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LATEST WEB PAGE UP-DATES!!!
See the CONTENTS PAGE a Memories Special about Turner Lane by Meg Gain.
A Dukinfield Rent Roll for 1717 with thanks to Irene Tansey.
Lots of pages in the Research Section up-dated.
up-dated 19 June 2009
Irish Genealogy.com - Using English, Welsh and Scottish records to trace your Irish Ancestry. 
New Zealand, Birth, Marriage and Death records on-line. Surname Find It - computer programme help in searching for surname variants. Queensland Government Transportation Database British 19th Century Newspapers - subscription site but worth it if you have a weekend to spare. Surname Thesaurus - another site to help to find that elusive surname variant. up-dated 7th May 2009 My page on Civil Registration has been completely up-dated to include a list of important dates and the very latest information from Tameside's Cheshire BMD project.
up-dated 18 May 2009 Tameside Local History Forum brings together all matters relating to History and Heritage in Tameside and now has 30 member groups incuding, Historical, Family History and Civic Societies, Museums, Galleries, Canal and Countryside Groups. We have just produced our fourth annual glossy magazine History Alive - Tameside Copies are available at Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre or are free to download at www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk/hat.htm
up-dated 1 May 2009 My Tameside Marriage Register page has now been up-dated. Bob Kirk and his team in Tameside Register Office have recently been going over the early Registrar Attended Marriages checking for any errors and ommisions, and have also been listing the various venues where the Registrar went out to conduct these marriages. He has produced a list downloadable here in PDF format. This list is very much worth reading to understand the sheer diversity of venues. The very early registers also include some chapels in Oldham since Ashton and Oldham Registration Districts were combined until 1848. Regrettably there are no Hyde venues listed, since these came under Stockport Civil Registration district. So if you are still searching for a marriage in Tameside between 1837-1879, you could try searching CheshireBMD again.
up-dated 15 April 2009 Military-Genealogy - various rolls of honour. National Archives - Hospital Records - for records of WW2 Nurses - also location and survival of records for most UK hospitals. Roll of Honour - names listed on a large number of War Memorials. Great War Digital Archive of Poetry and Memories of the Great War. Imperial War Museum click on Family History - lots of links and help sheets. National War Museum - army past and present. First World War.com - battles, propaganda, maps and photos. Battlefields 14-18 - army structure and battles. In Flanders Fields - from the Flanders Fields Museum in Belgium - in three languages, with information about Belgian, French, German and UK troops. Battle of the Somme - an account with maps and photos. Paths of Glory - some information about ID tags, pay books etc. Family Records - Focus on Women - useful information on women's role in the war. Red Cross - recources and photos of the Red Cross role in wartime. Caring on the Home Front - St John's Ambulance and Red Cross activities during WW1 - click on Search the Library for numerous factsheets, video and audio clips, including a gas mask display. Wellcome Trust - video from the Welcome Trust Library of shellshock patients taken at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Dartmoor. Wellcome Trust - information from a past exhibition on War and Medicine. COFEPOW - Children and Families of Far East Prisoners of War website - lots of information - click on seeking information. Trafford War Dead - Have just found this wonderful website of nearly 7,000 names from the Boer War onwards, which have been researched by Goerge Cogswell. up-dated 25 April 2009 Sue Bates transcriptions of her Grandmother's Wartime Vistors' Book - mostly wives of service personell at the Barracks who stayed at 130 Montague Road during World War Two. Welsh Mariners' Index - An on-line index of 23,500 Welsh merchant masters, mates and engineers active from 1800 to 1945, compiled by Dr. Reg Davies. Capital Punishment - The resource site for the history of capital punishment in Britain. Derek Gillards website giving a short history of Education in England New genealogy search engine - Full launch with hundreds of thousands of new links in April 2009! Splashup - formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want. Webuser - On-line version of Britain's best selling internet magazine. up-dated 13 April 2009 South African Genealogy - an excellent site to begin your search for South African Records, starting with how to guides, types of records, databases and repositories. The War Graves Photographic Project The aim of The War Graves Photographic Project is to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, MoD grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day and make these available within a searchable database. up-dated 9 March 2009 UKGDL.org.uk - UK Genealogical Data and Lists. This is Ian and Sharon Hartus' brand new website, launched at Olympia last week. Basically Sharon has scoured GOOGLE for months to discover any local websites which might contain anything from Tax Lists, Trade Directories, Hearth Tax, Poor Law Returns, Bastardy, Court Records, basically any useful lists and sources which might add little colour to our family histories. This is a massive undertaking. The format is easy to use, particularly if you are also used to their UKBMD interface. Congratulations to Ian and Sharon.
