Private diaries and journals provide an insight in to the lives of the author and those close to them.
Classification: | Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | 1641 depositions |
Link: | https://1641.tcd.ie/ |
Description: | 1641 depositions - Irish Rebellion 1641 |
Extra Info: | Protestant men and women of all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641 |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Archives - Libraries and Archives of Canada |
Link: | https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng |
Description: | Libraries and Archives of Canada |
Extra Info: | Includes passenger lists from Liverpool, Southampton, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin to Canada, immigrant diaries, naturalisations, British Home children and more. |
Classification: | Newspapers, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Beeston - Exploring its History |
Link: | http://www.beeston-notts.co.uk/ |
Description: | Beeston - Exploring its History |
Extra Info: | Includes a diary from the Crimea, newspaper extracts and a whole host of interesting information on Beeston and its people. |
Classification: | Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Bracon Ash and Hethel history |
Link: | https://bracon-ash-and-hethel-history.webnode.page... |
Description: | Collected memories, photographs, research projects, mini-biographies. |
Extra Info: | Bracon Ash and Hethel are 2 villages 6 miles to the south of Norwich. |
Classification: | Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | British Community in Brazil the 19th Century |
Link: | https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/research-projects/brazili... |
Description: | British Community in the 19th Century - Bahia, Brazil |
Extra Info: | A downloadable paper about the British wholesale merchants in Brazil. Includes details of the everyday life. Scroll down to 2002 and paper CBS-32-2002. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Calverton Records Project |
Link: | http://www.xor.org.uk/calverton/ |
Description: | Calverton Records Journals, Diaries and Oral Histories |
Extra Info: | The records project aims to uncover and record the history of Calverton. |
Classification: | Tithe Records, Valuation Books, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Religious Lists / Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | County Kerry Genealogy |
Link: | http://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlker/ |
Description: | County Kerry Genealogy |
Extra Info: | Many online records relating to Kerry. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Hearth / Window Tax, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Tithe Records, Bastardy / Illegitimacy Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Earls Colne Village Records, Essex |
Link: | https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/earls_colne/ |
Description: | Earls Colne Village Records from 1375 |
Extra Info: | Click on Contents for a full list of transcriptions. |
Classification: | Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Emma Darwin's Diaries |
Link: | http://darwin-online.org.uk/EmmaDiaries.html |
Description: | Emma Darwin's Diaries 1824-1896 |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | England Data from Ancestry |
Link: | England Data from Ancestry |
Description: | England Data Collection from Ancestry |
Extra Info: | Includes Emmigrants and Immigrants; Numerous Directories; Who's Who in the World, 1910-1911; England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892; Numerous other records |
Classification: | Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Exeter memories |
Link: | http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/ |
Description: | Exeter memories - Stories from Exeter |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Families in British India Society |
Link: | https://www.fibis.org |
Description: | Families in British India Society |
Extra Info: | The Fibis database and FIbiWiki sections appear to contain most of the information. |
Classification: | Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Family Forest - Family History Website |
Link: | http://www.family-forest.co.uk/familytree/index.sh... |
Description: | Family Forest - Family History Website |
Extra Info: | Includes some biographies, memories and letters. |
Classification: | Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Gjenvick Archives |
Link: | https://www.ggarchives.com/ |
Description: | Gjenvick Archives |
Extra Info: | A large private collecton of historical documents from the 1800s through 1954 with emphasis on Steamship and Ocean Liner documents, photographs and passenger lists. |
Classification: | School / Educational Records / Alumni, Religious Lists / Records, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Grewelthorpe Village Website |
Link: | https://www.grewelthorpe.org.uk/ |
Description: | Grewelthorpe Village Website |
Classification: | Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries, Travellers / Romany / Canal Folk |
Title: | Gypsy Lore Society Collections |
Link: | https://libguides.liverpool.ac.uk/library/sca/gyps... |
Description: | Gypsy Lore Society Collections |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Religious Lists / Records, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Headington Village Site |
Link: | http://www.headington.org.uk/ |
Description: | Headington Village Site includes Marston Records |
Extra Info: | Includes old photographs and postcards of the area. |
Classification: | Religious Lists / Records, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Kernow Goth - Ciornish Heritage and Culture |
Link: | https://kernowgoth.org/ |
Description: | Kernow Goth - Ciornish Heritage and Culture |
Extra Info: | Includes an index to past journals, postcards, and more. Click on Cornish Topics and research for links to scanned books including parish accounts, local history, mining and more. |
Classification: | Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Journals / Diaries |
Title: | KISSACK Genealogy |
Link: | https://www.kissack.co.uk |
Description: | KISSACK Genealogy |
Classification: | Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Llandeilo History , People and Places |
Link: | https://llandeilo.org/ |
Description: | Llandeilo History , People and Places |
Extra Info: | Includes the diary of Thomas Jenkins of Llandeilo. |
Classification: | Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Memoirs of Sarah Speedy |
Link: | http://www.speedy.co.nz/recollections/ |
Description: | Memoirs of Sarah Speedy |
Extra Info: | Born near Waterloo into a British army officer's family, the authoress accompanied her parents and later her husband on military tours of duty to India and beyond. This is her story of her travels and family life. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Religious Lists / Records, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Moretonhampstead Historical Society |
Link: | https://www.moretonhampstead.org.uk/ |
Description: | Moretonhampstead Historical Society |
Extra Info: | Click on historical Information, virtual archive. |
Classification: | Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20140407043350/http://m... |
Description: | Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England |
