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Contents:
1. Our welcome message.
2.
Featured Article
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Emigrants from England
to North America After 1776 by Lorine
McGinnis Schulze
3. News
from Ancestry.co.uk -
4. News from www.GenesReunited.co.uk
5. Next
Months Featured Article:
Family History More Popular And Easier Than Ever -
By yours truly
1. Our welcome message.
Here we are in July. I've had a busy month since the
last newsletter but I still managed to get this months out almost on time!
Last Sunday Carol (my wife) helped to run a stall on
behalf of the Doncaster & District Family History Society. She was busy
handing out leaflets and selling society publications and helping to
recruit new members. Being a member of a Family History Society is
important in helping you to build your family tree.
I was feeling a little lethargic at the time and didn't
go with her, the venue was Old Edlington Church St Peters - I was born in
Edlington near Doncaster UK, and my parents were married in this Church,
the graveyard contains many graves of my ancestors - Whilst there Carol
met several of my relatives including some distant relatives which we
didn't know about. She also met many people that knew me as a child
growing up in Edlington. Oh how I regret not going now! I won't miss the
next event at the old Church.
I recently put up a new family history site
using a new program I bought a few months ago. I finally got around to
trying it out and I'm very impressed!
The program is easy to use and I put up seven different
sites in about three hours! If you'd like to
learn more about this program and view the sites I made using it then take
a look at this page.
Enjoy. Jim - Editor.
2.
Featured Article:
Emigrants from England to North America After 1776
© Lorine McGinnis Schulze
The Public Record Office in Kew, England holds records
regarding emigration to Canada, and some for the United States of America.
The chief sources of information are the records of the Colonial Office, and
those of the Board of Trade and the Treasury.
Modern records of the Board of Trade can give assistance in tracing
emigrants. The sea going Passenger Lists, Outwards (BT 27), from 1890 to
1960, contain the names of the persons leaving the United Kingdom from ports
within England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland for final destinations outside
of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea.
The lists are arranged under the names of the ports of departure. Many
lists earlier in date than 1890 were destroyed by order of the Board in
1900, but a few escaped destruction and are included in this series.
Records of the Colonial Office
Colonial Office records mainly deal with the North American colonies
which later became Canada. The following records are available:
- Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence, 1817 to 1851 (CO
384 ) includes letters from settlers, or prospective settlers
- Entry Books, 1815 to 1833 (CO 385 ) has names of settlers
- Land and Emigration Commission papers, 1840 to 1876 (CO 386 ) also has
names.
- Colonies, General: Original Correspondence (CO 323 )give some details
of land grants and applications.
- Entry Books (CO 324 , 1662 to 1872, and CO 381 , 1835 to 1872) give
some details of land grants and applications.
The following correspondence for North America has emigration records:
- CO 6 , British North America Original Correspondence, 1816 to 1868
- CO 326 , General Registers, 1633 to 1849
- CO 327 , British North America Emigration Registers, 1850 to 1863
- CO 328 , British North America General Registers (including emigration
1864 to 1868)
- CO 329 , British North America Registers of Out-letters, 1872 to 1880
Records of the Treasury
Correspondence of the Treasury, to 1920, is in T 1 , Treasury: Papers.
Registers in T 2 , T 3 , and T 4 , and indexes in T 108 , show colonial
business handled by the Treasury, and include references to individuals in
the colonies or planning to emigrate.
The following records contain references to America.
- Treasury: General Out-letter Books, 1668 to 1920 (T 27 )
- Minute Books, 1667 to 1870 (T 29 and T 99 )
- Entry Books of Royal Warrants, 1667 to 1857 (T 52 )
- Entry Books of Warrants relating to the Payment of Money, 1676 to 1839
(T 53 )
- Entry Books of Warrants concerning Appointments, Crown Leases and
other, 1667 to 1849 (T 54)
- Order Books, 1667 to 1831 (T 60 )
Records of the Foreign Office
Passport Registers, 1795 to 1898 (FO 610 ) contain entries, in
chronological and numerical order, of the names, destinations and referees
of all those who applied for passports. Indexes of names in FO 611 give the
date of issue and serial number of each passport (1851 to 1862, and 1874 to
1898).
Records of the Board of Trade
Board of Trade Outwards Passenger Lists, 1890 to 1960 (BT 27 ) are lists
of passengers leaving the United Kingdom by sea, arranged by date and port
of departure. The name, age, occupation and place of residence of each
passenger is given. Lists earlier than 1890 no longer exist.
Registers of Passenger Lists, 1906 to 1951, are held in BT 32 . Before
1920 they give, under the different ports, the names of ships and the month
of arrival and departure. After 1920 the exact date of arrival and departure
is recorded. Before 1908 the registers relate only to the ports of
Southampton, Bristol and Weymouth.
Other Record Sources
- Privy Council Registers, 1540 to 1978 (PC 2 ) contain entries about
the colonies as well as petitions and letters of people going there or
already resident there. Also see the Calendar of Acts of the Privy Council
of England, Colonial Series, 1613 to 1783.
- Audit Office Declared Accounts, 1779 to 1827 (AO 1 ) include
references to the pensions and allowances paid to emigrants, American
loyalists and others in the colonies, as do the Declared and Passed
Accounts, 1803 to 1848 (AO 2 ), which also give lists of establishments in
some of the colonies. The Various Accounts, 1539 to 1886 (AO 3 ) list the
names of some individual settlers.
- TS 12 , 1675 to 1921, West Jersey Society Records relate to tracts of
land in West and East Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England and elsewhere,
divided up as shares of the company. The records contain names in the
original correspondence, minute books, registers of shares, original
deeds, and papers about claims.
