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	<description>Gloucestershire Genealogy</description>
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		<title>The Whole Duty of Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am seeking a particular copy of the 18th century book called &#8216;The Whole Duty of Man&#8217;.   It used to be chained to the lectern in Fairford parish church in Gloucestershire.  It was definitely there in 1939.  It is thought to have been there in the 1970s but that is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2010/05/02/the-whole-duty-of-man/</link>
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		<title>Espousal Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I came across a new source that I had never heard of before &#8211; Espousal books. It seems they were used to record betrothals up until the early seventeenth century. A betrothal was considered to be almost as binding and valid as a marriage.  Few such books have survived and I haven&#8217;t managed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2009/11/25/espousal-books/</link>
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		<title>Pre-1841 censuses &amp; population lists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For my book on Researching Gloucestershire Ancestors, I have nearly completed the chapter on pre-1841 Gloucestershire censuses and population lists and have found 16 parishes with, at least, names of the householders and numbers of occupants and, in some cases, full details of the families living there. I would hate to omit a parish by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2009/11/14/pre-1841-censuses-population-lists/</link>
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		<title>Gloucestershire Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having completed my first book on ‘Victorian Prisoners in Gloucester Gaol’, I am now embarking on a new project to document the records available in the county for researching Gloucestershire ancestors. Having researched locally for twenty years now, I am obviously familiar with the main repositories such as Gloucestershire Archives, the Local Studies collections in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2009/08/19/gloucestershire-research/</link>
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		<title>Victorian and Edwardian Prisoners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you missing an ancestor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?  Perhaps they were in Gloucester Gaol?  My book containing photographs and criminal records for prisoners held in Gloucester Gaol during 1870 and between 1883 and 1906 is now available. Entitled &#8216;Victorian Prisoners in Gloucester Gaol &#8211; A Rogues&#8217; Gallery&#8217; it costs £14.99 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2009/06/21/victorian-and-edwardian-prisoners/</link>
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		<title>Overseers of the Poor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor Law was administered by each parish following an Act of Parliament in 1597. It authorized the parish to levy a rate to be paid by those who could afford to so do. Collection of the rate was the duty of the Overseers, who also distributed the money to those in need, either in cash [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2009/06/06/overseers-of-the-poor/</link>
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		<title>Early censuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having been asked about existing early (pre-1841) censuses and population lists with names in Worcestershire, I remembered Colin Chapman&#8217;s book on the subject and found the following for Gloucestershire:
Bristol 1695
Olveston 1742
Stroud 1756
Uley 1795
And, of course, in Gloucestershire , we have Smith&#8217;s Men and Armour for 1608 which lists all the adult males as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2009/05/01/early-censuses/</link>
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		<title>Shortwood near Horsley.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just been asked to find out about someone born in Shortwood in the first half of the nineteenth century. The name Shortwood tells me that the family were nonconformists &#8211; Baptists in fact. The original site is no longer in use, the graveyard sadly neglected when I last went and took photographs of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2009/04/27/shortwood-near-horsley/</link>
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		<title>Inclosure Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am in the process of transcribing the Inclosure Award for Badgeworth and Shurdington. If you are seeking the lands that belonged to your ancestors, you may find some clues here. Only the landowners seem to be mentioned. With the section I am transcribing at the moment, that includes Joseph Ellis Viner, William Edwards Lawrence, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2009/04/14/inclosure-award/</link>
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		<title>Gloucestershire Apprentices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One way to trace the parents of your ancestor is by looking at records concerning their apprenticeships.  There are two useful books for Gloucestershire Apprentices, both produced in the Gloucestershire Record Series by the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.
They are: &#8216;A Calendar of the Registers of Apprentices of the City of Gloucester 1595-1700&#8242;  edited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hidden-heritage.co.uk/2008/09/07/gloucestershire-apprentices/</link>
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