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A GAZETTEER OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE IN
1868- £4 (excl.
p & p)
"Embracing Recent Changes in Diocese, Parishes, And
Boroughs: General Statistics: Postal Arrangements: Railway Systems &c.
And forming a complete description of the County." With maps of the
Hundreds of Ashendon, Aylesbury, Buckingham, Burnham, Cottesloe, Desborough,
Newport & Stoke (Based on "The Imperial Gazetteer of England &
Wales" by John Marius Wilson).
BUCKS CONVICTS- £5 (excl.
p & p)
Complete list of
persons transported to Australia 1789 - 1860, Court, Sentence, Date, Ship,
Destination, Sailing Date. Ship List. Transcribed J. Coughtrey, edited and
introduced by Eve McLaughlin.
BUCKS INSURANCE
DIRECTORY 1715 - 1730- £4 (excl. p & p)
Householders
insured, by parish, plus all policy reference numbers. Indexed. Compiled Eve
McLaughlin.
BUCKS INSURANCE
DIRECTORY 1775 - 1784- £4 (excl. p & p)
All householders
insured with Sun Fire Office or Royal Exchange, by parish (policies at
Guildhall).
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
PARISH REGISTER TRANSCRIPTS & I.G.I. LIST- £3 (excl.
p & p)
All film, fiche,
printed and known manuscript copies or databases of the registers of Bucks
parishes. See at a glance if the registers start early enough for your
purpose, and if the parish is covered by the I.G.I. Including a large parish
map. (A4 size 20pp) Compiled by Antony McLaughlin (Out of stock)
BUCKS POSSE
COMITATUS, SOFTWARE - £20 (excl. p & p)
Census of males
between the ages of 16-60 made 1798 for Buckinghamshire. This Windows package
allows searching of a 20000+ database by name, occupation and parish, and
gives a graphical display of the distribution through the county.
MACH -
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 1891 CENSUS INDEX ON CD-ROM (whole County) - £15 (excl.
p & p)
A British census
search engine linked to national and county maps (at the civil parish level).
MACH (Mapping and Analysis of Census Households) lets you search the census
data by any field, using wildcards in any way. The CD-ROM contains all the
1891 census data for this county. click
here for more details
MACH -
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 1881 CENSUS INDEX ON CD-ROM (whole County) - £15 (excl.
p & p)
A British census
search engine linked to national and county maps (at the civil level). MACH
(Mapping and Analysis of Census Households) lets you search the census data
by any field, using wildcards in any way. The CD-ROM contains all the 1881
census data for this county.
THE HISTORY &
ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAM, by George Lipscomb - A CD-ROM facsimile - £29.95 (excl. p & p)
The original
book, published in 1847, runs to over 2600 pages, spread over 4 large volumes
and is recognised as one of the main histories of the County, covering all
parishes.
The book starts with a general introduction to the county, and
then proceeds to describe each parish, grouped in their appropriate Hundred.
The description given for a parish, usually includes a topographical
description, manorial history, pedigrees of the important families, lists of
the clergy, a description of the church and the monuments therein, and also
extracts from the registers.
The book is additionally illustrated with numerous drawings and
elaborate vignettes. The illustrations show churches and important buildings,
as well as monumental brasses etc.
System Requirements:
Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP or 10. Or Apple Mac. CD-ROM Drive
Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 4.0 or later). An installer for this software
(for Windows) is included on the CD-ROM. It is also available free from the
Adobe web site www.adobe.com
Click to see some thumbnails of sample pages
THE HISTORY &
ANTIQUITIES OF THE TOWN, HUNDRED AND DEANRY OF BUCKINGHAM, by Browne Willis - A CD-ROM facsimile - £14.99 (excl. p & p)
The book,
published originally in 1755, contains histories of all the parishes in the
Buckingham Hundred i.e. it includes details on Addington, Adstock, Akeley,
Barton Hartshorn, Beachampton, Biddlesden, Buckingham, Caversfield, Chetwode,
Edgcott, Foscote, Hillesden, Leckhampstead, Lillingstone Dayrell, Luffield,
Maids Moreton, Marsh Gibbon, Padbury, Preston Bissett, Radclive, Shalstone,
Steeple Claydon, Stowe, Thornborough, Thornton, Tingewick, Turweston,
Twyford, Water Stratford, and Westbury.
The author of the book, Browne Willis, is perhaps the most
distinguished antiquary that Buckinghamshire has produced, and during his
lifetime he also published famous works on Parliament and on the Cathedrals
of England. Although he amassed a huge collection of manuscripts on the
history of the county of Buckinghamshire (now held at the Bodleian Library),
he only ever produced this book on the county.
System Requirements:
Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP or 10. Or Apple Mac. CD-ROM Drive.
Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 4.0 or later). An installer for this software
(for Windows) is included on the CD-ROM. It is also available free from the
Adobe web site www.adobe.com
TRACING YOUR
ANCESTORS IN BUCKS - £3.50 (excl. p & p)
Showing what you
can research inside the county; how the Archive system is organised between
Local Studies and the Record Office, and what they contain; how to book fiche
readers and order documents. Also the current addresses of registrars and the
areas they now cover; lists of hamlets with the parishes they are in; the
starting dates of the parish registers deposited; lists of nonconformist
records held at the Centre for Bucks Studies; what to do after you have
researched the basic register material; a list of Bucks Indexes, Bucks Publications,
details of stately homes, tourist offices (for accommodation lists) etc.
Small parish map. By Eve McLaughlin
These publications are also available for purchase online via the Buckinghamshire Genealogical
Society's section of the GENfair
web site.
For further information regarding these publications email
Mrs Eve McLaughlin at eve@varneys.org.uk
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