Transcription of will - John Rondeau 14 June 1740

TNA – PROB 11 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers)/703 (Browne Quire Numbers: 161 - 202) Img. Ref. 239/232

Transcription of probate of Will of John Rondeau, Weaver of Spitalfields, Middlesex 14 June 1740

          

John Rondeau

In the Name of God Amen

I John Rondeau of the parish of Spittlefields in the County of Middlesex Weaver being in perfect health of body and of sound and disposing mind and memory praise be almighty God for the same But considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof I therefore make and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and fform following viz [i]. ffirst and principally my soul I recommend into the hands of almighty God my creator hoping and assuredly believing through the merits death and passion of my dear Saviour and Redeemer Christ Jesus to inherit life eternal My body I commit to the earth from where it came in hopes of a joyful resurrection and to be decently interred at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named and as touching and concerning all such temporal estate wherewith it hath pleased almighty God to bless me I give and dispose thereof as followeth Imprimis [ii]my mind and will is that all such just debts as I shall owe at the time of my decease together with my ffunerall charges and the expenses of [prosoin] of this my will be in the first place fully paid and satisfied

Item I give and bequeath to my son Abraham Rondeau one Guineain Gold for a ring
Item I give and bequeath to my son Isaac Rondeau one Guinea in Gold for a ring and to my son Jacob Rondeau one Guineain Gold for a ring
Item I give and bequeath to my son John Rondeau the sum of two hundred pounds to be paid him within twelve months next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Ann the wife of Isaac De la Neufoe Marson [iii]one guinea for a ring
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughters Louisa Rondeau and Margaret Rondeau to each of them the sum of two hundred pounds to be paid them respectively within twelve months next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughters Susan Rondeau and Jane Rondeau the sum of two hundred pounds a piece to be paid them respectively within twelve months next after my decease in case they shall at that time be arrived at the age of Twenty one years respectively otherwise within twelve months next after they shall severally attain the said age and
my mind and will is that if any or either of my said children shall happen to dye before the respective legacies by me devised [iv] shall be to them payable then I do direct and appoint that such legacy or sum of money to him or her or them devised so dying shall be divided distributed and shared in manner and and fforth following viz One Moyety [v] to my dear and loving wife Jane Martha Rondeau if she shall be then living and the other Moyety amongst all my children as shall be then living equally share and share alike and in case my said wife shall not be then living then the whole to be divided amongst my said children in manner aforesaid
Item I give devise and bequeath unto my said dear and loving wife Jane Martha Rondeau for and during the term of her natural life all that my messuage [vi]or tenement situated or standing and being in Wood Street in Spittlefields aforesaid wherein I now dwell and which I hold by lease of Thomas Mitchell & Mitchell Wood Esquires and from and immediately after her decease I give devise and bequeath the same for all the rest residue and remainder [vii]of my time and term therein then to come and unexpired to Henry Guinand of London Merchant  and Peter De la Neufoe Marson of Steward Street in the Old Artillery Ground Weaver two of my executors herein after named and to the survivor of them his Executors or administrators In Trust that they shall apply the Rents, Issues and profits [viii]thereof for and towards the Educating maintaining and bringing up of such of my Children as shall be living at the time of my said wifes decease which shall be under the age of Twenty one years and unmarried and from and after all of them have attained that age Then in Trust to pay and deliver over the same to such of my Children as shall be then living equally share and share alike and I do hereby direct and appoint that my said Wife shall have the management and bringing up of my said Children
Item all the rest residue and remainder of my Estate and Efforts Goods Chattells rights and Credits which I shall be Interested in or intituled [ix]unto at the time of my decease by any manner or way whatsoever or of what nature kind or quality soever [x] not herein before given or devised I give devise and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my dear and loving wife Jane Martha Rondeau her executors administrators and assignes [xi]forever or according to my Estate and Interest therein and I do hereby make name Ordain constitute and appoint my said wife Jane Martha Rondeau the said Henry Guinand and Peter De la Neufoe Marson to be executors of this my last Will and Testament and lastly I do hereby revoke disanull [xii]and make void all former and other Wills and Testaments by me at any time heretofore made and declare this only to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said John Rondeau the Testator [xiii]have to this my last Will and testament contained in one skin of Parchment sett mu hand and seal this five and twentieth Day of March in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain FFrance and Ireland King Defender of the FFaith and in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and thirty five
./.The mark of John Rondeau./.
Signed Sealed Published Declared and Delivered by the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us whose names are subscribed as Witnesses hereto and attested in the presence and at the request of the Testator
./ John Cock Jno Cock Jun [L Lonndes CP] to [Mr] Cork Tallow Chand[ler]s Hall Dowgate Hill ./

