e-Books 4 Charity

Not directly Catholic Family History related but deserves a mention anyway as it is for good causes – Mick (the guy behind the British and Irish Genealogy blog) has started e-Books4Charity. It’s a simple concept; you buy an e-Book, the author gets £1, charity gets almost all the rest. You choose the price (subject to a minimum limit). Amongst others there are history books about the North East of England, a Family and Local History Quiz Book, and oddments from the world of Family History.

Go and have a look at the site to find out more.

http://www.ebooks4charity.blogspot.co.uk/

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St Wilfrid with St Mary, Preston

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Lancashire, Preston, registers

Our society’s latest disk has been published and is available to buy from GENfair. It contains the following registers of St Wilfrid with St Mary from Preston in Lancashire:

• Baptisms: 1768 – 1803 and 1813 – 1899
• Marriages: 1769 – 1803, 1813 – 1829, and 1836 – 1899
• Death/Burials: 1768 – 1803, 1817 – 1854, and 1891 – 1915

The Jesuits served the Preston Mission from at least 1701 and possibly earlier from 1685, first in an older chapel, then in a newly built St Mary’s, on Friargate, from 1761. Preston Catholics used this chapel for over thirty years. By the late 1780s, St Mary’s had become too small for the congregation and was closed and used as a warehouse when St Wilfrid’s Church was constructed off Fishergate, opening in 1793. Later in the nineteenth century St Wilfrid’s was extended and substantially renovated both inside and out.

You can buy this disk from  GENfair using your credit card and we can ship to anywhere in the world. All our other publications are also available this way.