We spent the morning at the Ottawa City Archives where the Ottawa Branch of the OGS has their library and we helped to sort through the books. We are moving from the present building to a brand new archives building at the end of next year and the plan is to catalogue the books using the Dewey Decimal system (modified for genealogy). Right now we are going through them to verify the current list.
This afternoon I decided to transcribe some documents that I purchased from the Hampshire Record Office a couple of years ago. This one was from 1685 and was an Indenture between Christian Hinxman (widow of Joseph Hinxman (first cousin to my 8x great grandfather William Blake)) and Thomas Barber. The interesting part is the description of the property which runs along beside Peter Blake at Clatford. This is William's brother and part of the proof that he is still alive in 1685 (he died shortly thereafter although appears on the 1686 Hampshire Visitation). I have a number of Hinxman documents in this time frame as I was trying to locate information on my William who, after completing his degree at Oxford and being an incumbent at a Church in Warwickshire for one year and then teaching in Staffordshire for one year, returned to Andover, married, they had four children (two survived), and then lived at Foxcott as far as I can tell the last twenty years of his life where he died in 1696. He does not leave a will. Finding information on him has proven to be very difficult. He sells off all of his leases over a 20 year period. One might think he was ill but he lived to be 81 years of age - outliving a number of his siblings. My 7x great grandfather (his grandson) only outlived him by 18 years (he was 29 when he died). It has led to a paucity of data on this particular timeperiod for my Blake line.
We also entered another 50 Music CDs into Library Thing and just have about the same left to do, one row of books on the bookcase which I missed as they were hidden behind the music CDs. Also we have decided to enter the records into Library Thing as well and the music tapes. Once I have entered all the fiche then our job is finished on this floor. Our little townhouse has three floors each one stuffed with books and other genealogical material for our lines.
This was our dancing lesson evening and we learned the Fox Trot. Actually I know how to dance although I am somewhat rusty. But we did extremely well with the Fox Trot.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Hinxman v Blake document and the Question family
I completed the transcription proofreading of the Hinxman v Blake document and sent it off to my correspondent. It wasn't until today that I really could see the intent of the document. Joseph Hinxman was appealing to the local magistrate Lord Thomas Courtney to persuade William Blake (my 9x great grandfather) to properly execute his mother (Johane Blake)'s will. She had divided an orchard between the two of them. William however decided to redo the lease and take the entire orchard instead of waiting until the lease expired that had been passed to them by his mother. She had asked them to enjoy the orchard together as well. Whether William simply didn't want to be executor or he really wanted the entire orchard is the mystery. Just ten years later William wrote his will and Joseph is one of his overseers and there isn't any mention of an orchard in his will. Interesting document as it certainly gives you a picture of the times.
We added another 100 music CDs to Library Thing. We want to do a complete inventory of all of our materials - genealogical, musical, books, fiche and then we can separate them into units and direct them so that our daughters do not have to do all of that work if anything happens to us. We are just beginning the task really but already have over 750 items (about 600 books) entered. A lot of work ahead for us during the long cold winter months!
I then decided to transcribe my three Question family wills and completed that task. I now know that the line of ascent is Elizabeth Question (married to Robert Siderfin and my 6x great grandparents), Augustine Question (my 7x great grandfather), John Question (my 8x great grandfather and he does not appear to have left a will) but his brother Andrew left a will in which he mentions that the first child of John has been born by 1627, and Augustine Siderfin (my 9x great grandfather). The interesting item that ties them all together is the mention of Rod[e]huish which is a small village (manor) in Carhampton where the Question family lived with both my 9x great grandfather Augustine mentioning it in his will and my 7x great grandfather Augustine Question also mentioning Rodhuish in his will. I also have the Poor Law Records which show that this family was continuously at Dunster (Augustine my 7x great grandfather mentions his property at Dunster as well as Rodhuish). So a very good day of transcribing and I need to now work on the other documents that mention the Question family.
I also updated my webpage with the Question family and the new details on the Buller and Beard families.
Tomorrow I need to decide what to work on - probably continue with the entering of the Music CDs into Library Thing for one item.
We added another 100 music CDs to Library Thing. We want to do a complete inventory of all of our materials - genealogical, musical, books, fiche and then we can separate them into units and direct them so that our daughters do not have to do all of that work if anything happens to us. We are just beginning the task really but already have over 750 items (about 600 books) entered. A lot of work ahead for us during the long cold winter months!
I then decided to transcribe my three Question family wills and completed that task. I now know that the line of ascent is Elizabeth Question (married to Robert Siderfin and my 6x great grandparents), Augustine Question (my 7x great grandfather), John Question (my 8x great grandfather and he does not appear to have left a will) but his brother Andrew left a will in which he mentions that the first child of John has been born by 1627, and Augustine Siderfin (my 9x great grandfather). The interesting item that ties them all together is the mention of Rod[e]huish which is a small village (manor) in Carhampton where the Question family lived with both my 9x great grandfather Augustine mentioning it in his will and my 7x great grandfather Augustine Question also mentioning Rodhuish in his will. I also have the Poor Law Records which show that this family was continuously at Dunster (Augustine my 7x great grandfather mentions his property at Dunster as well as Rodhuish). So a very good day of transcribing and I need to now work on the other documents that mention the Question family.
I also updated my webpage with the Question family and the new details on the Buller and Beard families.
Tomorrow I need to decide what to work on - probably continue with the entering of the Music CDs into Library Thing for one item.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Buller and Beard families
The days have passed quickly since I last posted and we have spent quite a bit of it fall house cleaning and downsizing as we eliminate items that we do not use particularly - at the moment our daughter is the recipient of the small items that we purchased with her in mind over the years. We will keep items for our older daughter for her next visit to us to decide what she wants to do with them.
I continued hunting out the Buller and Beard families in the new upload at Ancestry (LMA BMBs). I found the marriage of Henry Christopher Buller and Sophia Scrooby (daughter of George Scrooby and Mary Bullock married 24 June 1798 at Saint Luke, Chelsea, London). They had three daughters Mary Ann (b 1807), Sophia (b 1811) and Eliza (b 1812). Mary Ann married Thomas Park Steedman and the witnesses were Christopher Parker and Hannah Steadman Scrooby. I haven't found a burial yet for Sophia (likely prior to 1838) but will continue looking. Henry and Sophia had two children (Henry is listed as a widower on his marriage registration with Ann Welch in 1838) Mary Ann (b 1832) and George Scrooby (b 1834). I think I have George's burial in 1847 but nothing thus far for Mary Ann. I never found any children from this first marriage in any of the records but will continue hunting out Mary Ann.
Off to the dentist to have one of my molars capped and back home again 1.5 hours later (included travel time). I will soon have all of my molars capped (this is number 5). It is good to have them capped actually as it means no more work on them in my lifetime! My teeth have actually been quite inexpensive although my husband has a dental plan anyway. I haven't had a new decay since my late teens (so nearly 45 years!) (most of my old fillings have been replaced with newer ones).
I find it hard to concentrate so decided to spend my time looking at the marriage registers in London. I am looking for the marriage of Christopher Buller and Mary Beard. I am checking the St Marylebone in Westminster as many Buller families lived in that area and it is also the area that Henry Christopher Buller used to visit on his trips back and forth to London. Also he had a butcher shop in Convent Garden on Lamb Conduit Way which is fairly closeby. I looked at all of 1794 and up to September 1795 in this parish and did find a couple of Lawrence marriages (see census 1861 for Henry) and one for Thomas Duller it looked like.
Interesting reading through the marriages in 1794 and 1795 at St Marylebone in Westminster. I did not find one for Christopher and Mary but seeing the names is also interesting. I will try some of the other parishes nearby Bermondsey to see if I can find their marriage.
We watched a couple of hours of television which was very relaxing and I shall get back to the Hinxman v Blake document tomorrow. I have completed a first run through but want to give it a proofread before I send it off to my correspondent.
