True to my thoughts following the lecture by Sherry Irvine at BIFHSGO on the weekend, I went through my binders. A little history just to remind myself why I have binders. At the time when I was first beginning family research I needed to separate out my sixteen great great grandparent lines and have a place to collect papers that I acquired (mostly from London Ontario area initially) during my first couple of years of research. This system worked extremely well for me but finally sixteen binders just took up too much room on a shelf and so I decreased the number to eight and that was where I was at with my binders as of last week.
Yesterday and today I went through each binder and extracted the irreplaceable material (mostly scanned anyway but I had purchased some of it and others were given to me) and reduced the material considerably because the binders predated Legacy my family tree software. I now have reduced that paper load and during the survey I found an interesting item which my husband had found on Edwin Buller. The Emigrants database at the Archives of Ontario had an Edwin Buller with wife Emma arriving on the Assisted Emigrants Database in 1874. My Edwin would have been 24 at that time and I was fairly certain he wasn't married but one must follow all leads just to make them negative if nothing else. I actually hadn't followed up on that lead because it predated good accessibility to the Ship's Lists which are now indexed on Ancestry and online at Library and Archives Canada by ship. I pulled up the ships record for the Nova Scotian arriving in June 1874 and there is an Edwin and an Emma but the surname has been crossed through by a y on the surname above it. Looking very very carefully at the surname it is Butler and so I wrote off to Archives of Ontario to mention the transcription I was seeing and sent them the scans of the document. The ship's list also identified Edwin as being 39 years of age and so not my Edwin Buller after all anyway. But I thought that it would save someone else from being led astry by thinking this was their Edwin Buller.
A little background as Edwin Denner Buller is my great grandfather and father to my maternal grandmother. He was born to Henry Christopher Buller and Ann Welch. Henry Christopher Buller was a widower (accounted in an earlier blog) when he married Ann. I have still not discovered if either of his children from his first marriage survived. Nor have I found a burial for his first wife. Henry moved back and forth between Birmingham and London. In London he had a butcher shop in Covent Garden and in Birmingham he had a butcher shop and a restaurant on Lower Temple and Dale End. He maintained these establishments right up until his death in London in 1862. He was buried in London and I have not, to date, found a will for him. Since he died after 1858 I also haven't pursued an intestate statement for him either. More to do next trip to London.
I then put the paperwork on the Assisted Emigrant database away with my notation; not my Edwin as the original shows Edwin Butler. Every once in a while I search for Edwin. He is on the 1851 census as a baby, then 1861 with his grandmother Sarah Welch but missing in 1871 and 1881 and then in 1891 with his wife Ellen and their children including my grandmother Ellen Rosina Buller. I do find that his younger brother Charles Clement Buller is a jeweller in South Africa and that makes sense as he is a jeweller's apprentice on the 1871 census with his grandmother Welch and mother Ann now widowed. This is a lead I need to pursue but it is dreadfully difficult to find informtion on people leaving England to go to South Africa and then returning to England again. Likely he also worked as a jeweller's assistant but I am incredibly curious why he did not after he returned to England. But then I could be mistaken as to his being in South Africa. My grandmother mentioned that he had been to Africa and then he walked with a limp. I know that he wasn't in the Boer War as he died of pneumonia in Birmingham in 1899 and I can find him registering his childrens' births in Birmingham in the 1890s so not likely to be away. I had thought he was in the Royal Artillery but this again was a mistranscription as the individual was actually Edwin Baller. Amazing how many wrong turns one must sometimes make but perhaps I have made enough wrong ones and will now find correct information. One can always dream.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Back to Blake but still working on North Molton
Although I still have more Pincombe wills and documents to transcribe my mind seems to be back to the Blake family once again. I will spend most of the day working on the future Marriage Challenges by the Guild of One Name Studies members for the one-namers getting the lists ready to submit. I like to try and locate them as a Registration District is rather large.
However, my fiche time is still going to be North Molton so I suspect that I will get back into my Pincombe line as well. Reading the last batch (before the Banns which were very nice) of microfiche has been a trial but I would like to persevere and reach the nicest fiche which is usually much quicker to transcribe. I can see though that I need to buy some of the parishes around North Molton like Filleigh and a couple of others to look at for the Pincombe family. Unfortunately Filleigh registers start only in the late 1600s but still would give me a picture of the William Pincombe line that was there.
Of course there is a Blake family at North Molton as well and I am busy collecting all the Blake information in this Devon area. Originally I thought that they were from the Somerset line but Barrie Blake has discovered that descendants of James Blake at Knights Enham were also in North Devon. This means a mixture likely as James Blake's descendants would have been mid to late 1600s unless of course there were Blakes from Hampshire in Devon earlier than James Blake. One little bit of new information always provides a whole lot of new questions!
Following the line of thought of the last lecture at the BIFHSGO Conference I revisited my binders that I prepared on my sixteen great great grandparents. Most of what I had in there is online so I have eliminated half of the binders thus far and about 20 centimetres in depth of paper. A few interesting tidbits that I haven't thought about for awhile have been added to my "watch" pile. Whenever I have a dull moment or need a change I go through my "watch" pile to see if I have missed anything from earlier musings on my families.
I had always resolved to have everything online as much as possible and that is still my aim. I generally create text files with meaningful names (meaningful to me that is :) ) that I can review whenever I am inside the folder of one of my families.
I have also bundled up all my Hampshire, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, Cumbria, Midlands and Yorkshire journals. I hope to give them to BIFHSGO although might just have one last glance as some of them are seven or eight years old now and I was definitely a newbie in those days and I might have missed something interesting that would aid me in my family research. Otherwise they can all go to the library if they are wanted or can be sold to help the society at their table.
