…. Hearth Tax. The hearth tax was introduced by the government of Charles II in 1662. Following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Parliament calculated […]
….grandparents and great-grandparents. Beginning with yourself, you have two parents, four grandparents and 8 great-grandparents…. whether you know who they were or not! Heading back into […]
….Education. Two hundred years ago education, which we take for granted today, was a commodity only available to nobility and the rich. Before the twentieth century, […]
…. a world of discoveries in family and local history! It could have been for dressmaker, DNA, death, descendant, denomination (of the religious kind) or Devon […]
….copious counties, censuses, clerks, curates, courts, convicts and today’s C, for christenings. The christening (or baptism) of a child was supposed to take place the first Sunday […]
…. blooming loads of things! Baptisms, births, books, Bible Christians, blogging, brick walls…. but I decided to go for burials for today’s B. There is so […]
Day 1 of The Genealogist’s A-Z begins naturally with A – the all important, accuracy. Over the last few days, some entertaining inaccuracies in transcriptions on […]