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• Rotherham Domesday Book
• Rotherham A Brief History
• Manor of Rotherham An extract
• Rotherham Markets & Fairs
• Battle of Brunanburh, 937 AD
• Hallamshire Definition
• Lordship of Hallamshire
• Fee of Hallamshire
• Soke of Sheffield 1601
• The Rotherham Plough 1730
• Fisher, Son & Sibray and Handsworth Nurseries
• An act for inclosing and dividing the common fields, moors, and common grounds, in the township of Rotherham 1762
• An act for dividing and inclosing several lands and grounds, undivided inclosures, commons, and wastes, in or near the village or hamlet of Masbrough, in the township of Kimberworth, and in the parish of Rotherham, 1765
• Harthill Enclosure Award
• Wages, House Rents, Price of Food in 1768
• Rotherham Traders - Market Day in 1784
• Spence Broughton, Mail Robber Executed , April 14, 1792
• Extract: Rotherham Independent Academy November 5, 1795.
• Provisional Cavalry, 1797
• Rotherham Trades and professions, 1822
• Attercliffe Trades and professions, 1822
• Brinsworth, Carbrook and Catcliffe: Trades and professions, 1822
• Tinsley, Trades and professions, 1822
• Trades and professions, 1825 Blackburn Wheel, Brightside, Carbrook and Tinsley, Canklow Mill, Catcliffe, Treeton and Woodhouse Mill, Handsworth, Handsworth Hall Gate, Masbro
• Trades and professions, 1825 Rotherham and Wincobank
• The Magistrates, Police and other Officers of the town, 1825
• The Cholera Burial Ground, Rotherham
• Rotherham in 1833
• Rotherham Townships, 1833 Rotherham, Brinsworth , Catcliffe, Dalton, Greasbrough, Kimberworth, Orgreave, Tinsley
• 1833 Directory for Rotherham
• Rotherham in 1837 Manufacturers, Weekly market, Parish Church, College. Grammar School, Charity School, Hollis's Charity School, The Great Dole, Library, Dispensary, Town Hall, Water Works, Gas Works
• Masbrough Boat Disaster, 1841
• Guest & Chrimes
• Yates and Haywood
• West Riding Election 1848
• Holmes Pottery
• Selection of Trade Adverts from 1850's
• Warren Vale Colliery Disaster December, 1851
• Rotherham, 1852
• Holmes Engine and Railway Works 1853
• The Boiler Explosion at Masborough Iron Works December, 1862
• Sheffield Flood March, 1864
• The Roche Abbey Murder of 1864
• Election Riots of 1865
• Rotherham Township 1870
• Thomas William Burgess swam English Channel in 1875
• Rotherham Town Council of 1878-1879
• Rotherham Corporation Officials 1880
• Principal Parish Seats in West Riding in 1880
• Northfield Pottery
• 1891 Census Index
• Transport from 1900
• Cadeby Colliery Disaster of 1912
• Maltby Pit Disaster of 1923
• Construction of Tinsley Viaduct 1965
• Explosion at Sheffield Gas Works 25th October, 1973

• Conisbrough Index
• Lordship of Conisbrough
• Conisbrough Castle
• Comments
• The Castle, Comments with diagrams
• William de Warrenne
• Hamelin de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey
• Edmund Langley
• Richard of Conisbrough, Earl of Cambridge (1385-1415)
• Richard, Duke of York (1411-1460)
• Edward IV, King of England (1442-1483)
• The Clifford's
• Thomas Ros
• Bailiff and Constables of Conisbrough Castle
• Anthony Browne

• Early references to Blythe
• Early references to Carlton and Wallingwells
• Early references to Dalton and Thrybergh From 13th C
• Early references to Dinnington and Thwaite Segrave Inheritance
• Early references to Gateford
• Early references to Rufford From 13th C
• Early references to Ryton
• Early references to Sutton and Lound
• The Thurcroft Estates from 1464
• Tinsley
• Early references to Tickhill 1295 to 1563
• Early references to Priory of Wallingwells

• The Dukeries and Sherwood Forest
• Edwinstowe
• Ollerton
• Rufford
• Thoresby Hall
• Welbeck Abbey
• Wellow

• Wincobank Hall
• Haworth Hall
• Ironmasters of Yorkshire
• Walker's Iron Works of Masbrough
• Mining Heritage
• South Yorkshire Navigation Canal
• South Yorkshire Railways

• People of Note

• Newspaper Extracts

• Earl Waltheof
• Robert, Count Mortain
• The Fossards
• William de Lovetot
• Thomas, Lord Furnival's Charter, 10 Aug 1297
• Edward Osborne1530-1592

• Dukes of Leeds
• Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
• Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds
• Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds
• Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds
• Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds
• George William Frederick Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds
• Francis Godolphin D'Arcy Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds

• Dukes of Norfolk
• Sandbeck Park, Maltby
• Earls of Scarbrough
• Earls of Shrewsbury
• Earls of Strafford
• Descendants of Bess of Hardwick
• Clarell of Aldwarke
• Dacre
• Fitzwilliam from 1421
• The Foljambe Family
• Rufford Abbey and the Savile Family
• Gell of Hopton Hall
• Mellish Family of Hodsock, Nottinghamshire, 1160-1911

• Manorial Court Rolls
• Wapentakes
• Maps Index 1610 -1982
• Townships
• Wills - various
• Timeline
• Glossary

• Books and Extracts

• The Portland Peerage Romance, by Charles J. Archard
• A prospect of the most famous parts of the world. Author:John Speed, 1552-1629
• The Beauties of Rotherham, 1791 Author: Philip Luckombe
• Three successive tours in the north of England by Henry Skrine, 1795
• In Smokiest Sheffield Author: W. D. Howells, 1837-1920
• Picture of Sheffield Sir Richard Phillips's Personal Tour, 1827
• A Picture of Sheffield 1829
• About Charles Peace born in Sheffield in 1832
• A Days Ramble in South Yorkshire 1861
• John O'Groats to Land's End features South Yorkshire in 1871
• A Dalesman's Litany 1918

• Reminiscences of Rotherham by Alderman G. Gummer, 1927