AUTHOR’S NOTE
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AUTHOR’S NOTEThe fête given at Carlton House on August 1st, 1815, by the Prince Regent as a personal tribute to the Duke of Wellington is factual, as are the descriptions of the celebrations in the London Parks.
Genealogy no longer concerns itself exclusively with the lineage of the highly placed, but has an equal concern for all sorts and conditions of men. The Registration Act of 1836 made it compulsory in England to register births, marriages and deaths.
State records can be consulted at the Public Records Office in Chancery Lane, London where there are historic documents such as the Domesday Book (1086-87) and Magna Carta (1215). In the United States of America interest in genealogy goes back to the early days of British settlement. The first families of Virginia constituted themselves a planter autocracy and used armorial bearings.
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