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The Family Story Workbook - 105 Prompts & Pointers for Writing Your History (Paperback): Kris  Spisak The Family Story Workbook - 105 Prompts & Pointers for Writing Your History (Paperback)
Kris Spisak
R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
Austin - The Origins of the Austins and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray Austin - The Origins of the Austins and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Burnett - The Origins of the Burnetts and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray Burnett - The Origins of the Burnetts and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Haldane - The Origins of the Haldanes and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray Haldane - The Origins of the Haldanes and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home - A Memoir (Paperback): Elisa Miller When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home - A Memoir (Paperback)
Elisa Miller
R602 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 17 working days

After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she travelled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa Brodinsky Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book of three generations. Shortly after her father's death, Elisa discovers a cache of letters written in Russian and Yiddish among his belongings, which she quickly resolves to translate. Dated from 1914 to 1922 and addressed to her grandfather, Eli, in Wilmington, Delaware, the letters capture the eight long years that Eli spent apart from his wife and their six children who remained behind in the Pale of Settlement. With each translation, Brodinsky Miller learns more about this time spent apart, the family she knew so little about, and the country they came to leave behind, connecting her own experiences with those who came before her. This captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn about her grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist Russia, her immigrant parents' hopes for their marriage in America, and now her turn to reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation of aspirations-first theirs, now hers.

The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family - Marshals of England and Earls of Pembroke, 1145-1248 (Hardcover): David Crouch The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family - Marshals of England and Earls of Pembroke, 1145-1248 (Hardcover)
David Crouch
R1,569 Discovery Miles 15 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection represents the surviving output of the clerks of the men and women of the most powerful magnate dynasty in England, Wales and Ireland in the thirteenth century. Its greatness was short-lived, but as a result of the Marshals' spread of interests and marriage alliances the charters and letters edited here embrace a remarkable diversity of lordships and societies. That fact and the central place the two Earls William Marshal held at the court of the young Henry III between 1216 and 1231, playing a decisive role in the establishment of Magna Carta, give this collection a unique interest for medieval historians of Britain and France, more so perhaps than for any other contemporary magnate family.

Hunter - The Origins of the Clan Hunter and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray Hunter - The Origins of the Clan Hunter and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Armstrongs - The Origins of the Clan Armstrong and Their Place in History (Paperback): Grace Franklin The Armstrongs - The Origins of the Clan Armstrong and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Grace Franklin
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Grant - The Origins of the Clan Grant and Their Place in History (Paperback): Calum Grant The Grant - The Origins of the Clan Grant and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Calum Grant
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Gunn - The Origins of the Clan Gunn and Their Place in History (Paperback): Harry Conroy Gunn - The Origins of the Clan Gunn and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Harry Conroy
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Tracing Your Boer War Ancestors: Soldiers of a Forgotten War (Paperback): Jane Marchese Robinson Tracing Your Boer War Ancestors: Soldiers of a Forgotten War (Paperback)
Jane Marchese Robinson
R245 R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Save R19 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons, mainly volunteers, travelled 6,000 miles to fight and die in boiling conditions on the veld and atop 'kopjes'. Of the over 20,000 who died more than half suffered enteric, an illness consequent on insanitary water. This book will act as an informative research guide for those seeking to discover and uncover the stories of the men who fought and the families they left behind. It will look in particular at the kind of support the men received if they were war injured and that offered to the families of the bereaved. Some pensions were available to regular soldiers and the Patriotic Fund, a charitable organisation , had been resurrected at the beginning of the conflict. However for those who did not fit these categories the Poor Law was the only support available at the time.The book will explore a variety of research materials such as: contemporary national and local newspapers; military records via websites and directly through regimental archives; census, electoral, marriage and death records; records at the National Archives including the Book of Wounds from the Boer War, the Transvaal Widows' Fund and others.

Early Yorkshire Families (Paperback): Charles Clay, Diana E. Greenway Early Yorkshire Families (Paperback)
Charles Clay, Diana E. Greenway
R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1973, this collection of notes and documents relating to approximately 100 Yorkshire families who held land of the Crown in Yorkshire in the middle ages was compiled by the antiquary Sir Charles Travis Clay (1885 1978). Deeply interested in the history of his home county, he was held in high esteem for his editing of medieval charters, and the ten volumes of Early Yorkshire Charters that he edited between 1935 and 1965 (also reissued in this series as part of the complete thirteen-volume set) were regarded as a masterpiece. In Early Yorkshire Families, Clay's notes on each lineage establish its provenance, its genealogy, the origin of its land tenure (with further illustrative documents contained in the latter part of the work), and how land was held and transmitted. This work is an invaluable source of information for researchers interested in medieval Yorkshire or the feudal system generally.

