> Subject:> Old English Records > From:> Mark Murphy <murphy@tiaer.tarleton.edu> > Date:> Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:38:01 -0500 > To:> VASURRY-L@rootsweb.com> > > Greetings ye all, > Hope everyone has found many old ancestors over the summer. > > Would any of you have experience with, or know where one might locate > the following English public records? I see that they are deposited in > the Public Record Office in Kew, wherever that may be. Might the > Mormons have microfilm copies, or is there an index possibly?: > > Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Registers of > Licences to pass beyond the seas 1573-1677 > Physical description 33 volume(s) > > Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Port Books 1565-1798 > Physical description 1553 bundle(s) > > Coast Bonds etc. c1558-c1820 > Physical description 48 bundle(s) > Mark, I think Peter Wilson Coldham may have used some of these records as sources for his series of books on emigration. They are titled "The Complete Book of Emigrants." There are three volumes with that title for 1607-1660, 1661-1699 & 1700-1750. Also by Coldham, The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations 1654-1686, The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage 1614-1775, More Emigrants in Bondage 1614-1775, Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London 1617-1778, The King's Passengers to Maryland & Virginia, English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1661-1733 and More English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1625-1777. He may have written more books that I haven't seen. There are other similar books by other authors. I think Coldham is considered to be the most thorough scholar. His books review and add greatly to the earlier work by Hotten and others. Hope this is helpful, Eve -- Eve S. Gregory, Historian and Director Virginia Foundation for Archaeological Research, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/~vavfar/ Frances Bland Randolph Chapter, NSDAR, VIS Chairman http://www.rootsweb.com/~vabrcdar/ Visit my home page for history and genealogy links! http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eve368g/