My Grandparents, parents, greatgrandfather, grandfather and father

 

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Further reading:
A Comedy of Errors parts 1 and 2 by Mike Foster is the bible of all who want to find their way around the GRO indexes.
A handbook to the Civil Registration Districts of England and Wales complied by Brett Langston
Ancestral Trails by Mark D Herber
A Passage to the Cape of Good Hope by Dr David J Greathead gives a history of the Greatheads of the 1820 settlement in South Africa and of their ancestors in England and Ireland.
Atlas and Index of Parish Registers edited by Cecil Humphrey-Smith
Index to Census Registration Districts 1841-1891 compiled by M E Briant Rosier
Lifeboats by Nicholas Leach
Local and Family History by David Hey
Mr Greathead’s Lifeboats by Adrian G Osler
Registration Districts by Ray Wiggins
Selling Sparrows by Judy Wright an excellent book about transportation
Specialist Indexes for Family Historians by Jeremy Gibson and Elizabeth Hampson
Staithes by  John Howard
The Parish Chest by W E Tate
West Hartlepool by Robert Wood
Witton Park - Forever Paradise complied by Ken Biggs, Keith Belton and Dale Daniel

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I have a large collection of books and the titles of ones relating to the Greathead one name study and /or family history and will be added to this listing in due course

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Dr David J Greathead informed me of an excellent book called The African Hunting and Travelling Journals of  J.B.S. Greathead 1884 - 1910 edited by D.W. Gess 

 

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