From the mid-eighteenth century until the 1930s, local directories
were used to provide information on the trade, public buildings and services of
a particular town or village. They would also supply details of the nobility
and gentry of that area. The most important series published were Kelly's
Directories from 1799 to 1939, presented in county volumes for Buckinghamshire.
Many county record offices and libraries have good series of these directories,
including at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies. The dates of the
directories indexed here are 1792, 1798, 1811, 1824 and 1832.
The database presented here contains information from some of these
Buckinghamshire directories. There are over 5000 entries included in the
database, but this is by no means a complete index for all Buckinghamshire
directories. The index may be supplemented over time.
