Research sources

Below you will find a list of the major collections to which I have access. I am a registered holder of the GRO indexes for England & Wales on microfiche. In addition to these there are other specialist collections in county record offices

English and Wales

• Bishop's transcripts and other diocesan records
• Burke's Landed Gentry
• Burke's Peerage
• Census returns (1841-1911)
• Debrett's Peerage
• Electoral registers and poll books
• Heraldic visitations and other early published pedigrees
• Manorial records
• Military records
• Newspapers
• Parish registers and nonconformist registers
• Poor Law documents
• Return of Owners of Land
• Ships passenger lists
• The 1937 Register
• The records of civil registration (birth, marriages and deaths), from 1837
• Tithe Applotment Books
• Wills and other probate documents

Scotland

• Burke's Landed Gentry
• Burke's Peerage
• Census returns (1841-1911)
• Debrett's Peerage
• Land records
• Newspapers
• Parish registers
• Return of Owners of Land
• The records of civil registration (births, marriages and deaths), from 1855
• Wills and Testaments

Ireland

Many records were destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1922 and others were not preserved.

• 1901 and 1911 census returns
• Burke's Landed Gentry
• Burke's Peerage
• Catholic church registers
• Debrett's Peerage
• Griffith's Valuation (land)
• Heraldic visitations
• Newspapers
• Return of Owners of Land
• The records of civil registration (births, marriages and deaths), from 1864
• Tithe Applotment Books
• Will indexes and abstracts