Family Historian User Group

If you have access to GIS (Geographic Information System) software you can import both registration and administrative county boundaries for a number of different dates as shape files from the Vision of Britain website (http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data/#). Data for the other boundaries (boroug...

I would be very sceptical about multiple births, especially as there are obviously a number of hits for each child; it looks to me like a number of submissions, note that there are three where a date of birth is not given. My guess (and that's all it is) is that whoever made the transcriptions enter...

None of my people have made claims so I've not looked at them myself but Hawkings in Fire Insurance Records for family and local historians records that: The Sun Fire Office ... kept Loss Registers: ! Country Losses 1803-1864; Ms 11937A (5 vols) 2 Town Losses 1851-1866; Ms 11934B 3 Misc Claims 1771-...

The full entry can give a lot of information, if you're lucky. Here's one I have an interest in, for example: 5 Jan 1820 John Bargman of No 4 Fort Place Grange Road, Plumber On two houses Nos 1 & 2 in Charlotte Row, Grange Road in equal proportion three hundred pounds Three houses in Prospect Place ...

1851 census
HO107/1847, folio 143, page 8,
household schedule no 43
Head, Keeper of a brothel
plus male stranger, age about 27, nothing else known
schedule no 44
Head, commomn prostitute
schedule no 45
Head, commomn prostitute


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Colin