Medieval English genealogy: updates: 18 December 2009
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Contents:
News
Two new volumes in the Victoria County History series have recently appeared - Middlesex, volume 13, part 1,
"The City of Westminster: Landownership and Religious History", and Sussex, volume 5, part 2,
covering twelve parishes in the Littlehampton district.
[Further details can be found on the website of the publishers:
Middlesex, volume 13, part 1 and Sussex, volume 5, part 2.]
Another recent publication is the third volume in the Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary series
from the Society of Antiquaries of London. This is an ordinary of arms compiled from medieval sources, projected to be completed
in four volumes. The new volume covers blazons lying alphabetically between Chief and Fess.
[Further details can be found on the website of the publishers.]
Sadly, a useful online resource, the Royal Historical Society Bibliography,
is to be withdrawn at the end of this month, and replaced with a service costing £110 a year for an individual subscription.
It's a shame that the bibliography
will become effectively inaccessible to the general public, especially as it benefited from substantial state funding during
the course of its compilation.
On a more positive note, the Internet Archive has recently made available online the first
12 volumes of the Calendar of inquisitions post mortem (with the exception of volume 10), which extend as far as 1370.
There is already good coverage (albeit with a few gaps) of the calendars of close, fine and patent rolls at the Internet Archive and
on the website of the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University,
which means that many of the most important published primary sources for medieval English genealogy are now freely accessible.
Links to all of these are included in the Medieval source material on the internet
section of this website.
New material
In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for Kent (1461-1485) (348 fines) have been added.
New links
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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Some internet libraries:
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Medieval and early modern texts: by author, H-N:
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Medieval and early modern texts: by author, O-Z:
- Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia (1555 edition) (Dana F. Sutton, University of California, Irvine)
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County and local history:
- Residents of London (Community Trees, FamilySearch.org)
Genealogical database compiled from various sources, including Boyd's Citizens of London.
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Public records: Land taxes and feudal surveys:
- Kent Hundred Rolls Project (Bridgett Jones, Kent Archaeological Society)
Parallel Latin transcript and English translation of the Kent Hundred Rolls of 1274-5.
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Public records: Inquisitions post mortem:
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Public records: Common law records:
- Early English Laws (Institute of Historical Research/King's College, London)
Project, in progress, to publish online and in print the texts and translations of all English legal codes, edicts and treatises produced up to c. 1215, with digitized images of the manuscripts. The texts will include volume 1 of Felix Liebermann, ed., Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) and William Stubbs, ed., Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (9th edition, revised by H. W. C. Davis, 1921).
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Public records: Chancery rolls:
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Probate records:
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Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
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Medieval English families on the Internet:
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Links:
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Genealogical databases:
- Community Trees (FamilySearch.org)
A number of genealogical databases compiled from various sources. They include British Isles: Peerage, Gentry and Colonial American Connections, Europe: Royal and Noble Houses (predominantly England and France), Residents of London, Norfolk Visitations, 1563 and Wales: Medieval Records Primarily of Nobility and Gentry.
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Victoria County History:
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British History Online:
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VCH county websites:
- Radcot (VCH Oxfordshire website)
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Internet Archive:
Updated links
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A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
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Public records: Domesday Book:
- Digital Domesday (Addison Publications)
CD-ROM versions, incorporating images of the manuscript and of Farley's transcript of the Latin text, together with English translations (revised versions of the Victoria County History translations for Great Domesday, and a new translation of Little Domesday). Available either as medium-resolution images on a single CD-ROM, or as high-resolution images on a 4-CD-ROM set.
A review by David Roffe is available online.
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Medieval source material on the Internet:
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Medieval and early modern texts: by author, H-N:
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Charters:
- Nottinghamshire: Manuscripts Online Catalogue (University of Nottingham)
Provides access to a large collection of records, including family and estate collections for the Mellish family of Hodsock, the Newcastle family of Clumber Park, the Middleton Collection and the Portland (London) Collection.
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Probate records:
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Medieval English families on the Internet:
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- Early Birdsalls (Alan Birdsall)
Extensive notes on medieval Yorkshire Birdsalls.
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F:
- The Origins of the Farthing Surname (Ben Farthing)
Long and detailed discussion of the origin of the surname, arguing that it derived from a Scandinavian personal name, Farthegn, and giving numerous occurrences of both the personal name and the surname, from pre-conquest times onwards.
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Links:
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Internet search engines and archives:
Missing links
The following pages have recently become unavailable.
Links to copies in the Internet Archive have been added where possible.
If anyone can tell me their current whereabouts I'll be very grateful.
- The Wyatt Family History (John Hampton Wyatt/Julian & Alice Wyatt)
[formerly at http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/foothills/3658/Wyatt/20.htm]
- The Crossman Society (Andi MacDonald)
[formerly at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1246/index.htm]