I continued hunting out the Buller and Beard families in the new upload at Ancestry (LMA BMBs). I found the marriage of Henry Christopher Buller and Sophia Scrooby (daughter of George Scrooby and Mary Bullock married 24 June 1798 at Saint Luke, Chelsea, London). They had three daughters Mary Ann (b 1807), Sophia (b 1811) and Eliza (b 1812). Mary Ann married Thomas Park Steedman and the witnesses were Christopher Parker and Hannah Steadman Scrooby. I haven't found a burial yet for Sophia (likely prior to 1838) but will continue looking. Henry and Sophia had two children (Henry is listed as a widower on his marriage registration with Ann Welch in 1838) Mary Ann (b 1832) and George Scrooby (b 1834). I think I have George's burial in 1847 but nothing thus far for Mary Ann. I never found any children from this first marriage in any of the records but will continue hunting out Mary Ann.
Off to the dentist to have one of my molars capped and back home again 1.5 hours later (included travel time). I will soon have all of my molars capped (this is number 5). It is good to have them capped actually as it means no more work on them in my lifetime! My teeth have actually been quite inexpensive although my husband has a dental plan anyway. I haven't had a new decay since my late teens (so nearly 45 years!) (most of my old fillings have been replaced with newer ones).
I find it hard to concentrate so decided to spend my time looking at the marriage registers in London. I am looking for the marriage of Christopher Buller and Mary Beard. I am checking the St Marylebone in Westminster as many Buller families lived in that area and it is also the area that Henry Christopher Buller used to visit on his trips back and forth to London. Also he had a butcher shop in Convent Garden on Lamb Conduit Way which is fairly closeby. I looked at all of 1794 and up to September 1795 in this parish and did find a couple of Lawrence marriages (see census 1861 for Henry) and one for Thomas Duller it looked like.
Interesting reading through the marriages in 1794 and 1795 at St Marylebone in Westminster. I did not find one for Christopher and Mary but seeing the names is also interesting. I will try some of the other parishes nearby Bermondsey to see if I can find their marriage.
We watched a couple of hours of television which was very relaxing and I shall get back to the Hinxman v Blake document tomorrow. I have completed a first run through but want to give it a proofread before I send it off to my correspondent.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Buller and Beard Families
I started off my day this morning by reading my emails. I had 29 spam and 18 emails! My mind started to think about updating my webpage to reflect the new details for the Buller and Beard families that emerged with the release of the LMA BMBs on Ancestry. I updated my webpage but then got thinking about Jane (Blakely) Beard - second wife of Henry Beard my 4x great grandfather. I hadn't listed any information in Legacy for her so went in and pulled out that information and added it to her but she appears to have married at 10 years of ago so something amiss there! I then started looking through the burial registers and have completed from the date of the will 1 May 1817 to the end of 1819 at Bermondsey plus I have read 1823. Just need to do the years in between over the next little while.
Today was a washing day so have that out on the line as well. Hopefully the roofers will come today to put up the new roof. We are looking forward to that before winter sets in here. Our roof was replaced about 15 years ago after a major ice storm which ripped holes in the shingles.
I am also reading a new book "The Knights Templar Revealed: The secrets of the Cistercean Legacy" by Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe. The beginning of the book takes us back to prehistoric times with a discussion on the Minoan Culture of Crete. Quite a fascinating read thus far and the discussion in the second chapter on sheep farming was certainly most interesting considering the number of sheep we saw when we visited the British Isles. They imply contact between the ancient peoples of Briton and France and the Minoans who traded from the island of Crete along the Atlantic seaboard. The third chapter takes us to the Levant and proposes that the Philistines were the descendants of the Minoans who fled from Crete after the volcanic eruption on Thera.
Just back from another 10K bicycle ride. I am hoping to make it to Edmonton by the end of September on the virtual tour across Canada and I should be able to do so. My gear broke today whilst we were biking so will need to repair that before we go again. I need about 200,000 steps I think to make it to Edmonton.
I spent several hours entering books/booklets into Library Thing. We have nearly finished the living room and that is almost 550 books. We are going to enter the music CDs and the DVDs for genealogy into the database as well as the fiche that I have. That way we can search the excel file whenever we want to determine if we have something. We do not have too many duplicates fortunately but we have acquired a number of genealogy tools now and we may forget which ones we have. We can always look now and then check before we buy!
Today was a washing day so have that out on the line as well. Hopefully the roofers will come today to put up the new roof. We are looking forward to that before winter sets in here. Our roof was replaced about 15 years ago after a major ice storm which ripped holes in the shingles.
I am also reading a new book "The Knights Templar Revealed: The secrets of the Cistercean Legacy" by Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe. The beginning of the book takes us back to prehistoric times with a discussion on the Minoan Culture of Crete. Quite a fascinating read thus far and the discussion in the second chapter on sheep farming was certainly most interesting considering the number of sheep we saw when we visited the British Isles. They imply contact between the ancient peoples of Briton and France and the Minoans who traded from the island of Crete along the Atlantic seaboard. The third chapter takes us to the Levant and proposes that the Philistines were the descendants of the Minoans who fled from Crete after the volcanic eruption on Thera.
Just back from another 10K bicycle ride. I am hoping to make it to Edmonton by the end of September on the virtual tour across Canada and I should be able to do so. My gear broke today whilst we were biking so will need to repair that before we go again. I need about 200,000 steps I think to make it to Edmonton.
I spent several hours entering books/booklets into Library Thing. We have nearly finished the living room and that is almost 550 books. We are going to enter the music CDs and the DVDs for genealogy into the database as well as the fiche that I have. That way we can search the excel file whenever we want to determine if we have something. We do not have too many duplicates fortunately but we have acquired a number of genealogy tools now and we may forget which ones we have. We can always look now and then check before we buy!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Collateral Family
I ended up spending a goodly part of the day working on my 2nd cousin's family lines. When we visited them a year ago they were quite interested in the family tree work that I had done and expressed an interest in their family. I decided to extract their families' information and was quite successful at getting back to pre-census in just the one day. I passed it on to my cousin to see if he could find any errors or omissions.
I sent my old family images that we found the negatives for to my sister to work on. She has the original family albums but they were missing some of the pictures when we looked at them a couple of years ago. My husband photographed them in the 1970s so have shared those images with her. The big find was the picture of my father as a child of 3 in his sailor's uniform with his parents. I now have this excellent picture of my grandmother when she was about 30. Before this the pictures were of her when she was in her mid 40s and her ill health was starting to show. She died young at 64 years of age.
Tomorrow I need to get back to working on the Great Driffield records. My eyes were rather tired after my e hour session at the LDS and then another 3 hours at home.
I sent my old family images that we found the negatives for to my sister to work on. She has the original family albums but they were missing some of the pictures when we looked at them a couple of years ago. My husband photographed them in the 1970s so have shared those images with her. The big find was the picture of my father as a child of 3 in his sailor's uniform with his parents. I now have this excellent picture of my grandmother when she was about 30. Before this the pictures were of her when she was in her mid 40s and her ill health was starting to show. She died young at 64 years of age.
Tomorrow I need to get back to working on the Great Driffield records. My eyes were rather tired after my e hour session at the LDS and then another 3 hours at home.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Presentation and back to work - 20 Sep 2009
My presentation is complete and it was well received - about 20 questions which added to my talk as it explained a couple of items that I had put forward but not everyone understood the meaning. It is my last talk as I want to dedicate my time to transcriptions and working on my DNA projects plus I need to update my Genuki Hampshire webpages.
I purchased a couple of items at the Conference that I have been wanting - herald's visitations and maps of the Andover area of Hampshire and the Selworthy area of Somerset as pertains to my ancestors in these two counties. They are Ordnance Survey maps and quite excellent. There were quite a few vendors at the Conference and I spent a few minutes after my talk looking at their tables.
