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 guide is a combination of the "specialist indexes" which have until now appeared in the guide formerly called Marriage, Census and Other Indexes and in a separate guide called Unpublished Personal Name Indexes in Record Offices and Libraries. Owing to the proliferation of marriage and census indexes as well as specialist indexes, the two groups have been divided and now appear ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub CoWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Elizabeth Hampson
The purpose of this guide is to show you where to start looking for wills and associated records, for before 1858 British wills were probated in a wide variety of ecclesiastical courts. This guide will lead to the correct record offices, both for places in the expected ecclesiastical jurisdictions and those that are the exceptions. The arrangement is by county and thereunder by court ...
Manufacturer: Clearfield CoWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson
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 ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub. CoWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson
Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub CoWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson
Manufacturer: Federation of Family History Societies (PublicatioWritten By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson
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 ...