Favourite Links

This selection of links include government and community records, personal  web pages that include branches of the Family Tree. There are also a few web sites that I found very informative and interesting reading.

Family Search
Maintained by the Latter Day Saints, this web site was especially helpful. The search areas that I frequently used to view obtain family information were the 1881 Census of England and Wales and the International Genealogical Index that includes the Church of England Parish Transcripts.

Free BMD
An ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records.

UK Census Online
This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns.  It is extremely user friendly, and has provided me with a great deal of information. Particularly with family information taken during the 1841 and 1891 Census of England and Wales.

Public Record Office Victoria
Here you may view the record of of arrival for Henry Taggett and family, Matilda (Taggett) Hicks and family, as well as Henry's brother-in-law, Henry Francis and his wife, the former Nanny Sincock.

New South Wales Registry of Births Marriage and Deaths
The Registry holds over 17 million records of events registered in New South Wales. To assist customers in undertaking family history research, the Registry provides free access to unrestricted birth, death and marriage family history indexes. This published information on this website is referred to as Online Historical Indexes.

Online Parish Clerks for the Rame Peninsula Cornwall
From the drop down lists of records of baptisms and burials for Sheviock, you will find the records of baptisms for the families of Josiah Thompson Taggett and Mary Ann Mathews, as well as for the children of Grace Moon and her husband Thomas Spiller.

Roots Web
A free search data base that contains 385 million names on file.

No. 1 Depot Company - Royal Garrison Artillery
The men listed on this web site, were garrisoned at Crown Hill Fort, at the time of the 1891 Census. Included are George Henry (Josiah) Taggett and his older brother, William Thomas (Thompson) Taggett.

Forest Creek Cemetery
An online listing of those buried here include Eliza Taggett,  age 31, died after falling in a water hole. 

Tweeds Head Cemeteries
This cemetery in New South Wales  lists several Tagget and Taggett's that descendent from Henry Taggett and Louisa Orchard.

South Australia Burial Places
Included in the cemetery index is Henry Taggett, date of death 30-5-1878

Historical Directories
A digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history.

PERSONAL WEB SITES

Ancestors of Bob Adlington
The site contains over 4800 persons linked by family, including Douglas Johnston, husband of Louisa June Tagget.

Robyn Arkinstall's Genealogy Page
I first met Robyn through my interest in a distant relative - Phyllis M. Tagget, we each share. The progress that I managed to achieve throughout Australia would not have been possible without receiving her advice gained through more than 30 years of research while building her Family Tree's.

The Carvosso and Banks Families
Included in this family tree are Maud Mary Moon Edwards, the daughter of William John Edwards and Maud Mary Price.

Evans/Lees Family Tree
The web site includes Eva Hatton, the wife of Mark Orchard Tagget. Eva was the daughter of William Hatton and Jane Lees.

Lee Family from Williams River

A Clan McLean Connection
A personal web site that includes the family of Smith McCracken, the husband of Lavinia Taggett.

INTERESTING READING

Bendigo Goldfields Petition
The 1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition is 13 metres in length and bound in green silk. Drawn up in mid-1853, the petition was signed by over 5000 diggers on the Victorian goldfields who were angry about the mining license fees imposed by the government and the system by which they were collected. Henry Tagget signed the petition.

Mining Accidents in Victoria
This sample of Dave's Victorian Index includes 5600 miners who were killed or injured from the early 1850's to the 1940's. Although I did not find anyone here who is included in the Family Tree, it is an interesting side to view. It certainly makes one appreciate that mining was a dangerous occupation to say the least.

Dame Enid Lyons
This is a very nice article by Caroline Chisholm.

Well Worth Money Spent

Ancestry co.uk
Although you may have to purchase viewing for most of the records held on this web site, you are able to view some at no costs. It is well worth using as a resource.

1901 Census for England and Wales
The official genealogy site of the Welsh & English census information for 1901. Besides purchasing records, I have also used the free search that is available many, many times.