I have also created a new photographic account with Photobucket.com for members of our Tameside Family History Forum. This should be a good place to post pictures of hard to read documents or photos you hope someone will be able to identify or even a place to upload pictures of any of our Tameside ancestors. Please visit our Forum and check out the photos link.
up-dated 7 March 2009 Census page completely up-dated to include the latest information on coverage etc., on various websites and the launch of the 1911 Census
18 New Military Links added
up-dated 26 January 2009
New Community Information Links
Click here or on Local Links and scroll down the page
up-dated 23 January 2009
New Web Links
World Surnames Profiler lots of fun mapping out surnames worldwide.
Naval History.net Excellent website with masses of information regarding naval history from the Great War to the Falklands.
up-dated 15 January 2009
Old and New St Georges, Stalybridge - Burial Records and Monumental Inscriptions.
Alan Smith has been digitising George Clark's hand written copies of the burial registers and inscriptions for Old St Georges Church and the burial registers for New St Georges Church. Alan is an active member of the church congregation and also a member of the Family History Society of Cheshire.
In addition the partially complete Monumental Inscriptions for New St Georges are also now on-line and easy to search. They have only covered the south of the church up to row 12 so far and this section will be up-dated as work progresses.
These have now been released on the Churches own website click here to start searching
Two new pages added about the Dukinfield Group of the Family History Society of Cheshire:
Trade Directories now searchable on-line:
Cheshire Directories
A selection of 6 directories courtesy of the Cheshire Records Office:
- 1822-3 Pigot's Directory of Cheshire
- 1857 Post Office Directory of Cheshire
- 1878 Post Office Directory of Cheshire
- 1902 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire
- 1906 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire
- 1910 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire
We’re delighted to announce the addition of the UK City and County Directories to Ancestry.co.uk. They contain a huge amount of information about towns and villages in the UK from 1677 – 1946. They list all sorts of people who had trades, not just business and shop owners, but ordinary people such as gardeners, dressmakers and even chimney sweeps.
7.8 million names at your fingertips:
The books are part of the Archive CD books collection and were collected over six years until the company’s owner, Rod Neep, retired. There are an incredible 629 individual directories and they include the entire inventory of directories from the former Family Records Centre. It is estimated that there are at least 7.8 million names on record for you to search. And they even contain some rather well known names too, such as Charles Dickens, as well as former Prime Ministers Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. Unfortunately, due to the amount of different directories in this collection, it is not really possible to include a sample of each type of book.
This collection is to be completed on Ancestry.co.uk in March 2009. All English counties are currently covered in the collection except Rutland, Leicestershire, Norfolk and Kent which will be covered in the universal directories when complete.
So far I have found the following local directories:
Lancashire:
- 1796 Gore's Liverpool
- 1821 Gore's Liverpool
- 1843 Gore's Liverpool
- 1855 Slater's
- 1886 Barrat's
- 1895 Kelly's
Cheshire
- 1822 Piggot's
- 1834 Piggot's
- 1860 White's
up-dated 11 January 2009
I have just up-dated my information page about Civil Registration to include details of the latest up-dates. Mothers' maiden names now added for Newton and Godley and Mottram-in-Longdendale sub registration districts.
up-dated 8 January 2009
The Family History of Cheshire's webpage has undergone a complete revamp, and this has meant that some information which was previously on the Dukinfield Group's pages can no longer be accommodated in the new format. I have now transferred it over here rather than losing it. Click on the two items below to find out more.
click here to visit our new surname listup-dated 21 November 2008
New Forum Launched
New Web Links
Life and Death in Quarantine on Grosse Ile (Canada) 1832-1937.
