Trade Directories were an important means of advertising in years gone by. Many of these old directories have now been transcribed or scanned and can be used to track ancestors as their businesses moved or developed.
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | Anfield Cemetery Liverpool |
Link: | https://toxtethparkcemetery.co.uk/ |
Description: | Descriptions of Liverpool from Trade Directories |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Other Records |
Title: | BAALHAM Resource Centre |
Link: | http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~baalham/genealogy/ |
Description: | BAALHAM Resource Centre and One Name Study |
Extra Info: | Mainly around Suffolk. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | Bancks's Manchester and Salford Directory |
Link: | Bancks's Manchester and Salford Directory |
Description: | Bancks's Manchester and Salford Directory, 1800 |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
Title: | BENDING Family History |
Link: | http://www.jbending.org.uk/ |
Description: | BENDING Family History |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
Title: | BEVERTON One Name Study |
Link: | https://yourtotalevent.com/people/beverton/Beverto... |
Description: | BEVERTON One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Bolton's Clock and Watch Makers |
Link: | http://www.boltonclockmaker.org/ |
Description: | The directory of Bolton’s clock and watch makers |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
Title: | BOYD Family and Information Centre |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20120716201636/http://c... |
Description: | BOYD Family and Information Centre |
Extra Info: | This is an archived copy of the website. Most features appear to work. There may be some delay in loading. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Religious Lists / Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | BREW One Name Study |
Link: | http://brew.clients.ch/BrewONS.htm |
Description: | BREW One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Post Office / Telephone Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Tithe Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
Title: | British History Online |
Link: | https://www.british-history.ac.uk/ |
Description: | British History Online |
Extra Info: | A variety of records and documents relating to the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Poor Rate |
Title: | CHADWICK One Name Study Around Wigan |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20210227181319/http://... |
Description: | CHADWICK One Name Study Around Wigan |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Religious Lists / Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Poor Rate |
Title: | CLUETT / CLEWETT Records and One Name Study |
Link: | http://www.cluett.org.uk/ |
Description: | CLUETT / CLEWETT Records and One Name Study |
Extra Info: | Part way down the home page is the Search link. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
Title: | CRIBB Family Name |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20150801100140/http://w... |
Description: | CRIBB Family Name |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer active. Most data still seems to be available. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Tithe Records, Valuation Books, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | DALTON Data Bank and One Name Study |
Link: | http://www.daltondatabank.org/ |
Description: | DALTON Data Bank and One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | David Greenhalgh's Website |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20160828090129/http://... |
Description: | David Greenhalgh's Website |
Extra Info: | This is a copy of a site that is no longer active. Most information is still available to view. Includes areas around Ramsbottom, Edenfield, Tottington, Rossendale. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Post Office / Telephone Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Tithe Records, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Other Records |
Title: | DIBDEN One Name Study |
Link: | https://www.angelfire.com/ar3/dibden_onename/ |
Description: | DIBDEN One Name Study, Including Variants |
Extra Info: | Many references to the DIBDEN name. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Post Office / Telephone Directories |
Title: | Directory - Historical Directories from the University of Leicester |
Link: | https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collec... |
Description: | Historical Directories - Digital Library of Local and Trade Directories for England and Wales |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
Title: | EARLAM Family History |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20150411030403/http://... |
Description: | EARLAM Family History |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site no longer active. Most information still seems to be available. A resource for those with EARLAM relatives. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | England Data from Ancestry |
Link: | England Data from Ancestry |
Description: | England Data Collection from Ancestry |
Extra Info: | Includes Emmigrants and Immigrants; Numerous Directories; Who's Who in the World, 1910-1911; England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892; Numerous other records |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records |
Title: | FE(A)THERSTON((E)HAUGH) One Name Study |
Link: | https://featherstone.one-name.net/ |
Description: | FE(A)THERSTON((E)HAUGH) One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists |
Title: | FOLKER One Name Study |
Link: | http://www.folker.org.uk/ |
Description: | FOLKER One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | FOSKETT One Name Study |
Link: | http://www.foskett-genealogy.co.uk/ |
Description: | FOSKETT One Name Study |
Extra Info: | Click on records for many FOSKETTs. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Post Office / Telephone Directories, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | GANDER / GANDAR One Name Study |
Link: | https://gander.one-name.net/ |
Description: | GANDER / GANDAR One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | General and Commercial Directory of Burnley |
Link: | General and Commercial Directory of Burnley |
Description: | General and Commercial Directory of Burnley and Vicinity 1896 |
Extra Info: | Includes Nelson, Colne, Padiham, Barrowford, Brierfield, Cliviger, Trawden, Barnoldswick, and adjacent villages and townships. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Religious Lists / Records |
