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? -- athel
Hello Athel, Ancestry.co.uk has several volumes of Crockfords. They are 1868; 1874; 1885; 1898; 1908; and 1932 and so might be of use to you. I found them easy to use and very helpful when tracing down previous incumbents of the local parish church. Unfortunately I found Crockfords itself unhelpful when I got in touch with them about what I needed. [This was before I discovered the Ancestry cache] You may be able to register for free but my remembrance is that you need to pay to get any information. [This was a few years ago]. In the clergy data base, as noted by Stephen Mawson I found a good source of information. The staff when contacted about the records were very helpful. Good hunting Helenor Jones
"Athel Cornish-Bowden" <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> wrote in message news:denpanF31rbU1@mid.individual.net... Athel An alternative, if you have not already found it, is http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/index.html which I have used for early 19th century clergymen. Stephen
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 17:45:20 -0000, "Stephen Mawson" <stephenjc.mawson@btopenworld.com> wrote: >An alternative, if you have not already found it, is >http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/index.html which I have used for early >19th century clergymen. That looks like an interesting project, but ones I searched for, that I know are in Crockfords, are not there. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/