References

I have given my main references at the end of each chapter for people who wish to follow up anything with their own research. I have omitted certain references which underpin all the chapters. These are the Parish Registers of Ringstead and the neighbouring parishes. These have been viewed mainly at the Northampton Record Office, (NRO), but I have also used the transcriptions on the Rushden Heritage website. I have also used the Censuses from 1841 – 1911 on Ancestry.co.uk and the 1911 Census on FindMyPast.co.uk, as well as at NRO and more recently on the Rushden site. Every month more is becoming available on line but Record Offices are still the most valuable repositories of our past. Without them many ordinary lives would disappear forever.