| Description |
1 online resource (441 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; Chapter One: The Middle Ages; Population and the economy; Cuxham and Wigston; Halesowen; Towns; The origins of English surnames; Some case studies; Sheffield names; Chapter Two: Early-modern England; Basic records; Parish registers; Wills and inventories; Manorial records; Hearth tax returns; The family, population trends and mobility; Rural communities; Cambridgeshire examples; Terling; Leicestershire examples; Myddle; Industrial communities |
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Urban communitiesSome case studies; Fisher Row, Oxford; Chapter Three: Late-Georgian and Victorian England; Basic records; Census returns; Civil registration; Nonconformity; Industrial towns and cities; Family structure; Everton and the Mould family; Suburbs; Industrial villages; Framework knitting; West Riding textiles; Coal-mining; Dronfield; Market towns; Lincolnshire examples; Pocklington; Farming families; The Batty family; The labouring poor; 'Open' and 'Close' parishes; Settlement records; Enclosure; Emigration; Chapter Four: Excursions into family and local history; The Garlands |
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The BattysFurther reading; Index |
| Summary |
This is a book for those thousands of family historians who have already made some progress in tracing their family tree and have become interested in the places where their ancestors lived, worked and raised children. It emphasises the diversity and extraordinary complexity of the rural and urban communities in provincial England even before the great changes associated with the Industrial Revolution |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317870562 |
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1317870565 |
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