I still have my cold virus but it appears to definitely be improving. Yesterday I completed RD 3 for 1901 Bishops Nympton Census. I am still missing 410 names for the 1911 census but perhaps as I work my way through RD4 and RD5 for Bishops Nympton I will be able to locate more people in my broadcast searching of the 1911 census. I do not expect to find all of them because people are moving about more now than earlier and new names are appearing in each census and missing from the following - simply not predictable. I also sent a note off to the Library to correct the census for Bishops Nympton in 1881 and 1891 on their webpage. I think perhaps only one RD was done for those two years. They wrote back to thank me and say that they will correct the numbers.
As I work my way through my summary now (1841-1891) I am wondering how much information I can acquire about these many families at Bishops Nympton. Should I attempt to write them up or would it be meaningless since I do not know them. Well I do know a very few of them because they are my ancestors and their blood relatives but I lack that knowledge that makes them really come alive. Just being able to write about them being in the census, knowing the dates of birth, marriage and death of their children is interesting and productive for family research. From the Census I can tell where they lived every ten years. I can reconstruct the parish showing the location of all the farms but can I reconstruct the Village. Possibly I can acquire maps of the village and that might be a good next step. I have the details back into the 1700s on the village with respect to ownership/lease of properties. I find it fascinating that Robert Pincombe farmed Park, Eastwood and Westwood which ended up being three separate farms after he and his brothers were no longer alive. Mind you he had eight children and my ancestor John was 19 when his father died so likely already on the land working for him. There is a gap between 1827 and 1834 when I do not know precisely where John was. I need to finish my transcription of the land records for Bishops Nympton which is perhaps where I should head once again. It is some months now since I did my transcription of the records that I photographed at Salt Lake City.
Today I shall continue with the census of 1901 and extracting what I can of 1911 for Bishops Nympton. I should investigate the Devon Record Office to see what type of maps I might be able to purchase. I should like to begin writing up Bishops Nympton and perhaps I can find someone to look at my writeup. I shall have to think about that. It would be quite fascinating to produce something useful given that I have heard of Bishops Nympton since I was a young child. But all of that knowledge was third hand from my mother who had it from her father - neither of whom had ever been to Bishops Nympton. William Robert (my great grandfather) was only 14 when they came to Canada in 1851 and he lived at Molland. I wonder if they traveled back and forth to Bishops Nympton? His uncle Thomas Rew was at Sheepwash which wasn't far from Gatcombe (farm at Molland). Certainly they did travel as I found Elizabeth (mother of William Robert) Rew Pincombe with her eldest son John at Upper Hopcott Farm in Wootton Courtney Somerset in 1841.
Woke up early coughing a little but it is so much better with regard to sleeping. Back to sleep for a couple of hours and perhaps in my dreams I will recall incidences that help me with my research. I am blessed with this recall memory and it can also be a punishment as I recall unpleasantness as well as happy times.
Showing posts with label Bishops Nympton Census. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bishops Nympton Census. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Cold Virus continues
I am feeling somewhat better and really glad that Bryan took over my lecture yesterday. If I had tried to talk even for just 30 minutes I would be quite ill today as I still have the chills of the virus in the evening.
I did however manage to complete the 1891 census for Bishops Nympton and started the 1901 census. I am about half way through the first enumeration district. By 1901 there are less than 1000 people living at Bishops Nympton and the population continues to fall until the 1970s when it starts to increase again although not yet over 1000. Bishops Nympton is a very pleasant village situated just south of the main highway. You can approach it from the west coming along an older road from South Molton or stay on the main road and come in off the highway. We came in the back way (along West Street), drove to the Church and spent about half of an hour in the graveyard and then proceeded through the village and turned back towards the highway. The streets are fairly narrow but very little traffic. The Churchyard was immaculate and the Church very neat and tidy looking. Finding my 3x great grandparents gravestone attached to the exterior wall of the Church was absolutely wonderful. Robert Pincombe died so young compared to his three other brothers (only 52 years old) and all of his brothers lived well into their 70s and 80s. I have no idea why he died. The will was "written" in haste it sounds like so he was either struck down suddenly or a gradual illness that suddenly caused his demise. He left behind his youngest son who was only eight years old when he died.
