Research Information
RESEARCHING IN RECORD OFFICES AND ARCHIVES
FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH
We can research any specific event in your ancestor's life such as a baptism, marriage, workhouse admission, occupational details and military service etc. or comprehensively research for one or several generations of your family.
We are very familiar with the records held both nationally and locally including
CIVIL REGISTRATION (Birth, Marriage & Death certificates) and CENSUS RECORDS.
WORKHOUSE RECORDS
PARISH REGISTERS and POOR LAW RECORDS
QUARTER SESSIONS AND OTHER COURT RECORDS
NEWSPAPERS reports of events, obituaries, trials etc.
ELECTORAL REGISTERS AND POLL BOOKS
CEMETERY RECORDS
WILLS AND PROBATE RECORDS
MANORIAL AND TAX RECORDS, DIRECTORIES & ELECTORAL RECORDS, DEEDS
There are also many other types of records which will help find your ancestors
SPECIALIST RESEARCH - Navy, Army, Immigration, India etc
Using records held at The National Archives at Kew, The Africa and Asia Collection at the British Library and such repositories as the Post Office Archives, National Army Museum and the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich we can trace information about occupations, circumstances etc.
ARMY
ROYAL & MERCHANT NAVY
ROYAL AIR FORCE and its predecessors
ROYAL MARINES
CRIMINAL ANCESTORS including those TRANSPORTED
RAILWAY WORKERS POLICE OFFICERS
IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRANTS
POST OFFICE WORKERS
EAST INDIA COMPANY AND OTHER RECORDS OF THE BRITISH IN INDIA
AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS
HOUSE HISTORIES
Finding out about your house can be fascinating and rewarding. It does not matter how old your property is they all have a history. Our research will provide a history and features of the buildings structure, the use of the building over time, who the occupiers and owners were and what was on the site before construction.
