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In addition to our own publications the Society has a large quantity of books published by others. Below is a sample of the more popular books. If you do not find there the book you want we may have it in stock or we will do our best to find it for you, but expensive books can only be supplied against an order. Send an e-mail to Jim Lanfear at and ask.

All books are subject to availability from our suppliers, and the prices quoted are correct at the time of writing - not necessarily the date this web site was up-dated - and are thus subject to change. 

Orders should be sent to Jim & Joyce Lanfear, 12 Southwick Road, North Bradley, Trowbridge, Wilts, BA14 0SD, UK, with a remittance payable to Wiltshire Family History Society.   

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In view of the diverse sizes, weights and cost of books we consider the postage and packing costs are about right. However, if your order turns out to be grossly overcharged the Society will send a refund.

Below is a sample list of the books in stock concerning Wiltshire and its' towns and parishes.

* New

Alderbury and Whaddon £8.50
Alderbury and Whaddon (Inns and Alehouses of...) £3.00
Alderbury War Memmorials (In Freedom's Cause) £6.50
Alderbury's Post Office £2.00
Amesbury, Bulford & Durington £9.75
Architects & Building Craftsmen in Wiltshire £6.00
Around Bradford On Avon £12.99
Around Westbury in old Photographs £6.95
Avoncliffe (The Secret History of an Industrial Hamlet in war and Peace) £9.95
A Devizes Century £8.95
A Higher Reality (The History of Shaftbury’s Royal Nunnery) (soft cover) £7.99
A History of Devizes £11.50
A History of Wiltshire £12.99
A History of Malmesbury £9.75
A Sense of Belonging (John Chandler) £5.95
Beckhampton - Time Presnt Time Past. £8.95
Beyond a Cottage Window (Rockley Nr Marlborough) £5.95
Bradford on Avon, Past & Present £7.95
Chippenham £11.99
Collett's farthing Newspaper (The Broadchalks Village Newspaper 1878-1924) £12.50
County Guide to Wiltshire £5.99
Crockerton £3.00
Crosstracks to Hindon ( Hindon is one of South West Wiltshires attractive villages) £7.95
Curious Wiltshire £7.95
Devizes & Central Wiltshire £20.00
Devizes Voices £9.99
Downton & The First World War £9.95
Figures in a Wiltshire Scene (soft cover) £9.95
Fovant £7.95
George Herbert in Bemerton £4.95
Grandmother’s Recipes & History of Mary Jane Stratton £12.50
Hallowed Ground Wiltshire £4.00
Holy Cross Chuch Ramsbury, History Guide £12.50
How Devizes Won the War £6.50
John Anstie of Devizes 1743 - 1830 £5.00
Keevil Vol 3 £12.50
Keevil Vol 4 £12.50
Landford (A Wilsthire Village in the New Forest) £11.00
Little Imber on the Down £12.50
Memories of Maiden Bradley £7.50
Marlborough £9.99
Marlborough Downs £9.95
Marlborough & Eastern Wiltshire £20.00
Medieval Houses of Wiltshire £6.00
Medical Matters in Trowbridge £4.50
Mr Benett of Wiltshire £14.95
On the Crest of the Hill (Devizes Grammer School) £8.95
Ramsbury (Then & Now) £9.95
Rank on Rank ( First.W.W Memorials in the Wiltshire Parish of Redlynch £7.00
Salisbury Archive Photographs £9.99
Salisbury History Around Us £6.95
Salisbury Plain Archive Vol 1 £12.99
Salisbury Plain Archive Photographs Vol 2 £9.99
Salisbury Past £15.99
Sarum Chronicle Issue Four 2004 £4.50
Sarum Chronicle Issue Five 2005 £4.50
Semington, Past & Present £8.00
Swindon Decoded (The Curious History Around Us) £7.95
The Changing Face of Urchfont (A pictorial record of the parish then and now) £12.00
The Church in Wiltshire £9.95
The Chronicles of a Courtier (Stanton Court) £12.50
The Kennet and Avon Canal £11.99
The Limpley Stoke Valley £7.95
The Nature of Knoyle (East Knoyle, the people & places) £12.50
The Story of the Parish & People of North Bradley £5.95
The Stancomb Family of Trowbridge £3.50
The Vale of Pewsey £7.95
The Wiltshire Village Book £9.95
Trowbridge in old photographs £5.00
Trowbridge Voices £9.99
Twenty Golden Candlesticks (A history of Nonconformity in Western Wiltshire by William Doel) A facsimile reprint. £9.95
Urchfont (A History of the Parish) £9.00
Useful Toils & Homely Joys (A Photographic Record of Horningsham & Longleat) £7.50
Village Under the Plain (Market Lavington) £10.00
Warminster in the Twentieth Century - (Soft Cover) £12.50
Warriors for the Working Day (Codford during Two World Wars) £15.00
West Wilts Towns £10.99
Wilts & Berks Canal £12.99
Wiltshire Farm Buildings 1500 – 1900 £5.00
Wiltshire Farm House & Cottages 1500 – 1850 £6.00
Wiltshire Town Houses 1500 – 1900 £6.00
Wiltshire Reformatory for Boys (Warminster 1856-1924) £3.95
Wiltshire Toll Houses £6.50
Wiltshire Watch and Clockmakers Vol 1(Chippenham, Swindon & North Wilts) £12.99
Wiltshire Watch and Clockmakers Vol 2 £22.50
Wiltshire (Photo Memories) (Frith’s) £9.99
Wiltshire (Living Memories) (Frith’s) £9.99
Wiltshire Churches (Frith’s) £9.99
Wiltshire Air Fields in the Second World War £12.95
Wiltshire Newspapers (Guide) £2.50
Wiltshire Place Names £7.95
Wiltshire Water Meadows £9.95

