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England is a country
that is part of the United
Kingdom.[6][7][8]
It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west;
the Irish
Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea
to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English
Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises
the central and southern part of the island of Great
Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as
the Isles of Scilly and the Isle
of Wight. The Kingdom of England—which after 1284 included Wales—was a sovereign
state until 1 May 1707, when the Acts of Union put into effect the terms agreed
in the Treaty of Union the previous year, resulting in a
political
union with the Kingdom of Scotland to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain.[13][14]
In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the Irish
Free State was established as a separate dominion, but
the Royal and Parliamentary
Titles Act 1927 reincorporated into the kingdom six Irish counties to
officially create the current United Kingdom of
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The following are
surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having
been either born, married or
died in this place. Names in dark red denote direct ancestral lines. |
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Abbott; Bennett; Bleasdale/Bleasdell; Bonde; Booker; Bracken; Carter/Cartor; Caton;
Couchman; Crewes; Dickson; Dillowe; Eubank/ Ubanck; Goffe; Green; Howson; Mills;
Pannell; Parker; Prow;
Raynsford; Shute; Sprague; Sterne;
Streven; Tewksbury; Vergoose; Webb; Wright |
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Click on this link to find out more about each surname listed
above as well as other surnames found within our three family databases. |
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This link will also lead you to surname resources at
Rootsweb, and information about the
world-wide distribution of a surname. |
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Use this free genealogy site to help
you get the best
genealogy searches from Google™ by using
your family tree, for your research. It will create
a series of different searches using tips or
"tricks" |
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that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
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The world’s largest free genealogy search engine,
Mocavo.com, provides genealogists access to the best free genealogy content
on the web |
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including
billions of names, dates and places worldwide. Mocavo.com seeks to index and
make searchable all of the world’s free genealogy information. |
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Click
on the LINK to the right to see more
information about the World distribution of any surname. You can get greater |
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detail
for any of the maps by clicking on the area, i.e state, county that you are
interested in. |
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Our Ancestral Counties
The following named counties are associated with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a
specific ancestral county, go to our Ancestral
Locations home page. Here you will
find additional links to our county pages where you can obtain information
about our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in
our database, who have lived in the selected county. |
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Dorset (1);
Gloucestershire (2); Kent (3); Lancashire (4); Norfolk (5); North Yorkshire (6d); Somerset
(7); Yorkshire (*); |
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* = The
historic county of Yorkshire is now made up of 4 distinct shires they are:
West Yorkshire(6a); South Yorkshire(6b); and East Riding of Yorkshire(6c),
and North Yorkshire(6d). |
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Gazetteer
of Places
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The following Links will take you to gazetteers
that identify places within this U.K. Country. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and churches. In
addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide variety of
physical, cultural and historic features. |
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Directory of Cities and Towns in United Kingdom This Global Gazetteer by
Falling Rain Genomics, Inc., is based on many public
sources of information. It was last
updated January 1, 2010.
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Gazetteer of British Place Names 50,000 entries that includes the historic county as well as modern administrative
districts to determine what county each place was originally in, and where
records might be found today. |
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This database contains the approximate location of the parishes that
existed around 1837. Since then
the database has had new fields added to contain additional information, many
more churches have been added (in some areas), and more precise locations added
where known. |
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Registration Districts In
England And Wales (1837–1974) These pages show composition of the civil registration
districts in England and Wales between July 1, 1837 and March 31,1974. The same districts were also used to compile the
decennial census for the years 1851 to 1911.
There is also an Alphabetical
List of Districts and an Index of Place Names
for the whole of England and Wales. |
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This database contains the names of places
encountered in the 1891 census for England, Wales and the Isle of Man. |
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A Topographical
Dictionary of England Contains
detailed topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in England. |
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This list includes: civil parishes with town councils; unparished areas that had borough
charters prior to 1 April 1974 (including areas with charter trustees); and
towns with ancient/market charters that did not later gain borough charters
or town councils. |
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Use this mapping program to SEARCH
Great Britain by: (1) street; (2) place; (3) Lat/Long
coordinates; (4) OS grid reference; (5) OS
Landranger grid reference; and (6) telephone area code. |
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Boundary changes
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The historic
counties of England are
ancient subdivisions of England established for administration by the Normans
and in most cases based on earlier Anglo-Saxon
kingdoms and shires.
They were used for various functions for several hundred years, initially for
the administration of justice, collection of taxes and organisation of the
military, and later for local government and electing parliamentary
representation. They continue to form, albeit with considerably altered
boundaries, the basis of modern local government. They are alternatively
known as ancient counties, or sometimes traditional counties. Today's counties are a combination of historic shires and
counties and have been subject to many boundary changes over the course of
history.
There are several online resources that address
historical boundary changes in England focusing upon the 1974 changes during
the 20th century. The
GENUKI website has an excellent map of the counties
of England
prior to the 1974 boundary changes
along with county lists can be used to navigate directly to any county
page.
