Check out the Genuki pages for Yorkshire as there were seats of nobilty listed taken from the White's1840 trade directory... I had a book which I photocopied some of the longer lists and sent to a group of about 25 Aussies who transcribed them and they are now somewhere in the Yorkshire pages Cheers Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: <Whsprwill@aol.com> To: <ENG-EAST-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:49 PM Subject: [ERY] re: MINOR LANDHOLDERS IN DOMESDAY > Good day! :) > > Does anyone know of a good, accessible edition of the Domesday book that > includes "minor" landholders and/or lordships. Most editions/translations > seem only to include what they call "major" landholders. > > I've checked quite a few versions out at my local library and, believe me, if > you're interested in doing Domesday research, you'll want to do that. Each of > them contained varying deegrees of detail...some had better explainations > than others...some showed ONLY one major landholder, while other versions > showed the Barons and all others below them, who were in some way responsible > or in charge of that piece of land, all the way down to stating, for example, > 4 sections held in lordships. what i'm looking for is to see, in writing, who > these Lords were (their names). > > i happen to know that the family i'm researching held land in Lordship under > several major landholders, in several different locations to the extent that > they were allowed to will that land to their heirs, who, to this day, still > have a vested interest in some of it. i can't, however, find a > translation/edition detailed enough to include that information, so that i > might provide the family written proof (just to have) of the date that land > was first given them. it's needless to say i don't have access to the > original document, nor the education to read it if i did. Any help would be > appreciated. :) > > Best Regards, > P. Wiedman, geneologist > > > ==== ENG-EAST-YORKS Mailing List ==== > To post to the list address message to, > ENG-EAST-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >