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Causeway U3A News and Announcements News from Committee

Committee met by Zoom on 22nd July and approved a plan for activities for the term ahead. We are currently discussing this with Group Leaders and will send out details towards the end of August. In general some outdoor activities will resume, within safety constraints, but most indoor meeting and events will not resume until January 2021 at the earliest. We are strongly promoting online alternatives for groups which lend themselves to video conferencing and social media and we hope to have many choices to offer members.

We are submitting a request to the Charity Commission to have our AGM postponed until April 2021. This means that the current officers and committee will remain in place until then.

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Website Update

During lockdown we converted our website into a source of information and resources relating to the pandemic. Now that lockdown has eased somewhat, we have gone back to our normal format. The website is always evolving and we would appreciate any feedback from members. In the term ahead, we will post weekly updates about activities on the website and are happy to include information from groups.

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A special Appeal for “Online Buddies”

Unfortunately Causeway U3A has around 100 members who do not use computers/ email or have broadband. This makes it almost impossible for us to keep in touch with them during this period of shielding and lockdown. We write a letter from time to time but postage is very expensive. Some of these members have been in U3A for many years and have made major contributions to the organisation in the past. We appeal to readers of this Newsletter who have friends or neighbours in Causeway U3A who are not online, to volunteer to be their “online buddy”. This is not onerous, but can make a big difference to a lonely person. It will only involve getting information about U3A to them - either by printing and delivering newsletters or phoning them to tell them about it. If anyone wants to take on this role and needs contact details, contact chair@causewayu3a.co.uk and we have GDPR compliant protocol for dealing with such requests and we will do our best to help you.

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Causeway U3A Activities

Tennis

After a long delay outdoor tennis will resume at the University this Wednesday 29th July 3-5pm.

The group size is limited to 30 and a playing protocol will be provided as well as a personal risk assessment process prior to participation.

There are only a few spaces left, so if you have your own racquet and have some experience of playing doubles then contact:

Keith Browne at comm1@causewayu3a.co.uk

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Invitation to the U3A Quiz

Causeway U3A has been running team quizzes via Zoom during lockdown. These have been very successful and our Zoom Co-ordinator Brendan Mullan has pushed the boundaries of Zoom, enabling us to compete as teams in separate “break out rooms” and with automated marking and scoring. The Quiz is open to all members of U3A and if you would like to give it a try you will be most welcome.

The next Zoom Table Quiz will be on Tuesday 28th July at 2.30pm. The Quiz Director will be Venie Martin. I promise the questions are not very difficult! You can enter as a team (maximum 5) or as a pair or an individual and we will place you in a team. To enter, please send your name and email address to Brendan at zoom.causewayu3a.co.uk

Feel free to forward this invitation to any other U3A member who may have an interest in quizzes.

Here is the Zoom link.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/93679813696

Meeting ID: 936 7981 3696

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Would you like to take part in a U3A Shared Learning Project? Our 1901 Postal Pensioners

Addressing Health is a three-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust that looks at postal workers health in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Post Office was a major national employer and kept careful records of the amount of sickness and causes of retirement for each employee. Using approximately 30,000 pension records that contain this information, we will be able to identify how worker’s health varied over time and across different parts of the country.

The records are particularly rich for the period 1859 to 1908 and for a subset of these years based on census dates we will be tracing through each individual from retirement to their death. Drawing on information contained in the death certificates, and linking this to their census entries, we will be able to explore a variety of questions, such as how long workers survived after they retired, whether particular conditions that forced early retirement were related to the cause of death, and whether better medical care after retirement meant longer life expectancy.

In order to be able to answer these questions, we need information on individuals in each of the census years that are included in our project: from 1861 to 1901. This is where you can help by participating in the project, Our 1901 Postal Pensioners.

Overview

Researchers of U3A will work together to conduct research looking at the health of Post Office (PO) workers in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and South West England in 1901. These represent approximately 100 people. We have chosen 1901 because it is the first year in which a full census is available for all of Ireland, Scotland, and England. This would involve researching the health and mortality backgrounds of 12 postmen in Northern Ireland through the 1901 Census and other records, there are 7 in Belfast, 3 in Londonderry, 1 in Limavady and 1 in Omagh.

