Ancestry's early Christmas present

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) seems to be dealing with a bit of pent up frustration, launching a veritable explosion of new material online for Britain.

Firstly, there is one minor release listed as a release on the American page bizarrely, namely the Dorset, England, Tithe Apportion and Maps, 1835-1850. This covers a tax payable to the Anglican Church following the establishment of the Tithe Commutation Commission in 1836. The records have been sourced from Dorset History Centre.

However, also now available is the following lengthy list of materials.

Scottish resources:

• 1831 Edinburgh Almanac - Universal Scots and Imperial Register
• Annals of Ayr, 1560-1692
• Annals of Glasgow 1816
• Decisions of the Court of Session 1781-1822
• Matriculation Roll of the University of St. Andrews 1747-1897
• Memorials of Angus & the Mearns-Castles and Towns visited by Edward I & Fealtys to England 1291-6
• Debrett's Peerage - Scotland & Ireland 1825
• Linlithgowshire - Claims for enrollment in the 1839 election
• Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen 1398-1570

English resources:

• 1812 Bristol Poll Book
• 1818 Norwich Poll Book
• 1820 Westmorland Poll Book
• 1890 Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes
• A Calendar of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester Vol. 1 - 1541-1650
• A Calendar of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester Vol. 2 - 1660-1800
• A Calender to the Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex, Richard I- Elizabeth I
• A Century of Birmingham Life, from 1741-1841 - J. A. Langford
• A Collection of Curious and Interesting Epitaphs, Compendium Set - Cansick
• A Rent Roll - Presteigne 1705
• A Warwickshire Word-Book by G. F. Northall 1896
• Abstracts of Wills 1620 - Soame
• Abstracts of Wills 1630 - Scroope
• Abstracts of Wills 1658 - Wootton
• Acton, Middlesex
• After Pretoria: The Guerilla War plus supplement to "With the Flag to Pretoria"
• An Account of Exeter’s Merchant Adventurers in 16th century
• An Introduction to Heraldry
• Ancient Funeral Monuments - 1631
• Annals of Bristol in the 19th Century
• Annals of Nottinghamshire Volumes 1-4
• Annals of Rochdale 950-1898
• Biblioteca Gloucesenstris
• Bibliotheca Cornubiensis
• Bristol Poll Book 1830
• Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. 1803-1856
• Bygone Days in Devonshire & Cornwall
• Bygone Nottinghamshire, Stevenson 1893
• Calendar of Wills Relating to Northamptonshire & Rutland 1510-1652
• Cambria Triumphans 1661
• Camden's Britannia 1722
• Cheddar Rate Book 1865
• Children's Employment Commission- Appendix to the Second Report of the Commissioners 1842
• Clergy List 1897
• County Genealogies - Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Hampshire
• Court-Hand Restored - The Student's Assistant in Reading Old Deeds, Charters, Records Etc
• Darwen and its People
• Devonshire Wills and Administrations 1540-1799
• Dougal's Unclaimed Money Register 1910
• Eastern Division of Kent – Poll for the Knights of the Shire 1832
• Eastern Division of Kent – Poll for the Knights of the Shire 1837
• Eastern Division of Kent - Polls for the Knights of the Shire 1832 & 1837
• Yesterday
• Eastern Division of Kent-The Poll for the Knights of the Shire 1857
• English Surnames – Essays on Family Nomenclature
• English Surnames - Their Sources and Significations 1875
• Eton School Lists 1791-1850
• Farm Day Book: Glos 1894-1950
• Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
• Fleet Street in Seven Centuries 1200-1912
• Genealogy and Surnames
• Hart's Annual Army List 1908
• Historical Memorials of Canterbury (1857)
• Historical Records of the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment 1755-1889
• Index to Bristol Wills 1572-1792
• Kelly's handbook to the titled, Landed and Official Classes 1892
• Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1927
• Lincolnshire 1818 Poll Book
• Local Records of Northumberland & Durham, Volumes 1- 4
• Memorials of Bygone Manchester-1880
• Memorials of Old Herefordshire
• Memorials of Old Middlesex
• Memorials of Old Shropshire
• Memorials of Old Warwickshire
• Memorials of Old Worcestershire
• Memorials of Oxford, Ingram (3 vols)
• Middlesex County Records - 1549 to 1603
• Middlesex County Records - Calendar of the Sessions Books 1689 – 1709
• Newcastle Polls 1777-1780
• Newgate Calendar
• Newport Pagnell Vaccination Register 1909-1927
• Norfolk Poll Book 1768
• North Nottinghamshire Register of Voters 1885
• Nottingham & Derby - Pipe Rolls
• Nottingham Corporation Chamber & Bridge Estates 1848
• Nottingham Date Book - 1884
• Nottingham Poll Books 1846, 1848/9, 1849/50 (3 Vols)

British resources:

• Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland & America 1798
• Burke's Peerage Baronetage and Knightage - 1881
• Burke's Extinct Baronetcies 1841

Most of the collections are browse only - so you should get to know the records well as you go through them!

Chris

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