What was new on this site: October-December 2002
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9 December 2002:
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following items have been added:
AUDLEY or ALDITHLEY (of Heleigh),
COBHAM (of Sterborough) (date of death for Elizabeth, 1st wife of Reynold),
FERRERS OF GROBY, and
SCROPE (of Masham and Upsall) (improved date for the marriage of John le Scrope and Elizabeth).
In the "proposed" section, the following items have been added:
BASSET (of Drayton),
BEAUMONT,
BOTETOURT,
BROWNE,
CLINTON,
GLOUCESTER,
GRANDISON,
GREY (of Ruthin),
GREY (of Wilton or of Shirland)
(identification of Maud, wife of John de Grey (d. 1323);
evidence that Maud was the mother of his son and heir Henry),
HEREFORD, and
ZOUCHE or LA ZOUCHE (of Haryngworth) (date of death for Elizabeth, wife of William (he d. 1382)).
New links:
- A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Published works: Bibliography of British and Irish History
(Royal Historical Society)
Covers nearly 300,000 titles, with powerful facilities to search the bibliography and browse the subject categories,
which include particular families.
- Domesday Book:
A list of the author's corrections
is available online (in Word format) for
K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons
Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166: II. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum
(2002)
- Church records:
- Published edition of early modern marriage licences
- including those issued by the Bishop of London, from 1520;
the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury at London, from 1543;
and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, from 1558
- are available on CD-ROM from
Archive
CD Books
- Monasticon (Matrix)
Searchable database of women's religious communities, 400-1600,
containing summary historical and bibliographical information on each.
The database can also be browsed in several ways - for example, by geographical region
-
The Cistercians in Yorkshire (Sheffield University)
Project in progress to provide online resources relating to the five Yorkshire
houses of Fountains, Rievaulx, Byland, Roche and Kirkstall. Much of the emphasis is on the architecture and on
three-dimensional reconstructions of the monastic buildings, but there is also historical material on the
order in general, the Yorkshire houses, with biographical sketches and a glossary
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Medieval and early modern texts: Raphael Holinshed,
The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland,
text, for
Edward IV (excerpts, in progress)
Richard III and
Edward V
(Richard III Society, American Branch)
- County and local history:
Stretton
[Rutland] History - Early History (Rutland On Line)
- Modern biography and prosopography: Medieval English Towns:
Biographical Master List
(Stephen Alsford)
Links to about a hundred biographical sketches
- Taxation and other lists: [Derbyshire:]
A
Muster Roll of 21 Edward III (Rosemary Lockie/David Blackwell, GENUKI)
Text from John Pym Yeatman, The Feudal History of the County of Derby
- Parish registers:
Origins.net
has added entries from Gloucestershire, London and Middlesex to its
pay-per-view Boyd's Marriage Index database
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Beauchamp:
The Beauchamp Earls of Warwick, 1298-1369
(Sebastian Barfield)
Text of an M. Phil. Thesis (University of Birmingham). N.B. The online version
does not include notes, but the author offers to supply them by email to those interested
- Blount:
Genealogy at LaMartin.Com (William LaMartin)
Blount family of Worcestershire, 13th century and later, including
extracts from the Complete Peerage,
Victoria County History of Worcestershire,
photographs of monuments at Astley, Worcestershire and
Kinlet, Shropshire,
and images of coats of arms and seals
- Harris: Harris
of Essex, England (Noël Robertson)
Various extracts concerning the Harris family of Essex, mainly from the 16th century.
(Note that the surname "Harris" must be different from the medieval "de Heriz" discussed
in some of the sources.)
- Ogbourne:
Ogbourne Chronicles (John Ogbourne)
Includes various medieval extracts, including origins,
printed public records,
early chancery proceedings
and wills
- Links:
- Societies and journals:
- The Scottish Genealogy Society
- The Medieval Genealogical Registry
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy) now includes an index to the main subjects of all medieval
articles in the Scottish Genealogist, vols 1-10. Volume 15 of the Genealogists' Magazine
has also been added to the index
6 November 2002:
[20 October:]
In the section on Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
a new section of more than a hundred brief summaries of "proposed" items has been added.
