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Richmond, Surrey: Public Record Office, 2000. 130 pp, 9 5/8" H. B&w reproductions. "Over the centuries there have been many waves of non-UK immigrants (or aliens as described in official documentation) arriving in Britain. From medieval times onwards, Jews, Huguenots and many religious minorities escaping from persecution have emigrated to Britain. The records of each group are examined in full as well as documents relating to prisoners of war, spies, internees and deportees." This book "provides invaluable guidance on the wealth of records charting the development of the UK's immigration and citizenship policy from medieval to modern times." Minor rubbing, one tiny corner crease/bump. . Not Signed. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. 240 pp, oblong (10 1/4" H x 12 1/8" D). Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout. "(T)he fascinating saga, told with pen and brush, of a rural family in old Holland - the Poortvliets - going back ten generations to Cornelis Adriaensz, who died in 1649. Characteristically evocative, Poortvliet's work is remarkable in its ability to touch us. With equal skill he conveys the coziness of a comfortable house set in a bleak and brooding snowy landscape and the light-hearted revelry of a winter carnival. (This book) does not conjure up a romantic vision of the past - the Dutch countryside was not all tulips and windmills. There was hardship and hard work, like that of the young cowherd seen here - an eight-year-old boy whose long and lonely day began at four o'clock in the morning and only ended when he returned home at six o'clock in the evening. We learn of the many Dutch families in the early days who endured the deaths of five, ten, or more… Leer más

(Toronto): The Canadian Bank of Commerce, 1921. 498 pp, 9 7/8" H. **Volume II only.** Deep red cloth boards with blind stamped Greek key borders on front and rear boards, gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on spine/front board. B&w illustrations - tissue-covered frontispiece, fold-out map, photographs - all present. "It was originally considered that one volume, containing the 'Letters from the Front' pamphlets issued during the course of the great struggle recently concluded, would suffice as an offical and historical record of the part played therein by the members of the staff of The Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mr. C.L. Foster, the Editor of Volume I, however, conceived the idea of making a more detailed record by the publication of a supplementary biographical volume, and the present Volume II is the result of our labours in this connection. In the compilation of the military records, no pains have been spared to make the work as complete as possible, and exhaustive… Leer más

Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006. 226 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. "(D)ocuments an English family's 1835 immigration to Ontario where they became pioneers in the unsettled bush. The parents of this family just happen to be the author's great great grandparents, Joseph and Susannah Bacon. The letters were written from Bruce County, Ontario in 1881 and 1882 by Joseph, some years after Susannah's death, to his son and daughter-in-law, Henry and Elizabeth Couch Bacon, then in Resort Township, Emmet County, Michigan. Part 1 (of this book) has copies of the original letters with 'printed as written' and edited versions annotated to explain what and who Joseph was writing about. Part II is a narrative of the family in England where eight of the eleven children were born, about their immigration and their pioneering in the unsettled Ontario wilderness, first in Arthur Township, Waterloo/Wellington counties and finally in Brant Township, Bruce… Leer más

London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1850. 655 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H, early rebinding in black buckram, gilt lettering on spine (at bottom of spine: 'United Service Club'). Contents include: African Colonial Corps; Artillery; Belfast Garrison; Canadian Rifle Regiment; Cape Mounted Riflemen; Cape Breton Staff; Ceylon Rifle Regiment; Cheshire Regiment; Dillon's Regiment; East India Staff; Fencible Corps; Field Marshals; Generals; German Legion; Gibraltar Staff; Greek Light Infantry; Hibernian Military School; Horse Guards; Jamaica Staff; Jersey, Isle of; Irish Brigade, Kilmaiham Hospital; Kinsale; Malta Fencible Regiment; Mauritius Staff; Medical Department; Milford Haven Garrison; Montreal Staff; New Brunswick Staff; New South Wales Staff; New Zealand, Staff of; Nova Scotia Staff; Order of the Garter; Portuguese and Spanish Service; Prince Edward's Island; Queen's Rangers; Riding Establishment, Ordnance; Rifle Brigade; St. Helena Regiment; St. John's Newfoundland Staff; Sappers and… Leer más