June 14th 1740. I the above named John Rondeau the Testator do hearby as a Codicill to my above written Will Revoke & make void the nomination and appointment of Henry Guinand and Peter De la Neufoe Marson to be joint executors of my above Will with my loving Wife Jane Martha Rondeau and I do hereby make name constitute and appoint my said Wife Jane Martha Rondeau to be sole Executrix [xiv]of my above written Will In Witness whereof I the said John Rondeau the Testator have hereunto sett my hand and seal the Day and year last above written
./. The mark of John Rondeau./.
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said John Rondeau the Testator as a Codicill to the above written Will in the presence of us who have attested the same in his presence and at his request
James Duury Alexander Cachet Jno Cock./

This Will was proved at London with a codicil annexed On the fourteenth Day of June in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fforty before the Worshipfull Charles Pinfold the Younger Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the Knight Worshipfull John Bettesworth Doctor of laws Master or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of Jane Martha Rondeau widow the relict of the deceased and sole Executrix named in the said Codicill To whom admton [xv]was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattells and Credits of the said deceased She being first sworn well and Duly to administer the same./. Ex


[i] Viz. is usually read aloud as "that is", "namely", or "to wit"
[ii] Imprimis – in the first place - used to introduce a list of items or considerations
[iii] Neuve Maison
[iv] Devise – The act of transmitting or giving real property by will
[v] Moiety – a share or portion; one of two equal parts; one of two approximately equal parts
[vi]Messuage – a dwelling house together with its outbuildings, curtilage, and the adjacent land appropriated to its use
[vii] Rest, residue and remainder – the leftover bits of one’s estate
[viii]Rents, issues and profits – the total wealth or profit either gross or net after the satisfaction of reasonable expenses arising from the ownership or possession of property
[ix]Intituled – To entitle
[x] Soever – At all; in any way
[xi]Assignes – a person appointed to act for another
[xii]Disannul – Annul or cancel
[xiii]Testator – a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force
[xiv]Executrix – a person named by a maker of a will, or nominated by the testator, to carry out the directions of the will
[xv] Admton – administration

Transcription of will - John Rondeau 13 Nov 1790

TNA – PROB 11 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers)/1198 (Bishop Quire Numbers: 510 - 548) Img. Ref. 84/117Transcription of probate of Will of John Rondeau of Christ Church, Middlesex 13 Nov 1790

     

John Rondeau
In the Name of God Amen
I John Rondeau of the parish of Christ Church in the County of Middlesex being in perfect health of body and of sound and disposing mind and memory and calling to mind the frailty of human nature the uncertainty of the period of its dissolution and the Eternal Existance of my Immortal Soul do with deep contrition for my manifold offences and sincere Thankfulness for the Innumerable blessings I have reciev[e]d and a lively hope of a happy immortality Earnestly recommending my Immortal Spirit to the mercy of him who gave it and my body to be decently buried according to the rite of the Church of England and as to such worldly Goods wherewith it hath pleased Almighty God to bless me of whatsoever kind quality or Estimated Value w[h]ether in possession or lawfully entitled to the possession of at the time of my decease I give and bequeath to my loving wife Margaret Rondeau. Also I do Constitute and appoint the above said Margaret Rondeau sole Ex[ecu]trix of this my last will and Testament and I hereby declare this to be my last will and Testament In Witness whereof I have this 27th Day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine set my hand and seal John Rondeau signed seald and deliverd in the presence of George Ashton and Saml Ashton

