This bible is now SOLD. Mary Badnell's bible from 1839

This is the family bible of the Bainbridge, Wilson and Piddington family. The death of Ralph Bainbridge in 1874, says he was 63 years old and was a butcher, 'formerly of Durham'.

This bible is SOLD. Bible presented to Joshua Barraclough by the Misses Spencer Stanhope

This bible is SOLD. The inscriptions in this early family bible are first for the family of John Beardsley and his wife Mary, and their children John and Phoebe.

This is a delightful, if tiny (5x4 inches) gift to Mathilda from her school 'mistris' in 1859.  The bible is in reasonable state, but one flyleaf is loose.  She lived in Nantwich in Cheshire, whee she was a house servant in 1861 and married in 1864.  The front inside has her name and address, and the record of the gift on the next page.  There are some unclear words written inside the rear cover.  If this is your family it is a tiny delight.

There are three families listed in this bible.

These bible pages are now SOLD.    Three pages torn from an 1859 bible

THIS BIBLE IS NOW SOLD.  This Bible was published in 1835, and Caroline Constable of Barcombe in Sussex wrote her name in it in large script in 1836 when she was just 13 years old.  

The bible of John Cox, born I think Dec 1814, Rodborough, Gloucestershire, and his wife Hannah Knight Cox, born King Stanley 1822.  

Catherine Davison was presented with this bible in 1882, when it was new, by her mistress.

THIS BIBLE NOW SOLD. John Castell Deck's personal bible with family inscriptions

A family bible which appears to have been written up in real time.

(This bible has now been SOLD.) A well preserved family bible for this family from Kent.

Sunday half hours book presented to Ellen Adams in 1879.

Given to Emily Dodgson on her 13th birthday

Fine 1894 family bible of the Garnett family of Calverley and Armley, Leeds

With a child buried in Burngreave Cemetery

A well used family bible for William Hammond and family of Huntingdon

 This Bible has been sold

This bible is now SOLD.  A bible that records at least four deaths in Durham collieries, one of which was in a national disaster.

This Bible is now SOLD.  A full size family bible of Thomas Harrison, a 'Tinker' who lived in Crimicar Lane, Sheffield, in 1851

This Bible has been sold. The bible of Hills and Brash family line

THIS BIBLE HAS BEEN SOLD: A nice small bible from 1834 for John Hoskins

A big family bible with photos

(THIS BIBLE HAS BEEN SOLD.) This is a gem of a family bible

A unique family bible, with unusual written entries

This is an absolutely beautiful family bible for George Mackereth of Bilton (?) Vicarage. The quality of the book in the first instance was excellent, with nice marbled end-papers, and it is still in very good condition. A pleasure to hold.

SOLD A touching memory of a father who died at Jutland

This Bible is now SOLD.  A nicely bound 1820 medium sized bible, with the family of George Offord (of Great Oakley) listed.

Family bible of Smethurst and Bell family of Oldham

A full size Victorian Family Bible

This Bible is now SOLD.  A gem of an early bible, presented to Hannah Roberts as a Sunday School prize in 1825.

A gift to a school-girl from the lady of the manor,wherein she records her children.

THIS BIBLE HAS BEEN SOLD This is the best quality bible I have ever had for sale.

A nice 1835 bible with contemporary entries

This Bible is now SOLD.  Detailed entries for the family of Isabella Temple, who married George Hardy.

Huge and old family bible of Ann Thorowgood 1787 first record

Presented to Edward Tutdr on his marriage in 1866

This bible has now been SOLD. 1815 Bible with entries for William Stephenson and Lydia Voy and their family.

(This bible has now been SOLD) A small personal bible

This Bible is now SOLD.  The family bible of Rev Warrand Carlile

A small old genuine bible of a family.

A nice bible published in Glasgow in 1860 and used by William Williams of South Wales.

A beautiful small presentation bible published in 1811.

This bible is now SOLD.  The family bible of Dr Charles Hargitt Johnson of Hull and his wife Isabella Raines.

The family bible of Rev Samuel McDowell who worked in Jamaica.

A maroon leather-bound Prayer book, with the Psalms, that belongeed to Eliza, Barralough.

Small bible presented to L. Woodhead.

This is a very interesting New Testment with lots of entries in it.

A gift to William Lawson from his mother in 1861.

A large family bible of William Phillip Cummings, with 23 named entries over 4 family register pages.

Gift of Mary Booth, Countess of Warrington

Family Bible of William Chambers and Lousia Peachey married in Bersted in 1799.

THIS BIBLE IS NOW SOLD.  An authentically old, if worn, Bible,  in which William Gascoine's M to Hannah Storr is recorded

Lovitt and Bates Family Bible

Westmoreland Family Bible for Edward and Betsy

This is not a Bible but a personal bound notebook, with entries recording family events for John Shaw and Jane Bray from 1787, over several pages. 

THIS BIBLE IS NOW SOLD.  This is one of those rare Family Bibles that also has photos in frames set in some pages.  There are only four photos; one of a women, one a child, and two of men. The photos are variously taken in the Leicester and Derby areas, I think.  The Bible itself is a late Victorian standard Eyre and Spottiswood Family Bible.  It is in fairly good condition.  All the pages are there and are bound.  The cover has some damage, in that the front page's brass binding is loose.  But it is all there.  It measures 12 inches x 10 inches and 3 inches thick.  On the family register pages are the names and events of children, parents, etc, including Bale, Stubley, and others.  There is also a printed advertisement with two photos for a "J Newcombe: Juggler, Equilibrist and Block and Lamp Manipulator".  I can see that Clara married an Edward Stevenson and the couple moved to Ontario, Canada.  For the right family this is a unique item.

A British soldier, William Naylor Stead, born in York, in 1855,  marrying a woman, Louisa Sumsion, who I believe was born in Darjeeling in 1868, getting married in 1884 in Aden. This is the Family Bible Of William and Louisa.  The Bible passed it seems to their daughter Annie Louisa Stead, who married T H Hubble.  It records William and Louisa's children and those of Annie and TH Hubble.  But best of all there are two lovely photos in the photo frames at the back.  The first is a small baby.  The second is of an army sergeant seated next to standing woman with threee children.  It is not clear who these two adults are, but they are in the first two slots in the Bible.   They are slightly larger than the usual cartes de visite, being about 6 inches by 4 inches.  The Bible itself is unusual in England as it is an American publication, of 1882.  The Bible is in good condition. It is very large and heavy.  It measures 13 inches by 11 inches and is over 4 inches thick.  All the pagers are there and the superb moulded cover is intact.  One of the brass clasps is missing.

This is a large bible printed in 1852, in good condition, with its gold tooling title on the spine. It is a good quality Oxford Press edition in large print, but without any plates.  It has two hand-written pages of entry on the front fly-leaf.  They start with a George Taylor, born 1840, Leeds, marrying Hannah in Grimesthorpe in 1866.  It lists their children's births.  On the second page it records the birth of Jim Jenkins Wright, in very flowery script, in Huntingdon, and then his family in Manchester and Bakewell.  The Bible is 33 cm high, 27 cm wide and 9 cm thick.  It weighs a bout 4 kilos and post overseas will be quite expensive.  Please contact me for details of carrier rates.