The
Andrews Pages : Useful Genealogy Sources |
Our own favourites and links to
sites we hope will be helpful to other genealogists and local historians |
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Selected UK Counties
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Berkshire |
Berkshire GENUKI
site
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Cheshire |
Cheshire GENUKI
site
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Derbyshire |
Derbyshire GENUKI
site
- The Andrews Pages
Picture Gallery : Derbyshire is elsewhere in this
website.
- Ashbourne -
several pages about the town are in the picture Gallery.
Navigate via the Index.
- Bakewell Old
House Museum
- Belper
Research explores one or two very particular areas
in Belper, and some local families connected to those places.
This attractive site also includes numerous parish register
and other transcripts.
- Bishops
Transcripts - BT's for Derbyshire parishes are
held by the Staffordshire Record Office.
- Bonsall - photographs and cards in our Picture
Gallery. Here is a selection:
- Bonsall : Kelly's Directory,
1891 : including Upper Town & Slaley.
- Also see the widely acclaimed Bonsall
History Project. The project is aiming to produce
a comprehensive history of the village.
- Bygone
Industries of the Peak Index to articles first published in the Peak Advertiser.
- Census
Transcripts for NW Derbyshire are available on Liz
Sparke's site.
- Chatsworth
House: Historic servants and staff (1700-1934).
With database of many people who have worked there.
- Chesterfield
and District Family History Society
- Clay
Cross, Derbyshire - one of several web sites maintained
by Neil Wilson. Another is White's Directory (see below).
- Clowne
Village - old photographs and other village info.
- Cromford, Derbyshire: A collection of 19th
century trade directory transcripts.
- Cromford - Friends of the
Cromford Canal - Restoring the Historic Waterway.
- Darley (North Darley)
: Darley Dale, Darley Moor, Hackney, Hackney Lane & Two
Dales : Kelly's Directory, 1891.
- Derby,
Old Photos Of, 1880-1960.
- Derbyshire
Ancestral Research Group.
- Derbyshire
Archaeological Society, with an On Line index. See
List of Journals
- Derbyshire
Book Reviews & Summaries: read Julie Bunting's
reviews of books about the county on Rosemary Lockie's
page.
- Derbyshire Criminal Records, researched by Jean Durbin [broken link].
- https://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/ has
tourist information from Derbyshire Dales District Council.
- Derbyshire Family History
Society, includes application form and publications lists.
- Derbyshire
Local Studies Libraries (Derbyshire County Council
Leisure & Culture - Libraries):
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811 -
Ann's searchable alphabetical listing, with descriptions
of parishes in the county - this page is linked into the
GENUKI site for Derbyshire (see above).
- Derbyshire
Parish Registers at the Society of Genealogists. Also
Derbyshire Marriage Licences.
- Derbyshire
Record Office, Matlock (Became a joint service
with County Hall LSL on 12 Feb 2013).
- Dethick, Lea and
Holloway : Kelly's Directory, 1891.
- Discover
Derbyshire and the Peak District is a wonderful resource
for those keen on walking. It is non-commercial and based
on Discover Derbyshire Supplements published by the Derby
Evening Telegraph, written by the site's compiler, Denis
Eardley.
- Funeral Garland at Matlock
Church describes an ancient custom that accompanied
the burial of a maiden.
- The Gentleman's Magazine Library,
English Topography Part III, Derbyshire - Dorsetshire (1893).
A collection of articles submitted to the magazine between
1731 and 1868, varying in both length and subject. Full transcription
of Derbyshire.
- Hadfield
Genealogy.
- Journeys.
Mike and Patricia Spencer's journeys around Derbyshire contain
a good deal of local history.
- Kelly's Directory Index,
1891 - originally transcripts of entries for Matlock
and a few surrounding parishes, it has now expanded considerably
to include a good many Derbyshire parishes.
- Matlock and Matlock Bath -
the complete web site for those interested in genealogy or
local history.
- Melbourne
Historical Research Group have some interesting information
about clearances, market gardeners, etc. You can support
them by becoming a patron for a small sum.