I want to work on the Hinxman v Blake document with an eye to completing it in the next couple of days. I also need to prepare to look at the Great Driffield film once again as we will visit the LDS library soon - my husband's Warlin film is in. I do not see that I will make much use of the St Mary Borne film as I photographed all the pages for Lambden and I do not think that this is my direct Lambden line. I am still inclined to think he was from Berkshire directly. However, solid proof of that would be most interesting at this stage.
I worked on the Hinxman v Blake document again last evening and I am on the third scan now (the last third of the rather large document). I have 14 lines to complete and then I can go back and fill in the blanks!
I purchased a couple of items at the Conference that I have been wanting - herald's visitations and maps of the Andover area of Hampshire and the Selworthy area of Somerset as pertains to my ancestors in these two counties. They are Ordnance Survey maps and quite excellent. There were quite a few vendors at the Conference and I spent a few minutes after my talk looking at their tables.
I want to work on the Hinxman v Blake document with an eye to completing it in the next couple of days. I also need to prepare to look at the Great Driffield film once again as we will visit the LDS library soon - my husband's Warlin film is in. I do not see that I will make much use of the St Mary Borne film as I photographed all the pages for Lambden and I do not think that this is my direct Lambden line. I am still inclined to think he was from Berkshire directly. However, solid proof of that would be most interesting at this stage.
I worked on the Hinxman v Blake document again last evening and I am on the third scan now (the last third of the rather large document). I have 14 lines to complete and then I can go back and fill in the blanks!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Beard family
Although I had the best of intentions yesterday to continue my transcription of the Hinxman v Blake document, I was definitely sidetracked with the Parish Records for Greater London now available on ancestry. I was checking out the wills for the Beard family and discovered a death for Jane Beard in 1820-21 on Ancestry. The area was good for Jane widow of Henry Beard my 4x great grandfather so I purchased the will and it was a goldmine of information on the Beard family mentioning my Christy Buller and his children as well as the married names of the two sisters of Mary Beard my 3x great grandmother and wife of Christy Buller.
As well we wanted to continue working on cleaning the kitchen so now we have just the recipe cupboard, the refrigerator, stove and three dish cabinets to clean out - the cupboards are basically finished. Once we have completed that and the last bookcase in the living room we can move on upstairs and continue cleaning there. We are "downsizing" somewhat as we clear away years of accumulated extras - we check first with our daughters and then out it goes to the Diabetes group or other groups that are collecting used household goods. It is nice to see them used since they still have life in them. Otherwise they are going out to the garbage. We have still a few large furniture items to eliminate - an old single bed with a good mattress which we will put out to the street when the "free day" is upon us when people just take whatever is out at the street line if they want it. Our television went last time as well as a good sized box of smaller items. It is such a good way to downsize and yet not throw things out that still can be used.
This morning again I was tempted by the Parish Registers but I think I may have gleaned everything that I can thus far without heavy line by line searching for the remaining people. I rather think I found Elizabeth Hemsley's parents - Thomas and Elizabeth Amsley - in St Mary Magdalen parish at Bermondsey where Elizabeth marries Henry Beard. There are Beard families there but it will take a longer search to discover if this is Henry's line. There are also Buller families there so I may yet discover my Christopher Buller's parents.
Tomorrow is my talk so I need to spend a little time just reviewing it one more time. I will be glad to be finished - it has been gnawing away at my brain for weeks. I am finding that I can not walk away from such items as easily as I could in the past. It tends to dominate my thinking.
I did discover the source of my great grandfather Edwin Denner Buller's middle name. One of Henry Christopher Buller's aunts (Edwin's father) was married to Michael Jacob Denner. Later on the census I find Michael Jacob Denner and he is a slop maker (naval uniforms) like Christopher Buller which was quite an interesting find. Michael is 87 years old when he died. His wife (Sarah Beard) died before 1841 as Michael is on the census with his sister Ann Denner. Later on the 1861 census Michael is listed with his wife Esther (Hawkins) whom he married June quarter 1852 at Bermondsey when he was 69 and she was 49. I can not find the children of Michael and Sarah Denner on any of the census - Henry John Denner and Sarah Jane Denner.
I didn't transcribe the will of Jane Beard yet as I want to return to the Hinxman v Blake document. It looks quite interesting but will take me a while to put together I suspect. It may explain though what happened to the Blake family at this time in Andover. I did manage to get through the first scan of the Hinxman v Blake document and about half way through the second.
We had the Charter Night dinner for the St Lawrence Branch of the United Empire Loyalists Assoication of Canada and attended with another couple that we do bus trips with. It is about a 1.5 hour drive down to the St Lawrence where the banquet was held. I do not have any UELs in my ancestry as my earliest ancestors to come to Canada were not here until 1818.
As well we wanted to continue working on cleaning the kitchen so now we have just the recipe cupboard, the refrigerator, stove and three dish cabinets to clean out - the cupboards are basically finished. Once we have completed that and the last bookcase in the living room we can move on upstairs and continue cleaning there. We are "downsizing" somewhat as we clear away years of accumulated extras - we check first with our daughters and then out it goes to the Diabetes group or other groups that are collecting used household goods. It is nice to see them used since they still have life in them. Otherwise they are going out to the garbage. We have still a few large furniture items to eliminate - an old single bed with a good mattress which we will put out to the street when the "free day" is upon us when people just take whatever is out at the street line if they want it. Our television went last time as well as a good sized box of smaller items. It is such a good way to downsize and yet not throw things out that still can be used.
This morning again I was tempted by the Parish Registers but I think I may have gleaned everything that I can thus far without heavy line by line searching for the remaining people. I rather think I found Elizabeth Hemsley's parents - Thomas and Elizabeth Amsley - in St Mary Magdalen parish at Bermondsey where Elizabeth marries Henry Beard. There are Beard families there but it will take a longer search to discover if this is Henry's line. There are also Buller families there so I may yet discover my Christopher Buller's parents.
Tomorrow is my talk so I need to spend a little time just reviewing it one more time. I will be glad to be finished - it has been gnawing away at my brain for weeks. I am finding that I can not walk away from such items as easily as I could in the past. It tends to dominate my thinking.
I did discover the source of my great grandfather Edwin Denner Buller's middle name. One of Henry Christopher Buller's aunts (Edwin's father) was married to Michael Jacob Denner. Later on the census I find Michael Jacob Denner and he is a slop maker (naval uniforms) like Christopher Buller which was quite an interesting find. Michael is 87 years old when he died. His wife (Sarah Beard) died before 1841 as Michael is on the census with his sister Ann Denner. Later on the 1861 census Michael is listed with his wife Esther (Hawkins) whom he married June quarter 1852 at Bermondsey when he was 69 and she was 49. I can not find the children of Michael and Sarah Denner on any of the census - Henry John Denner and Sarah Jane Denner.
I didn't transcribe the will of Jane Beard yet as I want to return to the Hinxman v Blake document. It looks quite interesting but will take me a while to put together I suspect. It may explain though what happened to the Blake family at this time in Andover. I did manage to get through the first scan of the Hinxman v Blake document and about half way through the second.
We had the Charter Night dinner for the St Lawrence Branch of the United Empire Loyalists Assoication of Canada and attended with another couple that we do bus trips with. It is about a 1.5 hour drive down to the St Lawrence where the banquet was held. I do not have any UELs in my ancestry as my earliest ancestors to come to Canada were not here until 1818.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Harland family
I am still working my way through my email of the last week or so and received a note on Genes Reunited about the Harland family. I realized that I hadn't responded to the receipt of the Harland information that I had had by email. I then worked up a chart to send off to my correspondent for my Harland line. I am working with the IGI and my correspondent's notes to add to my Legacy file. Amazingly, one of the descendants of the Leonard Harland line (brother to my Ann Harland married to Richard Sproxton) moved to Guelph Ontario Canada (I grew up at London about 1.5 hours away). It would appear though that Ann Harland was "lost" after she married Richard Sproxton. Ann's daughter Ann Sproxton married John Cobb at Lund and likely the families simply lost contact.
