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HEREFORDSHIRE

Archives and Libraries Bibliography Cemeteries Census Church History Church Records Civil Registration Correctional Institutions Description and Travel Directories Emigration and Immigration Encyclopedias & Dictionaries Dwellings Gazetteers Genealogy History Historical Geography Land and Property Law and Legislation

Maps Medical Records Military History Names, Geographical Names, Personal Newspapers Occupations Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc. Politics and Government Postal and Shipping Guides Probate Records Religion and Religious Life Schools Social Life and Customs Societies Taxation Voters Towns & Parishes

Description in 1887

"HEREFORDSHIRE, an inland Co. [Map (above) shows location], on the SE. border of Wales, and bounded N. by Shropshire and Worcestershire, E. by Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, S. by Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, and W. by Monmouthshire, Radnorshire, mid Brecknockshire; greatest length N. and S. 38 miles, greatest breadth E. and W. 35 miles; 532,918 acres, population 121,062. The Co. is almost circular in form, and its surface shows a series of quiet and beautiful undulations. It is watered by the Wye, Lugg, Monnow, Arrow, and Frome, also the Teme, which flows on the NE. boundary. All these streams are well stocked with fish. Of late agriculture has been greatly improved in the Co. the soil is peculiarly suitable for the growth of timber, which is very abundant. The pear and apple orchards of Herefordshire are famous; while the luxuriant meadow-land affords pasture for a well-known breed of oxen. Marl and clay form the chief part of the soil; the subsoil is mostly limestone. There are no valuable minerals, and the manufactures are insignificant." [Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887]

INFORMATION RELATED TO ALL OF HEREFORDSHIRE

1. All Herefordshire pages may be searched using the GENUKI Search engine. The GENUKI Parish Locator may be used to identify which town or parish a place is located in.

2. There is a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) file for these Herefordshire pages.

3. Researchers may find one or more of the Herefordshire Mailing Lists useful in their research; and Herefordshire Surnames are listed within Graham Jaunay's On-line English Names Directory.

4. Volunteers are being sought to help to transcribe the 1871 Census for Herefordshire, to make the whole part of a free searchable database online. Visit the FreeCEN web site for more details, and if you'd like to volunteer.

5. A list of the major items (including external links) in the Herefordshire section of GENUKI is provided on a separate page of Quick Links.

Archives and Libraries

• Herefordshire - Archives and Libraries - links and information.

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Bibliography

• Botzum, Richard & Catherine - The 1675 Thomas Blount Manuscript History of Herefordshire. Lapridge Publications, 25 Church St. Hereford, HR1 2LR. £10.99.
  • ISBN 1 899290 04 4

  The extant portion of the original source from which this translation is derived (covering places K-Y) is at Hereford City Library. The first part of the original history (A-K) went missing during the 1700s, but, as the translation explains, some of it survived in extracts by others, and these extracts (Aconbury to Kinnersley) have also been included in this publication as Section I. Places K-Y constitute Section II, and a third section provides information about Hereford Cathedral, Bishops of Hereford, Nobility of the County, 'Wonders', Sheriffs of Herefordshire, and Mayors of Hereford, and there is an overall surname index.

• Crow, Alan - Bridges on the river Wye. Lapridge Publications, 1995.
  • ISBN 0-951858-99-8

  This is a very entertaining little book, painstakingly researched and documenting all known bridges on the Wye, past and present. Begins with bridges in the upper reaches, where the railway bridges and landowners building private footbridges to reach different parts of their estate hold sway, through to the bridges in the City of Hereford, and on to the mouth of the Wye where the possible crossing built by the Romans sits close by the new road bridge.

• Eisel, John and Shoesmith, Ron - The Pubs of Bromyard, Ledbury & East Herefordshire. Logaston Press, 2003.
  • ISBN 1-873827-63-6

  Another entertaining book. Almost every other building in Ledbury seems to have been a public house at some time in the past!

• Harnden, J. (Ed) - The Parish registers of Herefordshire. Published by The Friends of Hereford Record Office, 1987.
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0951234706
  Contains a map showing parish boundaries, and notes on other source material, such as Directories, Poll Books and Newspapers. Out of Print, but may be available in Reference Libraries.

