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	Landed Gentry Development, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	Landed gentry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Landed gentry is a term traditionally applied in Britain to members of the upper class with country estates often (but not always) farmed on their behalf by others, and who might be without a peerage or other hereditary title.
		This term referred to those who owned sufficient land to be able to live on the proceeds of letting their property to tenants, or possibly to employ a steward or bailiff to farm all or part of it for them, rather than farming it personally.
		Burke's Landed Gentry continued to appear at regular intervals throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, driven, in the 19th century, principally by the energy and readable style of the founder's son and successor as editor, Sir John Bernard Burke (who generally favoured the romantic and picturesque in genealogy over the mundane or even correct).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Landed_gentry (1066 words)

	Gentry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term is still occasionally employed, for example, by the publishers of Burke's Landed Gentry, though they explain that their continued use of that term is elastic and stems, in part, from the adoption of that short title for a series first entitled Burke's Commoners (as opposed to Burke's Peerage and Baronetage).
		In American society, gentry is sometimes taken to refer loosely to a highly-educated professional upper-middle class, though this is inaccurate sociological terminology as this group usually lacks the aristocratic roots and values of true gentry.
		Attitudes stemming from the phenomenon of this historic American gentry inform the current use of the term in U.S. society, and it is still loosely applied to people from old-monied and landed families in the U.S. The epitome of this type of family in the United States is the Bush family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gentry (857 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Landed gentry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Yeoman farmers owned enough land to support a comfortable lifestyle, but they farmed it themselves, and were excluded from the "landowning class" because working for a living, other than in a few traditionally upper-middle class professions (the established clergy, the armed forces, the civil service and the bar) was considered demeaning by the gentry.
		The word gentry itself, shorn of the prefix "landed" was applied to all those with reasonably close connections to landowning families, for example to clergymen or army officers with upper class family connections, and to their families in turn.
		Burke's Landed Gentry continued to appear at regular intervals throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, driven, in the nineteenth century, principally by the energy and readable style of the founder's son and successor as editor, Sir John Bernard Burke (who generally favoured the romantic and picturesque in genealogy over the mundane or even correct).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Landed-gentry (2224 words)

	Landed Gentry: A Measure of Wealth
		Land records are perhaps the most important of all documents to the local historian or genealogist.
		Another important disposition of land was its division among heirs in which a research can nearly always pick up the names of a man’s living children, names of sons and daughters of deceased children, and the married names of daughters.
		Identification of such land ranged from the vague to the definite: “the plantation I now live on,” its geographic location on a creek or river, and name of the former owner of the tract, the names of adjoining owners, the number of acres, the plantation name, or any combination thereof.
	www.genealogymagazine.com /lagemeofwe.html (457 words)

	THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANDED GENTRY
		Though the "Rise of the Gentry" is frequently spoken of as a consequence of the Tudor agrarian revolution, caused by the downfall of some of the great feudal lords, the break-up of monastic estates and the enclosures of common land, it is, nevertheless, hard to find families founded by obvious Tudor "new men".
		The fourteenth century ancestor of ELMHIRST of Elmhirst was a serf on the lands of Elmhirst in Yorkshire.
		CHAMBERLAIN formerly of Highbury is one of a small group of families in the present Landed Gentry which are distinguished not so much on account of their lineage, or association with a particular landed estate, but because of having produced a number of eminent men in the last century and this.
	www.burkes-wales.com /Sites/Scotland/SitePages/page16-18i.asp (2673 words)

	Definition of Landed gentry
		A landed property typically consisted of a manor, several tenant farms, and some privileged enterprises such as a mill.
		Parts of the United States of America, typically New England and Pennsylvania, never had a landed aristocracy, so their armed forces and government agencies could never be organized on the basis of a landed aristocracy.
		The last large exemplar of the principle of a landed aristocracy as a basis of rule, Russia under the Romanov dynasty, literally died in the Bolshevik Revolution due to the venality and incompetence of the landed aristocracy that had long underpinned the empire.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Landed_gentry (293 words)

	University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
		In landed classes - the landed gentry, aristocracy, and royalty - property and title, if one had one, were passed down through the male line (patriliny), from father to oldest son (primogeniture).
		This would be more true of the non-titled landed gentry, who might have less money than their "betters" with which to support subsequent offspring.
		The work a wife of landed gentry performed on estates was to oversee a housekeeper and servants (though the housekeeper, likewise, was supposed to oversee the servants) and educate young children; older girls' education might be carried out through governesses and instructors at home or at schools.
	www.uwosh.edu /faculty_staff/shaffer/jasochst.htm (852 words)

	Landed Gentry: Mapping Ancestral Lands
		Another excellent source of maps for the researcher in North Carolina land records is the collection of thousands of plats in the Secretary of State’s original land papers; some of the tract maps dating to the mid-1700s and held in a huge collection by the North Carolina State Archives, in Raleigh.
		Once the researcher has delineated his ancestor’s land, he or she should diagram the in the same way adjoining land holders, fitting them together jigsaw puzzle fashion until a settlement is built on several thousand acres.
		The researcher can reap many benefits by making maps and determine the exact location of ancestral lands — which makes a fine illustration for a family history — the names and location of the neighbors and in-laws, as well as the location of ferries, cemeteries, stores, church, and the like.
	www.genealogymagazine.com /maps.html (526 words)