On further considering the uncertainty of this life I leave to my wife's daughter Sarah Robert at the death of my wife all that I have left to my wife and I further leave the said Sarah Robert full and whole Executrix of this my last will and Testament In witness whereof I have this Day set my hand and seal in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty nine 13th July John Rondeau Witness George Ashton and SamlAshton

This will was proved at London with a codicil the thirteenth day of November in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety before the worshipful John Nicholl Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Hon[oura]ble Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of Margaret Rondeau widow the relict of the deceased and sole Executrix named in the said will to whom administration was granted of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased having been first sworn duly to administer.

Casualty Roll for the Crimea 1854-56 Book Review

A recent holiday to the Trelissick Gardens (http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/trelissick-garden/) in Cornwall reminded me that you should always be on the look out for genealogical gems. Trelissick is a garden in the ownership of the National Trust at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall. As well as a wonderful garden, the 121-hectare (300-acre) estate, with its countryside, woodlands and coast, makes for breathtaking walks. The estate includes wonderful accommodation including the romantic Water Tower.

But most interestingly from a genealogical perspective the estate has a wonderful second-hand book shop.

I picked up three interesting books: David Hey’s “The Oxford Guide to Family History”, Asa Briggs’ “Victorian Things” and most interesting for me The John B Hayward edited “Casualty Roll for the Crimea 1854-56”.

The details of the publication are as follows:

Casualty Roll for the Crimea 1854-56: The Casualty Rolls for the Siege of Sebastopol and Other Major Actions During the Crimea War 1854-56
Compiled by Frank and Andrea Cook
Edited and Arranged by John B Hayward
Foreword by Vivian Stuart
292 Pages
Black and white illustrations
Savannah Publications
London 2004
Previous edition published by J B Hayward and Son 1976

Historical Background

During 1854 and 1855, Britain fought its only war in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars ending in 1815 and the start of the First World War in 1914. In 1853, Russia sent troops to occupy the Crimean parts of the Ottoman Empire and as a result the Turks declared war on Russia. On 28 March 1854, Britain and France declared war on Russia. In September 1854, British and allied troops invaded the Crimea and within a month were besieging the Russian held city of Sevastopol. On 25 October 1854, the Russians were driven back at the Battle of Balaclava (famous for the Charge of Light Brigade). Eleven days later, the Battle of Inkerman was fought with high casualties on both sides. The British troops suffered immense casualties - 4,600 died in battle; 13,000 were wounded; and 17,500 died of disease. The allied forces achieved the fall of Sevastopol on 11 September 1855 and a peace treaty was subsequently agreed at Paris.

About the Book

This publication was compiled from reports in the London Gazette, it lists approximately 16,000 battle casualties, many of whom are not identified as such on the medal rolls. The nine army sections, each relating to a specific battle, engagement, or series of bombardments, are listed in regimental order with casualties listed in rank and alphabetical sequence together with details, date, and authority.

The Battle of the Alma, 20th September 1854

The First Bombardment of Sebastopol, 17th October 1854, First Battle of Inkennann, 26thOctober 1854 and Minor Actions

The Action at Balaklava, 25th October 1854

The Battle of Inkermann, 5th November 1854

The Assault on the Quarries, 7th June 1855

The First Attack on the Redan, 18th June 1855

The Final Attack on the Redan, 8th September 1855

The Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Final Bombardment of Sebastopol and Minor Actions, 5th November 1854 - 8th September 1855

The Magazine Explosion at the French Siege Train, 15th November 1855

Two similar lists for the Royal Navy are arranged by ship. Most entries include the name, regimental number, regiment and nature of the injuries incurred.

The Bombardment of Sebastopol by the Naval Squadron, 17th October 1854

The Naval Brigade, 1854 - 1855

Also included in the work is an appendix of copies of official returns which summarise casualty statistics and troop strength levels and another appendix with a chronological list of events in the war.

