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A huge directory of over 2000 pages, this book is a massive source of
information for those in Great Britain and Ireland. 'Thom’s Directory' was
written for the purpose of making a directory that could be used by anyone as a
library or office companion, "providing a reference book on almost all subjects
of public interest".
Covering everything from statistics, advertisements, details of Government
Departments and their Officers, peerage, army and naval, schools and universities and more ...
The Contents list gives more of an idea on what is actually covered:
- Acts, Public and Irish Local (passed in 1893)
- Advertisements
- Army Directory
- Banking Directory
- Borough Directory (Ireland)
- British Directory
- Calendar (Business Memoranda, 1894)
- Church Directory, inc. Dignitaries &c. (England, Scotland, Ireland)
- Colonial Directory
- Commons, Members of the House of
- Constabulary, Royal Irish
- Consuls-General, Consuls and Vice-Consuls, Abroad
- County Directory (Ireland)
- Customs and Excise Duties
- Dublin City and County Directory
- Ecclesiastical Directory (Ireland)
- - Church of Ireland
- - Roman Catholic Church
- - Presbyterian Church
- Foreign Directory
- Government Departments and Officers (England, Scotland, Ireland)
- High Sheriffs for 1893-94
- Knighthood, Orders of
- Law Directory (England, Scotland, Ireland)
- Lieutenancy and Magistracy (Ireland)
- Literary and Scientific Institutions (England, Scotland, Ireland)
- Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council (Ireland)
- Medical Directory (Ireland)
- Militia Regiments and Officers (United Kingdom)
- Navy Directory
- Parliamentary Directory
- Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (United Kingdom, Ireland)
- Peers, Members of the House of
- Postal and Telegraphic Directory (United Kingdom)
- Public Companies
- Public Departments (Scotland)
- Railway and Canal Companies (Ireland)
- Royal Family (Great Britain and Ireland)
- Stamp Duties, Commercial and Law
- Statistics of European and other States (Ireland, United Kingdom)
- Universities, Colleges and Schools (England, Scotland, Ireland)
For most researchers the really important components of this publication are
the Borough, Dublin Street, Dublin Trades and the County Dublin directories. The
Dublin Street directory lists householders street-by-street together with their
name, address and occupation.
This is an invaluable book if you are researching family in Ireland
(particularly Dublin) in the 1894 period. This CD contains high quality scanned
images of the whole of the original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy
navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if
required.
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s. Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
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System Requirements
- Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
- Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text
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