  

MERE PAPERS (About the Village & People) £2.00 each

No 1

Historians of Mere (Thomas Henry Baker)

No 2

Waltons of Mere

No 3

Silver Threads Mere’s Textile Industries

No 4

Death & Life in Tudor Stuart Mere & Edge Tool Making & The Downs Family

No 5

The lnns of Mere

No 6

The Doctors of Mere, Mere Chemists & The Edmunds Family

No 7

Domestic Buildings of Mere & The Goldbroughs of Mere

No 8

Congregationalism in Mere

No 9

Enclosure, The Changed Face of Mere

No 10

Mere, The Early Days (A Bibliography)

No 11

Beer, Bacon, Milk & Wine (The Demon Drink, The Temperance Movement in Mere

No 12

The Dean’s Fares

No 13

Woodlands & Dodingtons

No 14

A Millennium Miscellany

No 15

Church Street, Then & Now (In Text only)
No 16 A Church Recovered
No 17 Downstairs in Mere
No 18 A History of the Hill Brush Company

 

Other Book Categories:

Beginner's Books: Various books for those starting out on their family history.

Beginning Your Family History (Pelling) £4.50
Examples of Handwriting 1550 - 1650 £4 .95
Genealogical Jargon (For Family Historians) £3 .95
Granny's Granny (Who was Your) £7 .99
How to Locate and Use Manorial Records £1 .75
How to Record Your Family Tree £1 .50
Making Use of The Census £8.99
Secretary Hand ABC Book £3.95
Starting Your Family History £5.99
The Joys of Family History £6 .99
The Family Historians Pocket Dictionary £6.95
Tracing Your Family Tree (Cole & Titford) £11.95
Tracing Your Twentieth Century Family History £5.95
Tracing Your Nineteenth Century Family History £7.95
Tracing Births, Deaths & Marriages at Sea £11.99
Words from Wills & Other Probate Records £8.50
Using Libraries & Workshops for Family History £2 .95

An Introduction To.... The use of many of the documents encountered in family history research.