I Complete Analysis of the Casualties in the Crimea; Regimental or Corps Strength etc. Returns of the Name, Rank and Regiment of all Officers who Died or Fell in Action etc.

II Chronological Precis of the Events of the War

This is considered to be the most comprehensive and authoritative casualty list of the Crimean War in print. The book has established itself as a classic work of reference and is of particular interest to military historians and collectors. In Hayward’s Editor’s Notes he states that this is “One of the most sought after works of reference amongst the medal collecting fraternity”. I also consider it is an excellent index for family historians researching their forebears who served and were killed or wounded in the Crimea albeit that as there is no surname index you need to have information about your ancestors regiment and date of death to make finding them straightforward.

For those who would like to see the similar information provided in Surname order a listing is also given at the British Medals website (http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/casualty.html) where Kevin Asplin has “added in a few details taken from musters and Depot books and changed the rolls from Regimental order to Surname order”. Kevin identifies that the London Gazette information is “mostly second-hand details of battle casualties (not disease) and are not renowned for accuracy, however they are a good starting point”.

Rating:

Whilst normally I would not have bought this book as it retails on Amazon at £17.51 and I have no current research need for it as I said at the beginning of this review I found it in a second hand book shop. It cost me the princely sum of £1 and as such was excellent value for money. If you have a current research need for this information it is a very handy text and certainly would enable you find any ancestors who were in the Crimea and recorded in the London Gazette before researching more widely. 3 stars ***

Other Texts which may be of interest:

• Caldwell, George and Cooper, Robert (1994), Rifle Green in the Crimea: An Account of the Rifle Brigade in the Crimean War of 1854-56 with a Full Medal and Casualty Roll and Details of Weapons, Clothes and Equipment Used in the Campaign, Bugle Horn Publications.
• Dymond, Steve (2007), Researching British Military Medals, The Crowood Press Ltd.
• Spencer, William (2008), Medals: The Researcher's Guide, The National Archives.
• White, Arthur S (2001), Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army, Naval and Military Press.

So did your ancestor appear in a Crimean War casualty list? What did you find? Was it accurate? Tell us all about him and his role in the war in the comments below.

Sources for Courses 1 - Using Printed Pedigrees

The Genealogical Dark Ages?
Back in the days before the advent of the personal computer and the internet, we would have found our genealogical forebears hard at work in their local archives hunting through original records for the documentary traces of their ancestors - or would we?

Today if I go hunting my ancestors at any of the online sites, such as Ancestry or The British Newspaper Archive, as well as original records such as births, wills or newspaper articles I also use finding aids such as Pallot's Index to Marriages or the National Probate Calendar. These were produced either by the original holders of the records such as the Probate Registry or by those who needed indexes to enable them to undertake their business such as Messrs Pallot and Co who were record agents.

At Family Search today you can also look at pedigrees or family trees constructed by contributors to the site. However, what did you do if you wanted to look at pedigrees which had already been researched before the convenience of the internet?


Nature, Origin and Purpose of these Sources

These sources are indexes of pedigrees which have been documented in a variety of places including heraldic visitations, county histories, biographies, local periodicals and guides and a variety of published and unpublished books and pamphlets.Many of these documents have been privately published and therefore are of very limited circulation. The pedigrees mentioned in texts such as "The Genealogist’s Guide" can be difficult to find as the references can be codified in the abbreviations of the time which are less well known today. Whitmore's "A Genealogical Guide" provides some help in this regard but even if you can decipher the references then you may find it difficult to find the original document. For example, Whitmore includes "Descent of My Family (J. H. Hoare, 1903)" a privately printed pedigree which I have been unable to find any reference to.

G W Marshall LLD FSA (1903) The Genealogist’s Guide
George William Marshall, LLD FSA (1839–1905) was an officer of arms, serving the College of Arms as "Rouge Dragon Pursuivant" from 1887–1904, and as "York Herald" from 1904–1905. Marshall compiled large collections of wills, pedigrees, registers, church notes and other genealogical material, 32 volumes of which were bequeathed to the College of Arms under his will.