Downloadable Parish Register Books from the Internet Archive
up-dated 8 November 2008
B.V.R.I. (British Vital Records Index)
The B.V.R.I. - is a collection of indexed Baptisms and Marriages as an addition to the I.G.I. (International Genealogical Index). It includes approximately 17 million christening entries and 7 million marriages . It does include quite a bit of extra post 1837 information on baptisms and marriages at Ashton St Michael, Stalybridge St Paul's, Denton Christ Church and St Lawrence, and Dukinfield St John and St Marks. Some of this is up until about 1910 so is very useful for narrowing down some information before purchasing certificates via GRO or Tameside Register Office. The marriage entries do give both father's names so pretty useful.
The BVRI information has just been added to Ancestry - Click here to search for christenings
Click here to search for Marriages
New Web Links
JOD's Black and White Graphics -
Thousands of on-line Newspapers -
Mariners' Records and Ships Lists - New South Wales -
G J Oliver: 27th September 2008
Yesterdays Journeys Very ambitious website run by Mike Spencer with indexes mostly to poor law records of settlement, removal, bastardy, wills and court records from Derbyshire Quarter Sessions. The sections includes information from all over the UK since our ancestors were far more mobile than we think particlarly the section on Vagabonds.
UK Homefront - Nostalgia, Nostalgia, Nostalgia!
G J Oliver: 5th September 2008
Old Archived Books - two definitive histories are now available to download for free: Samuel Hill, Byegone Stalybridge (1907) and Thomas Middleton Annals of Hyde and district : containing historical reminiscences of Denton, Haughton, Dukinfield, Mottram, Longdendale, Bredbury, Marple, and the neighbouring townships (1899)
Family History Courses starting in Tameside Libraries in September From absolute beginners to the much more experienced. These courses are always popular so book your place now.
G J Oliver: 21 August 2008
CheshireBMD up-dates - this month's latest additions:
Deaths:
- 22,781 for Audenshaw, registers at Tameside (1937-1974)
Lancashire On-line Parish Clerks - Stalybridge Parish now added with the baptisms from Ebenezer Methodist Chapel 1813-1837.
Daguerre.org - Brilliant early photographs of 1840s and 1850s America.
Museum of the Manchesters - Research Guide through the Regiment's Archives at Tameside Local Studies Library.
Canadian National Archives - Check this page for the multitude of free on-line information bases, including Census and Military and British Home Children etc.
Lancashire Historical Highways - Interesting information about the introduction of proper roads through Lancashire.
Ashton-under-Lyne Photo Blogspot - Interesting daily photo site with well researched historical captions.
Will Transcriptions New website where Will transcriptions are being collated throughout the country.
Rulers of England - Useful King List.
BMD Certificate Exchange Growing collection of surplus to requirements certificates.
Manchester Family History Research - a Manchester Record Agent's own website, but full of information about poor law and court records in Manchester Archives.
Old 78 Records as MP3s One man's project to convert his old 78rpm records collection to downloadable MP3s.
British Garden Birds - Really useful website with all the information you need to understand your garden visitors.
G J Oliver: 18 August 2008
Irish Family History Foundation website making information from county family history centres avilable on-line, now adding 1901 and 1911 census information - pay per view.
Deceased Online Website in beta testing mode, eventually hoping to unite Local Authority Burial and Cremation Databases.
G J Oliver: 3 August 2008
Stockport 1914-18 New website with biographies of Stockport Soldiers who died in the Great War.
New Church Photos added to the Longdendale Churches page for:
- United Reformed Church, Tintwistle
- Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Chapel 1830, now in secular use
G J Oliver: 14th July 2008
These are the latest additions to ChesireBMD
- 2,306 for Ashton and Mossley, registers at Tameside (1969-1974)
- 6,110 for Ashton Hospital, registers at Tameside (1969-1974)
Photograph of United Reformed Church, Mount Pleasant Street, Audenshaw added to Audenshaw Church Photos page.