• Perry, Raymond - Anglo-Saxon Herefordshire. Published by the Oxengard Press.
  • ISBN 0-9543287-0-1
  For more details see www.anglo-saxonherefordshire.co.uk

• Salter, Mike - The Old Parish Churches of Herefordshire. Folly Publications.
  • ISBN 1-871731-32-1
  I can recommend this book personally - like others in his Old Parish Churches series, it is extremely well-researched, and for me, a regular source of reference.

• Salter, Mike - The Castles of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Folly Publications.
  • ISBN 1-871731-05-4
  Another excellent and interesting book from Mike.

• Shoesmith, Ron - Castles & Moated Sites of Herefordshire. Logaston Press.
  • ISBN 1-873827-59-8

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Cemeteries

• Photos and transcriptions of notable church monuments, provided by the Church Monuments Society. Added 28 Aug 2007.

• Roll of Honour - Herefordshire - War Memorial Selection. Added 5 Aug 2005.

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Census

• Herefordshire Census - links and information.

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Church History

• Search database of Church & Parish details on The Diocese of Hereford website. Added 15 Jun 2007.

• Post Medieval Chapels in Herefordshire. The site has a Gazetteer to assist in location of Chapels by place. Added 24 Nov 2005.

• The Britannia, "America's Gateway to the British Isles" Index of Parish Churches features about 20 Herefordshire Churches.

• A list of Church Photographs available (by post) of over 100 Herefordshire parishes (part of the Herefordshire Family History Society site).
  Please remember to include a stamped, self-addressed envelope, or International Reply Coupons (IRCs) when enquiring for details.

• You may also find it worthwhile searching in the GENUKI church database. Enter the name of the place in which the church is located:

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Church Records

• Transcriptions of Hereford Bishops' Registers, and in particular the names of Rectors (or Vicars) and their Patrons for each Benefice of Hereford Institutions, provided by Mel Lockie. Added 9 Oct 2007.

• The searchable LDS website - IGI and Familysearch

  Note on using IGI Batch Numbers:
  It is not always easy to locate your ancestors in the IGI using the search mechanisms provided at the above LDS site. Manually typing the batch numbers into the IGI search screen can be tedious. Hugh Wallis has made an exhaustive search of the likely ranges of batch numbers and created a database of those numbers and the source records that they apply to. A very powerful feature included is a hotlink from each batch number to the actual search engine provided at the Family Search site, including the ability to enter the surname you are looking for. This makes it very easy to search all the batches for a particular geographic location using just the last name you are searching for - something that is not possible directly from the LDS site without doing a lot of typing. This is Hugh Wallis's site.

• Stephen Karner is transcribing a series of entries from Herefordshire Parish Registers for the purposes of his own research. Although the entries he's transcribed should not be construed as complete for any parish, they cover a wide range of surnames, and his site is very well worth a visit.

  You can also find links to his transcriptions by parish by selecting your parish of interest from the list on the Herefordshire Towns and Parishes page.

• The Society of Genealogists web site has a list of their holdings of Parish Register Copies for Herefordshire.

• Information on the location of Quaker Records in Herefordshire provided by the Quaker FHS.

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Civil Registration

• Brett Langston has provided details of Herefordshire Registration Districts 1837-1930.

  Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be obtained from the Superintendent Registrars at the following District Register Offices:

  • Bromyard Register Office
  • Hereford Register Office
  • Kington Register Office
  • Ledbury Register Office
  • Leominster Register Office
  • Ross on Wye Register Office

  Note: Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be obtained locally only from the Register Office for the District in which they were issued - or if the District no longer exists, the Office to which its registers have been moved.

  If ordering from a District Office, please note the following:

  1. the cost of a certificate is £7.00 (from 1st April 2003) - send a Sterling cheque payable to the Superintendent Registrar plus return postage or two International Reply Coupons;
     
  2. the General Register Office (GRO) Index references (formerly available at St Catherine's House) are of no value;
     
  3. for marriage certificates, the precise place of marriage must be given;
     
  4. Civil Registration in England and Wales began on July 1st 1837.

• If you have a GRO reference, you can now order certificates online via the General Register Office's website, and their Certificate Ordering Service for the same price as locally.