The Genealogist’s Guide is limited to an index of "pedigrees" defined by Marshall as "any descent of three generations in the male line". This very much reflects the patriarchal nature of genealogy at the end of the 19th century which had arisen out of a need for pedigrees to prove line of descent and support primogeniture. Interestingly this can also be seen in the all male membership list at the beginning of the Society of Genealogists as reported in the Pedigree Register in September 1911 (Edited by George Sherwood (1910-1913) “The Society of Genealogists of London” in the "The Pedigree Register [The official organ of The Society of Genealogists of London.]." Vol. II, Pages 186-189. London: Published by the Editor.). Indeed in the December 1907 copy of the Pedigree Register there appeared an article entitled "Hereditary Tendencies in Female Descents" which whilst suggesting that more attention be paid to maternal lines also made it clear the reasons were to understand 'female traits':

"If greater attention were given to female descents it is more than probable that [she] might be aware that certain traits in her character, tendencies connected with child-bearing, etc., had descended in her family ... from mother to daughter."

(Edited by George Sherwood (1907-1910) "Hereditary Tendencies in Female Descents" in the The Pedigree Register. Vol. I, Pages 49-52. London: Published by the Editor.)

The Genealogist's Guide (Page 408 - Part)

At first glance this is a confusing mixture of publication titles and abbreviations which may have been well known to genealogist's in Marshall's day but are less well known today to users of online indexes. However once it is transcribed (with the essential assistance of the introduction and abbreviations found in Whitmore below), laid out with each reference on a separate line and the abbreviations expanded fully then the citations to pedigrees become easier to understand and therefore to find [see expansions in square brackets].

HOAR:, or HOARE.

1. Pedigrees and Memoirs of the family of Hoare, by Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart. Bath, 1819, 4to. [Collected and compiled by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. (1819) Pedigrees and Memoirs of the Families of Hoare of Rushford, Co. Devon; Hoare of Walton, Co. Bucks; Hoare of London; Hoare of Mitcham; Hoare of Stourton; Hoare of Barn Elms; Hoare of Boreham, Co. Essex. Privately printed for his Family and Friends. Bath. Imperial Quarto (10-12"). 64 pages.]
2. Some Account of the Early History and Genealogy of the Families of Hore and Hoare, by Edward Hoare. London, 1883, 4to. [Edward Hoare Esq. (1883) Some account of the early history and genealogy, with pedigrees from 1330, unbroken to the present time, of the families of Hore and Hoare with all their branches : ... with anecdotes ... of the principal persons mentioned. London. Alfred Russel Smith. Quarto (10-12")]
3. Gentleman's Magazine, 1838, ii. 28. [Sylvanus Urban, Gent. (1838) "Stourton Church, Wiltshire; and the Sepulchral Memorials of the Family of Hoare (with a plate)". The Gentleman's Magazine. Volume X New Series, July to December Inclusive. London. William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols and Son. Page 28]
4. Burke's Landed Gentry, (of Cliff,) 5 supp., 6, i, 8 (of Kelsey,) 8.
5. Harleian Society, viii. 481. [G W Marshall, LLD, FSA, Editor. (1873) Harleian Society Visitation Series, Vol 8: Le Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights made by King Charles II, King James II, King William III and Queen Mary, William alone, and Queen Anne. Harleian Society. London. Page 481]
6. Harleian Society, ix. 100. [Lt-Colonel John Lambrick Vivian and Henry H Drake MA PhD, Editors (1874) Harleian Society Visitation Series, Vol 9: The Visitation of the County of Cornwall in the year 1620. Harleian Society. London. Page 100]
7. Lipscombe's History of the County of Buckingham, iv. 390. [George Lipscomb (1847), The history and antiquities of the county of Buckingham, Volume 4, Page 390]
8. Hoare's Wiltshire, I. i. 61, 62. [Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. (1822) The History of Modern Wiltshire, Vol 1. Part i (Mere). Pages 61 and 62. London. John Bowyer Nichols and John Gough Nichols.]
9. Hoare's Wiltshire, V. iii. 13. [Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. (1837) The Ancient History of Wiltshire, Vol 5. Part iii (Addenda to the Several Hundreds and General Index to the Whole Work.) Page 13. London. John Bowyer Nichols and John Gough Nichols.]
10. Betham's Baronetage, iv. 177. [William Betham (1804) The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Armorial Bearings. Volume 4, Page 177 Ipswich : Printed by Burrell and Bransby, for William Miller.]
11. The Visitations of Cornwall, edited by J. L. Vivian, 232. [With additions by Lt-Colonel John Lambrick Vivian. (1887) "Hoare of Trenouth" The Visitations of Cornwall Comprising The Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 and 1620. Exeter: William Pollard and Co. Page 233]
12. New England Register, xvii. 149. [Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1863) "A Sketch of the Early Members of the Hoar family at Middleborough, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Albany: J Munsell. Volume XVII, Page 149]
13. History of the Wilmer Family, 259. [Charles Wilmer Foster and Joseph J. Green (1888) History of the Wilmer family together with some account of its descendants. Priv. print. Leeds. Goodall and Suddick. Page 259]
14. Aldred's History of Turville, 47. [Henry William Aldred (1894) The ancient and modern history of Turville in the county of Bucks, shewing the history of Turville - St. Alban's manor ... also history of Turville - court manor ... the whole forming a valuable and interesting history of the parish compiled by Henry W. Aldred. Camberwell  Priv. print. for H.W. Aldred. Page 47]

