
ENGLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects=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 ENGLAND on Geni to discover more about your ancestors. If a place you are looking for in Engla...
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 ]]]
=High Sheriff of Gloucestershire= ===The History of a High Sheriff===The Office of High Sheriff is the oldest continuous secular Office under the Crown. It is at least 1,000 years old having its roots in Saxon times before the Norman Conquest when the "Shire Reeve" was responsible to the King for the maintenance of law and order within the shire, or county, and for the collection and return of ...
THE ABBEY OF BRUERN Oxfordshire, England=>===== Image right by Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wiki Commons The Cistercian abbey of Bruern was founded by Nicholas Basset in 1147. (fn. 1) Unfortunately no chartulary is extant, (fn. 2) but many of the original deeds are preserved at the Record Office, (fn. 3) and a few at the British Museum and the Bodleian Library; we have also valuable confirmat...
Historic Buildings of Gloucestershire ==England Image right - Berkeley Castle >===== Image Geograph © Copyright Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence. =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Gloucestershire, with links to sub-projects for specific...
Gloucestershire Genealogical Resources Image Right - Gloucestershire County Record Office and family history centre housed in a former school off Alvin Street. ===== Image Geograph © Copyright Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . The purpose of this project is to outline the regional resources available for research in Gloucestershire, both geographical/physica...