John Question does not have a will at the PCC so the only records I have for him at the moment are from the Lay Subsidy Rolls and Protestation Returns 1641-42 at Dunster:
Rated at 1 s at Avell in Dunster on the Lay Subsidy Rolls 1641-42.
Rated at 6s at Carhampton on the Lay Subsidy Rolls 1641-42.
Rated at 6s at Dunster on the Lay Subsidy Rolls 1641-42.
Source: The Somerset Protestation Returns and Lay Subsidy Rolls 1641-42, Transcribed by A.J. Howard, Edited and first Published by T.L. Stoate. Publisher: B.D. Welchman
He married Elizabeth (unknown) and Elizabeth was buried 19 Mar 1658/59 at Dunster. John was baptized 8 Jan 1597/98 at Dunster and buried 21 Jan 1670/71 at Dunster. They had seven children: Jone (married to Nicholas Blake), Elizabeth (b 1628; d 1628/29 at Dunster), John (b 1631; d 1636 at Dunster), Augustine (b 29 Sep 1633 at Dunster and buried 2 Nov 1708 at Carhampton) married to Susan or Mary Millett 29 Sep 1658 at Dunster and this is the father of my ancestress Elizabeth, Elizabeth (b 1635; d 1636 at Dunster), Andrew (bc 1640; d 1677 at Dunster) married to Rachel Turrill 22 Apr 1674 at Timberscombe, and John (bc unknown; d 1642 at Dunster).
I must check and see if I have any correspondents on the Nicholas Blake and Jone Question family to mention Dig Village to them.
With that I return to Christmas preparations.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Question Family and the DigVillage Project
Life has been immeasurably busy the last week and I have not managed to sit and write my blogposts (other than my 40,000 hits) nor have I done any transcription to any degree. However a rather interesting set of emails passed between myself and the Dig Village Project which is ongoing in Dunster Somerset. The webpage below gives some details on the project:
http://www.facebook.com/DigVillage
After our skype call earlier today I must admit to being even more intrigued by my Question family who lived there during the 1500s, 1600s and 1700s and perhaps later. I have not yet gone into detail on this family other than collecting my straight line back from myself to the first mention of a Question family in the parish registers at Dunster namely William Question and his wife Susan Millet and their three children whom they baptized at the village church. I must say that I am most curious to see the house that they lived in and the Church where they worshipped and the village where they walked about. How long were they in Dunster is just one of my many questions? What did they do there? How old is the surname Question in the family line?
Was it always spelled Question as current spelling that predominates seems to be Questian as seen on World Profiler:
http://www.publicprofiler.org/
Although they are found remotely around the world in low numbers their frequency is predominantly in the southwest of England.
The other spelling found in the Parish Registers was Costine which is an Irish surname and Questine which strikes me as being French perhaps. I was always tending towards thinking of them as Huguenots. I am frankly most curious at what has been found out about the Question family of Dunster. I have not yet had time to pursue the Manor Books. With the extensive wool trade in this area I wonder if they were involved in that.
With all the preparations for Christmas gathering up I find that I am absent mindly returning to Dunster and my Question family. I have attempted to contact all the correspondents that I have who are descendant of the marriage of Robert Siderfin and Elizabeth Question but it is a long time since I have corresponded with most of them so will try this blog as well to contact them and mention that this group is very interested in hearing from others who are descendant of this family.
http://www.facebook.com/DigVillage
After our skype call earlier today I must admit to being even more intrigued by my Question family who lived there during the 1500s, 1600s and 1700s and perhaps later. I have not yet gone into detail on this family other than collecting my straight line back from myself to the first mention of a Question family in the parish registers at Dunster namely William Question and his wife Susan Millet and their three children whom they baptized at the village church. I must say that I am most curious to see the house that they lived in and the Church where they worshipped and the village where they walked about. How long were they in Dunster is just one of my many questions? What did they do there? How old is the surname Question in the family line?
Was it always spelled Question as current spelling that predominates seems to be Questian as seen on World Profiler:
http://www.publicprofiler.org/
Although they are found remotely around the world in low numbers their frequency is predominantly in the southwest of England.
The other spelling found in the Parish Registers was Costine which is an Irish surname and Questine which strikes me as being French perhaps. I was always tending towards thinking of them as Huguenots. I am frankly most curious at what has been found out about the Question family of Dunster. I have not yet had time to pursue the Manor Books. With the extensive wool trade in this area I wonder if they were involved in that.
