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~ United Kingdom - British Isles - Great Britain ~
  • JewishGen Home Page
    1. Great Britain databases (scroll)
    2. The Jews of London (pre-1850)
    3. Bristol Cemetery Database
    4. Welsh Census Returns - 1851, 1891


  • National Archives of Canada
    1. British Home Children: 100,000+ children were sent from Great Britain to Canada from during the child emigration movement between 1869 and 1930.


  • Records of the Tower of London
    1. Records of Weddings, burials, christenings, 1500 – 1900, and details of those who were executed and served prison terms within the Tower, 1100 – 1941.
      1. Name
      2. Date
      3. Event
      4. Remarks


  • Wirksworth Website
    1. The Big Index:
      1. Wirksworth Parish Registers 1608-1837
      2. Elizabethan Musters 1587-1600
      3. Aid to Charles I, 1627
      4. Vills & Freeholders 1633
      5. Survey of Wirksworth 1649
      6. Memorial Inscriptions 1550-1950
      7. Directory of Tradesmen 1821-1846
      8. Churchwardens Accounts 1658-1727
      9. Free & Voluntary Presents 1661
      10. Cromford Wesleyan Baptisms 1806-1837
      11. Poll Tax Records 1689
      12. Census 1841
      13. Census 1881
      14. Matlock Burials 1726-1856
      15. Matlock Weddings 1637-1837
      16. Ince's Pedigrees 1600-1860
      17. Hearth Tax 1662-1670



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    Research for the original information found in the ISTG COMPASS was conducted by Harriet Rosch and the late Donna Jackson. The ISTG Compass began to guide researchers in September 1999, and is an invaluable research site for genealogists.


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