Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy (87 page)

    
marriages at sea 220, 232–3

    
non-conformists 121

    
Pallot's Marriage and Baptism Index 124–5

    
parish records 113, 114, 115–16

    
RFC/RAF personnel 214

    
Royal Marines 207

    
serving soldiers 180

marriages, irregular/clandestine 116, 436, 441

Married Women's Property Act (1882) 135

Marx, Karl 269

masters (guilds) 359

Matrimonial Causes Act (1857) 432

Mayflower
381

McCulloch, Joseph 235

McGowan, Alistair 394

Medal Index Cards 170, 216

medals and medal rolls 11, 13, 37

    
British Army 170

    
Coastguards 237

    
Merchant Navy 228–30

    
Royal Air Force 216–17

    
Royal Marines 206

    
Royal Naval Division 197

    
Royal Navy 198

    
troubleshooting guide 483

Medical Archive and Manuscripts

    
Survey (MAMS) 345

Medical Directories
348

medical professions 344–8

    
apothecaries and chemists 347

    
dentists 348

    
nurses 346

    
physicians 348

Medical Register
348

Members of Parliament 275, 325

Memorial University of Canada 220

Mental Health Act (1959) 409

mentally ill ancestors 407–11

    
asylum records 410–11

    
lunacy records 409–10

Mercantile Marine Award 227, 229

Mercantile Navy List 230

merchant guilds 358

Merchant Marine Memorial, London 230

Merchant Navy 5, 190, 195, 220–33, 245

    
apprentices 356

    
births, marriages and deaths at sea 232–3

    
case study: Amanda Redman 231

    
docket books 228

    
medals 228–30

    
officers' records 225

    
seamen's pouches 228

    
seamen's records 226–8

    
service records

      
prior to 1835: 221–2

      
after 1835: 223–8

    
troubleshooting guide 488–9

Merchant Seamen Act (1823) 223, 356

Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats) Act (1883) 245

Merchant Shipping Acts

    
1835: 223, 226

    
1854: 233

    
1894: 245

merchants 330–2

Metropolitan Police Force 343–4

metropolitan record offices 118

Metzner Index 369

Middle Ages 134, 364, 396

Middlesex

    
Pallot's Marriage and Baptism

      
Index 125

    
trial records 450

midwives 346

Midwives Act (1902) 346

Midwives (Scotland) Act 346

migration

    
internal 250–1, 256, 288–9

    
see also
emigration; immigration

military ancestors 152–219

military memorabilia 37

Militia 166

    
records 173–6

Militia Act (1757) 174

Mills Archive, Reading 314

Mines Act (1842) 251

Mines Rescue website 266

Mineworkers' pension scheme 255–6

mining 250–67

    
brief history 250–4

    
case study: Lesley Garrett 261

    
disasters 263–6

    
finding out more 266–7

    
miners' records 254–60

    
museums 260–3

Mining History Network website 266–7

Mining Records Office, Mansfield 259–60

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 319

    
MAF series 319–20

Ministry of Defence 172, 187, 192, 197, 199, 204, 217, 230

Ministry of Pensions 211

Ministry of Health

    
MH series 384, 391, 400–1, 411

Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick 284

monumental inscriptions 117–18

movinghere website 375

municipal archives 35

Munk's Roll 348

Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) 310–11, 316

Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester 280–2

Museum of Scottish Country Life 312

museums 36–7

muster lists/muster rolls

    
British Army 156, 165–6, 174, 177

    
Merchant Navy 221

    
Royal Air Force 213

    
Royal Navy 190

MyHeritage website 27–8, 57

names

    
census problems 108

    
informal vs. official 10

    
patterns 12–13

    
recording on family trees 21

    
spelling variations 46, 68, 86–7, 108, 140

Napier Commission 321

Napoleonic Wars 95, 184, 187, 190, 195, 235, 308, 309, 368, 372

National Adoption Contact

    
Preference Register (NACPR) 425

National Archives, The (TNA), Kew ix, 35, 36, 37, 59

    
apprenticeship records 346, 356, 361, 365

    
asylum records 411

    
bankruptcy records 330

    
British Army records 30, 155, 169, 173

      
Army Lists 157–8

      
battalion war diaries 171, 177

      
Home Guard 176

      
Indian Army records 173

      
Medal Index Cards 170

      
medal rolls 170

      
officers 158–60, 167–8

      
operational records 177

      
other ranks 162–6

      
pension records 171

      
regimental histories 178

British Transport Historical

    
Collection Library 303