I continued working through the new data that had been sent to me entering it into Legacy as I checked it against the census and parish registers. The family is medium sized and surprisingly a line of Harland emigrated to Guelph, Ontario, Canada in the late 1800s! I wonder if they knew that Robert Gray had emigrated to Canada (London Township, Middlesex County) in the 1830s. They would have been second cousins. I can never remember anyone mentioning that we had relatives in Guelph so I suspect that they did not know of each other.
My legacy file is 11797 members with 3399 families and I am up to 79 sources for the proofs of my ancestors back to my 3x great grandparents. I will soon begin to enter the proofs for my 4x great grandparents. I am gradually accumulating all the information before I begin. My Blake line is easy as is my King line but I decided that I would look at all of them before I start to enter proofs. That way I can just work continuously on the four x great grandparents in order to retain consistency.
Today I will continue to look at the Harland family but will also be working on my lecture as it is on Sunday next. It is running around 60 minutes (I have 75 minutes which includes questions). I expect I will run to about 65 minutes leaving 10 minutes for questions but I am going to have lunch with the group so that people can drop by my table and ask questions one on one if they wish. It will be my last talk and I am looking forward to that. I find it simply takes up too much of my time and energy preparing for talks. There are also lots of people speaking on DNA now and my reason for becoming involved initially was to help advertise DNA as a genealogical research tool.
Ancestry has now made the registers for Greater London available and my day was spent looking at them. More details tomorrow on my Buller/Beard finds. I never expected to find Henry Christopher Buller's first wife and the children from his first marriage. Christopher Buller appears to have married a second time after his wife Mary Beard Buller died in 1806.
I continued working through the new data that had been sent to me entering it into Legacy as I checked it against the census and parish registers. The family is medium sized and surprisingly a line of Harland emigrated to Guelph, Ontario, Canada in the late 1800s! I wonder if they knew that Robert Gray had emigrated to Canada (London Township, Middlesex County) in the 1830s. They would have been second cousins. I can never remember anyone mentioning that we had relatives in Guelph so I suspect that they did not know of each other.
My legacy file is 11797 members with 3399 families and I am up to 79 sources for the proofs of my ancestors back to my 3x great grandparents. I will soon begin to enter the proofs for my 4x great grandparents. I am gradually accumulating all the information before I begin. My Blake line is easy as is my King line but I decided that I would look at all of them before I start to enter proofs. That way I can just work continuously on the four x great grandparents in order to retain consistency.
Today I will continue to look at the Harland family but will also be working on my lecture as it is on Sunday next. It is running around 60 minutes (I have 75 minutes which includes questions). I expect I will run to about 65 minutes leaving 10 minutes for questions but I am going to have lunch with the group so that people can drop by my table and ask questions one on one if they wish. It will be my last talk and I am looking forward to that. I find it simply takes up too much of my time and energy preparing for talks. There are also lots of people speaking on DNA now and my reason for becoming involved initially was to help advertise DNA as a genealogical research tool.
Ancestry has now made the registers for Greater London available and my day was spent looking at them. More details tomorrow on my Buller/Beard finds. I never expected to find Henry Christopher Buller's first wife and the children from his first marriage. Christopher Buller appears to have married a second time after his wife Mary Beard Buller died in 1806.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Harland Family at Great Driffield
My new found Harland cousin and I have written back and forth through Genes Reunited - a marvelous program. Australian Harland cousins came to Yorkshire looking for their Harland ancestors (also descended from Timothy as we are) and that was the reason for going to the record office to see what they could find. The records are difficult and the microfilm runs baptisms, marriages and burials in blocks of time. I have imaged (my husband did quite a bit this last visit) up to the mid 1700s now and will begin extracting all the Harland references. My latest reading showed a Timothy Harland marriage around 1700 so I now have two possible fathers for our Timothy bc 1700. I haven't found a baptism though around 1700 but rather one in 1687 for Timothy son of John Harland and Elizabeth Cooper. Once all the data is assembled we will be able to look at all of the records for the Harland family in the BMBs and then we can look at other records to see what we can put together.
I am also working on a rather large document for the Hinxman and Blake families at Andover. I would like to get back to that today but also need to work on my DNA talk. I am so looking forward to completing this pledge to give the lecture - it will be my last. It simply takes up too much time as I would like to narrow my focus to the projects that most interest me in DNA and one cannot do these as a public talk in most instances as they are simply too specialized. There are others who are doing these projects as academic research projects and they will present them at various conferences in the future. I shall just do my small part in them and garner the information that I most desire from them.
I ended up spending the day on my talk. I needed to update a couple of slides and then I inserted a couple of explanation slides since this is a society looking at the British Isles. All of my ancestors being from England itself rather than from Scotland, Wales, or Ireland makes my talk a little one sided except for my husband's 3x great grandmother - an orphaned Irish girl from Dublin who came to Halifax in 1779 at the age of eight. All in all I am satisfied with the talk although will go over it every day until I give it just to see if everything is flowing well. Saying it outloud helps me in that regard.
Tomorrow I will go over my talk again and carry on with the transcription of Hinxman versus Blake. I am finding it an interesting document. I may also download the other two Question wills (Augustine Question and Andrew Question).
I am also working on a rather large document for the Hinxman and Blake families at Andover. I would like to get back to that today but also need to work on my DNA talk. I am so looking forward to completing this pledge to give the lecture - it will be my last. It simply takes up too much time as I would like to narrow my focus to the projects that most interest me in DNA and one cannot do these as a public talk in most instances as they are simply too specialized. There are others who are doing these projects as academic research projects and they will present them at various conferences in the future. I shall just do my small part in them and garner the information that I most desire from them.
I ended up spending the day on my talk. I needed to update a couple of slides and then I inserted a couple of explanation slides since this is a society looking at the British Isles. All of my ancestors being from England itself rather than from Scotland, Wales, or Ireland makes my talk a little one sided except for my husband's 3x great grandmother - an orphaned Irish girl from Dublin who came to Halifax in 1779 at the age of eight. All in all I am satisfied with the talk although will go over it every day until I give it just to see if everything is flowing well. Saying it outloud helps me in that regard.
Tomorrow I will go over my talk again and carry on with the transcription of Hinxman versus Blake. I am finding it an interesting document. I may also download the other two Question wills (Augustine Question and Andrew Question).
Monday, September 14, 2009
United Church Archives
We had the opportunity to look at the United Church Archives in Toronto Ontario. I wanted to check and see if there were any entries for my missing Pincombe baptisms although did not expect to find them here but wanted to be sure to leave no stone unturned. I was correct; no entries. My families are all Anglican until my maternal grandfather decided to baptize his children in the Methodist Church.
We also spent some time looking through the records available for East Gwillimbury for Link entries (my husband is missing one of his 2x great grandmothers married to John Link who was known to have been at East Gwillimbury and possibly married there. No luck in that regard as no records available. Our next look will be at Kingston, Ontario Diocese Archives. Marriages had to be performed by an Anglican priest in the early days unless one lived outside of the stated distance from an Anglican priest.
My husband presented all of his new Schulz family information at the Family Reunion. It ended up being quite a bit of material although he still has a number of records to sort through and see if they offer any more clues to this family. The Warlin Parish Registers are ordered and may help with the Niemann family. The next one to order would appear to be for Teschendorf.
Tomorrow I wanted to work on my email as I am behind in writing replies to people. I also will spend time doing last minute updates to my lecture. It will be my last lecture fortunately. I just have too much else that I would like to work at and there are lots of people to speak on DNA now so I can slip back into anonymity. I am looking forward to just working away on my own material and helping people in my family circle since their details are an assist to me as well.
We also spent some time looking through the records available for East Gwillimbury for Link entries (my husband is missing one of his 2x great grandmothers married to John Link who was known to have been at East Gwillimbury and possibly married there. No luck in that regard as no records available. Our next look will be at Kingston, Ontario Diocese Archives. Marriages had to be performed by an Anglican priest in the early days unless one lived outside of the stated distance from an Anglican priest.
