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Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: John Parsons Earwaker
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Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
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Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Includes the Society's proceedings and list of members.

Author: Stuart A. Raymond
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1781594759
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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“Almost every book on English research highlights the need to examine the wills of our ancestors. . . . [this book] gives us an easy to read detailed guide.” —FGS Forum What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? Wills are key documents for exploring the lives of our ancestors, their circumstances, and the world they knew. This practical handbook is the essential guide to understanding wills. Wills expert Stuart Raymond traces the history and purpose of probate records and guides readers through the many pitfalls and possibilities these fascinating documents present. He describes the process of probate, gives a detailed account of the content of the various different types of record, and advises readers on how they can be used to throw light into the past, offering factual evidence that no genealogist or local historian can afford to ignore. In a series of concise, fact-filled chapters, Raymond explains how wills came into being, who made them and how they were made, how the probate system operates, how wills and inventories can be found, and how much can be learned from them. In addition to covering probate records in England and Wales, he includes the Channel Islands, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Scotland. This introduction is aimed primarily at family historians who are interested in the wills of particular individuals who are seeking proof of descent and local historians who are interested in the wealth of local historical information that can be gathered from them.

Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: Lawrence M. Clopper
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802093264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1466

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The Records of Early English Drama (REED) series aims to establish the context for the great drama of Britain's past by examining material related to drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until the mid-seventeenth century. This latest volume in the series is a collection of documentary evidence for dramatic performance, minstrelsy, and civic ceremony in Cheshire to 1642. Editors Elizabeth Baldwin and David Mills have provided introductions detailing the historical background and significance of the documents presented, as well as a full apparatus of document descriptions, explanatory and textual notes and glossaries. Cheshire completes the series of REED volumes on the West of England, and incorporates an updated version of the early Chester volume, as well as providing extensive new material on the county of Cheshire as a whole, making it an essential addition to this much-admired series.

Author: Tim Thornton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526114097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mistresses, the taking of lovers, the birth of illegitimate children and the fate of those children. It challenges assumptions about the extent to which such activities declined in the period, and hence about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to the culture of the elite. A major contribution to the literature on marriage and sexual relationships, family, kinship and gender, it is aimed at an academic readership in the fields of social and political history.

Author: University of Manchester. Library (1904-1972). Christie Collection
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Society of Antiquaries of London. Library
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: John Parsons Earwaker
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ISBN: 9781332617906
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Excerpt from Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories, 1572 to 1696, Now Preserved at Chester: With an Appendix of Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories, Proved at York or Richmond, 1542 to 1649 The Wills and Inventories printed in this volume have been selected from those now preserved in the Probate Registry at Chester, and are mostly of persons of the middle class, instead of, as is too often the case, those of persons of rank and position only. Amongst them will be found the wills of yeomen, husbandmen, chapmen, and clothiers, together with those of several clergymen, one doctor of physic, two freemasons, and various gentry. Out of the fifty-one wills here printed only three are those of persons styled esquires, whilst one is that of a knight, and two others are members of the family of Viscount Kilmorey. They afford insight, therefore, into the life of the middle class during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, and as such will be found to contain much of general as well as local interest. They are mostly full abstracts of the original wills, devoid of all the legal verbiage and repetitions, but retaining every name of person or place, and all expressions which are in any way quaint or curious. Some few of the wills, however, have been printed in full in order to show how the others have been abbreviated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.