Wills and where to find them

Gibson, Jeremy Sumner Wycherley

Genealogical Publishing Co.

The records of Quarter Sessions are the oldest and largest collection of public  records of the counties of England and Wales. They cover almost every type of record arising  from civil and criminal court proceedings: records of oaths and declarations to innkeepers'  licenses, calendars of prisoners to registers of tradesmen and gamekeepers. So, a concise  inventory of the Quarter Sessions records is an invaluable research tool. Based on information  furnished by county archives or culled from published guides, this work lists the various  categories of Quarter Sessions records likeliest to be useful to the genealogist, showing where  the records are, their dates of coverage, and whether finding aids are available. Completely  revised and updated.

Quarter sessions records for family historians: A select list

Genealogical Pub. Co

Poll books, c. 1696-1872: A directory to local holdings in Great Britain

History

Europe

Since 1194 it has been the duty of coroners to investigate the circumstances of unnatural, sudden, or suspicious deaths, and of deaths in prison. Their records are extensive, and, until now, notoriously difficult to track down. This little guidebook is actually the first effort ever made to itemize all coroners' records in England and Wales now in public repositories, and it has made a relatively impossible task relatively simple. Within each county, listed in order of their pre-1974 boundary changes, the records are arranged in three groups: Medieval (generally pre-sixteenth century), Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, and Modern (generally twentieth century). Within these groups the records are listed by repository. All details were either supplied by archivists or extracted from various manuscript or published calendars. Also included in the work is a glossary of terms and a bibliography.

Coroners' Records in England and Wales 2nd Edition

Rogers, Colin

Poll Books c. 1696-1872 A Directory of Holdings in Great Britain 3rd Edition

Rogers, Colin D.

The records of Quarter Sessions are the oldest and largest collection of public records of the counties of England and Wales. They cover almost every type of record arising from civil and criminal court proceedings: records of oaths and declarations to innkeepers' licenses, calendars of prisoners to registers of tradesmen and gamekeepers. So, a concise inventory of the Quarter Sessions records is an invaluable research tool. Based on information furnished by county archives or culled from published guides, this work lists the various categories of Quarter Sessions records likeliest to be useful to the genealogist, showing where the records are, their dates of coverage, and whether finding aids are available. Completely revised and updated.

Quarter Sessions Records for Family Historians--A Select List 4th Edition

Reference

Genealogy

By law, a certain number of militiamen had to be recruited from among the able-bodied men in each parish.  Thus, lists of all those eligible had to be drawn up by the parish constable, and where these survive (between 1757 and 1831) they constitute a veritable census.  Along with the "Defense Lists"--the Posse Comitatus of 1798 and the Levee en Masse of 1803-04--and muster rolls of various militia regiments and local forces, these militia lists (in theory) are almost a complete census of the male population.  Militias were generally raised on a county basis, and most of these voluminous records are found today in the various county record offices.  The fourth edition of this important work is a guide to the location of all such records in the county record offices throughout Britain.

Militia Lists and Musters 1757-1876 : A Directory of Holdings in the British Isles

Gibson, J.S.W.

Medlycott, Mervyn

Quarter sessions records for family historians: A select list (Guides for genealogists, family, and local historians)

Federation of Family History Societies

Coroners' records in England and Wales (Guides for genealogists, family, and local historians)

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