Watton Parishinge and Irthinton Parishinge - The Border Papers, Volume I, 1560 - 1594, edited by Joseph Bain

The Border Papers: Calendar of Letters and Papers relating to the affairs of the Borders of England and Scotland preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office London, edited by Joseph Bain, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Foreign Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Normandy. Volume I. A.D. 1560 - 1594. Published by the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Deputy Clerk Register of Scotland.

London, February 1894.

This particular volume includes the Muster rolls for Eskdale Ward in Cumberland and I will post them over the next few days. Unfortunately Bewcastle, Eske, Leven and Kirklinton did not answer the Muster call. These records can be found on pages 37 to 41, Section 90. Musters of Eskdale Ward, Cumberland. The Muster Rolls were taken on 9 Feb 1580/81 and for me provide a nice census of the Townships as my Routledge, Tweddle, Robson and Bushby families are found in some of these parishes.

Township    Surname    Forename    Suffix

Watton Parishinge    Haterton    John   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Robert   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Symond   
Watton Parishinge    Nixon    Waitte   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    John    younger
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    John    elder
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Christofer   
Watton Parishinge    Crowe    John   
Watton Parishinge    Crowe    Pawton   
Watton Parishinge    Crowe    Patton    elder
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Jeffrey   
Watton Parishinge    Crowe    John    elder
Watton Parishinge    Crowe    Harbert   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Thomas   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Arche   
Watton Parishinge    Thomson    John   
Watton Parishinge    Nixon    Harbert   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    John   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    John    younger
Watton Parishinge    Reutledge    Thomas   
Watton Parishinge    Reutledge    Andrewe   
Watton Parishinge    Reutledge    William   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Harbert   
Watton Parishinge    Wilking    Davide   
Watton Parishinge    Barnefather    Randell   
Watton Parishinge    Barnefather    Jenkinge   
Watton Parishinge    Barnefather    Peter   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Harbert   
Watton Parishinge    Michelson    Simon   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Thomas   
Watton Parishinge    Hatherton    Nicolas   

Irthinton Parishinge    Blanerhasset    Christofer   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hardon    John    elder
Irthinton Parishinge    Hardon    John    younger
Irthinton Parishinge    Hardon    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Elwold    Martine   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hardon    Edward   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bolman    Christofer   
Irthinton Parishinge    Thomson    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Elwold    Leonarde   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    Clement   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    Peter   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    George   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    William    elder
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    William    younger
Irthinton Parishinge    Bulman    Christofer   
Irthinton Parishinge    Gibson    William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    Emmte   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hardon    George   
Irthinton Parishinge    Elwolde    Richard   
Irthinton Parishinge    Elwold    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Mulcaster    Randell   
Irthinton Parishinge    Mulcaster    Edward   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bulman    Richard   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bulman    Edward   
Irthinton Parishinge    Mulcaster    Richard   
Irthinton Parishinge    Grame    William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Mulcaster    Richard   
Irthinton Parishinge    Mulcaster    Edwarde   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bulman    Thomas   
Irthinton Parishinge    Grame    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    Thomas   
Irthinton Parishinge    Nicholson    William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    Emmte   
Irthinton Parishinge    Grame    George   
Irthinton Parishinge    Grame    Richard   
Irthinton Parishinge    Dalton    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Dalton    Thomas   
Irthinton Parishinge    Swane    Jenkinge   
Irthinton Parishinge    Warwicke    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Sampson    Cuthbert   
Irthinton Parishinge    Wilson    Lanceolote   
Irthinton Parishinge    Atkinson    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Wannope    Thomas   
Irthinton Parishinge    Hatherton    Richard   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bulman    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Elwold    Peter   
Irthinton Parishinge    Harden    Robert   
Irthinton Parishinge    Gibson    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Lowson    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Townes    Richard   
Irthinton Parishinge    Elwold    William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Harden    Thomas   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bulman    Thomas   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bell    Roger   
Irthinton Parishinge    Townes    William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Stagge    William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Nichelson    Gawen   
Irthinton Parishinge    Dalton    Randell   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bulman    Thomas   
Irthinton Parishinge    Sampson    George   
Irthinton Parishinge    Mulcaster    Roger   
Irthinton Parishinge    Milbourne    Richard   
Irthinton Parishinge    Mulcaster    Roger    younger
Irthinton Parishinge    Thomson    Christofer S. William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Thomson    William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Warwicke    Leonarde   
Irthinton Parishinge    Pearson    Bartle   
Irthinton Parishinge    Gibson    William   
Irthinton Parishinge    Miller    Cuthbert   
Irthinton Parishinge    Allison    George   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bulman    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Eyles    Thomas   
Irthinton Parishinge    Dixon    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Railton    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Bulman    John   
Irthinton Parishinge    Jarden    Richard   

