Links
Useful Websites for Specific Topics
Old-time Occupations
Obsolete Occupations: olivetreegenealogy.com/index.shtml
Occupations on Cyndi’s List:
www.cyndislist.com
Manors and manorial records
Ian Mortimer's Guide to the Manors of Devon: www.mortimer.co.uk/manors/index.htm
The Manorial Documents Register can be searched on-line at: www.hmc.gov.uk/mdr/mdr.htm
Churches and church records
Richard’s Church Album (on-line photos of churches all over England):
pictures.care2.com/view/1/133827900
Devon Record Office list of parish and non-conformist registers
www.devon.gov.uk/parish_register_list.htm
A section on Devon church records on the Genuki Devon site:
www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV
Church of England website
www.cofe.anglican.org
Non-conformist churches
Catholic History website with links to various societies:
www.catholic-history.org.uk
www.catholic-pages.com
This is a portal, or gateway site. It has a directory (of topics) to take you to other sites
home.att.net/~Local_Catholic/Catholic-England-Wales.htm
Links for Catholic history and genealogy, including links to the websites of dioceses and parishes.
www.plymouth-diocese.org.uk
Web site for the diocese of Plymouth
www.newadvent.org/cathen
The Catholic encyclopaedia on-line. Probably the most useful site to visit for background information. You can look for names, places or subjects.
Baptist Historical Society
www.baptisthistory.org.uk
Strict Baptist Historical Society
www.strictbaptisthistory.org.uk
Methodist Archives and Research Centre at John Rylands University Library of Manchester
rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/text/method.html
Methodist Heritage website
www.forsaith-oxon.demon.co.uk/methodist-heritage/about.html
Wesley and Methodist Studies Centre, Westminster Institute of Education – Oxford Brookes University
www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/education/
United Reform Church
www.urc.org.uk
Quaker (Society of Friends) website
www.quaker.org.uk/main.html
Quaker Family History Society site
www.qfhs.co.uk
Church Mission Society website
www.cms-uk.org
The Huguenot Library
www.ucl.ac.uk/UCL-Info/Divisions/Library/huguenot.htm
The Huguenot Society
The Salvation Army
Military and War
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Information on British Regiments.
Ships and Shipping
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Theatre History
Plymouth Library's Applause South West on-line archive - a multi-media archive of theatre history in south west England from the 1750s
Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
Film and Television Archives
Television South West Film and Television Archive at Plymouth
