Medieval English genealogy: updates: 2 November 2003
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For brief details of these and older additions
- without links, to make site maintenance easier - see
the what's new page.
Contents:
New links
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
- Herefordshire Sites and Monuments Record
(Historic Herefordshire On Line)
Searchable database of historic sites and monuments in the county,
including nearly 3000 from the late-medieval period. For each entry
there is an outline description, including notes on tenure, and a list of sources.
On the same site is a variety of information about Herefordshire history - much of it
schools-oriented - including a section on Castles
of Herefordshire, giving an outline history for each
- Islington and
Stoke Newington [Middlesex]
(British History Online)
Text from the Victoria County History of Middlesex, volume 8 (1985)
- Land taxes and feudal surveys:
The
'Herefordshire Domesday' (Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
Images of Balliol College, Oxford, manuscript 350 -
a copy of the Domesday text for Herefordshire, made in the 1160s, with annotations,
including more recent land holders
- Charters:
- Fowle family:
Deeds of various properties in ... Sandhurst in Kent (Bodiam Mill: Sources in Genealogy
and Local History for Sandhurst in Kent and nearby villages)
Abstracts of deeds at the East Sussex Record Office, 14th century and later, mainly relating to the Fowle family and the
manor of Betherinden in Sandhurst, Kent
- Tybotot/Chaworth Crusading
contract, 1270 (Nat Taylor)
Image of a contract dated 1270, by which Robert Tybotot [d. 1298] and Payn de Chaworth [d. 1279]
agree to accompany the Lord Edward on crusade. Large jpg file (1.8MB) from a photograph of
British Library, Additional Charter 19829, in Jonathan Riley-Smith, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
p. 63 (Oxford, 1995)
- Probate records:
- Abstracts of Wills
(Kevin Bradford, Plantagenet Genealogy and Biography)
Short English abstracts of some 14th-century royal wills -
Lionel, Duke of Clarence (1368),
Edward III (1376),
Edward, the Black Prince (1376),
Joan, Princess of Wales (1385) and
John, Duke of Lancaster (1397) -
from Sir N. H. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta (1826)
- Kentish
Administrations, A.D. 1559 TO 1603 (Kent Archaeological Society)
List of administrations from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
compiled by Leland L. Duncan, from Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 18 (1889)
- Archdeaconry
Court of Canterbury: Sandhurst wills at the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (Bodiam Mill: Sources in Genealogy
and Local History for Sandhurst in Kent and nearby villages)
List of 243 wills from Sandhurst, Kent, 1449-1712
- Parish registers:
Origins.net
(in association with the Society of Genealogists of London)
has added 1.4 million names from 25 counties in the "First Miscellaneous Series" to its
pay-per-view Boyd's Marriage Index database.
- Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
Armigerous Ancestors Surname Index
(Achievements -
the research company associated with the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies)
Searchable index to C.R. Humphery-Smith,
Armigerous ancestors: a catalogue of sources for the study of the visitations of the heralds in the
16th and 17th centuries with referenced lists of names (Canterbury, 1997).
The search results also give the county and sometimes the date of the visitation;
Achievements can provide further information for a fee
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
Joan, Lady Cromwell (1490):
Tattershall, Lincolnshire (rubbing, photographs and description)
(Monumental Brass Society, Brass of the month, October 2003)
- Links:
- General:
The Ancestry of Elizabeth FitzAlan (and her sister Joan FitzAlan) to the 9th generation
(Genealogy page of John Blythe Dobson)
- Societies and journals:
Bristol Record Society
Includes a list of publications
- City Livery Companies:
Blacksmiths,
Bowyers,
Builders Merchants,
Carmen,
Chartered Accountants,
Chartered Architects,
Chartered Secretaries and Administrators,
Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers,
Cooks,
Coopers (under construction),
Environmental Cleaners,
Founders,
Fuellers,
Glass Sellers,
Glaziers and Painters of Glass,
Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers,
Innholders,
Insurers,
Joiners and Ceilers,
Lightmongers,
Management Consultants,
Masons,
Merchant Taylors,
Musicians,
Painter Stainers,
Paviors,
Plumbers,
Scriveners,
Shipwrights,
Skinners,
Tallow Chandlers,
Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders,
Tylers and Bricklayers and
Vintners
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
Updated links
- A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts:
Jean Froissart,
The Chronicles of Froissart
(Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia)
Extracts from the 16th-century English translation by John Bourchier, Lord Berners,
from the edition of G.C. Macaulay (1910)
- Modern biography and prosopography:
Avril M. Morris,
The Life of St Kyneburgha: From Northumbrian Queen to Mercian Saint
(St Kyneburgha Church, Castor)
Discussion of two seventh-century royal women called Kyneburgha (or Cyneburh), of Wessex and Mercia
- Manorial records:
- Links:
- General:
- Collage, an image database compiled from
the collections of the Guildhall Library and the Guildhall Art Gallery
- A List of the Latin Names of Places
in Great Britain and Ireland
(White Trash Scriptorium)
The most detailed online list for the U.K., as far as I know, from
Charles T. Martin, The Record Interpreter (1911). There are also
lists of Latin Names of Bishoprics in England,
Scotland and
Ireland
- Given Names c. 1450-1650: A-I
and J-Z,
"One-Off" Given names
and Latinized Given Names
(Judith Werner, OLD-ENGLISH)
A very extensive list of given names used in late medieval and early modern England, including
variants, familiar forms, Latin forms and abbreviations, and other notes; with an alphabetical index of Latin forms
- Latin Forms of English Surnames
in Great Britain and Ireland and
A Few Latin Christian Names with
Their English Equivalents (White Trash Scriptorium)
Extensive lists, from Charles T. Martin, The Record Interpreter (1911)
- City Livery Companies:
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
Missing links
The following page has recently become unavailable.
A link to a copy in the Internet Archive has been added, but
if anyone can tell me its present whereabouts, I'll be very grateful!
- The Occupants of The Ancient office
of Sheriff of the County Of Lincoln From Edward 1 to 1827
(Bob Hatcher, English Hatcher Pages)
(formerly at http://home.clara.net/bob.hatcher/sheriffs.htm)
