Wakefield Family History Sharing
Some Books and Publications that are available through Amazon Books uk and others that are private publications
Books and publications on subjects such as :people, places, notable and notorious events, art, family history sources etc for the Wakefield area.
Note :- Some of these books can only be purchased as 2nd user books.
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Books with an ** I can recommended personally
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Title | Author/Editor | Published by and/or purchase from |
Family History Starter Pack | Public Record Office | The National Archives; ISBN: 1873162995 |
East Ardsley - Reflections ** | N & M Brittlebank | c/o carol@wakefieldfhs.org.uk |
Wakefield in old picture postcards ** | John Goodchild | ISBN90 288 4823 1 CIP |
Aspects of Wakefield - 2 ** |
Kate Taylor |
Wharncliffe Books & Amazon books ISBN1871647681 |
Aspects of Wakefield - 3 ** | Kate Taylor |
Wharncliffe Books & Amazon Books ISBN903425069 |
Bygone Wakefield and District vol 2 ** | Norman Ellis | MTD Rigg Publications |
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield ** | Kate Taylor | Wharncliffe Books & Amazon Books ISBN 1 903425 077 |
George Gissing and Wakefield | Clifford Brooke | The Gissing Trust ISBN 0-9519658-0-8 |
More Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield ** | Kate Taylor | Wharncliffe Books & Amazon Books ISBN 1-903425-48-4 |
Memories of Wakefield ** | True North Books Ltd ISBN 1 900 463 652 | |
More Memories of Wakefield ** | True North Ltd; ISBN: 190046389X | |
Wakefield District Heritage vol. 1 & 2 (this book may only now only be available in 2nd hand book shops. ** | Compiled by Kate Taylor | Wakefield EAHY committee |
50 years of the ABC Regal, Wakefield ** | Kate Taylor | Kings England Press & Amazon Books ISBN 0901869236 |
Naval & Military Press | www.naval-military-press.com | |
Wakefield & Towton -The Battle of the Roses | Phil Haigh |
Pen & Sword Books ISBN: 0850528259 |
The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith | Penguin Books; ISBN: 0140431594 |
Right Royal: The History of the Theatre in Wakefield | C M P Taylor | The King's England Press; ISBN: 0901869384 |
Old Wakefield in Photographs ** | Harold Speak & Jean Forrester | Hendon Publishing Co Ltd; ISBN: 0902907107 |
Railway Memories: Ardsley, Wakefield and Normanton | Stephen Chapman, Peter Rose | Bellcode Books; ISBN: 1871233054 |
George Gissing and Wakefield: A Novelist's Associations with His Home Town | Clifford Brook |
Gissing Trust; ISBN: 0951965808
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Wakefield Mystery Plays | M Rose | W.W. Norton; ISBN: 039300483X |
The Battle of Wakefield | Phillip A. Haigh | Sutton Publishing; ISBN: 0750913428 |
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush: House of Correction 1595 - HMP Wakefield 1995 | Robert Stephen Duncan, etc., | R.S.Duncan; ISBN: 0952532808 |
Sandal Magna: Poverty and Prosperity in the Nineteenth Century | Mary Ingham, Brenda Andrassy | Andrassy & Ingham; ISBN: 0950644226 |
Using Birth, Marriage and Death Records (Pocket Guides to Family History) | Public Records Office | The National Archives; ISBN: 187316288X |
Getting Started in Family History (Pocket Guides to Family History) | Public Records Office | The National Archives; ISBN: 1873162871 |
Using Birth, Marriage and Death Records (Pocket Guides to Family History) | Public Records Office | The National Archives; ISBN: 187316288X |
House History Starter Pack | Public Records Office | The National Archives; ISBN: 1903365422 |
The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers ** | Cecil R. Humphrey-Smith (Editor) | Phillimore & Co Ltd; ISBN: 1860772390 |
Family Trees: Design, Layout and Display: A Manual for Their Design, Layout and Display | Marie Lynskey | Phillimore & Co Ltd; ISBN: 0850339804 |
Private Publications / Leaflets | ||
Title | Publication | Contact |
Letters from the Front | Letters and related news items from the Driffield Times 1914 - 1920 | dg.petch@btinternet.com |
Boer War Letters from the Veldt ** | Letters and news stories about local (Driffield) people serving their country during the Boer War period. Incl. info of the crossing, clothes, food and the fighting. | dg.petch@btinternet.com |
Criminal Chronology of York Castle Register of convicts sentenced to death 1337 - 1867** | All the public executions of those sentenced to death in the three Riding. | dg.petch@btinternet.com |
Driffield Cemetery MI's | Nearly 3000 transcriptions | dg.petch@btinternet.com |
Kilham Cemetery MI's | 350 MI's from 1885 to present day | dg.petch@btinternet.com |
North Frodingham and North Dalton MI's | dg.petch@btinternet.com | |
The Blockhouses of Kingston upon Hull and who went there | The 16C onwards, the people that were imprisoned and the punishments endured until their death or execution | dg.petch@btinternet.com |
The Sykes Lodge of Freemasons (Driffield) The First 50 years | Inc. members directory to 1919. Contains the history, the annals and directory of Masons + some photographs | dg.petch@btinternet.com |
Beverley Minute Books 1707 - 1835 | 100's of entries from the minute books of the old Beverley Corporation | dg.petch@btinternet.com |
From the Cradle to the Grave | 100's of entries from the Driffield Times and General Advertiser during the Victorian period | dg.petch@btinternet.com |