Resources

At this website

• Townsley Database and All Related Surnames - over 70,000 entries; mainly from the UK but some lines expanded to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. Now updated only on Webtrees.
• Memories of War - where is the information about your family?
• Medals - British Forces in World War I - Townsley entries from the National Archives
• Deaths in Service - World War I and II - Townsley entries in Commonwealth war records
• Sailing Ships of Ferrybridge, Yorkshire - Townsley references (UK 1800s)
• Count by Postcode - Townsley surname entries by UK postal regions as at 1997
• References - Townsley snippets found during family history research
• Medieval Families - origins of the Towneley and Townley names
• Coat of Arms - some examples of Towneley / Townley in heraldry
• Books In and Out of Print - a random selection of books linked to Townsley

My External Links

• Townsley Family History web site (1997-2011) - the first Townsley web site that outgrew the web space previously provided by Tesco. Now closed and all the info about the families moved either to this site or to a dedicated family surname site (see below and the Trees page).
• Sheeky Family Trees - the latest web site for the Sheeky / Sheekey familes from Ireland but mainly traced within the UK
• Strangeway Family Trees - the latest web site for the Strangeway(s) / Strangway(s) familes
• Brotherton Village Family Trees - a study of families by location; started as a spin-off from tracing all the Townsley families that lived in this part of Yorkshire.
• Strangways-Towneley database. This covers members of the British Peerage and Landed Gentry from the Middle Ages to the 20th century starting from the Strangeway / Strangways and the Towneley family pedigrees. It is unconnected with the Townsley families - except for a few specific families!
• Yorkshire Heritage - a project covering Yorkshire past and present [that I may finish one day!]

Other External Links

All these web resources are FREE to use - being either government, charity or volunteer funded.

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - for tracing those who died in World War I and II
• FamilySearch - massive, world-wide family history service; includes 1871, 1881 and 1901 UK census
• FreeBMD - the online index to the official UK birth, marriage and death registers
• FreeCen - volunteers working on the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 UK census
• FreeReg - baptism, marriage, and burial records extracted from parish registers, non-conformist records and other relevant UK sources
• Tattersfield Family History - for the Tattersfield One Name Study
• Trove : National Library of Australia - with plenty of migration from the UK to Australia useful for tracing missing family members
• UK BMD - starting point for various regional registers (eg Yorkshire) based upon local Register Offices.
• Wakefield Local Studies Library
• West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
• Wharfedale & Craven Genealogical Study
• Yorkshire Births, Marriages and Deaths - very helpful for marriages where there are two possible spouses

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