His istory Society of Genealogists 25 May 2019 Dr Gillian Draper - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Fle leshing out the bones of our Ancestors : : free resources for Local His istory Society of Genealogists 25 May 2019 Dr Gillian Draper FRHistS FSA development@balh.org.uk

“My boddye shall lye with my name Engraven on it” ’: remembering the Godfrey family of Lydd, Kent’ via https://kent.academia.edu/GillianDraper

Evidence in roughly date order

title deeds (1390-1423) the urban records of the Cinque Ports (A. Finn; Historic[al] Manuscripts commission) an estate map of 1617 memorials and monuments in Lydd church wills [3 PCC, 24 in Consistory Court, ] antiquarian pedigrees (early 17th C.) https://www.academia.edu/signup

Thomas II [Godfrey, inserted], d. 1623: 3 wives, 3 sons, 1 dau. Peter, Richard, Thomas, Mary

Connected Histories https://www.connectedhistories.org/

• 1. When Connected Histories was introduced the Society of Genealogists

reviewed it, in particular its search facility, see

• 2. http://www.societyofgenealogists.com/connected-histories-brings-together-

great-resources-for-family-history-a-thumbs-up-from-the-society-of- genealogists/

• 3. Don’t just use quick search or even advanced search- read what the website

says about how its search works and what you will get.

• 4. Note that some of the material is free , some subscription
• 5. Check the website is up to date (it has a 2019 date on the home page and

material continues to be added)

• 6. Vital: what sources have been used to make the database?
• 7. One of the research guides is Family History. This is clear about the limitations
• f its search facility – as the SoG review is.
• 8. My view- what not search the websites from which the Connected Histories

database is compiled for yourself?

What database/records make up Connected Histories? Below (L) are the ones recommended for Family History in the research guide

• 1. Clergy of the Church of England

database [1540-1835]

• 2. Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online

[1674-1913]

• 3. London Lives, 1690-1800
• 4. History of Parliament Online [1386-

1832]

• 5. British History Online [medieval
• nwards]
• 6. Origins.net (now ‘absorbed’ into FMP)

‘Connect to the Native Interface’ development@balh.org.uk

Gough Map website http://www.goughmap.org/map/ City Witness: http://www.medievalswansea.ac.uk/en/inf

• rmation/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/research/en glish-monastic-archives

Calendars and similar catalogues

Calendars etc of medieval material

Calendar of Patent Rolls Calendar of Close Rolls Calendar of Charter Rolls Calendar of Fine Rolls Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic (Henry VIII’s reign onto modern times) Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds

An example of Calendar of Patent Rolls content

New material onMedievalgenealogy.org.uk In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines added 30 December 2016 Berkshire (1272-1307) (269 fines)

• Hampshire (1272-1307) (299 fines)
• Oxfordshire (1319-1326) (118 fines)
• Shropshire (1307-1327) (209 fines)
• Westmorland (1307-1327) (46 fines)
• Worcestershire (1307-1327) (184 fines)
• Divers, unknown and various counties (1307-1327)

(301 fines)

• How to use these calendars:
• In print
• Some on British History Online –

but they are Premium i.e. paid for

• Via Medievalgenealogy.org.uk
• Via Hathi Trust see later slide

Calendar of Patent Rolls free via Hathi Trust covers 1216-1580 https://www.hathitrust.org/

Tips on using online catalogues – The National Archives [TNA] and others

Variants of the Sussex place and personal name Oxney-bridge

• Oxenbridge
• Oxenbrigge
• Oxbrigge
• Oxbrydge
• Oxnebrigge
• Oxnebridge
• Oxnebregge
• Uxbrigge
• Ox*, Oxen*, Oxne*, Ux*

Rye (Sussex) Chamberlains’ account 1405-6

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http: tp: / / /w /www.history.ac.uk

• The Calendars of royal and state papers
• Many Calendars published by county

historical and record societies

• City, town and village histories, some

published as far back as the 18th century, some very recent.

• The Victoria County History (the ‘big red

books’) of every county

• Bibliography of British and Irish History

[BBIH] to consult

• The IHR has an online catalogue which

you can freely search from home https://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/ search~S10 One example from this library

• Reports of the Historic(al) Manuscripts

Commission on early urban records

• Translated and indexed including names
• E.g. vol. 5 has lengthy summaries of the

borough records of Lydd, New Romney, Folkestone, Fordwich, St Alban’s, Dartmouth, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, and High Wycombe.

• Vol. 13 has those of Rye and Hereford
• Other volumes cover estates and manors

Researching the history of children's and family lives

Ephemera: ‘the minor transient documents of everyday life’

• Clippings from local newspapers: looking

beyond the ‘births marriages and deaths’ columns

• Weddings and other events: who attended?
• Job adverts: tell you something of what

people actually did

• Property sales: contents of houses or

buildings/equipment of businesses

Alan Crosby ‘Housin ing:..types and periods’ The he Lo Local l His istori rian 47 47:4 :4 (20 (2017) [jo [journal of

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the BALH]

Schools among low-density housing (2.5 inch OS map 1956) Superior planned houses for mill-workers of 1820s and 30s, Compstall, Cheshire

3 of BALH’s books on research 8 websites on researching children and families

• The Hockcliffe Project
• Victorian Children (also Dictionary of

Victorian London)

• The Army Children’s Archive
• Foundling Voices
• Historic Children’s Hospitals Admissions
• Hidden Lives Revealed
• Young Immigrants to Canada

Finding information for free! https:/ ://search.fi findmypast.co.uk/his istoric ical-records/

Fin Finding books in in univ iversit ity, rese search an and publi lic lib libraries

• Keep clicking and find the published books which the website

used to compile its database.

