Battle's Directory of Hull & Beverley in the year 1791 on CD ROM. This was the very first directory of it's kind for Hull. It lists Local Traders and gives some town information.
Anyone researching their Family Tree with an interest in Hull or Beverley circa 1791 will find this CD ROM very useful in their research. It also contains a list of traders for 1792
THIS CD ROM OPENS WITH ADOBE WHICH MEANS THAT IT IS FULLY SEARCHABLE If you don't have an ADOBE reader on your PC then just go to
www.adobe.com and follow the download instructions, it's free!
Please note : The print style in this publication uses the long S (What's This?) Explaination below.
In old-style printing, it is not the letter f, but a long form of the letter s (derived from handwriting styles), which looks very similar to f but does not have a complete cross-bar. It is not used at the ends of words, and in double s it is sometimes paired with a short s (which results in a compound letter like the German double-s (or `sz') symbol `ß'). It fell out of fashion with printers rather suddenly in about 1780.
Because you will be viewing with ADOBE (you can open with windows viewer if you prefer) ADOBE will not find certain characters because of the long form S. So the way around this is to fool ADOBE. For instance if you wanted to look a Joseph Brown or a Master Mariner then you would search for Jofeph or Mafter
These type of publications don't just list the elite this is a common misconception. There are plenty of people of average standing in the community, such as Butchers, Joiners, Shopkeepers, Boot & Shoe Makers etc
However even if you know for certain that a relative was living in a particular place at a certain time it does not automactically follow that you will find them in a book as it was the individuals choice as to whether they went into these type of publications, but it's great fun looking & you might get lucky !
