<p>Written for researchers who come across unfamiliar units of weights and measurements, this is the ideal companion to keep by your side when perusing wills, inventories, accounts, and old journals. How can we possibly appreciate the ancient manorial system without an understanding of oxgangs and hides? How can we come to grips with early population listings without knowing about virgates and farthingales? We now know, for instance, that a firkin of soap weighs 64 pounds, that a hogshead of claret contains 46 gallons, that a faggot of firewood is 36 inches in length, that a chest of Indian tea weighs 126 pounds, and if that isn't enough you'll also learn that in the year 1650 you could have a tooth extracted for about one shilling! What a book!</p>

Weights, Money and Other Measures Used by Our Ancestors

CHAPMAN, Colin R.

Business & Money

Genealogical Publishing Company

t has long been an article of faith that the census of 1841 was the first  British census to list the names of individuals. This myth, as most of us know, has been exploded  recently in a number of important publications but perhaps nowhere as comprehensively as in  this cameo publication by Colin Chapman. In nearly 90 pages of text, accompanied by unique  notes and references to original documents, Mr. Chapman describes hundreds of pre-1841 name  lists (censuses, poll lists, national surveys, tax lists, parish enumerations, etc.), explaining most  of them, as far as possible, in their historical framework. He has interwoven simple enumerations  of people, even surveys and numbers of houses, with detailed listings which furnish names, ages,  addresses, occupations, religious affiliations, and more. Local unique lists are jumbled among  national surveys, military with civilian, ecclesiastical with civil.    As logic would dictate, the work follows a chronological pattern, and for this edition, the author  has appended, in Appendix I, a county-by-county breakdown of the various censuses containing  individuals' names with the dates of those censuses; and for completeness, in Appendix II, he has  added a list of decennial censuses containing names of individuals from 1801 to 1831.    This new fifth edition, completely rewritten, incorporates over 200 additional listings for Ireland,  making it a unique chronological account of censuses and enumerations in the British Isles from  1086 to 1841.

Pre-1841 Censuses & Population Listings in the British Isles (Chapmans Records Cameos Series) (#959)

Genealogical Pub. Co

What would appear to be just another guide to tracing ancestors, Colin Chapman's Tracing Your British Ancestors is, in fact, a readable, informative, and surprisingly original book. While it covers the conventional methods and sources employed in British genealogical research--parish records, probate records, civil and ecclesiastical records, vital records, county records, heraldry, and so forth--it touches imaginatively on areas only lightly covered or totally ignored in similar guidebooks. There are discussions of research techniques in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, for instance, and whole chapters on the old and new Poor Laws and on land records--topics usually reserved for larger, more academic studies. And, as with Mr. Chapman's other cameo publications, there is a list of useful addresses and suggestions for further reading.

Tracing Your British Ancestors

Reference

Genealogy

t has long been an article of faith that the census of 1841 was the first British census to list the names of individuals. This myth, as most of us know, has been exploded recently in a number of important publications but perhaps nowhere as comprehensively as in this cameo publication by Colin Chapman. In nearly 90 pages of text, accompanied by unique notes and references to original documents, Mr. Chapman describes hundreds of pre-1841 name lists (censuses, poll lists, national surveys, tax lists, parish enumerations, etc.), explaining most of them, as far as possible, in their historical framework. He has interwoven simple enumerations of people, even surveys and numbers of houses, with detailed listings which furnish names, ages, addresses, occupations, religious affiliations, and more. Local unique lists are jumbled among national surveys, military with civilian, ecclesiastical with civil. As logic would dictate, the work follows a chronological pattern, and for this edition, the author has appended, in Appendix I, a county-by-county breakdown of the various censuses containing individuals' names with the dates of those censuses; and for completeness, in Appendix II, he has added a list of decennial censuses containing names of individuals from 1801 to 1831. This new fifth edition, completely rewritten, incorporates over 200 additional listings for Ireland, making it a unique chronological account of censuses and enumerations in the British Isles from 1086 to 1841.

Pre-1841 Censuses and Population Listings in the British Isles 5th ed.

Clearfield Co.

Pre-1841 Censuses & Population Listings in the British Isles

History

Europe

Tracing ancestors in Northamptonshire: Guidance on local, social, and family history

Lochin Pub

Pre-1841 Censuses and Population Listings in the British Isles

Lochin Publishing

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