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Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales, containing a record of all ranks of the gentry, their lineage, alliances, appointments, armorial ensigns, and residences ; ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families ; notices of the history, antiquities, physical features, chief estates, geology, and industry of each county ; rolls of high sheriffs and members of Parliament for three hundred years, etc., etc., by Thomas Nicholas

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contains biographical information

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Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales

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by Thomas Nicholas

containing a record of all ranks of the gentry, their lineage, alliances, appointments, armorial ensigns, and residences ; ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families ; notices of the history, antiquities, physical features, chief estates, geology, and industry of each county ; rolls of high sheriffs and members of Parliament for three hundred years, etc., etc.

"The standard work on Welsh family history and the chief source of genealogical data on the counties and families of the principality. Unlike other books on the subject, it combines histories of the ancient counties of Wales with family lineages, integrating the two to show the social and genealogical evolution of the country. Again unlike other works, it is based on the author's personal investigation of county records and family papers, producing in the end what can only be described as the most complete and faithful compendium of Welsh family history ever published."--Publisher's website