  You can obtain a GRO reference in several ways:-

  1. Personal visit to the Family Records Centre in London.
  2. Searching microfilm or fiche at your local library.
  3. FreeBMD is an ongoing project to make the General Register Office (GRO) Indexes freely available online. More volunteers are needed and details of how you can help are available on-site.
  4. findmypast.com (formerly 1837online) - images of the complete BMD indexes from the GRO online. Fee payable
  5. Family Relatives - similar to findmypast where again a fee is payable - check out their 'Resources & Guidance' section for details.

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Correctional Institutions

• The Prison Service Museum near Rugby houses HM Prison Service's historical collection of exhibits, illustrating the history of imprisonment from medieval times to the present day. Housed in a converted stable block, the museum contains reconstructions of Victorian prison architecture, and exhibits include the last set of Gibbet Irons used in England. Smaller items include bone carvings and paintings made by prisoners in their cells, and a nineteenth century sampler embroidered by a female prisoner from her own hair

  Admission to the museum is by appointment only, please contact:-

  The Curator,
  HM Prison Service Museum,
  Newbold Revel,
  Rugby,
  CV23 0TH
  

  Tel: 01788 834168
  

  [Information compiled from "The Penal Lexicon Home Page", formerly at www.penlex.org.uk/pages/index.html.]

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Description and Travel

• The Geograph British Isles project - "aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the UK and the Republic of Ireland..." Added 16 Jun 2007.

• Whilst mainly featuring Hereford town, some History, and Information about Travel and Tourism for some places within Herefordshire is available on the Hereford Web Pages.

• The Fidelis Information Service for Worcestershire and Herefordshire "The Internet Guide to Worcestershire & Herefordshire" has useful information about several Herefordshire towns.

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Directories

• Pigot's Directory of Herefordshire 1830 and Pigot's Directory of Herefordshire 1840 provided by Nicholas Adams.

• Leicester University's Digital Library of Historical Directories for England and Wales.

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Dwellings

• Herefordshire has many Timber-Framed Houses - its so-called "Black and White" Villages.

  These buildings may be found dating from the fourteenth to as late as the nineteenth century. The timber was usually oak, but with elm used occasionally for partitioning internally, and floor boarding.

  "Pre-fabricated" would be an apt description of their building. The master carpenter would pre-cut all the sections of wood, together with (presumably) all the necessary jointing requirements. The cross frames were then raised into position and linked with the pieces prepared for the side walls. The spaces were then infilled with lath and plaster or daub on wattle. Today's 'black and white' is thought to be a comparatively modern feature - originally the timber would be left untreated, and the infill would be either ochre-coloured or lime washed. (Ref: Sanford, Anne - Old Herefordshire Photographs. Published by Hendon Publishing Co. Ltd. 1985. ISBN 08606709882888)

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Emigration and Immigration

• For help finding your ancestors onboard ship - The Ships List - of particular interest are the large number of transcribed passenger lists, and records of some Marriages at Sea. Added 10 Dec 2007.

• Some Emigrants from Herefordshire to Australia and New Zealand - brief biographical details of known emigrants.

• Some Emigrants from Herefordshire to Colonial and British North America - brief biographical details of known emigrants (based on an idea for a similar list of Emigrants from Gloucestershire).

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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Entry for Herefordshire, 1911 in a 1911 Edition Encyclopedia. (the beginning of information about Herefordshire is part-way down the webpage).

• A Dictionary of Genealogy & Archaic Terms, Dick Eastman/Randy Jones. Added 3 May 2007.

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Gazetteers

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site providing UK Genealogy Archives of Herefordshire has a description of the county from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5.

• The transcription of the section for Herefordshire from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

• The transcription of the section for Miscellaneous Descriptions from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson. Included here are the descriptions of major topological features (rivers, hills &c.) and a descriptions of the county hundred divisions.