I extracted more of the 1911 Bishops Nympton census by searching on common first names at Bishops Nympton and I am now half way. I will continue to extract names as I tanscribe the 1901 census. I expect I will miss some as there are quite a few agricultural labourers and domestic servants listed in the 1891 census with different names from the usual village names. I am sorting the families where I can in reference to the 1901 census to make the 1911 results more useful. Eventually I hope to write about the families at Bishops Nympton although I will not know any real stories but just where they lived, their children and such things.
Tomorrow I will continue with the census and reread the information for our telephone conference on Friday for the APG committee that I am serving on. It is quite interesting and I shall see if I can be helpful with this group. Hopefully my voice will have recovered although I have a tendency not to say very much when I am in a first meeting. I like to listen to what people have to say before I jump in with comments. That is my only commitment. I have stepped away from anything else that has a time frame. I do have a lot of items to work on but it is my own time frame which is the way that I need things to be now.
I did however manage to complete the 1891 census for Bishops Nympton and started the 1901 census. I am about half way through the first enumeration district. By 1901 there are less than 1000 people living at Bishops Nympton and the population continues to fall until the 1970s when it starts to increase again although not yet over 1000. Bishops Nympton is a very pleasant village situated just south of the main highway. You can approach it from the west coming along an older road from South Molton or stay on the main road and come in off the highway. We came in the back way (along West Street), drove to the Church and spent about half of an hour in the graveyard and then proceeded through the village and turned back towards the highway. The streets are fairly narrow but very little traffic. The Churchyard was immaculate and the Church very neat and tidy looking. Finding my 3x great grandparents gravestone attached to the exterior wall of the Church was absolutely wonderful. Robert Pincombe died so young compared to his three other brothers (only 52 years old) and all of his brothers lived well into their 70s and 80s. I have no idea why he died. The will was "written" in haste it sounds like so he was either struck down suddenly or a gradual illness that suddenly caused his demise. He left behind his youngest son who was only eight years old when he died.
I extracted more of the 1911 Bishops Nympton census by searching on common first names at Bishops Nympton and I am now half way. I will continue to extract names as I tanscribe the 1901 census. I expect I will miss some as there are quite a few agricultural labourers and domestic servants listed in the 1891 census with different names from the usual village names. I am sorting the families where I can in reference to the 1901 census to make the 1911 results more useful. Eventually I hope to write about the families at Bishops Nympton although I will not know any real stories but just where they lived, their children and such things.
Tomorrow I will continue with the census and reread the information for our telephone conference on Friday for the APG committee that I am serving on. It is quite interesting and I shall see if I can be helpful with this group. Hopefully my voice will have recovered although I have a tendency not to say very much when I am in a first meeting. I like to listen to what people have to say before I jump in with comments. That is my only commitment. I have stepped away from anything else that has a time frame. I do have a lot of items to work on but it is my own time frame which is the way that I need things to be now.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Bishops Nympton Census - 25 March 2009
I completed to the end of page 5 enumeration district 4 for the 1891 Bishops Nympton Census. I am about half way through 1891 and hope to complete it by Friday evening. Then I have 1901 census to do and at the same time extract the 1911 people searching on the 1911 site for the names in the 1901 census. I will try to group them into their families if I can. Eventually it will be online at Ancestry (2011 I think!). I can not afford to look up all of those pages as it would be one for each family I think so at least 100 families which would be 3000 points. Eventually I want to subscribe to FindMyPast but I simply do not have time at the moment to make really good use of their databases. My husband and I both use Ancestry so it is very practical for us to subscribe to them and will be for quite a while as there is an enormous amount of material that I haven't had time to look at nor has my husband. Plus they are always adding new information.
We have been busy watching the James Heriott series - Yorkshire Dales Veterinarian in 1937 (fictitious name but built around an actual veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales). Watching the series has been fun as we relive our trip through England where we did see some of the Dales. It is amazing how different the country is as you travel up one side and down the other side - the entire Island could fit into southwestern Ontario. However, Southwestern Ontario is also of varied geographic types from the flat farmlands in between Huron and Erie Lakes to the escarpment at Hamilton which snakes across Ontario to the Bruce Peninsula with its fantastic craggy views.
