That is why Sue Wilkes's well researched and highly readable handbook on the subject is so valuable. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community.As featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Please try your request again later. Be the first to ask a question about Tracing Your Canal Ancestors Please enter the message.Would you also like to submit a review for this item? We may have to stay home and stay still, but through t...Britain s industrial revolution depended on canals for the cheap movement of materials and goods until the coming of the railways. "Britain's industrial revolution depended on canals for the cheap movement of materials and goods - until the coming of the railways. Magazine and the Barnsley Chronicle. Put on your dancing gloves and embrace a lost era of corsets and courtship! The book identifies the key sources for family historians, including at The National Archives and the Imperial War Museum, together with the many resources online that researchers can turn to. Please try again. Publisher: Casemate Publishers. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Canal companies struggled to compete and went into a long decline, but much of the canal network is still with us today, and interest in the history and heritage of canals - and those who worked on them - is strong.
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations, will find their trail leads through it. View: 903. Accessible, informative and extensively referenced, it is the perfect companion for research in Britain's second city. Tracing Your Canal Ancestors: A Guide For Family Historians Tracing Your Ancestors: Amazon.es: Sue Wilkes: Libros en idiomas extranjeros That is why Sue Wilkess well researched and highly readable handbook on the subject is so valuable.She concentrates on the people who lived and worked on the waterways the canal boatmen, their families and their way of life - and those who depended on the canal trade for a living the lock-keepers, toll collectors, and canal company clerks. View: 256. That is why Sue Wilkes's well researched and highly readable handbook She is the author of Regency Spies, A Visitors Guide To Jane Austen's England, The Children History Forgot, Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives, Regency Cheshire, Tracing Your Canal Ancestors, Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors and Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood. That is why Brian Elliott's concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coalminers in the past. --Publisher description.The subject field is required. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? She provides a thorough, practical guide to the sources the archives, books, websites, societies available for researchers if they are studying our inland waterways, or trying to find out about an ancestor who worked on the canals or was connected with them.Her book is essential reading for anyone interested in this aspect of the industrial past.
She grew up in Salford, just as many of the great relics of the Industrial Revolution were being demolished. She outlines ancestors' childhood experiences at home, school, work and in institutions, especially during Victorian times. Sue Wilkes skillfully conjures up all aspects of daily life within the period, drawing on contemporary diaries, illustrations, letters, novels, travel literature and archives. The Black Country in the West Midlands is an important site for family historians. Her book is essential reading for anyone interested in this aspect of the industrial past." Publisher: Casemate Publishers. Page: 192. Get this from a library! In the opening chapter she reviews basic family history sources, then she discusses records of childhood in detail. Tracing Your Canal Ancestors is both an inspiring read and a good starting point for your investigation into your canal-faring forebears.’ BBC Who Do You Think You Are? She concentrates on the people who lived and worked on the waterways - the canal boatmen, their families and their way of life - and those who depended on the canal trade for a living - the lock-keepers, toll collectors, and canal company clerks.
Packed with detail, and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen's birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Posted by Sue Wilkes at 18:01.
In this accessible and informative introduction to the subject, Michael Pearson looks at the history and heritage of the region and gives a graphic insight into the world in which our ancestors lived.