My husband presented all of his new Schulz family information at the Family Reunion. It ended up being quite a bit of material although he still has a number of records to sort through and see if they offer any more clues to this family. The Warlin Parish Registers are ordered and may help with the Niemann family. The next one to order would appear to be for Teschendorf.
Tomorrow I wanted to work on my email as I am behind in writing replies to people. I also will spend time doing last minute updates to my lecture. It will be my last lecture fortunately. I just have too much else that I would like to work at and there are lots of people to speak on DNA now so I can slip back into anonymity. I am looking forward to just working away on my own material and helping people in my family circle since their details are an assist to me as well.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Lambden - St Mary Bourne
I am amazed at the speed with which we are now at 13 September since my last blog post was the 6 September. Labour Day monday was a labour free day for me as we decided to bike and took a long ride. Then we watched JAG. Tuesday we watched JAG once again. Wednesday we went to the LDS library where my St Mary Bourne film had arrived and I wanted to image more of the Great Driffield film. Ed filmed Great Driffied from the burials 1653 up to the 1753 and included the baptisms and marriages from 1703 on. That was over 500 images and I shall have to read through them before going to the LDS once again. My Sproxton line was at Great Driffield well into the 1800s. My own direct line had moved on to Lund by the mid 1700s.
St Mary Bourne was a typed manuscript (which I knew) and is the only record that the LDS holds. I wanted to look at it before I ordered the fiche for St Mary Bourne from the Hampshire Record Office. There isn't a Nathanael/Nathaniel Lambden listed there and now I need to decide whether I should start moving further afield from Bradfield Berkshire by ordering the Thatcham Berkshire film or buy the St Mary Bourne film and transcribe it for myself. There are quite a few baptisms, marriages and burials at St Mary Bourne extended back into the early 1600s and the Lambden family continues there into the 1800s. Some of these Lambden members move to Andover and are found there in the mid 1700s along with my Nathanael Lambden family. I shall think it over for a week or so whilst we wait for the Warlin film to arrive for Ed. He is researching his Niemann family there and we found those entries on the IGI now that we have the full name for the father of Rachel Niemann (Ed's great grandmother).
Today is a very busy day so will have to complete the week's blog tomorrow.
I have to work on my talk this next week - I want to check for any new information on my studies. It will be nice to complete my talk as it tends to wake me up in the night - I practise in my sleep however not on purpose - it is simply my way of preparing for a talk.
St Mary Bourne was a typed manuscript (which I knew) and is the only record that the LDS holds. I wanted to look at it before I ordered the fiche for St Mary Bourne from the Hampshire Record Office. There isn't a Nathanael/Nathaniel Lambden listed there and now I need to decide whether I should start moving further afield from Bradfield Berkshire by ordering the Thatcham Berkshire film or buy the St Mary Bourne film and transcribe it for myself. There are quite a few baptisms, marriages and burials at St Mary Bourne extended back into the early 1600s and the Lambden family continues there into the 1800s. Some of these Lambden members move to Andover and are found there in the mid 1700s along with my Nathanael Lambden family. I shall think it over for a week or so whilst we wait for the Warlin film to arrive for Ed. He is researching his Niemann family there and we found those entries on the IGI now that we have the full name for the father of Rachel Niemann (Ed's great grandmother).
Today is a very busy day so will have to complete the week's blog tomorrow.
I have to work on my talk this next week - I want to check for any new information on my studies. It will be nice to complete my talk as it tends to wake me up in the night - I practise in my sleep however not on purpose - it is simply my way of preparing for a talk.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Siderfin Family of Selworthy
The question that begs to be answered is "Who is the father of Robert Siderfin born 3 August 1658 and baptized 23 August 1658 at Selworthy?". Why does the priest record his birth? Does he consider this family to be significant? In that case is this Robert a descendant of the William Siderfin and Wilmot Webber line and they married 5 Feb 1610 at Luxborough? There is a Robert born/baptized 1620 and whose death is listed as 1675 and he has son Robert and John (no dates given). I now need to investigate the source of that information as it dates back to my very early days in genealogy when I would enter items that I found extraneously without including detailed source accounts. The information does not come from Sander's book so that leaves me with my wills fiche that I purchased for Somerset and I want to check there for Question so will also check other Siderfin wills that are listed there.
Unravelling this puzzle, I looked at the will abstracts that I have on fiche and an interesting will for Richard Blackford (mentioned in Sander's book)
Richard Blackford, of Dunster, Somerset, one of the King's Masters Extraordinary in the Court of Chancery. Will dates Jan 8, 1688, proved Apr 4, 1689 by Elizabeth Blackford, the relict [is this perhaps the Elizabeth Blackford mentioned as the wife of Robert Siderfin (perhaps marrying him as a widow?)]. My son William. My daughter Sidwell Blackford [married Thomas Dyke later]. My sister Mary Coffin. My sister Christian Blackford. My cousin John Quirck. My cousin Robert Siderfin. My sister Hawkins. My son in law Edward Dyke. My daughter Elizabeth Dyke.
The question is how is he related to Robert Siderfin and which Robert Siderfin is this?
Recalling the earlier information in this time period:
Protestation Returns and Tax Subsidies.
Protestation Returns - 1641-42
Sidderfin Thomas gent Carhampton 1.
Sidderfin Robert Luxborough 2.
Sidderfin Thomas Luxborough 3.
Siderfin William overseer Luxborough 4.
Sidderfin Robert Minehead 5.
Sidderfin John Selworthy 6.
Subsidy 1641-42
Surname Forename Suffix s d Parish
Syderfyn Thos gent 5 6 Carhampton 7.
Syderfyn Thomas 11 Cutcombe 8.
Syderfin Cristian 6 8 Luxborow Everard 9.
Syderfin William 4 8 Luxborow Everard 10.
Syderfyn Thomas 4 6 Minehead 11.
Syderfyn Robert rater 4 7 Minehead 12.
Syderfyn Robert sen 4 Timberscombe 13.
Syderfyn Robert jun 3 Timberscombe 14.
Syderfyn Wm rater 8 1 Treborough Browne 15.
Syderfyn Robert 13 6 Wotton Courtney 16.
We appear to have two Robert Siderfin's who would be similar in age to Richard Blackford - one at Minehead and one at Timberscombe paying subsidy/Luccombe on the Protestation Returns. On a map these two villages lie at opposite ends of a large valley which could lend credence to the thought that it is a matter of convenience as to whether they would attend at Timberscombe or Luxborough for the Protestation Returns although they pay subsidy for Timberscombe.
To be continued.
Unravelling this puzzle, I looked at the will abstracts that I have on fiche and an interesting will for Richard Blackford (mentioned in Sander's book)
Richard Blackford, of Dunster, Somerset, one of the King's Masters Extraordinary in the Court of Chancery. Will dates Jan 8, 1688, proved Apr 4, 1689 by Elizabeth Blackford, the relict [is this perhaps the Elizabeth Blackford mentioned as the wife of Robert Siderfin (perhaps marrying him as a widow?)]. My son William. My daughter Sidwell Blackford [married Thomas Dyke later]. My sister Mary Coffin. My sister Christian Blackford. My cousin John Quirck. My cousin Robert Siderfin. My sister Hawkins. My son in law Edward Dyke. My daughter Elizabeth Dyke.
The question is how is he related to Robert Siderfin and which Robert Siderfin is this?
Recalling the earlier information in this time period:
Protestation Returns and Tax Subsidies.
Protestation Returns - 1641-42
Sidderfin Thomas gent Carhampton 1.
Sidderfin Robert Luxborough 2.
Sidderfin Thomas Luxborough 3.
Siderfin William overseer Luxborough 4.
Sidderfin Robert Minehead 5.
Sidderfin John Selworthy 6.
