I appreciate that this is advertising but I gather it is an exceptional book, so here is the information from the dustjacket of Pembroke People, plus purchasing details. I have no connections whatsoever to the author/publisher. ######### PEMBROKE PEOPLE by RICHARD ROSE PEMBROKE PEOPLE is probably the fullest account ever written about life in an early 19th century community. It deals in unrivalled detail with the men and women who lived in the ancient borough of Pembroke and with the newcomers who from 1813 onwards came to work in the Dockyard and founded the town of Pembroke Dock. Every person who lived in the two towns between 1800 and 1837 is identified as a named individual and if possible placed in a structure showing his or her occupation and family connections. Hundreds of family groups have been reconstructed from the parish registers and more than seventy trades and occupations have been listed. The Dockyard and its workers are covered by a separate section of one hundred pages identifying the officers, clerks, shipwrights and artisans and giving details of their origins, ages, families, wages and careers. The book is alphabetically arranged for easy reference. Every available detail about Pembroke’s criminals between 1790 and 1830 has been noted and all wills of local residents between 1800 and 1857 have been summarised. Gaol registers, newspapers, vestry accounts, Poor Law records, trade directories, title deeds, bankruptcy papers, tradesmen’s ledgers, Census returns and other sources have all yielded thousands of facts to expand what is known about the lives of these Pembroke people. PEMBROKE PEOPLE introduces characters long forgotten. There is Joe King, the heroic boatswain who served with Nelson, Samuel Grant who witnessed the battle of the Nile, Matthew Campbell, the Collector of Customs, whose secret diary gives a startling insight into low life in Pembroke, villains such as Henry Gwyther and his wife who were separately transported to Australia and multitudes more ranging from the gentry down to the most wretched paupers. PEMBROKE PEOPLE contains commentaries on contemporary crime, banking, medicine, illegitimacy, the Poor Law, the early history of the Dockyard and other subjects. It will be invaluable to family and local historians and an indispensable companion to anyone interested not only in life and society in West Wales nearly two hundred years ago but in social history generally. PEMBROKE PEOPLE, (ISBN 0-9535542-0-1) 512 pages hardback in coloured dustjacket, approx. 11¼ inches x 7½ inches, profusely illustrated with contemporary engravings amongst the text, a 16 page section of black and white plates, local maps on both endpapers and a folding coloured plate approx. 40 inches x 6 inches, showing Pembroke Dock and the Dockyard circa 1835, is available by post, from OTTERQUILL BOOKS, price £65-00 plus £6 post and packing (U. K. only). TO ORDER Please e-mail your order or send any queries to rrose@otterquillbooks.com. The postal address is OTTERQUILL BOOKS 19 BALLIOL ROAD, NORTH KENSINGTON, LONDON W10 6LX. Cheques should be drawn in favour of OTTERQUILL BOOKS Tel. & Fax +44 (0)20 8968 9274 E-mail rrose@otterquillbooks.com. Website www.otterquillbooks.com ########## Gareth List Administrator for Dyfed, CGN & PEM. Lookup Exchange http://www.johngareth.freeserve.co.uk/lookup.html Help Page http://www.johngareth.freeserve.co.uk/hicks.html