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Going back in time: free resources for finding people, 13th to 18th centuries Dr Gillian Draper, Events and Development Officer, British Association for Local History g.m.draper@kent.ac.uk The past is knowable, but only when the nature of

Going back in time: free resources for finding people, 13th to 18th centuries Dr Gillian Draper, Events and Development Officer, British Association for Local History g.m.draper@kent.ac.uk
‘The past is knowable, but only when the nature of the evidence is thoroughly understood’
What I plan to cover today • Online catalogues including The National Archives ‘Discovery’ catalogue • Websites and downloadable resources • Records of lives and landscape in the local countryside • Family and place names • Nursing and housing history • The poor and the workhouse • Where to find out more
A page from TNA’s Discovery catalogue on PCC wills
Starting points: groups and individuals • Knights and ladies • Peasants • Yeomen • Farmers • Agricultural labourers • Schoolteachers • Governors and staff of workhouses • Key to English Place Names, http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/
Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland • Covers more than 45,000 surnames. • Gives the origins of the name (mainly occupational, locative, or nickname). • Includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers, or more than 20 bearers in the 1881 census. • Maps the frequency of occurrences in by county in 1881
Calendar of Patent Rolls Calendar of Close Rolls Calendar of Charter Rolls Calendar of Fine Rolls Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic (Henry VIII to modern times) Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds medievalgenealogy.org.uk and British history Online
Royal College of Nursing https://www.rcn.org.uk/ library/services/family-history
New opportunities for research on workhouse ancestors- staff and inmates Newport Pagnell Union Living the Poor Life Project workhouse from • Find names, place names and subjects workhouses.org.uk in 22 selected Poor Law Unions • Find people in the records of other Poor Law Unions • How to search and download the relevant records free using the National Archives catalogue Discovery • How to find and use other Poor Law records (TNA and local record offices)
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