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Fleshing out the bones of our Ancestors : free resources for Local History Society of Genealogists 25 May 2019 Dr Gillian Draper FRHistS FSA [email protected] “My boddye shall lye with my name Engraven on it” ’: remembering the Godfrey family of Lydd, ’ via https://kent.academia.edu/GillianDraper

Thomas II [Godfrey, inserted], d. 1623: 3 wives, Evidence in roughly date order 3 sons, 1 dau. Peter, Richard, Thomas, Mary title deeds (1390-1423) the urban records of the Cinque Ports (A. Finn; Historic[al] Manuscripts commission) an estate map of 1617 memorials and monuments in Lydd church wills [3 PCC, 24 in Consistory Court, ] antiquarian pedigrees (early 17th C.) https://www.academia.edu/signup

Connected Histories https://www.connectedhistories.org/ 1. When Connected Histories was introduced the Society of Genealogists reviewed it, in particular its search facility, see 2. http://www.societyofgenealogists.com/connected-histories-brings-together- great-resources-for-family-history-a-thumbs-up-from-the-society-of- genealogists/ 3. Don’t just use quick search or even advanced search- read what the website says about how its search works and what you will get. 4. Note that some of the material is free , some subscription 5. Check the website is up to date (it has a 2019 date on the home page and material continues to be added) 6. Vital: what sources have been used to make the database? 7. One of the research guides is Family History. This is clear about the limitations of its search facility – as the SoG review is. 8. My view- what not search the websites from which the Connected Histories database is compiled for yourself? What database/records make up Connected Histories? Below (L) are the ones recommended for Family History in the research guide 1. Clergy of the Church of England database [1540-1835] 2. Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online [1674-1913] 3. Lives, 1690-1800 4. History of Parliament Online [1386- 1832] 5. British History Online [medieval onwards] 6. Origins.net (now ‘absorbed’ into FMP) ‘Connect to the Native Interface’ [email protected]

Gough Map website http://www.goughmap.org/map/

City Witness: http://www.medievalswansea.ac.uk/en/inf ormation/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/research/en glish-monastic-archives

Calendars and similar catalogues

Calendars etc of medieval material An example of Calendar of Patent Rolls content Calendar of Patent Rolls Calendar of Close Rolls Calendar of Charter Rolls Calendar of Fine Rolls Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic (Henry VIII’s reign onto modern times) Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds • How to use these calendars: New material onMedievalgenealogy.org.uk • In print In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines added 30 December 2016 • Some on British History Online – (1272-1307) (269 fines) but they are Premium i.e. paid • (1272-1307) (299 fines) • (1319-1326) (118 fines) for • (1307-1327) (209 fines) • (1307-1327) (46 fines) • Via Medievalgenealogy.org.uk •Worcestershire (1307-1327) (184 fines) •Divers, unknown and various counties (1307-1327) • Via Hathi Trust see later slide (301 fines)

Calendar of Patent Rolls free via Hathi Trust covers 1216-1580 https://www.hathitrust.org/ Tips on using online catalogues – The National Archives [TNA] and others Rye () Chamberlains’ account 1405-6 Variants of the Sussex place and personal name Oxney-bridge

• Oxenbridge • Oxenbrigge • Oxbrigge • Oxbrydge • Oxnebrigge • Oxnebridge • Oxnebregge • Uxbrigge • Ox*, Oxen*, Oxne*, Ux* The Institute of Historical Research [IHR], London http: / /www.history.ac.uk

One example from this library • The Calendars of royal and state papers • Many Calendars published by county • Reports of the Historic(al) Manuscripts historical and record societies Commission on early urban records • City, town and village histories, some • Translated and indexed including names th published as far back as the 18 century, • E.g. vol. 5 has lengthy summaries of the some very recent. borough records of Lydd, New Romney, • The (the ‘big red Folkestone, Fordwich, St Alban’s, books’) of every county Dartmouth, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, and High Wycombe. • Bibliography of British and Irish History [BBIH] to consult • Vol. 13 has those of Rye and Hereford • The IHR has an online catalogue which • Other volumes cover estates and manors you can freely search from home https://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/ search~S10 Researching the history of children's and family lives Ephemera: ‘the minor transient documents of everyday life’

• Clippings from local newspapers: looking beyond the ‘births marriages and deaths’ columns • Weddings and other events: who attended? • Job adverts: tell you something of what people actually did • Property sales: contents of houses or buildings/equipment of businesses Alan Crosby ‘Housing:..types and periods’ The Local Historian 47:4 (2017) [journal of the BALH] Schools among low-density housing (2.5 inch OS map 1956)

Superior planned houses for mill-workers of 1820s and 30s, Compstall, 3 of BALH’s books on research 8 websites on researching children and families

• The Hockcliffe Project • Victorian Children (also Dictionary of Victorian London) • The Army Children’s Archive • Foundling Voices • Historic Children’s Hospitals Admissions • Hidden Lives Revealed • Young Immigrants to Canada Finding information for free! https://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records/ Finding books in university, research and public libraries