	FRERE/ FREER GENEALOGY of SUFFOLK, ENGLAND and BARBADOS
		Burke's Landed Gentry: Alexander Frere of Occold, Suffolk, Eng.
		Burke's Landed Gentry: Rev. Anthony Frere, Rector of Mulbarton, Norfolk, Eng., married Elizabeth Hartstonge, d/o Henry Hartstonge of Wymondham, Norfolk, Eng., and was bur.
		Burke's Landed Gentry: John Frere of The Green Farm, Finningham, Suffolk, Eng., bap 21 Oct 1569, married Anne Sandwick, daughter of John Sandwick of Finningham, and was bur.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~sfreer/johfrere.html (5324 words)

	Cheshire Landed Gentry, Lancashire Historic Families and Old Families of Manchester
		Ultimately the Warrens were to hold significant tracts of land throughout Cheshire over the centuries, which they acquired through purchase and propitious marriage of daughters of the Warren family into other influential Cheshire families.
		When Sir Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey died in 1692 his Cheshire estates, including the manors of Mottram and Tintwistle and the lordship of Longdendale, were inherited by his son-in-law Lyonel Tollemache, the earl of Dysart in Scotland and thereby passed out of Wilbraham family control.
		After the Conquest of 1066, Worsley was in the manor of Barton, and it seems probable that a member of the Barton family took on the name "de Worsley".
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /history/old-families6a.html (2457 words)

	Articles from the book: burkes landed gentry - scotland 2001
		Accordingly, the act and the form of publication here of the 19th Edition of Burke's Landed Gentry is a tangible assertion that continuing familial responsibility allied to cyber-feudalism can be, and need to be, key ingredients for the 21st Century.
		It is surely an event wholly in line with the call made by Elizabeth Roads, Lyon Clerk, in her article later that the 21st Century Feudal Barons in the Noblesse of Scotland, amongst whom I am proud to be numbered, should not overlook their opportunity too make such contributions.
		The traditional landed families are joined in this 19th Edition by senior members of the contemporary establishment, many of whom by virtue of 20th Century values and drivers have attained high office without any necessary benefit of land or title.
	www.burkes-usa.com /sites/scotland/sitepages/page14a.asp (1011 words)

	Cheshire Landed Gentry, Lancashire Historic Families and Old Families of Manchester
		They still held lands around Prestwich in the 14th century, when Joanne de Tetlawe married Richard Langley and set up Langley Hall just north of Prestwich and began the Langley family of Middleton and Agecroft, who held the lands for several hundred years thereafter.
		In more recent times, the Towneleys held land around the Stargate Pit until 1826, and gleaned a great deal of new wealth from surface coal mining in the area, where coal had to be transported across Towneley land for payment of a toll or wayleave.
		In 1375 Thomas Tyldesley acquired lands in Chaddock hamlet by marriage to Agnes Sutherland; later, Shakerley lands were added to the family holdings.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /history/old-families6.html (1156 words)

	WEPIN Store
		Now of course the landed gentry also needed some way to resolve conflicts amongst themselves as going to war over every petty disagreement was a drain on everyone's resources.
		The king and the landed gentry were the 'powers that be' which meant that they owned or controlled the vast majority of wealth in the nation.
		While they in most cases were not landed gentry, their separateness and their loyalty to their class gave them something to be proud of that they wished to pass on to their children in much the same manner as the king and the landed gentry.
	www.wepin.com /articles/gtcs/seppwrs.html (2099 words)

	Burke's Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This book has been invaluable not only to the heraldic enquirer, but also, unfortunately, to the heraldic stationer, who has found therein the means of gratifying the vanity of many persons whose claims to arms would never be recognized by the Heralds themselves.
		Burke's Peerage today is constantly working on a new series of The Landed Gentry, which will completely revive and revise Sir John's ideas on this title.
		It included not only all of the traditional Landed Gentry families in Scotland, but many of the newer families of importance, Peers of the Realm, Baronets, Scottish Barons, Political leaders and many other categories.
	www.burkestitles.com /history.htm (458 words)

	Landed Gentry and Aristocracy of Kilkenny
		Here you will read all about the hitherto hidden lives of the landed gentry and aristocracy — their family feuds and hidden skeletons, their numerous exploits in the fields of politics and war, their loves and infidelities, their lives and deaths, their descendants and their properties.
		These are but a few of the delectable tidbits awaiting the reader of this most fascinating study of some of the Kilkenny gentry families.
		The Landed Gentry and Aristocracy of Kilkenny (Volume 1) by Art Kavanagh — The book is a 256 pg.
	www.youririshroots.com /LandedGentryandAristocracyofKilkenny.htm (295 words)