London: Clowes, 1862. 902 pp, 8vo (8 5/16" H), rebound in black buckram, silver lettering on spine. New endpapers, page edges trimmed. Contents include: Actions or Battles; Artillery; Australia Staff; Belfast Garrison; Brigadier-Generals; Cape of Good Hope Staff; Ceylon Staff; Chaplains' Department; China, Staff in; Colonels; Duncannon Fort; East Indies Staff; Engineers; Falkland Islands Staff; Field Marshals; Generals; Gibraltar Staff; Hibernian Military School; Indian Forces; Ionian Islands Staff; Ireland, Staff in; Jamaica Staff; Kinsale; Majors; Malta Staff; Marines; Mauritius Staff; New Zealand Staff; North America Staff; Order of the Bath; Recruiting Districts; Rewards for Distinguished Services; Schools of Musketry; Staff College; Star of India, Order of; Stirling Castle; Surgeons, Honorary; Veterinary Department; Windward and Leeward Islands Staff, etc., etc. Pages are light to moderately browned, tiny chip at the fore-edge of one preliminary page, the words 'Writing Room'… Leer más

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1867. 940 pp, 8vo, (8 1/4" H), rebound in black buckram, silver lettering on spine. New endpapers, page edges trimmed. Contents include: Actions or Battles; Aldershot; Artillery; Brigadier-Generals; Cape of Good Hope Staff; Cavalry Regiments; Ceylon Staff; Chaplains' Department; Colonels; Duncannon Fort; East Indies Staff; Engineers; Field Marshals; Generals; Gibraltar Staff; Indian Forces; Infantry Regiments; Ireland, Staff in; Jamaica Staff; Jersey, Island of; Majors; Malta Staff; Marines; Mauritius Staff; North America Staff; Order of the Bath; Recruiting Districts; Schools of Musketry; Staff College; Star of India, Order of; Surgeons, Honorary; Veterinary Department; Windward and Leeward Islands Staff, etc., etc. Pages browning lightly, small chip from fore edge of page 827/8 (not affecting text), stamps of Canadian Military Institute and Legislative Library at top of title page and pencill notations on the bottom half of the page, original blank free… Leer más

Kitchener, Ontario: The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario, 1985. 208 pp, 9" H. B&w drawings, maps. Chapter headings: The Hamlet of Almira; A Brief History of Altona; ditto Armadale; A Review of Pioneer Life in Ontario at The Black Creek Pioneer Village; A History of Carrville; Cashel; Ontario's Bicentennial Symbol; The Cober Drunkard Church; Colty Corners S.S. #11 - A study of a Rural Schoolhouse; Concord; Dickson Hill; The Edgeley Mennonite Church; Gormley; Headford; Hope; The Humber Trail; Kleinburg; Markham District Historical Museum; Mount Joy; Patterson; Pine Grove; Ringwood; Stevenson Beef Ring Slaughter House; Teston; A History of Bethesda Lutheran Church; Special Anniversary Review. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean.. Not Signed. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Paul H. Burkholder..

London: PRO Publications, 1994. 189 pp, 4to (11 5/8" H). Colour frontispiece, b&w illustrations. "For scholars of British diplomacy and international affairs, the records of the Foreign Office are an indispensible source. But the range of information and the sheer size of the records can be daunting to the first time user and to the increasing numbers of genealogists who attempt to trace individuals in the files of the diplomatic and consular correspondence. This book provides an introduction to the records in all their variety and suggests appropriate classes to start with. It also examines the state papers foreign, the records of foreign policy which pre-date the modern Foreign Office records. These are more closely related to the later papers than the dividing date of 1782 would suggest. This book also gives the would-be researcher practical guidance in using the registry systems created by the Foreign Office in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to locate surviving papers… Leer más

Salisbury, Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1981. 96 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, drawings, family tree on endpapers. "This is a good book about children, and a wonderful book about rich children. Though it was conceived originally only for private distribution, it would have been a shame had the matter ended there. The author's upbringing - she is a granddaughter of the first Lord Cowdray - suffered from very few limitations of budget, but she was, by her own account, a shy and pessimistic child (imagine the frustrations of being a pessimist about the Pearsons!) who viewed with dismay some of the side effects of her good fortune. (This) is a sympathetic, funny, unreproachful book, a bonanza for the social historian, and written with a real feeling for the essence of childhood." Book is slightly cocked, minor bump at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light wear at top of spine, minor rubbing..… Leer más