This research will feed into a blog series, ‘Postal Pensioners in 1901’, which will be hosted on the Addressing Health project website. Postal Pensioners will showcase pieces of original historical writing by U3A Researchers. It will also make available the data collected by U3A Researchers.

For much more detail and the timescale of the project, see the attached document.

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U3A National Newsletter

The July edition is now available, with news of what U3As are doing in these strange times. It can be found by following this link: National U3A July Newsletter

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Other Activities and Information Mountsandel Heritage Group Newsletter

The June edition of the Mountsandel Discovery and Heritage Group can now be downloaded from: Mountsandel June News

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John Hewitt Digital Festival of Literature and Ideas

This year’s John Hewitt Festival, is running digitally from 27th July until 1st August.

For a look at the programme of events, use the web link below:-

Click here to see the full programme

All online events are free to view, however, the Creative Writing Workshops on Monday 27th, Wednesday 29th, Friday 30th July 2.30-4.30pm are Fee paying – 3 x 2hour online workshops: Fee £60

Starting times for all events are GMT.

(Remember, we are currently on British Summer Time, ONE HOUR ahead of GMT)

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Online Science and Astronomy Talks

The pandemic has driven a huge increase in the number of interesting online talks and discussions on every topic under the sun. Here are some that the Science group is considering for the term ahead.

New Scientist (there is a charge for each event) Research seminars Perimeter Institute

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Online general talks

These two sites are well worth browsing for more general topics. You can enjoy live events by excellent speakers in the comfort of your own home. Some Activity Groups may be able to incorporate such talks into their programme by adding a Zoom meeting to discuss what they watched together. eventbrite Mirthy

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SLP Proposal: Our 1901 Postal Pensioners

Addressing Health

Addressing Health is a three-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust that looks at postal workers health in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Post Office was a major national employer and kept careful records of the amount of sickness and causes of retirement for each employee. Using approximately 30,000 pension records that contain this information, we will be able to identify how worker’s health varied over time and across different parts of the country.

The records are particularly rich for the period 1859 to 1908 and for a subset of these years based on census dates we will be tracing through each individual from retirement to their death. Drawing on information contained in the death certificates, and linking this to their census entries, we will be able to explore a variety of questions, such as how long workers survived after they retired, whether particular conditions that forced early retirement were related to the cause of death, and whether better medical care after retirement meant longer life expectancy.

In order to be able to answer these questions, we need information on individuals in each of the census years that are included in our project: from 1861 to 1901. This is where you can help by participating in the project, Our 1901 Postal Pensioners.

Overview

Researchers of U3A (referred to in this document as Researchers) will work together to conduct research looking at the health of Post Office (PO) workers in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and South West England in 1901.1 These represent approximately 100 people. We have chosen 1901 because it is the first year in which a full census is available for all of Ireland, Scotland, and England.

This research will feed into a blog series, ‘Postal Pensioners in 1901’, which will be hosted on the Addressing Health project website. Postal Pensioners will showcase pieces of original historical writing by U3A Researchers. It will also make available the data collected by U3A Researchers.

The SLP will be divided into four phases.

Phase One: Collecting Mortality Data (October 2020 to February 2020)

In the first stage of the project, U3A Researchers will begin to trace the death certificates of

workers who retired from the Post Office. They will have access to training materials for searching for death certificates online (see Appendix Four for an example).

Recruitment and training will commence from October. At the beginning of, U3A Researchers will be allocated specific Pensioners. Each individual postman will be allocated a specific folder accessible to both Researchers of U3A and the Addressing Health team (referred to as Person Folder). This will include information about Pensioners from Post Office records.

Researchers will form different working groups based upon the country or county under investigation, making three working groups in total (Scotland, Ireland, and South West England). Each group will

1 For South West England we are including the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset,

Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire.

nominate individuals to act as Group Liaisons (referred to in this document as Liaisons) and Group Data Leads (referred to in this document as Data Leads).

At this stage Researchers will also be given access to a Yammer page for the project. This is a closed social networking site very similar to Facebook and will allow Researchers to post regular updates and share their work with other Researchers.

