Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Ormerod, George, 1785-1873
Title:
Genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families : and a memoir of the Cheshire Domesday roll / compiled from original authorities by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., of Tyldesley and Sedbury Park; author of The history of Cheshire.
Alternate Title(s):
Memoir of the Lancashire house of Le Noreis or Norres
Published / Created:
[S. l. : s.n.], 1851.
Physical Description:
[4], 55 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
CS439 .O76 1851
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Half-title: A memoir of the Lancashire house of Le Noreis or Norres.

Includes two lithographic illustrations by H.C. Pidgeon, and an unsigned wood-engraved plate.

Printed by Richards, 37, Great Queen-Street.

"Not published" at foot of t.p.

"The following pages contain a private re-impression, with a few additions, of a memoir read on April 4, 1850, at the meeting of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, and printed in the second volume of their proceedings"--p. [4].

May have been issued with four other works by Ormerod: Parentalia: genealogical memoirs; A memoir on the Cheshire domesday roll; Early connexion [sic] of the Anglo-Norman families of Stokeport, Fitz-Roger, Banastre, and Gernet; Additions and index to Parentalia and genealogical memoirs.

NSTC, 2O5034

Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in original blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth. Bound with: Parentalia: genealogical memoirs; A memoir on the Cheshire domesday roll; Early connexion [sic] of the Anglo-Norman families of Stokeport, Fitz-Roger, Banastre, and Gernet; Additions and index to Parentalia and genealogical memoirs. The volume has armorial bookplate of George Henry Falkiner Nuttall, along with his purchase notes and inscription, dated 4 April 1931.
Subject Terms:
Norris family. | Cheshire (England) -- Genealogy. | Lancashire (England) -- Genealogy. | Richards, -- Printer. | Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner -- Bookplate. | Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1851. | Lithographs -- 1851.
Contributors:
Pidgeon, H. C. (Henry Clark), 1807–1880, ill.