Ayr: South Ayrshire Libraries, 1996. 141 pp, 4to (11 5/8" H). Information listed under the following headings: Surname; Forename(s); Date; Relationship; Occupation/Origin; Yrs; Part Years; Cause of Death; Notes. From title page: "No Entries Nov. 1786 - Aug. 1789 (except for three entries in 1787 and one entry in Jan. 1789). No entries Sep. 1806. - Jan. 1817 (except for one entry in 1816). Three entries dated 1808, 1812, 1815 resp. After 1818." Interior - cigarette odour, soft bump to top corner of pages, very light browning in margins of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light browning to edges of textblock, minor edgewear, one small corner crease, small area of surface paper loss at top of front cover.. Card covers in cerlox binding.. Very Good-.

Toronto: William Briggs, 1899. 140 pp, 10" H. 2 b&w plates. Contents: Rev. John Langhorn - Personal Note; Marriage Record of Rev. John Langhorn, No. 1; Rev. G. O'Kill Stuart's Register at St. John's Church, Bath; Marriage Register of St. John's Church, Ernest Town, No. 2; Langhorn's Book, No. 3; In the Parish Register of St. George, Kingston; A Register of Baptisms for the Township of Fredericksburgh; Rev. John Langhorn's Records, 1787-1813 - Burials; Rev. John Langhorn Register of St. Paul's Church, Fredericksburgh; Rev. Robert McDowall - Personal Note; McDowall Marriage Register; A Register of Baptisms by the Rev. Robert McDowall; Marriage Register of Stephen Conger, J.P., Hallowell; Some Descendants of Joseph Brant; Remarks on the Maps of St. Regis to Sault Ste. Marie; Sketch of Peter Teeple, Loyalist and Pioneer, 1762-1847; The Cameron Rolls, 1812; The Talbot Settlement and Buffalo in 1816. Interior - staples are rusty at inside front hinge, small bump at… Leer más

Toronto: Ontario Historical Society, 1907. 228 pp, 9 7/8" H. B&w illustrations. Contents: The Insurrection in the Short Hills in 1838; The Hamiltons of Queenston, Kingston and Hamilton; The Petuns; The Nottawasaga River Route; The First Commission of the Peace for the District of Mecklenburg; Some Events in the History of Kingston; Early History of the Anglican Church in Kingston; Some Epochs in the Story of Old Kingston; The Navies of Lake Ontario in the War of 1812. Notes from the Papers of a Naval Officer then serving on His Majesty's Ships; Cataraqui; Captain William Gilkison. Notes from a Paper; Early Churches in the Niagara Peninsula, Stamford and Chippewa, with Marriage Records of Thomas and James Cummings, J.P., and Extracts from the Cummings Papers. Interior - soft slight bump at top corner of pages, light toning in margins of pages, inside hinges have glue residue and paper pulls, staples at rear inside hinge are rusty. Exterior - small tear and wear at top/bottom of front… Leer más

Liverpool: Self-published / Printed by Ashley Printing. Unpaginated (60 pp + covers) 11 9/16" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, map. Contents: Introduction; Woodchurch (with notes on Arrowe Hall); Upton; Greasby (with notes on the Greasby Smallpox Hospital); Irby; Frankby; Thurstaston; Dawpool. Includes some lists of villagers mentioned in a 1901 directory. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wrinkling, very light rubbing and soiling on covers, slight ink smudging on front cover decoration.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good.

Alberta, Canada: Alix Clive Historical Club, 1974. 880 pp, 10 5/8" H. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold lettering/decoration on front board. B&w photographs, reproductions, maps - section on cattle brands. A local history of the Alberta district surrounding Alix and Clive. Contents: Foreword; A "Times' Passing"; A Bird's Eye View of History; I'll Be Remembering; Half-Breed Scrip; Lamerton; Mining Along the Red Deer; Content Memories; Medicine in Pioneer Days; Breaking Horses With Mont; Railways Through Alix - C.P.R. Station Agents - C.N.R. Agents; School Districts - General Articles & Family Histories (Alix / Alix (North) / Carroll / Clive / Hickling / Hopedale - Haynes / North Star / Open Valley and Carradale / Ripley / Sargent / Stanton / Stone / St. Patrick's / Westling); Pioneers Not Bound By School Districts; Brands; Index of Family Histories / General Index. Christmas gift inscription and faint erased pencil mark on front free endpaper,… Leer más

