My Ancestor was ... in Service
A guide to sources for family historians
Pamela Horn
A5, 142 pages, ISBN: 978-1-907199-01-1
By the end of the Victorian era nearly a third of all women and also many men in England and Wales had been a domestic worker at some time in their lives. This book seeks to give some guidance in researching ancestors who were in service or who themselves employed domestic staff.
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