England

Dougal's Index Register to Next of kin, Heirs at Law and cases of Unclaimed Money Advertisements

Index to Advertisements for Next of Kin, Heirs at Law, Legatees, &c., who have been advertised for to claim money and property in Great Britain and all parts of the world; also Annuitants, Shareholders, Intestates, Testators, Missing Friends, Family, Creditors or their representatives, Claimants, Unclaimed and Reclaimed dividends and stock, Citations, Administrations, Rewards for Certificates, Wills, Advertisements, &c., Claims, Unclaimed
Balances, Packages, Addresses, Parish Clerks’ Notices, Foreign Intestates, &c., Compiled and alphabetically arranged by F. H. Dougal & Co., 62, Strand, London, England.

Over 100,000 references connected with unclaimed money covering hundreds of years. If a beneficiary could not be found for an estate, it was placed with the Probate office of the Country in question, and it remains there until it is claimed. It is never too late to make a claim. Proof of a connection needs to be made by way of birth and marriage certificates.

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King James I instituted the order of Baronet in 1611, and in the 227 years between that date and the year 1838, when this work published, nearly 1,000 Baronetcies succumbed to extinction or dormancy, the result of common exclusions in the laws governing descent. The purpose of this book is to set forth, in alphabetical sequence, the lineage of each of the nearly 1,000 holders of the order of Baronet up to the time of the extinction of the royal patent. The genealogy, throughout, is exact and meticulous, the materials in all cases deriving from public archives, private record collections, and competent authorities.

Each article, super-scribed by the family name and an illustration of the Baronet's armorial bearings, begins with the exact dates of the patent's creation and extinction, proceeding there from to the lineage, which commences with the first known representative of the line and is carried through successive generations up to the time of the extinction of the title, each generation constituting a litany of births, marriages, and deaths. The skeletal outlines are fleshed out with a wealth of incidental detail, which includes references to education, service, occupation, and death, and descriptions of arms, in short, biographical particulars of a kind sufficient to make the reading both stimulating and informative. Altogether something on the order of 35,000 persons are referred to in the text.

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by Charles Wareing Bardsley, published in 1875, 612pp, this book gives detailed accounts of the origins of English Surnames.

Contents include:Patrionic Surnames, Local Surnames, Surnames of Office, Surnames of Occupation (Country), Surnames of Occupation (Town), Nicknames, and Index of Instances.

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English Surnames, Their Sources and Significations

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England 1838 by John Burke, Esq.