New Article added about the Fairfield Moravian Settlement
G J Oliver: 12th July 2008
These are the latest additions to ChesireBMD
- 8,263 for Ashton Hospital, registers at Tameside (1961-1969)
- 3,874 for Ashton and Mossley, registers at Tameside (1961-1969)
NEW website created: Ashton Grammar School - aimed at ex Students
G J Oliver: 18th June 2008
I have now set up a discussion group for members to join. Click below to view or apply to join.
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I have also created a group photo album for sharing. This is for people who join our community on the web.
A good idea if you are having trouble reading old documents of census entries or if you want people to try and place mystery photos. It is very easy to upload photos and even create slideshows. Photo links can also be added to your group pages. photobucket.com/gayoliver
I have also added a site search engine on my contents page to help you find what you want on this site.
G J Oliver: 12th June 2008
New Websites added 11th June 2008.
Large Scale Maps of Manchester and Salford 1857, Manchester 1922 and Liverpool 1874.
Beta Testing site for New Family Search databases - quite a lot of cheshire material is being added here.
w3schools.com The largest free web design tutorial site.
The Lancashire Fusiliers website.
A Forum for Descendants of British Home Children
Database of British Home Children - from the Canadian National Archives.
A History of Music Halls and Theatres
Cheshire Look Up Exchange - a growing list of volunteers willing to help people researching their Cheshire ancestors.
G J Oliver: 11th June 2008
This website has been completely up-dated and redesigned to take account of latest HTML 4.01 technology and now has its own domain name and hosting package. This should allow for it to have room to grow and to add new features.
Previously it was hosted on my free webspace with AOL and space had become so tight the site was in danger of stagnating.
G J Oliver: 1 May 2008
Mossley.net - a History and Photo Guide to Mossley .
Dating Old Photographs - wonderful website with very good explanations to help you date your old photographs.
War Graves Photographic Project - the aim of The War Graves Photographic Project is to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, MoD grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day and make these available within a searchable database.This project aims to photograph in excess of 1.75 million graves or memorials from Commonwealth Nations and many from other military forces around the world.
New page added - Can you Help to re-unite this photographic album with its family.
Civil Registration page up-dated to include deaths in Stalybridge 1937-1969, Dukinfield 1937-1969, Audenshaw 1901-1937, Mossley 1937-1969.
Site respidered for Pico search engine.
G J Oliver: 17 February 2008
Tameside Links and Tameside Address pages up-dated. Civil Registration page up-dated to include Stalybridge Deaths 1897-1937 added to Cheshire BMD this month. A major redesign of my readers' messages pages - hope you like the improvement. I have split them and archived them into years and will soon be ready to start adding messages in 2008. I hope they are easier to search now in bite size chunks of one year at a time.
New Websites added this month
Family Tree Forum - similar to Roots Chat, but with some research guidance and a Forum WIKI.
Google Books - Old and rare books downloadable in PDF format for free. Go to Advanced Search and then click on full view before you search.
Guardian and Observer Newspapers' Digital Archive - Pay site, but with full Guardian Newspaper archive 1821-date, and the Observer 1900-date will release images back to 1785 in the new year sometime. A little difficult to get used to using the search engine and saving articles, but worth it because the Guardian Newspaper started off as the Manchester Guardian, so holds quite a lot of local news in the early years.
British History OnLine - Freely searchable database of main Historical sources, a much improved maps database of the original first series OS maps, county histories, ecclesiastical papers and parliamentary archives. This site has been included in my history section for a couple of years now, but now has a very much improved search facility for their old OS Maps.
Anne Lehmkuhl's comprehensive South African Research Resource
Free Rice - Improve your word power and donate rice for free.
All links checked and website respidered for search engine
G J Oliver: 3 December 2007
Family Relatives.com Family History Social Networking plus GRO indexes and Parish Register Transcriptions . Overseas BMDS currently FREE. Census info in Beta Testing for release soon - Annual subscriptions 37.50 GB Pounds very cheap - watch this space.
BMD Registers.com The National Archives in conjunction with S & N Genealogy - nonconformist, Jewish and Quaker registers searchable on-line - quite expensive for images.