	Manor lords - the landed gentry of New York
		Patroonship involved not only ownership of the land but also the rights to establish colonies of tenants and rule over these colonies much in the same way as feudal lords did in Europe.
		Significantly the feudalistic rights going along with “patroonship” was worth more in these times than the property rights to the land, which was generally bought or taken from the Indian tribes at relatively little cost.
		Along with the rights went some responsibilities, the foremost being the assurance of the security of such settlements which would become easier by the years, as the Indian populations receded and left to go North and West, where they would soon be followed and displaced again by new waves of immigrants and fortune hunters.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/manor_lords/manor_lords2.asp (608 words)

	The Cracroft Name and Their People
		'landed gentry') was only the privilege of a very small group of people.
		The Cracroft arms (for Sir Weston Cracroft-Amcotts) is listed in the 1965 edition of Burke's Landed Gentry as: "Vert, on a bend dancettee, three martlets sa.” The crest is listed as “a stork ppr., supporting with dexter claw a battle-ax the handle or, the head arg.”.
		It is with Walter De Cracroft that Burke's Landed Gentry and Canon Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees begins the Cracroft genealogy.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~danlcc/index_02.html (1178 words)

	Louth Navigation - Shareholders 1840 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In particular the Chaplins were a very significant influential landed family in Lincolnshire, as were the Sibthorpes.
		The gentry lived in their own area of Louth towards the western limits of the town.
		It is possible that Elizabeth Goe may be connected to the family of Goe and Wilson Solicitors based in Westgate in 1849.
	www.louthcanal.org.uk /800x600/pages/shareholders1840.htm (277 words)

	Burke's Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Clerk, in her article later that the 21st Century Feudal Barons in the Noblesse of Scotland, amongst whom I am proud to be numbered, should not overlook their opportunity to make such contributions.
		This truly magnificent leap forward in the accessibility of the Burke's Landed Gentry genealogical resource comes at a time when the increasingly leisured and affluent societies of the world are taking an exponentially growing interest in their ancestors and their cultural origins in general.
		Finally, but by no means of least significance as a publisher, the advent of the Internet has transformed the economics of researching and publishing Burke's Landed Gentry.
	www.burkestitles.com /foreward.htm (996 words)

	The Gentry--James River Plantations: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		Governor Berkeley and the Creation of the Virginia Aristocracy: The landed gentry rose to prominence in Virginia with the arrival of Sir William Berkeley as Royal Governor.
		As symbols of their status, a family of the gentry would own a plantation house, a family library, a collection of furniture often imported, and silver engraved with the family crest.
		In 1776, he introduced a bill in the Virginia House of Delegates to abolish the laws of "entail," in which ownership of land was restricted through inheritance to biological descendants of the original grantee in order to preserve the size of large estates.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nR/travel/jamesriver/gentry.htm (2475 words)

	DVs IN BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY
		One of these was the four-volume set of Burke's Commoners (later called Burke's Landed Gentry).
		With only a few exceptions, a typical Burke publication contains many hundreds of narrative pedigrees, each beginning with a biographical sketch of the principal subject, a description or illustration of his coat of arms, and a listing of marriages, children, and dates and places of birth and death in successive generations.
		The family described will be the blood relatives of the person who owned the land at the time that the book was published.
	www.ballyd.com /results/burkegentry.html (771 words)

	Ask TaxMama ... Landed Gentry ... February 14, 2003
		I also need to know if I am bumped into the higher capital gains tax bracket because of the sale of the land or if that is determined by my income.
		That means you have to track down HIS original cost for that land.
		Although, the sale of the land will be taxed at the capital gains rates that apply to the situation.
	www.taxmama.com /AskTaxMama/198/gentry.html (286 words)

	Congress's Landed Gentry \| Sunlight Foundation
		Harry Reid failed to disclose what the Associated Press describes as "a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale" on property he hadn't owned for three years.
		Charles Taylor, meanwhile, "owns at least 14,000 acres of prime land in western North Carolina.
		Bob Menendez has his lease deal with nonprofit for which he's secured federal funds, while House Speaker Dennis Hastert has his own profits from earmarks and land deals.
	www.sunlightfoundation.com /node/1334 (1229 words)

	Montgomery Gentry - Biography - AOL Music
		Country duo Montgomery Gentry evoke the sound and spirit of Southern rockers like Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Marshall Tucker Band, and Charlie Daniels, painting themselves as rowdy redneck rebels who still hold small-town values.
		Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry first met in Early Tymz, a Lexington, KY, band led by Montgomery's brother, future country star John Michael Montgomery.
		After playing around Lexington for a time, Montgomery Gentry landed a deal with Columbia thanks to a showcase performance.
	music.aol.com /artist/montgomery-gentry/367958/biography (306 words)

	The NEW Burke's Landed Gentry
		The chosen solution was to use the drawings featured in the 18th edition of the Landed Gentry, and the 1970 edition of the Peerage and Baronetage, at the same scale.
		Readers who enter the Burke's Landed Gentry pages (in which there is a lot of free material) through these banners will earn a small commission for Baronage, but this possibility has not prejudiced this review.
		The reality is that even if we had given the book a comparatively bad review we would still have been forced to recommend it because for Scottish research it is uniquely valuable, and its present errors, almost all due to pressure of time, will eventually be corrected online.
	www.baronage.co.uk /bphtm-01/books-7a.html (990 words)

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