Names of Two Million (*) Freemason Members 1733 to 1923 Online (title amended)

[StevieSteve]

Hi Ray

There are a few Anns and Marys but they've been set to Male

But who knows what those freemasons get up to in the privacy of the Lodge 

[dawnsh]

The United Grand Lodge of England is a male preserve and has no affiliation with the women's movement.

So there shouldn't be any female entries in the dataset online at Ancestry. One supposes that those that are, are there because of mis-transcription.

[pinefamily]

That young "miss" has been the bane of our genealogical lives for a long time. 

[BushInn1746]

Hi Mark

If you are using Library Edition, from the landing page click the green button "begin searching",

on the next page go to the top right of the screen and next to Special Collections is a button for the "card catalogue", click that

and type the word "freemason" not freemasons or masons into the box and the one title returned is the one you want.

It might be a bit quicker than selecting the country and going on from there.

Hello Dawn and Joe

Regarding Dawn's comment, we have Ancestry Institution. Don't know how that differs to Library and personal (home) editions, but I will look out for the other button next time 

However, managed to find my 2 X Gt. Grandfather listed as a Freemason in the 1870s, it says "Commercial Lodge" place and his age, against the entry.

Regarding reply #7 by Joe.
Agreed, you cannot always rely on news articles to be entirely accurate.

Thanks, kind regards, Mark

[dawnsh]

No difference between the 2, most probably a marketing exercise

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=728356.msg5729181#msg5729181

[barryd]

 Lawrence Ellliot Creasy, MD. A member of the Aesculapius Masonic Lodge. (For Medical Doctors and allied professions).

[Andrew Tarr]

Thread title is a little misleading: for British read English.  The only ancestor I know to have been a mason doesn't show up, as he was a member of the Mold Lodge in N.Wales.  Pity ....

[Grothenwell]

"Records of two million members of the secretive Freemasons have been published online ....

"Membership records from 1733 to 1923 -- mainly in Britain and the British Empire --- have been digitised and published on the family history website Ancestry

Can anyone confirm if these records are only England's? Thanks

[BumbleB]

The heading for the collection states "England - United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers  - 1751-1921"