British Army Traditions & Records £2.95
Church Registers £2.50
Civil Registration £4.50
Occupations: Preliminary List 2nd Ed £3.95
Tracing Your German Ancestors £4.50
Using Computers for Genealogy £3.95
Wills, Probate & Death Duty Records £2.95
Poor Law Documents £3.95
Friendly Society Records £3.95

Basic Facts About.... Using and keeping your records

An Approach to Keeping your Family Records £2.00
An Approach to Latin for Family Historians £2.00
An Approach to Contacting Relatives £2.00
Approach to Illuminating Your Family History with Picture Post Cards £2.00
Archives £2.00
About Descendant Tracing £2.00
English Nonconformity for Family Historians £2.00
Heraldry for Family Historians £2.00
Using Lunatics in England & Wales for Family Historians £2.00
Sources for Family History in the Home £2.00
Tracing your Catholic Ancestry in England £2.00
Using Baptism Records for Family Historians £2.00
Using Death & Burial Records for Family Historians £2.00
Using Marriage Records for Family Historians £2.00
Using Merchant Ship Records for Family Historians £2.00
Using Record Offices for Family Historians £2.00
Using The Family Record Centre £2.00
Using Wills After 1858 & First Avenue House £2.00
Using Education Records for Family Historians £2.00
Using Colindale & Other Newspaper Repositories £2.00
Research in London Part 1 (Researching London Ancestors) £2.00
About Methodists Records For Family Historians £2.00
About Wesleyan Methodist Historic Roll £2.00

Gibson Guides.... Specialist Indices

Bishops' Transcripts & Marriage Licenses £3.95
Census Returns 1841 - 1891 in M. F (.6th Ed) £3.50
Coroners' Records in England & Wales (2nd Ed) £3.50
Hearth Tax, Other Later Stuart Tax Lists & The Association Oath Rolls: (2nd Ed) £4.50
Land & Window Tax Assessments, 1690 - 1950 (3rd Ed) £4.95
Lists of Londoners: (3rd Ed) £2 .95
Local Census Listings, 1522 - 1930: (3rd Ed) £3.50
Local Newspapers 1750 - 1920 (England & Wales) £4.95
Militia Lists & Musters (1757 - 1876) (5th Ed) £4.50
Specialist Indexes (2nd Ed) £3.95
Probate Jurisdictions (5th Ed) £4.50
Protestation Returns 1641 - 42 £5.50
Record Offices how to find them: (9th Ed) £3.95

Poor Law Union Records..

1. South East & East Anglia £4.50
2. The Midlands & Northern England £3.95
3. South West England, The Marches & Wales £4.50
4. Gazetteer of England & Wales (2nd Ed) £4.50
Tudor & Stuart Muster Rolls £2.50
Victuallers' Licences (2nd Ed) £3.95

General Information....

Civil Registration Districts of England & Wales £4.95
Dates & Calendars £4.50
Dating 20th Century Photographs £6.50
Dating 19th Century Photographs £5.95
Family Feuds (An Intro to Chancery) £5.95
First Name Variants (3rd Ed) £5.95
Genealogical Resources within the Jewish Home & Family £5.95
Glossary of Terms from Probate Inventories £4.00
History of Midwives £6.95
Jewish Ancestors (Beginners Guide) £4.50
Immigrants and Aliens (A Guide to Source) £12.99
Latin Glossary £2.95
Marriages & Certificates in England & Wales £4.00
Occupational Sources for Genealogists £5.00
Registration Districts (3rd Ed) £3.95
Researching Brewery & Publican Ancestors £3.95
Surnames and Genealogy - A New Approach £11.95
The Local Historian's Glossary of Words & Terms £9.95
The Female Line (Researching Your Female Ancestors £7.95
Tracing the History of Houses £9.95
Understanding the History & Records of Nonconformity £1.80
Writing Up your Family History (Titford) £6.95

Armed Forces....How to use records of the armed services.