Great Driffield

I spent the morning looking at the Great Driffield parish registers at the Family History Centre. Most of my names there are from my Gray line (my great grandmother Grace Gray's ancestors). The Gray family was from the East Riding of Yorkshire and from the parishes of Lund, Hutton Cranswick, Great Driffield, Cherry Burton, Holme on the Wolds, Etton and Kilnwick on the Wolds. This group of parishes all lie together about 15 miles from the North Sea in a parallel fashion. I have also looked at the parishes of Skerne and Watton which are part of this group and have not yet looked at Lockington and South Dalton mostly because I do not have even one entry thus far from those two parishes.

The Great Driffield parish registers go back to 1556 and will be very interesting if I find my Harland and Wilkinson (and possibly other lines) lines in this parish back that far. I photographed from the beginning of the registers to 1612 (baptisms, marriages and burials). I will have a look at them to see the names that are found in these early registers - I did note that there are several Gray families and I need to locate my Gray family prior to 1708 at Cherry Burton. My husband photographed the early Hutton Cranswick registers complete from 1657 (when they begin) up to 1747. I had not checked for my Gray family there and must do so now given the information that I learned on the East Yorkshire Listserv.

In all I took 174 images and my husband took 403. I will have a busy time going through all of those images. We are both waiting for one more film from Salt Lake City - Warrin for my husband (in Germany) and St Mary Bourne (Hampshire UK) for me. We do not expect them to arrive for another couple of weeks. I will see how much I go through tomorrow on my images and then decide whether I will go to the FHS Friday or next Monday. I found all the baptisms, marriages and burials I was looking for including Timothy and Ann Harland, Richard and Ann Sproxton burials. I also photographed a few Harland burials and a few Wilkinson burials that looked interesting.

A cursory glance such as I was using today did not reveal if my Harland and Wilkinson families were of the parish. Indeed the marriage between Timothy Harland and Ann Wilkinson was almost illegible. I am going to try to lighten that image to see if I am able to read the text. Unfortunately it is still quite illegible. I am thinking that the IGI entry must be from the Bishops Transcripts.

Tomorrow I will continue reviewing the images of Great Driffield as I want to go back and takes images of 1612 to 1720 of the baptisms, marriages and burials.

