Title of Document | Author(s)/Source | Date Published | Remarks | Available at Milton Keynes Library | Available at Olney Library |
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A History of Milton Keynes and District | Sir F Markham | 1973 | Two volumes | ||
A Plan for Olney | Borough of Milton Keynes | 1979 | Y | Y | |
A Touch of Nostalgia around Olney and Sherington | Les Keech | 1989 - MJ Printing | |||
An illustrated History of Early Buckinghamshire | Michael Farley | 2010 - Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society | Y | ||
Around Olney | Joan Jones | 2003 - Tempus Publishing Limited | Photographs from the last 150 years with explanatory text | Y | |
Around Olney in Camera | Elizabeth Knight & Gordon Osborne | 1988 & 1994 - Barracuda Books | Early photographs of Olney and surrounding villages | Y | Y |
Census of Olney - 1891 & 1851 | Y | ||||
Cowper Country | Gordon Osborne | 1976 | Y | Y | |
Cowper, William - Please use the link to the Cowper & Newton Museum on the Home page | |||||
Directories of Olney - 1823 to 1939 | Kelly's, Slater's, Pigot & Co | Y | |||
Folio of Bobbin Lace Design used in Olney, Bucks. | Jean Duckworth | 1981 - Jean Duckworth | Y | ||
From Romans to Roundabouts | Jim Styles & Reg Perkins | 1987 | Y | Y | |
Harry Armstrong and the Bucks Cottage Worker's Agency | Elizabeth Knight | MJ Printing | |||
History and Antiquities of the County of Buckinghamshire | 1847 | Vol 4 P298-310 refer to Olney | |||
History and Topography of Buckinghamshire | J J Sheanham | 1862 | P574-598 refer to Olney | Y | |
In and around the Ouse valley | Rose M Coles | Life and people around Olney | Y | ||
Ivor's Olney | Ivor Neale | 2006 - Olney & District Historical Society | Lifetime history | Y | Y |
Ivor's Olney - Railway | Ivor Neale | 2009 - Olney & District Historical Society | From opening to closing of the Bedford to Northampton line | ||
Lets Talk about Olney | Jim Styles & Reg Perkins | 1981 | A history of Olney | Y | Y |
Lines in Pleasant Places | Gordon Osborne | 1996 | Lifetime memories of a local butcher | Y | Y |
Listed buildings in Olney | Buckinghamshire County Council | Y | |||
Memoirs | George R Lett | Y | |||
Newton, John - Please use the link to the Cowper & Newton Museum on the Home page | |||||
Olney Album | Olney History Workshop | Y | Y | ||
Olney and District in Camera | Elizabeth Knight & Gordon Osborne | 1987 Barracuda Books | Early photographs of Olney and surrounding villages | Y | Y |
Olney and the hamlet of Warrington | 1821 Census | Y | Y | ||
Olney Continues | 2004 Olney & District Historical Society | Y | Y | ||
Olney Fire Brigade | Gerald Mann | 2012 NBS England | History of the fire brigade 1878-1978 | Y | |
Olney Parish Registers 1665-1812, 5 volumes | Transcribed and indexed by O Ratcliff | Y | |||
Olney Past and Present | Oliver Ratcliff & Herbert Brown | The Cowper Press 1893 | Y | ||
Olney Residents Survey | Daphne Hudson | 1974 | The Open University | Y | Y |
Olney, Bucks | O Ratcliff | 1907 | Insight into Olney life around 1907 | Y | Y |
Olney, Bucks (Reproduction) | O Ratcliff | 2008 Olney & District Historical Society | Insight into Olney life around 1907 | Y | Y |
On the banks of the Ouse | Emma Marshall | Y | |||
PS Please keep all letters | Dorothy Evelyn Freeman | 2008 - Roger Brady | Series of letters home from a holiday in the USA 1935-36 | Y | |
Pam's Potpourri | Pam Morgan | Depicting Olney people and events in rhyme | Y | ||
Railways in Olney - sundry publications | Y | ||||
Record of Bucks | W P Storer | 1860 | Col.(ii) p188-197 'Some Notes Concerning Olney' | ||
Records of Buckinghamshire | H Gough | Vol 7 P197-201 refer to Olney church | |||
Reminiscences of Life in and around Olney | 2002 Olney & District Historical Society | Y | |||
Rock Hunting in Olney Churchyard | Patricia Osborne | 1996 MKBC Rural Action | Study of the gravestones, materials and masons | ||
Rural Youth Work | A V Lamming | With particular reference to N Bucks and the area around Olney | Y | ||
School registers: National School 1875 - 1914 | Y | ||||
School registers: Board School (Infants) 1878 - 1909 | Y | ||||
School registers: Olney Council Infants School 1910 - 1926 | Y | ||||
School registers: Olney C.E. School 1914 - 1921 | Y | ||||
School registers: Olney Council Junior School 1942 - 1954 | Y | ||||
Y | |||||
Sutcliffe Baptist Church | Rev P B Gravett | History of the church | Y | Y | |
The Calm Retreat | Brian Harris | Cranfield Press 2011 | A short history of Olney | Y | Y |
The Heart and Soul of Olney | Lewis Kitchener | Avalon Print Limited 2004 | A history of Olney from Doomsday to 2004 | Y | Y |
The Kitcheners of Olney | R F Kitchener | Y | Y | ||
The Old Inns of Olney | Elizabeth Knight | Barracuda Books 1981 | A record of the 27 licensed premises in Olney in 1754 | Y | |
The Olney Cook Book | Marjorie Fifield and Friends of St John | ||||
The Olney Millennium Almanac | Olney & District Historical Society | References to life in Olney 1900-2000 | Y | Y | |
The People of Olney | Bartlett & Hollier | The Eureka Partnership 2006 | Records of residents from 1571 to 1842 from sundry sources | Y | |
The Romance of the Lace Pillow | Thomas Wright | 1919 & 1982 | Y | ||
The Romance of the Shoe | Thomas Wright | 1922 | |||
The Story of the Olney Pancake Race | Graham Lenton | Windrush Design & Print 2003 | Y | Y | |
The TitzRitz - Our Town Birdtable | Jim Styles & Reg Perkins | Newport Pagnell Musc. Dystr. Group 1988 | |||
The Town of Cowper | Thomas Wright | 1886 & 1893 | Y | Y | |
The Weekly Round | Gordon Osborne | 1996 | A country butcher's craft | Y | Y |
Through the Centuries in Olney and District | S F Morgan | 1966 | Y | Y | |
Victoria County History of Buckinghamshire | 1906 & 1969 | Vol 4 p429-439 'Olney with Warrington' | Y | ||
Villages of the Ouse | Peter Grey | Barracuda 1980 | Y | ||
Walks around Olney | Olney Archaeological Society | Y | |||
William Cowper's Olney | Elizabeth Knight | C J Knight | Walk around Cowper's Olney | Y | |
Wolverton and District Archaeological Society | Journals include articles on North Bucks |
Notes:
1. If a document is not shown to be available at either Olney of Milton Keynes Libraries then please assume that the document is available only in private collections.
