Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

28/2/2006

Discover the church yard or cemetery in which your Edinburgh ancestor is buried.

A timeline highlighting the significant events in Edinburgh’s history relating to burials and cremations. for more click here

Genealogy In Three Clicks

The growing interest in family history over the last few years has been remarkable. With a new series of the popular BBC programme “Who do you think you think you are?” due to start in the New Year, family history and genealogy research is becoming easier thanks to the internet. Leading the way in online genealogy is the website www.familyrelatives.org which has begun to revolutionise Family History research by making the process of locating Birth, Marriage and Death records (BMD) for England and Wales much easier, more accurate, cheaper and without the need to visit the Family Records Centre in Central London. for more click here

Black History Month figure: Crispus Attucks

Facts: Attucks, of African and American Indian ancestry, was the first casualty of the Revolutionary War. He was a slave who had probably escaped his Framingham, Mass., master in 1750 to work on whaling ships out of Boston Harbor. On March 5, 1770, Samuel Adams persuaded sailors and dockworkers at the harbor to protest the presence of British troops. Attucks led 50 men in the march. British troops fired on the crowd, killing Attucks and four others in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
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English social classes

What was the “gentry” in England? What was the “nobility”? What is a yeoman?

English social classes never were as firmly fixed as those on the continent, and it is therefore hard to make generalizations. It seems every rule has many exceptions. for more click here

Scottish clan

Scottish clans give a sense of Scottish Highland (Scottish Highland: the scottish highlands are considered to be the mountainous regions of scotland north…identity and shared descent both to people in Scotland (Scotland: One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts) and to their relations throughout the world, with a formal structure of Clan Chiefs officially registered with the court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms (Lord Lyon, King of Arms: the lord lyon king of arms, the head of lyon court, is one of the great officers of state…
[follow hyperlink for more...]) which controls the heraldry (heraldry: The study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies) and Coat of arms (Coat of arms: The official symbols of a family, state, etc.) . Each clan (clan: Group of people related by blood or marriage) has its own tartan (tartan: A cloth having a crisscross design) patterns, and those identifying with the clan can wear kilt (kilt: A knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men in the Highlands of northern Scotland) s of the appropriate tartan as a badge of membership and as a uniform where appropriate.

Clans identify with geographical areas originally controlled by the Chiefs, usually with an ancestral castle (castle: A large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack) , and clan gatherings form a regular part of the social scene.for more click here

Historical Records of St Albans

Despite its very general sounding title this book is basically two specialist monographs. Clearly the book is of interest to anyone researching the Grammar School, and it includes a list of masters from 1588 to 1881. for more click here

AN ESSAY ON THE POSITION OF THE BRITISH GENTRY

For the following appropriate Essay on the “Landed Gentry,” I am indebted to my friend, the Rev. John Hamilton Gray, of Carnyne, Vicar of Bolsover, county of Derby.for more click here

Directories and Occupational Records

Irish directories can be a superb source of information on your ancestors, provided they were not numbered among the country’s underprivileged, such as servants, landless laborers, and small tenant farmers. For members of the gentry, professionals, merchants and the like, directories are indeed a rich source, in some cases providing the only source of occupational information. for more click here

Irish Land Records

Many of our Irish ancestors were tenant farmers who leased or rented their land directly from a landowner or indirectly from a “middleman.” Only a small percentage of people in Ireland owned their land outright (this was called holding your land “in fee.”). for more click here

County Dublin Genealogy Links

County Dublin Genealogy Links for more click here

 
 

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