Tameside Radio real local community radio.
Lancashire On-line Parish Clerks - recently added Oldham St Mary's baptisms.
Cheshire Parish Register Project - stalled for quite a while, but this project seems to be active again with regular up-dates, works quite well after you have learned the system of searching the databases and codes.
Gazetteer of British Places Names - exhaustive list of 50,000 place names
Nationmaster - nation by nation statistics and maps etc.
Anglo Saxon Language and Culture.
North Lancs Probate Index - an index of all surviving probate documents for the Western Deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1748-1858 has been prepared. The deaneries included are Amounderness, Copeland, Furness, Kendal and Lonsdale.
Old Liverpool Newspaper Extracts.
London Docklands Transcribed Parish Registers
Price and Associates - professional genealogists, but this is a superb page of weblinks - nearly does away with this one:)
Family Search WIKI - worldwide on-line family history encyclopaedia based on Wikipaedia
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire- including Volume Indexes
Happy Haggis - probably the best Scottish Genealogy Page
Library Ireland Books plus Historical and Topographical Ireland
Irish Family Research - searchable databases of Directories, Griffiths etc. plus Maps
My Irish Ancestry - join Irish Family History Communities
Australian Family History Compendium - gateway to Australian Archives and Sources.
New South Wales State Archives.
Australia and New Zealand Passenber Lists.
Claim a Convict - a site linking people with a shared convict ancestors and masses of other information.
Convict Links - comprehensive list of sources and links.
Convict Central - great site - including all convict ships details, Western Australian Convicts - Millitary Pensioners sent to Australia to settle - Convict women sent to the female factory - stories about individual convicts.
Convicts Australia - recommended by a friend as the best site she has found for convict ancestors giving varied information about convicts transported to New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. This is goldmine, not only of tickets of leave and certificates of freedom, but absconders, Government Regulations, Old Bailey indexes, Newgate Prison Records and much more even convict tatoos.
National Archives of South Africa.
New links added to pages on the Tameside council Website
- Listed Buildings in Tameside
- Image Archive and Family History
- Searchable War Memorial Database
- Planning Applications
- Denton Roll of Honour
- Dukinfield WWI Letters to Mrs E Kenyon
- Searchable Cemetery and Crematorium Database
All links checked and website respidered for search engine
G J Oliver: 15th October 2007
BMD Pages amend to add the following to cheshireBMD.orguk:
Deaths: 45,436 for Dukinfield, Tameside (1837-1897) replacing all previous entries to add in age at death.
Deaths: 10,497 for Ashton Town, Tameside (1901-1911)
Wills and Probate Page amended:
NEW WEBSITES ADDED:
New Manchester Central Library page
Irish Genealogy Projects County by County database of volunteer transcriptions.
Symbols on Gravestones and their meanings
Downloadable family history forms and charts
Gerald England's new Old Hyde Blogspot
G J Oliver: August 2007
BMD pages amended to add 10,635 Civil Marriages for Tameside.
New websites added:
- Parliamentary History of the Slave Trade.
- Searchable BMDs for Nova Scotia.
- Irish Convicts to NSW plus other Irish Rebels.
- English Ecclesiastical Calender, Regnal Years, Day of the Week and more.
- A Given Names 1450-1650.
- The Methodist Historical Roll - searchable database.
- Database of 146,000 names of people who served in the Boer War including nurses and medical staff.
- Romany Genes and Surnames.
- Bordering on the Incredible and Mythical - included just for a laugh.
- Say No To 0870.
- WebbAviation fantastic modern aerial views of towns and cities of England and Wales.
G J Oliver: June 2007
New Page added with a guide to finding burial records and graveyard inscriptions in Tameside
BMD Page amended to include major up-dates to the Tameside BMD Project *********One Million Registrations now on-line.************
New Websites added:
- Railway Ancestors Family History Society - including a very useful message board to register and exchange information.
- 1901 Instututions - Jeff Knaggs personal webpage where he has extracted all known institutions from the 1901 census.