Individual Researchers will be responsible for locating, accessing, and uploading the relevant death certificates to Person Folders. They will then input information from these death certificates into a spreadsheet (referred to in this document as Mortality Data). This will then be sent to the group Data Lead, who will be responsible for collating and proof-checking the spreadsheet.

Phase Two: Biographical Research (February 2021 – May 2021)

When the certificates have been transcribed, Researchers will then move on to the next phase of the remote project, which will trace an individual’s birth, marriage, and census records (where this is possible). They will upload any relevant material to Person Folders.

When this is complete, Researchers will use this research to complete Life Story Forms (see Appendix 2A and 2B). These will form the basis of their biographical blogs, which will be written and published in Phase Four of the project.

Phase Three: Further Research (May 2021 – August 2021)

If possible, Researchers will conduct research at the Post Office Museum and Archives (POMA), under the guidance of LN/DG/KM. Members of the Addressing Health team will consult with other Groups to discuss potential in-person archive visits (e.g. Public Records

Office Northern Ireland [PRONI], National Library of Scotland [NLS], Cornwall Record Office [CRO]). If access to these archives is not possible due to a continuation of the lockdown, U3A Researchers will still be able to undertake research remotely using online archives and digital repositories (see Appendix Three). At the end of this phase we will host a study day. This study day will include papers given by Researchers of the team, invited academics, and Researchers.

Phase Four: Writing Postal Lives (August - September 2021)

We will conduct a writing workshop to provide Researchers with advice on writing online content.

This research undertaken by Researchers will be used to help them write individual life stories for a select range of workers. As a project we are interested in getting Researchers thinking about how their own experiences of working and retirement relate to the figures they will be studying. To reflect this, U3A Researchers will be invited to use their writing to reflect upon their own stories of working and retirement.

Outputs

• Data outputs (Phases One and Two) o Mortality data (Phase One). Data collected at this stage will concentrate on

information such as: ▪ Date of death ▪ Place of death ▪ Cause of death ▪ Pension allowance ▪ Occupation in the Post Office

• Biographical Research (Phase Two). This will build on the mortality data and will be recorded as individual Life Stories (see Appendix Two for an example) New types of information that will be collected will include:

▪ Census information (Note: In the case of Ireland the only full complete census material is from 1901 onwards. See Appendix 2A and 2B for an example of different life story forms based upon the location of the pensioner) ▪ Family information (marriage, childbirth, etc) from Church Records. ▪ Sickness leave (*if Conduct Books are available)

• Workshops (may be virtual workshops) for U3A Researchers on:

o Searching for genealogical material (Phase One and Phase Two) o Searching for and accessing archival material online (Phase Three) o Blog writing (Phase Four)

• A dedicated blog series on our project website entitled ‘Our 1901 Postal Pensioners’

(Phase Four). o Biographies written by U3A Researchers, comprising of a selection of

individual profiles of pensioners who retired in 1901.

• A freely downloadable .csv file of the Mortality Data (Phase Four) • A study day. Researchers of the Addressing Health team, invited academics, and selected U3A Researchers to give short presentations to U3A Researchers and pre-registered guests. (Phase Four)

What U3A Researchers will gain from participating

• U3A volunteers will enjoy a broad range of activities and responsibilities as part of this role, including archival research, genealogical research, data entry, and reflective writing. • An opportunity to build upon their skills in accessing and researching primary source material, both online and in the archives • A chance to showcase, and build upon, their skills as family historians by looking at records such as censuses and death certificates. • An understanding of health in Victorian and Edwardian England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.. • An opportunity to connect regularly with both Addressing Health staff, as well as U3A Researchers through fortnightly and/or monthly video chats. Researchers will also have access to a special Yammer group (a closed social networking site) dedicated to the project.

Target audiences

• Historians of Northern Irish, Scottish, and English medicine • Postal history enthusiasts • Family historians interested in exploring their postal roots

Volunteer specification

• An interest in one or more of the following: Northern Irish history, Scottish history, the history of South West England, the history of medicine, histories of occupational health and worker welfare, the history of the Post Office, family history. • Familiarity with, and access to, the internet. • Access to a computer with Microsoft Office installed (or, alternatively, access to

Google Sheets) • A basic understanding of Microsoft Excel. • The ability and willingness to travel to archives.