Title: | Gisburn Parish Website |
Link: | https://www.gisburn.org.uk/ |
Description: | Gisburn Parish Website |
Extra Info: | Lots of information about the village and its history. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Tithe Records, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Other Records |
Title: | Great Harwood Website |
Link: | http://www.great-harwood.org.uk/ |
Description: | Great Harwood Website |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Halewood Local History Pages |
Link: | http://www.roydenhistory.co.uk/halewood/ |
Description: | Halewood Local History Pages |
Extra Info: | Includes a photographic archive. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Religious Lists / Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | HEALD One Name Study |
Link: | http://www.healds.org.uk/ |
Description: | HEALD One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Historical Clocks and Watchmakers Website |
Link: | https://www.clockswatches.co.uk |
Description: | Historical Clocks and Watchmakers Website |
Extra Info: | A website which lists clock and watchmakers from the UK and Ireland. Search by name or place. Searching is free however a small subscriptons is require for details. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | HOGARTH Family Website |
Link: | http://www.hogarth.org.uk/ |
Description: | HOGARTH Family Website |
Extra Info: | Click on reference section for records. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | Holden's Annual London and Country Directory |
Link: | Holden's Annual London and Country Directory |
Description: | Holden's Annual London and Country Directory for 1811, in Three Volumes |
Extra Info: | Volume 2 & 3 are directories of towns in the England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Post Office / Telephone Directories |
Title: | HOLLEBONE Family Website |
Link: | http://www.hollebone-family-worldwide.co.uk/ |
Description: | HOLLEBONE Family Website and One Name Study |
Extra Info: | Also Hollebon, Hollibone, Hollibone, Hollobon , Hollobone, Hollybon and Hollybone. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | HOLLINGWORTH One Name Study |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20110611071735/http://h... |
Description: | HOLLINGWORTH One Name Study |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of the site -most information still seems to be available. HOLLINGWORTH and variations. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Sports Clubs and Associations, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Hurst and Surrounding District (Ashton-under-Lyne) |
Link: | http://www.c5d.co.uk/hurstpages.php |
Description: | Hurst and Surrounding District (Ashton-under-Lyne) |
Extra Info: | Includes Hurst United Methodist Football team, maps of old Ashton and Hurst, many old photographs and more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Tithe Records, Information |
Title: | Internet Archive |
Link: | http://archive.org/ |
Description: | Internet Archive |
Extra Info: | Has many scanned books. Click on texts and then search the archive. Note gazetteer and gazetteers give different results. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records |
Title: | ISMAY One Name Study |
Link: | https://ismay.one-name.net/ |
Description: | ISMAY One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers |
Title: | KEELER Genealogy Website |
Link: | http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~nickkeeler/genealog... |
Description: | KEELER Genealogy Website |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | Kelly's Directories Project |
Link: | https://forebears.io/news/kellys-directories-proje... |
Description: | Kelly's Directories Project - One per county for England and South Wales. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, Religious Lists / Records, Other Records |
Title: | Lancashire County Data from Ancestry |
Link: | Lancashire County Data from Ancestry |
Description: | Lancashire County Data Collection from Ancestry |
Extra Info: | Includes The Liverpool Courier; Liverpool Daily Post; Burnley and Vicinity, England Directory, 1896; Manchester and Salford Directory, 1800 and more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | Lancashire Online Parish Clerk |
Link: | https://lan-opc.org.uk/ |
Description: | Lancashire Online Parish Clerk |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Liverpool Photographers, Includes Wirral Photographers |
Link: | http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~liverpoolphotograph... |
Description: | Liverpool Photographers, Includes Wirral Photographers |
Extra Info: | This site may help dating photographs using the dates and places that photographers were working. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Other Records |
Title: | Local History of Liverpool and its Hinterland |
Link: | http://www.roydenhistory.co.uk/mrlhp/index.html |
Description: | Local History of Liverpool and its Hinterland |
Extra Info: | Click on downloads and resources and also articles. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Other Records |
Title: | LONGMORE Genealogy Resources |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20180114123904/http://... |
Description: | LONGMORE Genealogy Resources |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer active. Most information seems to be available, however it is slow to load. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | LUCEY / LUCY Family History Records |
Link: | https://lucey.net/ |
Extra Info: | Researching the surnames LUCEY & LUCY. From early sources in England & Ireland, some back as far as 1066. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Other Records |
Title: | MALLINSON Family Project |
Link: | http://www.mallproj-home.co.uk/ |
Description: | MALLINSON Family Project |
Extra Info: | Also variants. Many concentrated around Huddersfield. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Other Records |
Title: | NETHERWOOD One Name Study |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20180330041827/http://w... |
Description: | NETHERWOOD One Name Study |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer active. Most information is still available to view. Click on resources. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Religious Lists / Records, Information, Other Records |
Title: | Open Library |
Link: | http://openlibrary.org/ |
Description: | Open Library - Scanned Books Online |
