Name Index

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The tourist's companion; being a guide to the towns of Plymouth, Plymouth-Dock, Stonehouse, Morice-town, Stoke, and their vicinities

Part 1: pp. 1-81

London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (1823) xii, 316 pp.

Prepared by Michael Steer

Throughout the Industrial Revolution Plymouth grew as a major shipping port, handling imports and passengers from the Americas, while neighbouring Devonport grew as an important Royal Naval shipbuilding and dockyard town. The county boroughs of Plymouth and Devonport, and the urban district of East Stonehouse were merged in 1914 to form the single county borough of Plymouth. The city's naval importance later led to its partial destruction during World War II. After the war the city centre was completely rebuilt. This early tourist 'vade mecum' conveys an enormous amount of information, much of it perhaps of little use to a touring visitor, but undoubtedly of much interest to the historian or genealogist. The guide represents a discrete pinch in time (1823), since the inevitable attrition of those whose names appear in it, would make its continued use redundant in several years. This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally by Google from a copy in the Library of Congress collection and can be downloaded from HathiTrust. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

An alphabetic list of the Trades People, their occupations and the names of the streets in which they reside is presented from pp. 81 to 134.

These names are not included in the present index.