What other records are available?

What other records are available?

There are other records from the Parish chest that you can consult, but they will give you incidental biographical information about people and may help to identify people's movements, as well, for instance. Other local records that you might find would be occupational records, for example. You might find family papers deposited in the County Record Office. Maps can be quite useful, as well, for tracing individuals and their movements. So, there are all sorts of things that you can go into the County Record Office and just browse around. It might turn out to be extremely useful. Family deeds, manorial records are another useful source. Because until 1922, at least, everybody would have been residents on a manor that was owned by a Lord, and he kept his own records of payments of rent. And when there were changes of tenure on the property that was recorded as well, because he would extract a fine every time a property changed hands: whether it was by sale, exchange or by death of the tenant.