Kelly's Directory 1879 of the Forest of Dean and Surrounding Areas
These directories give a full description and contain a wealth of information about a village, all the farmers, the tradesmen, important persons such as the Lord of the Manor, vicars, school teachers, post office staff, pub landlord and more.
Many thanks to May Brace who has kindly transcribed these directories and made them available.
Surnames Research Register
This Research Register has been made available so that you can quickly find out
who is researching a particular surname together with the location they lived.
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This Emigration List is a database of Forest of Dean people who have emigrated to another country, whether they were free settlers or convicts.
The list will assist in identifying many missing people of whom we cannot find any recorded information of them after a certain date.
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Project Gutenberg eBooks
The Forest of Dean
An Historical and Descriptive Account
By Nicholls, H. G. (Henry George), 1825-1867
Iron Making in the Olden Times
Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean
By Nicholls, H. G. (Henry George), 1825-1867
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The personalities of the Forest of Dean
The personalities of the Forest of Dean; forming an appendix to 'An historical and descriptive account of the Forest of Dean'
By Henry George Nicholls
The information in this database was compiled by Martin Davies and David Drinkwater. The idea behind the data was to try and create a list of all those men with connections to The Forest of Dean who in any way served their country during WW1 and not just those that were killed.
The names recorded so far total over 6000. The information that might be listed about a soldier has come from various sources. These include military records, The Commonwealth War Graves Commission and local newspapers ( The Gloucester Journal, The Forest Mercury and the Cheltenham Chronicle & Glos Graphic).
An entry may just record a mans name and abode or include details transcribed from a newspaper article that could also include a photograph. Although we have some of these images they are not yet on the website or linked to an entry, it is hoped that this will be possible in the future.
The information in this database is being added to all the time and there may be more than one entry for a particular serviceman.
If any one can add more detail or a photograph to those listed or provide details of servicemen not in the database and would like them included please contact us.
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In Gloucestershire between 1916-1918 over 40 Local Military Tribunals heard up to 100,000 appeals from men who were called up for military service. The Local Tribunals that relate to men in the Forest of Dean were held at Awre, Coleford, East Dean, Gloucester Rural, Lydney, Newent, Newnham, Tewkesbury Rural, West Dean and Westbury on Severn.
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Search Summary Convictions Registers
This Index has been transcribed from the Summary Convictions Registers for Gloucestershire 1853-1879 and relate to people in Gloucester Gaol. The Gloucester Record Office references are: QGc9/1 to QGc9/9.
The database is complete and out of nearly 25,000 entries 3217 have been identified as having links to the Forest of Dean.
The registers contain a large amount of text that has sometimes been difficult to interpret, especially the names of employers and relatives. There are also many instances where a person’s abode and other locations are spelt in a number of different ways compared to the modern equivalent.
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