I understand that some of the societies now have online journals instead of mailing them to me (just got to be too much so I terminated all my memberships a couple of years ago). I will check and if they have online I will become a member of them once again.
However, my fiche time is still going to be North Molton so I suspect that I will get back into my Pincombe line as well. Reading the last batch (before the Banns which were very nice) of microfiche has been a trial but I would like to persevere and reach the nicest fiche which is usually much quicker to transcribe. I can see though that I need to buy some of the parishes around North Molton like Filleigh and a couple of others to look at for the Pincombe family. Unfortunately Filleigh registers start only in the late 1600s but still would give me a picture of the William Pincombe line that was there.
Of course there is a Blake family at North Molton as well and I am busy collecting all the Blake information in this Devon area. Originally I thought that they were from the Somerset line but Barrie Blake has discovered that descendants of James Blake at Knights Enham were also in North Devon. This means a mixture likely as James Blake's descendants would have been mid to late 1600s unless of course there were Blakes from Hampshire in Devon earlier than James Blake. One little bit of new information always provides a whole lot of new questions!
Following the line of thought of the last lecture at the BIFHSGO Conference I revisited my binders that I prepared on my sixteen great great grandparents. Most of what I had in there is online so I have eliminated half of the binders thus far and about 20 centimetres in depth of paper. A few interesting tidbits that I haven't thought about for awhile have been added to my "watch" pile. Whenever I have a dull moment or need a change I go through my "watch" pile to see if I have missed anything from earlier musings on my families.
I had always resolved to have everything online as much as possible and that is still my aim. I generally create text files with meaningful names (meaningful to me that is :) ) that I can review whenever I am inside the folder of one of my families.
I have also bundled up all my Hampshire, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, Cumbria, Midlands and Yorkshire journals. I hope to give them to BIFHSGO although might just have one last glance as some of them are seven or eight years old now and I was definitely a newbie in those days and I might have missed something interesting that would aid me in my family research. Otherwise they can all go to the library if they are wanted or can be sold to help the society at their table.
I understand that some of the societies now have online journals instead of mailing them to me (just got to be too much so I terminated all my memberships a couple of years ago). I will check and if they have online I will become a member of them once again.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Guild of one-name Studies
One of the many benefits of belonging to the Guild of one-name Studies or GOONs the popular acronym for our research society is the Marriage Challenges which are carried out by members in the UK. One of them or a group will take a Registration District like Crediton, Eton or many many others over time and collect all the marriages for your one-name study providing that you send them an excel sheet with all the desired marriages listed on it. Over time I have received over 100 of the full certificate back and at 9 pounds 50 pence each that is a substantial savings as I do not actually need or want the original for most of the people in my one-name study (I am not necessarily related to all the people especially in my Blake study). I have spent my day putting together my excel charts for several of these Marriage Challenges as the Blake study can have as few as none and so far as many as 70 in one single request. I have now extracted 25,000 of the 30,000 Blake marriages from Free BMD but I am only slowly getting the spouse name entered in. For some areas I have a lot of information but for others not as much. I am just starting to get a feel for the spread of the various Blake lines. Indeed from our yDNA study for the Blake group, there are at a minimum eight founders and they arise in Ireland (likely two different lines), in Hampshire, in Wiltshire, in Somerset, in Devon and continue in Norfolk, Suffolk, London, and the home counties and then north into Yorkshire and I have only just started to build this information.
One of my co-workers has developed over the years a number of family trees on the blake webpage that he has created:
http://blakeheritage.synthasite.com/blake-family-dna-project.php
I am still working on linkages but have concentrated on the 1800s and 1700s but will gradually move back in time. For Hampshire I have linkages back into the 1500s.
I shall continue working on the Marriage Challenges tomorrow in order to submit them in a timely fashion for the researcher to organize. I like to try to check and see if I can figure out at least which parish the marriage is from since the Registration District can include quite a few parishes.
One of my projects this fall is to create the Cardinal Points for Andover Registration District from the fiche that I have (although I have a lot of fiche the number that I have is only about 25% of the entire Registration District). But several other members of the Guild do hold some of these parishes and once I have mine ready I will let them know via our excellent Forum that I am ready to submit my cardinal points if they are able to submit theirs as well.
One of my co-workers has developed over the years a number of family trees on the blake webpage that he has created:
http://blakeheritage.synthasite.com/blake-family-dna-project.php
I am still working on linkages but have concentrated on the 1800s and 1700s but will gradually move back in time. For Hampshire I have linkages back into the 1500s.
I shall continue working on the Marriage Challenges tomorrow in order to submit them in a timely fashion for the researcher to organize. I like to try to check and see if I can figure out at least which parish the marriage is from since the Registration District can include quite a few parishes.
One of my projects this fall is to create the Cardinal Points for Andover Registration District from the fiche that I have (although I have a lot of fiche the number that I have is only about 25% of the entire Registration District). But several other members of the Guild do hold some of these parishes and once I have mine ready I will let them know via our excellent Forum that I am ready to submit my cardinal points if they are able to submit theirs as well.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Banns at North Molton 1844 to 1850 - a treat for anyone researching their lines at North Molton in this time period
Continuing to work away on the North Molton Parish Registers and I have reached the middle of 1634 and will have to see if the rest is on the next fiche. A surprise awaited me on the third fiche of the oldest records. By this time all of my direct lines have moved away from North Molton but I decided to transcribe the entire set of fiche and decided to share this rather interesting list with any interested readers.