This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin - A writer's journey through my family (Hardcover): Emma Darwin This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin - A writer's journey through my family (Hardcover)
Emma Darwin
R449 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R35 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Everybody knows about Charles Darwin, and many know about others in his family, from Erasmus Darwin and Tom Wedgwood, the first photographer, to composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and poet and radical John Cornford, the first Briton to be killed in the Spanish Civil War. But when Charles and Emma Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, another Emma Darwin, tried to root her new novel in that history, the conflict between her complex heritage, and her own identity as a writer, became a battle that nearly killed her. This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin takes the reader on a writer's journey through the Darwin-Wedgwood-Galton clan, as seen through the lens of Emma's struggle. Along the way, her wry, witty and honest memoir becomes a brave book about failure - and, above all, a book about writing and how stories are told. Richly illustrated with over 40 black and white images.

Annals of a Clerical Family - Being Some Account of the Family and Descendants of William Venn, Vicar of Otterton, Devon,... Annals of a Clerical Family - Being Some Account of the Family and Descendants of William Venn, Vicar of Otterton, Devon, 1600-1621 (Paperback)
John Venn
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

John Venn (1834 1923), a leading British logician, moral scientist and historian of Cambridge, came from a noted family of clerics, although he resigned from the clergy as his philosophical studies led him away from Anglican orthodoxy. This family memoir, published in 1904, covers the careers of three centuries of Venn clergy, together with an outline of the family origins and pedigrees. The family came from Devon, where William Venn was ordained in 1595, and two of his sons followed him. Richard Venn was displaced and jailed during the Commonwealth. The author's father, John, was the founder of an evangelical sect at Clapham (where his father Henry had also been curate), and of the Church Missionary Society, an organisation in which the author's brother, Henry, played a leading role. The study provides a microcosmic history of the Anglican Church from the Reformation to the end of the nineteenth century.

Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort - Compiled under the Direction of Her Majesty the Queen (Paperback):... Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort - Compiled under the Direction of Her Majesty the Queen (Paperback)
Charles Grey
R1,444 Discovery Miles 14 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Originally written for private circulation among the Royal Family, this book, written by Lieutenant-General Charles Grey (1804-70), was first published in 1867. It details Prince Albert's life from his birth in 1819 through to his wedding to Queen Victoria and the first year of their married life. The Queen commissioned Grey, who had been secretary to both Albert and herself, as her husband's biographer, and the book was granted a wider publication, so that all who read it would 'tend to a better and higher appreciation of Prince Albert's great character'. Sourced from letters and memoranda, the book traces the development of Albert from an intelligent and gentle boy to the intellectual and moral compass of a nation. It records Albert's first visits to England, the wedding, his love for his adopted country and life in London, and includes details such as an attempted assassination of the Queen.

The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 (Paperback): Bart van Es The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 (Paperback)
Bart van Es 1
R240 R190 Discovery Miles 1 900 Save R50 (21%) Ships in 5 - 7 working days

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times __________________________________________________ Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined. ___________________________________________________ 'Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street 'Deeply moving. Writes with an almost Sebaldian simplicity and understatement' Guardian 'Sensational and gripping . . . shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time' Judges of the Costa Book of the Year 2018

The Parish Chest - A Study of the Records of Parochial Administration in England (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): W.E. Tate The Parish Chest - A Study of the Records of Parochial Administration in England (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
W.E. Tate
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this third edition of his valuable study of the variety of civil and ecclesiastical documents in parish archives, Mr Tate corrected and revised the text and replaced Appendix II with information in County and other major local record offices in England. The purpose of the book is to illustrate and encourage research into local history by means of surviving documents and fragments; it opens a way of actual study for many would-be local historians. Much thought has been given to classification, and comparison; the book is cross referenced, indexed and illustrated. It prints many examples of typical records of all kinds, related them where necessary to the laws and conditions which gave rise to them, and to the society whose relics they are. Mr Tate's knowledge of documents and of the scattered literature dealing with them enabled him to describe and illustrate the evolution of local government.

Tracing Your Ancestors Through  Local History Records (Paperback): Jonathan Oates Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records (Paperback)
Jonathan Oates
R433 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R38 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of names and places - it should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings they knew - and research into local history records is one of the most rewarding ways of gaining this kind of insight into their world. That is why Jonathan Oates's detailed introduction to these records is such a useful tool for anyone who is trying to piece together a portrait of family members from the past. In a series of concise and informative chapters he looks at the origins and importance of local history from the sixteenth century onwards and at the principal archives - national and local, those kept by government, councils, boroughs, museums, parishes, schools and clubs. He also explains how books, photographs and other illustrations, newspapers, maps, directories, and a range of other resources can be accessed and interpreted and how they can help to fill a gap in your knowledge.As well as describing how these records were compiled, he highlights their limitations and the possible pitfalls of using them, and he suggests how they can be combined to build up a picture of an individual, a family and the place and time in which they lived.