See Hore.

Many of these old publications being out of copyright can now be found online at a variety of websites. For example a fully digitised copy of "Some Account of the Early History and Genealogy of the Families of Hore and Hoare" (item 2 above) is available at the Internet Archive. This was particularly interesting for me as the document identified that in the Domesday Book a village (modern day Ower) was known as "Hore". I am currently a long way from tracing my Hampshire Hoare family back to the village of Hore in 1086 however it is certainly motivating.

Entry for Hore in the Domesday Book
(image kindly made available by Professor J.J.N. Palmer. Image may be reused under a Creative Commons BY-SA licence - please credit Professor J.J.N. Palmer and George Slater.)

As well as the Internet Archive many other old publications are available on Google books. Lipscombe's History of the County of Buckingham (item 7 above) for example, can be found there and below is shown both the family narrative (Page 359) and the pedigree chart for this Hoare family (Page 360).

Another excellent source for old out of copyright publications is the Family History Library Catalog of  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Item 11 above "The visitations of Cornwall : comprising the Heralds' visitations of 1530, 1573, & 1620" and other published visitations can be found here amongst other genealogical gems.

J B Whitmore BA FSA FSG (1953) A Genealogical Guide: An Index to British Pedigrees in Continuation of Marshall's Genealogists's Guide (1903)
Major John Beach Whitmore, BA FSA FSG (1882-1957) was a compiler of a range of genealogical records, abstracts and indexes especially monumental inscriptions and London Visitation pedigrees.

Whitmore's outstanding piece of work was "A Genealogical Guide" which updated Marshall's work to include pedigrees published from 1903 up until between 1945-1948 when Whitmore compiled his Guide.

A Genealogical Guide (Page 257 - Part)

Like The Genealogist's Guide, the entries in Whitmore  like the one above are also a confusing mixture of publication titles and abbreviations. Unlike Marshall however, Whitmore provides a detailed introduction of nearly thirty pages which clearly lays out what has been included in his work and why. It also provides an explanation of the citations used and a list of abbreviations. I therefore have not reinterpreted the the list above but just extracted each of the entries below. The introduction is also useful when trying to interpret Marshall's work.

HOAR, HOARE.