Volunteers will receive training and guidance from LN/KM on how to conduct archival research, including how to read and transcribe handwriting.

Organisation

In Phase One, U3A Researchers will be allocated Pensioners to research. Researchers will then be sorted into five groups depending upon the location of the pensioners they are investigating (Northern Ireland, Scotland, South West England). In Phase One, Researchers will also elect Group Liaisons and Group Data Leads.

Project Managerial Hierarchy

Addressing Health Team U3A

Project Coordinator

Group Liasion

Group Data Lead

Group Researchers Overview of project roles and responsibilities

U3A •Finalising the CFP with he Addressing Health team and the Project Coordinator

•Promoting the project to U3A members

Addressing Health Team

•Providing training in unnnecessary research skills to

researchers (e.g. reading historical handwriting) through online workshops •Attending monthly meetings and other online events

Project Coordinator

•Acting as liasion between the Groups, U3A, and the Addressing Health team

•Hosting fortnightly and monthly meetings with Group Liasions and U3A Researchers •Moderating Yammer page.

Group Liasion •Communicating to the Project Coordinator any issues that Researchers may be having

•Attending fortnightly meetings with the Project

Coordinator

Group Data Lead

•Collating and quality checking the Mortality Data from Researchers into a Spreadsheet to send to the Project Coordinator

Researchers • Conducting research into allocated Post Office workers.

• Writing biographical blog entr(ies) for our 'Postal Pensioners in 1901' series • Inputting mortality data into a spreadsheet • Filling out Life Story forms for allocated workers. • Attending meetings and other relevant workshops where neccessary.

• Making posts to Yammer group.

biographical data about a Pensioner.

Name: James Heron (Person ID: IR/1001)

• When was your postal worker born? What notable events happened in this year? o 1860. This was the same year that construction began on St Peter’s Cathedral, Belfast.

• According to the 1901 census, how old was your pensioner? Where were they born? o James was 41 years old in 1901. He was born in Armagh City, Armagh.

• According to your pensioner’s birth certificate, when were they born? Who were their parents? Where did their parents live? What did their father do?

o According to James’s birth certificate he was born on the 1st May 1860 in Armagh City,

Co Armagh. His father was William Heron of Ballyshanon Co. Donegal and his mother Anne Heron was from Glenties Co. Donegal. His father William was an agricultural labourer.

• Did they have any siblings? What jobs did they do, and where? • What job was your pensioner listed as having in 1901? What job were they doing? Where were they living, and with with with whom?

o In the 1901 Census James is listed as being 41 years old. He is listed as a Sorter. He lived

in 53 Lawrence Street, Cromac, Co. Leitrim. He lived with his wife Martha, who was 39 years of age. (b. 1862) • In the 1901 census, what religion does it say your pensioner was? Could they read and write? Did they speak Irish?

o The 1901 census shows William was Roman Catholic and could read and write. He could

not speak Irish. • Did your worker get married? If so, when? Where? Who were their spouses, how old were they when they got married, what jobs did they do, and where did they live? What religion were they married under, what church, and where?

o Thomas married Martha Harran on 14th February 1881. She was 18 years old at the time and listed as a labourer living in Glenties, Co. Donegal. They were married in the Roman Catholic chapel of Gleswilly, Churchill. This was in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.

• Did your worker have children? If so, when? Where and when were they born? • What year did your worker start working for the Post Office? How old were they? What was their role? Where were they based?

o Thomas began working as a Sorter in 1880, when he was 20 years of age. He was based in Ballyshanon, Co. Donegal.

• Did your worker ever get a promotion or pay rise? If so, when? • Did your worker ever take any sick leave? If so, what for, and for how long?

o Thomas took 8 weeks leave for bronchitis between 13th November 1899- 18th January

1900. • When did your worker retire? Why did they retire? How old were they when they retired? What was their pension?

o Thomas retired in 1901 at the age of 40 due to Old Age. He got £20 8s 1d as a pension

• When and where did your worker die? How old were they? What did they die of? Was someone with them when they died? o Thomas died in 1930 at the age of 70 at 12 Union Street, Cromac, Co. Leitrim. He died of

Old Age. He was with Martha Heron, his wife.

