THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND
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The UK and Ireland are regarded, for the
purposes of this Genealogical Information Service, as being made up
of England, Ireland (i.e. Northern Ireland and
the Republic of Ireland), Wales, and Scotland,
together with the Channel Islands and the Isle of
Man. Together, these constitute the British Isles -
which is a geographical term for a group of islands lying off the
north-west coast of mainland Europe. (Legally, the Channel Islands
and the Isle of Man are largely self governing, and are not part of
the United Kingdom.) The Administrative Regions
into which the UK and Ireland are
divided have changed frequently in recent years. However, in line
with normal genealogical practice, this Information Service is
structured according to the counties as shown in these maps of England, Scotland and Wales, and of Ireland, i.e., as they were prior to the
re-organisation that took place in 1974 (1975 for
Scotland).
- United Kingdom & Ireland - Bibliography - links and information.
- Dictionary of
National Biography Index and Epitome, ed. Sir Sidney Lee
(1903), based on the 63-volume work. It's part of the Bolles London
Collection in the Perseus Project, Tufts University in
Massachusetts. This volume, with 30,378 biographical entries on
English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish notables up to the late 19th
century, grew into today's three-volume Concise DNB, and the entire
DNB is now being revised by Oxford University Press.
- Brief biographies of many thousands of people important to the
history of Methodism can be found in
The Methodist Archives Biographical Index.
- The BBC's Memoryshare website
is "a living archive of memories from 1900 to the present day [to
which readers] can contribute, share and browse memories of life
experiences and see them in the context of recent and historical
events."
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- The National Burial
Index is hosted by findmypast (subscription
site).
- Rod Neep has compiled comprehensive details about the subject
of
Monumental Inscriptions. There are details of techniques for
recording them and references to some that are online.
- For a complete list of current burial grounds see The CBA
Directory of Cemeteries and Crematoria in the UK - London:
Confederation of Burial Authorities 2001. ISBN: 0 9531834 1 6.
- U.K. National
Archive of Memorial Inscriptions - "This site enables you to
check whether or not there are any memorial inscriptions which are
relevant to your researches. If there are, then you can download
the inscriptions for a small fee. As of March 2009 the database has
630 burial grounds from Norfolk and Bedfordshire, England.)
- Gravestone
photograph resource: an "index of the names that appear on
photos taken by the Gravestone Photographic Resource Project team".
This valuable project provides email copies of any of its
collection of grave monument images free of charge on request.
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- United Kingdom & Ireland - Census
- links and information.
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- The Complete Newgate
Calendar is now online.
- Old Bailey Online
- the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal
Court, 1674 to 1913: "A fully searchable edition of the largest
body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever
published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's
central criminal court."
- Derek Wilcox's
Black Sheep Index - "an index of Victims and Villains (and some
heroes too) extracted from newspaper reports of court cases and
inquests between 1865-1900" (archived copy).
- Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries - many
listings and articles.
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The Court of
Chivalry 1634-1640 - "The aim of the site is to make available
to scholars, researchers, local historians and genealogists the
records of the Court of Chivalry during its heyday between 1634 and
1640. Over this period the court dealt with well over a thousand
cases of which it has been possible to recover details of 738.
These cover a wide variety of topics relating to the social,
political and cultural history of the period, from ship money and
the Bishops' Wars to pew disputes and duelling, from heralds
visitations and grants of arms to brawls in the street and quarrels
at race meetings."
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- United Kingdom & Ireland - Directories - links and information.
- United Kingdom & Ireland - Gazetteers - links and information.
- United Kingdom & Ireland - Genealogy - links and information.
- The National Archives' Palaeography
Tutorial (how to read old handwriting)
- Medieval
Writing - a very extensive tutorial, by Dianne Tillotson
- English
Script Tutorial - provided by the BYU Center for Family History
and Genealogy.
- How to Read
18th Century British-American Writing - from the DoHistory
website
- A useful description of old
handwriting has been made available by Sabina J. Murray.
- Andrew Booth has prepared some examples of old
handwriting for tutorial purposes.
- Early
Modern Paleography by Dr D.A. Postles of Leicester
University.
- Medieval
Paleography by Dr D.A. Postles of Leicester University.
- Palaeography
aids, from the companion website to the Old English mailing
list.
-
Introduction to Reading and Understanding Medieval Documents,
from Nottingham University.
- David Manthey's 18th Century
Ligatures and Fonts, though intended as an aid to replicating
18th century printed texts, can also be of help in reading old
printed documents.
