United Kingdom & Ireland - England

Ancestry.com – Ship’s Medical Journals

There are two collections available and both contain indexed images of the original journals. A variety of subscription options are available to access these images. • UK Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817-1857 (ADM 101). Ships’ medical officers were required to…

Selborne & Headley (Hampshire) Workhouse Riots 1830

John Owen Smith’s site details some of the personalities associated with these riots. Over 345 men were tried for disturbances in Hampshire before a Special Commission at Winchester 20th-30th December 1830. This site details the 22 who were committed for…

Judges’ Reports on Criminals 1783-1830.

Use Discovery to search the National Archives (UK) collections for these reports which include original letters and reports from judges on cases and criminals plus petitions for commutation of sentence or free pardon. To search for these, and other convict…

Lancaster Castle Convict Database

This database lists those tried and sentenced at Lancaster Assizes including those transported to Australia. The database lists name, age, trial date, offence and sentence.

Surgeons at Sea – Royal Navy Medical Officers’ Journals

This National Archives (UK) project has indexed all the names mentioned in, ADM series 101, the journals and diaries compiled by Royal Navy surgeons and assistant surgeons who served on HM ships, hospitals, naval brigades, shore parties and on emigrant…

Interment.net – Cemetery Records Online

This website contains 25+ million cemetery records, transcripts, and burial registers, from tens of thousands of cemeteries worldwide, contributed by genealogists, cemeteries, government agencies, and private organizations. A name search of all cemetery records is available or records can be…

Joy Murrin Family History Services

Offers a range of services to assist with your family history research including Birth, Death and Marriage transcriptions/certificates from New South Wale, England, Scotland, Victoria and New Zealand. New South Wales transcriptions are available for births over 100 years, deaths…

BillionGraves

Allows you to collect photos of headstones with the iPhone/Android camera app. The GPS tagged photos are uploaded to this site and you can then transcribe the information from the photos to the database. The search facility offers searching across…