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BOOK - The Workhouse Encyclopedia [England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales]
By Peter Higginbotham
Published by The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK (2012)
Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain’s foremost experts on the subject, it covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Workhouses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse addresses, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike. This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of workhouse life.
ISBN 9780752470122 (Hardcover) More information
BOOK - Life in a Victorian Workhouse - Pitkin Guide [United Kingdom]
By Peter Higginbotham
Published by The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK (2011)
The author examines how workhouses came into being, what life was like for men, women and children on the wrong side of the poverty line, and how social attitudes evolved through the momentous events of Victorian Britain into the 20th century. Illustrated from contemporary and modern sources, this fact-filled guide presents an intriguing picture of a world of steam engines, self-help, service and salvation - where workhouse life, and workhouse reform, influenced attitudes and services we now take for granted.
ISBN 9781841653389 (Softcover) More information
BOOK - Sheffield Workhouse [England]
By Michelle Higgs
Published by The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK (2011)
The records of the Sheffield Workhouse were destroyed in the bombing of Sheffield during the Second World War. However, using archive material, newspaper reports and the remaining Guardians’ minutes from 1890, this book reveals the full story of this feared local institution. Concentrating on the fascinating history of Sheffield’s main workhouse, which moved from West Bar to Kelham Street and then to Fir Vale, as well as on the strange and wonderful history of the city’s workhouse schools and farms, Sheffield Workhouse will captivate residents and visitors alike.
ISBN 9780752459639 (Softcover) More information
BOOK - Workhouses Of The Midlands [England]
By Peter Higginbotham
Published by The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK (2007)
Many former workhouse buildings have vanished; the survivors, ironically, have often been converted into luxurious houses and flats, and their original purpose forgotten. Yet the memory of the nightmarish austerity of the workhouses, as well as the inmates who lived and laboured there, has never faded. Featuring more than 100 evocative images of workhouses from across the Midlands, from Derbyshire all the way through to Oxfordshire, this book provides a rare pictorial record of both. With section providing detailed histories of the establishment in each area, this book illustrates almost every facet of the evolution of the workhouse in The Midlands.
ISBN 9780752444888 (Softcover) More information
BOOK - Life in the Victorian & Edwardian Workhouse [United Kingdom]
By Michelle Higgs
Published by The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK (2007)
This book establishes a true picture of what life was like in a workhouse, of why inmates entered them and of what they had to endure in their day-to-day routine. A comprehensive overview of the workshouse system gives a real and compelling insight into social and moral reasons behind their growth in the Victorian era, while the kind of distinctions that were drawn between inmates are looked into, which, along with the social stigma of having been a workhouse inmate, tell us much about class attitudes of the time. The book also looks at living conditions and duties of the staff who, in many ways, were prisoners of the workhouse. Michelle Higgs combines thorough research with a fresh outlook on a crucial period in British history, and in doing so paints a vivid portrait of an era and its social standards that continues to fascinate, and tells us much about the society we live in today. .
ISBN 9780752442143 (Softcover) More information
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BOOK - The Lanark Society Settlers [Scotland to Ontario, Canada]
By Carol Bennett
Originally published by Juniper Books, Renfrew, 1991
This edition by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2012
In 1820 and 1821 more than forty settlement societies from the Glasgow area of Scotland organized and managed the assisted emigration of a large number of Scottish families to the New Lanark Settlement in Lanark County, Upper Canada (Ontario) under the auspices of the British government. The immigrants were granted undeveloped land in the townships of Dalhousie, Lanark, North Sherborooke and Ramsay. This long out-of-print book has been reprinted and is available to those with an interest in the history and families of Lanark County.
ISBN 978-1-926797-61-8 (2012 Edition) More information
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Finding Death Notices Printed In Newspapers "from away" Places
By J. Brian Gilchrist
Many of our readers know of my passion for the use of newspapers in family and local history research. Indeed, with all the changes in technology over the past 200 years - the printed newspaper may well be one of the few constants that remain to connect us with our ancestors. The "reading of the news" provided a time (often on Sunday after Church) where the family would gather to listen as..... Read on >>
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- July 27,28, & 29, 2012
SLOAN family reunion, Boscombe, Alberta
Theme: The descendants of William Hiram Sloan (1818 - 1899) will be hosting a family reunion. William Hiram Sloan married Eliza Evans on 6 September 1849 in Algonquin, McHenry Illinois. Eleven children were born in McHenry Illinois and Crawford Wisconsin.
Where: Boscombe Community Centre, Boscombe Alberta
Details: Info and registration information .
- Saturday, July 28, 2012 12 noon
Ketcheson Family Picnic 2012, Frankford, Ontario
Where: Frankford Tourist Park, Frankford, Ontario
Peter Maloney 519-657-6968 pmaloney@rogers.com
- Saturday, July 28 from 10a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Genealogy Day, Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia
Where: Stewiacke Valley Museum, 5445 Highway 289 in Upper Stewiacke, Colchester County, Nova Scotia
Topics: Genealogy or family histories of Stewiacke Valley families. Local family researchers will be present to talk and share their information and their methods of research and documenting their family. Trips to local cemeteries will be arranged for those who request them.
Please notify us in advance (if possible) which cemetery you wish to visit. Starter kits will be available for those wanting to begin their research. The resources of the Museum, including nearly 2000 photographs, community history books, Genealogies, Obituaries, Scrapbooks, School Registers, Diaries, house histories and much more will be available to help with your research. Photocopies available at a nominal charge
Light refreshments available
For more information, call Judy at 902-671-2929
- Saturday August 4, 2012 10 am to 4 pm
Meeting - Haliburton Highlands Genealogy Group, Minden, ON
Program: There are many ways to look at family history. Genealogy is more than names & dates on paper or a computer program. Haliburton Highlands Genealogy Group invites you to Inherited Treasures. Come see our display of jewellery, furniture, quilts, tablecloths & other trinkets. Enjoy the stories of how these items were cherished for generations. $3 per person.
Where: St. Paul's Anglican Church, 19 Invergordon Ave, Minden, Ont K0M 2K0
Details: 705-286-3588 evenings or simmons03@gmail.com
- 12-17 August 2012
Genealogy "Summer Camp", Toronto, ON
Sponsor/Organizer: Toronto Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society
Genealogy "Summer Camp" is a unique program (for adults) that brings out-of-town family historians to Toronto for an intensive week of tutorials and hands-on research at the many archives and reference libraries in the city. If you have ancestors from Toronto or other parts of Ontario, there are many resources here for you. Local family historians are also welcome to participate as "day campers". We take full advantage of Toronto's great public transit system, and we keep the group small to allow lots of help from our local experts. We'll help you spend more time finding information about your ancestors-and less time finding the archives. This will be our 16th Summer Camp. More than 125 participants from England, right across Canada and many US states have attended the 15 previous Summer Camps-some more than once!
Applications should be received by 11 June 2012.
Details: Venues, resources, tutorials and accommodation, and to download an application package, click here, or contact Jane MacNamara by email
- August 18, 2012
Perron Family Reunion, Wendake, Quebec
The annual meeting of the Association of Perron Families of America (AFPA)
Venue: HÔTEL-MUSÉE PREMIÈRES NATIONS in WENDAKE, Quebec
Details: For further information please contact Fernand Perron at 418-628-9032 or Cécile Perron at 514-696-0835 or check the Perron Family Website at. Official Website
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