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Sources Consulted

This list is by no means exhaustive, and gives a flavour of the main sources checked. Of course it is a list of areas checked and so includes plenty of places where no Preece entries were found.

Parish Registers - originals, copies and Bishops Transcripts
The list of parishes for which records have been extracted is growing larger all the time, and is now too large to place on-line and maintain. If you have specific areas of interest, and want to know if I have covered them please ask.These entries are in addition to those covered by the IGI and VRI etc.

GRO Birth,Marriage & Death Index extracts held
Some of these records are available to view on-line, together with matching parish register entries (where held).
BIRTHS Q3 1837 - Q4 2001
MARRIAGES Q3 1837 - Q4 2001
DEATHS Q3 1837 - Q4 2001
CONSULAR DEATHS 1849 - 1905

MARINE REGISTER OF DEATHS 1837 - 1918


Wills Indexes - Pre 1858
Berkshire 1508 - 1652
Bristol 1572 - 1792
Dorset 1568 - 1799
Gloucestershire 1541 - 1650, 1660 - 1800
Leicestershire 1495 - 1649
Lichfield 1516 - 1624
Lincolnshire 1320 - 1652

Northamptonshire & Rutland 1510 - 1652

PCC Wills 1383 - 1639, 1645 - 49, 1653 - 60, 1671 - 1700, 1750 - 1800

PCC Admons. 1581 - 1619, 1631 - 1660
Sussex 1541 - 1652
Worcester 1451 - 1652

Wills Indexes - Post 1858
All Preece entries extracted from index to 1943 - details are available on- line,

International Genealogical Index (IGI)
All Preece entries extracted from 1993 version.

British Isles VRI (Versions 1 & 2)
All Preece entries extracted

Census entries

Due to the increased availability of census returns both on CD-Rom and on-line, entries from 1841 right up to 1921 have been accessed and are now held for the whole period.In some cases entries are taken from available indexes, in other cases (particularly Herefordshire and Worcestershire) they have been extracted from the actual returns. I am discovering new entries all the time, some transcription errors in indexes, and also some for example are recorded as Price and not Preece, so this is an ongoing process. While I have extracted all entries for 1921, they are not in my database yet, and so are not shown here.

Census strays for all years are available on-line, listed in name (alphabetical) order. This includes 1841 entries, where entries are shown when not "Born in County".


Trade Directories
All of these entries are now available online
Bath - 1865, 1877, 1885, 1895, 1902
Bedfordshire - 1854, 1876, 1898, 1903
Berkshire - 1844, 1848, 1852-4, 1876, 1887, 1899, 1915

Birmingham - 1825, 1830-1, 1833, 1835, 1839, 1841-3, 1845-7, 1849, 1852, 1854-6, 1858, 1860-4, 1866-7, 1868-72, 1875-84, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1892, 1894-1900, 1901-19, 1921-1940