Air Force Records for Family Historians £9.99
Army Service Records of the First World War (3rd Ed) £9.99
Location of British Army Records £5.95
Records of the R.A.F. £3.95
Tracing Your Family History - Royal Navy £5.50
Tracing Your Family History - Royal Air Force £5.50
Tracing Your Family History - Merchant Navy £5.50
Tracing Your Family History - Army £5.50
W.W.1 Army Ancestry (4th Ed) £6.95
W.W.1 More Sources Army Ancestry £5.45
Identifying you World War 1 Soldier from Badges & Photographs £6.50
Tracing your First World War Ancestors £7.95
Tracing your Second World War Ancestors £9.99

My Ancestors were..... Guides using religion, occupation and societies as a source. (e.g. Quakers, Freemasons and many more)

Came with the Conqueror £3.90
Moved in England & Wales £4.60
Was A Coalminer £7.50
Were Baptists £5.95
Was a Bastard £6.50
Were Congregationalists £3.90
Were English Presbyterians / Unitarians £4.95
Were Freemasons £2.95
Were Freemen of the City of London £4.95
Were in the Salvation Army £4.95
Were Londoners £3.95
Were Manorial Tenants £5.95
Were Quakers £5.95
Were Gypsies £3.95
Were Methodist £4.95
Was A Policeman £4.95
Was a Merchant Seaman £8.50
Worked in the Theatre £5.95

Other Regions....

Greater London Cemeteries & Crematoria (2nd Ed) £4.95
Researching Family History in Wales £5.50
Welsh Family History £9.95
Irish Ancestry (A Beginner's Guide) £6.95
Gathering the Clans (Tracing Scottish Ancestry on the Internet) £9.99

Computer Books....

Gedcom Data Transfer 1999 (3rd Ed) £3.50
Internet for Genealogy £1.60
Web Publishing £4.00
Genuki UK & Ireland Genealogy on the Internet £2.80
Family Search on the Internet £1.50
Irish Family History on the Web (Internet Directory) £5.95
Scottish Family History on the Web (Internet Directory) £6.95
Monumental Inscriptions on the Web (Internet Directory) £5.95
One Place Genealogy £3.80
Births, Marriages & Deaths on the Web
Part 1 Southern England, The Marches & Wales £6.95
Part 2 The Midlands, Northern England & East Anglia £6.95
War Memorials on the Web
Part 1 Southern England, The Marches & Wales £4.95
Part 2 The Midlands, Northern England & East Anglia £5.95
British History & Heritage on the Web £6.50

How They Lived....

Was your Grandfather a Railwayman £6.95
Railway Records £14.99
The Woman's Land Army £9.99
A Dictionary of Old Trades - Titles & Occupations £12.95
Past People £10.00
The Country House Explained £9.95
Curious Customs & Festivals (Guide to local customs & Festivals) £7.95
The A to Z of Traditional Cures & Remedies £9.95
A Dictionary of Saints Days,,Fasts,,Feasts, & Festivals £7.95
Exploring the Ridgeway £5.95
The Changing Faces of Farringdon & surrounding Villages £9.95
The Changing Faces of Farringdon & surrounding Villages, Book Two £8.95
The Changing Faces of Farringdon & surrounding Villages, Book Three £8.95
Bath Buns & Chocolate Olivers (Bath Childhood) £7.95
English Place-Names Explained £12.99
A Dictionary of Pub, Inn & Tavern Signs £9.99
What Did you Do in the War Grandma? £8.99
The Industrial Revolution Explained £9.99

Miscellaneous Items....

Magazine Binders A4 (Blue & Red) £5.25
Magazine Binders A5 (Blue & Red) £4.50
Certificate Binders (empty) .
Deluxe Certificate Binders (empty) .
Colours Available: - Burgundy -- Cedar -- Dark Blue - Charcoal £14.25
Polypockets (for Cert Binders),- each £0.55
Insert Cards (for Polypockets) - each £0.30
Sets of Dividers -(5 tabbed dividers per set) £3.00
Photo / Memorabilia Albums (empty) .
Colours Available: - Burgundy -- Cedar Green -- Dark Blue -Black £8.25
Album Pages, (the number-indicates the number of pockets per page) each £0.45
C1 - £0.45 C2 - £0.45
C3 - £0.45 C4 - £0.45
C6 - £0.45 C8 - £0.45
C9 - £0.45 C12 - £0.45
C2v - £0.45 C3v - £0.45
CD - £0.45
A2 Polypockets each £1.35
A3 Polypockets £0.65
A3 Binders (Empty) .
Colours Available: - Burgundy -- Cedar Green -- Dark Blue £15.9

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