I continued working on the will of William Hinxman today. I decided to go back to the beginning and clean up the lines and see what else I could read. I managed quite well and am happy with about the first 15 lines now. That is progress. I spent a little more time on the later lines and will continue with it again tomorrow.
As well I joined the East Yorkshire Mailing list at Yahoo. I have had a couple of comments back but no one descended from my lines. I am trying to decide if I overwhelmed with details since no one has responded after the first initial responses! I have done a fair amount of work on my families in East Yorkshire from the mid 1700s to the end of the 1800s. The Tax records are particularly interesting as they list my Gray and Cobb ancestors and assist me in finding where they were in the 150 year period that they cover. The Tax records include the Poor Law Rate and the Land Tax Assessments from 1780 to the 1830s.
Tomorrow we are off to the dentist for teeth cleaning. As well I shall work on the will and start to work up my transcriptions for Timberscombe and Andover. I have read quite a bit of Skerne PR and will look at Watton PR tomorrow but I do not think that my lines were at these parishes. We did a 13 K bicycle ride first thing this morning.
Showing posts with label Land Tax Assessment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Land Tax Assessment. Show all posts
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Monday, November 17, 2008
Results of Research at Salt Lake City - 17 Nov 2008
I completed the Rugeley Land Tax Assessment and combined the two files for sorting. I acquired some information on my Lea and Wood families but nothing new on the Welsh family. I moved on to the images from the Rugeley Parish Registers and extracted the pertinent information as well as saving the images to the family files for my proofs of my 4x great grandparents which will be my next steps on my Legacy family tree file.
I moved on to the Cheatle family at Ashby de la Zouch. I had photographed the baptism of my 3x great grandmother Sarah and saved that one to her file. I then prepared a chart of all the Cheatle wills in Leicester noting that all the Cheatle families in the 1600s and early 1700s lived within 10 miles of Loughborough. Reviewed the Leicestershire Records Office webpage and I am able to purchase parish register fiche so have inquired about purchasing Loughborough, Long Whatton and Castle Donnington from the earliest to 1800. Perhaps I will hear tomorrow as to the number of fiche this will entail.
My order for the Devon fiche was received today and the fiche are now ordered. I will receive these in the next six weeks. This should give me some new thoughts on my family lines in Devon before 1750. I will also be able to add to my Pincombe one name study.
With the Cheatle family I had the confusion of three William Cheatles having children at Ashby de la Zouch in the 1790s - at least it appeared there were three. One married to a Sarah, one married to an Ann and one married to an Elizabeth. Reading the register at Salt Lake City I was able to show that there were indeed three William Cheatle and that it wasn't a matter of one wife dying and his remarrying. While I was pursuing this information I discovered a will for one of the Cheatle families at Ashby de la Zouch on The National Archives site. I downloaded this and it helped to prove that two of the lines at Ashby de la Zouch were brothers (not mine) and the third was not mentioned in the will. Could still be related but not siblings.
Tomorrow I will switch to the material that I collected for the Andover Manor, the Upper Clatford Manor and a couple of smaller manors. These documents are from the 1500s and 1600s and I think will be helpful in looking at my families there.
I moved on to the Cheatle family at Ashby de la Zouch. I had photographed the baptism of my 3x great grandmother Sarah and saved that one to her file. I then prepared a chart of all the Cheatle wills in Leicester noting that all the Cheatle families in the 1600s and early 1700s lived within 10 miles of Loughborough. Reviewed the Leicestershire Records Office webpage and I am able to purchase parish register fiche so have inquired about purchasing Loughborough, Long Whatton and Castle Donnington from the earliest to 1800. Perhaps I will hear tomorrow as to the number of fiche this will entail.
My order for the Devon fiche was received today and the fiche are now ordered. I will receive these in the next six weeks. This should give me some new thoughts on my family lines in Devon before 1750. I will also be able to add to my Pincombe one name study.
