Peter Brown Family History

links

peter pedigree tree

The following Sites have been found useful:

Family Web Sites

  1. Ancestors of Mandy Willard: http://www.mandywillard.co.uk/index.htm . An extensive and informative site covering all her known ancestors mostly from the county of Sussex, England. There are also some from Berkshire and Essex, and some that hopped over the Sussex border from Kent, Surrey and Hampshire. The site interfaces and overlaps to Peter Brown Family History site at three places (William Brown 1534, Henry Faulconer 1602 and Henry Payne 1625) and at these pages direct access to the other site is provided.
  2. Denis Wicking http://homepage.ntlworld.com/denis.wicking/Wicking%20Family.pdf . A basic one name site providing a lot of information about Wicking

 

Research Web Sites

  1. British Origins - English Census (1841,1861,1871 and some Wills plus other general information. Subscription site http://www.britishorigins.com/
  2. Later Day Saints-Family Search: http://www.Familysearch.org (but data can be inaccurate - so only really used for possible initial identification)
  3. The Weald –Sussex Record Society: database : http://www.theweald.org
  4. FREEBMD: - Index of birth, marriages, deaths post 1837 - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
  5. East Surrey Family History Society http://www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk
  6. Kent Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrawson/index.html#home This includes a summary of Edenbridge Wills & lists other Kent Wills.
  7. National Archives online for Wills etc - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/
  8. Sussex Family History Group- This website is for the benefit of SFHG members and all those interested in family history and genealogical research in Sussex. http://www.sfhg.org.uk/
  9. Kent Archaeological Society - churchyard inscriptions . http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIslist.htm
  10. Cambridge University past students 1200-1900- http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/Documents/acad/search.html
  11. Convicts sentenced in Sussex to Transportation http://members.multimania.co.uk/jenny5/sussex_convicts.htm
  12. UK Census online: a "free-to-view" (but at this stage very incomplete) online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns. - http://www.freecen.org.uk/
  13. Some adhoc information sites:
    1. Old Occupation names & definitions: http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html
    2. National Library of Australia - for researching families who went to Australia http://trove.nla.gov.au
    3. English nobility, peerage or aristocracy - http://www.thepeerage.com/
    4. London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners. http://www.londonlives.org/

 

Wills: The following pages in sites have extensive list of transcribed 'Wills'
  1. Mandy Willard
  2. Mid Sussex Roots
  3. Surrey Plus Wills Index
  4. Kent Genealogy