Subsidy 1641-42
Surname Forename Suffix s d Parish
Syderfyn Thos gent 5 6 Carhampton 7.
Syderfyn Thomas 11 Cutcombe 8.
Syderfin Cristian 6 8 Luxborow Everard 9.
Syderfin William 4 8 Luxborow Everard 10.
Syderfyn Thomas 4 6 Minehead 11.
Syderfyn Robert rater 4 7 Minehead 12.
Syderfyn Robert sen 4 Timberscombe 13.
Syderfyn Robert jun 3 Timberscombe 14.
Syderfyn Wm rater 8 1 Treborough Browne 15.
Syderfyn Robert 13 6 Wotton Courtney 16.
We appear to have two Robert Siderfin's who would be similar in age to Richard Blackford - one at Minehead and one at Timberscombe paying subsidy/Luccombe on the Protestation Returns. On a map these two villages lie at opposite ends of a large valley which could lend credence to the thought that it is a matter of convenience as to whether they would attend at Timberscombe or Luxborough for the Protestation Returns although they pay subsidy for Timberscombe.
To be continued.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Online and the Siderfin-Question Family
My daughter is online and it only took the technician about 20 minutes - great service.
I asked a question about the Siderfin family because of a post on the Devon list which was referring to the Blackford family of Selworthy. James Hooper Sanders in his book "The Siderfin Family of West Somerset" mentions that Robert Siderfin's wife was Elizabeth Blackford. I haven't been able to verify this at all but a post mentioned the Blackford family and I thought I would ask the question about the Blackford family and the Siderfin family.
Simultaneously I received an email from a descendant of the Short family of Minehead. Initially I thought that this was in response to my post on Devon but it was an entirely a coincidence. The Short family is mentioned in James Sanders book in relation to the Quircke family which had married into the Siderfin family of Minehead. Alice (Quircke) Siderfin in her will mentions her Short cousins. However, I had not been able to link these families to my Robert Siderfin. I have now been provided with the evidence that Elizabeth Question (daughter of Augustine Question) was the wife of Robert Siderfin and the mother of Augustine Siderfin (amongst others). I am still limited by the name of the husband of Thomasine (grandmother of Augustine Siderfin). But gradually the family is coming together and the mistakes of James' book are getting corrected. Again the will of Thomasine is mentioned in James' book but I haven't found a copy of the full text yet. She mentions son Robert and cousin Robert Siderfin of Linch. Her husband's name is Robert according to James Sander's book and born 3 August 1658 at Selworthy and baptized 23 August 1658 at Selworthy. He then has a second wife for the same Robert born/baptized 1658 at Selworthy as Elizabeth Blackford which we now know to be erroneous because of Thomasine's will which he quotes! What could make sense is that Thomasine is married to the father of Robert born/baptized 1658 at Selworthy but is this man John Siderfin born/baptized 11 Apr 1619 at Wootton Courtney and the son of Robert Siderfin and Ursula Webber who married 23 July 1612 at Luxborough Somerset? Thomasine's will is dated 2nd July 1709. All of her grandchildren are born by this date and her son Robert was born 1658 and if she was 20 - 30 when he was born would give her a birth/baptism date of 1628 - 1638. She only mentions one son so has either outlived the rest (who left no heirs) or he was her only son so perhaps she was older which would make John Siderfin born/baptized 1619 a likely husband. In 1709 her eldest grandson is 24 years old. John Siderfin's descendants are known to be John born/baptized 15 Jul 1656 at Wootton Courtney and born/baptized 1660 at Minehead. Given that the two sons are not both born/baptized at Wootton Courtney is it possible that this Robert was the middle son? The confusing item though is referring to Robert Siderfin at Linch as a cousin since this is a descendant of John Siderfin (referred to above) and would be her grandson by this argument. Still more documents to find to sort this one out!
I spent a little time putting the Question family together from the will of Augustine Question which I learned about from the email correspondent and then downloaded from The National Archives website. There are a couple more wills that will be this same family according to the Poor Law Records that I photographed at Salt Lake City. I had copied the Poor Law records for Dunster when we were at Salt Lake City and I found my Augustine Question there in 1680. I do not know when Augustine moved to Carhampton but may be able to determine this from the Poor Law. I only transcribed one set of them thus far and I have a number of years worth which I will put up on my blog when I get them transcribed.
Consequently I did not spend any more time on Dorothy Hinxman's will today but will do so tomorrow. I have commenced the transcription of the first copy in 1667.
We worked on the Schultz family this afternoon for a while. They have been an interesting study and I have learned a lot about German records along the way. My husband has now looked at the Staven and Brohm films quite closely extracting all of his Schultz and Niemann families there. The next hint takes us to Warlin and he has ordered that film and I am hoping that it comes in early next week but may take another week.
We have two films on order at the Family History Centre here and my St Mary Bourne has now come in so I will go in next week to view it. I need to film the Great Driffield for the burials from 1653 to the mid 1700s and the baptisms and marriages from 1700 to the mid 1750s. I may continue filming Great Driffield to bring me up to the 1800s and perhaps further in as well since the Sproxton family continues to live in Great Driffield into the late 1800s (and I need to look at the 1900s).
The St Mary Bourne is my Lambden family that I am still trying to sort out. I ordered the Bradfield film (Berkshire) and could not conclude anything about the Nathanael Lambden baptized there at an appropriate time so I will now look at the Lambden family of St Mary Bourne who are found later at Andover. The IGI does not list a Nathanael there. This will be an interesting study as well. My 4x great grandmother Elizabeth Lambden Farmer was baptized in 1768 and died in 1862, My grandfather used to talk about his great grandmother who was nearly 100 when she died. He was born in 1875 so just 13 years after she died. His grandmother Farmer (her daughter) lived to be 89 and was well known to my grandfather and he learned a lot about his Farmer family from her but not enough to help me find Isaac Farmer (father of Ann Farmer Blake). Ann was only four years old when her father died so may not have known her Farmer relatives very well.
Tomorrow I shall continue transcribing Dorothy Hinxman's will and take a peak at the Dunster Poor Law Records.
I asked a question about the Siderfin family because of a post on the Devon list which was referring to the Blackford family of Selworthy. James Hooper Sanders in his book "The Siderfin Family of West Somerset" mentions that Robert Siderfin's wife was Elizabeth Blackford. I haven't been able to verify this at all but a post mentioned the Blackford family and I thought I would ask the question about the Blackford family and the Siderfin family.
Simultaneously I received an email from a descendant of the Short family of Minehead. Initially I thought that this was in response to my post on Devon but it was an entirely a coincidence. The Short family is mentioned in James Sanders book in relation to the Quircke family which had married into the Siderfin family of Minehead. Alice (Quircke) Siderfin in her will mentions her Short cousins. However, I had not been able to link these families to my Robert Siderfin. I have now been provided with the evidence that Elizabeth Question (daughter of Augustine Question) was the wife of Robert Siderfin and the mother of Augustine Siderfin (amongst others). I am still limited by the name of the husband of Thomasine (grandmother of Augustine Siderfin). But gradually the family is coming together and the mistakes of James' book are getting corrected. Again the will of Thomasine is mentioned in James' book but I haven't found a copy of the full text yet. She mentions son Robert and cousin Robert Siderfin of Linch. Her husband's name is Robert according to James Sander's book and born 3 August 1658 at Selworthy and baptized 23 August 1658 at Selworthy. He then has a second wife for the same Robert born/baptized 1658 at Selworthy as Elizabeth Blackford which we now know to be erroneous because of Thomasine's will which he quotes! What could make sense is that Thomasine is married to the father of Robert born/baptized 1658 at Selworthy but is this man John Siderfin born/baptized 11 Apr 1619 at Wootton Courtney and the son of Robert Siderfin and Ursula Webber who married 23 July 1612 at Luxborough Somerset? Thomasine's will is dated 2nd July 1709. All of her grandchildren are born by this date and her son Robert was born 1658 and if she was 20 - 30 when he was born would give her a birth/baptism date of 1628 - 1638. She only mentions one son so has either outlived the rest (who left no heirs) or he was her only son so perhaps she was older which would make John Siderfin born/baptized 1619 a likely husband. In 1709 her eldest grandson is 24 years old. John Siderfin's descendants are known to be John born/baptized 15 Jul 1656 at Wootton Courtney and born/baptized 1660 at Minehead. Given that the two sons are not both born/baptized at Wootton Courtney is it possible that this Robert was the middle son? The confusing item though is referring to Robert Siderfin at Linch as a cousin since this is a descendant of John Siderfin (referred to above) and would be her grandson by this argument. Still more documents to find to sort this one out!
