Author Topic: LINKS - Cheshire Directories, Registers, Lists  (Read 12082 times)

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Re: LINKS - Cheshire Directories
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 20 January 07 06:38 GMT (UK) »
Historical Directories - Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history.


Direct Resources - Includes Every settlement from Slater’s directory of  Cheshire 1848: 30 settlements 15,184 records.
Altrincham : Ashton under Lyne : Audlem: Birkenhead: Cheadle : Chester : Congleton : Crewe: Disley: Dukinfield:  Ellesmere Port:  Frodsham: Hazel grove: Horwich: Hyde: Knutsford : Macclesfield : Malpas: Marple: Middlewich : Mottram: Nantwich: Neston: Northwich : Over & Little Budworth: Runcorn : Sandbach:  Stockport : Tarporley: Tarvin: Wilmslow
Elder, Stewart, Johnston, Baskerville, Marks, Carson, Leitch, Bulloch, Thomson, Allen, Campbell, Gordon, Murray, Kelly, Chambers, Black, Cheyne, Youngson, Williamsdaughter, Anderson, Briggs, Pirie, Clark, Philp, Mannel, Lander, Rough, Lean, Bate, Brown, Oliver, Kitt, Shards, Bennet, Young, Petrie, Wylie, Herbertson, Martin, McAlister, Best, Ginn, Ross, McIntosh, McGillivray, Russell, Pettigrew, Fyfe, Barrie

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Re: LINKS - Cheshire Directories
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 13 November 08 18:19 GMT (UK) »
Cheshire Records Office online directories:

1789 Cowdroy's Directory of Cheshire
1822-3 Pigot's Directory of Cheshire
1857 Post Office Directory of Cheshire
1864 Morris & Co.'s Directory of Cheshire
1871 Worrall's Directory of Warrington
1878 Post Office Directory of Cheshire
1883 Slater's Directory of Cheshire and Liverpool
1895 Slater's Directory of Warrington, Widnes & St Helens
1902 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire
1906 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire
1910 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire
http://cheshiredirectories.manuscripteye.com/index.htm

Directory of Stockport residents 1896-1922:
http://web.archive.org/web/20101126091929/http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/communitypeopleliving/historyandheritage/stockportdirectories

Directory of Stockport residents 1772-1845:
http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/communitypeopleliving/historyandheritage/genealogy

Stockport Genealogy Database
http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/leisureculture/libraries/morelibraryservices/localheritagelibrary/heritagelibraryresources/onlineresources1/genealogydatabase

Railway Staff Register Database:
http://apps.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/CMS/lacrailways/Search.aspx

Freemen of Chester 1747 - 1925
http://apps.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/CMS/lacfreemenofchester/home.aspx

Royal Ordnance Factory Radway Green Accident Books.  More information here.

The Rolls of the Freemen of the City of Chester Part II 1700 - 1805

Victorian & Edwardian Photographers The site details dates during which some of the early Victorian & Edwardian photographers worked in the Chester & North East Wales area. The information has been extracted from local commercial directories such as Pigot's, Whites & Kelly's.
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

CHS: Barber(Tabley) Barlow(Antrobus) Blackshaw(Lymm, Mobberley) Blease/Done/Moore(G Bud) Owen(Netherton, Tabley) Spragg/Witter(Goostrey) Youd(Frodsham) Pennell Bankes Birchall Beckett
DBY: Higginbottom(Mellor)
HRT: Gurney
HRT/BED/ESS: Verney (Markyate St)
LAN: Davenport(Bolton) Schofield/Gurney(Oldham) Lord(Heap) Quinn(Manchester) Sutcliffe(Rossendale)
NTH: Tubb/Johnson(Hellidon)Brown(Kettering)
YKS: Scott(Clapham)