• Keep clicking and find the published books which the website used to compile its database. • 25 volumes of the Balliol College • You can then seek the books out via libraries: county libraries and Register from 1833 till 2000 record offices, museums, local history and uni libraries. • A biographical register of the • Use COPAC to search the catalogues of university and research university of Cambridge to 1500 libraries • A biographical register of the • For county libraries, visit and ask- they can make an inter-library University of Oxford, A D 1501 to loan request for you. 1540 by A.B Emden The Army Children’s Archive (TACA)

TACA themes and CHRISTMAS DINNER ON A TROOPSHIP, 1889

THE GARRISON CHILDREN’S SCHOOL, 1922, RIEHL (a suburb of Cologne/Köln) Hidden Lives Revealed Harvey Goodwin Home for Boys, Cambridge Some examples of the Waifs and Strays Society’s magazine and other publications https://victorianchildren.org/ http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm From Thomas Pecocke’s will: In life I have been ‘minded and Determined to have Found a Free Schoole in Rye aforesaid for the better Educateing and Breeding of Youth there in good Literature … for that Purpose I have already at my own proper Costs and Charges Erected and Built a House in Rye aforesaid in a Street called the Longer street Which I intend shall [be] imployed and Converted for the Keeping of the said Schoole’ From Edward Hasted, Topographical History of Kent (1798-1802) on Cliffe Parish, Hoo

JOHN BROWNE, late of this parish, yeoman, in 1679, gave a tenement, lying in Church-street… and another…in Southwood- borough, for the education and teaching of twelve poor children of the inhabitants of this parish for ever. His executor and the churchwardens… should elect and choose a poor man or woman, being capable to teach, and also the children to be taught, &c. The master or dame to keep the premises in good repair. Use British History Online for antiquarian works and local history including schools. Read the introduction on: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/using-bho/local- guide Leads you to 18th and 19th century works on , London, , , , and more, and the online Victoria County Histories Lady Boswell’s School, Sevenoaks. Endowed -? Rye school toilets 1880s- • At the age of six, I was sent to the Sussex House School, a private 1910s from school run by the Misses M.E. and C.A. Bushby, daughters of the https://www.ryemuseum.c Postmaster… we used the Congregational Sunday School Rooms … o.uk/schools-and- two rooms and an outside toilet. [Later] the Misses Bushby built a education-in-rye/ house in West Street …and there we had an Upper and a Lower Room with cloakroom and W.C. indoors. • I began School at Miss Seliman’s School in Cinque Ports Street…If you had to go to the toilet, you had to go down the dark staircase and across a cobbled yard. • I went to Mrs. Kennett’s School, a mixed school run by Mrs. Kennett and her daughter and we had to pay 2d a week- no free schooling in those days. We had no desk but had to sit on boxes on each side of the room. The sanitary arrangements were very bad – we had to walk up the garden! Mrs. Kennett was a very old lady… We had to stand by her table and read by pointing our finger on the letter. If we made a mistake she jabbed her needle into our finger as she would be darning stockings! 18th and 19th century schooling: private and grammar schools: Sunday, Ragged and workhouse schools; denominational schools and Board schools 2 books here today on workhouses The workhouse school of Brighton Union- (only £2; £6.99) the duties of the ‘dairy woman’ Besides ‘the dairy itself, attending to the chimney twice a week, I receive the children, salt down all meat, and doing the chief part of my own washing, and evenings attend to the grate and chimney. Mornings up soon after 4 o’clock, two hours before the other officers are at work, and at work after theirs is done’. St Pauls School, Stony Stratford , Bucks The timetable and curriculum • 5.45 a.m (summer), 6.45 am (winter): roll call • School work began immediately • Breakfast • 8.30 a.m. to 10.30 am: lessons • 11.30 to 1 pm: lessons • Subjects: Latin, Greek, French, German, Mathematics, History, Logic, English Literature, and a little Science. • Lunch • Afternoons: outdoor games and walks • 6pm until 8.30pm: school work • 9.15pm: lights out. • On Sundays and saints’ days, an hour’s religious study. Finding county record offices/archives and the historical records in them

The catalogue Discovery Search on ‘apprentice’ refined on ‘1500-1600’ and ‘Bristol’

• Find records in The National Archives and archives across the country. • Find the name, location and online catalogue of county and other archives

• http://publicrecordsearch.co.uk/

• A newsletter and a journal every quarter • Reviews on new websites and historical sources for your research • Articles on internet research • Information on courses on family and local history country-wide • Local History Day every June • This year on 1 June speakers will cover the men who were ‘rulers of the county’ as magistrates 1790-1834, and local history and the suffrage centenary Maritime records at TNA available online: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/enewsletter.htm One page from the Log of the Felix Discovery Vessel [TNA class ADM 55] Voyages of Discovery and Surveying: Final page of ship’s log of journey of Adventure to Madeira and back in 1789-90 signed by [Lieutenant] PN Inglefield, free to download on the website of the Centre for Environmental Protection Data