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Did you know that almost half the UK population is related to a British King or Queen? We have a number of new records available at TheGenealogist which can help you link your family to Royalty.
Royal Records 
- Blood Royal of Britain
- Compiled by the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, these Plantagenet Rolls of the Blood Royal give a complete table of all the living descendants of Edward III, Edward IV, Henry VII and James III. Each issue contains both illustrative trees and descendancy notes for:
- Edward IV, Henry VII and James III
- The Plantagenet Roll - The Anne of Exeter Volume
- The Plantagenet Roll - The Clarence Volume
- The Plantagenet Roll - The Isabel of Essex Volume
- The Plantagenet Roll - The Mortimer-Percy Volume
- AD.43 - 1086 Queens Before the Conquest
- A huge and entertaining history of Royal women before the Conquest. Originally published in 1854.
- Boadicea 'The Warlike', Gwenissa the Fair, St Helena, Rowena (wife of Vortigern), Ethelburga the Silent, Emma of Normandy (wife to both Ethelred the Unready and Canute), Judith of France, the three Guenevers of King Arthur, and dozens more.
- The Coronation of H.M. King George VI and H.M. Queen Elizabeth, 1937
- A commemorative album including illustrations of the ceremonial dress and roles of those involved in the ceremony - the King and Queen, Archbishops, Bishop of London, Dean of Westminster, and those for a Marquess, Marchioness, Viscountess, Baron, Garter King of Arms, Bluemantle Pursuivant, Most Noble Order of the Garter, and more.
- Roll of the Baronets 1611-1929
- A list of Baronets as authorized by Royal Warrant from May 1611 to January 1929, showing the titles and holders. Also includes the Objects, Rules and Regulations of the standing Council of the Baronetage, Decrees of Kings James I, Edward VII and George V, tables of precedence, and a list of extinct baronetcies.
- Royalist Composition Papers, Lancashire Letters P-R
- Royalist Composition Papers detailing the fines paid by those who fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War, to cover the cost of the conflict.
- The Book of Dignities - Rolls of Official Personages of the British Empire 1649-1846
- Extensive lists: Sovereign Princes of Europe since formation of the nation states; the Peers of England; statesmen and state officers of England including chronological lists of Lord High Stewards, Lord High Chancellors, Lord Chamberlains, Lord High Admirals, Boards of Trade, Officers of the Royal Household, Speakers of the House of Commons, Judges, Ecclesiastical Courts; Archbishops and Bishops of England, Scotland and Ireland back to the saints; Admirals and Military; holders of the Order of the Garter, Knights of the Bath, Order of the Thistle, Order of St. Patrick; great offices of Scotland and Ireland; Lord Mayor of Dublin and more.
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We are always adding to our huge collection of records available - below is a small selection of the other peerage and gentry records already available when you purchase our Diamond Subscription. |
 The Illustrated London News
These newspapers are full to the brim of interesting articles and illustrations from the time covering all major events as well as many announcements. Each issue is bookmarked by article and is easily searchable, containing many announcements of Births, Marriages, Deaths, Obituaries, Wills & Bequests. See how Victorian media covered the marriage of Princess Alice (Daughter of Queen Victoria) and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse in our article, A Royal Wedding.
- 1842 - May to December
- 1843 - January to July
- 1862 - July to December
- 1890 - January to June
We will eventually be releasing our entire collection of the Illustrated London News.
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Peerage Records
Peerage and Heritage records document the ancestry of titled and landed families in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Entries can contain details of individual peers providing biographical information such as birth and marriage and names of family members.
- Armorial Families
- Burke's Encyclopaedia of Heraldry (England, Ireland and Scotland)
- Burke's Landed Gentry 1914
- Burkes Peerage 1921
- County Families of the UK 1880
- County Families of the UK 1894
- Debrett's Peerage
- Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies
- Kelly's 1906 Landed Gentry
- Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1918
- Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1942
- Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage of the British Empire 1880
- Burke's Peerage 1885
- Le Neves Pedigrees Of Knights
- 1895 Kellys Handbook to the Titled Landed and Official Classes
- Irish Pedigrees 1887
- Irish Pedigrees 1888
- Lincolnshire Pedigrees
- Norfolk Families
- County Pedigrees Nottinghamshire Vol. 1
- Staffordshire Pedigrees 1664-1700
These records are available to all Diamond subscribers |
Visitations
Heraldic Visitations began in 1530 and were tours of inspection undertaken by Kings of Arms in order to regulate and register the coats of arms of nobility and gentry and boroughs, and to record pedigrees.
By the fifteenth century many families were adopting coats of arms as symbols of wealth and power but not all had a legitimate claim to them. As surviving Visitation records include pedigrees and often the evidence that was used to prove these, including family details, background and ages, their records provide important source material for genealogists.
- 1902 Visitation of England and Wales Vol.10
- 1921 Visitation of England and Wales. Vol 21
- 1552, 1558, 1560-1 Visitations of the North
- 1896 Visitation of England and Wales. Vol 4
- 1566, 1582, 1634 Bedfordshire Visitation
- 1532, 1566, 1623, 1665-66 Berkshire Visitations
- 1634 Buckinghamshire Visitation
- 1575 & 1619 Cambridge Visitations
- 1613 Cheshire Visitation
- 1530, 1573, 1620 Cornwall Visitations
- 1615 & 1666 Cumberland & Westmorland Visitations
 1531, 1564, 1620 Devon Visitations- 1575, 1615, 1666 Durham Visitations
- 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612, 1634 Essex Visitations
- 1682 & 1683 Gloucester Visitation
- 1572 & 1634 Visitations of Hertfordshire
- 1613 Huntingdonshire Visitations
- 1619-1621 Kent Visitations
- 1533 Lancashire Visitation
- 1567 Lancashire Visitation
- 1664-65 Dugdales Lancashire Visitation
- 1619 Leicester Visitation
- 1666 Visitation of Lincolnshire
- 1633 London Visitations
- 1568 London Visitations
- 1563, 1589, 1613 Norfolk Visitations
- 1564 1618-19 Northamptonshire Visitations
- 1566, 1574, 1634 Oxford Visitations
- 1618-19 Rutland Visitations
- 1681-82 Rutland Visitations
- 1531 & 1573 Somerset Visitations
- 1530 Surrey Visitations
- 1662-68 Surrey Visitations
- 1619 Warwickshire Visitations
- 1623 Wiltshire Visitations
- 1682-1683 Worcestershire Visitations
- 1666 Yorkshire Visitations
- 1563-64 Yorkshire Visitations
- 1584-5 & 1612 Yorkshire Visitations
These records are available to all Diamond subscribers |
Miscellaneous
- Knights of England 1127-1904 - lists all orders of chivalry in England, Scotland and Ireland. Available to all Gold and Diamond subscribers
- The British Imperial Calendar 1895 - lists both Houses of Parliament, Baronets, Orders of Knighthood, Privy Council, Foreign Sovereigns, etc. Available to all Diamond subscribers
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It’s easy to assume that Peerage and Heritage records are irrelevant to your genealogical research, but in fact almost half the UK population have Royal blood, which means that you may well have Dukes, Lords or other members of the nobility in your family tree.
Sir Thomas Fairfax was married to Agnes Gascoigne, grand-daughter of Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland, a direct descendent of Edward III. He had twin sons named Nicholas and William. As the eldest, Nicholas inherited his father’s estate, including Gilling Castle in Yorkshire, and is an ancestor of Lady Diana Spencer and her son Prince William. The younger twin William Fairfax is the direct ancestor of William’s bride-to-be Kate Middleton.
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