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BIOGRAPHIES

Dictionary of National Biography: Chamber-Clarkson by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1887

Dictionary of National Biography: Craik-Drake by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1908

Dictionary of National Biography: Harris-Hovenden by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1908

Dictionary of National Biography: Kennett-Lambart by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1892

Dictionary of National Biography: Lambe-Leigh by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1892

Dictionary of National Biography: Llwyd-MacCartney by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1893

Dictionary of National Biography: Owens-Passelewe by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1895

Dictionary of National Biography: Pucock-Puckering by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1896

Dictionary of National Biography: Shearman-Stovin by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1909

Dictionary of National Biography: Smith-Stanger by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1898

Dictionary of National Biography: Stow-Taylor by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1898

Dictionary of National Biography: Whichcord-Zuylestein by Leslie. Stephen - Great Britain – 1909

 

FAMILY HISTORIES 

General Families:

Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry by Bernard Burke – 1847, Edition 4, Volume 1 

Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry by Bernard Burke – 1875, Edition 5, Volume 1

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain by Bernard Burke - Heraldry - 1862 - 1759 pages

A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire: Vol. 1, by John Burke, pub. 1832

A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire: Vol. 2, by John Burke, pub. 1832

Genealogical & Heraldic History of Extinct & Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, & Scotland by John Burke, 1844, 603 pgs.

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 1, by John Burke, published 1835

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 2, by John Burke, published 1836

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 3, by John Burke, published 1836

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 4, by John Burke, published 1838

Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the UK: Volume 8, by George E. Cokayne, published 1898

The genealogy of the existing British peerage and baronetage, by Edmund Lodge, published 1859 - 870 pages

 

Specific Families:

  Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England  by Thomas T. Sherman - 1920 - 474 pages

 

HISTORY (General)

The Topographer and Genealogist   by John Gough Nichols - Registers of births, etc – 1858

The Northern Genealogist by A Gibbons - Genealogy – 1900

The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave - Great Britain – 1878

The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results, Volume 4, by Edward A. Freeman, Pub. 1871

The Popular History of England: Volume 7, by Charles Knight, published 1861

A History of England: Period 1 (449-1485); by James Franck Bright, published 1884.

A History of England: Period 2(1485-1688); by James Franck Bright, published 1884.

A History of England: Period 3 (1689-1837); by James Franck Bright, published 1884.

A History of England: Period 4(1837-1880); by James Franck Bright, published 1884.

A history of England and Wales from the Roman to the Norman conquest, by T. Morgan Owen, published 1882, 228 pages

 

The History of the Anglo-Saxons: Vol. 3, Edition 4,  By Sharon Turner, 1823

History of the Anglo-Saxons,  By Thomas Miller, William Henry Harvey, 1876

A history of England under the Anglo-Saxon kings: Vol 2By Johann Martin Lappenberg, Benjamin Thorpe, 1845

History of the Anglo-Saxons, By Francis Palgrave, 1876

 

The Cathedral Churches of England and Wales: Their History, Architecture and Monuments, by William J. Loftie, 1892, 263 pgs.

 

HISTORY (Military)

 

NAMES

A List of Anglo-Saxon Proper Names by William George Searle - Names, Personal - 1897 - 601 pages

English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological ... by Mark Antony Lower - 1849

Remains Concerning Britain by William Camden - Names, Personal - 1870 - 446 pages

 

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley - Names, Personal - 1901 - 837 pages

Suffolk Surnames by Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch - Names, Personal - 1861 - 757 pages

Names and Naming Patterns in England, 1538-1700 by Scott Smith-Bannister - Reference - 1997 - 223 pages

 

Special Report on Surnames in Ireland by Robert E. Matheson, Ireland Register General - Reference - 1994 - 172 pages

 

 

REFERENCE (General)

Guide tо Books And Manuscripts Relating To English And Foreign Heraldry And Genealogy by George Gatfield, 1892,  646 pgs

Calendar of Marriage Licenses Issued, 1632-1714, by Church of England Province of Canterbury, et.al., 1905, 427 pgs

Population gazetteer of England and Wales by Charles Anthony Coke – 1864

 

REFERENCE (Geographical)

A Gazetteer of the World, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge: Vol. II Brazil-Derry by Royal Geo. Soc. Great Britain, 1856

A Geographical Dictionary of England and Wales  by William Cobbett -- Great Britain - 1832 - 546 pages

The British Gazetteer, Political, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, and Historical by Benjamin Clarke, England – 1852

A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis, R Creighton - Great Britain – 1831

Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland: Newchurch to Somersetshire, published 1900

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis

The Book of British Topography, by John Parker Anderson, published 1881, 472 pages

The Beauties of England and Wales, Topographical, Historical, Descriptive, of Each County: Volume 5, by John Britton, et. al., 1810

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