Archive for the ‘Directories, Guides & Gazetteers’ Category

NSW PO Directory 1832 & Calendar

The following 1832 Post Office Directory & Calendar is now available on Ancestry.au

NSW Calendar and PO Directory, 1832
This directory was first published in 1966 by The Trustees of The Public Library of New South Wales. It was originally compiled by James Raymond, the Postmaster of NSW, primarily as a reference book for use in his own department. It was the first publication of this nature to include a directory of householders.
The collection contains images of the pages in the original book including a map of Sydney from 1831. There are 291 page images and 2,500 names in the directory which is fully word-searchable.

BATH SOMERSET DIRECTORIES

 

Bath directories

 

Four Bath Post Office Directories – 1852, 1872, 1895 and 1912. Download them free or buy a CD.

 

http://www.bathbmd.org.uk/pod.html

 

 

NEW ZEALAND DIRECTORIES

NZ hasn’t kept any of it’s historical census so directories and electoral rolls are the next best thing available to a researcher.

 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/WisesDirectoriesHome.htm

 

 

Gazettes online

London, Edinburgh & Belfast gazetteers online. A small number of mainly C17 and C18 London Gazettes have not been OCRd and can only be found by date or issue number. Can make for very interesting reading.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/

 

Wing Buckinghamshire Parish website

WingAlex Coles has produced an excellent website for the parish of Wing in Buckinghamshire. I was led to it by her comments on my post about the web site at Froyle, Hampshire.

Anyone know about other such site where a parish has been "adopted" and a splendid web site has been produced? I’d be please to feature such sites on here, just email me at linda@madaboutgenealogy.com

Wish I had some ancestors from Wing !

 http://www.wing-ops.org.uk/

Froyle Hampshire Archives

FroyleChris & Annette Booth have laboured long & hard to produce this valuable site. If you haven’t got any ancestors that came from Froyle take a look anyway, it’s a joy to visit.

I suppose you could always adopt a Froyle family !! Seriously -  just think what a resource we could have if we all took on an ancestors parish  and produced a website like the Booth’s. I am pleased to report that I have some "side-ways" ancestors that came from Froyle and have researched them thoroughly.

http://www.froyle.com/

 

Historic Farnborough Hampshire – a benchmark for other Village & Town Websites

FarnboroughHaving been born in Farnborough & lived there until I was 16 years of age I have fond memories of the place. At times I thought it was the dullest town on earth, but then what teenager doesn’t think that of their home town at some time. My Father was born in Aldershot & my Mother was born in North Camp so I have plenty of connections with the place.

Take a look and see what a really good town website looks like!

 

http://www.historicfarnborough.co.uk/

 

 

Oxfordshire online books

Vincents DirectoryThis info came from the Oxfordshire Mailing List.

A couple of books that may be of interest to those with Oxfordshire ancestors.

Vincent’s Oxford Directory for 1835

 
http://books.google.com/books?id=CcgHAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage

 

 

 

 

Oxford City Documents
Oxford City Documents 1268 – 1665

http://www.archive.org/stream/oxfordcitydocume00oxforich#page/n7/mode/2up