Below is a list of books on Bristol history in which I will do look-ups. Please make your request as specific as possible - no blanket requests for "everything you have on Smith".

Please note that these books are mainly for medieval Bristol. They cover the period from about 1150 to 1775 at the very latest, with the emphasis primarily on the period from 1400 to 1600. I don't live in Bristol and I don't have access to census or parish records. If you have questions about people who lived in Bristol after 1775, please use the links at the bottom.

If you have any books on Bristol history or genealogy and would like to volunteer, send me the names of the books or other resource material in which you would be willing to do look-ups.

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Vance Mead

vance.mead(at)welho.com

-> William Adams, Adams's Chronicle of Bristol (covers the period 1216-1638)
-> Robert Ricart, The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar (covers 1216-1650)
-> E.W.W. Veale, editor, The Great Red Book of Bristol, part II (1300-1500)
-> Elizabeth Ralph, editor, The Great White Book of Bristol (1500-1600)
-> Rev. T.P. Wadley, The Great Orphan Book and Book of Wills (wills 1380-1600)
-> Sheila Lang & Margaret McGregor, Tudor Wills Proved in Bristol 1546-1603
-> B. Masters & E. Ralph, The Church Book of St Ewen's, Bristol, 1454-1584
-> Clive Burgess, The pre-reformation records of All Saints' Bristol (1410 - 1530)
-> John Smyth of Nibley, The Berkeley Manuscripts. The Lives of the Berkeleys
(written about 1620, published 1883-85)
-> William Barrett, The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol (published in
1789, not indexed)
-> Rev. Samuel Seyer, Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol (published
1823, not indexed)
-> Rev. James Dallaway, Antiquities of Bristow in the Middle Centuries with the
Topography of William Wyrcestre and the Iife of William Canynges (published
1834, William Worcester's topography written about 1480)
-> David Walker, The Cartulary of St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol (1150 - 1300)
-> Roger Leech, The topography of medieval and early modern Bristol, parts one
and two (1400 to 1775)

-> Registers of Bishops of Bath and Wells (mainly in Somerset but also covering
the Bristol parishes of St Mary Redcliffe, St Thomas and Temple):
Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury 1329-1363
Bishop Thomas Bekynton 1443-1465
Bishops Stillington and Fox 1466-1494