Interesting quandry - Gray

The Gray family has suddenly thrust itself forward after sitting dormant in my mind for quite a while. Meeting another researcher studying the line gives me a lot of ideas on my own line. They appear to be farmers (not well to do just small farmers I expect). They rent Glebe land I think as the Owner is a priest. They move about somewhat from Cherry Burton to Etton over a period of 140 years which is maybe not a lot of moving. Where they are before Cherry Burton is a mystery that reading all of the parish records can only solve. I need to look at Skerne and Watton for the name Gray as well. I know my ancestry for my Gray line back from my great grandmother who was a daughter of the emigrant Robert Gray Junior and my first Canadian born ancestor in 1839. Robert's parentage was known in my family as my mother knew that Grace's parents were Robert Gray Junior and Mary Routledge and that Robert's parents were Robert Gray and Elizabeth. She also knew that the Gray family was from Cherry Burton. This family lore proved to be true when I investigated the land records/parish registers for Cherry Burton and Etton. The Holme on the Wold registers are quite small (Robert and Jane only appear to have had two children). It is curious why they were baptized at Holme on the Wolds and not Cherry Burton. Robert was the only baptism in 1774 on the Bishops Transcripts (father listed as Robert Gray Husbandman). There were five baptisms in 1771 when Ellen (older sister to Robert) was baptized. I will continue to investigate as I did not find Robert Gray at Holme on the Wolds in the tax lists. My cousin wrote up the family in the 1970s and has the baptism for Robert Gray (our mutual ancestor) as Holme on the Wolds. Robert indicated on the census that his birthplace was Holme.

My youngest daughter started her clinical year at the hospital. She has wanted to be a physician since she was a young child and I have listened to her talk about it all these years. My personal preference for my daughter was that she do a Ph.D. like her older sister (she did do her MSc). However, I have only hinted at that, encouraged the idea of research and supported her every tendency to follow an academic/research career. But in the long run her main interest has always been healing. I am happy for her that she is doing that. Canada has a desperate need for physicians which will still be with us for another ten years or so simply because it takes a long time to graduate doctors (4 years of medical school, minimum of three years of residency for Family Medicine and longer for other specialties). It is a full time career really having worked in medicine in the 1960s and again in the 1990s-up to mid 2006. The difference in medicine between the 1960s and the 1990s is amazing. I worked in the lab in the 1960s and the miracles of the 70s, 80s, 90s and on into the present have created an enormous difference in the ability of medicine to solve problems and give people a longer lifespan where it would have been much shorter. They haven't cured everything but the inroads they have made into debilitating diseases is tremendous.

Occasionally people ask me (I always think it a bit rude to be honest) when we are going to have grandchildren but honestly there are enough children in the world and if my daughters decide never to have children they have my 100% support. Both of them are in full time careers that require a full time commitment and having children is not a particularly easy option. In the case of my youngest I can not even begin to say how proud I am of her taking on health care even if I would rather she was doing academia/research. Physicians are so desperately needed. They also have my 100% support if they decide to have children but that would be for them with me helping if they need help. The idea that one must have children is somewhat foreign to me. My husband and I enjoy our children now adults but no driving need here for grandchildren. We both have absolutely oodles of cousins/siblings all having children/grandchildren. I already have 4 neices, 3 nephews, 5 great nephews on my side and they are just starting into their child bearing years most of them. Five great nephews from my oldest neice and nephew alone already!

Although we are home all the time and could help out 100% we keep very busy bringing together our genealogies to pass on to our siblings and their descendants; our cousins and their descendants. I have proven back to all of my 3x great grandparents (with the problem discussed below) and I am in the process of proving the 4x great grandparents ( I am now down to missing the full names of 5 and the surnames of 2 of my 4x great grandparents in 7 of my great grandparents lines and for the eighth one (my maternal grandmother) I am missing three but need to find paper proof for the link between my great grandmother Ellen Taylor and the likely parents Thomas Taylor and Ellen Roberts - once that is resolved and if I am correct then I need to find 3 4x great grandparents)). Solving my maternal grandmother is a slowly evolving situation. I have my mtDNA Full Genetic Scan done and still no perfect matches. That may be my clue back along with paper data. I am working on family lore at the moment and where it was easy to locate the information I have accumulated it but do not want to make great expenditure on lines that are not mine.

Just back from an 11.6 km bicycle ride. It is starting to rain now so we were lucky that we went early. Now to bake the cakes and cupcakes for tomorrow. I will wait until tomorrow to ice them so that they have dried out a little but will still be tasty.

Cakes all baked and cooling. The day has passed quickly.

Tomorrow I will ice the cakes and that might just occupy quite a bit of my day.

Hinxman Wills - 16 August 2009

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.

