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Oops - Missed a bit last week

The name that I mentioned last week SCATCHERD which was of interest to Mike Parker was left with out any explanation as to its origin. The Old Norman French escache which today is echasse is a stilt and was most likely a derogatory term for some one with long legs. This explanation is further reinforced by the fact that the French word eschasseriaux is a man with a wooden leg. As with many similar French words such as estage if you remove the ‘e’ at the beginning the word you will recognise it as stage.
Mrs C WOOLLEY of Kexby has written in with a request for me to look at the SHAW family of Grimsby. Sadly there are a number of SHAW families in Grimsby and without a date, name or age it is rather difficult to pin point any particular one. However looking at the 1901 census there is just the one family in Grimsby whose head William H was born in Grimsby. A second individual is George aged 70 years who lives in Clee and is the Primitive Methodist Minister there – BUT – I am unable to say where he was in 1881 for I can’t find him listed in the census. William H is an educated man and is a Clerk to the Council. A search of the 1861 census gives us the information that William lives with his father George whose occupation is tailor, in Cleethorpes Road. George obviously believes in education for another son is a scholar at 13 years of age and takes in a boarder who is also a clerk. Somewhere along the line the family gets a link to London when Mary Jane marries James THAYERS of Chelsea.
The name SHAW comes from the Old English word sceaga for a copse or small wood and the person who dwells nearby. The WOOLLEY surname is also connected to a wood and the village of Woolley. The nearest one to Lincolnshire is in the west riding of Yorkshire and gets its name from the nearness of a wood that is frequented by wolves.
Alison posted a plea on the internet for any information on William QUINCEY who she thinks was born around 1740 in Sutterton. In 1773 William married Ann HILL. His father was also a William and he married Jane nee LUCEY of Sutterton in 1739. Alison is interested in any facts or information on this family and if you have them in your tree just drop me a line. The origins of the QUINCEY family go back to northern France and the village with the name Cuinchy. One of the earliest QUINCEYs is that of Saer de QUINCY who was a Templar in Oxfordshire around 1160. Later holders of the surname may be from Quincy villages in the Seine region.
Bits and Bobs
Louth Petty Sessions 11 May 1848
Wm. SLEIGHT, gardener, was charged by a prostitute named HOODLASS with being the father of her bastard child: case dismissed.
Grantham Petty Sessions 19 May:
Thos. CULLEN, of Rolston, a farmer's son, was accused of being the father of the illegitimate child of Ann ROBINSON. It was stated that defendant had pressed the poor girl to take something to destroy the child, and failing in that, the night before she left he fired a gun at her in the garden, the object of which may be imagined. The poor girl's evidence being deficient, the order could not be granted.
Anne has been busy looking at the newspapers again and the complete version of her findings can be bought from Lincolnshire Family History Society on microfiche.