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback, New): Brian A. Elliott Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback, New)
Brian A. Elliott
R451 R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Save R35 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with us today - many of us have a coalmining ancestor. Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian Elliott's concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coalminers in the past. His overview of the coalmining history - and the case studies and research tips he provides - will make his book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general introduction to this major aspect of Britain's industrial heritage. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community.

Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback): Sue Wilkes Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback)
Sue Wilkes
R388 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R32 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

If you want to find out about Lancashire s history, and particularly if you have family links to the area and your ancestors lived or worked in the county, then this is the ideal book for you. As well as helping you to trace when and where your ancestors were born, married and died, it gives you an insight into the world they knew and a chance to explore their lives at work and at home.Sue Wilkes s accessible and informative handbook outlines Lancashire s history and describes the origins of its major industries - cotton, coal, transport, engineering, shipbuilding and others. She looks at the stories of important Lancashire families such as the Stanleys, Peels and Egertons, and famous entrepreneurs such as Richard Arkwright, in order to illustrate aspects of Lancashire life and to show how the many sources available for family and local history research can be used. Relevant documents, specialist archives and libraries, background reading and other sources are recommended throughout this practical book. Also included is a directory of Lancashire archives, libraries and academic repositories, as well as databases of family history societies, useful genealogy websites, and places to visit which bring Lancashire s past to life. Sue Wilkes s book is the essential companion for anyone who wants to discover their Lancashire roots. REVIEWS ...an essential companion... identifies what records to look at, why, what indexes may exist and where they will be located.FGS Forum"

Princes Under the Volcano - Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicily (Paperback, Main): Raleigh Trevelyan Princes Under the Volcano - Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicily (Paperback, Main)
Raleigh Trevelyan
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Epic and engrossing, this extravagant true story covers 200 years in the life of an English family dynasty in Sicily. Benjamin Ingham, possibly the greatest tycoon England has ever known, was attracted to Sicily from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire by the burgeoning trade in marsala wine. This is the story of the English Croesus, who made the money, and his beneficiaries, the Whitaker family, who spent it - intertwined with two hundred years of enthralling Sicilian history. 'Most entertaining and readable.' Anthony Powell, Telegraph 'Deeply researched and wholly fascinating.' Washington Post 'An original and entertaining contribution to Anglo-Italian history.' Times

Hancox (Paperback): Charlotte Moore Hancox (Paperback)
Charlotte Moore 1
R470 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R48 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore grew up, and where she lives today. It's been in the family since her ancestor Milicent Ludlow, young, single and an orphan, took it on in 1891 and began to enlarge the house and manage the farm. Hancox tells the story of the house and the family over the following thirty years, in the long run-up to the First World War. In one sense it's a rural idyll: the arrival of the car disturbs this peaceful agrarian world, but apart from that the rhythms of the countryside go on as they had for centuries before. But all was not quite as it seemed: Milicent made a distinguished marriage but her husband harboured a secret. Milicent herself gradually succumbed to religious fanaticism. And the death of the youngest boy at Ypres devastated the family, bringing the idyll to a painful end. Using extraordinary archive material held at Hancox today, Charlotte Moore weaves an Edwardian tale of madness and jealousy, love and loss, heroism and tragedy.

How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors 3rd Edition - An Essential Guide to Researching and Documenting the Family Histories of... How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors 3rd Edition - An Essential Guide to Researching and Documenting the Family Histories of Ireland's People (Paperback)
Ian Maxwell 1
R369 R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Whether you're eager to hold on to EU citizenship post-Brexit or simply interested in exploring your family's past, learn how to research and document your Irish ancestry with this essential guide, newly updated to include the latest genealogy tools. The purpose of this book is to highlight the most important documentary evidence available to the family historian wishing to research their Irish ancestry. It is aimed primarily at researchers whose time in Irish repositories is limited, and who want to know what is available locally and online. It covers more than eighteen individual sources of information, making it simpler to organise your search and easier to carry it out both locally and on the ground. This books covers: - Where to begin - Researching online - Civil registration - Making sense of census returns, wills, election records - Migration, emigration - Local government and church records

Gibson - The Origins of the Gibsons and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray Gibson - The Origins of the Gibsons and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Lynch - The Origins of the Lynch Family and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray, Lang Syne Lynch - The Origins of the Lynch Family and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray, Lang Syne
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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