Christ's Hospital (not a hospital in the contemporary sense) was established in 1553 for the benefit of orphaned children or those made homeless by impecunious parents. If they were legitimate children of free men of the City of London, over four years of age and free from obvious infirmity, they were to be educated and prepared either for entrance to a university or apprenticeship to a trade. ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing CompanyWritten By: Peter Wilson Coldham
Manufacturer: Natl Genealogical SocietyWritten By: Peter Wilson Coldham, Sally Lou Mick Haigh
Emigration from England to the American Colonies, from the time of the first settlement in Virginia until the Revolutionary War, has become a highly specialized subject on both sides of the Atlantic, and within that narrow field no one has uncovered more information and provided the researcher with more source material than Peter Wilson Coldham, who has compiled twenty-five books on the ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub CoWritten By: Peter Wilson Coldham
Thousands of Englishmen who emigrated to America between 1610 and 1857 died leaving estates in England. Proving their wills and granting administrations in England were matters dealt with by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) which had jurisdiction in such matters. Obviously any information from such records concerning kinship links with Americans is highly important to the ...
While Peter Coldham's American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury , succeeded in its objective of providing a complete listing of the hundreds of PCC wills and administrations with American connections, it does not provide all the information per will or administration that can be found in the following less comprehensive works: Henry Waters' Genealogical ...
Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub. CoWritten By: Peter Wilson Coldham
In 1654 the Bristol City Council passed an ordinance requiring that a register of servants destined for the colonies be kept, the purpose being to prevent the practice of dumping innocent youths into servitude. The registers, covering the period 1654 to 1686, are the largest body of indenture records known, and they also are a unique record of English emigration to the American ...
This is a heroic attempt to bring together from English sources a complete list of emigrants to the New World from 1607 to 1660. No doubt records of passengers leaving for America were kept in this period, but while no systematic record has survived, the remaining records are substantial. Some were collected and published by John Camden Hotten over 100 years ago, and they were the ...
After the end of the French and Indian War there was alarm in England that the outflow of men, women, and children to the colonies would depopulate entire parts of England and Scotland. So, in 1773, the British Government took steps to stem the loss. Short of limiting or banning emigration to the colonies, it was proposed that data on emigration be compiled which would ultimately help ...
Few colonizing powers can have relied so heavily and consistently on the wholesale deportation of their prison population as did England through two-and-a-half centuries of imperial expansion. By the time America made her Declaration of Independence in 1776, the prisons of England had disgorged some 50,000 of their inmates to the colonies, most of them destined to survive and, with ...