- Memorials - A Walk Through Derbyshire's Past
- photos of memorials in Derbyshire Churchyards, mostly to the north and east
of Matlock. Includes Darley Dale, Ashover, Shirland, Ault
Hucknall and North Wingfield. (site not available, Jan 2018)
- North
West Derbyshire Marjorie Ward's site has information,
including census transcripts, about Chapel-en-le-Frith,
Glossop, New Mills, Mellor and other places in this part
of the county. Her site is still available on Rootsweb
- Old
Local History and Mining Site - maintained by Neil
Bridgewater.
- Parish Registers. There are two sources for CDs aimed at Family Historians.
They mostly concentrate on different areas of the county:
- Val Neal's CDs - new copies are no longer available.
- Ancestral Archives of Derbyshire - some of their CDs are available
through Derbyshire Family History Society but their web
site is no longer available
- Visit Let's Stay Peak District at https://www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.com/.
(Apologies that there is no hyperlink. Please use copy and
paste.)
Peak District tourist guide featuring hotels, cottages, pubs,
b&bs, campsites, caravan parks as well as places to eat
and drink, visitor attractions, places to see, walks and
more.
- Peakland Heritage - a joint venture between Derbyshire County
Council, Peak Park and the British Library is aimed largely
at school children. Over 700 topics are included
(site not been available since Jan 2018).
- The
Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution Group - there was a good deal
of civil unrest in the early part of the nineteenth century. Some 35 Derbyshire
men, known as the 'Pentrich Martyrs,' went to trial on 16 Oct 1817 as revolutionaries,
including Jeremiah Brandreth.
- Pigot's
Directory of Derbyshire, 1835, transcribed by Rosemary
Lockie.
- Photographs -
Andy Savage's site has over three thousand large photographs
of Derby and Derbyshire.
- Photographers & Photographic
Studios of Derbyshire, an ongoing study of 19th and
early 20th Century Derbyshire studio photographers by Brett
Payne
- Photographers, Matlock
& Matlock Bath - on this website.
- Probate
Records for Derbyshire, Abstracts of, on Rosemary Lockie's
GUKUTILS site, are easily searchable by surname.
- Rosemary Lockie's Wishful
Thinking Web Site has a good deal of excellent information
about Derbyshire. There is a mass of interesting material
for the genealogist and local historian.
- Rowsley (Great Rowsley)
: includes Alport and Stanton Woodhouse : Kelly's Directory,
1891.
- Shirland : St. Leonard's Church - five photographs
(our Derbyshire Picture Gallery).
- South
Derbyshire Genealogical Resource Page Brett Payne's
excellent site.
- Stanton-in-the-Peak :
includes Stanton Lees : Kelly's Directory, 1891.
- Stoney
Middleton Rosemary Lockie's extracts of parish
records.
- Tansley : including
Matlock Cliff and Lumsdale : Kelly's Directory, 1891.
- Trusley
Estate.
- The
Derbyshire Record Society The Society publishes "edited
texts, monographs and pamphlets relating to the history
of the county".
- Our Picture Gallery: The
Derbyshire section includes an early 20th century picture
of Bonsall Cross, images of Ashbourne, Melbourne Church and
Steetley Chapel (with descriptions).
- Wensley (South Darley)
: includes Oakerside, Darley Bridge, Cross Green, and Snitterton.
Kelly's Directory, 1891.
- Where
is it in Derbyshire? Description(s) from "The
National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson
- White's
1857 Directory of Derbyshire - transcribed by Neil
Wilson.
- Matlock (transcribed
by Ann Andrews) is part of The Andrews Pages.
- Cromford is
part of The Andrews Pages.
- Wills for Derbyshire - pre 1858 - can be found at the Staffordshire
Record Office.
(also look under Probate above)
- Wills - The Matlock
Calendars are on this site, and also include
a growing numbers of pre 1858 surnames
- Wishful Thinking has provided a
helpful transcript of "Calendars of Lichfield
Wills and Administrations, 1516-1652", (1892)
ed. W.P.W. Phillimore, Index Library, British Record
Society, London. But you should be aware that few entries
give abode.
- Recent searches for the web site "UK Books
Online and Links", which is where scanned
copies of the Calendars of Lichfield Wills and
Administrations were originally stored, have failed.
However the scans are still available on Eric Youle's
site, http://history.youle.info/ (not currently
available). They were listed under the 'Sheffield
Historical' menu item. When I last looked this
was in the LH frame.