Sproxton - Interesting puzzle

Examining the images further for Richard Sproxton and the marriages has given me further details. Grace Sarum married Marmaduke Wiles in 1703 and Marmaduke was buried in 1719 leaving her a widow. Richard Sproxton married Grace Wiles in 1720. The priest does not note that she is a widow unfortunately but the earlier priest had added Richard Sproxton junior to the marriage of Richard Sproxton and Dorothy English adding further proof to the marriage being the correct one and Richard Sproxton's parents being Richard Sproxton and Dorothy English. I haven't been able to discover anything about Dorothy English but will cotinue checking into that family line.

I continued working with the John Sproxton line (although not mine I decided I might as well figure it out for the 1600s and early 1700s). The use of senior, junior and younger is helpful and I was able to separate all the families and put them into legacy under the appropriate parent. The John line is a much larger one in the early 1700s and is the line that remains at Hutton Cranswick into the early 1800s. The Richard line moves to Great Driffield where my Richard marries Ann Harland and when the Great Driffield film arrives I will be able to sort them out I am hoping.

We went for a two hour canoe ride in the bayou of the Ottawa River which is around Petrie Island. It is a most pleasant canoe ride and with three of us paddling we were able to traverse quite a distance in the two hours. We had marvelous views of yellow and white water lillies. We will try to get out again for a few more rides before the summer is past. No time for a bike ride these past few days with all the film viewing. I will just do one more day on Hutton Cranswick and also looking at Watton, Skerne and Beswick. I want to have a fresh eye to look at Watton and Beswick as I think that there may be a few entries there that might interest me. The Skern registers are badly damaged and I did not really see anything that would be helpful.

We are into the first really warm spell of the summer but you can tell that the cooler days are soon to come as the evenings cool off quite quickly. This is the coolest summer that I can remember for awhile. In some ways it is nice but the ripening is slower in the garden. So although our tomatoes are quite lovely they are still very green.

No time spent on the will today but I shall get back to it once I have finished with the Hutton Cranswick film. The Great Driffield film will be awhile as it had to be created from the master copy and it is possible that St Mary Bourne film will come first. It is a transcription and if it doesn't help me then I will buy the fiche for the parish registers from the Hampshire Record Office.

Getting ready for the FHS Library

Today I continued transcribing the William Hinxman will from 1579 and it is becoming less spotty but will be a little while completing. The Inventory should also be interesting and I found an inventory from the late 1500s that I shall use as an aid for the terminology in this inventory. Household effects are fairly standard so should be a good aid. It is quite an interesting will as William names many of his relatives as well as his own family. The Hinxman family at Andover is, I think, a rather small one in the 1500s and finding son Joseph there was quite rewarding as well as a son William. It does mean that the Hinxman families that I have found at Andover are related which is always helpful.

I also want to get ready to go to the Family History Library tomorrow morning to continue looking at the Hutton Cranswick Parish Registers. I will now start at the beginning and take images of the pertinent entries for the Sproxton/Simpson/Garrit/Wiles families. It would appear that John Sproxton Junior married Ann Simpson 5 Jan 1659 and that it was another John Sproxton who married Anne Huser in August 1659. It will be interesting to see if I can determine if this was John Sproxton Senior in a new marriage. I want to work my way through the register up to the late 1700s to ensure that I find all the BMBs for these families. In 1753 my Richard Sproxton married Ann Harland at Great Driffield and my Sproxton family is found there after that time.

If I complete all of that then I will look at the other Parish Registers on this microfilm (a bonus for me) which include: Skerne, Watton, Beswick which are all lying beside my parishes of Hutton Cranswick and Kilnwick on the Wolds. The other two parishes Burton Agnes and Bridlington Quay are somewhat away but I do have a couple of entries for Bridlington so will also look at them later.

Another full day spent working away on items plus a 14 km bike ride. I did a little more on the will and a little more on the Sproxton family.

