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 Air Force Cross ( AFC ) ) is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom Armed Forces, and formerly also to officers of the other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying, though not in active operations against the enemy". A bar is added to the ribbon for holders who are awarded a second AFC.==History==The award w...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire, England= Titchfield Abbey (or Place House) in Hampshire is perhaps best known for its Shakespeare associations: its owner, the Third Earl of Southampton, was the playwright's patron (and, many assume, the 'Fair Youth' to whom the majority of his sonnets are addressed), and some of the bard's plays are believed to have been performed there for the first time.Titchfie...
Royal Academy of ArtsThe Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. It has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects; its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.== Purpose ==Identify members of...
Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards - United Kingdom - Main Page= Image right - Celtic Graves ===== Image CC0 Creative Commons Pixabay Free for commercial use - No attribution required If you need to find Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries or Graveyards from other parts of the world see: Cemeteries, Memorials, Graveyards Portal >>> ===Please do not link profiles to this project...
Berkshire Main Page ===== Image right - Berkshire Flag Public Domain, Wiki Commons ==Historic County of EnglandThis is the umbrella project for Berkshire===Related Projects>===== Berkshire Burials >===== Berkshire - Famous People >===== Berkshire - Monumental Inscriptions and Graveyards >===== Berkshire Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Berkshire
Glympton Park, Oxfordshire, England= Glympton Park is a former deer park at Glympton, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It includes Glympton House (an 18th-century country house) and has a 2,000 acres (810 ha) estate including the village of Glympton, its Norman parish church of St. Mary, 21 stone cottages and 167 acres (68 ha) of parkland.===History===Glympton House ...
Members of the Royal Household of Queen Elizabeth II since her accession to the Throne, Feb 6, 1952.
Freemasons, or simply "Masons," have been present in England since at least the Reformation and today can be found throughout the nation in civic and community roles. Much discussion of their history in the nation can be found in this excellent Wikipedia article .Although the most famous Freemasons have been presidents, CEOs, and other public figures, the vast majority of Freemasons were and ar...
Cometan, founder of Astronism Ian Mckellen, actor Eric Morecambe, comedian Steve Pemberton, actor Robert W. Service, poet Mystic Meg, astrologer Henry Tate, philanthropist
Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire, England= Compton Wynyates is a country house in Warwickshire, England, a Grade I listed building. The Tudor period house, an example of Tudor architecture, is constructed of red brick and built around a central courtyard. It is castellated and turreted in parts. Following action in the Civil War, half timbered gables were added to replace damaged parts of the bui...
Dunham Massey Hall, Lancashire, England= Picture right attributed to National Trust Images/ Nick Meers ===Early History===The name Dunham is derived from the Anglo-Saxon dun, meaning hill. The Massey element of the name is a result of its ownership by the Massey family. The manor of Dunham is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having belonged to Aelfward, a Saxon thegn, before the Norman ...
SCOTLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects====See Counties of Scotland - United Kingdom This is a sub-project of International Places Project Index Every person is born somewhere, marries, lives, works and dies somewhere. Places are a key component to family history research. This project aims to be the starting point in your search for a place in SCOTLAND on Geni to discover more about your anc...
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England= Bletchley Park, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England , was the central site of the United Kingdom's Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which during the Second World War regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers.The official historian of World War II British Int...
Historic Buildings of Bedfordshire England Image right - Turvey Abbey © Copyright Stephen Craven and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. Geograph The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Bedfordshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with th...
Historic Buildings of Leicestershire ==EnglandThe object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Leicestershire, 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 individual projects where they have been set up. Image right - Belvoir Ca...
Hampton Court Palace, London, England= Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, in the historic county of Middlesex, and within the postal town East Molesey, Surrey. It has not been inhabited by the British Royal Family since the 18th century. The palace is 11.7 miles (18.8 kilometres) south west of Charing Cross and upstream of centr...