
Project List
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Church:
Monuments interior and exterior with photos etc.
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Churchyard:
Tombs, Graves and Gravestones with inscriptions, descriptions and locations.
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Houses:
existing with build dates, descriptions, and locations.
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Houses:
ownership information past and present. (Data Protection Act ?)
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Earlier Houses
and evidence still visible.
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Public Buildings,
present and past: (Church, Schools, Pubs, Police Stations, Rectories.)
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Transcription of Records:
(Church BMD, Church Magazines, Institute Minutes, Parish Council Minutes,
School Record Books. Newspapers)
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Collation of current data:
Web site for PC minutes, Justin’s Jottings, Mrs Buckler’s Column. Rector’s
Blog.
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Location of on-line data:
Census, Ancestry, Genes Reunited, local web sites, 192.com,
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Newspapers
and telephone books.
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Historical Records:
(Doomsday, Pipe rolls,
parliamentary, Military – wartime, home guard, airfield, Polish records,
medals.)
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Events and folklore:
(Morris dance, Joan Eaton, Church relocation.)
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Manors
and early land ownership
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Families:
ancient and modern.
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Fields:
Names and locations, Tithe maps, numbers.
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Boundaries:
old and current.
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Maps:
Ancient to Google earth
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Geography:
streams, pools, canal, Roads, paths, stiles, bridges, fords, land features,
trees, orchards,
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Infrastructure:
water supplies, electricity, Telephones, Gas, Sewage, bus services. Shops
and supplies,
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Services:
(Milkman, window cleaners, deliveries, - milk churns to internet shopping,
Oil and Gas, postal services.)
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Employment:
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Farming, (methods, crops,
animals, markets, related jobs).
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Other jobs: shopkeepers,
teachers, wheelwright, hedging, thatching, etc.
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Genealogy:
Enquiries and records. Personal and historical.