Banns were included on the last North Molton fiche for Parish Register 1 which might just be a rather handy list for people researching marriages at North Molton from 1844 to 1850. These are the banns read at North Molton and I did not find that all of banns ended up in a marriage as I did check them on Free BMD. All are of the parish of North Molton unless otherwise stated in the last entry for each couple with a sojourner living in the parish but not considered to be "of the parish" in this time frame.
Surname Forename Surname Forename Year Month Day Year Month Day Year Month Day Details
Morcombe Joseph Lewis Mary 1844 Apr 28 1844 May 5 1844 May 12 groom sojourner
Quick William Bass Sarah 1844 Jun 9 1844 Jun 16 1844 Jun 23 groom sojourner
Ball William Frayne Mary 1844 Jul 7 1844 Jul 14 1844 Jul 21 groom farmer
Trebble Robert Davy Elizabeth 1844 Jul 21 1844 Jul 28 1844 Aug 4
Williams William Priest Mary 1844 Aug 4 1844 Aug 11 1844 Aug 18
Harris William Yeo Mary 1844 Aug 18 1844 Aug 25 1844 Sep 1 groom sojourner, bride of Swimbridge
Valentine John Saunders Smith Ann Elizabeth 1844 Oct 20 1844 Oct 27 1844 Nov 3 groom sojourner
Shapland George Westcott Joan 1844 Oct 27 1844 Nov 3 1844 Nov 10
Rendle John Saunders Frayne Grace 1844 Nov 21 1844 Dec 1 1844 Dec 8
Handford Henry Slader Mary 1845 Jan 26 1845 Feb 2 1845 Feb 9
Cockings George Frayne Mary 1845 Feb 16 1845 Feb 23 1845 Mar 2
Painter Robert Kingdon Elizabeth 1845 Mar 2 1845 Mar 9 1845 Mar 16
Frayne Peter Bull Elizabeth 1845 Mar 2 1845 Mar 9 1845 Mar 16 bride sojourner
Tapp William Stoker Jane 1845 Mar 9 1845 Mar 16 1845 Mar 23 bride of St Davids, Exeter
Shapland William Dobb Ann 1845 Mar 30 1845 Apr 6 1845 Apr 13 bride sojourner
Stoneman Peter Frayne Mary 1845 Mar 30 1845 Apr 6 1845 Apr 13 Bride of St Vivien Exeter
Rodgers John Saunders Clarke Elizabeth 1845 Apr 20 1845 Apr 27 1845 May 4
Gardner William Crang Grace 1845 Apr 27 1845 May 4 1845 May 11
Darlington James Allen Mary 1845 May 18 1845 May 18 1845 Jun 1
Davy Edward Hill Mary Ann 1845 Jun 8 1845 Jun 15 1845 Jun 22 both sojourners
Rendle Robert Brayley Eliza 1845 Aug 31 1845 Sep 7 1845 Sep 14
Kingdon William Tamlyn Elizabeth 1845 Oct 12 1845 Oct 19 1845 Oct 26
Pile Richard Frayne Margaret 1845 Nov 9 1845 Nov 16 1845 Nov 23 groom sojourner
Frayne George Slader Elizabeth 1845 Dec 7 1845 Dec 14 1845 Dec 21
Slader John Thomas Sarah 1845 Dec 21 1845 Dec 28 1846 Jan 4 bride of Witheridge
Tapp William Hill Ann 1846 Jan 4 1846 Jan 11 1846 Jan 18
Bawden Hugh Milton Mary Ann 1846 Feb 1 1846 Feb 8 1846 Feb 15
Thorne Richard Locke Elizabeth 1846 Mar 1 1846 Mar 8 1846 Mar 15
Frayne Richard Westcott Ann 1846 Mar 1 1846 Mar 8 1846 Mar 15
Yendle Joseph Laramey Mary 1846 Mar 8 1846 Mar 15 1846 Mar 22
Holloway Richard Thorne Mary 1846 Mar 15 1846 Mar 22 1846 Mar 29
Loosmore Thomas Prout Ellen 1846 May 3 1846 May 10 1846 May 17
Redding Richard Nott Grace 1846 May 3 1846 Mqy 10 1846 May 17
Passmor William Cook Ann 1846 Jun 7 1846 Jun 14 1846 Jun 22 bride of East Buckland
Bendle George Mann Ann 1846 Jul 5 1846 Jul 12 1846 Jul 19
Westcott Henry Stoneman Mary Ann 1846 Aug 30 1846 Sep 6 1846 Sep 13
Delbridge James Thorne Ann 1846 Oct 4 1846 Oct 11 1846 Oct 18
Thorne John Passmore Agnes 1846 Oct 18 1846 Oct 25 1846 Nov 1
Shapland James Trick Sarah 1846 Nov 1 1846 Nov 8 1846 Nov 15 groom sojourner
Frayne Philip Frayne Ann 1846 Dec 13 1846 Dec 20 1846 Dec 27
Bawden Henry Webber Elizabeth 1846 Dec 13 1846 Dec 20 1846 Dec 27
Purchase Nicholas Fry Jane 1847 Feb 7 1847 Feb 14 1847 Feb 21
Westcott William Burgess Elizabeth 1847 Feb 14 1847 Feb 21 1847 Feb 28
Webber William Holloway Catherine 1847 Feb 28 1847 Mar 7 1847 Mar 14
Hole John Kingdon Eliza 1847 Mar 7 1847 Mar 14 1847 Mar 21
Gill Michael Kingdon Elizabeth 1847 Mar 7 1847 Mar 14 1847 Mar 21
Webber John Stoneman Charlotte 1847 Mar 21 1847 Mar 28 1847 Apr 4
Hoyle John Marsh Elizabeth 1847 Apr 4 1847 Apr 11 1847 Apr 18
Catford William Cockram Jane 1847 Jun 20 1847 Jun 27 1847 Jul 4 both sojourners
