Medieval English genealogy: updates: 1 August 2004
This page contains brief details of the latest batch of updates to the site, and includes newly added and updated links.
For brief details of these and older additions
- without links, to make site maintenance easier - see
the what's new page.
Contents:
New material
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following items have been added:
- BRADESTON (Volume 2, page 273)
[chart]
- BREWOSE, BREOUSE, or BREWES (Volume 2, page 308)
[chart]
- CONYERS (Volume 3, page 404)
[chart]
- DEVONSHIRE or DEVON (County of) (Volume 4, page 348 (as modified by volume 14) and note a)
- LOVAINE or LOVAYNE (Volume 8, pages 179, 180)
[chart]
- MONTFORT (Volume 9, page 128)
[chart]
- MORTIMER of Chirk (Volume 9, page 254)
[chart]
- MORTIMER of Chirk (Volume 9, page 254)
[chart]
- MORTIMER of Chirk (Volume 9, page 256 and notes a-d (as modified by volume 14))
[chart]
- SAINT AMAND (Volume 11, page 298)
[chart]
- SAINT GEORGE OF HATLEY SAINT GEORGE (Volume 11, page 306)
- SUDELEY (Volume 12, part 1, page 422)
[chart]
- VESCY (Volume 12, part 2, page 283)
[chart]
- WAKE (Volume 12, part 2, page 302 and note c (as modified by volume 14))
[chart]
- WILLOUGHBY or WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY (Volume 12, part 2, page 660)
In the "proposed" section,
the following item has been added:
The item on SAINT AMAND previously in the "proposed" section,
has been removed, as one of the new items supersedes it.
New links
- Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- County and local history:
- Bunbury, Cheshire:
St Boniface Church Bunbury
The Bunbury Papers section includes articles by Claude Blair on
the monument to Sir Hugh Calveley (d. 1394) and on the other medieval
effigies in the church, some of which commemorate members of the Spurstow
family. The Elsworth Papers section includes biographical
sketches of the same Sir Hugh Calveley, Sir Ralph Egerton of Ridley (d. 1528)
and Sir George Beeston (d. 1601)
- Hawkesbury
History [Gloucestershire] (Robert Millard)
Includes a large number of abstracts, many of them medieval,
in the Hawkesbury Documents Index section;
also a brief history, the texts of books on local history,
extracts from the Domesday Book and from Bigland's Collections,
transcripts of wills and the Military Survey of 1522.
Also covers Didmarton, Oldbury on the Hill and Tormarton.
(This replaces the website of the Hawkesbury and Hillesley Family History,
formerly at http://www.hawkesburyfamilyhistory.co.uk/index.html)
- Church records:
Clergy
of the Church of England Database
(King's College, London, and other universities)
Biographical information on the English clergy between 1540 and 1835.
A pilot version of the database is now available
- Miscellaneous sources: Schools:
Sir W. Sterry, ed., The Eton college register, 1441-1698
(Eton, 1943)
[Available from Archive CD Books]
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval texts:
L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, Comte de Striguil et de Pembroke, Régent d'Angleterre de 1216 à 1219
(gallica Bibliothèque Nationale de France;
numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N203426-8)
PDF format; text of a poem in French. From the three-volume edition of Paul Meyer (1891-1901)
Volumes 2 and 3 have recently been added
- Public records:
Rymer's Foedera,
Volume 3 (French-language documents AD 1344-1377) and
Volume 4 (French-language documents AD1377-1383)
(The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub)
French-language documents only, extracted from the edition of 1816-1869
- Charters:
Parkham-related deeds [Devon]
(Elizabeth Glover Howard, GENUKI)
Extracted items (mainly from the 16th century)
from J. C. Tingay, Calendar of Deeds Enrolled Within the County of Devon 1536 - 1673 (1930)
- Parish registers:
- Origins.net
(in association with the Society of Genealogists of London)
has added 280,000 names from Cornwall to its
pay-per-view Boyd's Marriage Index database.
- Boyd's
London Burials 1538-1872 (Origins.net)
Sample of over 240,000 London entries, included in a pay-per-view database
- Miscellaneous: Urban and guild records
Munimenta gildhallae londoniensis:
[Documents in French from] Liber Albus
(The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub)
From the edition of Henry Thomas Riley (Rolls Series 12, vol 1; 1859)
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Links:
- General:
RoyaList Online: A Royal Genealogy Database
(Pelican Systems)
Database of British royal genealogy, based on secondary sources, originally sold as a PC program.
Unfortunately the sources are not specified, but the information given is
detailed and extensive
- Societies and journals:
- The Ancestor
The main subjects of all articles in nos 1 and 2 (1902)
are indexed in the Medieval Genealogical Registry
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
- The Church Monuments Society
Includes lists of contents of the Society's journal, and a county-by-county listing (in progress)
of sites with "interesting collections of monuments or, in some cases, one outstanding monument"
- London Medieval Society
Includes an online newsletter
Updated links
- Links:
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
Missing links
The following pages have recently become unavailable.
Links to copies in the Internet Archive have been added where possible, but
if anyone can tell me their present whereabouts, I'll be very grateful!
- The Crossman Society (Andi MacDonald) [formerly at
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1246/index.htm]
- Northamptonshire Wills
(Fay McKenzie-Edmonds) [formerly at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/1759/index.htm]
- A brief history of the Langleys and their estates (Aidan Langley)
[formerly at http://merlin.csufresno.edu/~bm063/langley/cartular.htm]