Today I had four requests for information on Bishops Nympton and I answered all but one. One involves more work and so it must wait until I can fit it into my schedule. I have one pending which is quite a bit of work and will accomplish that one in the next month.
Tomorrow I will work on the census for Bishops Nympton and time to clean again. The days sneak by so quickly.
We have been busy watching the James Heriott series - Yorkshire Dales Veterinarian in 1937 (fictitious name but built around an actual veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales). Watching the series has been fun as we relive our trip through England where we did see some of the Dales. It is amazing how different the country is as you travel up one side and down the other side - the entire Island could fit into southwestern Ontario. However, Southwestern Ontario is also of varied geographic types from the flat farmlands in between Huron and Erie Lakes to the escarpment at Hamilton which snakes across Ontario to the Bruce Peninsula with its fantastic craggy views.
Today I had four requests for information on Bishops Nympton and I answered all but one. One involves more work and so it must wait until I can fit it into my schedule. I have one pending which is quite a bit of work and will accomplish that one in the next month.
Tomorrow I will work on the census for Bishops Nympton and time to clean again. The days sneak by so quickly.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Bishops Nympton Census - 24 March 2009
I continued on with the Bishops Nympton Census for 1891 and completed to the end of page 12 Enumeration District 3. Farms continue to become larger and the smaller farms are disappearing. There are more and more agricultural labourers (sons of farmers).
I set up a Hampshire County - England DNA Project at FT DNA. I think it will be an interesting project and I have put my brother's results in and I will do them by community if possible - ours is Andover in the 1400s which is the furtherest back that we are able to go in our y DNA line.
Tomorrow I will continue to work on the 1891 census and advertise the new Hampshire County and Devon County DNA projects. I think these will be quite exciting if enough people sign up. Both counties have very very old neolithic histories and in the case of my line in Hampshire I can trace my paternal line back to the late 1400s at Andover. My King line goes back before 1500 at Upper Clatford and a number of other lines appear to be equally old in this general area around Andover.
I find the Devon project exciting because my Pincombe family was there from 1485 on, the Rowcliffe family is quite ancient in this county as well as the Blackmoore, Allen, Tapp, Manning, Vicary and others.
I had been contemplating such a project for awhile but the tone of the DNA lists these days is geographic location and what better way to look at the geography of family lines than to do it by County and especially England as the proportion of people whose ancestry traces back to England in DNA projects is quite large. I will also do separate charting from FT DNA in case people from other DNA projects particularly in the UK want to join. I have tested my brothers yDNA at Ethnoancestry as well as FT DNA.
I set up a Hampshire County - England DNA Project at FT DNA. I think it will be an interesting project and I have put my brother's results in and I will do them by community if possible - ours is Andover in the 1400s which is the furtherest back that we are able to go in our y DNA line.
Tomorrow I will continue to work on the 1891 census and advertise the new Hampshire County and Devon County DNA projects. I think these will be quite exciting if enough people sign up. Both counties have very very old neolithic histories and in the case of my line in Hampshire I can trace my paternal line back to the late 1400s at Andover. My King line goes back before 1500 at Upper Clatford and a number of other lines appear to be equally old in this general area around Andover.
I find the Devon project exciting because my Pincombe family was there from 1485 on, the Rowcliffe family is quite ancient in this county as well as the Blackmoore, Allen, Tapp, Manning, Vicary and others.
I had been contemplating such a project for awhile but the tone of the DNA lists these days is geographic location and what better way to look at the geography of family lines than to do it by County and especially England as the proportion of people whose ancestry traces back to England in DNA projects is quite large. I will also do separate charting from FT DNA in case people from other DNA projects particularly in the UK want to join. I have tested my brothers yDNA at Ethnoancestry as well as FT DNA.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Bishops Nympton Census - 22 March 2009
I completed the 1881 census transcription for Bishops Nympton today and started the 1891. I also assembled 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 into one file and sorted it by surname, forename and then year. It should prove to be an interesting review of the area.
We went for another long walk (about 4.5 km) today and by next week we will likely be able to go for a bicycle ride.