Mayne Joseph Frayne Ann 1847 Jul 18 1847 Jul 25 1847 Aug 1 groom sojourner
Handford John Bawden Mariah 1847 Sep 12 1847 Sep 19 1847 Sep 26
Slader Richard Western Mary 1847 Nov 14 1847 Nov 21 1847 Nov 28
Burgess Henry Smith Ann Elizabeth 1847 Dec 5 1847 Dec 12 1847 Dec 19
Hancock Edwin Gough Ellen 1847 Dec 26 1848 Jan 2 1848 Jan 9
Hancock James John Gough Mary 1847 Dec 26 1848 Jan 2 1848 Jan 9 groom sojourner
Seldon Thomas Blackford Ann 1848 Jan 16 1848 Jan 23 1848 Jan 30 groom sojourner
Westcott William Frayne Ann 1848 Feb 13 1848 Feb 20 1848 Feb 27
Holloway William Kingdon Ann 1848 Feb 20 1848 Feb 27 1848 Mar 5 groom of Bratton Fleming
Robins John Bawden Jane 1848 Mar 12 1848 Mar 19 1848 Mar 26 groom sojourner
Collins William Lang Mary 1848 Mar 26 1848 Apr 2 1848 Apr 9 groom sojourner
Parkin William Bawden Jane 1848 Mar 26 1848 Apr 2 1848 Apr 9
Williams Jonathan Fisher Sally 1848 Apr 23 1848 Apr 30 1848 May 7
Howe William Bennetts Mary Ann 1848 Jun 11 1848 Jun 18 1848 Jun 25 bride sojourner
Lewis William Frayne Mary Ann 1848 Oct 1 1848 Oct 8 1848 Oct 15
Smith Henry Radford Harriet 1848 Oct 29 1848 Nov 5 1848 Nov 12
Holland John Chapple Catharine 1848 Dec 5 1848 Dec 12 1848 Dec 19 groom sojourner
Jones John Burgess Elizabeth Jane 1848 Nov 26 1848 Dec 3 1848 Dec 10
Bawden Hugh Colwell Jane 1848 Dec 3 1848 Dec 10 1848 Dec 17
Laramy William Gough Ann 1848 Dec 17 1848 Dec 24 1848 Dec 31
Laramy John Dascombe Sophia 1848 Dec 17 1848 Dec 24 1848 Dec 31 bride sojourner
Hill John Roberts Joan 1849 Jan 14 1849 Jan 21 1849 Jan 28
Snow James Smyth Elizabeth 1849 Feb 11 1849 Feb 18 1849 Feb 25
Hill Joseph Bawden Mary 1849 Feb 25 1849 Mar 4 1849 crossed out
Chapple James Abbott Elizabeth Jane 1849 Mar 4 1849 Mar 11 1849 Mar 18 bride sojourner
Smyth James Huxtable Ann 1849 Mar 4 1849 Mar 11 1849 Mar 18
Gibbs William Lancey Grace 1849 Mar 11 1849 Mar 18 1849 Mar 25 bride of Challaccombe
Moore John Burgess Mary 1849 Mar 25 1849 Apr 1 1849 Apr 8 groom of Southmolton
Locke Thomas Curtis Priscilla 1849 Apr 29 1849 May 6 1849 May 13
Gould William Meade Ann 1849 Jun 24 1849 Jul 1 1849 Jul 8
Andrews George Bendle Mariah 1849 Jul 22 1849 Jul 29 1849 Aug 5
Ridd Charles Bawden Sarah 1849 Oct 7 1849 Oct 14 1849 Oct 21 groom sojourner
Thorne John Baple Mary 1849 Oct 14 1849 Oct 21 1849 Oct 28 Groom of St Mary Magdalene Barnstaple and bride sojourner
Hill William Hill Mary Ann 1849 Oct 14 1849 Oct 21 1849 Oct 28
Collard Royal Trick Harriet 1849 Nov 18 1849 Nov 25 1849 Dec 2
Huxtable Thomas Delbridge Elizabeth 1849 Dec 2 1849 Dec 9 1849 Dec 16
Roberts William Thorne Elizabeth 1849 Dec 30 1850 Jan 6 1850 Jan 13
Thorne William Hutchings Elizabeth 1850 Jan 13 1850 Jan 20 1850 Jan 27
Holcombe Emanuel Ball Alice 1850 Feb 3 1850 Feb 10 1850 Feb 17 bride sojourner
Blackford Robert Locke Ann 1850 Feb 10 1850 Feb 17 1850 Feb 24
Hobbs John Hoyle Catherine 1850 Feb 17 1850 Feb 24 1850 Mar 3
Tucker William Tamlyn Ann 1850 Feb 24 1850 Mar 3 1850 Mar 10
Buckingham William Cockings Mary 1850 Feb 24 1850 Mar 3 1850 Mar 10
Treble William Lang Elizabeth 1850 Mar 10 1850 Mar 17 1850 Mar 24 groom sojourner
Karslake John Burgess Ann 1850 Mar 17 1850 Mar 24 1850 Mar 31
Hearn John Pugsley Ann 1850 Mar 24 1850 Mar 31 1850 Apr 7 groom sojourner
Lang John Gardner Eliza 1850 Mar 24 1850 Mar 31 1850 Apr 7
Nott William Frayne Sarah 1850 Apr 7 1850 Apr 14 1850 Apr 21 bride sojourner
Karslake William Gage Elizabeth 1850 May 5 1850 May 12 1850 May 19 bride of Winsford
Grimshaw William Pugsley Ann 1850 May 12 1850 May 19 1850 May 26
Crooke William Lang Ann 1850 May 26 1850 Jun 2 1850 Jun 9 groom sojourner
Wilkins James Lang Sarah 1850 Jun 16 1850 Jun 23 1850 Jun 30
Priest William Dunn Ann 1850 Jul 28 1850 Aug 4 1850 Aug 11
Slader John Slader Margaret 1850 Aug 25 1850 Sep 1 1850 Sep 8
Webber William Crocombe Elizabeth 1850 Sep 22 1850 Sep 29 1850 Oct 6
It does appear that Parish Register 2 for North Molton does have the 1634 records which is great. I shall begin on them this evening. Time for dinner!