- The Wishful Thinking Texts Collection.
- Winster -
excellent site maintained by Dawn Scotting (please note that
Dawn's site at winster-ancestry.com no longer exists and
she has posted her information as a blog).
- Wirksworth John
Palmer's site contains virtually all there is to know about
the parish. Please note that this site is no longer being
updated.
- Wishful
Thinking's Derbyshire Index : Memorial Inscriptions,
Photos, Book Reviews, Maps, Lichfield Wills (linked above
under Wills).
- Yesterdays -
Mike Spencer's amazing collection of information about Derbyshire
people, extracted from umpteen sources.
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Devon |
Devon GENUKI
site
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Gloucestershire |
Gloucestershire GENUKI
site
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Lancashire |
Lancashire GENUKI
site
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Montgomeryshire |
now part of Powys
Montgomeryshire GENUKI
site
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Nottinghamshire |
Nottinghamshire GENUKI
site
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Oxfordshire |
Oxfordshire GENUKI
site
- FHS
Publications on fiche, includes many Berkshire parishes.
Excellent range available
- Bodleian
Library : scanned images of selected years from Blackwood's
Edinburgh Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine and Notes
and Queries. [Dec 2020 - this link
is currently not working]
- Our Picture Gallery : Two villages that were formerly
in Berkshire.
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Shropshire |
Shropshire GENUKI
site
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Surrey |
Surrey GENUKI
site
- The Andrews Pages:
Godalming, Surrey now has its own index within this
website
- See Godalming: : A selection of interesting facts about the town
- Godalming
Museum
- Godalming Trust
- Surrey
History Centre, formerly the RO, Guildford Muniment
Room and the Guildford LS Library
- Our Picture Gallery,
Godalming section includes:
- Godalming,
SS. Peter & Paul Parish Church and Church House,
1907
- Godalming,
Borough Road and Frith Hill, 1914
- Godalming,
High Street, 1910 - an Edwardian postcard
- Godalming,
The Old Forge, Pound Lane, about 1910
- Godalming,
Railway Station, 1905
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Wiltshire |
Wiltshire GENUKI
site
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Yorkshire |
Yorkshire GENUKI
site
- Yorkshire
BMD - produced by the county's Family History Societies
are collaborating with the local Registration Services.
- Bradford
Family History Society. Although I am not a member,
they have some good publications
- Borthwick
Institute, York
- Calverley,
a repository of genealogical and historical data concerning
the villages of Calverley Parish in the West Riding of
Yorkshire
- CD
ROM versions of old and rare books and modern photographs
are produced by Colin Hinson
- Eric
Youle Although this link does not seem to be working
properly, has some excellent family history reference
material for Sheffield and Hallamshire (with a little
on Derbyshire). See his Historical Material [Dec 2020
- this link is no longer working]
- Sheffield
Indexers. Includes links for Yorkshire | Cheshire
| Derbyshire |
Durham | Lancashire | Lincolnshire | Nottinghamshire
| Westmorland/Cumbria
- Sheffield
Records Online
- The
Lordship of Tong, parish of Birstall. A brief description
of the Yorkshire village, dated 1822, where several
of Ann's ancestors lived*
Also see the Baines
Directory entries for the same year
- West Yorkshire Archive Service hold many documents. They
also have lists of publications. This
is the link for the Bradford Archive Service
- Yorkshire
Nonconformists - an indexed register of baptisms, marriages
and deaths for Northowram for 1644-1702 and 1702-52 written
by Rev Oliver Heywood & T Dickenson*
*both the above sites are transcripts
by Colin Hinson
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The
Midlands |
- Midlands
Historical Data helps to preserve old, out of print
books and maps by creating digital copies which are available
to buy. Anthony Abrahams concentrates on four counties
of the West Midlands of the UK - Shropshire, Staffordshire,
Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. There are quarterly/annual subscriptions or pay-as-you-go options.
- He also includes material from throughout the UK
as well as such morsels as several years of "The Gentleman's Magazine" (Derbyshire
and Devon extracts are published elsewhere on The
Andrews Page. Go to The Gentleman's Magazine Library)
- Newspapers
in the East Midland and East of England >See NEWSPLAN
on their menu
Which newspapers have been preserved and where to find
them
- Picture
the Past is a project digitising the photos of Derby
City Libraries and Derby Museums, and Derbyshire, Nottingham
and Nottinghamshire Libraries. The biggest photo resource
on Derby and Derbyshire, and one of the biggest such
resources in the country.
