7. More online sources
Where can I find more sources?
Introduction
The previous pages have taken samples of the census, maps,
pictures, government documents and personal sources from the
Wrockwardine Wood area of Shropshire. B.A. and J.R. Brown have
kindly transcribed a number of these original archive documents,
and made them available to Shropshire Routes to Roots.
The list below gives you access to all of the currently
transcriptions available online concerning Wrockwardine parish.
There are also links to help you find more material about
Shropshire from Shropshire Archives. Information about the
Industrial Revolution on a national level can be found by
following the links to external websites.
For a general background to the Industrial Revolution in
Shropshire, the following book offers a comprehensive history:
Barrie Trinder, "The Industrial Revolution in Shropshire",
Phillimore, 1981. For more general advice on finding and
interpreting different sources, it is recommended that you read
the
Source Guide on this website.
Please note that all of the following links will open in a new
browser window.
Census
- The complete transcription of the Wrockwardine Wood census of
1851:
- Shropshire Archives holds microfiche copies of all the census
enumerators' books for Shropshire for the seven censuses between
1841 and 1901. Copies for a particular parish are also held in
some local libraries. For a comprehensive guide to finding census
information, visit
Shropshire Archives' website (Opens in a new window) and
follow the links to 'What we hold', then 'Guide to Family History
Sources'.
- For national trends, you can use a simplified table of
National Population Changes (Opens in a new window)
- The complete 1901 census is available online at
The National Archives (Opens in a new window)
- Detailed statistics from the 2001 census can be found online
at the
Office of National Statistics (Opens in a new window)
Maps
- A range of maps from all periods can be found in Shropshire
Archives. Maps have a number of different scales, from the most
detailed (1:500) to general (OS Landranger type maps). The first
comprehensive maps date from 1880.
- Some old maps are available online from Old
Maps (Opens in a new window).
- Up-to-date maps of an area can be found at several different
websites. Streetmap.co.uk
is one such site (Opens in a new window).
Pictorial sources
- Shropshire Archives hold a large number of pictures from a
variety of sources, including: The Shropshire Star; watercolours
of Shropshire churches by the Reverend Williams; personal
collections; the collection of LC Lloyd negatives.
- A growing number of photographs are available on the
internet. For photographs of the Shropshire area, Secret
Shropshire is a good place to start. For images of the
Telford area, Telford
Life and Telford
Sites both have online photographic archives.
Welfare records
- Transcriptions from the Poor Law records for the Wrockwardine
Wood parish are available here as Microsoft Word documents. After
selecting a link, a box will appear. Choose to 'Open the file
from its current location':
- A large number of Poor Law records are held in Shropshire
Archives. The list of records concerning the Poor Law and welfare
is too extensive to be given here. However, if you visit
Shropshire Archives the staff will be happy to help you find
records relating to a particular area of Shropshire. Visit
Shropshire Archives' website (Opens in a new window) for some
preliminary information.
Personal sources
- The following 'personal' sources are available on Routes to
Roots:
- The full text of the Children's Employment Commission, along
with many other documents, is available online at
Victorian Times (Opens in a new window).
Continue
Ideas and worksheets for using this theme in the classroom, and
other teacher's resources:
Next
Return to
top of page
|
