by Michael Turner | 8 November 18 | Religion
Religion plays a huge part in many people’s lives. It is as true of the past as it is today. The object of this article is certainly not to discuss the merits of one religion over another but to consider its legacy. Genealogists would be starved of all sorts of...
by Michael Turner | 24 October 18 | 1811-1820, Historical events
Lord Liverpool led the government in 1815 following the Napoleonic Wars between 1803 and 1815. Great pressure was put on the for social, economic and political reform. However, the government introduced in 1815 The Corn Laws to protect British agricultural landowners...
by Michael Turner | 19 October 18 | Information
Marriages, Allegations and Licences Marriages before 1837 in England and Wales conventionally took place in parish churches. From 1937 there was an option to choose a civil ceremony and avoid the trappings of a religious ceremony. Both before and after this date...
by Michael Turner | 14 October 18 | 1811-1820, Historical events
The Corn Laws were statures introduced between 1815 and 1846 to keep corn prices high. Price levels were set to protect English farmers from cheap foreign imports of grain following the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The Corn Laws were repealed in 1846.
by Michael Turner | 14 October 18 | 1800-1810, Historical events
The law that abolished the slave trade entered the statute books of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the 25 March 1807. This made it illegal to engage in the slave trade in the British Colonies. Despite this trafficking, between the Caribbean...