- A
Nevv Booke, containing all sorts of hands vsvally written at this
day in Christendome - downloadable PDF of a 1611 book. (Shows
"the English and French Secretary, the Roman, Italian, French,
Spanish, high and low Dutch, Court and Chancerie hands".)
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- The College of
Arms website. "The College of Arms is the official repository
of the coats of arms and pedigrees of English, Welsh, Northern
Irish and Commonwealth families and their descendants. Its records
also include official copies of the records of Ulster King of Arms
the originals of which remain in Dublin." The College publishes a
quarterly online
newsletter.
- Additional information is provided by the Society of
Genealogists' Information Leaflet: "The right to
Arms".
- The
College of Arms, London, by Colin Meays.
- The College of Arms Foundation,
Inc. - "The Foundation ... promotes knowledge of, and interest
in, English heraldry in the United States."
- The White Lion
Society - A Society of Friends of Her Majesty's College of
Arms.
- Heraldica, Franois Velde's Heraldry Site, has some very
interesting material on British
Heraldry.
- "Pssst!
Want to Buy Your Family's Coat of Arms?" by Dick Eastman
exposes the tricksters who operate in shopping malls and on the
internet.
- Heraldry
- from the Notes on Medieval English Genealogy website.
- A Glossary
of Terms Used in Heraldry - transcription of the book by James
Parker (1894).
- Pimbley's
Dictionary of Heraldry - from the Heraldry on the Internet
website.
- Guide to
Heraldic Terms - from Burke's Peerage & Gentry.
- How to
Read a Coat of Arms - from the Cheshire Heraldry website.
- Brian Timms' Heraldry
website, incorporating his original Studies in Heraldry
website.
- The Heraldry Society website.
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- United Kingdom & Ireland - History - links and information.
- For English and Welsh records see PRO Leaflet:
Tithe Records in the National Archives. Scottish records are
held at the National Archives of
Scotland in Edinburgh.
- Legal
Terms in Land Records is a useful glossary of obscure terms
which occur in property deeds.
- Robin Alston's
Country House Database (archived copy) "represents a first
attempt at listing country houses in the British Isles from the
late medieval period to ca. 1850, together with an index to all the
families so far traced as having occupied them".
- Estate
Records held by Kings College, Cambridge.
- Disused Railway Stations website - a large and
growing set of photographs of closed stations, with brief details
of each station and a map showing its location.
- The Trace My House
website provides extensive information and guidance for anyone
wishing to investigate the history of a house and the people who
lived in it.
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- United Kingdom & Ireland - Maps -
links and information.
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- United Kingdom & Ireland - Newspapers - links and information.
- United Kingdom & Ireland - Occupations - links and information.
- United Kingdom & Ireland - Periodicals - links and information.
- Peter Higginbotham's comprehensive The Workhouse website provides a
wealth of information about Workhouses, the Poor Law and related
issues.
- Statistics on the population of
the British Isles.
- Histpop, the
online historical population reports website, in its census section
provides access to all the published population reports for Britain
and Ireland from 1801 - 1937. The site has a huge amount of
statistical information both at a county level and at a parish or
district level. There is no personal information on the site.
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Preamble to the Protestation
(1641), transcribed by J.M. Joliffe.
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- MissingAncestors.com - contains
information on staff and students at Industrial/Reformatory Schools
& the like during the 19th and early 20th century.
- Anguline Research
Archives produce CDs of a number of major public school
registers.
- Village
Games by Colonel Alex Johnson describes games which Alex
remembers from his childhood in the 1920s and 30s. Although the
names of the games are those used in North-East England, most of
these games were played throughout the country.
- United Kingdom & Ireland - Societies - links and information.
- For English and Welsh records see PRO Leaflet:
Taxation Records before 1660. Scottish tax records are held at
the National Archives of
Scotland in Edinburgh.
- An indication of the taxes in force in 1823 can be found in Abstract of
the Principal Tax Acts taken from the "History, Directory &
Gazetteer, of the County of York, by Edward Baines (1823). This
publication also gives details about the law relating to rent
payable.
- Taxes
in force in 1837 from "History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of
the West-Riding of Yorkshire, with the City of York and Port of
Hull." by William White (1837). Transcribed by Susan Johnson.
- Hearth Tax Online -
a web site dedicated to providing data and analysis of the records
of the hearth tax which was introduced in England and Wales by the
government of Charles II in 1662
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[Last updated: 10
May 2013 - Brian Randell]