- Ministry of Health Poor Law Union Papers, 1834 to 1890 (MH 12 )
include material about parish-assisted emigration under the New Poor Law
of 1834, arranged alphabetically under county and union. Correspondence
between the General Board of Health and the Colonial Land and Emigration
Commissioners, 1853 to 1854, is in MH 13/252 , and between the Poor Law
Authorities and the Emigration Commissions, 1836 to 1876, in MH 19/22 .
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subject to human error, and researchers should always check the original
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3. News from Ancestry.co.uk
Here's an email I received recently from
Ancestry.
Hi James ( Sunday name! )
Re:
Parish records are always important ? once
your quest for your family's stories takes you back before 1837, they
become your most useful resource.
If these records hail from a part of the country that welcomed a
particularly large percentage of the population, they're even more
crucial.
That's certainly the case with the new West Yorkshire Parish Records,
1512-1997 at Ancestry.co.uk.
Like London and Liverpool, both of which are already well covered in the
comprehensive parish collections at the site, West Yorkshire was like a
magnet for our ancestors at a particular point in history.
In this case, that point was the Industrial Revolution.
The boom in the textile industry in the 18th and 19th centuries saw
Bradford, Leeds, Halifax and even smaller towns like Bingley and Dewsbury
become centres of British business.
The area's main product was wool, and Bradford in particular became known
as the wool capital of the world. Of course, bigger business meant more
jobs, and our forebears came from far and wide to work in the new mills.
Bradford's population alone shot up from just 16,000 in 1800 to a massive
182,000 in 1850, and this pattern was repeated all over the county.
The result of this is that millions of us now have roots that stretch into
West Yorkshire. Even if you don?t know about it, the likelihood is that at
least part of your family travelled to the North-East at some point.
The new records at Ancestry.co.uk help you investigate these ties, and
discover the part your forebears played in Britain's expansion. Indeed,
the lists of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials go back much
further than the Industrial Revolution.
They take in plague epidemics and Civil War on their way back to 1512. So,
you can follow the twists and turns in your ancestors? lives through
several generations.
4. News from
www.GenesReunited.co.uk
Genes Reunited was launched in 2003 as a sister-site to
the Internet phenomenon Friends Reunited. Since then it has grown to
become the UK’s largest genealogy website.
It marked a revolution in genealogy and ancestry by
combining them with Internet social-networking. Members are able to build
their family tree by posting it on the site and investigating which
ancestors they share with other members. They can also search historical
records such as census, birth, death, marriage and military records.
It currently has over 11 million members and over 750
million names listed. One new name is added to the site every single
second.
A treasure trove of ship passenger records go online
- A two year old Elizabeth Taylor, and a 56
year old Alfred Hitchcock found in the records
- 24 million passengers who travelled on
long-distance journeys from UK ports
- Records cover the period of mass migration to
Australia between 1947-1960
From today people will be able to view passenger
lists online at UK family history website,
www.GenesReunited.co.uk.
The lists include people onboard ships departing British ports for
long-distance voyages across the world from 1890 to 1960.
The passenger list records offer a range of
information from simply the passenger’s name and age, to much more
detailed information; the departure and destination ports, the ship’s
name, date of travel as well as actual descriptions of the passengers
themselves, such as, UK address, year of birth, marital status,
occupation and nationality. Through these records it is possible to
find some truly unique information about ancestors who voyaged
overseas.
As well as the range of detail that can be found in
these records, there are also some famous names which can be
discovered, in particular Hollywood royalty such as a two year old
Elizabeth Taylor, a 56 year old Alfred Hitchcock, a 22 year old Audrey
Hepburn and finally a four year old Olivia Newton-John who was on her
way from London to Australia.
Some shipping lines produced passenger lists in
duplicate or even triplicate for the Board of Trade. This means that
there can be two or even three originals of some of the passenger
lists within the BT27 series. Such duplicates were written out again
by hand (not produced using carbon paper). The differences between
these different copies of the same list are usually cosmetic but there
are sometimes also minor differences in content or in the Board of
Trade's annotations or stamps upon them.
These duplicate lists have been scanned to preserve
the integrity of the BT27 dataset. Researchers should note that this
means that occasionally you may see two entries for the same
individual which correspond to two different original copies of the
same list.
A solution is being designed so that customers will
only be charged once for the information contained within these
duplicate pages.
The passenger records cover the period of mass
migration to Australia between 1947 and 1960 when an estimated 710,000
people travelled there from Great Britain. This ‘golden age’ of
migration to Australia was prompted by the launch of the Government’s
‘Ten Pound Pom’ scheme to encourage Britons to emigrate to Australia
and enhance the nation’s skilled workforce driving its economy
forwards.
Similarly to today, the records reveal a high number
of retirees also travelled to Australia to spend the rest of their
lives in the sun, with 17,385 retirees emigrating from the UK during
the 1950s. Furthermore, 140,511 housewives travelled to Australia in
the same decade. The records also show that there were 58 divorcees
and 215 widowers listed who may have journeyed to the country to make
a fresh start.
Rhoda Breakell, head of Genes Reunited, comments:
“The wealth of passenger list records now available on Genes Reunited
is an invaluable resource for people tracing relatives they believe
may have left the UK from 1890 onwards. The passenger records may
very well provide a missing link for many family historians who have
hit a brick wall in their research, as well as helping those outside
of the UK to trace back to their British and European heritage.”
The easily-searchable and user-friendly database
will enable would-be genealogists and family historians alike to view
digitised images of the original ship passenger records online, which
contain over 1.1 million pages, listing the 24 million passengers who
travelled on long-distance journeys from UK ports.
www.GenesReunited.co.uk
5. Next months featured article:
Family History More Popular And Easier Than Ever -
By yours truly
Family history is becoming a more popular pastime,
especially now that the Internet has made researching your ancestry easier
than ever. Read full article next month.
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