With the Cheatle family I had the confusion of three William Cheatles having children at Ashby de la Zouch in the 1790s - at least it appeared there were three. One married to a Sarah, one married to an Ann and one married to an Elizabeth. Reading the register at Salt Lake City I was able to show that there were indeed three William Cheatle and that it wasn't a matter of one wife dying and his remarrying. While I was pursuing this information I discovered a will for one of the Cheatle families at Ashby de la Zouch on The National Archives site. I downloaded this and it helped to prove that two of the lines at Ashby de la Zouch were brothers (not mine) and the third was not mentioned in the will. Could still be related but not siblings.
Tomorrow I will switch to the material that I collected for the Andover Manor, the Upper Clatford Manor and a couple of smaller manors. These documents are from the 1500s and 1600s and I think will be helpful in looking at my families there.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Results of Research at Salt Lake City - 12 Nov 2008
I finished off the Land Tax Assessments for Devon - I appear to have only copied Bishops Nympton and Twitchen so will add to my list for next time - Lapford, Merton, Molland and Rose Ash. I do have those four for just 1798. It has been a very worthwhile exercise especially for Bishops Nympton and determining the relationship between the Pincombe families there.
I continue transcribing the Protestation Returns which will be a slow process. I am now up to 2500 names in my excel file. I photographed the Returns for a number of counties but I am most familiar with the names in Devon so felt that I would start there as it is all old English text. Although I find it not too difficult to read, the extra practice before going at less familiar counties will be most worthwhile.
Looking at the Brockhouse family in Yorkshire, I have discovered that they were at Rugeley prior to 1700 and it is possible that one generation of the family that I am looking at was simply away from Rugeley for about twenty years as my line is found there again marrying in 1748 and their eight children are all baptized at Rugeley. Found one family of Brockhouse at One World Tree which traces back to Esther Brockhouse (younger sister to Margaret my ancestor). Interesting name and appears to be a variant of Brookhouse - I acquired another dozen of my female ancestresses' surnames in this trip to Salt Lake City which was great progress as they are sometimes the most difficult to find.
With the knowledge that I should have collected the Land Tax Assessments for Landkey, Merton, Molland and Rose Ash I have started my new Excel file for the next visit to Salt Lake City hopefully next September. I have three family lines that I set aside and did not touch on this trip because of the time needed for them would have prevented me from my overview of the information for the counties that I am interested in. These surnames were Knight in Dorset (Winterborne Valley), Lambden in Hampshire (St Mary Bourne) and Buller in London. I probably needed two more days to look at these three in depth at least.
I continue transcribing the Protestation Returns which will be a slow process. I am now up to 2500 names in my excel file. I photographed the Returns for a number of counties but I am most familiar with the names in Devon so felt that I would start there as it is all old English text. Although I find it not too difficult to read, the extra practice before going at less familiar counties will be most worthwhile.
Looking at the Brockhouse family in Yorkshire, I have discovered that they were at Rugeley prior to 1700 and it is possible that one generation of the family that I am looking at was simply away from Rugeley for about twenty years as my line is found there again marrying in 1748 and their eight children are all baptized at Rugeley. Found one family of Brockhouse at One World Tree which traces back to Esther Brockhouse (younger sister to Margaret my ancestor). Interesting name and appears to be a variant of Brookhouse - I acquired another dozen of my female ancestresses' surnames in this trip to Salt Lake City which was great progress as they are sometimes the most difficult to find.
With the knowledge that I should have collected the Land Tax Assessments for Landkey, Merton, Molland and Rose Ash I have started my new Excel file for the next visit to Salt Lake City hopefully next September. I have three family lines that I set aside and did not touch on this trip because of the time needed for them would have prevented me from my overview of the information for the counties that I am interested in. These surnames were Knight in Dorset (Winterborne Valley), Lambden in Hampshire (St Mary Bourne) and Buller in London. I probably needed two more days to look at these three in depth at least.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Results of Research at Salt Lake City - 10 Nov 2008
Today was a sorting day looking at the various items that I brought back and deciding an orderly manner in which to transcribe or otherwise interpret them. My excel file of all the images includes the picture number, the area that was being researched (usually the village/town/city but sometimes the county only), the item that was being photographed and the date. That way I can sort it by image number, area, item or date. In retrospect it will be a workable system. Setting it up initially was a quandry as I didn't know at the beginning how many pictures I would take.
