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Tracing Your East End Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Tracing Your Ancestors) Kindle Edition

by Jane Cox (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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East Enders are a very special breed and tracing your East End ancestry is going to be tremendous fun. Everyone has got some East End ancestors - and if they havent they invent them, rollicking chaps, larky and resourceful, talking a funny language to keep them guessing, eating at eel and pie shops, shouting out their wares in clattering, colorful markets. Their wives and masters ( er in doors) are brazen lassies, smart as paint, tough as their men folk, presiding over an undoubted matriarchal society where Mum rules OK? The good tales are of bright little kids, unshod and streetwise, rising above their origins and making a mint. The bad ones are of indescribable horror - children dying in diseased heaps, infant sex for sale and gangs of armed bandits terrorizing the neighborhood.As author Jane Cox writes in the preface, the East End of our great grandparents days was another world, and her fascinating and accessible guide to East End ancestry will help you find out about it. She takes readers through the maze of courts and alleys that was the home of their ancestors, bringing to life that vibrant, polyglot society, and describing the many sources researchers can consult archives, records, books, the internet in order to discover the lives of individuals who lived in the area or passed through it.
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    July 12, 2011
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Jane Cox is an author and historian.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00APL5QQW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword (July 12, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 12, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 8329 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 261 pages
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Mr. J. C. Cokeley
5.0 out of 5 stars Was easy toi read and helped to work out East End Districts
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2024
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Pamela
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book for Genealogy hunters in London.
Reviewed in Canada on April 28, 2015
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Since purchasing this I have found some of my East End relatives. Meeting one this week. Very. Helpful that. Has lead to many surprising contacts
If your ancestor's were Londoner's this book is just the ticket.
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Lorannkara
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive resource for understanding and tracing your East End ancestors.
Reviewed in Australia on May 4, 2016
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Very readable and interesting coverage of the history of East London from the point of view of its people - about an 800 year span from a family history perspective. There is also a thorough, extensive and useful section on archival sources on every aspect of the East End ancestors. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with ancestors from East London as I do. It gave me a greater understanding of their daily lives and the challenges they faced.
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G.Ward
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2013
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For those that miss it (as I did) this book is meant to give guidence on east enders in the Tower Hamlets area. Whilst it does have specifics it is perfecly possible to take much information to the wider environs and adapt it to your specific needs.

The book is reasonably well-written, a little 'long' at times (as are most such guides), but most people should find some useful hints within its pages.
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Cliffbn
5.0 out of 5 stars A godsend for a Brummie with newly discovered East End roots
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2013
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I recently confirmed that my paternal grandmother was born in Whitechapel (she moved to Birmingham as an 11-year old but none of her 10 children were ever sure of this). I purchased this book on the strength of other Amazon reviews and the Kindle extracts. In my 64 years I have been to London many times but only for the usual central area tourist spots and various football/cricket grounds. The East End is a complete mystery. This book has shed a new light on the area, covering what is now Tower Hamlets which is made up of all the old districts/parishes such as Whitechapel, Stepney and Bethnal Green. It is full of historical information and references for both online resources and where you can see original documents. This book is highly recommended. The only slight gripe is the quality of the maps/illustrations which look like bad photocopies. Personally I would not be happy with the e-version due to the need to keep referring to the appendices at the back of the book.
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