What was new on this site: July-September 2002
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22 September 2002:
Links added:
- A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Published works, bibliographies and indexes:
- Access to Archives Project
A collaborative project to make English archive catalogues available online.
The website already includes a large searchable database compiled from the catalogues of
record repositories
- ISYS:web catalogue
(National Library of Wales)
Online schedules covering some of the library's archival holdings
- AIM25
Online listing of archives collections in higher education institutions and learned societies in Greater London
- Miscellaneous sources:
London Apprentices
(Society of Genealogists of London)
List of booklets compiled from livery company apprenticeship records, compiled by Cliff Webb.
Essentially the same data are available on a pay-per-view basis from
Origins.net
- Chronology and dating:
- Biographical sources for Archbishops of Canterbury,
597
to the Norman Conquest and
1066
to the present day
(Lambeth Palace Library)
Chronological lists, with brief notes on sources, heraldry etc
- Lists of Abbots and Deans of Westminster
(Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives)
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Public records: Taxation and other lists
- 1569 Sennen [Cornwall] Muster Roll
(Sennen OPC - on line parish clerk)
- South Hill
Parish [Cornwall]
Cornwall Military Survey 1522,
1544/1545 Subsidies and
1569 Muster Returns
(South Hill Parish History Site)
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
-
Robert
Knolles and his wife Elizabeth, 1458,
North Mymms, Hertfordshire (Brookmans Park Newsletter)
Photographs and description
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Frowick and Knolles:
A Short
History of the Knolles and Frowick Families (Rosie Bevan, Brookmans Park Newsletter)
Ilustrated account of the Knolles and Frowick families of North Mymms and South Mimms, Hertfordshire,
15th and 16th centuries
- Grey:
Grays and Greys - a chronology
(Brian Burton, Thurrock Local History Society)
An account of the Greys of Thurrock, Essex, and Codnor, Derbyshire,
12th-15th centuries
- Links:
- City Livery Companies:
Worshipful Company of Turners
19 August 2002:
I am very grateful to Mary Kifissia (née Stewart), who has transcribed most of J. Horace Round's paper on
"The Origin of the Stewarts", from Studies in Peerage and Family History, pages 115-146 (1901),
and to Rick Eaton for permission to reproduce her transcript here.
In the section on Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
items have been added for
La Warre, now de la Warr,
Gloucester
(note that the parentage of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, d.1147, is uncertain),
Mautravers and
Ros or Roos of Helmsley
Links added:
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Medieval source material on the internet:
- Taxation and other lists:
- Linkinhorne [Cornwall]
1569 muster return (Garry Hooker, Linkinhorne Parish)
- Residents of Trunch who
paid taxes to Edward III (about 1340) (Trunch Norfolk Notebook)
- Parish registers:
Origins.net
(in association with the Society of Genealogists of London) Boyd's Marriage Index
database, available on a pay-per-view basis, now includes entries for Derbyshire
and Shropshire
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
- Richard Ruston, rector
1457, Wormley, Hertfordshire (Michael Milsom)
Image of a drawing of a lost brass
- Walter and
Angelette Tooke and children
c.1590, Wormley, Hertfordshire (Michael Milsom)
Image of a drawing
-
Medieval English families on the internet:
- Spencer:
The Spencer Family (Althorp)
Online version of the book by Charles Spencer [Earl Spencer] [1999].
It cannot be stressed too strongly that the medieval section of the descent is bogus,
and was proved to be so more than a century ago. However, from Chapter 2 (starting on p.6) the
descent given is on firmer ground, genealogically speaking
- Wyncoll:
The
Wyncolls of Suffolk and Essex (Charles Brewster)
Online version of the book by Colonel C. E. Wyncoll [1912],
adapted from an account by L. C. Sier in the Essex Archaeological Society's Transactions (1910);
mainly 16th century and later
-
Links:
- Societies and journals:
- Essays in Medieval Studies
(West Virginia University Press)
Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association, volumes 1 (1984) onwards; the most recent issue appears to
be password-protected
- FindArticles
A searchable collection of articles from periodicals, including articles from
English Historical Review, The Historian and History Today
- Gentleman's Magazine, volumes 1-20 (1731-1750)
(Internet Library of Early Journals,
Bodleian Library, Oxford)
- Notes and Queries, original series, volume 1, to fourth series, volume 4 (1849-1869)
(Internet Library of Early Journals,
Bodleian Library, Oxford)
- Rutland Local History and Record Society
Includes a list of contents of the Rutland Record Series and the society's occasional publications
7 July 2002:
In the section on Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
items have been added for
Atholl,
Clun and Oswestry,
Cobham (of Kent),
FitzAlan (of Oswestry),
Grey (of Codnor) (note on the date of birth of Elizabeth,
wife of Richard (d.1418)),
Strange or Lestrange (of Blackmere) (note on the
manor of Chalton),
Strange or Lestrange (of Knokyn)
and Ulster.