Appendix 2A: Example Life Story form Scotlans Name: Thomas Duffy (Person ID: SC/1001)

• When was your postal worker born? What notable events happened in this year? o 25th December 1865. This was also the year that Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first

woman to qualify as a doctor in the United Kingdom. • Where was your postal worker born? Was it a city, town, or village? How many people lived there? o They were born in Johnstone, a town in Renfrewshire in Scotland. In the 1861 census there

were 2152 people living there. By 1901 there were 10568 people living there. • Who were their parents? How old were they when your worker was born? What jobs did they do? o Thomas’s parents were Mary and William. When Thomas was born Mary was 29 years old

and a mill worker. William was 33 years old and a general labourer. They were both living in Elderslie, Renfrewshire.

• Did they have any siblings? What jobs did they do, and where?? o Thomas had two siblings, Richard (born 1862) and Sarah (born 1868). Richard Duffy was a signalman in the 1901 census, working in Glasgow. Sarah Duffy was a domestic servant in the 1901 census, and lived in Paisley.

• In the census years (1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921, 1931), where was: o Your worker living? How many people lived in this area?

▪ In 1891 and 1901 Thomas was living in 14 Wallace Street, Johnstone, Lanarkshire o Who did they live with? What were their names? ▪ In 1891 and 1901 Thomas was living as a lodger with Mary-Ann Templeton (b.1812), a widower. o What was their occupation?

▪ In 1891 Thomas is listed as a carpenter. In 1901 Thomas is listed as a Town Postman. • Did your worker get married. If so, when? Who were their spouses, when and where were they born, and what jobs did they do?

o Thomas married Mary-Ann Harris (born 1874 in Tullamore, Co. Offally, Ireland) in 1902. In the 1901 census she is listed as a domestic servant working in Elderslie, Renfrewshire.

• Did your worker have children? If so, when? Where and when were they born?

o Thomas had two children: Mary (born 1903, Johnstone, Renfrewshire) and James (born

1905, Johnstone, Renfrewshire) • What year did your worker start working for the Post Office? How old were they? What was their role? Where were they based?

o Thomas began working as a Town Postman in 1891, when he was 30 years of age. He was

based in Johnstone. His route was from Johnstone to Elderslie. • Did your worker ever get a promotion or pay rise? If so, when? • Did your worker ever take any sick leave? If so, what for, and for how long?

o Thomas took 3 weeks leave for influenza between 11th November 1895-30th November

1895. • When did your worker retire? Why did they retire? How old were they when they retired? What was their pension?

o Thomas retired in 1901 at the age of 40 due to ‘Ill Health’. He got £25 3s 2d as a pension

• When and where did your worker die? How old were they? What did they die of? Was someone with them when they died? o Thomas died in 1925 at the age of 64 at 12 Church Street, Johnstone, Renfrewshire. He

died of influenza. He was with Sheila Duffy, his wife.

Appendix Three: List of primary resources online

• General o British Historical Population Reports (http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/) o Directory of One Place Studies (http://www.oneplacestudy.org/) o Welsh Newspapers Online (https://newspapers.library.wales/) o Hospital Records Database

(https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp) o The UK Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/ukmhl#_ga=2.5374139.908652778.1587986759- 608566597.1587380869) o The Voluntary Hospitals Database (http://www.hospitalsdatabase.lshtm.ac.uk/) o Know Your Place Project, great for maps of SW England

(http://www.kypwest.org.uk/about-the-project/) [*] o Historical Directories of England and Wales

(http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4) [*] o Dictionary of Old Occupations (https://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/glossary/Dictionary-of-Old-Occupations- Index.html)

• Ireland o Genealogical history

▪ Genuki page for Ireland (https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl) ▪ 1901 and 1911 census online (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/)

▪ Irish Genealogy (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/). Includes PDFs of birth, marriage, and death registrations. Also includes church records. ▪ Ireland Townland database (https://thecore.com/seanruad/). Useful for narrowing down potential pensioners on the irishgenealogy.ie page by location. ▪ Index of Irish graveyards (https://www.irishgraveyards.ie/index.html) ▪ Catholic Parish Records (https://registers.nli.ie/). Includes some marriage, death, and baptism records.