Bradford - 1883, 1887, 1891, 1898, 1901, 1912, 1922
Brentford and Southall - 1914
Bristol - 1840, 1847, 1849-52, 1854, 1858-60, 1865-6, 1870, 1884, 1894, 1897, 1901-02, 1906, 1910, 1914, 1919
Buckinghamshire - 1844, 1854, 1876, 1883, 1903
Cambridgeshire - 1869, 1900, 1904
Canterbury - 1918
Cardiff - 1855, 1881, 1887, 1891, 1895, 1901, 1911, 1914
Cheshire - 1829, 1850, 1874, 1880, 1890, 1896, 1902, 1910, 1914
Chesterfield - 1913
City of London - 1871 - 1910
Cornwall - 1844, 1853, 1873, 1914
Coventry - 1874, 1913
Cumberland - 1829, 1894, 1901, 1906
Derbyshire - 1829, 1835, 1842, 1870, 1895, 1899, 1912
Devon - 1844, 1853, 1879, 1889, 1893, 1902, 1914, 1919
Dorset - 1842, 1844, 1851, 1853, 1855, 1875, 1915
Durham - 1829, 1914
Ealing and Acton - 1894, 1907, 1911
Essex - 1855, 1894, 1902, 1914
Exeter - 1895-6
Glamorgan - 1865-6, 1876
Gloucester - 1849
Gloucestershire - 1842, 1844, 1853, 1856, 1859, 1868, 1870, 1880, 1885, 1894, 1897, 1914
Hampshire (& Isle of Wight) - 1844, 1853, 1855, 1865, 1875, 1889, 1898, 1911
Herefordshire - 1830, 1835, 1840, 1842, 1844, 1850-1, 1856, 1858-9, 1867-8, 1870, 1876, 1885, 1890-1, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1909, 1913, 1926
Hertfordshire - 1855, 1890, 1894-5, 1899, 1902, 1908, 1914
Hull - 1892, 1896, 1899-1900, 1919, 1922, 1926, 1930
Huntingdonshire - 1854, 1876, 1898, 1903
Ireland - 1891-1916, 1930, 1939
Kent - 1855, 1891, 1903, 1913
Lancashire - 1829, 1841, 1859, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1905, 1912
Leeds - 1894, 1901
Leicestershire - 1829, 1835, 1841, 1864, 1870, 1877, 1881, 1884, 1888, 1890-2, 1899, 1903, 1906, 1908-9, 1911-2, 1914, 1916
Lincolnshire - 1829, 1835, 1841, 1889, 1909, 1919
Liverpool and Birkenhead - 1844, 1873, 1894-5, 1900
London - 1677, 1805, 1808, 1815, 1819-20, 1828, 1833, 1840-2, 1845-7, 1852, 1854, 1876, 1882-1900, 1901-1940
London County Suburbs - 1904-23, 1927-33
London Northern Suburbs - 1892, 1900, 1902
London Southern Suburbs - 1892, 1900, 1902
London Suburban - 1888, 1896, 1898, 1901, 1903
Manchester and Salford - 1878-9, 1883, 1886, 1895, 1903, 1909, 1911
Middlesex - 1855, 1874, 1894, 1899, 1914
Monmouthshire - 1871, 1876, 1891, 1895, 1906-7, 1914
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1910, 1916
Newcastle under Lyme - 1871, 1881
Northamptonshire - 1841, 1850, 1854, 1876, 1890, 1894, 1898, 1903, 1910, 1914
Northumberland - 1829
North Wales - 1868
Nottinghamshire - 1829, 1835, 1841, 1885, 1891, 1895, 1899, 1904
Oxfordshire - 1842, 1844, 1854, 1876, 1895, 1907, 1911
Plymouth - 1890, 1895
Reading - 1914
Rutland - 1829, 1835, 1841, 1881, 1891, 1899, 1908, 1912
Sheffield and Rotherham - 1879, 1901, 1905, 1911
Shropshire - 1829, 1835, 1842, 1851, 1859, 1868, 1870-1, 1880, 1885, 1891, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1909, 1913
Somerset - 1842, 1844, 1853, 1880, 1889, 1897, 1902, 1914, 1919
South Wales - 1849-50, 1852, 1868, 1871, 1875-6, 1895, 1907, 1918
Staffordshire - 1818, 1829, 1834-5, 1842, 1850-1, 1854, 1861, 1864-5, 1870, 1872, 1880, 1896, 1904, 1912, 1914
Suffolk - 1892, 1900
Surrey - 1855, 1878, 1882, 1890-1, 1913
Sussex - 1851, 1855, 1905, 1911, 1915
Swansea - 1854, 1856, 1869, 1899, 1909
Tunbridge Wells, Southborough and Tonbridge - 1914
Wales - 1829, 1835, 1844, 1853, 1859, 1880, 1900-1, 1903, 1912, 1918
Warwickshire - 1829, 1835, 1842, 1850-1, 1854, 1866, 1872, 1874, 1888, 1912, 1914
Westmorland - 1829
Wiltshire - 1842, 1844, 1851, 1853, 1855, 1859, 1867, 1875, 1889, 1895, 1903, 1907, 1911
Wolverhampton - 1851, 1874, 1892, 1898, 1914, 1921
Worcester - 1830, 1850-1, 1876, 1928
Worcestershire - 1829, 1835, 1842, 1850, 1854-5, 1860, 1864-5, 1868, 1872-3, 1878-9, 1880, 1888, 1892, 1896, 1900, 1908, 1912, 1914, 1916
Worthing - 1915
Yorkshire - 1829, 1841
Yorkshire, East - 1892
Yorkshire,North & East Ridings - 1893, 1897, 1913
Yorkshire,West Riding - 1881, 1897