Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy (84 page)

    
errors 53, 68

    
how information was collected 96–7

    
illegitimate children 417–18

    
Jews 373

    
Ireland 110–11

    
making the most of 96

    
online access 59, 60, 104–6

    
Scotland 110

    
troubleshooting 106–10

Central Agricultural Protection Society 309

Central Catholic Library, Dublin 439

Central Criminal Court 450

Chancery 339, 432, 471, 472

    
C series 155, 241, 242, 338, 368, 378, 409–10, 431, 432, 468, 470–1, 473, 474, 475–6

Chancery lunatics 407–8

Channel Islands 37

    
census returns 94, 102, 103–4, 105

    
parish registers 131

    
probate records 149

Channel Islands Family History Societies 131

Charity for the Payment of Pensions to the Widows of Sea Officers 193

Charles I 291, 472

Charles II 120, 152, 153, 160, 183, 200

Chartism 283, 343, 453

Chartist Ancestors website 283

Chatham Chest 193

Chaucer, Geoffrey 240

chemists 347

Cheney's
Handbook of Dates
47

Cheshire

    
cotton industry 270

    
palatinate court 450

Cheshire Wills
144

child labour 251, 271

Child Migrants Trust 388

child migration 388, 391

Children's Employment Commission on Mines 252

Christ's Hospital School 388

Church of England (Anglican Church) 113

    
chaplaincies abroad 127–8

    
clergymen's records 352

    
establishment 430

    
marriages 79

    
and naturalization 378

    
oaths of allegiance 325, 337

    
parish records 74–5, 113–18

    
probate 135, 138

    
teacher training colleges 349

Church of Ireland

    
clergymen's records 352

    
and divorce 437, 438

    
probate 148

    
tithes 318

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day

    
Saints (Mormons) 28, 34, 103, 118, 123, 124, 125–6

Church of Scotland 130

Church of Wales 352

Cinque Ports 182

citations, online sources 66–7

City of London

    
livery companies 347, 359, 360–3

    
marriage and baptism records 124–5

    
merchants 332

    
trial records 450

City of London Police 344

civil court records 470–6

civil registration 35, 74–93, 114, 459

    
Britons overseas 89–90

    
England and Wales 75–88

    
Ireland 92–3

    
Jews 373

    
New Zealand 392

    
online indexes 60, 62, 87–8

    
Scotland 90–2

civil registration certificates 10, 30

    
common problems 67, 85–7

    
contents 77–83

    
corroboration with census returns 96

    
corroboration with parish records 113

    
illegitimacy 416

    
locating and ordering 84–5

    
making the most of 76

civil servants 340–3

    
case study: John Hurt 342

Civil Service records 356

Civil Service Year Book
341

Clarkson, Jeremy 145

Clary, Julian 215

Clement VII, Pope 430

Clergy of the Church of England database 353

clergymen 352–3

Close Rolls 470

Coal Authority 254, 259

Coal Industry Nationalization Act (1946) 254

Coal Mines Act (1911) 266

Coal Mines Inspection Act (1850) 258

Coal Mines Regulation (Eight Hours) Act (1908) 253

coal mining 250, 252–4

Coal Mining History Resource

    
Centre website 264–5

Coast Blockade service 235

coastguards 234–40

    
records 237–40

coats of arms 56, 477

Coldstream Guards 154

College of Arms 56–7, 477, 478

Colonial Office

    
CO series 383, 384, 388, 391, 392, 393, 395

commercial websites 59–60

Commissary Court of Edinburgh 434–5, 436

Commission of Land Emigration 387

common law 470

common law court records 474–5

Common Pleas 339

    
CP series 338, 474, 475

Commonwealth immigrants 375–7

Commonwealth War Graves

    
Commission 171, 180, 207, 214, 229

Companies Acts 327

Companies House 327

Company of Watermen and Lightermen 295

company registration papers 327

Complete Peerage, The
(Cockayne) 55, 477

Conjugal Rights (Scotland) Act (1861) 436

consular records 89–90

context 15, 47–8

convents 416–17

convictcentral website 387

copper mining 250, 252–3, 257, 259

copyright, online sources 66–7

Coram, Thomas 415

Corn Laws 309–10

Cornish mines 250, 252–3, 257, 260–2, 266

Corporation of London Record Office 35

correspondence 13, 129

cotton 270

County Archive Research Network (CARN) 39

County Asylums Act (1808) 409

county borders 35

county archives/county record

    
offices (CROs) 272

    
crew lists 224

    
description 35

    
local business records 326

    
local council records 274–5

    
manorial records 465

    
mining disaster records 265

    
parish records 118

    
railway records 297

    