- Manchester Diocese website
- Canal Junction - boat people and the Canal Heritage Trust.
- Fairground Heritage
- Lancashire Constabulary - records with search facilties
- Slave Trade Abolition Petition - the transcription work of the 1806 petition in support of abolition of the slave trade, undertaken by several members Manchester and Lancs. FHS.The archives are very keen to know of anyone who recognises a possible ancestor amongst the signatories. The website hopes to host transcriptions of other petitions soon.
- Familia - Museums and Libraries Archives Council directory of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK and Northern Ireland. The Tameside information is very out of date, but is very strong on the resources held at Stockport which aren't listed anywhere else on-line.
- Castle Hall, Stalybridge
"A reeght good bit of nostalgia" - fabulous website, with many many photographs, brass band music and stories and poems about this fond remembered area of Stalybridge.
G J Oliver: May 2007
G J Oliver: January 2007
New Websites Added
Longsight Memories - comprehensive Longsight archive including Belle Vue.
British Home Children - Canadian website of children transported there from Britihs Orphanages.
Gypsy Ancestors - Do you have Gypsy ancestors.
Methodist Ancestors - Rylands Library Database.
Derbyshire Wills - Alphabetical will calendars for Derbyshire.
Borthwick Institute - University of York and Prerogative Court of York Archives.
BOPCRIS - British Official and Parliamentary Papers.
The Few - Battle of Britain.
Photobucket - free on-line photo hosting site.
G J Oliver: 3 December 2006
All pages marked with 
on the Index page have been checked and information up-dated.
G J Oliver: 1st December 2006.
All pages marked with on the Index page have been checked and information up-dated.
G J Oliver: 27 September 2006.
Come and find out about Tameside's History and Heritage
Saturday 18th November. Click here for Details
G J Oliver: 15 August 2006.
History Links - new websites added:
- Useful Historical Dates - John Owen Smith's list of useful dates for local and family historians.
- Currency converter - Currency Converter from the National Archives website.
- Palindex - The best paleography tutorial I have found on-line.
- The East India Company -For people with ancestors in the East India Company including births, marriages and embarkation lists.
- Mossley On-line - newly revamped webpage with a good photogallery.
Also Tameside Addresses page updated and the page on Wills and Probate Records.
G J Oliver: 1st June 2006.
History Links - new websites added:
- The Scottish Association of Family History Societies
- Capital Punishment in the UK - massive database of information; some of it is pretty gruesome.
Civil Registration, Census Returns and Wills and Probate Records pages up-dated.
G J Oliver: 21 May 2006.
History Links - new websites added:
- The McKirdy Index
- B4Usearch.com
- South African Roll of Honour
- Cheshire Antiquities
- The Peerage.com
- Acts of Parliament for Family History
- Manchester Art Galleries
- Museum and Library Archives North West
G J Oliver: 6 April 2006.
Nonconformity Firsts in Dukinfield - a whole series of new pages added.
- Samuel Eaton and the first Congregational Chapel in England
- The first Sermon by George Fox the founder of the Quaker Movement
- John Angier and Denton Chapel
- Samuel Angier and Old Chapel, Dukinfield
- The first Moravian Chapel in England
- Mary Moffatt, Missionary and Mother-in-Law to David Livingstone
Civil Registration page amended: ****All births for Tameside on the Cheshire BMD Project are now on-line up until 1974****
G J Oliver: 15 March 2006.
History Links - new websites added:
- The Genealogist
- Church of England Portal
- Craig Thornber's Website
- Victorian London
- BBC Voices
- Ireland List Griffith's Valuations
- Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Wartime Memories Project
- UK National Index of War Memorials
- Channel 4's Not Forgotten Web Page
Civil Registration page amended: All births for Tameside on the Cheshire BMD Project are now on-line up until 1974 except for Ashton-under-Lyne currently up to 1951, will be complete early in the New Year.
G J Oliver: 10 December 2005.
History Links - new websites added:
- The Genealogist
- TV ARK,
- Trouble at' Mill,
- Boer War Museum,
- Boer War Soldiers who enlisted,
- Port Cities,
- Royal Navy records at the National Archives,
- A-Z of Irish Genealogical Research.
