Smith of Doncaster and connected families contains "the annals of Smith of Cantley, Balby, and Doncaster, County York, embracing eleaborate pedigrees of the connected families and biographical notices of their more eminent members". The book was compiled by Henry Ecroyd Smith, with only 100 copies being printed (for subscribers only) in 1878.

The following are available to help you ascertain the contents of the book:

• A short review of the book (below).
• A transcription of the Index of personal names from the book
• A transcription of the Contents of the book (below)
• An Acrobat pdf file containing the Title page and the first three pages of the book.

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A short review of the book:

The title page continues the cover title with the words "Embracing Elaborate Pedigrees of the Connected Families... " while the 'Index to Personal Names', which appears at the back of the volume lists no fewer than 850 surnames that are referenced within the work.

For anyone with an interest in any aspect of the history of Doncaster and particularly of its connected families, then this volume is a veritable mine of information and an important work of reference which should be high on your list for consultation. Unfortunately the opportunity for consulting with an original copy is very low as only one hundred copies were ever printed, the original work being published by subscription only. However, those with an interest of the Doncaster area and its families will certainly feel privileged that this work has now been made available on CDrom.

Steven Bruce
Yorkshire Family History

List of contents of "Smith of Doncaster"

• The Great Tree
• The Small Branch - Smith of Cantley
• Smith of Balby
• Historic Notice of Balby
• Killam of Balby
• Historic Notice of Warmsworth
• Aldam of Wickersley and Warmsworth
  • Aldam of Warmsworth and Frickley
  • Stacey of Ballifield
  • Payne of Hagnaby and Newhill
  • Peckover of Fakenham and Wisbech
  • The Dent Family
• Smith of Balby, resumed
• Smith of Doncaster
• Historic Sketch of Doncaster in 1750
• Smith of Doncaster, resumed
• Gulston of Wymondham
• Stepney, Baronet of Prendergast
• Gulston or Gulson of Coventry
  • Reynolds of Coalbrookdale
• Smith of Doncaster, resumed
• Akroyd of Akroyd
• Akroyd or Ecroyd of Folds House, &c
  • Oddie of Gills
  • Shipley of Uttoxeter and Ellis of Leicester
• Smith of Doncaster, resumed
• Robson of Darlington
• Hedley of Hedley-on-the-Hill
  • Backhouse of Yealand-Redman & Darlington
• Pease of Fishlake and Darlington
  • Dixon of Raby and Henknowle
• Coates of Smelt House, Lynesack, and Caselee
  • Richardson of Hull and co. Durham
  • Mayson or Mason of Hull
  • Dearman of Braithwait
• Waterhouse of Sandholme
  • Barton of Carlisle
• Clough of Plas-Clough
• Smith of Doncaster, resumed
• The Hagen Family
• Tyson of Alnwick
• The Whalley Family
• Harrison of Balby
• Darby of Coalbrookdale
• APPENDIX.
  • Strutt on the British Oak.
  • Testimonies : John Ecroyd - Lucy Ecroyd - William and Martha Smith.
  • Verses addressed to Henry Ecroyd of Edgend.
  • Muncy Valley in Autumn