Banns were included on the last North Molton fiche for Parish Register 1 which might just be a rather handy list for people researching marriages at North Molton from 1844 to 1850. These are the banns read at North Molton and I did not find that all of banns ended up in a marriage as I did check them on Free BMD. All are of the parish of North Molton unless otherwise stated in the last entry for each couple with a sojourner living in the parish but not considered to be "of the parish" in this time frame.
Surname Forename Surname Forename Year Month Day Year Month Day Year Month Day Details
Morcombe Joseph Lewis Mary 1844 Apr 28 1844 May 5 1844 May 12 groom sojourner
Quick William Bass Sarah 1844 Jun 9 1844 Jun 16 1844 Jun 23 groom sojourner
Ball William Frayne Mary 1844 Jul 7 1844 Jul 14 1844 Jul 21 groom farmer
Trebble Robert Davy Elizabeth 1844 Jul 21 1844 Jul 28 1844 Aug 4
Williams William Priest Mary 1844 Aug 4 1844 Aug 11 1844 Aug 18
Harris William Yeo Mary 1844 Aug 18 1844 Aug 25 1844 Sep 1 groom sojourner, bride of Swimbridge
Valentine John Saunders Smith Ann Elizabeth 1844 Oct 20 1844 Oct 27 1844 Nov 3 groom sojourner
Shapland George Westcott Joan 1844 Oct 27 1844 Nov 3 1844 Nov 10
Rendle John Saunders Frayne Grace 1844 Nov 21 1844 Dec 1 1844 Dec 8
Handford Henry Slader Mary 1845 Jan 26 1845 Feb 2 1845 Feb 9
Cockings George Frayne Mary 1845 Feb 16 1845 Feb 23 1845 Mar 2
Painter Robert Kingdon Elizabeth 1845 Mar 2 1845 Mar 9 1845 Mar 16
Frayne Peter Bull Elizabeth 1845 Mar 2 1845 Mar 9 1845 Mar 16 bride sojourner
Tapp William Stoker Jane 1845 Mar 9 1845 Mar 16 1845 Mar 23 bride of St Davids, Exeter
Shapland William Dobb Ann 1845 Mar 30 1845 Apr 6 1845 Apr 13 bride sojourner
Stoneman Peter Frayne Mary 1845 Mar 30 1845 Apr 6 1845 Apr 13 Bride of St Vivien Exeter
Rodgers John Saunders Clarke Elizabeth 1845 Apr 20 1845 Apr 27 1845 May 4
Gardner William Crang Grace 1845 Apr 27 1845 May 4 1845 May 11
Darlington James Allen Mary 1845 May 18 1845 May 18 1845 Jun 1
Davy Edward Hill Mary Ann 1845 Jun 8 1845 Jun 15 1845 Jun 22 both sojourners
Rendle Robert Brayley Eliza 1845 Aug 31 1845 Sep 7 1845 Sep 14
Kingdon William Tamlyn Elizabeth 1845 Oct 12 1845 Oct 19 1845 Oct 26
Pile Richard Frayne Margaret 1845 Nov 9 1845 Nov 16 1845 Nov 23 groom sojourner
Frayne George Slader Elizabeth 1845 Dec 7 1845 Dec 14 1845 Dec 21
Slader John Thomas Sarah 1845 Dec 21 1845 Dec 28 1846 Jan 4 bride of Witheridge
Tapp William Hill Ann 1846 Jan 4 1846 Jan 11 1846 Jan 18
Bawden Hugh Milton Mary Ann 1846 Feb 1 1846 Feb 8 1846 Feb 15
Thorne Richard Locke Elizabeth 1846 Mar 1 1846 Mar 8 1846 Mar 15
Frayne Richard Westcott Ann 1846 Mar 1 1846 Mar 8 1846 Mar 15
Yendle Joseph Laramey Mary 1846 Mar 8 1846 Mar 15 1846 Mar 22
Holloway Richard Thorne Mary 1846 Mar 15 1846 Mar 22 1846 Mar 29
Loosmore Thomas Prout Ellen 1846 May 3 1846 May 10 1846 May 17
Redding Richard Nott Grace 1846 May 3 1846 Mqy 10 1846 May 17
Passmor William Cook Ann 1846 Jun 7 1846 Jun 14 1846 Jun 22 bride of East Buckland
Bendle George Mann Ann 1846 Jul 5 1846 Jul 12 1846 Jul 19
Westcott Henry Stoneman Mary Ann 1846 Aug 30 1846 Sep 6 1846 Sep 13
Delbridge James Thorne Ann 1846 Oct 4 1846 Oct 11 1846 Oct 18
Thorne John Passmore Agnes 1846 Oct 18 1846 Oct 25 1846 Nov 1
Shapland James Trick Sarah 1846 Nov 1 1846 Nov 8 1846 Nov 15 groom sojourner
Frayne Philip Frayne Ann 1846 Dec 13 1846 Dec 20 1846 Dec 27
Bawden Henry Webber Elizabeth 1846 Dec 13 1846 Dec 20 1846 Dec 27
Purchase Nicholas Fry Jane 1847 Feb 7 1847 Feb 14 1847 Feb 21
Westcott William Burgess Elizabeth 1847 Feb 14 1847 Feb 21 1847 Feb 28
Webber William Holloway Catherine 1847 Feb 28 1847 Mar 7 1847 Mar 14
Hole John Kingdon Eliza 1847 Mar 7 1847 Mar 14 1847 Mar 21
Gill Michael Kingdon Elizabeth 1847 Mar 7 1847 Mar 14 1847 Mar 21
Webber John Stoneman Charlotte 1847 Mar 21 1847 Mar 28 1847 Apr 4
Hoyle John Marsh Elizabeth 1847 Apr 4 1847 Apr 11 1847 Apr 18
Catford William Cockram Jane 1847 Jun 20 1847 Jun 27 1847 Jul 4 both sojourners
Mayne Joseph Frayne Ann 1847 Jul 18 1847 Jul 25 1847 Aug 1 groom sojourner
Handford John Bawden Mariah 1847 Sep 12 1847 Sep 19 1847 Sep 26
Slader Richard Western Mary 1847 Nov 14 1847 Nov 21 1847 Nov 28
Burgess Henry Smith Ann Elizabeth 1847 Dec 5 1847 Dec 12 1847 Dec 19
