Family historians often face a frustrating gap in the records during and after the First Civil War (1642-1646), since parish registers and other ecclesiastical and legal documents are often patchy or cease altogether.
A committee ordered local inquiry into losses through parliamentary activity
However, the void may be filled for counties across England and Wales by searching an extensive series of Civil War accounts that list the names of thousands of parishioners and record the financial burdens that were imposed on them. A recently launched database of individual Warwickshire ‘Loss Accounts’ reveals how
