Online resources
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Wills database
Our holdings include around 35,000 wills of the ordinary people of Buckinghamshire. It wasn't just the rich who left wills; we also have wills left by labourers and butchers as well as yeomen and gentlemen. You can search for your family name and order copies online through our wills database.
Victorian prisoners
The Buckinghamshire Court of Quarter Sessions was responsible for trying all those prisoners arrested in the county except those accused of the most series crimes. Extensive records do not survive for all the prisoners, but in the 1870s we are lucky to have gaol receiving books and chaplain's character books. These books provide extra colour about those admitted to Aylesbury gaol, including photos of some inmates. The information from these volumes has been extracted and can be searched through our Victorian prisoners database.
Buckinghamshire historic photographs
Over 20,000 photographs from the collections held here and by the County Museum have been digitised and are available to browse via our historic photographs database. There is a collection of another 15,000 images of the south of the county online at www.buckscc.gov.uk/swop, including images donated by local people and from the Bucks Free Press.
Buckinghamshire trade directories
Trade directories were sources of reference published for Buckinghamshire from the late 18th Century until 1939. They contain information on the schools, churches and public institutions of a town, as well as the tradesmen living there. Our database of trade directories has extracted over 5,000 entries from volumes published between 1792 and 1832.
Archive of the month - September 2010
Highlighting some of the more interesting records in our care to bring them to a wider audience. With an eye on the 70th anniversary of the Blitz, September is the turn of the Air Raid Precautions Department's files from World War II (reference AR 59/1990). These files record all the air raids, flying bombs and Allied plane crashes that affected Buckinghamshire from 1940 to 1945.
From 11th September 2010, a map showing these incidents will be available online in Bombs over Bucks.
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