What was new on this site: October-December 2003
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1 December 2003:
New links
- A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Church records:
Clergy of the Church of England Database
(King's College, London, and other universities)
A project in progress to compile a database of material on the careers of the
English clergy between 1540 and 1835.
When complete, the database will be made available through the Internet
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Modern works: History
A. W. Ward and others,
The Cambridge Modern History
(1st edition, 1902-1911) (University of Mannheim)
Text and scanned images from volumes 1-6 and 13. For England, the text covers the early Tudors onwards.
Volume 13 includes chart pedigrees of the royal family and some other prominent families
- County and local history:
- Driffield (Yorkshire,
East Riding)
(VCH Yorkshire)
Draft text on Manors and other estates from the Victoria County History
- John Stow,
A Survey of
London [1603] (Tufts Digital Library)
The text of C. L. Kingsford's 1908 edition of the famous topographical work
- John Stow,
The Survey of
London (Furness Collection, Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image)
Scanned images of Anthony Munday's 1618 edition
- Modern biography and prosopography:
The Barons' Letter in reply to the Pope, February 1301
(Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
Biographical sketches on more than 80 of the barons, with illustrations of their seals
- Public records:
Volume
2 (French-language documents AD 1307-1343)
(The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub)
French-language documents only, extracted from the edition of 1816-1869
- Probate records:
Kentish
Administrations, A.D. 1604-1649 (Kent Archaeological Society)
List of administrations from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
compiled by Leland L. Duncan, from Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 20 (1893)
- Church records and religious houses:
[Anglo-Saxon]
England and Rome
(under construction; Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters)
Provisional lists of papal letters and privileges for English people and religious houses,
and of English visitors to Rome, during the Anglo-Saxon period
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
[?]John Gygur (d. 1504):
Tattershall, Lincolnshire (rubbing and description)
(Monumental Brass Society, Brass of the month, November 2003)
- Links:
- Societies and journals:
Anglo-Norman Studies (Boydell and Brewer)
Includes lists of contents of all volumes.
The main subjects of all articles in vols 1-5
are indexed in the Medieval Genealogical Registry
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
- Heraldry:
- earlyBlazon.com
A compilation of the arms of knights from several European countries in the period of the Crusades.
It provides illustrated lists of arms arranged by name, by geography and by the charges on the shields
- Early Seals (Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
Illustrated collections of seals, from the
The Barons' Letter
in reply to the Pope, February 1301 and Miscellaneous
sources
- City Livery Companies:
Worshipful
Company of Actuaries
(Faculty of Actuaries and Institute of Actuaries website)
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Fettiplace:
- J. Rentyon Dunlop, The Fettiplace Family
(David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History)
Text, with illustration, of an article from Proceedings of the Newbury and District Field Club (1911); there is also
a list of Fettiplace Manors
from the same source
- J.R. Planché, Remarks on the Monument of
A Supposed Princess of Portugal
in East Shefford Church, Berkshire
(David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History)
Text from a booklet of 1889 on the ancestry of Beatrice, wife of Gilbert, Lord Talbot (d. 1418) and Thomas Fettiplace,
with a Pedigree
of the Souzas from the same source. For a recent discussion of the same problem, see
Nat Taylor's article
3 November 2003:
New links
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
- Herefordshire Sites and Monuments Record
(Historic Herefordshire On Line)
Searchable database of historic sites and monuments in the county,
including nearly 3000 from the late-medieval period. For each entry
there is an outline description, including notes on tenure, and a list of sources.
On the same site is a variety of information about Herefordshire history - much of it
schools-oriented - including a section on Castles
of Herefordshire, giving an outline history for each
- Islington and
Stoke Newington [Middlesex]
(British History Online)
Text from the Victoria County History of Middlesex, volume 8 (1985)
- Land taxes and feudal surveys:
The
'Herefordshire Domesday' (Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
Images of Balliol College, Oxford, manuscript 350 -
a copy of the Domesday text for Herefordshire, made in the 1160s, with annotations,
including more recent land holders
- Charters:
- Fowle family:
Deeds of various properties in ... Sandhurst in Kent (Bodiam Mill: Sources in Genealogy
and Local History for Sandhurst in Kent and nearby villages)
Abstracts of deeds at the East Sussex Record Office, 14th century and later, mainly relating to the Fowle family and the
manor of Betherinden in Sandhurst, Kent
- Tybotot/Chaworth Crusading
contract, 1270 (Nat Taylor)
Image of a contract dated 1270, by which Robert Tybotot [d. 1298] and Payn de Chaworth [d. 1279]
agree to accompany the Lord Edward on crusade. Large jpg file (1.8MB) from a photograph of
British Library, Additional Charter 19829, in Jonathan Riley-Smith, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
p. 63 (Oxford, 1995)
- Probate records:
- Abstracts of Wills
(Kevin Bradford, Plantagenet Genealogy and Biography)
Short English abstracts of some 14th-century royal wills -
Lionel, Duke of Clarence (1368),
Edward III (1376),
Edward, the Black Prince (1376),
Joan, Princess of Wales (1385) and
John, Duke of Lancaster (1397) -
from Sir N. H. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta (1826)
- Kentish
Administrations, A.D. 1559 TO 1603 (Kent Archaeological Society)
List of administrations from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
compiled by Leland L. Duncan, from Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 18 (1889)
- Archdeaconry
Court of Canterbury: Sandhurst wills at the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (Bodiam Mill: Sources in Genealogy
and Local History for Sandhurst in Kent and nearby villages)
List of 243 wills from Sandhurst, Kent, 1449-1712
- Parish registers:
Origins.net
(in association with the Society of Genealogists of London)
has added 1.4 million names from 25 counties in the "First Miscellaneous Series" to its
pay-per-view Boyd's Marriage Index database.
- Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
Armigerous Ancestors Surname Index
(Achievements -
the research company associated with the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies)
Searchable index to C.R. Humphery-Smith,
Armigerous ancestors: a catalogue of sources for the study of the visitations of the heralds in the
16th and 17th centuries with referenced lists of names (Canterbury, 1997).
The search results also give the county and sometimes the date of the visitation;
Achievements can provide further information for a fee
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
Joan, Lady Cromwell (1490):
Tattershall, Lincolnshire (rubbing, photographs and description)
(Monumental Brass Society, Brass of the month, October 2003)
- Links:
- General:
The Ancestry of Elizabeth FitzAlan (and her sister Joan FitzAlan) to the 9th generation
(Genealogy page of John Blythe Dobson)
- Societies and journals:
Bristol Record Society
Includes a list of publications
- City Livery Companies:
Blacksmiths,
Bowyers,
Builders Merchants,
Carmen,
Chartered Accountants,
Chartered Architects,
Chartered Secretaries and Administrators,
Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers,
Cooks,
Coopers (under construction),
Environmental Cleaners,
Founders,
Fuellers,
Glass Sellers,
Glaziers and Painters of Glass,
Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers,
Innholders,
Insurers,
Joiners and Ceilers,
Lightmongers,
Management Consultants,
Masons,
Merchant Taylors,
Musicians,
Painter Stainers,
Paviors,
Plumbers,
Scriveners,
Shipwrights,
Skinners,
Tallow Chandlers,
Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders,
Tylers and Bricklayers and
Vintners
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Scull:
The Family of Scull
(Skull to Scull)
Abridged version of William Ellis Scull, The Family of Scull (1930), treating
the Scull family of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, 15th century and later.
Some information on the family is also given in G. D. Scull,
Genealogical notes relating to
the Family of Scull (1876) on the same site
2 October 2003:
New material
In Some corrections
and additions to the Complete Peerage, the following items have been revised:
BERKELEY (Volume 2, page 130, as modified by volume 14),
MARCH [England] (Volume 8, page 441 and note c) and
SAINT AMAND (Volume 11, page 300 and note c).
In the main section, the following item has been added:
LINCOLN (Volume 7, page 690 and note e).
In the "proposed" section,
the following items have been added:
GREYSTOKE (Volume 6, page 199, as corrected by volume 14) and
HASTINGS or HASTINGES (Volume 6, page 347, as modified by volume 14).
New links
- A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Monumental brasses:
William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore, eds,
The Monumental Brasses
of Essex
Information about a recently published volume in the "County Series" of fully illustrated guides
to the monumental brasses of the British Isles. The web pages includes an index of names
- Church records:
The
Household Chapel in Medieval England, c.1250 - c.1450
(Kent Rawlinson, University of Durham)
Currently a searchable
A
Preliminary Handlist of Household Chapels from Medieval England is available.
