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- Subject: Re: Oxford student in 1700's
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- Subject: RE>Oxford student in 1700's
- Paul Cowan writes
-
- > I have an ancestor, James COLLINS, who was supposedly a university
- > student (at Oxford as I recall) in the early 1700's, when he was
- > shanghaied to sea, the result of which he jumped ship in America
- > (Annapolis or Baltimore). This has something of the ring of a
- family
- > legend, but there is evidence that he taught school, so it has some
-
- > plausibility. The question is, is there some way to search a list
- of
- > students at a university from those days?
- > Perhaps some kind reader in England could help.
-
- A good reference to consult is Alumni Oxonienses for Oxford, and
- Alumni Cantabrigienses for Cambridge. There a several volumes
- covering many years, and they tend to be available in many libraries.
- Below is the list of references in MELVYL, just by way of example:
-
- 1. University of Oxford.
- Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford,
- 1500-1714:
- their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of
- their
- degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University,...
- Early
- series. Oxford and London : Parker and co., 1891-92.
- UCB Main LF524 .A2 1500-1714 v.1-4 (1891-1892)
- UCLA Clark LF 524 F75
- UCSD Central LF 524 .A22 1500 -1714 CIRC Annex
-
- 2. University of Oxford.
- Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford,
- 1500-1714;
- their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of
- their
- degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university,...
- Nendeln/ Liechtenstein, Kraus, 1968.
- SRLF LF524 .A2 1968 Type EXP SRLF for loan details.
-
- 3. University of Oxford.
- Alumni Oxonienses : the members of the University of Oxford,
- 1500-1714 :
- their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of
- their
- degrees : being the matriculation register of the university,...
- Nendeln/ Liechtenstein : Kraus Reprint, 1968.
- UCLA Biomed LF 524 U58a 1891F Hist Div History Division
- Reference
- Library has: v. 1-4
- UCSB Library LF524 .A2 1500-1714
-
- 4. University of Oxford.
- Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford,
- 1715-1886:
- their parentage, birthplace, and the year of birth, with a record
- of their
- degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University,...
- Nendeln,
- Liechtenstein, Kraus Reprint, 1968.
- UCSB Library LF524 .A2 1715-1886
-
- 5. University of Oxford.
- Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford,
- 1715-1886;
- their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of
- their
- degrees; being the matriculation register of the University,...
- Oxford, J.
- Parker, 1891.
- UCSD Central LF524 .A22 1715-, 1886
-
- 6. University of Oxford.
- Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford,
- 1715-1886:
- their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of
- their
- degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University,...
- Oxford and
- London, Parker and co., 1888.
- UCB Main LF524 .A2 1715-1886 v.1-4 (1888)
- UCLA Clark LF 524 F75a
- CSL Main Lib q 378.42 OF Reference Center
-
- 7. University of Oxford.
- Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford,
- 1715-1886:
- their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of
- their
- degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University,...
- Oxford and
- London, Parker and co., 1891.
- UCLA URL LF 524 B31 1891
-
- 8. University of Oxford.
- Alumni Oxonienses : the members of the University of Oxford,
- 1715-1886 :
- their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of
- their
- degrees : being the matriculation register of the University,...
- Nendeln/
- Liechtenstein : Kraus Reprint, 1968.
- UCLA Biomed LF 524 U58a 1887F Hist Div History Division
- Reference
- Library has: v. 1-4
-
- 9. University of Oxford.
- Alumni Oxonienses : the members of the University of Oxford,
- 1715-1886,
- their parentage, birthplace and year of birth. London : Joseph
- Foster,
- 1888.
- CSL Sutro LA630.O85 F6
- UCSD Central LF 524 .A22 1500 -1714 CIRC Annex
-
- 1. University of Cambridge.
- Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known
- students,
- graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge,.
- Cambridge,
- University Press, 1922-54.
- UCSB Library LF124 .A2 1900 Ref
-
- 2. University of Cambridge.
- Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known
- students,
- graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge,
- from the
- earliest times to 1900, comp. by John Venn and J. A. Venn.
- Cambridge,
- University Press, 1922-54.
- UCD Main Lib LF124 .A2 1900
- UCI Main Lib LF124 .A2 1900a
- UCR Rivera LF124 .A2 1922
- UCSD Central LF124 .A2 1900 CIRC Annex
-
- 3. University of Cambridge.
- Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students,
- graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from
- the
- earliest times to 1900. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1922-54.
- Series title: pt.v.
- UCLA Biomed LF 124 A2 C144a Hist Div Ref. History Division
- Reference
- UCLA URL LF 124 A2 1900
-
- 4. University of Cambridge.
- Alumni cantabrigienses : a biographical list of all known students,
- graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from
- the
- earliest times to 1900 / compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn.
- Nendeln :
- Kraus Reprint, 1974.
- UCLA Clark LF 124 A2 1974 Library has: PT. I v. 1-3, PT. II. v.
- 1, 3-6
-
- Rodney Van Cooten, Searching Van Cooten,
- Microcomputer Support Group, Neuendorf, Bischoff
- University of Melbourne Thomas
-