Coldham, Peter Wilson

Overview

Works:	6,995 works in 7,208 publications in 2 languages and 15,927 library holdings
Genres:	Genealogy Registers (Lists) History Passenger lists Sources Biography
Roles:	Author, Composer, Editor

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by Peter Wilson Coldham

Emigrants in chains : a social history of forced emigration to the Americas of felons, destitute children, political and religious non-conformists, vagabonds, beggars and other undesirables, 1607-1776 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

17 editions published between 1992 and 2007 in English and held by 816 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The forced emigration of convicts, destitute persons and children, "undesirables", and non-conformists from England to the Americas

The complete book of emigrants in bondage, 1614-1775 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

5 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bonded passengers to America by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

3 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 404 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Indentured persons or convicts conscripted from English prisons and poor houses to come to the America to work as bonded workers

The Bristol registers of servants sent to foreign plantations, 1654-1686 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

2 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 361 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In 1654 the Bristol City Council passed an ordinance requiring that a register of servants destined for the colonies be kept, the purpose being to prevent the practice of dumping innocent youths into servitude. The registers, covering the period 1654 to 1686, are the largest body of indenture records known, and they also are a unique record of English emigration to the American colonies" -- publisher website (December 2007)

Child apprentices in America : from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

2 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 321 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lists of children raised in Christ's Hospital, a London orphanage, and apprenticed to work in the American Colonies

American wills & administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1857 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

3 editions published between 1989 and 1992 in English and held by 318 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of many abstracts and listings of wills from England and Wales regarding persons who emigrated to the American colonies

English adventurers and emigrants, 1609-1660 : abstracts of examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with reference to Colonial America by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

8 editions published between 1984 and 2002 in English and held by 315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cases brought before the High Court of Admiralty involving court cases involving ships which reflect the individual hands who signed onto those ships sailing to Colonial America

American migrations, 1765-1799 : the lives, times, and families of colonial Americans who remained loyal to the British Crown before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, as related in their own words and through their correspondence by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

5 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 297 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Given in memory of Betty Gelber by the Texas Research Ramblers

Emigrants from England to the American colonies, 1773-1776 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

2 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 297 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

English convicts in colonial America by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

in English and Multiple languages and held by 273 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

English estates of American colonists : American wills and administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1699 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

5 editions published between 1980 and 1983 in English and held by 261 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lord Mayor's Court of London : depositions relating to Americans, 1641-1736 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

2 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American wills proved in London, 1611-1775 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

2 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Settlers of Maryland by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

in English and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

English estates of American colonists : American wills and administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1700-1799 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

5 editions published between 1980 and 2012 in English and held by 237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

English estates of American settlers : American wills and administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1800-1858 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

3 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

English adventurers and emigrants, 1661-1733 : abstracts of examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with reference to Colonial America by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

3 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 214 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cases brought before the English High Court of Admiralty Examinations involving shipping, and those hands who had signed on to those ships bound for Colonial America

More emigrants in bondage, 1614-1775 by Peter Wilson Coldham( Book )

3 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 206 WorldCat member libraries worldwide