Hancock Edwin Gough Ellen 1847 Dec 26 1848 Jan 2 1848 Jan 9
Hancock James John Gough Mary 1847 Dec 26 1848 Jan 2 1848 Jan 9 groom sojourner
Seldon Thomas Blackford Ann 1848 Jan 16 1848 Jan 23 1848 Jan 30 groom sojourner
Westcott William Frayne Ann 1848 Feb 13 1848 Feb 20 1848 Feb 27
Holloway William Kingdon Ann 1848 Feb 20 1848 Feb 27 1848 Mar 5 groom of Bratton Fleming
Robins John Bawden Jane 1848 Mar 12 1848 Mar 19 1848 Mar 26 groom sojourner
Collins William Lang Mary 1848 Mar 26 1848 Apr 2 1848 Apr 9 groom sojourner
Parkin William Bawden Jane 1848 Mar 26 1848 Apr 2 1848 Apr 9
Williams Jonathan Fisher Sally 1848 Apr 23 1848 Apr 30 1848 May 7
Howe William Bennetts Mary Ann 1848 Jun 11 1848 Jun 18 1848 Jun 25 bride sojourner
Lewis William Frayne Mary Ann 1848 Oct 1 1848 Oct 8 1848 Oct 15
Smith Henry Radford Harriet 1848 Oct 29 1848 Nov 5 1848 Nov 12
Holland John Chapple Catharine 1848 Dec 5 1848 Dec 12 1848 Dec 19 groom sojourner
Jones John Burgess Elizabeth Jane 1848 Nov 26 1848 Dec 3 1848 Dec 10
Bawden Hugh Colwell Jane 1848 Dec 3 1848 Dec 10 1848 Dec 17
Laramy William Gough Ann 1848 Dec 17 1848 Dec 24 1848 Dec 31
Laramy John Dascombe Sophia 1848 Dec 17 1848 Dec 24 1848 Dec 31 bride sojourner
Hill John Roberts Joan 1849 Jan 14 1849 Jan 21 1849 Jan 28
Snow James Smyth Elizabeth 1849 Feb 11 1849 Feb 18 1849 Feb 25
Hill Joseph Bawden Mary 1849 Feb 25 1849 Mar 4 1849 crossed out
Chapple James Abbott Elizabeth Jane 1849 Mar 4 1849 Mar 11 1849 Mar 18 bride sojourner
Smyth James Huxtable Ann 1849 Mar 4 1849 Mar 11 1849 Mar 18
Gibbs William Lancey Grace 1849 Mar 11 1849 Mar 18 1849 Mar 25 bride of Challaccombe
Moore John Burgess Mary 1849 Mar 25 1849 Apr 1 1849 Apr 8 groom of Southmolton
Locke Thomas Curtis Priscilla 1849 Apr 29 1849 May 6 1849 May 13
Gould William Meade Ann 1849 Jun 24 1849 Jul 1 1849 Jul 8
Andrews George Bendle Mariah 1849 Jul 22 1849 Jul 29 1849 Aug 5
Ridd Charles Bawden Sarah 1849 Oct 7 1849 Oct 14 1849 Oct 21 groom sojourner
Thorne John Baple Mary 1849 Oct 14 1849 Oct 21 1849 Oct 28 Groom of St Mary Magdalene Barnstaple and bride sojourner
Hill William Hill Mary Ann 1849 Oct 14 1849 Oct 21 1849 Oct 28
Collard Royal Trick Harriet 1849 Nov 18 1849 Nov 25 1849 Dec 2
Huxtable Thomas Delbridge Elizabeth 1849 Dec 2 1849 Dec 9 1849 Dec 16
Roberts William Thorne Elizabeth 1849 Dec 30 1850 Jan 6 1850 Jan 13
Thorne William Hutchings Elizabeth 1850 Jan 13 1850 Jan 20 1850 Jan 27
Holcombe Emanuel Ball Alice 1850 Feb 3 1850 Feb 10 1850 Feb 17 bride sojourner
Blackford Robert Locke Ann 1850 Feb 10 1850 Feb 17 1850 Feb 24
Hobbs John Hoyle Catherine 1850 Feb 17 1850 Feb 24 1850 Mar 3
Tucker William Tamlyn Ann 1850 Feb 24 1850 Mar 3 1850 Mar 10
Buckingham William Cockings Mary 1850 Feb 24 1850 Mar 3 1850 Mar 10
Treble William Lang Elizabeth 1850 Mar 10 1850 Mar 17 1850 Mar 24 groom sojourner
Karslake John Burgess Ann 1850 Mar 17 1850 Mar 24 1850 Mar 31
Hearn John Pugsley Ann 1850 Mar 24 1850 Mar 31 1850 Apr 7 groom sojourner
Lang John Gardner Eliza 1850 Mar 24 1850 Mar 31 1850 Apr 7
Nott William Frayne Sarah 1850 Apr 7 1850 Apr 14 1850 Apr 21 bride sojourner
Karslake William Gage Elizabeth 1850 May 5 1850 May 12 1850 May 19 bride of Winsford
Grimshaw William Pugsley Ann 1850 May 12 1850 May 19 1850 May 26
Crooke William Lang Ann 1850 May 26 1850 Jun 2 1850 Jun 9 groom sojourner
Wilkins James Lang Sarah 1850 Jun 16 1850 Jun 23 1850 Jun 30
Priest William Dunn Ann 1850 Jul 28 1850 Aug 4 1850 Aug 11
Slader John Slader Margaret 1850 Aug 25 1850 Sep 1 1850 Sep 8
Webber William Crocombe Elizabeth 1850 Sep 22 1850 Sep 29 1850 Oct 6
It does appear that Parish Register 2 for North Molton does have the 1634 records which is great. I shall begin on them this evening. Time for dinner!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
BIFHSGO Family History Conference - Day 3 for me
The third day of the BIFHSGO Family History Conference and about ten people again talked to me about the Guild and membership in it. Not sure how many people will actually take on a membership in the Guild but I feel now that I have probably exposed the Guild to most people in the Genealogical areas that I am usually present at. Next year I shall probably only have a booth at the OGS Conference which is province wide although I must admit that BIFHSGO does seem like the right place for the Guild to be at with its British Isles focus. I shall have to contemplate that through the year.
