General List of Abreviations

A2A - Access to Archives

ac - ancestry.co.uk

ACL - Arundel Castle Library

Add - additional

Adm - admitted

Afsd - aforesaid

Ag lab - agricultural labourer

Ami - Allen marriage index

AT - Archbishop's Transcript

Aw - information from Alf Wakeling

Bach - bachelor

Bb - base born

Botp - both of this parish

Bn - bondsman

B - born

BB - Boyd's burials

BI - Boyd's Index

BL - British Library

Bp - bishop

BSC - born same county

BT - Bishop's Transcript

Calr - calendar

Cat - catalogue

CB - from Currer-Briggs collection

CBY - calculated birth year

CCL - Canterbury Cathedral Library

CI - card index

CKS - Centre for Kentish Studies

CL - Colchester Library

CLH - Colchester Local History Library

CLS - Croydon Local Studies Library

CML - Crisp Marriage Licences

Con, cond - conditional or consideration (apprentices)

Cont - containing

Cor. - correspondent

CRKW - Court rolls transcribed by Kenneth Walker

CRO - Cambridge Record Office

CSP - Civil Service papers

Cta - cum test admon

Cty - County (in 3 letter Chapman code)

D - day(s)

D - died

D, dau. - daughter

DCN - Dudley Causton notebook

DCSI - Dudley Causton Slip Index

Dsp - decessit sine prole, died without issue.

EBR - Essex Burial Registers

Empd - employed

EMR - Essex Marriage Registers

ERO - Essex Record Office

ERRO - East Riding Record Office

ESRO - East Sussex Record Office

Exr - executor

Exx - executrix

FO - Faculty Office

FONS - F one-name studies

F & S - Frankel & Seaman

FTM - Family Tree Magazine CD ROM

Gns - guineas

Gdau - grand daughter

GLSRO - Gloucestershire Record Office

Gson - grand son

H - head

HAC - Hertfordshire Archives Centre

Harl Soc - Harlean Society

IHR - Institute of historical Research

IJRI - Ipswich Journal Redstone Index

Ind - independent (means) or indenture

Itm - item

Jun - junior

KA - Kent Archives

KL - Kensington Library

Kt - knight

LA - Lincolnshire Archives

Lab, labe - labourer

Li - livres

LMA - London Metropolitan Archives

LML - London marriage licences

Lodg - lodger

LHHW - Mr Whitehead's initials

M - married

M - (in Boyd's) miscellaneous series

Min - minor

MM - Maritime Museum

Mn - maiden

Mo, Mos or m - month(s)

Med - middle (son)

Messe - messuage

MS - manuscript

MU - Manchester University

NAML - Norwich Archdeaconry ML

NHA - Norfolk Historical Aids

NMR - Norfolk Marriage Registers

NR - Norfolk registers

NRO - Norfolk Record Office

NRS - Norfolk Record Society

Occ - occupation

Or - old research

Ors - others

Otp - of this parish

P - Phillimore

Pat - patent

PRO - Public Record Office

Pt - part

Ptd - printed

R - other researcher

Rep - repository

s - single

S - son

Sd - said

Sen - senior

Serv - servant

SGB - Suffolk Green Book vol XV

SMI - Suffolk Marriage Index

SOG - Society of Genealogists

Sp - spinster or spouse

SRO - Suffolk Record Office (Ipsw - Ipswich branch, Bury - Bury St Edmunds)

SS - Surtees Society

TBI - Thora Broughton Index

Tents - tenements

TI - Times Index

TP - Thomas Philips transcripts

U - unmarried

Vis - visitor

W - week(s)

W - wife

W and wid - widow

WCA - Westminster City Archives

Wdr - widower

Webs. - web site

WC - from Whitehead collection or correspondence

WILRO - Wiltshire Record Office

Witn: - witnesses

WI - Wills at Ipswich (books I to XXX)

X - signs with a cross

YAS - York Archeological Society

YML - York Minster Library