Links added:
-
Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Subsidies and other taxes:
The
1522 Muster Roll for West Berkshire
(The Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage)
Series of four articles by Lis Garnish
discussing and analysing the records (only a few names are mentioned),
with a critical reply by Simon Kemp;
click on the "next article" links to follow the sequence
- Common law records:
History of the Medieval English Coroner System
(Bernard Knight, Britannia)
Article discussing the role of the medieval coroner and its development
- Church records:
- Medieval
Hospitals (Margaret Markham, The Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage)
A brief overview, including a list of medieval hospitals in Oxfordshire
- Monasticism in Britain (Britannia)
Useful brief overview of the main monastic orders in medieval England
- Chronology and dating:
- Chronological lists of abbots (Britannia):
- Abingdon,
Berkshire
- Bury St Edmund's,
Suffolk
- St Augustine's, Canterbury
- Fountains Abbey,
Yorkshire
- Glastonbury,
Somerset
- Reading,
Berkshire
- Rievaulx,
Yorkshire
- Whitby,
Yorkshire
- St Mary's, York
- Chronological lists of priors (Britannia):
- Bath,
Somerset
- Dunster,
Somerset
-
Medieval source material on the internet:
- County and local history:
- Narrative
History of the Royal County of Berkshire (Brenda Ralph Lewis and David Nash Ford, Britannia)
Online history of the county in seven parts, including sections on
Norman/medieval and Tudor/Stuart periods. This is part of a larger section on
The
Royal County of Berkshire on the same site, containing a number
of other historical and biographical articles
- Local
History of Wantage, Oxfordshire
(The Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage)
A collection of detailed articles on the local history of Wantage and the surrounding area,
including a number covering the medieval period - on King Alfred's Palace, Church History,
Kingston Bagpuize, the Manor House, the 1522 Muster Roll, the Open Fields, Tudor Documents,
West Challow Old Hall, and the Wedon and Wirdnam families
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
Images of 27 monumental brasses from London and its neighbourhood,
on the Corporation of London'd Collage
web site
- Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
Extracts from the Heralds'
Visitation of Berkshire, 1566
(The Royal County of Berkshire, Britannia)
Narrative pedigrees of the families of Berington, Blagrave, Booth of Fawler, Booth of Reading,
Bullock of Arborfield, Bullock of Wokefield, Bullock of Stratfield Mortimer, Bury, Cater, Choke,
Cooper, Eyston and Fettiplace of North Denchworth (source not stated)
- Ancestry's UK and Ireland Collection:
English medieval records and probate indexes:
- Middlesex:
Rolls, Books, Indictments, Recognizances, Coroners' Inquisitions-Post-Mortem, Orders and Memoranda, vol. 2
Rolls, Books and Certificates, Indictments, Recognizances, Coroners' Inquisitions-Post-Mortem, Orders, Memoranda and Certificates, 1625-1667, vol. 3
Rolls, Books and Certificates, Indictments, Recognizances, Coroners' Inquisitions-Post-Mortem, Orders, Memoranda and Certificates, 1667-1688, vol. 4
[J.C. Jeaffreson, ed., Middlesex county records (old series),
vols 2-4: Indictments, coroners' inquests-post-mortem and recognizances [etc]
temp. James I to ... 4 James II,
Middlesex County Records Society (1887-1892)]
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Medieval English families on the internet:
- de Acklam:
Lineage
accounts of the de Acklam family (Bob Boynton, Boyntons de Yorkshire 1066-1638)
Transcripts of records and other notes relating to the de Acklam family of Yorkshire,
mainly 12th and 13th centuries; see also Gifts
of the Acklams and Boyntons to St. John the Evangelist of the Park of Healaugh
- Norfleet:
The Norfleets of medieval England (Phil Norfleet)
Notes on Norfleets from Kent and other counties, 13th and 14th centuries
- Winchcombe:
Descendants of Jack
of Newbury (c.1465-1519/20)
Notes on the Winchcombe family of Newbury, Berkshire, and elsewhere, 15th century and later
- Wirdnam:
The Wirdnams:
an upwardly mobile family of the 16th century
(Lis Garnish, The Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage)
Detailed article in four parts, on the Wirdnams of Wantage, Oxfordshire,
originally published in The Blowing Stone (1990);
following the "next article" links to see the following parts
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