My next task is to complete my talk for October 8 on the Guild of One-Name Studies and it is just 30 minutes in length for Before BIFHSGO. Since it is Thanksgiving weekend here in Ontario I do not anticipate a large audience. I am trying to decide if I should have 20 minutes of presentation and then a 10 minute question period or 30 minutes of presentation and people ask me questions if they want after. Certainly I would have 30 minutes worth of material. I shall have to make a decision on that.
Now to today's conference which was again quite excellent. I am sure that the lecture stream that I did not attend was equally excellent. The first lecture of the day was by Helen Osbourn and she was discussing London as a conglomerate of villages and although she only briefly referred to Bermondsey the short discussion was quite meaningful to me. My families were there from the early 1700s to the early 1800s and then they move to Covent Garden area where the next generation has a butcher shop. Seeing London develop was an interesting exercise and again a quite excellent talk.
The second lecture that I attended was on The London Gazette by Audrey Collins and she too gave an excellent talk. The London Gazaette has not been a tool that I have used to any great extent through the years but as I collect more and more Blake data I rather think I should begin to mine it for Blake information. Her talk was most fascinating and does make one rather want to look at the items that might be available on some of my small villages and perhaps even learn about Grange Road, Bermondsey Street and Tooley Street in Bermondsey.
Another excellent lunch and it was so nice just to be able to pop off upstairs and sit down to a well catered meal.
The third lecture was again by Helen Osborn and I had actually planned not to attend this particular one. I do not have any ancestors in London after the mid 1800s and never had any in Lambeth. But I had enjoyed both of her earlier talks and I am contemplating taking the Pharos one name study course that is offered and she is the instructor for that particular course. I was very glad that I did go although it was somewhat heart wrenching to hear the stories of stark poverty that existed in even the not so desparately poor. How easily it was for a family to slip from middle class down into abject poverty was such a sad story.
When I look at the 1911 census for my father and his family, they are comfortably living in a row house in Eastleigh where my grandfather is well employed working as a blacksmith for the railway. They (my grandparents and father (he is an only child)) have their own row house - 3 rooms down and 3 rooms up (total of six rooms on the census) and live two doors down to my grandfather's brother who also has the same house with six rooms and there are only the parents, their two little girls, the youngest brother of my grandfather who is an apprentice at the railway works and another apprentice of the railway works living there. John has taken in his brother and the other individual is I think related to his wife probably to help them out during their apprenticeship as he is an Inspector for the Railroad. My father always said that they were not well to do but in comparison they were so much better off than people who lived in Lambeth. Listening to the talk gave me more understanding to why people who lived in Lambeth simply didn't move somewhere else. They didn't have the money to escape their poverty. One of my grandfather's sisters was married to a soldier and they lived at Shepherd's Bush and my father and his parents regularly visited with them and they in turn came back to Upper Clatford (the home of my grandfather and where his parents lived). So it was a good experience for me to hear this lecture and understand more clearly the plight of the poor in England and why people came to Canada and why the groups that sent children to Canada felt they would have a better life. I am not sure that Helen realized the far reaching effects that her lecture would have at least in my experience but perhaps I shall get a chance to share that with her when I take the Pharos course on the one-name studies.