British Transport Historical

    
Records Section (BTHR) 294

business records 328

canal records 294

capital punishment records 456

Catholic records 121, 122

census returns 95, 104

    
1841: 99–100

    
1851–1901: 102–3

    
census enumerator books 103–4

Chancery Rolls 470–1

civil servants' records 340, 341

Coastguard records 236, 238, 239

company records 273, 327

Complete Peerage
55

consular records 89–90, 128

court records

    
assizes 449

    
Central Criminal Court 450

    
civil court 472

    
common law court 474–5

    
General Eyre 448

    
King's Bench 451

    
Prerogative Court of Canterbury records 140–1

Customs records 241–3, 343

death duty registers 48, 146

debtors' prison records 329

deeds of separation 432

deportation records 370, 386, 387

Divorce Acts 431

divorce records 431, 432, 433–4, 441

Documents Online 60

Domesday Book 479

emigration records 383–4, 388, 389, 390, 391, 393, 395

enfranchisement records 465

Factory Inspectorate records 277

farm survey records 319–20

fishermen's records 245, 246–7

Foundling Hospital records 427

Great Exhibition records 275

Huguenot records 122, 123

immigration records 367–8, 369, 375, 377

    
blacks and Asians 366

    
denization 378

    
Jews 373, 374,

    
naturalization 378–9

    
Poles 371

    
prisoners of war 371–2

illegitimate intestacy records 419

independent researchers list 71

Inquisitions Ad Quod Damnum records 468

Inquisition Post Mortem records 468

lawyers' records 337, 341

lunacy records 408, 409–10

Manorial Document Register 315, 447

Merchant Navy records 220

    
apprenticeships 222, 223

    
births, marriages and deaths at sea 232–3

    
crew lists 221, 223, 224, 231

medals 229, 230

    
officers' service 225

    
seamen's service 226–8

Militia records 173, 174, 175–6

mining records 255, 258–9, 263–4, 265

naval dockyards records 247–8

nursing records 346

Oath Rolls 325, 337–8, 341, 353

online catalogue 42

overseas registers 89, 128

palaeography help 47

police records 343, 344

Poor Law Amendment Act records 400–1

poor relief records 398

post office records 291

probate records 140–1

profile 506–7

Protestant dissenter records 120, 121

prison and convict records 452–5

Quaker records 121

railway records 297, 299, 300, 301, 302, 302–3

registration 39

Royal Air Force records 213–14, 215, 217

    
operations 218–19

    
prisoners of war 212

    
Women's Royal Air Force 216

Royal Flying Corps records 210, 211–12, 214, 216–17

Royal Naval Air Service Records 210–11, 212, 214, 217

Royal Ordnance Factory records 271

Royal Marine records 202–4, 204–5, 206–7

Royal Naval Division service records 197

Royal Navy records 184, 194

    
Admiralty (ADM 1) 199

    
Chatham Chest 193

    
officers 185, 186–9

    
ratings 190–2

    
Royal Naval Division 197

    
Royal Naval dockyards 198

    
Royal Naval Reserve 196

    
slave trade records 330–2

    
State Papers 156, 471

    
taxation records 469

    
teachers' records 349, 350, 351

    
tithe records 317–18

    
transportation records 386, 454–5

    
trial records 447

    
turnpike records 289

    
wardship records 469

    
see also
ARCHON Directory

    
National Register of Archives

National Archives of Australia 391–2

National Archives of Canada 390

National Archives of Ireland, The 35

    
canal records 294

    
civil servants' records 340

    
criminal records 457

    
customs and excise records 241

    
divorce records 437

    
Dublin Metropolitan Police records 344

    
Irish Famine records 322

    
lunacy records 411

    
National Schools records 352

    
online catalogue 43

    
parish records 131

    
poor relief records 407

    
private estate records 316

    
probate records 149

    
profile 509–10

    
railway records 301

    
tithe records 318, 319

    
transportation records 387

    
turnpike records 289

National Archives of New Zealand 392

National Archives of Scotland, The (NAS) 35, 59

    
adoption process papers 423

    
airmen's wills 214–15

    
apprenticeship and guild records 364

    
bankruptcy records 330

    
canal records 293–4

    
civil servants' records 340

    
company registration papers 327

    
criminal records 456–7

    
customs and excise records 241, 244, 343

    
divorce records 434, 435, 436

    
estate papers guide 316

    
farm survey records 320