What's Free on the Net - Part 2

[toni*]

Blackheath Kent Hearth Tax assessment Lady Day 1664 new link July 2013
http://194.80.240.74/hearthtax/publications/onlinearticles/madissertation.pdf

&

http://www.longparish.org.uk/history/hearthtax.htm
The Hampshire Hearth Tax Assessment 1665

[toni*]

Dorset Poll Book 1807

http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Genealogy/info/poll_book.htm

[PaulaToo]

This won't help find ancestors, but it does give an insight into the weather conditions they had to endure in the winters since 1875

http//www.napier.eclipse.co.uk/ weather/bonacina.html  link broken

[toni*]

SOME free searchable databases for Ireland - not all are free
www.irishfamilyresearch.co.uk

www.ulsterancestry.com/irish-surnames.html
origins and distribuion of some surnames in Ulster

not really searachable but an article about the great plague
www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/england-history/greatplague.htm

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/folklore/folktales/welsh-folktales.html links checked July 2013
Welsh Folklore and proverbs about births marriages and burials

[toni*]

Extra Leaves for the Family Table: Resources for Interreligious Conversation
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_/ai_n17174929

www.british-civil-wars.co.uk
searchable site of biographies

www.shinycapstar.com/formation.htm
history of the coldstream guards

searching for transportations?                                            links checked July 2013

http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/search.html
source stores and database of the first fleet

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~firstff/
first fleet fellowship - detaisl fo ships of the first fleet

www.convictcreations.com/history/crimes.htm
convicts transported to AUs and their crimes
(i do not now how complete this site is)




 

[toni*]

www.institutions.org.uk/genealogy/workhouse_records.htm
a list of different types of workhouse records

www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/index.html
workhouse and poor law website - very detailed - with a link to Mary Halletts Poor Law Union Database

www.nationalarchivist.com
the East India Register and Army List 1855
contains over 15,000 names from the Bengal, Madras and Bombay civil and military departments - searchable free but you have to pay to view images

www.nowthen.org
click a-z of contents
extensive resources concerning the Combs Pit disaster, inc. pictures and plans of the mine
a fully searchable database of those who died and dependants leftbehind

info on UK mines
www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
(not sure how extensive the coverage is)

[toni*]

leicestershireroots.org

www.candoo.com/surnames/index.html
Caribbean surname list


http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk
an index of Victorian an Edwardian photographers in the UK New link July 2013

www.leitrim-roscommon.com
free transcriptions on the 1901 census for Leitrim and Roscommon almost all of Mayo and a quarter of Wexfor and a fifth of Sligo
and County Clare can be found here
www.clarelibrary.ie

[toni*]

www.kentfallen.com
a project to transcribe war memorails and other commemorative plaques for Kent

www.family-tree.co.uk/extraleaves

[bitty_matriarch]

Norfolk Baptism Project:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/

Transcriptions of Norfolk registers and census information
http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php
 
Victorian Britain Timeline New Link July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/victorianbritain_timeline_noflash.shtml

Understanding the Industrial revolution:
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/chrono5.html