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Battleground Ireland=Ireland became a battleground almost by accident - having left England, James II had de facto handed William the crown on a silver plate. His only hope of restoration was linked to a return to his realm. And only one part was considered secure and sympathetic enough - Catholic Ireland, effectively ruled by the Jacobite Tyrconnel.Tyrconnel was determined to hold on to power ...
Albury Park, Surrey, England= Albury Park is a country park and Grade II* listed historic country house (Albury Park Mansion) in Surrey, England. It covers over 150 acres (0.61 km2); within this area is the old village of Albury, which consists of three or four houses and a church. The River Tillingbourne runs through the grounds. ===Pre-1890===The Saxon Old St Peter and St Paul's Church, withi...
Avon: English County between 1974 and 1996 ==England People who had connections to Avon between 1974 and 1996 can be linked to this project .===== Image Right - Avon cc Arms from Wiki Commons . Other maps on this page are adapted from Wiki images. =====See ]]]
Alkrington Hall, Manchester, Lancashire, England= Alkrington or Alkrington Garden Village [1] is an area of Middleton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester England.[2]Historically a part of Lancashire, in the Middle Ages Alkrington was a township[3] in the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham in the hundred of Salford.[2][4] Once rolling farmland, in 1886 Alkrington was added t...
Ancoats Hall, Manchester, Lancashire, England= Ancoats Hall in Ancoats, Manchester, England, was a post-medieval country house built in 1609 by Oswald Mosley , a member of the family who were Lords of the Manor of Manchester. The old timber-framed hall, built in the early 17th century, was described by John Aiken in his 1795 book Description of the country from 30 to 40 miles around Manchester....
Langley Hall and Sutton Hall, Cheshire, England= Pictured Right Langley Hall AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST the Norman earls granted manors to individuals in return for certain duties. The recipient of the Manor of Sutton assumed the title 'de Sutton' and sometime in the Middle Ages the family built a hall to reflect their status. For centuries, little disturbed the tranquil farming communities in t...
The Medieval Merchant's House, Hampshire, England= The Medieval Merchant's House is a restored late-13th-century building in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Built in about 1290 by John Fortin, a prosperous merchant, the house survived many centuries of domestic and commercial use largely intact. German bomb damage in 1940 revealed the medieval interior of the house, and in the 1980s it was res...
Lancaster House, London, England= Lancaster House (previously known as York House and Stafford House) is a mansion in the St James's district in the West End of London. It is close to St. James's Palace and much of the site was once part of the palace complex. This Grade I listed building[1][2] is now managed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.===History===Construction of the house commence...
Calshot Castle, Hampshire, England= Calshot Castle is one of Henry VIII's device forts, built on Calshot Spit at the Solent near Fawley to guard the entrance to Southampton Water (grid reference SU488025). Also known as a Henrician Castle, Calshot was built as part of Henry's chain of coastal defences to defend England's coast from foreign invasion especially during the turbulent times after hi...
Cambridge House, Piccadilly, London, England= Cambridge House is a grade I listed mansion on the northern side of Piccadilly (Number 94) in central London, England, named after one of its owners, the Duke of Cambridge, 7th son of George III. It has also been known as Egremont House, Cholmondeley House, The Naval and Military Club, and the In and Out Club.===History===The house was built for Cha...
Not to be confused with Clare Hall, Cambridge . ==Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refounded in 1338 as Clare Hall by an endowment from Elizabeth de Clare. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and...
People on British Commemorative Stamps The policy followed by the Royal Mail is that the only identifiable living people depicted on British stamps are the monarch and other members of the Royal Family (or people imminently marrying into it). This policy has only occasionally been broken. In the 1967 issue commemorating the solo round the world voyage of Gipsy Moth IV a person appears as an uni...
[ ]Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third oldest college of the university and has over seven hundred students and fellows. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost evOn Christmas Eve 1347, Edward III granted Marie de St Pol, widow of the Earl of Pembroke, the licence for the founda...
The aim of this project is to gather Geni profiles of people who were born, lived, and/or died in Haslemere, Surrey, England.
100 Greatest Britons (BBC Poll, 2002) 100 Greatest Britons (BBC Poll, 2002) 100 Greatest Britons was broadcast in 2002 by the BBC. The programme was based on a television poll conducted to determine whom the United Kingdom public considered the greatest British people in history. The series, Great Britons, included individual programmes featuring the individuals who featured in the top ten...
This project is to research and find out more about the DeLisser / De Lisser and other related families from Jamaica, West Indies, but originating in western Europe.==What can you do here?==*Ask questions.*Collaborate on your research.*Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area.*Problem finding an ancestors, open a discussion here and we all try to help*...
List of Mayors 1413-1800== The history and description of Guildford ==List of Mayors 1974-2015== Guildford Borough Council Picture: Henry Nevill mayor of Guildford in 1902 and 1903.
Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is the oldest college of the university, having been founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely and granted its charter by King Edward I. Today, Peterhouse has 226 undergraduates, 86 full-time graduate students and 45 fellows. The modern name of Peterhouse does not include the word "college".Despite being one...
Crewe Hall, Cheshire, England= Crewe Hall is a Jacobean mansion located near Crewe Green, east of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire,[1] it is listed at grade I. Built in 1615–36 for Sir Randolph Crewe , it was one of the county's largest houses in the 17th century, and was said to have "brought London into Cheshire".[...
Scope of project ==This project identifies the Dukes and Duchesses of Cambridge.== Overview == Duke of Cambridge is a title (named after the city of Cambridge, England) occasionally conferred upon junior members of the British royal family. It was first used as a designation for Charles Stuart (1660–1661), the eldest son of James, Duke of York (later James II), though he was never formally crea...
Historic Buildings of Norfolk England Image right - Holkham Hall Image by Sean Cooper, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Norfolk, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individ...
Brookwood American Military Cemetery: Find a Grave Brookwood, Woking Borough, Surrey, GU24 0BL England Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial is the only American Military Cemetery of World War I in the British Isles. Located approximately 28 miles (45 km) southwest of London, Brookwood American Cemetery contains the graves of 468 American war dead, including the graves of 41 unknown se...
Stockbury is a village near the town of Sittingbourne in Kent, England. but within the Maidstone Borough Council area. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. Population in 1881 : 621*ALEXANDER (27) *ANDERSON (4) *APPS (5) *ARDING (2) *ATKINS (2) *ATTWOOD (17) *BAKER (5) *BANFIELD (1) *BARDEN (1) *BAWCHAM (1) *BEARD (1) *BEAUMONT (6) *BENGE (9) *BIGG (1) *BING (5) *BOSELEY (4) *BRE...
From History Magazine - History UK - History of England- Archbishops of Canterbury :in the Christian church, an archbishop is a bishop of superior rank who has authority over other bishops in an ecclesiastic province or area. The Church of England is presided over by two archbishops: the archbishop of Canterbury, who is 'primate of All England', and the archbishop of York, who is 'primate of En...