On 01/01/2016 4:54 PM, Athel Cornish-Bowden via wrote: > Many of my forebears were clergy of the Church of England. In principle > the printed edition of Crockfords goes back to 1858, but the web site > only talks about searches going back to 1968. The latter date is too > recent to be any use to me, but I might be inclined to register if it > will get me to earlier information. Registration is free, but on the > whole I don't register for sites that I'm not going to use (even highly > respectable ones like Crockfords). Does anyone have experience of their > site, and know it it's useful for searching for information about > clergymen in the 19th century? > ArchiveCD books have some Crockfords and Clergy Lists available as CDs for purchase http://www.archivecdbooks.ie/ Ancestry has some early Crockfords on line. If you are near a large reference library (Guildhall, Birmingham. Manchester) these have large runs - use worldcat to fing in library near you https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=crockfords+clerical+directory&qt=results_page Regards John Henley