Bibliography..
Since 1971 our professional researchers have been compiling our
library of surname histories and coats of arms. Ongoing research by qualified historians
means that new resources are added to our bibliography on a continual
basis. Source material used to research our histories have been chosen
for their reliability and authenticity. Exaggerated or fictional
information has been excluded from the scrolls and any information that
can be attributed to legend or folklore is clearly stated as such. In
general, events and people are only cited if supportive information is
available.
This bibliography includes the most frequently used sources and
is designed as an aid to further your personal research. The following
resources directly or indirectly influenced the authors who have
compiled the ever-growing library of our family histories and coats of arms.
| Britain and Ireland | |
| A Constitutional History of Modern England | Age of Conquest – Wales |
| Agrarian History of England and Wales | A Heraldic Alphabet |
| An Ordinary of Arms – Scotland | Assize Rolls |
| Bede’s Histories | Benet’s Readers Encyclopaedia |
| Book of Kells | Book of Ulster Surnames |
| Brights of Suffolk | Burkes Commoners, Landed Gentry, Peerage and others |
| Cabinet of Irish Literature I-III | Catholic Directory of Scotland |
| Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem | Clans Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands |
| Court Records | Crozier’s General Armoury |
| Curia Regis Roll | Dictionary of Irish History |
| Doomsday Book | Elvin’s Mottoes Revised |
| English Historical Facts 1603-1688 | European Society 1500-1700 |
| Falaise Roll | Family Names of County Cork |
| Fox-Davies various works | General Armoury, Burke’s |
| Highland Clans, Moncrieffe & Hicks | Highland Clearances |
| History of Congleton | History of England vols I-VII |
| History of Scotland, Browne vols I-VIII | Hundred Rolls |
| In Search of Your British and Irish Roots | Inquisto Favidus |
| International Who’s Who | Ireland and her People |
| Irish Families, MacLysaght | Irish Pedigrees I&II |
| Kennedy’s Book of Arms | Key to Parochial Registers of Scotland |
| Knights of England | MacLysaght – The Surnames of Ireland |
| Manorial Rolls | More Irish Names |
| National Biography | Norton Encyclopedia of Music |
| Oxford Companion to Sports and Games, John Arlott | Papworth’s Ordinary of British Armorials |
| Pipe Rolls | Regesia Regum Scottorum |
| Roll of the Battel Abbey | Scotch-Irish I&II |
| Scots Heraldry, Innes | Scots Kith and Kin |
| Scottish Clan and Family Names | Scottish Family Histories |
| Surname dictionaries by Bardsley, Reaney, Lower, Black and Hanks and Hodges | Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland |
| The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | The Celts |
| The High Kings | The Pictish Chronicle |
| The Wace Poem | Various Family Genealogies |
| Various Passenger Lists | Welsh Surnames, Morgan |