Glasgow: John Graham (For the Letter-Carriers of the Post-Office), 1836. xv, 341, 118 pp, 7 1/8" H. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled paper-covered boards, black leather title label on spine with gilt lettering, additional gilt date and decoration, blindstamped design. Small label at top of front pastedown: "J. Carss & Co., Bookbinders, 31, Argyle Street, Glasgow." Title page continues: "Classed and Arranged Under Each Distinct Head of Trade or Profession: With a Street Directory: and An Appendix Containing many Useful Lists. Ninth Publication." The first section (xv pp) consists of a Calendar (July, 1836 to December, 1837); Stamp Duties; Index. The second section (341 pp) contains Alphabetical List of Streets, Squares, Places &c. With a Reference to their Situation; Letter Carriers; Glasgow Post-Office Directory (arranged by name); Glasgow Post-Office Directory, Arranged by Profession. The final section (118 pp) is an Appendix of additional information,… Leer más

London: PRO Publications, 1996. 126 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). B&w and colour illustrations. "For at least six centuries the authorities in England and Wales have kept a watchful eye on the activities of dissidents from the Established Church. Many of their observations and decrees have found their way into the Public Record Office which today provides students of ecclesiastical history with a wealth of material to aid their researches. This Readers' Guide points them to the most important classes of documents and suggests how these can throw light on the growth and development of religious dissent, both Protestant and Roman Catholic. Local and family historians will also find this guide an invaluable tool. It introduces the reader to significant genealogical resources housed in the PRO: the Catholic recusant rolls and especially the non-parochial registers kept by numerous Nonconformist and some Roman Catholic congregations, comprising thousands of individual names and snippets of… Leer más

London: PRO Publications, 1996. 126 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). B&w and colour illustrations. "For at least six centuries the authorities in England and Wales have kept a watchful eye on the activities of dissidents from the Established Church. Many of their observations and decrees have found their way into the Public Record Office which today provides students of ecclesiastical history with a wealth of material to aid their researches. This Readers' Guide points them to the most important classes of documents and suggests how these can throw light on the growth and development of religious dissent, both Protestant and Roman Catholic. Local and family historians will also find this guide an invaluable tool. It introduces the reader to significant genealogical resources housed in the PRO: the Catholic recusant rolls and especially the non-parochial registers kept by numerous Nonconformist and some Roman Catholic congregations, comprising thousands of individual names and snippets of… Leer más

Perth and Kinross District Libraries, Perth, 1991. 192 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. B&w illus. "This story of the success and failure of a family engaged in the dyeing industry is the first to take an objective look at Pullars of Perth. (B)y the mid 19th-century 'Pullars of Perth' had become a by-word for fast and efficient service, especially in dry-cleaning, not only in London, but in Paris and Berlin! This was no economic miracle. The Pullars' success was due entirely to hard work, successful planning and clever advertising. Always ready to introduce the latest types of machinery they had a reputation as good employers. Their success was reflected in their life-style and influence in Perth. Then, suddenly, things started to go sour. Challenged by a powerful Trade Union and an increasingly militant female work-force, the Pullars, despite their long experience and compassion, could not cope. Strikes and riots led to a violent ending between the family and Perth." Dust… Leer más

Richmond, Surrey: Public Record Office, 2001. 222 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). B&w illustrations. "This guide shows enthusiasts and researchers how to find records relating to railway companies, individuals who served on the railways and the trains themselves. From the first days of steam to the golden age of train travel at the start of the twentieth century, the railways have played a central role in British social history. When the remaining private railway companies were nationalized in 1948, their administrative records and those of the hundreds of companies they had absorbed were passed to the Public Record Office. The records include inform-ation on the estimated half million people employed by over two hundred separate rail companies at the start of the last century, and provide an important source of material for genealogists, economic historians and railway enthusiasts alike." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear at bottom… Leer más