I decided to update my Legacy file as I never do that when I am on the road or away from my main computer researching. I always record all the changes in a word file although might actually enter them into the legacy file on my portable computer. I want to maintain the integrity of my Legacy file though and avoid making quick changes that haven't had time to "gel" in my mind. I had obtained a number of baptism, marriage and burial entries and that resulted in my deciding to update my webpage with five new family lines since I had acquired what I consider to be a sufficient number of details. This time it was the Durnford, Ellis, Hemsley, Hilton and Tanner family names that were added. I now have 39 surnames traced back in varying degrees on my webpage. I also have an *.pdf file associated with many of them (still remaining to do for the new additions today) which includes the marriage partner and date for each generation if known. I can extract the Relationship to me chart from Legacy and put it into an *.pdf file for ftp to my webpage. I have found this to be a very worthwhile use of my webspace as I have been receiving the occasional email from people asking about some of my information or whether I know where their family line fits in.
I believe I shall now split my effort a little between the land tax assessments for Devon and Protestation Returns into a table (I copied the originals) for use with my one name studies on Pincombe and Siderfin. I am considering putting my Lambden study in hibernation simply because I haven't had enough time to really get into the study and perhaps someone else will pick up this study if it isn't being worked on by me. Two studies appear to be sufficient work for me at the moment. I have entered four of the twelve charts that I received from the Pincombe one name study that existed before I took the task on and for the Siderfin I have managed to locate and put into family lines most of the Siderfin individuals that I have found in parish and civil records up to 1900 and these I have added to the excellent family chart made by James Hooper Saunders in 1910.
I am also planning to spend some time each day now on the Genuki Hampshire webpages. I wanted to go to England and see Hampshire myself before I put too much more effort into the pages. I am now satisfied that I can continue with this project and do it justice - not as much as a native Hampshire person but the best that I can do from afar.
I decided to update my Legacy file as I never do that when I am on the road or away from my main computer researching. I always record all the changes in a word file although might actually enter them into the legacy file on my portable computer. I want to maintain the integrity of my Legacy file though and avoid making quick changes that haven't had time to "gel" in my mind. I had obtained a number of baptism, marriage and burial entries and that resulted in my deciding to update my webpage with five new family lines since I had acquired what I consider to be a sufficient number of details. This time it was the Durnford, Ellis, Hemsley, Hilton and Tanner family names that were added. I now have 39 surnames traced back in varying degrees on my webpage. I also have an *.pdf file associated with many of them (still remaining to do for the new additions today) which includes the marriage partner and date for each generation if known. I can extract the Relationship to me chart from Legacy and put it into an *.pdf file for ftp to my webpage. I have found this to be a very worthwhile use of my webspace as I have been receiving the occasional email from people asking about some of my information or whether I know where their family line fits in.
I believe I shall now split my effort a little between the land tax assessments for Devon and Protestation Returns into a table (I copied the originals) for use with my one name studies on Pincombe and Siderfin. I am considering putting my Lambden study in hibernation simply because I haven't had enough time to really get into the study and perhaps someone else will pick up this study if it isn't being worked on by me. Two studies appear to be sufficient work for me at the moment. I have entered four of the twelve charts that I received from the Pincombe one name study that existed before I took the task on and for the Siderfin I have managed to locate and put into family lines most of the Siderfin individuals that I have found in parish and civil records up to 1900 and these I have added to the excellent family chart made by James Hooper Saunders in 1910.
I am also planning to spend some time each day now on the Genuki Hampshire webpages. I wanted to go to England and see Hampshire myself before I put too much more effort into the pages. I am now satisfied that I can continue with this project and do it justice - not as much as a native Hampshire person but the best that I can do from afar.
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