This is a list of some web resources which may be worth looking at for people interested in the family and who wish to read about background information. The list is arbitrary and by no means complete. It does no more than illustrate the sorts of information which can be found on the internet.

Many more references and links to useful web sites are included at appropriate points in the text.

Probably the best, if rather ‘nostalgic’ way, to get a feel for the life and times of our forebears in the north visit the Beamish Museum web site, here. Better still take yourself to the museum.

The McNamara Clan

http://www.araltas.com/features/mcnamara/

Irish Immigration in Liverpool

http://www.merseyreporter.com/history/historic/irish-immigration.shtml

History of File cutting

http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/matshef/unwin/MSfilecutter.htm

Coal Mining in County Durham

http://www.dmm.org.uk/mindex.htm

Ferryhill

http://www.neforum2.co.uk/ferryhill/

History of Coal Mining in Ferryhill

http://www.ferryhilllocalhistory.com/Ferryhill/DeanChapterColliery.htm

History of Spennymoor

http://www.picturespennymoor.co.uk/index.html

Tudhoe and Spennymoor Local History Society

http://www.durhamintime.org.uk/tudhoe/index.htm

The Quartermains and Doomsday

http://www.thamehistory.net/topics/QuartermainDomesday.htm

Sharons Tree – for the History of the Grays in Oxfordshire

http://www.sharons-tree.co.uk/

William Matthew Gray Mayor of Oxford

http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/mayors/1836_1962/gray_william_1927.htm

St Catharines College Cambridge

http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/alumni/society/home/?m=page&id=1

The Coventry Blitz

http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/blitz/blitz.php

Old Occupations

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html