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"The History and Antiquities of Hemingbrough"
by Thomas Burton

CD ROM and download version
produced by Yorkshire CD books ©

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For sample pages, please see the links to the Acrobat (pdf) files given below.

The data on this CD rom/ downloadable pdf is computer searchable.


The book on this CDrom will be of interest to anyone researching their ancestors in the Hemingbrough area of the old East Riding of Yorkshire.


This book contains over 400 pages, 4 plates and over 25 pedigrees. It covers not only Hemingbrough, but townships and villages around it too:
Brackenholme, Babthorpe, Hagthorpe, Woodhall (Grimesthorpe), South Duffield, Menthorpe, Bowthorpe, Cliffe cum Lund, Turnham Hall, Goule Hall, Whitemoor, Lund, Newhay, Osgodby and Barlby.
The larger family pedigrees are for: Babthorpes of Babthorpe; Strangeways, Middleton, Cockshutt & Heathcote; Bowes; Barstow; Gascoigne, Knight, & Fawkes; Topham; Babthorpes of Osgodby; Lodge of Barlby - see the index pages for further information.

In order to give you some idea as to the contents of the book, the following are available here on line:

The above Acrobat file was extracted from the CDrom and shows the quality of the images. You will need at least version 5 of Acrobat to open this file. If you do not have an up to date version please go to the Adobe web-site to obtain a free version of Acrobat Reader.


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