Tomorrow the dogs are coming for the day so we will be busy with them although I will spend my spare time working on the 1891 census for Bishops Nympton. There is quite a decrease between 1881 and 1891 and there are only 35 reporting sheets compared to 50 in 1881 although now there are 30 maximum entries per page rather than 25. The farms are larger and fewer small farmers but more agricultural workers. A few new occupations have crept in - road workers, sanitary inspectors and more carpenters.
We went for another long walk (about 4.5 km) today and by next week we will likely be able to go for a bicycle ride.
Tomorrow the dogs are coming for the day so we will be busy with them although I will spend my spare time working on the 1891 census for Bishops Nympton. There is quite a decrease between 1881 and 1891 and there are only 35 reporting sheets compared to 50 in 1881 although now there are 30 maximum entries per page rather than 25. The farms are larger and fewer small farmers but more agricultural workers. A few new occupations have crept in - road workers, sanitary inspectors and more carpenters.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Bishops Nympton Census - 21 March 2009
Continuing with Bishops Nympton 1881 Census and I completed RD 3 and the first seven pages of RD 4. A number of the old families are missing now and there are new families from areas around Bishops Nympton. A surprising number of people come down from London so wonder if that is the "place" to move to when one is looking for jobs outside of Bishops Nympton.
We went for a long walk today and the weather was beautiful. Still a lot of snow to melt away but April rains will soon diminish those piles although fresh snow is promised tonight.
My tennis elbow is gone for the moment but I am being cautious about how much time I spend at the keyboard.
We went for a long walk today and the weather was beautiful. Still a lot of snow to melt away but April rains will soon diminish those piles although fresh snow is promised tonight.
My tennis elbow is gone for the moment but I am being cautious about how much time I spend at the keyboard.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Bishops Nympton Census - continuing
I continued transcribing the 1881 Bishops Nympton Census and will hopefully finish that in another couple of days. The families are changing in this 19th century moreso than in the earlier centuries as people move about more frequently. We will soon be up to the time of cars being the mode of travel. Children are staying in school longer and especially more girls are attending school. If you think about it; it is only 130 years that girls have routinely been educated in our countries. Indeed, the world has moved on quickly as we approach the 1900s in my recordings of the census. By now my direct family line is settled in Canada and the emigrant children have their own families. However, the first cousins of these emigrant children are still in England farming. They have also had families and these cousins corresponded back and forth well into the 1900s.
I updated my GPS (TomTom) including our European maps. Although we are going to put our trip to Europe off for another year or two, we want to keep our GPS updated as I found it very handy as we traveled about in England on the bus. I should imagine it will be equally interesting in Europe. Too bad that the tourist buses do not have plugins though as we could keep it charged up as we go along!
Tomorrow I shall continue with the census and scanning books into Library Thing. Once I have 100 in there I am going to extract the file and see what I think.
I updated my GPS (TomTom) including our European maps. Although we are going to put our trip to Europe off for another year or two, we want to keep our GPS updated as I found it very handy as we traveled about in England on the bus. I should imagine it will be equally interesting in Europe. Too bad that the tourist buses do not have plugins though as we could keep it charged up as we go along!
Tomorrow I shall continue with the census and scanning books into Library Thing. Once I have 100 in there I am going to extract the file and see what I think.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Bishops Nympton Census
I continued on with the 1881 British Census today but did not accomplish a great deal. Our daughter came over with the two dogs who had missed us very much. the puppy especially was so relieved to see me once again - he must have wondered where I went. I actually didn't think he would miss me so was rather surprised. It took him quite a few minutes before he was content that he had been patted and rubbed down enough. The older dog was relieved to see Ed once again as he really misses him when he doesn't see him at least every couple of days. They have a strong relationship.
Our daughter gave me a Cat keyboard for scanning in the ISBN numbers on our books so I spent a little while doing that. I also completed my last presentation that I shall ever give and it is for next week. I have decided to completely retire and take life easier. Plus I will have more time for transcriptions.
Our daughter gave me a Cat keyboard for scanning in the ISBN numbers on our books so I spent a little while doing that. I also completed my last presentation that I shall ever give and it is for next week. I have decided to completely retire and take life easier. Plus I will have more time for transcriptions.
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