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

www.huguenotsociety.org.uk

The Salvation Army

www.salvationarmy.org

Military and War

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.cwgc.org

Information on British Regiments.

www.regiments.org

Ships and Shipping

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

istg.rootsweb.com

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

www.applausesw.org.uk

Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture

Film and Television Archives

Television South West Film and Television Archive at Plymouth

www.tswfta.co.uk