Tracing your ancestors in the Public Record Office (Public Record Office handbooks)

Politics & Social Sciences

Cox, Jane

Anthropology

H.M.S.O.

The pursuit of ancestors is a hobby that has grown in recent years and this book aims to help those with British connections who want to find out about their family history. The book advises on the use of documents in the Public Record Office, and from other sources.

Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office (Public Record Office Handbooks ; No. 19)

Science & Math

The Stationery Office/Tso

Life and Traditions: London's East End (Life and Traditions)

Orion Publishing Co

The publication of this book is a landmark in London history. Not since 1951 has there been a serious attempt to chronicle the history of East London. Old East Enders tells East London’s story from Roman Shadwell to the present day, focusing on the untold story of the medieval and early modern Tower Hamlets. Jane Cox is an experienced author and lecturer, and her immensely readable and entertaining new book takes in recent archaeological research and a whole range of new record research. A wide range of fascinating and in some cases previously unpublished illustrations further enliven the text, which illuminates the history of this part of London as never before.

Old East Enders: A History of the Tower Hamlets

History

Europe

The History Press

Bounded by the river Lea on one end and by the walls of the City on the other, the East End of London has, through the years, seen a wide variety of people and ways of life pass by. Through bountiful photos, drawings, maps, and engravings, and an authoritative text that weaves a rich historical tapestry, find yourself transported to the riversides and docks where pirates met their fates and Captain Cook married a barmaid; to the monasteries and slums east of the tower; and to Shoreditch where audiences cheered the first performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Over five centuries' worth of anecdotes, folk tales, diary excerpts, court cases, newspapers, and letters capture this colorful, ever-changing neighborhood.

London's East End: Life & Traditions

Seven Dials

‘East Enders are a very special breed and tracing your East End ancestry is going to be tremendous fun. Everyone has got some East End ancestors - and if they haven’t they invent them, rollicking chaps, larky and resourceful, talking a funny language to keep “them” guessing, eating at eel and pie shops, shouting out their wares in clattering, colorful markets. Their wives and masters (“ ‘er in doors”) are brazen lassies, smart as paint, tough as their men folk, presiding over an undoubted matriarchal society where Mum rules OK? The good tales are of bright little kids, unshod and streetwise, rising above their origins and making a mint. The bad ones are of indescribable horror - children dying in diseased heaps, infant sex for sale and gangs of armed bandits terrorizing the neighborhood.’ As author Jane Cox writes in the preface, the East End of our great grandparents’ days was another world, and her fascinating and accessible guide to East End ancestry will help you find out about it. She takes readers through the maze of courts and alleys that was the home of their ancestors, bringing to life that vibrant, polyglot society, and describing the many sources researchers can consult – archives, records, books, the internet – in order to discover the lives of individuals who lived in the area or passed through it.

Tracing Your East End Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Tracing your Ancestors)

Pen and Sword Family History

The East End of London, bounded by the river Lea in the East and by the walls of the city in the west, has, throughout its long history, seen a variety of people and many ways of life. Jane Cox's authoratative text recreates life in the East End over the last five ceturies with anecdotes, folk tales, excerpts from contemporary diaries, court cases, newspapers and letters as well as over 100 photographs, paintings and maps.

London's East End: Life and Traditions

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Never Been Here Before?: A Genealogists' Guide to the Family Records Centre

Reference

Genealogy

Natl Archives

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