Civil Registration page amended: All births for Tameside on the Cheshire BMD Project are now on-line up until 1974 except for Ashton-under-Lyne currently up to 1937, will be complete early in the New Year.
Read about the 1911 Census on the Census page - not good news.
G J Oliver: 18 October 2005.
History Links - masses of NEW Family History weblinks added.
G J Oliver: 11 September 2005.
New Research Guide about Wills added plus website re-indexed by search engine and all other pages reviewed to check they contain the most up-to-date information possible.
G J Oliver: 24th July 2005.
See Index Page for up-dated pages plus website re-indexed by search engine
G J Oliver: 13th June 2005
Tintwistle Burials 1798-1812 - transcription by Glenycs Voevodin-Keough
Census Returns page amended and Family History Links up-dated
G J Oliver: 1st May 2005
Tameside Family History Photo Centre
Various new additions to functionality and content on Home Page
Brand New Photo Centre on the Index Page
G J Oliver: 1st April 2005
New Links, Memories, Messages, more information about The New Archve Centre and Tameside Register Office
For further up-to-date information about the New Archive Centre click here
All pages checked to see that the information they contain is current and as up-to-date as possible and the on-site search engine has been re-indexed. New websites added to Family History Links page. Two from the British Library a) Collect Britain, b) Dialects and English Accents c)The Hat Site and new Memories and Messages added.
Pages about Medieval Customs and covenants amended regarding the Lord of the Manor's corn Mill.
G J Oliver: 10th March 2005
New Local Studies and Archives Centre opening 14th March 2005
For a couple of pictures and details of new opening hours etc. click here
All pages checked to see that the information they contain is current and as up-to-date as possible and the on-site search engine has been re-indexed. New Memories and Messages added
G J Oliver: 13th February 2005
Pages up-dated and all Links checked and site Re-indexed
All pages checked to see that the information they contain is current and as up-to-date as possible and the on-site search engine has been re-indexed. Many of the pages have been amended and new links added.
G J Oliver: 6th December 2004
New Section Added - Land Tax Transcriptions
Transcriptions of the Land Tax Returns for: Mottram in Longdendale, Matley, Godley, Stayley, Tintwistle, Hattersley, Hyde, Werneth, Hollingworth all circa the 1790s. Also some new messages and memories and the site re-indexed by Pico Search.
G J Oliver: 19th November 2004
LEES Family Puzzle
Please help to solve a family puzzle The LEES Family of Tanners Fold, plus new messages and memories added.
G J Oliver: 7th November 2004
New Millbrook World War I site
A new microsite has been added giving details of soldiers missing from the rolls of honour in Millbrook, Carrbrook and Heyheads, and 300 names missing from the Stalybridge War Memorial Millbrook World War I, plus others up-dated and new messages added.
G J Oliver: 29th October 2004
New Up-dates and Page added
A new page has been added giving up-to-date news on the development of Tameside's New Archive Centre, plus others up-dated and new messages added.
G J Oliver: 9th October 2004
Pages up-dated and all Links checked and site Re-indexed
All pages checked to see that the information they contain is current and as up-to-date as possible and the on-site search engine has been re-indexed. Many of the pages have been amended and new links added.
G J Oliver: 26th September 2004
Pages up-dated
Various pages up-dated, Reader's messages, Tameside Links, Tameside Addresses etc.
G J Oliver: 25th July 2004
New Local Webpage
Stalybridge.Org Welcome back to this website all about Stalybridge. This website used to exist and then merged for a time under the Vegas Town Banner. The Vegas Town website disappeared about eighteen months ago, so WELCOME back to an old favourite.
G J Oliver: 20th May 2004
New Local Webpage
Castle Hall, Stalybridge Relatively new website all about the history of the Castle Hall area of Stalybridge whch was demolished in the 1960/70's. Lots of info re: schools, churches, Whitsuntide, pantomimes, queens, buildings, organisations, traditions and more.