• You may also find it worthwhile searching in the GENUKI Gazetteer:-
  The GENUKI Gazetteer covers the whole of England, Wales and Scotland and can be searched by place-name (or part of a place-name) or Ordnance Survey Grid Reference (six-figure, eg SO510400). If there are multiple place-names matching the name you enter, you will be presented initially with a drop-down list of the matching place-names with their distances and bearings from Hereford.

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Genealogy

• The Herefordshire section of 'Curious Fox' - "The village-by-village contact site for anybody researching family history, genealogy and local history in the UK and Ireland". Added 29 Nov 2006.

• Sally Lloyd has a growing collection of information about Herefordshire on her site The Parish Mouse. Added 22 Jul 2006.

• Graham Jaunay's Online English Names Directory covers this county.

• Details of Herefordshire Mailing Lists - part of a much larger collection of "Genealogy Resources on the Internet" - pages maintained jointly by John, with Chris Gaunt.

• The Herefordshire Look-Up Exchange - a list of volunteers who hold reference material relating to Herefordshire and who are willing to undertake small searches. Updated 23 Jan 2008.

• The Herefordshire GenWeb pages, parts of the England GenWeb Project. These are in turn part of the British Isles GenWeb Project, and overall part of the World GenWeb hierarchy.

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Historical Geography

• English Heritage Viewfinder - site with historic photographs, searchable by county. Has some unusual ones of the Industrial Age which won't be found amongst the more usual postcard collections!.

• The Francis Frith Collection - a collection of over 700,000 photographs of the UK, Europe and the Middle East taken by the Victorian photographer Francis Frith.

• A Vision of Britain Through Time - information about your home area from the 2001 census, and from each British census back to 1801. Presented both as maps of the whole country and as graphs showing change over time.

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History

• British History Online - digital library of medieval and modern sources of the history of the British Isles. Notable souces include Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, and the Victoria County History. Added 14 Oct 2005.

• Herefordshire Sites & Monuments Record - a record of all known archaeological and historic sites in Herefordshire; but not just archaeology - also features Canals, Railways, Workhouses, Prisons and much more.

• An Encyclopaedia of British History: 1700-1950 - useful for seeing local events against a national perspective. Scroll down the introductory page on this site to see topics - Monarchy, Child Labour, The Railways, &c.

• The Domesday Book site - "to enable visitors to find out the history of the Domesday Book and to give an insight into life at the time of its compilation". Note this site does not provide the original text, but does include a list settlements existing in 1086.

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Land and Property

• Some abstracts of Herefordshire Feet of Fines (land conveyances) of various dates - on Chris Phillips Medieval English Genealogy web site. Added 22 May 2007.

• Pat Johnson has a large collection of original Family Deeds. Abstracts, with name and parish indexes are provided onsite, with transcriptions of the full documents available for a modest fee. In addtion, the original deed may also be available for purchase if required. Added 3 Mar 2004. Updated 19 Sep 2007.

• The Harvard Law School Library's English Deeds Collection contains detailed summaries of some Deeds relating to Herefordshire. The site 'Search' for 'herefordshire' may be expected to return nine entries. Updated 27 Apr 2006.

• Robin Alston has created The Country House Database, a very useful reference source, "listing country houses in the British Isles from the late medieval period to ca. 1850, together with an index to all the families so far traced as having occupied them." Includes a section on Herefordshire.

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Law and Legislation

• The Equity/Chancery Court Pleadings Database (on the Public Record Office's website) provides an online index to some of the Chancery Pleadings in series C6. Searches can be made by both name and place.

• Names from Criminal Registers (PRO Class HO 27) 1805-1816 are available for purchase on floppy disk or microfiche through Family History Indexes (the link to Criminal Register Indexes is part way down the page).

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Maps

• Access to various satellite map sites (Google, MS Live, &c.) via the convenient front end of Flash Earth. Added 16 Jun 2007.

• The London Ancestor site has maps from the 1885 Boundary Commissioners report for all parts of the British Isles, including Herefordshire (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1885)

• A most useful set of maps for the whole of England and Wales, showing parish boundaries, on a one inch to the mile scale, is available on CD-ROM for a modest price - see:

  Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Maps of England and Wales: Boundaries before 1850. Available on CD from History Data Service, UK Data Archive, 17 May 2001. SN: 4348.

