Tracing your Lancashire ancestors : a guide for family historians / Sue Wilkes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkes, Sue, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archival resources--England--Lancashire.

Archival resources.

Lancashire (England)--History.

Lancashire (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2012.

Summary:

If you want to find out about Lancashire's history, and particularly if you have family links to the area and your ancestors lived or worked in the county, then this is the ideal book for you. As well as helping you to trace when and where your ancestors were born, married and died, it gives you an insight into the world they knew and a chance to explore their lives at work and at home.Sue Wilkes's accessible and informative handbook outlines Lancashire's history and describes the origins of its major industries - cotton, coal, transport, engineering, shipbuilding and others. She looks at the

Contents:

""FAMILY HISTORY FROM PEN & SWORD""; ""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS""; ""Part 1 - THE STORY OF LANCASHIRE AND ITS PEOPLE""; ""Chapter 1 - ORIGINS""; ""The Birth of the County""; ""Medieval Records""; ""Land Records""; ""Manorial Records""; ""Heralds� Visitations""; ""Chapter 2 - A MATTER OF RELIGION""; ""After the Reformation""; ""A Divided County""; ""Parish Registers""; ""Bishop�s Transcripts""; ""Marriage Bonds and Allegations""; ""Other Church Records""; ""Chapter 3 - RAGS TO RICHES""

""Records for Agricultural Areas""""Equity Suits""; ""The Bernau Index""; ""The Birth of the Textile Industries""; ""Textile-related Records""; ""Chapter 4 - SPEED KINGS: TRANSPORT AND INDUSTRY""; ""Turnpike Roads""; ""Coal Mining""; ""Canals, Docks and Shipping""; ""Railways""; ""Transport Records""; ""A Hive of Industry""; ""Industry Records""; ""Chapter 5 - STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL""; ""Boroughs and Corporations""; ""A Radical County""; ""Chartism""; ""Burgess Rolls, Electoral Registers, Poll Books""; ""The Poor""; ""Education""; ""Law and Order""; ""Chapter 6 - SACRIFICED""; ""Censuses""

""The World Wars""""The End of an Era""; ""Mining Records""; ""Chapter 7 - BEGINNING YOUR SEARCH""; ""Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates and Indexes""; ""Locating Parish Registers""; ""National Burials Index""; ""Nonconformists""; ""Lancashire Online Parish Clerks""; ""John Owen Manuscripts""; ""Where There�s a Will""; ""When is a County not a County?""; ""Useful Sources in Print""; ""Online Censuses, Parish Registers and More""; ""Part 2 - RESEARCH GUIDE""; ""A - ARCHIVES AND REPOSITORIES""; ""Directory of Archives and Repositories""; ""University Libraries""; ""Miscellaneous""

""B - LOCAL ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES LIBRARIES""""C - USEFUL ADDRESSES""; ""D - FREE ONLINE RESOURCES""; ""E - SUBSCRIPTION AND �PAY PER VIEW� WEBSITES""; ""Family History Resources""; ""BMDs, Censuses and More""; ""F - USEFUL WEBSITES""; ""G - MILITARY RESOURCES""; ""Regimental Archives and Museums""; ""Websites""; ""H - PLACES TO VISIT""; ""SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78303-562-5

1-78303-564-1

OCLC:

854975023