Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

30/6/2005

VE Day

2005 is the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War Two. It is estimated that over 61 million people, both soldiers and civilians, were killed across the world during the conflict. To commemorate those who fought and died, Genes Reunited members have sent in their very personal accounts of war. for more click here

29/6/2005

Web family archive branches out

A website to help trace family trees is expanding to put Scotland at the forefront of online genealogy.
The ScotlandsPeople site contains 43 million records, ranging through from 1513 to 1954.

Massive record books and microfilm files of births, deaths and marriages have been transferred as digital images from Edinburgh’s New Register House.
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Ned Kelly’s brother ‘may have survived police shoot-out’

THE brother of the notorious Australian outlaw Ned Kelly and another gang member may have survived the final showdown with police, it was claimed yesterday.

An amateur historian chose the 125th anniversary of the gun battle to challenge the conventional wisdom that all the gang were captured or killed, and he called for a coroner to investigate whether Dan Kelly and Steve Hart managed to escape.

The showdown between police and the outlaws, who wore suits of homemade armour fashioned from ploughshares, is part of Australian folklore, and the fascination has been fuelled by a series of films and books. for more click here

Genealogy and Family Heritage

Genealogy is the account of human pedigrees, describing and documenting familial relationships and ancestors. And it has become one of today’s most popular and intensive avocations. From the personal perspective, genealogy is the archaeological and anthropological study of one’s family heritage and ancestry. for more click here

Welcome to Landers Genealogy

The information on this site is the result of over 20 years of research. I have tried to attribute the notes to their respective copyright holders, but doubtless have missed some. Notes followed by a [jl] are my notes. I have also set the “private” filter to for 100 years, so any person having birth or marriage dates after that time have no personal info listed. Some of the programs used to create this site are DreamWeaver 4.0, Adobe PhotoShop 5.5, CorelDraw 8, and Xara 3D 5.0. Layout and most of the graphics are © 1997-2005 Jerry Landers. Except for the notes (which are © various years by their respective copyright holders), I presume the rest of the information to be in public domain and ask that the sources are kept if you use them for your research.
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Bracewell family history archive

Bracewell family history archive, contains over sixty-five years of genealogy research on the Bracewell family. for more click here

28/6/2005

Irish Emigration

During the Victorian era, England experienced tremendous growth in wealth and industry while Ireland struggled to survive. The reasons for Ireland’s inability to take advantage of the Industrial Revolution are complex, and have been the subject of debate for more than a century. Many English viewed the Irish as stubborn farmers who refused to embrace the new technology. The Irish, however, believed the English had sabotaged their efforts to industrialize. The truth of why the Irish fared so badly while England became the most powerful nation in the world probably lies somewhere between these two extremes. for more click here

Landlord and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland

During the past twenty years, through his numerous essays, articles, and pamphlets, W. E. Vaughan has done much to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century Ireland’s land system. So one is surprised to find that this study of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland between the great famine and the land war is his first full blown monograph. for more click here

The Irish in Huddersfield

The early history of the Irish in Huddersfield is obscure. The first mention of the Irish in Huddersfield as a sizeable community concerns the decision in 1832 to build a chapel to encourage the Irish workforce to stay. According to Fr. Francis X. Singleton in his history of St. Patrick’s church published in 1932 the church was built using contributions from local industrialists. Their motivation was that the Irish workers would not stay if there was no chapel for them to worship in. Some support for this is offered by the appeal printed in the Laity’s Directory for 1829. for more click here

The Irish in Britain, 1750-1922

An version of this Bibliographic Essay will be found in Donald MacRaild, Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922, Macmillan, Basingstoke & London, 1999, ISBN 0 333 67761 7 hardback, 0 333 67762 5 paperback, where the reader will also find more detailed discussion of issues raised here.

This Bibliographic Essay is meant to be indicative rather than exhaustive. Further references to many other sources will be found in the Notes of each work cited here. for more click here

 
 

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