With all the preparations for Christmas gathering up I find that I am absent mindly returning to Dunster and my Question family. I have attempted to contact all the correspondents that I have who are descendant of the marriage of Robert Siderfin and Elizabeth Question but it is a long time since I have corresponded with most of them so will try this blog as well to contact them and mention that this group is very interested in hearing from others who are descendant of this family.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Question family in the UK
The Question family in the UK does not appear on the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 census there. The occasional occurrence after that can not be traced back to the Dunster Question Family. The BMDs on Find My Past can be traced back to the Somerset family for about 50% of the entries. The John Question family at Plymouth is a mystery that I may not try to sort out but the names are interesting in that they resemble the Dunster family.
Since the family is relatively affluent in the 1600s and appears suddenly with William Question marrying Susan Millett I must admit to being curious at the origin of the name. Are they perhaps French Huguenot and simply hiding their name as at the time it might not have been convenient for their name to be known? Lots of mystery in there for sure. I hope that one day someone will take on this family for a one name study with the Guild. It is a small family and I suspect the occasional ones far flung from the Question family at Dunster might just be singleton choices for whatever reason.
They marry into landed families which include the Siderfin, Quirke, Coffin, Long, Short, Clarke and Blake lines. Since the tendency at the time was to marry into the same social class it does leave one to wonder at the origins of this family.
There are 33 marriages on Find My Past and I can place about half of them. I do less well with the baptisms which are mostly at Plymouth and I do not know which John Question is there. There are 12 burials with 8 at Plymouth and one in Chard Rachel Question 4 Mar 1693 who could be perhaps the wife of Andrew Question (married 22 Apr 1674 at Timberscombe). However Chard is a good distance away from Timberscombe/Dunster/Minehead area.
The burial of Thomas Question is there (14 Oct 1738), Curate of St George Parish in Dunster, and a monument erected by his grandson Mark Long. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas and she married Samuel Long 24 Dec 1765 at Taunton St Mary.
There is a Question vault at St Michael Church, Minehead which is in poor condition apparently and contains at least two Question burials. I have the fiche for Minehead and will see what I can discover as I work through them.
There are very few records on Find My past in a global search (just those mentioned above). There was a John Question who was a waterman and became "free" 17 Mar 1719 having been bound 18 Sep 1713 at Stepney and is likely the progenitor of the rather small family of Question at Stepney. There is an apprenticeship of Sarah Question to Thomas Ballamy of Dunster in 1751 stay 9 pounds.
Searching on the Profiler website does not bring up this family name in England or the World. http://www.publicprofiler.org/#
When I searched on Ancestry I discovered a birth in Marne France of Louis Question (son of Pierre Question) and born 21 Nov 1610 at Magneux les Fismes; perhaps a longer look at the French records prior to this would be helpful. There are a number of entries in the London records which I suspect trace back to the John Question who was a waterman. Perhaps one day when time is available I will see if I can look at this family in London but not today :) Interestingly there is a marriage 23 Dec 1720 for John Question of Wapin Waterman and Elizabeth Luffe of the same Spinster and they do baptize a number of children at Stepney. The Land Tax Redemption has a 1798 record for a John Question at Minehead. Although there were sons born in the 1600s and 1700s daughters predominated in this family so it did perhaps daughter out or they emigrated.
Back to Blake!
Since the family is relatively affluent in the 1600s and appears suddenly with William Question marrying Susan Millett I must admit to being curious at the origin of the name. Are they perhaps French Huguenot and simply hiding their name as at the time it might not have been convenient for their name to be known? Lots of mystery in there for sure. I hope that one day someone will take on this family for a one name study with the Guild. It is a small family and I suspect the occasional ones far flung from the Question family at Dunster might just be singleton choices for whatever reason.
They marry into landed families which include the Siderfin, Quirke, Coffin, Long, Short, Clarke and Blake lines. Since the tendency at the time was to marry into the same social class it does leave one to wonder at the origins of this family.
There are 33 marriages on Find My Past and I can place about half of them. I do less well with the baptisms which are mostly at Plymouth and I do not know which John Question is there. There are 12 burials with 8 at Plymouth and one in Chard Rachel Question 4 Mar 1693 who could be perhaps the wife of Andrew Question (married 22 Apr 1674 at Timberscombe). However Chard is a good distance away from Timberscombe/Dunster/Minehead area.