Swing Riots records 321

    
teachers' licences 349

courses 70–1

Court Baron 447

Court Customary 447

Court Leet 447

Court of Bankruptcy 330

Court of Chancery
see
Chancery

Court of Exchequer
see
Exchequer

Court of Requests

    
REQ series 472, 473, 475, 476

Court of Sessions (Scotland) 436–7

Court of the Lord Lyon 59

Court of Wards and Liveries 471, 472

    
WARD series 469, 473, 475, 476

courts martial records 212

cousins 19

    
false relationships 10–11

craft guilds 358

crew lists

    
fishing vessels 245–6

    
Merchant Navy 221–2, 223–4

Crimean War 157, 162, 235

criminal ancestors 9, 442–57

    
case study: Jeremy Irons 453

    
case study: Lesley Garrett 444

    
deportee records 369–70

    
execution 455–6

    
historical background of the legal system 443–5

    
prison and convict records 451–5

    
records in Ireland 457

    
records in Scotland 456–7

    
transportation records 454–5

    
trial records 445–51

Criminal Law Consolidations Act (1861) 456

Criminal Registers 452

Crisp's Apprentices' Indentures
356

Crockford's Clerical Directory
352

Cromwell, Oliver 123, 153, 373

Crown records 466–9

customs and excise men 240–4

    
case example: John Hurt 242

    
custom officials' records 241–3

    
excise officers' records 243–4

customs officers 341–3

Cyndi's List 62, 65, 67, 305, 395

Czechoslovakian refugees 370

Dardanelles campaign 194

dataset websites 59–61

dates 47, 114

De Praerogativa Regis
407

death certificates 10, 11, 29–30, 33, 36, 75, 82, 252

    
case example: Bill Oddie 83

    
content 82–3

    
errors in 53

    
introduction 74

    
lead or anthrax poisoning 277

    
making the most of 76–7

    
missing 86

    
Northern Ireland 93

    
Republic of Ireland 93

    
Scotland 91

    
train accidents 302

death duty registers 48, 144–6

death records

    
deaths at sea 220, 232–3

    
mining deaths 264–5

    
RAF 214

    
Royal Marines 207

    
serving soldiers 180

    
workhouses 404

Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
24, 55, 477

debtors' prison 329

‘declaration of alienage' 379

denization records 377–8

dentists 348

Dentists Act (1878) 348

Department of Education and Science 350

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) 327

deportation 369–70, 379

Derbyshire cotton industry 270

Derbyshire Wills Database 144

Derwent Valley Mills 279

Derwentwater, Lord 259

desertion (of spouse) 429

    
Ireland 437–8

Devon

    
county archives 35

    
mining 250, 252–3, 266

Dickens, Charles 263

Dickinson, David 414

Dictionary of National Biography
158, 204, 477

Digitalization of Vital Events (DoVE) 85

diocesan courts 139

dioceses 112

Directory of Directors
327

Distinguished Flying Cross 217

Distinguished Flying Medal 217

divorce 428–39

    
a mensa et thoro
431–2

    
England and Wales

      
before 1858: 430–2

      
after 1858: 433–4

    
historical context 428–30

    
Ireland 437–9

      
before 1922: 437–8

      
Northern Ireland 438–9

      
Republic of Ireland 439

    
Scotland

      
before 1830: 434–5

      
after 1830: 436–7

Divorce Acts 430–1

Divorce (Scotland) Acts

    
1938: 435, 436

    
1976: 436

DNA testing 504–5

    
case example: Colin Jackson 504

dockyards 247–8

Doctors' Commons 336

document searches 40–3

document storage 51

Dolcoath tin and copper mine 257

Domesday Book 94, 250, 460, 479, 507

Dr William's Library, London 120

Dublin City Archives 365

Dublin Metropolitan Police 344

Durham Mining Museum 264–5

Durham palatinate court 450

East Anglia 124

East India Company (EIC) 141, 172, 173, 235, 330, 393, 394

    
merchant marines 220

    
records 232, 332, 395

Edict of Expulsion (1290) 123, 372–3

Edict of Nantes, revocation (1685) 122

Edmund, Duke of York 477

Education Acts 288

    
1870: 350

    
1899: 351

    
1902: 350

    
1944: 351

Education (Scotland) Act 351

Edward I 123, 372, 409, 469

Edward III 477

Edward VI 368

Edward the Confessor 182

Edwardian photos 14

electoral lists and registers 35, 48

Elizabeth I 120, 121, 471

Elizabethan Poor Law records 398–401

Ellis Island database 390

emigration 380–95

    
assisted 387–8

    
to Australia 381, 382, 384, 391–2

    
to the Caribbean 381, 384, 387, 388, 395

    
case study: Alistair McGowan 394

    
child 388

    
Highland Clearances 309, 321–2

    
historical background 380–3

    
to India 393–5