Extra Info: | This is an archived copy of a site that is no longer active. Most information and photographs still seem to be available. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., School / Educational Records / Alumni, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Normanby in Ryedale Village Records |
Link: | https://www.normanby.info/ |
Description: | Normanby in Ryedale Village Records |
Classification: | Newspapers, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Old Liverpool and Merseyside Snippets |
Link: | http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/ |
Description: | Old Liverpool and Merseyside Snippets, Includes the Surrounding Area |
Extra Info: | Includes articles about ships and passengers, military, general history, mining and much more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Tithe Records, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Religious Lists / Records, Sports Clubs and Associations, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Parish of Winterbourne, Gloucestershire |
Link: | http://www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/ |
Description: | Winterbourne Family History, Online |
Extra Info: | Look under Archives for some confirmation lists, tithe maps, directories, school admissions and much more. |
Classification: | Information, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | People without a Parish - Witchcraft : A Somerset thing |
Link: | https://bornofsilence.webs.com/ |
Description: | A History of Somerset witches. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Tithe Records, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | People's Collection Wales |
Link: | https://www.peoplescollection.wales/ |
Description: | People's Collection Wales |
Extra Info: | Use the search box to find places or topics quickly. Includes many trade directory scans, some tithe maps, photographs and much more. |
Classification: | Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Rob Pedley's Website |
Link: | https://www.robpedley.co.uk/ |
Description: | Rob Pedley's Website |
Extra Info: | Includes a WW2 dairy transcription. |
Classification: | Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Scarlet Finders - British Military Nurses |
Link: | http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html |
Description: | Scarlet Finders - British Military Nurses |
Extra Info: | Includes the war diary of Matron-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force for 1914-1919. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Minute Books / Meeting Books, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | School - Rugby School Digital Archives |
Link: | https://rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/ |
Description: | Rugby School Digital Archives |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Religious Lists / Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Selected Genealogical Records |
Link: | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwi/filessection/ |
Description: | Selected Genealogical Records |
Extra Info: | A selection of transcriptions including extacts from Army lists, bankrupts, a list of people in Cornwall in past times, a list of coastguards in 1851, Hammermen and more. |
Classification: | Newspapers, Religious Lists / Records, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey Records |
Link: | http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~penney/genealogy/ |
Description: | Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey Records |
Extra Info: | Includes pubs, the light railway, history of some churches, farmer's club members and more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Tithe Records, Valuation Books, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Sligo County Genealogy |
Link: | http://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlsli/sligocountyirela... |
Description: | Sligo County Genealogy |
Classification: | Journals / Diaries |
Title: | SORBY Genealogy |
Link: | https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/o/r/Timothy-M-Sorb... |
Description: | SORBY Genealogy |
Classification: | Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Tithe Records, Bastardy / Illegitimacy Records, Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | South Petherton Information |
Link: | https://www.southpethertoninformation.org.uk/ |
Description: | South Petherton Information |
Extra Info: | Click on people for more information. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Post Office / Telephone Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Religious Lists / Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Suffolk County Data from Ancestry |
Link: | Suffolk County Data from Ancestry |
Description: | Suffolk County Data Collection from Ancestry |
Extra Info: | Includes Various town histories; Suffolk History, Gazetteer, and Directory, 1844; Various Churchwardens' Accounts; Babergh Hundred Military Survey of 1522 |
Classification: | Information, Companies / Employee and Union Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | The Bevin Boys Association - The Official site founded 1989 |
Link: | http://bevinboysassociation.co.uk |
Description: | The Bevin Boys Association - Archives and Information |
Classification: | Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | The National Archives Online Collections |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
Description: | The National Archives - Collection of Digitised Public Records |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | The National Archives Online Collections Maps |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | The National Archives - Collection of Digitised Public Records |
Extra Info: | Scroll down for Irish map collection. |
Classification: | Information, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | The Out of Town (OOT) Museum |
Link: | https://ootmuseum.co.uk/ |
Description: | The Out of Town (OOT) Museum, Coquetdale in Northumberland |
Extra Info: | The OOT Museum is celebrating the rural heritage of Coquetdale - includes many stories of past times |
Classification: | Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Thorpe Market Village Website |
Link: | http://thorpemarket.org.uk/ |
Description: | Thorpe Market Village Website |
Extra Info: | Includes some extracts from Notes on my Life by Anthony Beck. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Bastardy / Illegitimacy Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | TIVEY Family Genealogy Project |
Link: | http://www.tiveyfamilytree.com/ |
Description: | TIVEY Family Genealogy Project |
Extra Info: | Includes a diary of Joseph Tivey and his journey to Australia in 1848. |
Classification: | Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Welsh Family History Archive |
Link: | http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/wales/index.htm |
Description: | Welsh Family History Archive |
Extra Info: | Includes images of over 300 Welsh churches and chapels. Includes the diary of the voyage of Keturah Davies who emigrated 1860 to Australia. |
Classification: | Photographs / Pictures, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Worcester Life Stories |
Link: | https://worcesterlifestories.wordpress.com/ |
Description: | Worcester Life Stories |