▪ Links to specific Irish surname sites (https://www.johngrenham.com/surnamescode/surnameurls_list.php?startle tter=a#links/) o Social history

▪ Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1802-1922 [*] (http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/) ▪ CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts (https://celt.ucc.ie//index.html) ▪ The National Library of Ireland catalogue (http://catalogue.nli.ie/). There is an option for searching for digitized content only [*] ▪ National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/) ▪ Trinity’s Access to Research Archives (http://www.tara.tcd.ie/) [*] ▪ National Library of Ireland digital photographs online (http://www.nli.ie/digital-photographs.aspx) ▪ UCD Digital Library (https://digital.ucd.ie/) Note that you need to apply to view some documents. However, this is free and does not seem to require institutional affiliation. ▪ National Museums of Northern Ireland Photographs Collection (https://www.nmni.com/collections/history/photographs/all) ▪ Open Access journals on J-STOR (https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/). Includes e.g. The Dublin Penny Journal, The Irish Penny Journal, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, the British Medical Journal. Note that much of the content is limited to pre-1870.

• Scotland o Genealogical history

▪ Rolls of Honour – First World War (https://digital.nls.uk/rolls-of- honour/archive/100261716) ▪ Guidance on parish names and boundaries

(https://maps.nls.uk/geo/boundaries/history.html) o Social history

▪ Maps (https://maps.nls.uk/) [*] ▪ Historic guide to Scotland places (https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/). Includes some medical officer of health reports for 1891 (https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/official-reports/medical- officer-health-reports) [*] ▪ Post Office directories, 1773-1911 (https://digital.nls.uk/directories/) [*] ▪ Gazeteers of Scotland, 1803-1901 (https://digital.nls.uk/gazetteers-of- scotland-1803-1901/archive/97491608) [*] ▪ Chalmers’ Caledonia – parish histories of Scotland (https://digital.nls.uk/chalmers-

caledonia/archive/74466563) ▪ Moving Image Archive (https://movingimage.nls.uk/) [*some, but not all films available online] ▪ The Scottish Life Archive (https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections- research/research-facilities/scottish-life-archive/) ▪ Scottish Local History Forum (https://www.slhf.org/)

• Cornwall o Genealogical history

▪ Cornwall OPC Database (https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/home/). Includes records for marriages, births, burials, death certificates, and many others [*] ▪ Cornwall Online Census Project (http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/genealogy/ukocp.html) [*] ▪ Extracts from the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser Newspaper, 1836- 1887 (http://sites.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad/) ▪ 1870 book on Cornish surnames (http://www.archive.org/stream/patronymicacorn01chargoog) ▪ 1871 glossary of Cornish names (http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924029805441)

▪ Index to Devon and Cornwall marriages, 1660-1911 (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1833719) o Social history

▪ 1900 book on Cornwall, Book of the West (https://archive.org/details/bookofwest02bari/mode/2up) ▪ 1910 book on the Cornish coastline (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26907/26907-h/26907-h.htm) ▪ 1919 guide to Cornwall (http://www.archive.org/stream/blacksguidetocor00adam) ▪ 1910 county geography of Cornwall (https://archive.org/details/cornwall00bariuoft) ▪ 1905 book on Cornwall (https://archive.org/details/cornwall00salm/page/n9/mode/2up) ▪ 1906 book on Cornwall (https://archive.org/details/bookofcornwall00bari/page/n9/mode/2up) ▪ 1906 Victoria County History of Cornwall (https://archive.org/details/victoriahistoryo00pageuoft/page/n8/mode/2up) ▪ Illustrated postal directory of twenty parishes in East Cornwall, 1900 (https://archive.org/details/illustratedposta00venn/page/n33/mode/2up) ▪ Reports of the Cornwall Lunatic Asylum, c.1860s-1870s (https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Cornwall+County+Lu natic+Asylum%22)

• Devon o Genealogical history

▪ Devon Parish Clerks Online (https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/OPCproject) [*] ▪ Index to Devon and Cornwall marriages, 1660-1911 (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1833719)