Extra Info: | Use the search facility and select e-books only. Some English trade directories, journals, historic accounts of counties and more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | Parishmouse Family History Guides |
Link: | https://www.parishmouse.co.uk/ |
Description: | Parish Registers, Parish Records and Historical Directories. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Post Office / Telephone Directories, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records |
Title: | PENNYFATHER One Name Study |
Link: | https://pennyfather.one-name.net/ |
Description: | PENNYFATHER One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Port Cities of the UK |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20200925121326/http://... |
Description: | Port Cities of the UK - Bristol, Hartlepool, Liverpool, London and Southampton |
Extra Info: | This is an archived copy of a site that is no longer being maintained. Some information may be out of date or not be available. Voyages, ports, history, people, origins includes information about floating smallpox hospitals to ship owners and much more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Post Office Directory of Chemists and Druggists |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/b21466385 |
Description: | Post Office Directory of Chemists and Druggists 1876 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Covers England, Scotland, Wales and principal towns in Ireland. Includes chemical manufacturers, wholesale druggists, drysalters, patent medicine vendors and other connected trades, e.g. photographers, bottle makers, dentists and dye makers. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | PRATLEY One Name Study |
Link: | http://www.pratley.info/ |
Description: | PRATLEY One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Other Records |
Title: | PREECE One Name Study |
Link: | http://www.preecefamilyhistory.co.uk/ |
Description: | PREECE One Name Study |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Tithe Records |
Title: | RHODES Family History |
Link: | https://www.rhodesfamily.org.uk/#gsc.tab=0 |
Description: | RHODES Family History |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | ROE Family, also the BRYAN and STANGER Families of Whitby |
Link: | http://www.roe-bryan-genealogy.org.uk/ |
Description: | ROE Family, also the BRYAN and STANGER Families of Whitby |
Extra Info: | Includes a list of photographers from Whitby. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
Title: | SACKETT Family Association |
Link: | https://www.sackettfamily.info/ |
Description: | SACKETT Family Association |
Extra Info: | Click on Research Databases for transcriptions. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | School - Liverpool Schools |
Link: | http://www.liverpool-schools.co.uk/ |
Description: | Liverpool Schools |
Extra Info: | Includes Liverpool teachers from trade directories, census and more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Religious Lists / Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | Selected Genealogical Records |
Link: | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwi/filessection/ |
Description: | Selected Genealogical Records |
Extra Info: | A selection of transcriptions including extacts from Army lists, bankrupts, a list of people in Cornwall in past times, a list of coastguards in 1851, Hammermen and more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Valuation Books, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | SERCOMBE, SIRCOMBE, SURCOMBE, or SIRCOM One Name study |
Link: | http://www.mit.edu/~dfm/genealogy/sercombe.html |
Description: | A Compilation of SERCOMBE Families |
Extra Info: | Scroll down to sources of information. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Other Taxes - such as Horse Tax, Tithe Records, Register & Rent Rolls, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Religious Lists / Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | STERRY One Name Study |
Link: | https://www.sterryworldwide.com/ |
Description: | STERRY One Name Study |
Extra Info: | Includes STERRY apprentices, London guilds, manorial records, newspaper extracts and more |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Other Records |
Title: | Stockport MBC - Genealogical Index |
Link: | https://www.stockport.gov.uk/heritage-library-reso... |
Description: | Stockport MBC - Genealogical Index of Local People |
Extra Info: | Details taken from local directories from 1772-1845. As well as people from Stockport it includes some people from Birkenhead, Liverpool, Macclesfield, Manchester and even the Potteries. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | STRANGE, STRAINGE and Variants One Name Study |
Link: | https://yourtotalevent.com/people/Strange/idxpepl.... |
Description: | STRANGE and STRAINGE Family History |
Extra Info: | For apprentices click on miscellany. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories |
Title: | The Commercial Directory, 1816-17 |
Link: | The Commercial Directory, 1816-17 |
Description: | The Commercial Directory, 1816-17 |
Extra Info: | Includes the main towns in Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, Minute Books / Meeting Books, Other Records |
Title: | The Oddfellows Archive |
Link: | https://www.oddfellows.co.uk/ |
Description: | The Oddfellows Archive |
Extra Info: | Subscription site. The archive of the Oddfellows. Includes magazines, directories, minutes books and more. Searchable. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Other Records |
Title: | THORNBER Data Archive |
Link: | https://www.thornber.net/famhist/htmlfiles/archive... |
Description: | THORNBER Family History and Data Archive |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Newspapers, Ships Passenger / Crew / Owners Lists, Other Records |
Title: | WANLESS Web - A One Name Study |
Link: | http://www.wanlessweb.org/TNG/index.php |
Description: | WANLESS Web - A One Name Study of the surnames surnames Wanless, Wandless, Wanlass, Wandlass, Wanliss, and Wanlace |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Wigan World Website |
Link: | https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/stuff/ |
Description: | Wigan World Website |
Extra Info: | Information and many interesting articles about the Wigan area. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Other Taxes - such as Horse Tax, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Other Records |
Title: | GENUKI County Page for Lancashire |
Link: | https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/ |
Description: | General Information for Lancashire |
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