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« on: Wednesday 04 February 04 18:44 GMT (UK) »
not sure if you have seen this,   policeorders
http://63.254.226.27/A55D2D/podb.nsf/Menu!OpenPage
has database with over 500,000 unique entries ,and lots of info on serving police past and present
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Appleby Appleton Bass Dewey Dilks ELEY Fox Foy Frankland Furnivall Hammond Hume lawrence Lewis Manning Moody Muschamp Peck Plumley Spalding Spencer Thurston Watson Willsher Wright Youngs
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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 04 February 04 18:50 GMT (UK) »
In case you have MARINERS as ancestors, here is the link of the National Maritime Museum.

http://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum


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Appleby Appleton Bass Dewey Dilks ELEY Fox Foy Frankland Furnivall Hammond Hume lawrence Lewis Manning Moody Muschamp Peck Plumley Spalding Spencer Thurston Watson Willsher Wright Youngs
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Balls Barker Burton Cambridge Cook Dow Freeman Goody Harrington Mitchell Mitson Penn*ck Playford Smith

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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 02 March 04 22:10 GMT (UK) »
If you are interested in Mining History then some of these links may be for you:

Mining History of Family Historians
http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/mhn

Welsh Mines Society
www.welshmines.org

South Wales Miners' Library for Heritage Research
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/iss/swml

Children in the Coal Mines a report from 1842
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/2191

Honister Slate Mine - Mining in Keswick Cumbria
http://www.honister-slate-mine.co.uk/history_of_honister.asp

Geology of Caithness
www.stoneroof.org.uk/caith.html

Mining Victims A searchable Database of over 90,000 Victims of mining including Women and Children from before 1840 to modern day compliled by Ian Winstanley.
http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/home/index.html

Links updated Nov 2013

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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 09 March 04 23:45 GMT (UK) »
Another tip given by jaq elsewhere on the forum:

http://www.gersociety.org.uk

the site for the Great Eastern Railway,  useful if any of your ancestors were 'on the railways'.  Loads of mine are.!!

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Clementsten, Hobson, Hole, Marden, O'Clements, Pitten, Sharland, Vickery (Vicary), Williams.

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Cardiff, Bampton, Bideford, Crediton, Wollaston, Somerset, Tidenham, Norway, Australia to Bristol.


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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 18 March 04 20:43 GMT (UK) »
A listing of old Occupations, many of which are archaic, These are useful to genealogists, and historians in general, since surnames often originated form someone's occupation.

Obscure Old English Census Occupations
http://www.worldthroughthelens.com/family-history/old-occupations.php

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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 20 June 04 21:02 BST (UK) »
Directory of medical licences issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775
http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/files/Medical_Licences.pdf

Covers England, Scotland Wales and a few Europeans

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« Reply #6 on: Friday 09 July 04 16:49 BST (UK) »
Hi All

       If your looking for old occupations try this site and its links

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html

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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 27 July 04 01:04 BST (UK) »
Found this site some time ago whilst looking up The Belle Vue Brewery and after seeing a couple of queries and replying on the subject of PUBS, I thought the link may be of use to Rootschat researchers..so here's the link

Tracing your ancestors who worked at Publicans.
http://www.pubhistory.freeserve.co.uk/phs/ancestors.htm

CHEERS ....make that a double

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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 28 July 04 14:24 BST (UK) »
OCCUPATIONS and PROFESSIONS

This is a good link to store in your favourites.

Old Trades
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/trades.html

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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Researching BRABY/BRAVERY in SURREY and SUSSEX

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