Burke's Dormant And Extinct Peerages Genealogy Hardbound Book

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Burke's Dormant And  Extinct Peerages
Sir Bernard Burke
Hardbound Volume  totaling
642
pages. Book is in like new condition.  Per the publisher;
Up to the time of this book's original publication in  1883, nearly 2,000 British peerages had succumbed to extinction or dormancy, the  result of proscriptions in the laws governing descent. This nobility--dukes,  marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons--though no longer able to claim title  through legitimate descent in the male line, is nonetheless represented in  numerous and widespread connections, some of whom retain the family name to this  day. Descendants of these noble houses, whether in the female line or a  collateral line, today must number in the tens of thousands.
This work sets forth, alphabetically, the lineage of  each of the nearly 2,000 noble houses that had succumbed to extinction up to  1883. In preparing the volume, author John Bernard Burke examined public and  private records, heralds' visitations, Post Mortem Inquisitions, Patent Rolls,  Lords' Entries, funeral certificates, and printed books, among them the works of  Dugdale, Douglas, Lodge, and Nicholas. The result is a compilation of  unsurpassed authority.
Each article begins with the exact date of the patent's  creation and proceeds to the lineage, which commences with the first known  representative of the line and carries through successive generations up to the  time of the extinction of the title. The lineages are fleshed out with a wealth  of incidental detail, including births, marriages, and deaths; references to  military and official service; estates; occupations; honors; collateral  families; and places of birth, residence, and death. The text refers to about  40,000 persons.
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