uk/ Weddings Past and Present] |
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| − | *http://www.highlittletonhistory.org.uk/ High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records | + | *[http://home.snu.edu/~dwilliam/f97projects/contraception/history.htm a Brief History of Contraception] |
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| + | *[http://www.genealogyprinters.com Family Tree & Chart Printing] |
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| − | ==OLD OCCUPATIONS (miscellaneous) ==
| + | *[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] |
| − | ==Pre-historic Ancesters ==
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| + | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_Group Woolworths History] |
| − | ==Ireland ==
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| − | <br> | + | *[http://www.examstutor.com/business/resources/companyprofiles/marksandspencer/history.php The History of Marks and Spencer] |
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