The Protestation--a form of oath of loyalty--was initiated by the House of Commons to determine the number of Roman Catholics in England and to defend the Protestant religion from all forms of "Popery." Taken in 1641-1642, these Protestation Returns are the nearest there is (for the next two hundred years) to a widespread census of adult males. Surviving Returns, located today in the ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing CompanyWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Alan Dell
By law, a certain number of militiamen had to be recruited from among the able-bodied men in each parish. Thus, lists of all those eligible had to be drawn up by the parish constable, and where these survive (between 1757 and 1831) they constitute a veritable census. Along with the "Defense Lists"--the Posse Comitatus of 1798 and the Levee en Masse of 1803-04--and muster rolls of various ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub CoWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Mervyn Medlycott, J.S.W. Gibson
Since 1194 it has been the duty of coroners to investigate the circumstances of unnatural, sudden, or suspicious deaths, and of deaths in prison. Their records are extensive, and, until now, notoriously difficult to track down. This little guidebook is actually the first effort ever made to itemize all coroners' records in England and Wales now in public repositories, and it has made a ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing CompanyWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Colin Rogers
This is a guide to the location of Bishops' Transcripts and of the records connected with the issuance of marriage licenses in England, Wales, and Ireland, such as Bonds and Allegations. Also included are abstracts, calendars, and indexes to marriage licenses, published or not, and when these are lacking there is an indication of the arrangement of the surviving documents. English ...
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The original books of enumerators' returns for the censuses of 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, and 1891 for England, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man are at the Public Record Office in Kew. Those for Scotland are in the General Register Office of Scotland, in Edinburgh. Microfilm copies of selected portions of these six censuses are in libraries and record offices ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing CompanyWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Elizabeth Hampson
Manufacturer: Federation of Family History Societies (PublicatioWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson
Published annually since 1832, electoral registers list the names and addresses of everyone entitled to vote, noting the qualifications which brought each voter onto the register, such as current residence or ownership of property. During most of the 19th century the printed registers were arranged in alphabetical order by constituency, while later they were arranged in street order by ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub CoWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Colin Rogers
The Hearth Tax, for which records survive between 1662 and 1674, is the best known of taxation sources for local and family history, listing the inhabitants of most houses in England and Wales by county and parish. This booklet at last provides a clear and simple guide to the lists that survive in the Public Record Office and elsewhere, with notes on dates, condition, and published ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub CoWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson
This is a guide to manuscript lists and indexes of people who lived or worked in London during various time periods. A collaboration between the Centre for Metropolitan History and the Federation of Family History Societies, it identifies unpublished indexes held in London record offices, local libraries, and family history societies. While a complete breakdown of the type of lists ...
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Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub CoWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Mervyn Medlycott