• The Old Maps web site has a wonderful series of 1:10,560 scale historical maps for the whole of the UK available on-line. The Herefordshire ones are dated circa 1889.

• The Genmaps site contains a fine collection of Old Maps of the British Isles for Genealogists and Historians. In particular, see Old Maps of Herefordshire.

• The above Genmaps Links pages lists Great Britain - Medieval Maps, which in turn provides several maps including an intriguing Ecclesiastical Map of the British Isles in the Middle Ages, which shows the principal Monasteries, demonstrating some of the earliest centres of habitation and influence.

• Detailed Maps of the area you may be interested in Herefordshire are viewable at the UK Street Map Page. The site provides a most useful service, with superb address searching and street map facilities for anywhere in mainland Great Britain.

• Clear, Large Type and Braille Maps. Added 11 Feb 2006.

  David Hawgood has produced Maps of Herefordshire with Braille labels (large print labels) to help people with visual disabilities, with similar Tactile and large print Maps for other English counties.

  There is an article on David's website, Production of Tactile maps with Braille labels explaining how these maps have been produced.

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Medical Records

• Holdings of Lambeth Palace Library - a Directory of medical licences issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775 lists some early practitioners in Herefordshire.

• Medical Heritage of Great Britain, a site produced by the Bath & Wessex Medical History Group, providing detailed information on a county level of the history of medical treatments, and locations of some associated buildings.

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Military History

• Two very comprehensive sites featuring Castles and Fortifications - CastleUK.net, and The Gatehouse. Added 3 Sep 2005.

• The Age of Nelson - a website providing general information about the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815, and specifically searchable databases of those present at Trafalgar (and more) and of all Commissioned Naval Officers 1787-1822.

• Names from Musters of the Herefordshire Militia 1781-82 are available for purchase on floppy disk or microfiche through Family History Indexes (the link to Militia Musters is part way down the page).

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Names, Geographical

• Bannister, the Rev. A.T. (Arthur Thomas, 1861- ) The place-names of Herefordshire : their origin and development. Cambridge: Printed for the author (by J. Clay), 1916.

• Coplestone-Crow, Bruce - Herefordshire place-names. BAR British series ; 214 : Oxford : B.A.R, 1989. ISBN/ISSN: 0860546888

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Names, Personal

• Graham Jaunay's Online English Names Directory covers this county.

• Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section: Indexes to parish returns towards the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, ca.1678, with their Library Reference numbers. The returns themselves, which need to be consulted by personal visit, promise to be useful, as a record of those individuals who contributed, and in a number of instances those who did not. A number of the returns indicate status of the contributors, e.g. widow, or servant.

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Newspapers

• The Newspaper Library at Colindale - my current information (October 2007) is that the BL is going to close Colindale, transferring its archives to Boston Spa. Newspapers will be viewable on film only at the British Library, until such time as their holdings are digitised. See British Library Newspapers for up-to-date details of research facilities. Updated 23 Oct 2007.

• Information on Hereford Newspapers, supplied by the Herefordshire Family History Society.

• The Hereford Times.

  Links to Newspapers' sites are provided not only for the Newspaper content, but also because they may contain links to other items or sites of local interest.

• For other English Newspapers see OnlineNewspapers.com - England.

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Occupations

• The Worshipful Company of Curriers - information about the history of this trade. Added 1 Apr 2008.

• The Virtual Waterways Archive - "Hundreds of years of British waterway history brought together in one online catalogue". Added 19 Nov 2007.

• Pubs and Breweries of the Midlands past and present - select 'Pub Histories' for listings by county. Added 2 Nov 2005.

• Registers of the Company of Stationers, London : Apprentices from Herefordshire, transcribed by Leslie Mahler.

• The Hereford & Gloucester Canal Trust describes the beginnings, history and the restorating of this little-known Canal - "Building began at Over in 1793 at the height of 'canal mania'. The priority was to reach Ledbury so that revenue could be earned but the greatest obstacle was the 1¼ mile Oxenhall Tunnel.".

