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England - Genealogy Sites

The websites on this page are a mixture of regional sites offering general or specific information on an institution or locality. Some of the sites will have lists of names for the family historian to search and some will contain information, both text and image based, that will help understand how our ancestors lived and worked.

The Tullis House Museum & Art gallery
This site offers a wealth of information about everyday life in the past and around Carlisle
http://www.tulliehouse.co.uk

Haig Colliery Mining Museum, in Cumbria
The website offers lots of factual information on the history of the pit.
http://www.haigpit.com

The Dock Museum at Barrow-in-Furness.
The website offers lots of factual information on the history and development of the dock.
http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk

Maryport Maritime Museum
http://www.allerdale.gov.uk/

School records in Greater Manchester
A website offering a wealth of information on schools in Greater Manchester in the 19th and early 20th century. It records where there are admission registers and school logbooks amongst a great deal of other, incidental but relevant material.
http://www.gmcro.co.uk/cs/school_records.htm

Manchester High School for Girls
A website dedicated to the history of this important Manchester school.
http://www.mhsgarchive.org

Aspects of Bristol's history and genealogy.
This is a collection of records related to Bristol schools, pubs and landlords, famous or notorious characters, some monumental inscriptions and more. Lots of incidental information and material for the family historian and those interested in the history of this city.
http://www.bristolinformation.co.uk/

Wirksworth Parish Records and information
This is a monumental site (with free access to all records) that staggers the visitor with the wealth of information that can be found on it. If your ancestors came from the Wirksworth area of Derbyshire then this is a must-visit site.
http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/

London Metropolitan Archives
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

Lincolnshire archives with lots of background material on the history of the county that is of interest to both the genealogist and the local and family historian.
http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/archives

A website that describes the past lives of Cambridgeshire agriculatural labourers - there is information and material on the land, employment, their social life, conditions, emigration etc.
http://www.cambridgeshirehistory.com/People/

A website devoted to the situation of a gricultural labourers and emigration in the early 1800s with reference to Wiltshire.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/wiltshire.txt

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