2. Olney Library has restricted opening times.
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Addendum added January 2016
FAMILY HISTORY SOURCES HELD IN THE COWPER AND NEWTON MUSEUM
Orchard Side, Market Place, OLNEY, Bucks. MK46 4AJ Tel: 01234 711516
PRIMARY SOURCES
POOR LAW BOOKS, available in digitised format (further details at the museum)
Dr GRINDON’s LEDGER (1784 – 1793), with details of his patients’ names and their medication and monthly costs, including Mrs Unwin (for the poet, William Cowper); Lady Austen (their friend); MrJones (for Lady Austen’s sister and brother-in-law); Revd. Bean, (successor to Rev. John Newton); Revd. Scott,(Bean’s successor); and Mr Collingridge of the family who later owned the property, now the Cowper and Newton Museum. Accession No. OLNCN 594(3)
Dr GRINDON’s DAY BOOKS for 1759 – 1760 and 1785 – 1787, giving patients’ names and prescriptions. Acc. No. OLNCN 594(1) & (2)
THE DARTMOUTH SURVEY for OLNEY, WARRINGTON AND BRADWELL ABBEY 1796 giving tenant farmers’ names and details of their holdings. Mss transcription available.
PROPERTY DEEDS (Various), but on display here those relating to 8 and 81 High Street, Olney (formerly the ‘Black Swan’ and ‘Duke William’ ) transcribed by Geoff Swindells and with index of people named therein. Acc.No. OLNCN 4264.1-5
RATE BOOKS – Poor Law Rate Levies from Olney Parish for Newport Pagnell Union, 1833 and 1837. Acc.No. OLNCN3833
OLNEY ALMANACS (Trade Directories) Various publishers 1886 – 1907 (with very few missing years) p/b Acc.No. 2612/h
RATCLIFF’S 1907 ALMANAC with Burials in Olney Parish churchyard 1887 – 1907 (pp 51 – 55) . Acc. No. OLNCN 3793
SECONDARY SOURCES
BUCKS PRINTED PARISH REGISTERS (all with index except where noted) for
OLNEY in 2 Vols 1665 – 1812 Acc. No. OLNCN 448
RAVENSTONE 1568 – 1812 Acc. No. OLNCN 449c
ADDINGTON 1558 – L837 Baptisms & Burials and 1558 – 1908 Marriages Acc No. OLNCN 1863
ASTON ABBOTS in 2 Vols 1559 – 1837 with EDGCOTT 1538 – 1837 and DRAYTON PARSLOW 1559 -1837 Acc. No. OLNCN 449a
GREAT MARLOW 1592- 1611 paperback Acc. No. OLNCN 449d
MENTMORE 1685 – 1829 (no index) p/b Acc. No. OLNCN 449f
STOKE POGES 1563 -1611 in two parts p/b Acc. No. OLNCN 449e (no index)
SWANBOURNE 1565 – 1836 p/b Acc. No. OLNCN 1364
THORNTON 1562 – 1812 (2 copies in fragile state) p/b Acc. No. OLNCN 449h
WALTON 1598-1812 (no index) p/b Acc.No. OLNCN 449i
WING 1546 – 1812 in two parts p/b Acc.No. OLNCN 449b
WOUGHTON-ON-THE-GREEN 1558 – 1812 in two parts p/b Acc.No. OLNCN 449g
FAMILY HISTORIES
MORGAN/WONTNER file, includes photographs, letters and a child’s bookcase! Acc. No. OLNCN 4219.
Typescript of SOME OLNEY FAMILIES, which includes – Hooton – Kitchener – Dix – Farrer. Acc. No. OLNCN 3813
Two files of correspondence with Family History researchers on the following families:
ASPRAY/ASPREY – BOSWELL – COLLINGRIDGE – DARBY/GAMMAGE – GAUNTLETT – HIGGINS – HOLLINGSHEAD – HODDLE – LORD – OLNEY – RICHARDSON – SOCKETT – SOUL – STORER – TALBOT – THROCKMORTON – WORCESTER – WEST.
ALSO
OLNEY MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS with index.
KELLY’S DlRECTORIES for Bedford, Kempston, Clapham and Biddenham 1949 – 50 Acc. No. OLNCN 3753
THE MUSEUM LIBRARY contains many LOCAL HISTORY BOOKS, too numerous to list here
but all adding ‘flesh to the bones’ of your ancestors!
Page last updated: January 2016
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