Jim Fisher’s web page entitled English Counties,
Parishes, etc. for Genealogists is intended to show how the
English local government system originated and how it has changed over the
centuries. It also contains some explanation of other units of local
government and types of settlement, mainly for the period prior to the
reorganisation of 1974.
With regard to the boundaries of England’s
juridictions in 1851 Family search maintains a wonderful map that
one can search for additional information such as a listing of parishes, and
contiguous counties. You can also
search the Library catalogue and Research Wiki as it applies to the location
specified. The following is a listing
of the ancient counties as they
existed in the 19th century. |
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Cheshire ·
Cornwall ·
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Durham ·
Essex ·
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Suffolk ·
Surrey ·
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Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the County’s
website. Here you will
find additional links to more information specific to that location. |
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GENUKI provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of
particular relevance to the UK and Ireland. It is maintained by a charitable
trust and a group of volunteers. |
The BritishIslesGenWeb Project is part of the WorldGenWeb
Project and is the regional resource page for research in Ireland and the
United Kingdom. |
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Cheshire ·
Cornwall ·
Cumbria ·
Devon ·
Dorset ·
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Essex ·
Kent |
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Lincoln ·
Norfolk ·
Rutland ·
Somerset ·
Suffolk ·
Surrey ·
Sussex |
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County
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on
a Link
(below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here
you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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The subdivisions of England consist of up to
four levels of subnational division controlled through a
variety of types of administrative entities created for the purposes of local government. The highest tier of
local government were the nine regions of England: North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East
Midlands, West Midlands, East,
South East, South West, and London. Below
the regional level, all of England is divided into 48 ceremonial counties. These are
used primarily as a geographical frame of reference and have developed
gradually since the Middle Ages, with some established as recently as
1974. Each has a Lord
Lieutenant and High Sheriff; these posts are used to represent the British
monarch locally. Outside Greater
London and the Isles of Scilly, England is also divided into 83 metropolitan
and non-metropolitan counties; these correspond to areas used for the purposes
of local government and may consist of a single district or be divided into
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Where in the World are My
Ancestors?
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Resources which enhance our
knowledge of the places inhabited by our ancestors are almost as important as their
names. The LINK |
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to the right will take you to Maps, Gazetteers, and
other helpful resources that will assist you in discovering
Ancestral Locations. |
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Gen tool-kit
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Our “Gen-Tool Kit” has been primarily designed for those researchers who may be traveling to this location to perform on-site studies of their family history, or to just visit some of the interesting historical sites located therein. It can be very satisfying to mix research with sightseeing at historical and scenic spots. Such activity not only gives you an understanding of the land but a needed break from intense research sessions. When visiting an ancestral place for genealogical research we’ve found that the three most important places to visit are any available archives; the library; and the historical and/or genealogical societies that address the locality. It is also good to plan ahead by contacting any site you intend visiting in order to ascertain where it is and when it will be open. This is especially true with regard to historical and genealogical societies. We hope that the following information will provide you with a better idea of what resources are available, within this place, to the family historian. See Family History Tours, Genealogy England, Trace Family History for information on planning your trip. |
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England Cemetery Records | Genealogy ·
Cemeteries in England – listed by place |
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All-England
Genealogy - Cemetery Links
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Cemeteries
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Online Birth, Marriage
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England Genealogy - Genealogy Links.net ·
British
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England Genealogy – About.com |
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The Google search
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with additional information to assist with your
research about this
U. S. State. |
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Genealogy Trails History Group ·
Family
Search, USA IGI Batches, Localities ·
Record
Search - Family Search.org |
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Rootsweb.com – World
Message Boards ·
Cyndi's List – Genealogy
Categories ·
Data Base Collections
at Ancestry.com$ ·
Census Finder –Free
Census and other Records ·
WorldCat – Find Items in Libraries Near You |
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RootsWeb
Message Boards – UK and Ireland ·
FamilySearch
Research Wiki – United Kingdom ·
UK & Ireland Genealogy Links ·
Kindred Trails.com – British
Isles & Ireland ·
IGI
Batch Numbers-British Isles ·
Family
Search Records – United Kingdom ·
British Isles
GenWeb Project |
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UK & Ireland Genealogy · UK & Ireland
Records Collections- Ancestry.com$ · MyGenealogist.com – United Kingdom · A vision of Britain
(on-line library for local history) · UK Genealogy - Portal for UK Family Research · Genealogy.com
SiteFinder: United Kingdom |
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Roots Web Message Boards -
England ·
FamilySearch
Research Wiki – England ·
Family
Search Records – England |
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Ancestry.com
Records – England $ ·
United Kingdom Census Links - England ·
A Vision of Britain - England |
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All of the records and databases
we’ve collected are FREE and can be accessed
and searched online without having to pay for a subscription. We have divided our collected into 14
record types as follows: Biographical;
Birth; Cemetery; Census & City Directories; Church; Court; Death;
Immigration & Naturalization; Land; Marriage; Military; Newspapers;
Occupational; and Tax Records. We try not
to list any sites that have only a few records for the purpose of getting you
to a website that will charge a fee to actually see the record beyond just a
name.
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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