Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Addy, John, ed.
The Diary of Henry Prescott, LLB., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese: Volume 1, 28 March 1704 - 24 March 1711
(Alan Sutton Publishing, 1987, Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire).
Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, slightly faded dustwrapper. xxx + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A10989
Keywords: 0902593161, diary, diaries, Henry Precott, lawyer, LLB, eighteenth century, 18th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume I: 1873 - 1892. Glitter Around and Darkness Within
(Virago, 1982).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xxii + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-C6086
Keywords: 0860682099, Beatrice Webb, socialism, socialist, socialists, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian socialism, women, history, diaries, diary, Victorian, Sidney Webb, Charles Booth, Margaret Harkness, Joseph Chamberlain, nineteenth century, Virago, Webbs
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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Mackenzie, Norman & Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume I: 1873 - 1892. Glitter Around and Darkness Within
(Virago, rpt, 1986).
Volume I only. Paperback. Edges slightly curled, otherwise good. xxii + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-C4262
Keywords: 0860688461, Beatrice Webb, socialism, socialist, socialists, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian socialism, women, history, diaries, diary, Victorian, Sidney Webb, Charles Booth, Margaret Harkness, Joseph Chamberlain, nineteenth century, Virago, Webbs
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Cheney, Ednah, D.
Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals
(Samson Low etc, 1889).
With photograph and printed example of Alcott's handwriting beneath. Hardback. Ex library, boards rubbed, otherwise good. 404pp. Order No. NSBK-C15472
Keywords: B0016PRJWU, Victorian, wioman writer, women writers, life, hife history, Ednah D. Cheney, letters, journals, diaries, diary, Little Women, American, America, USA, US, history, literature, novels, novelist, Louisa M. Alcott, epistles, literary, biography, biographical
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Tucker, Cynthia Grant.
Prophetic Sisterhood: Liberal Women Ministers of the Frontier, 1880-1930
(Indiana UP, 1994).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 298pp. Order No. NSBK-C9042
Keywords: 025320822X, women, woman, ministers, religion, religious, Christians, Christianity, sisters, sisterhood, American, USA, United States of America, Florence Buck, Caroline Bartlett Crane, Eleanor Gordon, Marie Jenney Howe, Ida Hultin, Marion Murdock, Mary Salford, Eliza Wilkes, Celia Parker Wooley, suffrage, peace movement, letters, memoirs, diaries, architecture, sermons, hymnals, social settlement ledgers, American West, Iowa
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Evelyn, John.
The Life of Margaret Godolphin:
(Alexander Moring, 1904).
The King's Classics. Hardback. Covers slightly worn, otherwise a good copy. xxxix + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C11116
Keywords: B000X8TJY2, Margaret Godolphin, seventeenth century, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, diaries, diarists, authoresses, literature, fiction, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, John Evelyn
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Symes, R. A.
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries:
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A15528
Keywords: 9781473862944, social history, geneaology, family trees, women, men, Empire, birth certificates, geneaology, marriage, death, mortality, fertility, diaries, passenger lists, labour, censuses, emigration, family relationships
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Greville, Julia, ed.
Mistress Dorothy Drayton: Her Diary 1553-1559
(The Religious Tract Society, 1909 (?)).
Hardback. Good + in rubbed, decorated boards. vii + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-C15545
Keywords: B0014I5J9Y, Mistress Dorothy Drayton, diaries, diary, sixteenth century, journal
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