Eventually A Descriptive Gazetteer of Household Chapels from Medieval England
will be published online - some sample entries are already available. Much of the emphasis is
architectural, but the gazetteer will include historical outlines and bibliographies
- Handwriting and language:
Glossary of Latin Words
Found in Records and Other English Manuscripts, But Not Occurring in Classical Authors
(White Trash Scriptorium)
From Charles T. Martin, The Record Interpreter (1911)
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
- Henry A. Harben,
A Dictionary of London (1918) (MOTCO)
Detailed historical gazetteer of the City of London, giving a skeleton history
for each street and place, with references to records in which it appears
- Public records: Taxation and other lists:
St Ive
[Cornwall] Parish 1544 Subsidy
(St Ive Parish History Site)
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
Sir Richard Fitzlewes and his wives (1528):
Ingrave, Essex (formerly at West Horndon) (rubbing and description)
(Monumental Brass Society, Brass of the month, September 2003)
- Links:
- General:
- A List of the Latin Names of Places
in Great Britain and Ireland
(White Trash Scriptorium)
The most detailed online list for the U.K., as far as I know, from
Charles T. Martin, The Record Interpreter (1911). There are also
lists of Latin Names of Bishoprics in England,
Scotland and
Ireland
- Latin Forms of English Surnames
in Great Britain and Ireland and
A Few Latin Christian Names with
Their English Equivalents (White Trash Scriptorium)
Extensive lists, from Charles T. Martin, The Record Interpreter (1911)
- Societies and journals:
- The History Journals Guide
(Stefan Blaschke)
Site providing information about more than 5000 journals, including links to websites and details of lists of contents and articles online.
There is also related information on bibliographies, discussion lists, conferences and so on
- Magazine Stacks
(Stuart Jenks - University College, London - and Dieter Rübsamen - Mainz)
Provides online lists of contents of many journals. Although the original emphasis was on German-language
material, the site includes a number of English-language journals, often with complete coverage.
The journals covered include Journal of British Studies,
Cambridge Historical Journal and its successor The Historical Journal,
English Historical Review,
the Journal of the Haskins Society,
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research and its successor Historical Research,
Journal of Medieval History, Nottingham Medieval Studies,
and Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
- British Record Society
An online partial listing
of the Index Library series has been written by Dave Nixon
- Journal of British Studies
(University of Chicago Press)
Lists of contents of vols 1-41 (1961-2002)
are available
at Magazine Stacks
- Derbyshire Archaeological Society
Includes a searchable Subject Index
to the Derbyshire Archaeological Journal (vols 1-121; 1879-2001) - which in fact
searches the titles and authors of the papers as well
- London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
Includes a section on publications,
with searchable and browsable lists of contents
for vols 20-51 (1959/61-2000) of the Society's Transactions,
and for its Special Papers
- Journal of Medieval History (Elsevier)
Includes tables of contents and abstracts, vol. 1 (1975) to date
- Nottingham
Medieval Studies (The Institute of Medieval Studies, Nottingham University)
Includes Lists of contents
of vols 1-44 (1957-2000)
- Oxfordshire
Architectural and Historical Society
Includes current information about the Society's journal,
Oxoniensia,
and an Online Contents
section, including a list of contents of all volumes,
the full text of some older volumes (both in zipped Microsoft Word format),
and a few articles in html and pdf format
- Rolls Series (Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores)
A list of the contents
(more detailed in some respects than Steven H. Silver's
Index to the Rolls Series)
has been provided by Klaus van Eickels of the University of Bamberg
- Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
An online listing
of the contents, 1849-1933, has been written by Paul Mansfield
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Attwood:
The
Attwood Family with Historic Notes & Pedigrees (Christopher Attwood)
Extracts from a book by John Robinson published in 1903, including notes
from various sources on the Worcestershire Attwoods, in medieval times and later.
The transcriber notes that the book's accuracy is mostly untested,
and that it "comes from a time when accuracy was sacrificed in favour of romance"
- Beaumont:
The Beaumont Family Web Site (Robert and Richard Beaumont)
Includes the text of Edward T. Beaumont, The Beaumonts in History 850 to 1850 (1929)
and extracts from Frederick Salmon Growse, Materials for a history of the parish of
Bildeston in the county of Suffolk (1892),
both in PDF format. The former includes accounts of the "Beaumont" earls
of Leicester, Warwick and Worcester, and branches of the family in
Devon (12th century onwards), Lincolnshire (13th century onwards),
Yorkshire (12th century onwards), Suffolk and Leicestershire (15th century onwards);
the latter relates to the Beaumonts of Hadleigh, 16th century and later
- Berkeley:
Smyth's 'Lives of the Berkeleys' (Tim Powys-Lybbe)
Database containing more than 2000 members of the family, from the 11th century onwards,
constructed from the work of the 17th-century antiquary, John Smyth of Nibley,
with additional notes
- Stanley:
The origins
of Stanleys in England with special reference to the Weald
of Sussex and Kent, 1250-1650 (Nigel Stanley)
Detailed study of a family of Stanleys originally from the parish of Mayfield, in East Sussex,
some of whom later migrated to Kent. The introductory section also outlines
early Stanleys in nine other counties, including the prominent Stanleys of
Staffordshire.
For older additions, see: