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THE COUNTY FAMILIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1860) over 800pages OR, ROYAL MANUAL OF THE TITLED & UNTITLED ARISTOCRACY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. CONTAINING A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE DESCENT, BIRTH, MARRIAGE, EDUCATION, AND APPOINTMENTS OF EACH PERSON, HIS HEIR APPARENT OR PRESUMPTIVE, AS ALSO A RECORD OF THE OFFICES WHICH HE HAS HITHERTO HELD, TOGETHER WITH HIS TOWN ADDRESS AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES. Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of the Three Kingdoms. By E. WALFORD, M.A., Author of the "Shilling Peerage," "Shilling Baronetage," &c.; containing a Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Landed Commoners of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, arranged under one Alphabet. This is an invaluable aid in Genealogical Research. It details more than 8000 familes living in the United Kingdon in 1860.
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Author: EDWARD WALFORD, M.A. LATE SCHOLAR OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND FELLOW OF THE GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN . Walford, Edward (1823 Feb 1 - 1897 Nov 20), writer and compiler of reference works (source http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101028462 )
Published: London, ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK (1909) First Edition, in two volumes, published October 1899 ; reprinted February 1900. Second Edition, in one volume, published February 1901; reprinted October 1901, October 1906, February 1909
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Language: English THE COUNTY FAMILIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
(1860) over 800pages OR,
ROYAL MANUAL OF THE TITLED & UNTITLED ARISTOCRACY OF GREAT BRITAIN
& IRELAND. CONTAINING A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE DESCENT, BIRTH,
MARRIAGE, EDUCATION,
AND APPOINTMENTS OF EACH PERSON, HIS HEIR APPARENT OR PRESUMPTIVE, AS
ALSO A RECORD OF THE OFFICES WHICH HE HAS HITHERTO HELD, TOGETHER WITH
HIS TOWN ADDRESS AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES. Royal Manual of the Titled and
Untitled Aristocracy of the Three
Kingdoms. By E. WALFORD, M.A., Author of the "Shilling Peerage,"
"Shilling Baronetage," &c.; containing a Peerage, Baronetage,
Knightage, and Landed Commoners of England, Wales, Scotland, and
Ireland, arranged under one Alphabet.This is an invaluable aid in
Genealogical Research. It details more than 8000 familes living in the
United Kingdon in 1860. Preface to book for background information: It
is impossible for me to send forth to the public this work—the result
of more than two years' constant labour and research—without
acknowledging, in terms of gratitude, the kind and generous assistance
which I have received, from almost every quarter, in answer to the
circulars which I have issued to the present representatives of the
highest families in the three kingdoms, whether numbered among the '
titled! or the ' untitled' aristocracy, who, with few exceptions, have
freely communicated to me the information which I requested at their
hands. Here and there, it is true, that my applications have been met
with a refusal on the part of those who were most nearly interested;
but even in these cases I have endeavoured to keep faith with the
public, by instituting private inquiries among local friends and
correspondents, and by consulting a large library of useful books of
reference. By these means I have been enabled to produce a volume
which, in spite of numerous imperfections, embraces the whole of the
titled, and by far the largest portion of the untitled aristocracy of
the three kingdoms, and may, therefore, fairly lay claim to be styled,
in common parlance, a ' Dictionary of the Upper Ten Thousand.' I am
well aware that the first edition of such a work must be far from
perfect; and no one is more fully alive than myself to the numerous
deficiencies to be found in this volume. I am equally aware that such a
book must always remain, in one sense, imperfect in a country like our
own, where, mainly owing to the influence of trade and commerce,
individuals and families are continually crossing and re-crossing the
narrow line which severs the aristocracy from the commonalty. But I can
safely promise that, as often as a new edition of the " COUNTY FAMILIES
" shall be called for, the book shall be found in a state more nearly
approaching completion, by the constant addition of fresh families to
the roll of its contents, and by carefully noting the various changes
wrought day by day by the silent operation of births, marriages,
deaths, and preferments, in the families whose names I record. I ought
here more particularly to record my obligations, in the first instance,
to the Clerks of the Peace and the Clerks of Lieutenancy who have
kindly supplied me with the lists of the Magistrates and Deputy
Lieutenants of the several counties * of England and Wales; as also to
Thorn's Irish Directory and Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, for
similar lists relating to those kingdoms respectively. The details of
the work, where they have not been communicated to me personally by
some member of the family, have been mainly worked out by consulting
the Gazette and the pages of the Gentleman s Magazine—an invaluable
mine of wealth to the genealogist and antiquarian, and useful also to
one who, like myself, is a humble labourer in the field of contemporary
inquiry. Besides these, the several County Histories which I have been
able to procure, the Peerages and Baronetages of Lodge and Debrett,
Hart's Army List, O'Byrne's Naval Biography, the Oxford and Cambridge
Calendars and Lists of Graduates, and the obituary notices of the daily
and weekly newspapers, have furnished me with useful materials. The
constant accession of fresh materials in my hands, whilst these sheets
have been passing through the press, while it accounts for the long
delay in the appearance of the " COUNTY FAMILIES," has necessitated the
adoption of a Supplement, in which will be found a long array of
well-known names which ought properly to have appeared in the body of
the work. I can only regret that they reached me so late, and promise
that they shall be arranged in their proper place in the next edition.
It is to be hoped that the public and subscribers to the work will
pardon such errata as they may find on referring to their names ; and
they will further oblige me if they will kindly communicate to me those
errors, through my publisher, in order that they may be rectified in
future editions. When they call to mind that every separate entry
involves a statement of from five to fifty facts, inclusive of dates,
the public will be able to realize some portion of the labour of an
editor in preparing such a work as this for the press for the first
time.I have not chosen the title of this work without deliberation. I
have called my book a MANUAL OF THE TITLED AND UNTITLED ARISTOCRACY,
and have accordingly arranged both these orders under a single
alphabet, because I remember the words of James I., that " the king,
though he can make a noble, cannot make a gentleman," and because the
bearing of arms, not of titles, has ever been considered as the
distinctive mark of true noblesse.
E. W.
17, CHURCH Row, HAMPSTEAD, March 31, 1860.
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