The final talk of the day was given by Sherry Irvine and again I had not intended to go to this talk. Sherry is a Canadian and I know that she is a very knowledgeable Genealogist but I felt that three talks a day was enough for me but I did finally decide at the last moment to attend. I was glad that I did because it again reinforced to me that there is a great need for me to revisit much of my earlier work with regard to redoing will transcriptions and rethinking some of the evidence which I have collected and may see more meaning now that I am further along in the field of Genealogy. Essex wasn't a county that interested me particularly. I do not have anyone from Essex although the Blake family is there and finally I decided that it would be interesting to hear the talk and so I was committed. Along the way I had the opportunity to thank Helen Osbourn for her excellent talks and to mention that I would be taking the Pharos course for one-namers. She said that we should talk and I expect we shall as I should like to take the course up this winter.
All in all an excellent conference and I highly recommend it. Who knows the next time BIFHSGO is delving into Scot or Irish ancestry I may have broken through my mitochondrial line and discovered Irish or Scot or both ancestors in my past. It is certainly an unsolved line at the moment although the rest are definitely English as far back as I have traced thus far.
My next task is to complete my talk for October 8 on the Guild of One-Name Studies and it is just 30 minutes in length for Before BIFHSGO. Since it is Thanksgiving weekend here in Ontario I do not anticipate a large audience. I am trying to decide if I should have 20 minutes of presentation and then a 10 minute question period or 30 minutes of presentation and people ask me questions if they want after. Certainly I would have 30 minutes worth of material. I shall have to make a decision on that.
Now to today's conference which was again quite excellent. I am sure that the lecture stream that I did not attend was equally excellent. The first lecture of the day was by Helen Osbourn and she was discussing London as a conglomerate of villages and although she only briefly referred to Bermondsey the short discussion was quite meaningful to me. My families were there from the early 1700s to the early 1800s and then they move to Covent Garden area where the next generation has a butcher shop. Seeing London develop was an interesting exercise and again a quite excellent talk.
The second lecture that I attended was on The London Gazette by Audrey Collins and she too gave an excellent talk. The London Gazaette has not been a tool that I have used to any great extent through the years but as I collect more and more Blake data I rather think I should begin to mine it for Blake information. Her talk was most fascinating and does make one rather want to look at the items that might be available on some of my small villages and perhaps even learn about Grange Road, Bermondsey Street and Tooley Street in Bermondsey.
Another excellent lunch and it was so nice just to be able to pop off upstairs and sit down to a well catered meal.
The third lecture was again by Helen Osborn and I had actually planned not to attend this particular one. I do not have any ancestors in London after the mid 1800s and never had any in Lambeth. But I had enjoyed both of her earlier talks and I am contemplating taking the Pharos one name study course that is offered and she is the instructor for that particular course. I was very glad that I did go although it was somewhat heart wrenching to hear the stories of stark poverty that existed in even the not so desparately poor. How easily it was for a family to slip from middle class down into abject poverty was such a sad story.
When I look at the 1911 census for my father and his family, they are comfortably living in a row house in Eastleigh where my grandfather is well employed working as a blacksmith for the railway. They (my grandparents and father (he is an only child)) have their own row house - 3 rooms down and 3 rooms up (total of six rooms on the census) and live two doors down to my grandfather's brother who also has the same house with six rooms and there are only the parents, their two little girls, the youngest brother of my grandfather who is an apprentice at the railway works and another apprentice of the railway works living there. John has taken in his brother and the other individual is I think related to his wife probably to help them out during their apprenticeship as he is an Inspector for the Railroad. My father always said that they were not well to do but in comparison they were so much better off than people who lived in Lambeth. Listening to the talk gave me more understanding to why people who lived in Lambeth simply didn't move somewhere else. They didn't have the money to escape their poverty. One of my grandfather's sisters was married to a soldier and they lived at Shepherd's Bush and my father and his parents regularly visited with them and they in turn came back to Upper Clatford (the home of my grandfather and where his parents lived). So it was a good experience for me to hear this lecture and understand more clearly the plight of the poor in England and why people came to Canada and why the groups that sent children to Canada felt they would have a better life. I am not sure that Helen realized the far reaching effects that her lecture would have at least in my experience but perhaps I shall get a chance to share that with her when I take the Pharos course on the one-name studies.
The final talk of the day was given by Sherry Irvine and again I had not intended to go to this talk. Sherry is a Canadian and I know that she is a very knowledgeable Genealogist but I felt that three talks a day was enough for me but I did finally decide at the last moment to attend. I was glad that I did because it again reinforced to me that there is a great need for me to revisit much of my earlier work with regard to redoing will transcriptions and rethinking some of the evidence which I have collected and may see more meaning now that I am further along in the field of Genealogy. Essex wasn't a county that interested me particularly. I do not have anyone from Essex although the Blake family is there and finally I decided that it would be interesting to hear the talk and so I was committed. Along the way I had the opportunity to thank Helen Osbourn for her excellent talks and to mention that I would be taking the Pharos course for one-namers. She said that we should talk and I expect we shall as I should like to take the course up this winter.
All in all an excellent conference and I highly recommend it. Who knows the next time BIFHSGO is delving into Scot or Irish ancestry I may have broken through my mitochondrial line and discovered Irish or Scot or both ancestors in my past. It is certainly an unsolved line at the moment although the rest are definitely English as far back as I have traced thus far.
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