Questions tagged [gentry]
Use for questions about families who are connected to landed estates.
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Source data that establishes the link between two "brothers"?
On Ancestry, I have found a tree that traces from one of my ancestors back to 1465. The person's name at that point is John Tilston (1465-1506). The tree I was using asserted that John's father was ...
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Finding records from the 'manor house'
I have an 1881 Census record for one of my research subjects where he appears as a servant at the local Manor house.
Mark Herber's Ancestral Trails has a section on finding manor house records ...
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