• The Society of Brushmakers' Descendants assists those with Brushmaking Ancestors, or with an interest in discovering more about the brushmaker's trade.

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Politics and Government

• Herefordshire County Council.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Workhouse a site "dedicated to the workhouse - its buildings, its inmates, its staff and administrators, and even its poets..." created by Peter Higginbotham - promises to be a rich source of reference.

• The Rossbret Web site provides extensive information about Workhouses and Poor Law Institutions, but also includes Asylums, Almshouses, Gaols (Prisons), Dispensaries, Hospitals (Infirmaries), Reformatories (Industrial Schools), and Orphanages, in many cases listing individual premises.

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Postal and Shipping Guides

• Eunice and Ron's Shanahans Homepage has information on British Postal History and a fascinating collection of Old British Letters.

  The Regency Collection has a section on Postal History, and also includes other interesting material relating to the Regency period - e.g. Turnpike Trusts, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, and more.

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Probate Records

• Gareth's Help Page [Archives] has a useful section on research in the National Library of Wales, where Probate Records for the Archdeaconry of Brecon are held.

• An index to Probate Records 1700-1858 has been compiled by Eleanor Harris. This index is not online, but is searchable for a fee - details on Eleanor's page on Herefordshire Family History Research.

• We have begun a collection of pages listing details of Herefordshire Probate Records. You are invited to submit abstracts of Wills collected during your own research, as well as to use the information for locating those elusive female lines. Please help us in building this collection!

• See also Herefordshire Probate Records Online for an overview, and links to online collections elsewhere.

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Religion and Religious Life

• Information about the Society of Friends (Quakers) on the Hereford & Mid-Wales Area Meeting website - includes mention of burial grounds at Almeley Wooton, Bromyard, Hereford, Leominster, Ross. Added 10 Oct 2007.

• The General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH) of the United Methodist Church has a list of John Wesley's Preachers, 1740-1791. Added 10 Jul 2006.

• John Blaylock provides Definitions of Words and Phrases used in the history pages of his Website, which include brief definitions of terms such as 'Advowson' , 'Curate', 'Rector', 'Tithes', &c., useful in the Religious context (part of his web page devoted to a History of the Parish Church of Boulton by Derby (Derbyshire).

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Schools

• A brief history of Education in England (3 parts).
  

• If you are interested in finding out whether your dearest school friends are also researching their family trees, check out Friends United, a site devoted to reuniting old school and college friends.

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Social Life and Customs

• Mother Bedford - "a website devoted primarily to the history of Old-Bedford County, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War period" - a fascinating site including items of general historical interest eg:
  1. Apposite to the time of adding: The Celebration of Christmas.
  2. Examples of music our ancestors may have enjoyed: The Music of the 1770s: a Directory.

• Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 - The Gazetteer, compiled by Dr Samantha Letters is a catalogue of Markets and Fairs in Medieval England and Wales. First comprehensive National Survey, with detailed information about grants of Charters to all Market Towns. Mentions some names of grantees - eg for Brampton Bryan, "gr 6 Feb 1252, by K Hen III to Brian de Brampton".

• Victorian Social History: An Overview - Public Health, Education, Conditions of Life and Labour.

• Costume History - from Ancient Babylon through to 1990s - a very comprehensive site on Fashion and Dress through the ages. Has images to illustrate what my great*6 aunt Mary OUTRAM might have been wearing on top of her "second best stays", one of the items she left in her will of 1769 to a young female relative!

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Societies

• Herefordshire FHS
• The Woolhope Club. Their website has a searchable list of contents of their Transactions from 1852-2004. Added 28 Feb 2008.

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Taxation

• The E 179 Database (on the National Archives website) contains detailed information about over 26,000 documents relating to the taxation of lay people in England and Wales between c.1200 and c.1700. These documents are likely to contain many names.

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Voters

• Cathie Bennett has transcribed some Herefordshire Poll Books of 1852 and 1868, to include various districts and parishes.

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