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Additional
genealogy and history sources (A - Z) |
Additional
Sources, A - C |
Sorted alphabetically by title
- A
- Access to Archives, now Discovery
at the National Archives - lists archived documents
held across England, dating from the 900s to the present
day
- A-Z
of British Genealogical Research
- Arms (coats of):
- B
- Baths, Turkish - see The Victorian Turkish Bath Databank
Under V below.
- BMD
- BMD - Find
My Past
Search the ONS indexes of Birth, Marriage and Deaths
indexes for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002, as well
as British nationals overseas from 1761 to 1994. A pay-per-view
site, but not expensive. You can now order a certificate
on line. Also all UK census images, including 1911, parish
registers and other genealogy info
- Go to gov.uk/ for
post July 1837 English and Welsh birth, marriage, civil
partnership, death, adoption and commemorative certificates.
- Books
- Bridgeman
Art Library has examples of the work of a variety
of artists
- Britain
from Above (1919 - 1953) is a wonderful site of aerial
photographs
- British
Library, Explore the Catalogue - simple searching and
ordering of documents from the British Library's extensive
collections (the "integrated" Catalogue has been
removed from the site)
- British
Listed Buildings
- British
Red Cross - VAD Nurses (First World War)
- C
- Calendars Old
and New Calendar dates explained
- Census:
- Churches
and Chapels. Where Did your Ancestors go to Church?
A Places of Worship Database covering Derbyshire, Gloucestershire,
Herefordshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire, all in the
U.K., provided by Rosemary Lockie.
- Coal
Mining Resource Centre, includes details of mining
deaths
- Codes - we list the British Standard
County Codes (CCC) for the British Isles. They used
to be known as Chapman's Codes as they were drawn up by
Colin Chapman
- Commonwealth
War Graves Commission - extremely helpful in providing
information on those who have died in the two world
wars.
The war graves include those from Australia, Canada,
New Zealand, South African and the Indian sub continent.
We owe them all a huge debt of gratitude. There are 500
pages of names for the surname Singh, for example.
- Copyright:
- Colin
Hinson has produced this page on 'Conditions of
use for transcribed and other material'. If you use
material from web sites you need to be aware of what
you can and can't do with it.
- The Andrews Pages also have our own Conditions
of Use which we ask you to respect.
- Crimea
Medical Officers Rosemary Lockie's archive, containing
transcripts of Returns of Medical Officers, Physicians
and Surgeons, &c serving in the Crimea, discovered
in the Public Record Office (now the National Archive).
- Cyndi's
List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet.
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Additional
Sources, D - G |
- D
- The
Domesday Book Online A site designed "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".
- E
- English Coinage. In late September and early October 2022 changes to the coinage in 1696
and what had led up to it suddenly became a talking point, largely because of the UK's new Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
- English
Heritage have placed more than 20,000 previously unseen
images on the internet. You can do a simple search by county
or place.
- F
- Family
Tree Magazine
- FamilySearch is
maintained by the LDS (this is a new way to search their
records)
- Federation
of Family History Societies Has details of the National
Burials Index and Family History Books
- Find
My Past
- FreeBMD "is
an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the
Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths
for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access
to the transcribed records." (also see BMD above)
- FreeCEN offers
access to 19th Century Census Returns
- FreeReg documents historic Parish Registers
- G
- GENfair -
the Online Family History Fair and Genealogy Bookstore
GENfair and FFHS Publications Ltd announced some time
ago that they'd agreed terms for the purchase of GENfair
by FFHS Publications Ltd.
- GENUKI homepage
- the starting point for genealogy in the U.K. and Ireland.
- The
Gillies Archives of plastic surgery is the most
complete archive of medical notes from the Great War.
The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent performed plastic
surgery of the face between 1917 and 1925, and today's
Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup possesses a unique
collection of over 2500 case files relating to that
era.