I spent a little time putting the Question family together from the will of Augustine Question which I learned about from the email correspondent and then downloaded from The National Archives website. There are a couple more wills that will be this same family according to the Poor Law Records that I photographed at Salt Lake City. I had copied the Poor Law records for Dunster when we were at Salt Lake City and I found my Augustine Question there in 1680. I do not know when Augustine moved to Carhampton but may be able to determine this from the Poor Law. I only transcribed one set of them thus far and I have a number of years worth which I will put up on my blog when I get them transcribed.
Consequently I did not spend any more time on Dorothy Hinxman's will today but will do so tomorrow. I have commenced the transcription of the first copy in 1667.
We worked on the Schultz family this afternoon for a while. They have been an interesting study and I have learned a lot about German records along the way. My husband has now looked at the Staven and Brohm films quite closely extracting all of his Schultz and Niemann families there. The next hint takes us to Warlin and he has ordered that film and I am hoping that it comes in early next week but may take another week.
We have two films on order at the Family History Centre here and my St Mary Bourne has now come in so I will go in next week to view it. I need to film the Great Driffield for the burials from 1653 to the mid 1700s and the baptisms and marriages from 1700 to the mid 1750s. I may continue filming Great Driffield to bring me up to the 1800s and perhaps further in as well since the Sproxton family continues to live in Great Driffield into the late 1800s (and I need to look at the 1900s).
The St Mary Bourne is my Lambden family that I am still trying to sort out. I ordered the Bradfield film (Berkshire) and could not conclude anything about the Nathanael Lambden baptized there at an appropriate time so I will now look at the Lambden family of St Mary Bourne who are found later at Andover. The IGI does not list a Nathanael there. This will be an interesting study as well. My 4x great grandmother Elizabeth Lambden Farmer was baptized in 1768 and died in 1862, My grandfather used to talk about his great grandmother who was nearly 100 when she died. He was born in 1875 so just 13 years after she died. His grandmother Farmer (her daughter) lived to be 89 and was well known to my grandfather and he learned a lot about his Farmer family from her but not enough to help me find Isaac Farmer (father of Ann Farmer Blake). Ann was only four years old when her father died so may not have known her Farmer relatives very well.
Tomorrow I shall continue transcribing Dorothy Hinxman's will and take a peak at the Dunster Poor Law Records.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
43rd Wedding Anniversary
We just celebrated our 43rd Wedding Anniversary. We were married on a rainy day where the sun suddenly shone as we were exiting the Church. Consequently our pictures show a slightly gray sky. It is hard to believe that in just 7 years we could be married to 50 years. I will be 70 years old. My husband and I put together a binder to commemorate my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. It was my first foray into genealogy and the only until I decided to research my ancestors after a trip to England in November 2001. Being on "home" turf stirred up in my an interest in my ancestors that hasn't waned in the ensuing eight years.
I started my first courses in genealogy in July 2003 and 42 courses later I have completed my PLCGS (Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies - Methodology, English Records and Canadian Records) as of May 2007. During that time I also completed my DNA study of my mtDNA and our yDNA (one of my brothers tested our line). I am heavily involved in several DNA projects as co-investigator and we are in the stages of writing up our information. I am also giving my last lecture on Genealogy (a DNA Case Study) looking at my own family lines as well as a couple of my husband's lines. I have the lecture running around in my head at the moment and shall be quite happy to have given it so that it ceases to run about! I tend to do it without notes so necessitates my committing certain aspects to memory and adding in the details in between as they come to my brain whilst I am speaking. It is a 75 minute talk with about 10 minutes of questions at the end. I shall be quite exhausted - my days of giving long talks are going to be in the past. I would rather spend my time transcribing and publishing.
Yesterday a marvelous indenture from 1630 was circulated to the Routledge group. I input the information into an Excel file and now have a neat list of Routledge land occupiers at Bewcastle - 19 Routledge occupiers are listed (Alexander, Allan, Christopher, Cuthbert, Edward, Elizabeth, George, John, Richard, Robert (2), Rowland, Thomas (5), William (2)). Several gave relationships - Thomas was the son of George, Elizabeth the sister of William. In 1604 there were 51 Routledge names on the 1604 Land Survey (Adam (3), Alexander, Andrew (2), Anthony, Archibald, Clement, Cuthbert (3), Edward (3), Francis, George (3), James (4), Jenkin, Jerrat (2), Jock, John (5), Quintain (2), Richard (4), Simon (2), Thomas (6), and William (6)) and 23 on the 1641-42 Protestation Returns (Adam, Bartholomew, Christopher, Edward (3), Francis,
George (2), Gilbert, James, Michael, Nicholas, Quinton, Richard, Rowland, Thomas (4), and William (3)). Finding 19 in 1630 is very interesting. The variety in names is also interesting - on the 1604 Land Survey fathers are listed as: Adam, Allan, Andrew, Archibald, George, James, Jarret, Jeffrey, John, Martin, Nicholas, Quintin, Quintaine, Richard, Robert, Rowland, Thomas, and William (total of 18 different names (there may be two men of the same forename as fathers - impossible to tell at this point)). The 1630 lists the men at Oakshaw which would appear to be my line certainly in the latter part of the 1600s and from the naming of location in the Parish Registers.
There was also a will for James Routledge (son of George) who lived at Ashes in the Bailey. He lists his sons as Francis, James and George, daughter as Ellner, brothers as Thomas and Richard, sister Elizabeth married to Foster. His wife is named Eleanor (no maiden name given). He has friends Thomas, Archibald and Cuthbert Routledge, Edward Routledge is a witness. This will was proved in 1617 thus giving us some more relationships to work into the chart. I will draw up a large Routledge chart today.
I always say it is somewhat perplexing to be able to trace so many lines - it is easier not to be able to trace some of them! My mother left me with a lot of verbal stories about her ancestors that had been told to her. Her father died when she was only eight years old and likely attending various family events as a child after that left a great impression on her mind so that she retained many of the stories that she heard about family members.
Today we freeze tomatoes and clean house. Probably I will get back to genealogy later!
I started my first courses in genealogy in July 2003 and 42 courses later I have completed my PLCGS (Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies - Methodology, English Records and Canadian Records) as of May 2007. During that time I also completed my DNA study of my mtDNA and our yDNA (one of my brothers tested our line). I am heavily involved in several DNA projects as co-investigator and we are in the stages of writing up our information. I am also giving my last lecture on Genealogy (a DNA Case Study) looking at my own family lines as well as a couple of my husband's lines. I have the lecture running around in my head at the moment and shall be quite happy to have given it so that it ceases to run about! I tend to do it without notes so necessitates my committing certain aspects to memory and adding in the details in between as they come to my brain whilst I am speaking. It is a 75 minute talk with about 10 minutes of questions at the end. I shall be quite exhausted - my days of giving long talks are going to be in the past. I would rather spend my time transcribing and publishing.