[20 October:]
In the main section, the following items have been added:
Atholl (improved date for the marriage of John le Scrope and Elizabeth);
Beauchamp of Powick (surname of Catherine Usflete);
Bryan or Briene;
Cobham (of Kent) (identity of the mother of Elizabeth, wife of Edward Brooke);
Felton;
Fife;
Furnivalle;
Hereford;
Hertford;
Huntingdon;
Louth;
March [England];
Norfolk (children of Roger le Bigod and his wife Ida;
relationship of Edward and William Montagu);
Poynings;
Scales;
Surrey.
New links:
- A brief guide to medieval English genealogy:
- Domesday Book:
L.C. Loyd (ed. by C.T. Clay and D.C. Douglas), The origins of some Anglo-Norman families (Leeds, 1951)
A scholarly examination of the places from which many Anglo-Norman families - from Domesday and later
- originated
[Available from CD Archive Books]
- Chancery and other equity suits:
C.A. Walmisley, ed.,
An index of persons named in early chancery proceedings : Richard II, 1385, to Edward IV, 1467 ...
(Harleian Society 78, 79; London, 1927, 1928)
[Available from Archive CD Books]
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
-
A History of Horton cum Studley [Oxfordshire] (Horton cum Studley)
Extensive draft text including much medieval material
- Some Notes on the Parish of
Lapley-cum-Wheaton-Aston In the County of Stafford (Ray Cowley, Wheaton Aston History)
Online text by George T. Hartley (1912), including a detailed account of the parish in medieval and early modern times
- North Mymms [Hertfordshire]:
Text of the Victoria County History article
(Brookmans Park Newsletter)
-
Thame [Oxfordshire] Local History
(Thame Historical Society, Local History Research Group)
Informative site including a detailed narrative timeline and articles
on special topics
- Charters:
-
Catalogue of Mellish of Hodsock Collection
(University of Nottingham)
Includes abstracts of documents from the 12th century and later;
most of the medieval documents appear to be in the section Me D 1-43
- Catalogue of Estate
and Official Papers of the Newcastle Family of Clumber Park,
Nottinghamshire, 1200-1942 (1st Deposit) in the Newcastle (Clumber) Collection (University of Nottingham)
Abstracts of documents (in progress)
- Portland
(London) Collection, 1304-1940 (University of Nottingham)
Includes medieval material in the sections on
Estate Papers
(Northumberland, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) and
Miscellaneous Papers
(Miscellaneous deeds)
- Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
-
Visitations of Berkshire, 1532, 1566, 1623 and 1665-66
(Nigel Batty-Smith,
United Kingdom Genealogy)
Page images, from the Harleian Society edition in 2 volumes,
edited by W.H. Rylands, 1907, 1908
-
The Visitation of Kent, Taken in the Years 1619-1621
(Nigel Batty-Smith,
United Kingdom Genealogy)
Page images, from the Harleian Society edition, edited by Robert Hovenden, 1898
-
Visitations of Norfolk, 1563 and 1613
(Nigel Batty-Smith,
United Kingdom Genealogy)
Page images, from the Harleian Society edition, edited by Walter Rye, 1891
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Powell:
Baden-Powell Family History (Pine Tree Web)
Text of The Pedigree of the Family of Powell ...,
compiled and edited by Edgar Powell (1891), including
discussion of early occurrences of the name in East Anglia, and records relating
to Mildenhall, Suffolk, from the late 15th century
- Links:
- Heraldry:
-
Early Rolls of Arms (Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
- St George's Roll, Part 6,
Part 7 and
Part 8
-
Heraldry in Lancaster Castle (Lancashire County Council)
Details of more than 600 shields of arms, including
those of constables of the castle and sheriffs of the county (in progress)
- Sir A.R. Wagner,
A catalogue of English mediaeval rolls of arms
(Harleian Society 100; Oxford, 1950)
Corrections and additions are in vol.114
[Available from Archive CD Books]
- H. Lawrance, Heraldry from Military Monuments before 1350 in England and Wales
(Harleian Society Publications vol. 98; London, 1946)
[Available from CD Archive Books]
For older additions, see: