Greetings from New Zealand
Pauline Allen from New Zealand has an aunt that lives in Lincolnshire. Just to show you what good taste aunt has she sends Pauline cuttings from the Lincolnshire Echo. The name she is interested in is that of MORPHUS. Apart from the origin of the name she is trying to find out what happened to George William who was born in Bulwell in 1899. The only family detail that she has is that he might have died in 1947 but where. In 1881 there were just three families in the whole of the country with this name so there is a good chance that this is a change of spelling due to the accent used. The website FreeBMD although not yet finished gave me the information that there was a George aged 0 who died in September Quarter of 1902 in Nottingham District. A few months later there is the death of Emma aged 35. The mother perhaps dying due to infection. Marriages on FreeBMD of which there are few gave me Emma PIDDUCK marrying Samuel MORPHUS in 1889 in Basford. There are a total of 8 births in Nottinghamshire - all boys. However three of these are after the death of Emma. Did Samuel marry again? The name is most likely to be MALPASS and as the name is most prevalent in the west country my guess is that as the two Nottinghamshire MALPASS heads of family came from Gloucestershire this could be the original area for the family. Malpass arrived around the 13th century as the French gave places that were difficult to travel over the name. The Old French mal pas is a bad passage.
A book recently sold on eBay that I would have liked to buy is that of the life of Thomas LIDGETT printed in 1908. It is described as One of Lincolnshire's best known men as written by himself. Modest too! LIDGETT was born in Rothwell, a village near Caistor in 1844, and wrote this book shortly before his death in 1908. This is a wonderful historical account of Lincolnshire life in Victoria times. He became a preacher and travelled widely, including to Switzerland. "About the age of three and a half, I went with my mother to Moortown station to go to Hull. I thought when in the train we were not moving, but that the stacks, trees etc., were running past us in a desperate hurry". "At sixteen years of age I went to live with a farmer in Thoresway Parish named Surfleet". This 55 page book has 5 b/w photographs of LIDGETT. I’ll bet there aren’t many copies of this one about. The early references to the LIDGETT name all use the additional de or atte. This confirms the idea that it is from someone who lived near a swing gate from the Old English hlidgeat.
Bits and Bobs
Spilsby Petty Sessions - 25 September 1848 - Sarah HOUGHTON, of Wainfleet All Saints, applied for an order in bastardy against Luke WALKER of Ingoldmells. Mr. MERRIFIELD appeared for the defendant, and Mr. THIMBLEBY for the plaintiff: after hearing the case (which evinced considerable depravity on the part of the defendant, who is a widower with a family of nine children, while the plaintiff is a poor half-witted girl of seventeen), the bench made an order for 2s weekly and expenses.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Staff Discount
Staff Discount?
Ian BARNSLEY works for an extremely well known newspaper in Lincolnshire and, having seen the column come out for the last 348 times, has decided that it is time for me to look at his surname. The surname comes from the place of the same name. Remember that this would only have been his name when he was away from home; everyone knew who he was otherwise. The other thing to remember is that just because someone has the same place or occupational surname as you does not mean they are a relative. The reason that there are so many people with the surname SMITH is down to the fact that this was one of the most popular occupations during the time that surnames took off. If you are lucky and your ancestor is important enough to get listed somewhere he could have more than one name. James de BARNSLEY being someone with a bit of get-up-and-go moved his business to the nearby village of Dodsworth. To the people of Penistone he is now James de DODSWORTH not James de BARNSLEY. Barnsley by the way gets its name from the fact that the –leah or grove belonging to Beornheard. A similar name is that of Barnsdale which was the hill belonging to Beornheard. Towards the end of the 19th century there was just one family of the surname Barnsley in Lincolnshire. At the same time there were dozens of families living in Birmingham from whence Ian’s grandfather Cyril came. Ian mentions the fact that there are few BARNSLEY families now living in Barnsley. Over time they may have moved back but, as I have already said, at one time those that lived in Barnsley would not have had BARNSLEY as a surname unless they left the town.
Roger TINDALL has written asking for information on John TINDALL who he believes was born in the Rasen area. There is one John TINDALL who was born around 1760 in Coleby but this is not the one. He married Sarah FARROW of Middle Rasen in 1794. The family then moved around the area, married at Owmby and had a child, Thomas, born at Tealby who later died in Searby in 1879, do you have any links to this family for Roger. Let me know and I’ll pass it on.
Bits and Bobs
For sale at eBay - Vellum Indenture -1854 Deed - Messingham, Transfer and Confirmation of Mortgage of a Messuage Maltkiln and Hereditaments at Messingham, Lincolnshire for securing £400 and interest. The document also has two receipts on the back signed by William CHATTERTON for the repayment of the moneys in two parts dated 6 November 1862 and 23 May 1867 - Parties: William CHATTERTON, George FRANKISH, George KIRKLAND, Harriet KIRKLAND, Richard KIRKLAND the younger, Sarah KIRKLAND the elder, Sarah KIRKLAND the younger, William KIRKLAND - Other names include: William BARNARD, Rev Henry Vincent BAYLEY, John KIRKLAND, Richard KIRKLAND , Rev George Daniel RENAUD, Mary Ann SMITH (nee KIRKLAND) Richard SMITH, Mr SOWERBY Document signed by: George FRANKISH, X The Mark of Sarah KIRKLAND, George KIRKLAND, Richard KIRKLAND, Sarah KIRKLAND, Harriet KIRKLAND, William KIRKLAND Witnesses: Thomas FREER, Thomas WILSON
Ian BARNSLEY works for an extremely well known newspaper in Lincolnshire and, having seen the column come out for the last 348 times, has decided that it is time for me to look at his surname. The surname comes from the place of the same name. Remember that this would only have been his name when he was away from home; everyone knew who he was otherwise. The other thing to remember is that just because someone has the same place or occupational surname as you does not mean they are a relative. The reason that there are so many people with the surname SMITH is down to the fact that this was one of the most popular occupations during the time that surnames took off. If you are lucky and your ancestor is important enough to get listed somewhere he could have more than one name. James de BARNSLEY being someone with a bit of get-up-and-go moved his business to the nearby village of Dodsworth. To the people of Penistone he is now James de DODSWORTH not James de BARNSLEY. Barnsley by the way gets its name from the fact that the –leah or grove belonging to Beornheard. A similar name is that of Barnsdale which was the hill belonging to Beornheard. Towards the end of the 19th century there was just one family of the surname Barnsley in Lincolnshire. At the same time there were dozens of families living in Birmingham from whence Ian’s grandfather Cyril came. Ian mentions the fact that there are few BARNSLEY families now living in Barnsley. Over time they may have moved back but, as I have already said, at one time those that lived in Barnsley would not have had BARNSLEY as a surname unless they left the town.
Roger TINDALL has written asking for information on John TINDALL who he believes was born in the Rasen area. There is one John TINDALL who was born around 1760 in Coleby but this is not the one. He married Sarah FARROW of Middle Rasen in 1794. The family then moved around the area, married at Owmby and had a child, Thomas, born at Tealby who later died in Searby in 1879, do you have any links to this family for Roger. Let me know and I’ll pass it on.
Bits and Bobs
For sale at eBay - Vellum Indenture -1854 Deed - Messingham, Transfer and Confirmation of Mortgage of a Messuage Maltkiln and Hereditaments at Messingham, Lincolnshire for securing £400 and interest. The document also has two receipts on the back signed by William CHATTERTON for the repayment of the moneys in two parts dated 6 November 1862 and 23 May 1867 - Parties: William CHATTERTON, George FRANKISH, George KIRKLAND, Harriet KIRKLAND, Richard KIRKLAND the younger, Sarah KIRKLAND the elder, Sarah KIRKLAND the younger, William KIRKLAND - Other names include: William BARNARD, Rev Henry Vincent BAYLEY, John KIRKLAND, Richard KIRKLAND , Rev George Daniel RENAUD, Mary Ann SMITH (nee KIRKLAND) Richard SMITH, Mr SOWERBY Document signed by: George FRANKISH, X The Mark of Sarah KIRKLAND, George KIRKLAND, Richard KIRKLAND, Sarah KIRKLAND, Harriet KIRKLAND, William KIRKLAND Witnesses: Thomas FREER, Thomas WILSON
Monday, June 05, 2006
Saw or Taw
Saw or Taw
Maria TUE has recently moved to Lincolnshire and started to do the family tree but, without knowing it, she is a yellow-belly descendant because her father’s side of the family comes from Heckington. Her earliest record to date is that of Jacob & Joseph Chadwell BEEDON who are the sons of Daniel & Elizabeth, born at the start of the 19th century. Here we have another example of the change in the name through the accent. This time it is interchangeable with BEETON. The question is which one really comes first. BEEDON the surname comes from Beedon the village which is just off the M4 in Berkshire. On the other hand BEETON comes from Beton the diminutive for Bete (Beatrice) and was in use as a Christina name in Cornwall in the 17th century. The descendants spread out over the county moving to Vauxhall House in Boston, a Militia House in Grantham via a spell in the 22nd Regiment of Foot, and lastly to Horncastle. The question that Maria would like answering is where did Daniel and Elizabeth originate from and where did they end their lives?
Maria TUE and her present surname do present a slight problem. With the TUE spelling there is a blank, but in Northamptonshire in the 19th century there are a number as TEW. This is from the village of Tew in Oxfordshire. There is a Middle English word tewe, which was to taw. And someone who tawed was a tawyer and later became a surname. TAWYER is an occupational name and was to prepare white leather. Exactly the same as one who sawed became a SAWYER.
I had occasion to make a telephone call to the Scotland GRO to order a birth certificate. The experience was something that all Archives should aspire to (Lincolnshire of course excepted). I gave the date in 1920 and was told that the person was not listed, I then gave the second year that I had and was told he wasn’t there either. “Just a second” the gentleman said “I have found one in 1918”. “The mothers maiden name was MENZIES” he said which was the middle name of the person I was looking for. The speed with which the answers came back I must assume that they have all the indexes computerised. When I put the phone down I had been on line the for just less than 4 minutes. OK I have not received the bill yet but I thought the service was exceptional.
Mrs ARMSTRONG of Lincoln is interested in the name ADDELSEE. The word comes from the Old English hathel and sae meaning a marshy pool in a hollow. This particular marshy pool could be found in North Yorkshire at a village now called Haddlesey. The village was called Hathel-sae in 1030. Early Lincolnshire family members were to be seen around Boston and Minting at the start of the 19th century. The one family with the name with the same spelling as that of the village came from Caistor. One must assume that it is the Lincolnshire accent that had persuaded people to drop the ‘H’ in the distant past.
Bits and Bobs
Sarah wife of Wm. LOCKTON, of Marston, applied for an order in bastardy. She was a married woman but her husband enlisted three years ago and is now at Corfoo: an old fellow named Edw. PIDD, finding her in a rather destitute condition, and he being a widower, first engaged her to attend to his house, and ultimately to cohabit with him, by which means she kept herself out of the workhouse: the old man was left with a family of six children, the youngest of whom is 14 years of age.........Pidd was ordered to pay 1s 6d per week and the midwifery expenses. From Anne
When you think about it, what else could the woman do in those days but hope to find someone who would look after her and the children?
Maria TUE has recently moved to Lincolnshire and started to do the family tree but, without knowing it, she is a yellow-belly descendant because her father’s side of the family comes from Heckington. Her earliest record to date is that of Jacob & Joseph Chadwell BEEDON who are the sons of Daniel & Elizabeth, born at the start of the 19th century. Here we have another example of the change in the name through the accent. This time it is interchangeable with BEETON. The question is which one really comes first. BEEDON the surname comes from Beedon the village which is just off the M4 in Berkshire. On the other hand BEETON comes from Beton the diminutive for Bete (Beatrice) and was in use as a Christina name in Cornwall in the 17th century. The descendants spread out over the county moving to Vauxhall House in Boston, a Militia House in Grantham via a spell in the 22nd Regiment of Foot, and lastly to Horncastle. The question that Maria would like answering is where did Daniel and Elizabeth originate from and where did they end their lives?
Maria TUE and her present surname do present a slight problem. With the TUE spelling there is a blank, but in Northamptonshire in the 19th century there are a number as TEW. This is from the village of Tew in Oxfordshire. There is a Middle English word tewe, which was to taw. And someone who tawed was a tawyer and later became a surname. TAWYER is an occupational name and was to prepare white leather. Exactly the same as one who sawed became a SAWYER.
I had occasion to make a telephone call to the Scotland GRO to order a birth certificate. The experience was something that all Archives should aspire to (Lincolnshire of course excepted). I gave the date in 1920 and was told that the person was not listed, I then gave the second year that I had and was told he wasn’t there either. “Just a second” the gentleman said “I have found one in 1918”. “The mothers maiden name was MENZIES” he said which was the middle name of the person I was looking for. The speed with which the answers came back I must assume that they have all the indexes computerised. When I put the phone down I had been on line the for just less than 4 minutes. OK I have not received the bill yet but I thought the service was exceptional.
