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Warwickshire Occupational and Quarter Sessions Records – Hair Powder Certificates
Authored by Rob Eyre. Rob has more than 20 years experience working with the public in archive repositories and has been a Senior Archivist at the Warwickshire County Record Office since 2005. Hair Powder Certificates One of the more obscure sources of information for family historians focussing on the 18th century are the returns of… Read more
Guest Blog: What’s in a name? Owston
Authored by Dr. James M. Owston. Along with his distant English cousins Tim J. Owston and Roger J.Ouston, Dr. James M. Owston of the USA has been researching the Owston surname since 1978. He has registered the surname with the Guild of One-Name Studies and also administers two Owston DNA projects. His genealogy blog, the… Read more
Guest Blog: What’s in a name? Micklethwaite
Authored by Andy Micklethwaite. Andy started his interest in family history in 2003, just as the internet was transforming research. His One Name Study resulted from a search for information on the parents of his 3rd great grandfather – he is still looking for them! He is a member of the Huddersfield and District Family… Read more
Guest Blog: What’s in a name? BRAUND
Authored by Janet Few. Janet is a community historian and an historical interpreter, specialising in the C17th. Her book on C17th social history, ‘Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs’, has recently been published. She is also the historian for the Braund Family History Society and a member of The Guild of One-Name Studies, See her website.… Read more
Guest Blog: What’s in a name? CUMBERBATCH
Authored by Bob Cumberbatch. Bob is the Education Liaison Officer of The Guild of One-Name Studies and can be reached at education@one-name.org Cumberbatch is the most frequently found variant spelling of the surname Comberbach and the Comberbach surname originated from the village of the same name in Cheshire; Comberbach is an Old English description of… Read more
Guest Blog: What’s in a name? Surnames have meanings and origins.
Authored by Bob Cumberbatch. Bob is the Education Liaison Officer of The Guild of One-Name Studies and can be reached at education@one-name.org Surnames began being used in the 11th century and they have meanings and origins which can be grouped into four broad categories, which are: People, Places, Occupations and Nicknames. Surnames based on people… Read more
Know the ropes about our dead sea captains
‘Take me back to beautiful England & the grey, damp filthiness of ages, fog rolling down behind the mountains, & on the graveyards, and dead sea-captains.’ Lyrics from ‘Last Living Rose’ by P J Harvey. Discovering your family history can be an exciting experience and researching one’s ancestor’s masters’ certificates is one such journey to… Read more
Secrets of A Suffragette: How a Fleet Street Journalist Discovered All About Emily’s Secret Past
David Randall is senior news writer at the Independent on Sunday, author of five books, and partner in Black Toad Books. He is also a passionate family historian and Ancestry.co.uk member. One of life’s small pleasures is discovering that a thing designed for one purpose is rather good at something completely different. As a boy,… Read more
Love Story: How far would you go to be with the one that you love?
Ancestry.co.uk member and AncestryUK Facebook fan Linda Wilson is a passionate family historian and been researching her ancestors for a few years. Her Valentine’s Day blog post is in memory of her great grandparents whose story tells one of great love and romance. Sarah Govett was a country girl, born in St Dominic, Cornwall in 1863. … Read more
Bastardy Orders & Certificates in Warwickshire Quarter Session Records
Authored and kindly supplied by Robert Eyre, Senior Archivist at Warwickshire County Record Office. Bastardy records are a familiar class of record that can turn up in the parish chest. They form part of the administrative records of a parish that began with the introduction of the Elizabethan Poor Law. Essentially a parish was responsible… Read more
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