Doncaster Family History Society

Strays

A stray is a recorded event in which a person is described in a record, as being from a place outside the area in which they normally lived.  The most frequent types of strays are marriage and census records. But poor law records, death and burial records, monumental inscriptions and baptisms are all useful sources in which to find strays.
Gloucestershire Strays
Yorkshire Strays

Register of One Name Studies

This is an organisation called the Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS) which brings together under one banner all those studying a certain surname. The register is a list of these surnames

Pronames

Three indexes to miscellaneous personal names (1605 -1994).
An A to Z collection covering the whole UK, entries are sorted alphabetically by surname and several details are given for each record as well as the full PRO document reference number. Royal Naval Officers Widows Pensions - (Promiscuous (PRO miscellaneous) Letters) 1846 - 1865  Royal Naval Officers Widows Pensions certificates and declarations, for the placing of widows of Officers on the pensions list in support of their claims for a pension, these are referred to as Promiscuous Letters.

Criminal Registers 1805 - 1816
by Stuart Tamblin (for 40 counties)

The Home Office recorded persons charged with indictable offences in England and Wales from 1805. Stuart Tamblin has indexed these into twenty-four volumes up to 1816 for the whole of England and Wales. Full information from the registers is provided: names, aliases, court, offence, and sentence/aquittal. Around 35% of those recorded were not actually guilty.

Vol 1	Somerset & Dorset 4 fiche 1805 - 1816
Vol 2	Devon & Cornwall 5 fiche
Vol 3	Wiltshire 2 fiche
Vol 4	Gloucester & Bristol 4 fiche
Vol 5	Wales and Monmouth 2 fiche
Vol 6	Oxon & Berkshire 3 fiche
Vol 7	N'ants / Leics / RT-land 3 fiche
Vol 8	Bucks & Herts 3 fiche
Vol 9	Beds / Camb / Hunts 2 fiche
Vol 10	Cumberland / Westmorland / Nthumberland / Durham 3 fiche
Vol 11	Middlesex 2 fiche
Vol 11	Clerkenwell & Westminster 1807 - 1812
Vol 12	Hampshire 4 fiche 1805 - 1816
Vol 13	Dby / Ntt / Lin 5 fiche
Vol 14	Cheshire 3 fiche
Vol 15	Shropshire & Staffordshire 4 fiche
Vol 16	Herefordshire & Worcestershire 3 fiche
Vol 17	Warwickshire 4 fiche
Vol 18	Nfk & Sfk 6 fiche
Vol 19	Essex 4 fiche
Vol 20	Surrey 5 fiche
Vol 21	Kent 5 fiche
Vol 22	Sussex 2 fiche
Vol 23	Lancashire 3 fiche
Vol 24	Yorkshire 6 fiche

Executions, Treasonists, Rioters and Machine Breakers

This covers every county in England & Wales - 1805 - 1817

Vital Records 1992

This index contains 4,000,000 Births and Christenings and 1,000,000 marriages taken from records dating from 1538-1888. These records are taken from a collection of church and civil religious records, a few are on the IGI but the majority is not. Some county parishes are represented more than others. The basic information required for a search is Surname and County (any other information would help).

Yorkshire Marriage index 1701 -1750

This is an index of marriages in Yorkshire between the dates mentioned above and is
prior to the Hardwick marriage Act.