Yesterday a marvelous indenture from 1630 was circulated to the Routledge group. I input the information into an Excel file and now have a neat list of Routledge land occupiers at Bewcastle - 19 Routledge occupiers are listed (Alexander, Allan, Christopher, Cuthbert, Edward, Elizabeth, George, John, Richard, Robert (2), Rowland, Thomas (5), William (2)). Several gave relationships - Thomas was the son of George, Elizabeth the sister of William. In 1604 there were 51 Routledge names on the 1604 Land Survey (Adam (3), Alexander, Andrew (2), Anthony, Archibald, Clement, Cuthbert (3), Edward (3), Francis, George (3), James (4), Jenkin, Jerrat (2), Jock, John (5), Quintain (2), Richard (4), Simon (2), Thomas (6), and William (6)) and 23 on the 1641-42 Protestation Returns (Adam, Bartholomew, Christopher, Edward (3), Francis,
George (2), Gilbert, James, Michael, Nicholas, Quinton, Richard, Rowland, Thomas (4), and William (3)). Finding 19 in 1630 is very interesting. The variety in names is also interesting - on the 1604 Land Survey fathers are listed as: Adam, Allan, Andrew, Archibald, George, James, Jarret, Jeffrey, John, Martin, Nicholas, Quintin, Quintaine, Richard, Robert, Rowland, Thomas, and William (total of 18 different names (there may be two men of the same forename as fathers - impossible to tell at this point)). The 1630 lists the men at Oakshaw which would appear to be my line certainly in the latter part of the 1600s and from the naming of location in the Parish Registers.
There was also a will for James Routledge (son of George) who lived at Ashes in the Bailey. He lists his sons as Francis, James and George, daughter as Ellner, brothers as Thomas and Richard, sister Elizabeth married to Foster. His wife is named Eleanor (no maiden name given). He has friends Thomas, Archibald and Cuthbert Routledge, Edward Routledge is a witness. This will was proved in 1617 thus giving us some more relationships to work into the chart. I will draw up a large Routledge chart today.
I always say it is somewhat perplexing to be able to trace so many lines - it is easier not to be able to trace some of them! My mother left me with a lot of verbal stories about her ancestors that had been told to her. Her father died when she was only eight years old and likely attending various family events as a child after that left a great impression on her mind so that she retained many of the stories that she heard about family members.
Today we freeze tomatoes and clean house. Probably I will get back to genealogy later!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Library Thing and the Gray family of ERY
We spent the day before yesterday dusting (I with my face mask as I sneeze with dust!) and today I will enter the bookcase that we dusted into Library Thing. This is a marvelous tool that lets you have a public or a private library. Most of our books are very old now but we enjoy them. Our newest ones are all on genealogy and we tend to go to a CD/DVD if one is available in preference to buying a book. We have literally thousands of books so much so that our youngest child at the age of seven asked if we lived in a library! Nothing particularly old rather just interesting books that have been published during the last 43 years.
I worked on Great Driffield yesterday as I heard back from a researcher on the Harland family (her grandmother was a Harland) and she has been into the record office there looking at records. She traces back to Timothy Harland bc 1700 and possibly at Great Driffield and has listed Thomas (the other individual I found baptizing children at Great Driffield) as the brother of Timothy and both sons of a Timothy Harland. This is exciting information and I want to review the film between 1612 and early 1700s when I can get to the family history centre.
I need to work on updates for my talk as well. I am working hard at staying well as I was sick the last talk that I was to give. This will be my first talk in over a year and my last talk. I find they simply take up too much of my time. I am slipping away from being an "authority" on DNA because I want to spend more time on record searching. Amazing that DNA really enticed me into genealogy but in order to really find my family lines I must do all the hard work of reading census, parish records etc on the microfilm/microfiche readers!
I have at least a year's worth of data to transcribe and enter into my records still remaining (the rest of the material collected at Salt Lake City and the new material collected at the Allen County Public Library). I am very pleased with my collections of data. The camera has proved to be an awesome genealogical tool.
I am focusing on the Gray/Cobb family at the moment and their ancestors in the East Riding of York and the parishes of Great Driffield, Hutton Cranswick, Holme on the Wolds, Kilnwick on the Wolds, Etton, Lund, and Cherry Burton for the moment. That almost seems like enough. I have now given Hutton Cranswick Parish Registers a very long look and my husband filmed from the beginning to the 1750s so I can have a longer look now that I know the Gray family was located there and I do not know if it is my Gray family since they do not appear at Cherry Burton until 1710. I am in the midst for Great Driffield and will eventually have the registers copied from the 1550s to the 1800s before I have completed my study.
Cherry Burton early parish register transcriptions are online. I have looked at Lund in the 1700s and 1800s but would like a longer look now. I have briefly glanced at Kilnwick on the Wolds and need a longer look. I have checked Holme on the Wolds for my Gray family and they only appear to be there in the 1770s for the two baptisms. I would need a longer look there as well. Lund and Etton also have had a look in the time frame I was interested in and it may be that I need to look at these two films later as well. I need to relook at Cherry Burton on ancestry for the Gray family.
The relook at Cherry Burton parish registers on Ancestry yielded 14 pages of text where I extracted all the Gray/Grey, Stevenson/Stephenson and Constable entries. These being the names that I have thus far associated with Cherry Burton. I will put the information into families as I find Mary Constable who married Thomas Hilton and their only child Jane who married Robert Grey may well be from Cherry Burton. A little more information on this line would be helpful. They married at Beverley.
Today I shall continue entering books into Library Thing. I may have overestimated the number of books we actually have plus we have given away some boxes of books.
I worked on Great Driffield yesterday as I heard back from a researcher on the Harland family (her grandmother was a Harland) and she has been into the record office there looking at records. She traces back to Timothy Harland bc 1700 and possibly at Great Driffield and has listed Thomas (the other individual I found baptizing children at Great Driffield) as the brother of Timothy and both sons of a Timothy Harland. This is exciting information and I want to review the film between 1612 and early 1700s when I can get to the family history centre.
I need to work on updates for my talk as well. I am working hard at staying well as I was sick the last talk that I was to give. This will be my first talk in over a year and my last talk. I find they simply take up too much of my time. I am slipping away from being an "authority" on DNA because I want to spend more time on record searching. Amazing that DNA really enticed me into genealogy but in order to really find my family lines I must do all the hard work of reading census, parish records etc on the microfilm/microfiche readers!
I have at least a year's worth of data to transcribe and enter into my records still remaining (the rest of the material collected at Salt Lake City and the new material collected at the Allen County Public Library). I am very pleased with my collections of data. The camera has proved to be an awesome genealogical tool.
I am focusing on the Gray/Cobb family at the moment and their ancestors in the East Riding of York and the parishes of Great Driffield, Hutton Cranswick, Holme on the Wolds, Kilnwick on the Wolds, Etton, Lund, and Cherry Burton for the moment. That almost seems like enough. I have now given Hutton Cranswick Parish Registers a very long look and my husband filmed from the beginning to the 1750s so I can have a longer look now that I know the Gray family was located there and I do not know if it is my Gray family since they do not appear at Cherry Burton until 1710. I am in the midst for Great Driffield and will eventually have the registers copied from the 1550s to the 1800s before I have completed my study.
Cherry Burton early parish register transcriptions are online. I have looked at Lund in the 1700s and 1800s but would like a longer look now. I have briefly glanced at Kilnwick on the Wolds and need a longer look. I have checked Holme on the Wolds for my Gray family and they only appear to be there in the 1770s for the two baptisms. I would need a longer look there as well. Lund and Etton also have had a look in the time frame I was interested in and it may be that I need to look at these two films later as well. I need to relook at Cherry Burton on ancestry for the Gray family.
The relook at Cherry Burton parish registers on Ancestry yielded 14 pages of text where I extracted all the Gray/Grey, Stevenson/Stephenson and Constable entries. These being the names that I have thus far associated with Cherry Burton. I will put the information into families as I find Mary Constable who married Thomas Hilton and their only child Jane who married Robert Grey may well be from Cherry Burton. A little more information on this line would be helpful. They married at Beverley.
Today I shall continue entering books into Library Thing. I may have overestimated the number of books we actually have plus we have given away some boxes of books.
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