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  • A Reading Scrapbook – a history of the town through printed ephemeraA Reading Scrapbook – a history of the town through printed ephemera Quick View
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    • A Reading Scrapbook – a history of the town through printed ephemera

    • £17.99
    • Historical ephemera gives us a fascinating glimpse into everyday life in Reading in centuries past. Going back over 300 years these scraps of paper show how the people of the town lived, made their money, were entertained and much more.
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  • Berkshire Coroners Notebook 1775-1813Berkshire Coroners Notebook 1775-1813 Quick View
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    • Books, Deaths and Burials
    • Berkshire Coroners Notebook 1775-1813

    • £4.00
    • Contains transcription of a notebook kept by three Berkshire coroners, who recorded the date, place and subject of the inquests.
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  • Compleat Parish OfficerCompleat Parish Officer Quick View
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    • Compleat Parish Officer

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    • East Ilsley Parish Council – The First 100 Years

    • £2.50
    • 1895-1995 Includes list of Parish Council Chairmen & details of various issues discussed at meetings etc.
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  • Glossary of Household, Farming & Trade Terms from Probate Inventories, AGlossary of Household, Farming & Trade Terms from Probate Inventories, A Quick View
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    • Glossary of Household, Farming & Trade Terms from Probate Inventories, A

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    • This booklet is the only separately published glossary of the many technical terms found in both farming and trade inventories and provides definitions that might otherwise have to be sought from dialect dictionaries.
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    • Latin Documents for family and local historians, Making Sense of

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    • NEW LOWER PRICEThe aim of this book is to act as a crib; to set out and translate the basic form of the most useful and common Latin documents and gives translations one sentence at a time as the standard phrases do not always occur in the expected order.
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    • Books, Parish Registers - all denominations, Poor Law
    • Poor Law Documents before 1834, An Introduction to

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  • Rotherfield Greys – The People of ? Vol. 02Rotherfield Greys – The People of ? Vol. 02 Quick View
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    • Rotherfield Greys – The People of ? Vol. 02

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    • 102 Settlement Certificates, 93 Removal Orders & miscellaneous papers relating to poor law 1684-1830
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  • Faringdon Union MiscellanyFaringdon Union Miscellany Quick View
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    • Books, Poor Law
    • Faringdon Union Miscellany

    • £5.00
    • This booklet comprises transcripts of the surviving birth and death registers for the Farringdon Poor Law Union and several other documents held in the Union archive. This miscellany contains 500 family names.
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Berkshire Family History Society works to meet the needs of those researching their ancestry across the UK and overseas – as well as those looking for former relatives in historic Berkshire.  You do not need to be a member to benefit.

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