Pincombe and family, Visit to FHC

A two part post today as I am beginning the day by looking once again at my Pincombe family in Bishops Nympton and the families that married into the Pincombe family (I am sure that members of the other families see this exactly opposite :) ).

The Blackemoore family at Bishops Nympton and mine appears to have been there from the beginning of the Parish Registers was initially a puzzle for me. I had found the marriage of Johan Blackemore and John Pincombe and believed them to be the parents of William Pincombe who married Mary Vicary 17 Jun 1685 at Bishops Nympton and they were the parents of two children in as much as I am able to determine. John was baptized 12 Jul 1692 at Bishops Nympton and his sister Joan was buried 26 Mar 1726 but I do not have a baptism for her. Their mother was buried 5 Apr 1726 and all at Bishops Nympton.

Once I established that the chart that I had inherited from the earlier Pincombe researchers was incorrect - the marriage between Grace Manning and John Pincombe was a John Pincombe from a different line - then I was able to move backwards. I determined that the parents of my John Pincombe married to Mary Charley (Charlie) were indeed John Pincombe and Grace Manning since the John Pincombe that was a son of John Pincombe and Catherine Bryer was clearly someone else in the register.

I could then go back to the family of John Pincombe and Johane Blackemore and follow their children's lines which brought me to John Pincombe and Catherine Bryer through a different son. Then I had Johane Blackemore and which one was she. That proved to be quite straightforward that she was the daughter of Anthonie Blackemore (Anthonie was buried just three months before the wedding and the bride's mother is identified as Johane) and his father was Thomas Blackemore who appears on the Devon Visitation of 1620. This visitation lists the ARMS: Or, on a fess between three moors' heads side-faced, couped sable, three crescents argent and CREST: A moor's head erased sable, gorged or.

All these crests are very interesting and I think over time I will accumulate them just for "meat on the bones" of our ancestors. In this case I can trace directly back to the holder of this coat of arms (Thomas Blackemoore). Now that I have worked that through I will add it all to my Pincombe one name study Legacy tree which is slowly growing and will eventually be on my website.

I could photograph all the charts and put them up and may do that one day but for the moment I think they are confusing since I have found some of them inaccurate. They were put together by the earlier researchers using information gleaned first hand from informants. Although interesting, I feel more comfortable with the BMB, will and land information being used to reconstruct family lines. It is easy to mix lines!

My post will continue later with my observations from the Family History Centre as we will be off to there in another hour or so.

I spent the entire three hours on the Hutton Cranswick microfilm. I was able to find the marriage of John Sproxton and Anne Huser in 1659. I am not sure where this Sproxton line is going actually. I did some searching on the Internet last night (I only just learned about my Sproxton line last fall when we went to Salt Lake City and I could see the correct spelling - incorrectly spelled on the IGI) and there was a village called Sproxton in North Riding of Yorkshire which is in the Domesday Book as the King's Land. The Sproxton family seem to be quite old and they lived at Wakefield WRY in the 1500s. The next record to search is the Protestation Returns for Hutton Cranswick to see if the Sproxton family is there in 1641-42. The PRs only go back to the late 1650s. There are three Sproxton males baptizing children in the second quarter of the 1700s - Richard (my ancestor), Isaac and John. I need to keep reading the film to find all the Sproxton entries.

As well on the tape are the PRs for the villages of Skerne, Watton, Beswick, Christ Church - Bridlington Quay, and Burton-Agnes. All of these also interest me so I can see that I shall be quite busy with this tape until it has to go back 19 September 2009. I was unable to find baptisms for Grace Wiles, Margaret Garrit or Anne Husey who are my 6x, 7x and 8x great grandmothers respectively. I was feeling a bit impatient for Driffield PRs to come but I think that the wait will be quite advantageous to let me completely finish this microfilm first. The Bradfield PRs I will look at again before I send it back but there isn't anything in it that can help me to discover if this is my Nathanael Lambden.