• You can then seek the books out via libraries: county libraries and

record offices, museums, local history and uni libraries.

• Use COPAC to search the catalogues of university and research

libraries

• For county libraries, visit and ask- they can make an inter-library

loan request for you.

• 25 volumes of the Balliol College

Register from 1833 till 2000

• A biographical register of the

university of Cambridge to 1500

• A biographical register of the

University of Oxford, A D 1501 to 1540 by A.B Emden

The Army Children’s Archive (TACA)

TACA themes and CHRISTMAS DINNER ON A TROOPSHIP, 1889 THE GARRISON CHILDREN’S SCHOOL, 1922, RIEHL (a suburb of Cologne/Köln)

Hidden Lives Revealed Harvey Goodwin Home for Boys, Cambridge Some examples of the Waifs and Strays Society’s magazine and other publications

https://victorianchildren.org/ http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm

From Thomas Pecocke’s will: In life I have been ‘minded and Determined to have Found a Free Schoole in Rye aforesaid for the the better Educatein ing an and Breedin ing of

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there in in good Lit Literature … for that Purpose I have already at my own proper Costs and Charges Erected and Built a House in Rye aforesaid in a Street called the Longer street Which I intend shall [be] imployed and Converted for the Keeping of the said Schoole’

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JOHN BROWNE, late of this parish, yeoman, in 1679, gave a tenement, lying in Church-street… and another…in Southwood- borough, for the education and teaching of twelve poor children

• f the inhabitants of this parish for ever. His executor and the

churchwardens… should elect and choose a poor man or woman, being capable to teach, and also the children to be taught, &c. The master or dame to keep the premises in good repair.

Use British History Online for antiquarian works and local history including schools. Read the introduction

• n: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/using-bho/local-

guide Leads you to 18th and 19th century works on Norfolk, London, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon and more, and the online Victoria County Histories

Lady Boswell’s School, Sevenoaks. Endowed -?

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lets 1880s- 1910s s from https://www.ryemuseum.c

• .uk/schools-and-

education-in-rye/

• At the age of six, I was sent to the Sussex House School, a private

school run by the Misses M.E. and C.A. Bushby, daughters of the Postmaster… we used the Congregational Sunday School Rooms … two rooms and an outside toilet. [Later] the Misses Bushby built a house in West Street …and there we had an Upper and a Lower Room with cloakroom and W.C. indoors.

• I began School at Miss Seliman’s School in Cinque Ports

Street…If you had to go to the toilet, you had to go down the dark staircase and across a cobbled yard.

• I went to Mrs. Kennett’s School, a mixed school run by Mrs.

Kennett and her daughter and we had to pay 2d a week- no free schooling in those days. We had no desk but had to sit on boxes on each side of the room. The sanitary arrangements were very bad – we had to walk up the garden! Mrs. Kennett was a very old lady… We had to stand by her table and read by pointing our finger on the letter. If we made a mistake she jabbed her needle into our finger as she would be darning stockings!

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schools ls The workhouse school of Brighton Union- the duties of the ‘dairy woman’

Besides ‘the dairy itself, attending to the chimney twice a week, I receive the children, salt down all meat, and doing the chief part of my own washing, and evenings attend to the grate and chimney. Mornings up soon after 4 o’clock, two hours before the

• ther officers are at work, and at work

after theirs is done’.

2 books here today on workhouses (only £2; £6.99)

St t Paul auls Sch chool, Stony Str tratford , , Buc ucks

The timetable and curriculum

• 5.45 a.m (summer), 6.45 am (winter): roll call
• School work began immediately
• Breakfast
• 8.30 a.m. to 10.30 am: lessons
• 11.30 to 1 pm: lessons
• Subjects: Latin, Greek, French, German, Mathematics,

History, Logic, English Literature, and a little Science.

• Lunch
• Afternoons: outdoor games and walks
• 6pm until 8.30pm: school work
• 9.15pm: lights out.
• On Sundays and saints’ days, an hour’s religious study.

Finding county record offices/archives and the historical records in them

The catalogue Discovery Search on ‘apprentice’ refined on ‘1500-1600’ and ‘Bristol’

• Find records in The National

Archives and archives across the country.

• Find the name, location and online

catalogue of county and other archives

• http://publicrecordsearch.co.uk/

• A newsletter and a journal

every quarter

• Reviews on new websites and

historical sources for your research

• Articles on internet research
• Information on courses on

family and local history country-wide

• Local History Day every June
• This year on 1 June speakers

will cover the men who were ‘rulers of the county’ as magistrates 1790-1834, and local history and the suffrage centenary

Maritime records at TNA available online: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/enewsletter.htm

One page from the Log of the Felix Discovery Vessel [TNA class ADM 55]

Voyages of Discovery and Surveying: Final page of ship’s log of journey of Adventure to Madeira and back in 1789-90 signed by [Lieutenant] PN Inglefield, free to download on the website of the Centre for Environmental Protection Data