FamilySearch Wiki:Wiki Project England Manors Project

Compiling Manor Information for England Counties

Project Leader: Amber Larsen
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to compile information on the Manors in each England county, along with a brief description of the manor's history.
Task List: Task List

Instructions

Part 1: Locate the Manor Wikipedia Page

Each county/region has a section on Wikipedia listing all of their manors or other significant houses. You will be extracting some of the information from the pages about these manors and putting a brief summary into the spreadsheet Task List.

1. Click on the link under the "Task List" column for the county you are signing up for. That will take you to the spreadsheet tab for that county/region.

2. On the task list, click on the link for the first manor in the "Manor Name" column. That link will take you to the Wikipedia page for that manor/house.

NOTE: If the link is RED, it should say "RED LINK" in the Location (town/parish, etc) column. You can skip it, and proceed to the next one.

Part 2: Location (town/parish, etc.)

3. When you arrive at the Wikipedia page for that manor, read through all the information and extract the location of that manor, and type it into the spreadsheet task list heading "Location (town/parish, etc.)".

HINT: This information is usually found near the very top of the manor Wikipedia page.
Format the location into PARISH, COUNTY format. Example: Chicksands, Bedfordshire.

Part 3: Dates, purposes, estate bounds, etc.

4. On the Wikipedia page for that manor, read through all the information on the page and extract ONLY the following information:

Date(s) the manor was founded, reconstructed, demolished.
Purposes the manor served other than residence, e.g. used as a nursing home during WWI, or developed into a research laboratory.
The number of acres and/or boundaries the manor covered.

DO NOT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

The families or names of those who owned/resided in the manor.
Details about the manor's interior, such as the number of rooms, size of the hall, etc.
Details about the grounds, such as the gardens, gates, etc.
Details about adjacent properties or features.
Details about tourism of the site.

5. Place the extracted information into the "Dates, purposes, estate bounds, etc." column on the spreadsheet task list.

HINT: If you want to get an idea of how much information to extract, look at the first few examples Amber did on the Bedfordshire task list (she completed everything from Ampthill Park through Colworth House).

6. After you extract the information for the Location (town/parish, etc.) and the Dates, purposes, estate bounds, etc., continue on to the next parish in the task list.

If you have any questions or problems, feel free to email Amber (amberlarsen@familysearch.org) or send a message through Yammer.