G J Oliver: 15th May 2004
New Page Added
I have just added a list of Marriage Registers held at Tameside Register Office. This page also attempts to explain the difference between GRO (General Register Office) and Local Register Office indexing
Website re-indexed with search engine.
G J Oliver: 14th May 2004
New and Up-dated Pages
I have amended all pages on this website to included up-dated information of Parish Registers, The Parish Map and the I.G.I
I have also included a new page detailing where these records are incomplete
Readers Messages and Memories
Lots of new information added here: MESSAGES and MEMORIES
G J Oliver: 9th May 2004
E-Tameside Awards Night
This website voted Best Voluntary, Community and Local Interest Group website for 2003. Click here for more information.
Readers Messages and Memories
Lots of new information added here: MESSAGES and MEMORIES
Family History Links page completely re-vamped and site re-spidered.
G J Oliver: 14th April 2004
New Message and Memories pages added and link to Carrbrook Village
Your chance to contribute to these pages new Message and Memories pages added
New link added to Carrbrook Village website and site re-indexed.
G J Oliver: 18th January 2004
Tameside Addresses and Tameside Links up-dated
Addresses, telephone numbers and e-mails up-dated. Site information reviewed for latest information. New website added to Family History Links Hints and Tips for searching using GOOGLE with family history in mind.
Also remember that you can add the surnames you are researching in Tameside to the Dukinfield Group of the Family History Society of Cheshire's website: Click here for more information.. The Dukinfield Group covers both the Lancashire and Cheshire towns that make up Tameside. Also all the birth indexes and very nearly all the marriage indexes for Tameside upto the year 1900 are now on line at: Cheshire BMD.
G J Oliver: 11th January 2004
Pages up-dated and all Links checked
All links checked to see that they are all current and site re-spidered
G J Oliver: 5th December 2003
Recent break from Family History
I had a break from Family and Local History during October and November because I was nursing a terminally ill husband. Sadly he died on the 14th November and is very much missed. Before he died he insisted that I carried on with my interests, so with his encouragement I hope to add new pages in the New Year
G J Oliver: 5th December 2003
New Page added 19th September 2003
Description of Dukinfield circa 1830
New webpage added giving a description of Dukinfield in 1830 abridged from J E Hickey's book, "Dukinfield Past and Present."
G J Oliver: 19th September 2003
New Page added 19th September 2003
Ashton-under-Lyne's Inaugural Corporation
New webpage added giving the names of over two hundred leading men of Ashton who petitioned for the Incorporation of Ashton-under-Lyne and details of the first local councillors elected to serve in November 1847
G J Oliver: 19th September 2003
New Page added 14th September 2003
New webpage added briefly explaining the history of nonconformity in this country with particular emphasis on a series of notable first in Dukinfield.
G J Oliver: 14th September 2003
Press Release from Tameside Council 29 July 2003
Press Release from Tameside Council announcing plans to relocate Tameside Local Studies Library from Stalybridge Library to a 1 million pound purpose-built archive centre to the rear of Central Library on Ashton.
The Plans are available for viewing at Stalybridge Local Studies Library inviting comments from library users.
Click here to view press release
G J Oliver: 4th September 2003
Moving Here - New! website launched
New website launched covering 200 years of migration to England. An in-depth resource and gallery of Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian Migration. Read migration stories and add your own. Click the link below.
G J Oliver: 4th September 2003
North West Regional Archive Council
New website launched including details of this month's North West Archives Festival Events. For more details click below.
G J Oliver: 4th September 2003
Other Websites added in September
G J Oliver: 4th September 2003
What's New
During the period that Dukinfield Town Hall is being refurbished Tameside Register Office will be moving, temporarily, into the old Lakes Road School building with effect from 1st September 2003. The work is expected to take several months. Their new address will be:
Tameside Register Office
Education & Development Centre
Lakes Road
Dukinfield
SK16 42R
Tel: 0161-330 1177/1454
G J Oliver: 2nd
August 2003
New Web Link
New local website. Please take this opportunity to visit Robert Siddall's Pages of Brookfield Unitarian Church Memorabilia, including a short history of the church written in 1903.
G J Oliver: 2nd
August 2003
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