1. Memoirs of Samuel Hoare by his Daughter Sarah and his Widow Hannah (F. R. Fryer, 1911), p. xv.
2. Hoare's Bank, A Record, 1673-1932 (n.a., 1932).
3. The Hoar Family in America and Its English Ancestry (H. S. Nourse, Boston, 1899).
4. London Vis. Peds. 1664, Harl Soc. xcii, 78.
5. Misc. Gen. and Her., 5th Ser., ii, 233.
6. Ruvigny (Tudor), 271, 272.
7. Ruvigny (Exeter) 196.
8. Ruvigny (Essex) 264.
9. Ruvigny (Tudor), 271, 272; (Exeter) 196; (Essex) 264; (Mortimer-Percy) 369.
10. Barber of The Peak, 239.
11. Erminois, 79.
12. Memorials of an Ancient House, 87.
13. Norfolk Fams., 347.
14. Kerry Arch. Mag., iv, 198.
15. Tickell Family, 102.
16. Buttevant, i, 36, 39.
17. ** Descent of My Family (J. H. Hoare, 1903).

See HORE.

** Circumstances prevented Whitmore examining some privately printed family histories the existence of which was known to him from notices in booksellers catalogues and elsewhere: these he marked with a double asterisk. Whitmore also stated that other family histories which he had been unable to examine will be found in "A Catalogue of British Family Histories (Theodore Radford Thomson, 1928: 2nd Ed. 1935)" which was reprinted in a 3rd edition with Addenda in 1980.

G B Barrow (1977) The genealogist's guide: an index to printed British pedigrees and family histories, 1950-1975 being a supplement to G W Marshall’s Genealogist's Guide and J B Whitmore’s Genealogical Guide

Geoffrey Battiscombe Barrow (1927-2002) was in the antiquarian book trade, having been Cataloguer of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books for the famous bookseller Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Barrow's earlier work "A History of the Battiscombe and Bascom Families of England and America" is one of the very publications which these indexes refer to and it appears both under Battiscombe and Bascom on page 11.

The Genealogist's Guide (Page 84 - Part)

HOARE, HOAR, HORE.

1. Surrey Arch. Coll., L, 127;
2. Burke, L.G., I, 385; 111, 460.

T R Thomson (1980) A Catalogue of British Family Histories 3rd Edition with Addenda

Theodore Radford Forrester Thomson (1897-1981) was a Fellow and Honorary Librarian of the Society of Genealogists. His Catalogue of British family Histories was first published in 1928. His other publications included the "History of the Family of Thomson of Corstophine".

A Catalogue of British Family Histories (Pages 84 and 85 - Part)

Hoare –

1. Pedigrees and Memoirs of the Family of Hore ... Hoare ... comp. by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bt., fo., Bath, 1819.*
2. Some Account of ... the Families of Hore and Hoare, by Capt. Edward Hoare of Cork, 4to, London, 1883.
3. History of my Family .... by J. N. Hoare, 1903.

*An asterisk denotes 'privately printed'.

Using Printed Pedigrees
You would not just copy someone else's tree from Ancestry or from a Family Search pedigree and equally you should not assume that these pedigrees are automatically correct. These pedigrees will however provide you with ample pointers to look for other primary evidence which can help you reliably trace your family history.

Where else to look

Many genealogical societies, archives and libraries hold collections of documents which include pedigrees. My favourite is the library of the Society of Genealogists (SOG).

"The Society of Genealogists collects printed and published family histories as well as unpublished material in typescript or manuscript form. Family histories and pedigrees can be found all over the library and of course online. Hence there is no one place to look, whether at the Society of Genealogists, or on the Internet. The Document Collection contains thousands of unique miscellaneous manuscript research notes arranged by surname. These notes (or microfiche or digital copies of the notes)  are available in the archive section of the Lower Library where you will find a printed list of all the surnames represented.  An alphabetical list of the surnames and families in the Document Collection can also  be found on the SOG website."

SOG also has an excellent guide to " Surname Searching at the SoG and Elsewhere. What’s Been Done Before?" available online at their website.

Pedigrees for Other Places
Marshall, Whitmore, Barrow and Thomson dealt primarily with English and Welsh pedigrees but there are similar finding aids for Scottish and Irish published pedigrees, which I will discuss in a later post.

So have you ever used a pedigree finding aid? What did you find? Was it accurate?
Tell us all about it in comments below.