The burial of Thomas Question is there (14 Oct 1738), Curate of St George Parish in Dunster, and a monument erected by his grandson Mark Long. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas and she married Samuel Long 24 Dec 1765 at Taunton St Mary.
There is a Question vault at St Michael Church, Minehead which is in poor condition apparently and contains at least two Question burials. I have the fiche for Minehead and will see what I can discover as I work through them.
There are very few records on Find My past in a global search (just those mentioned above). There was a John Question who was a waterman and became "free" 17 Mar 1719 having been bound 18 Sep 1713 at Stepney and is likely the progenitor of the rather small family of Question at Stepney. There is an apprenticeship of Sarah Question to Thomas Ballamy of Dunster in 1751 stay 9 pounds.
Searching on the Profiler website does not bring up this family name in England or the World. http://www.publicprofiler.org/#
When I searched on Ancestry I discovered a birth in Marne France of Louis Question (son of Pierre Question) and born 21 Nov 1610 at Magneux les Fismes; perhaps a longer look at the French records prior to this would be helpful. There are a number of entries in the London records which I suspect trace back to the John Question who was a waterman. Perhaps one day when time is available I will see if I can look at this family in London but not today :) Interestingly there is a marriage 23 Dec 1720 for John Question of Wapin Waterman and Elizabeth Luffe of the same Spinster and they do baptize a number of children at Stepney. The Land Tax Redemption has a 1798 record for a John Question at Minehead. Although there were sons born in the 1600s and 1700s daughters predominated in this family so it did perhaps daughter out or they emigrated.
Back to Blake!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Nicholas Blake, Jone Question and World Connect
Checking World Connect and all four references to Joan Question married to Nicholas Blake are either inadequate or incorrect. I decided to put up my information on the Question family along with the wills of that family. The more information available on World Connect, I am slowly becoming convinced, the more likely I will be able to correct misconceived notions about the Blake family and the Question family in this case.
The earliest record that I have for the Question family is the marriage about the mid 1550s in Dunster, Somerset, England between William Question and Susan Millet. I have not to date looked for information on their parents as I have not purchased the land records for Dunster, Somerset which are applicable to this family. Genuki webpages for Dunster are very helpful with Parish Register Transcriptions provided by Phil Mustoe from 1716 to 1903 for baptisms, 1746 to 1864 for burials and 1716 to 1901 for marriages (banns from 1754 to 1812). There is also a transcription of Methodist baptisms (Dunster Circuit) from 1803 to 1850 by Martin Southwood.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Dunster/
http://www.wsom.org.uk/Parreg.html
There is extensive information available about Dunster in the Somerset Record Office at Taunton. There is a will for Nicholas Blake available there. The land which this family (Nicholas Blake and Jone Question) occupied at Puriton and Bawdrip was sold in 1667 and more documents available. Finding anything on the Question family has been a slow process except for their wills which are available on the National Archives of UK website.
My link to the Question family is through the brother of Jone Question, Augustine Question whose daughter Elizabeth married Robert Siderfin of Selworthy, Somerset. Their son Augustine Siderfin married Mary Davies 29 Apr 1720 at Cutcombe, Somerset. Their son Robert married Grace Kent 5 Feb 1752 at Selworthy, Somerset. Their daughter Elizabeth married John Rew 30 Jan 1792 at Selworthy, Somerset and their daughter Elizabeth married John Pincombe 9 Jan 1834 at Bishops Nympton, Devon. The entire Somerset line was completely unknown to me when I first started to investigate my genealogy. Earlier in my blogs I have indicated the steps that I followed to find Elizabeth Rew and it was an incredible journey which included serendipity and signing up for Ancestry as well as finding a copy of the History of the Siderfin Family of West Somerset (on ancestry and at the Allen County Public Library). Included in the book was Elizabeth Siderfin and connecting her to John Rew was complete with the will of her mother Grace (Kent) Siderfin.