- GOONS -
Guild of One-Name Studies. Some of our surname interests
are listed, including Leather and Stead/Steed(e)
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Additional
Sources, H - L |
- I
- IGI
search via the LDS familysearch (this is the new
way to search their records)
- J
- JiGraH
Resources Begun by Graham & Jill Hadfield but now
run by My History. Can help with printing large charts,
unlocking data on old discs, web page design etc.
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Additional
Sources, M
- N |
- N
- Names - Behind
the Names, the etymology and history of first names
- The
National Archives : The Public Record Office (PRO)
and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) joined
together to form a new organisation - The National Archives
(TNA)
- National
Portrait Gallery - search the collection by artist,
portrait or sitter
- The
Age of Nelson - "two new massive and authoritative
databases covering the Royal Navy officers who fought in
the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815,
and the seamen and marines who fought at the Battle of
Trafalgar in 1805."
- Newgate Prison. A list of inmates, victims and those associated
with the prison, by Jeff Alvey (his original site does not
seem to be available any longer but the executions can still
be accessed - see link immediately below.
- Newspaper Library, Colindale - the library closed after
82 years and the repository was relocated to Boston Spa,
Yorkshire. The newspapers Colindale held can be read in the British
Library Reading room at St. Pancras.
- Newspapers,
Australian: "Digitised Newspapers and more".
Try the Advanced
search
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Additional
Sources, O - R |
- O
- Occupations and Trades:
- Old
Bailey : The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674
to 1834
- Old Maps (1): https://www.old-maps.co.uk/ This
is a wonderful site. Find where your ancestors were living
in the last century with maps dating from about 1883.
From 29 Oct 2021 this service was no longer available, but
the link will be left for a short time.
- Old maps (2). More old maps can be found on the National
Library of Scotland's Old Map collection.
- One
Place Studies. Links to research about a town or village,
created and maintained by either a single genealogist (who
may not live there) or a local history group.
- One Name Studies (see GOONS above)
- Ordnance
Survey
- P
- The
Parish Chest You can buy Powys FHS publications over
a secure server
- The site to Photographs by Julie Woodhouse, who lived in Tansley, is no longer available. Her work included photographs
of landscapes from various parts of the world, including many of Derbyshire, and which are/were commercially available.
- Population:
Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website,
providing access to hundreds of official documents relating
to the history of civil registration and the taking of
the censuses.
- Postcards
- Public Record Office - UK. See National Archives above
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Additional
Sources, S - Z |
- W
- War Graves - see Commonwealth War Graves above
- Wills
- (1) General Information. Please see our Matlock
Wills Calendar.
Although it is primarily concerned with Matlock, it has
information for anyone wanting to obtain copies of or
learn about wills.
- (2) Post 1858 Wills
GOV.UK,
Wills, probate and inheritance Wills and Probate
(1858 to present), including those of serving Soldiers
(1850-1986), can be purchased through their site. An
easy to us search facility is provided. PDF copies are
now available for £1.50 each (August 2019).
- (3) PCC Wills
It is now possible to download images of many PCC wills 1670-1858,
though not adms at present
Discovery
- at the National Archives
This replaced DocumentsOnline (formerly PRO-Online) and 'allows
you online access to The National Archive's collection of
digitised public records, including both academic and genealogical
sources'.
- Y
- Yale University 'British art' website
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Sites
sharing the same surname interests |
The sites below may
not share common ancestors with us |
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- ANDREWS
- BRYAN
- Dieter Retz - sadly, Dieter passed away in 2019 and
his website is no longer available (http://www.retz.net.au/genealogy/)
BRYAN's from Matlock Bath, DBY.
His late wife wrote a book which includes them: "My
Moreland Family", by Pamela Marion Retz
- CLAY
- DARK(E)
- EXELL
- Exall and Exell Surnames Wills
Calendar, Navy Joiners and ONS references of EXELL
deaths in England and Wales Sep 1837 - Dec 1904.
Also Exall deaths Sep 1837 - Dec 1880
- MOTTRAM
- Clive
MOTTRAM has a page dedicated to his 2Xg grandfather,
George Austin MOTTRAM
- SMITHIES
- BMD The first
four and a half years of Births, Marriages and Deaths
registered in England and Wales (Sep 1837 - Dec 1841),
Casualties of War and Wills calendar
- STEAD
- YARWOOD
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Royal British Legion supports ex servicemen.
We both have a number of relatives who died as a result
of war.
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