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This month’s free downloads have been supplied by My History, Anguline Research Archives, Gloucestershire FHS and Gloucestershire Archives Local directories
Including Kelly’s Directory of Gloucestershire, 1910 (£14.95 on CD) and Built-Leonard’s Directory of Cheltenham & County for 1935 (usually £10), both from My History
Elkstone: Its Manors, Church & Registers
This 1919 digitised book from Anguline is usually £8 on CD
Gloucestershire Poor Law index
Gloucestershire Family History Society (GFHS) has provided an index to the Poor Law records at Gloucestershire Archives (£10 on CD)
Gloucestershire FHS
GFHS has also supplied Memorials and Citizens (£5 on CD), plus extracts from Freemen of Gloucester (1838– 2013) and Port of Gloucester Pilotage Inwards (1874–1886): both £10 on CD
This month’s free downloads have been supplied by My History, Anguline Research Archives, Gloucestershire Family History Society and Gloucestershire Archives.
Kelly’s Directory of Gloucestershire, 1910
Normally priced £14.95 on CD from My History ( myhistory.co.uk) or £13.94 as a download from sister website twrcomputing.co.uk, this Gloucestershire-wide directory contains a wealth of information about local residents and tradespeople at the turn of the 20th century.
As with other resources digitised by My History, the file (presented as a PDF) is fully searchable and bookmarked.
Built-Leonard’s Directory of Cheltenham & County for 1935
This rare interwar directory, normally priced £10 on CD or £9 as a download, also comes courtesy of My History.
Inside you will find a lengthy street directory, a residents list, a classified list of professions and trades, and – curiously – a list of “detached and semi-detached houses”.
Elkstone: Its Manors, Church & Registers
This digitised book, originally published in 1919, is normally sold on CD (£8) and download (£4) by Anguline Research Archives ( anguline.co.uk).
Compiled by Rev TS Tonkinson, it features a potted history of the Cotswold village of Elkstone, along with extracts from parish registers and court rolls.
Gloucestershire Poor Law index
Gloucestershire Family History Society (GFHS) has kindly supplied four products for Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine readers to download this month.
The first is a county-wide PDF index of people mentioned in Poor Law records held at Gloucestershire Archives. As well as names and dates, it lists ages, occupations, places of residence and the reference numbers of each source document.
The index is normally only available to access as part of the society’s Gloucestershire Miscellaneous Collection, priced £10 on CD or £8 as a download from gfhs.org.uk.
Memorials and Citizens of Gloucester
The second GFHS product, priced £5 on CD and download, brings together assorted works by Henry Yates Jones Taylor (1826– 1906), an “historian, antiquary, scholar and poet” who spent much of his life writing about Gloucester and its citizens.
Transcribed from scrapbooks now held at Gloucestershire Archives, the 426-page PDF contains memorial inscriptions, wills, newspaper cuttings and other notes compiled throughout Taylor’s long career.
Freemen of the City of Gloucester, 1838–2013 (extract)
The third GFHS resource is an XLS (spreadsheet) file containing names extracted from the society’s CD Freemen of the City of Gloucester, 1838–2013, priced £10.
Featuring nearly 200 entries, the spreadsheet lists all men granted the freedom of the City of Gloucester between 1838 and 1846, as well as the name of the mayor at the time. The full CD version of the product also contains scans of the freemen register pages.
Port of Gloucester Pilotage Inwards, 1874– 1886 (extract)
The final GFHS product is an extract from the society’s CD Port of Gloucester Pilotage Inwards, 1874–1886, priced £10.
Supplied in XLS format, the spreadsheet contains more than 11,000 entries transcribed from a register of cargo ships that entered the Severn Estuary during the late 19th century. As with the previous product, the full CD also contains scans of the original register pages.
Gloucestershire Archives image set
Finally we have a gallery containing 15 interesting documents and photographs from Gloucestershire Archives. Highlights include an engraving of Brimscombe Port (1826) and a map of wartime bomb damage in Cheltenham (1942).