I think genealogy brings out the dogged determination to find the end of the path in all of us. Once I had hold of a few clues I couldn't let go until I had reached the beginnings of the Siderfin family which was fairly easy to do once I acquired the book. There are errors in the book which I mention on my webpages but the early history of the family is incredibly well documented by the author whose mother was Elizabeth Siderfin. James Saunders in his position as Justice of the Peace had the knowledge and ability to search out those old records and put them together in a very meaningful and useful way in order that people in the future looking at this family could readily find and follow his research. His errors are far outweighed by the bulk of the information that he provided.
World Connect for Question family
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=questionfamily
Over time I will add to my trees on World Connect but for the moment I like to put up short runs just to correct material that is incorrect up on World Connect. I have a 50-50 chance of being the one chosen and likely people will look at every incidence of these unusual surnames!
I think I continue to be amazed at my about face with respect to genealogy. I helped my husband find census material and BMD material in the early 70s before our children were born. Then when he went off to the Ontario Genealogical Society Ottawa Branch in the early 1980s I was totally disinterested in belonging to anything genealogy related and I continued that way until the trip that our eldest daughter and I took to Rome and then London, UK. Home turf can bring up incredible memories from long ago family members that inspire you to look deeper into what they said and search out the roots of your existence.
The earliest record that I have for the Question family is the marriage about the mid 1550s in Dunster, Somerset, England between William Question and Susan Millet. I have not to date looked for information on their parents as I have not purchased the land records for Dunster, Somerset which are applicable to this family. Genuki webpages for Dunster are very helpful with Parish Register Transcriptions provided by Phil Mustoe from 1716 to 1903 for baptisms, 1746 to 1864 for burials and 1716 to 1901 for marriages (banns from 1754 to 1812). There is also a transcription of Methodist baptisms (Dunster Circuit) from 1803 to 1850 by Martin Southwood.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Dunster/
http://www.wsom.org.uk/Parreg.html
There is extensive information available about Dunster in the Somerset Record Office at Taunton. There is a will for Nicholas Blake available there. The land which this family (Nicholas Blake and Jone Question) occupied at Puriton and Bawdrip was sold in 1667 and more documents available. Finding anything on the Question family has been a slow process except for their wills which are available on the National Archives of UK website.
My link to the Question family is through the brother of Jone Question, Augustine Question whose daughter Elizabeth married Robert Siderfin of Selworthy, Somerset. Their son Augustine Siderfin married Mary Davies 29 Apr 1720 at Cutcombe, Somerset. Their son Robert married Grace Kent 5 Feb 1752 at Selworthy, Somerset. Their daughter Elizabeth married John Rew 30 Jan 1792 at Selworthy, Somerset and their daughter Elizabeth married John Pincombe 9 Jan 1834 at Bishops Nympton, Devon. The entire Somerset line was completely unknown to me when I first started to investigate my genealogy. Earlier in my blogs I have indicated the steps that I followed to find Elizabeth Rew and it was an incredible journey which included serendipity and signing up for Ancestry as well as finding a copy of the History of the Siderfin Family of West Somerset (on ancestry and at the Allen County Public Library). Included in the book was Elizabeth Siderfin and connecting her to John Rew was complete with the will of her mother Grace (Kent) Siderfin.
I think genealogy brings out the dogged determination to find the end of the path in all of us. Once I had hold of a few clues I couldn't let go until I had reached the beginnings of the Siderfin family which was fairly easy to do once I acquired the book. There are errors in the book which I mention on my webpages but the early history of the family is incredibly well documented by the author whose mother was Elizabeth Siderfin. James Saunders in his position as Justice of the Peace had the knowledge and ability to search out those old records and put them together in a very meaningful and useful way in order that people in the future looking at this family could readily find and follow his research. His errors are far outweighed by the bulk of the information that he provided.
World Connect for Question family
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=questionfamily
Over time I will add to my trees on World Connect but for the moment I like to put up short runs just to correct material that is incorrect up on World Connect. I have a 50-50 chance of being the one chosen and likely people will look at every incidence of these unusual surnames!
I think I continue to be amazed at my about face with respect to genealogy. I helped my husband find census material and BMD material in the early 70s before our children were born. Then when he went off to the Ontario Genealogical Society Ottawa Branch in the early 1980s I was totally disinterested in belonging to anything genealogy related and I continued that way until the trip that our eldest daughter and I took to Rome and then London, UK. Home turf can bring up incredible memories from long ago family members that inspire you to look deeper into what they said and search out the roots of your existence.
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