▪ Devon Heritage (http://www.devonheritage.org/index.htm). Includes directory listings for certain parishes (http://www.devonheritage.org/DirectoryListings.htm) and some burial records (http://www.devonheritage.org/FrameMain_ParishRecords.htm) o Social history

▪ University of Leicester online collection of gazettes and almanacs about Devon. Over thirty items (http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/search/searc hterm/Devon!devon/field/all!place/mode/exact!exact/conn/and!and/order/ period/ad/asc/page/1) ▪ Book of ‘bygone Devonshire’ from 1898 (https://archive.org/details/bygonedevonshir00friegoog/page/n8/mode/2up) ▪ Reports of the Devonshire Association (https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Devonshire+Associati on+for+the+Advancement+of+Science+Literature+%26+the+Arts%22) ▪ 1900 book on Devon, Book of the West (https://archive.org/details/bookofwestbeingi00bari) ▪ 1910 county geography of Devon (https://archive.org/details/devonshire00kniguoft/page/n3/mode/2up) ▪ 1906 Victoria county history of Devon (https://archive.org/details/victoriahistoryo01unse/page/n14/mode/2up) ▪ 1898 History of Devon (https://archive.org/details/historyofdevonsh00wortuoft/page/n8/mode/2up ) ▪ 1907 book on South Devon (https://archive.org/details/southdevon00rowe/page/n7/mode/2up) ▪ 1906 book on North Devon (https://archive.org/details/northdevon00sneluoft) ▪ Reports of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum (https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Devon+County+Lunat ic+Asylum%22) ▪ Reports of the Devonshire Royal Hospital (https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Devonshire+Royal+H ospital+%28Buxton%2C+Derbyshire%2C+England%29%22)

• Dorset o Genealogical History

▪ Dorset Parish Clerks Online (https://www.opcdorset.org/) ▪ Dorset Death Certificate Index (https://dorsetdci.com/) [*] ▪ Somerset and Dorset Family History Society (https://sdfhs.org/) ▪ Dorset Ancestors http://dorset-ancestors.com/

▪ Dorset Parish Register Transcriptions (http://sites.rootsweb.com/~engdorse/PRBT.html) o Social History

▪ History of Dorset County Hospital (https://historydch.com/) [*] ▪ 1912 book on Dorset (https://archive.org/details/dorset00heat) ▪ 1915 book on Dorset (https://archive.org/details/dorsetsalmon00salmiala) ▪ 1920 book on Dorset highways and byways ) https://archive.org/details/highwaysbywaysin00treviala) ▪ Book of Dorset photographs taken 1855-1914

(https://archive.org/details/dorsetcamera185500burn) • Somerset

o Genealogical History

▪ GENUKI page (https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM) ▪ Bath BMD (http://www.bathbmd.org.uk/) o Social History

▪ Workhouse admissions (https://somerset- cat.swheritage.org.uk/indexes/Workhouse) ▪ Assizes (https://somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk/indexes/Assizes) ▪ Somerset Voices Oral History Archive (http://www.somersetvoices.org.uk/about-the-archive/) ▪ 1908 book on Somerset (https://archive.org/details/storyofsomersets00rich/page/n5/mode/2up) ▪ 1909 book on Somerset (https://archive.org/details/somerset00kniguoft) ▪ 1902 book on Bath (https://archive.org/details/pictorialdescrip01ward)

• Wiltshire o Genealogical History

▪ Wiltshire Family History Society (https://www.wiltshirefhs.co.uk/) ▪ Wiltshire Old Parish Clerks Online (http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/) ▪ Wiltshire BMD (http://www.wiltshirebmd.org.uk/)

▪ Book on Wiltshire surnames (https://archive.org/details/notesonwiltshire01longiala) o Social History

▪ Wiltshire Museum collections and archives, including digitised material [*] (http://www.wiltshireheritagecollections.org.uk/index.asp?page=newsearch &mwsquery=%28%7BCategory%7D%3D%7Bmanuscript%7D%29&submitBut ton=Select) ▪ Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/) [*] ▪ Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum (http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/) ▪ 1909 book on Wiltshire (https://archive.org/details/wiltshire00braduoft) ▪ 1919 book on Wiltshire (https://archive.org/details/wiltshire00heat)