Mrs ARMSTRONG of Lincoln is interested in the name ADDELSEE. The word comes from the Old English hathel and sae meaning a marshy pool in a hollow. This particular marshy pool could be found in North Yorkshire at a village now called Haddlesey. The village was called Hathel-sae in 1030. Early Lincolnshire family members were to be seen around Boston and Minting at the start of the 19th century. The one family with the name with the same spelling as that of the village came from Caistor. One must assume that it is the Lincolnshire accent that had persuaded people to drop the ‘H’ in the distant past.
Bits and Bobs
Sarah wife of Wm. LOCKTON, of Marston, applied for an order in bastardy. She was a married woman but her husband enlisted three years ago and is now at Corfoo: an old fellow named Edw. PIDD, finding her in a rather destitute condition, and he being a widower, first engaged her to attend to his house, and ultimately to cohabit with him, by which means she kept herself out of the workhouse: the old man was left with a family of six children, the youngest of whom is 14 years of age.........Pidd was ordered to pay 1s 6d per week and the midwifery expenses. From Anne
When you think about it, what else could the woman do in those days but hope to find someone who would look after her and the children?
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Easy Start and Dusty
Easy Start and Dusty Finish
Norma of blueyonder.co.uk has set me a nice easy task to start this week with. Here name of interest is COWLEYSHAW and the question is “Where did it come from and what does it mean?” In this case they are both the same thing. This surname is a locational name and comes from the village of Cowlishaw in Lancashire. The word -SHAW is from the Old English scaga for a copse. The first element COWLI- is thought possibly to come from a similar root as the first element in COLLEYHURST. Colleyhurst is a village in Lancashire. COLLEY as a first element is generally thought to be from coal dust, black, or swarthy HURST by the way is a hill that may be wooded. It therefore looks as though parts of Lancashire are covered in coal dust. The explanation is of the names are of a copse or a hill that might be wooded that is covered in coal dust . Examples of this word are top be found as colley-sheep which are those with a black face and legs. A colley in Somerset is a dialect name for a blackbird.
Another name I am working on at the moment is that of HAYES. The surprising thing is that if you type Patrick HAYES into the 1881 census national index almost without exception every one born before 1860 and given this name comes from Ireland. The name comes from the Old English haes and the word hease which is found as places in Sussex as Heaseland and Heasewood. This originated as the Old French heis and brushwood.
Norm ASHTON is trying to figure out why his ancestor Alfred JACKSON, who was born in Belper in Derbyshire, would have moved to Boston by the time of his marriage to Harriet Hand SMITH and the birth of their first child in 1855. Alfred was a blacksmith and nail-maker by trade. He must have itchy feet for by 1881 they are living in Toronto. Alfred had a son named Samuel and he kept a small diary in which he kept his important dates. Any of these of interest to you? Sarah Ann SMITH/RASON - 14 Feb; Ethel SHEPHERD - 20 Feb; Ada SHEPHERD - 14 Mar; S. RASON Jr - 24 Mar; Alfred SHEPHERD - 2 Apr; Cousin Gertie (G.E.) JACKSON/HOLBEACH - 12 May; M.E. JACKSON, cousin Mary Edith HOLBEACH - 1 Jun; A. M. JACKSON, cousin Maud - 2 Jul; Arthur SHEPHERD - 23 Jul; G.L. RASON - 8 Aug; W. H. SHEPHERD - 14 Aug; C. SHEPHERD - 15 Aug; G.H. RASON - 22 Sep; E. M. RASON - 27 Sep; F. B. RASON - 17 Oct; G.E. SHEPHERD, Grantham - 7 Dec; Aunt E. JACKSON - 22 Dec. Do you have something similar in your family?
Bits and Bobs
For sale on eBay with one day to go and already up to £275. Mons Star Trio with Bar & Rosette on Star all named to 9358 Pte Thomas Harry Johnson 1st Lincs BUT plaque named Henry Johnson!!. I hope that it is a family member bidding. At the same time the following were for sale - Trios to Pte 9547 S T Hayward, Pte 16790 R J Dodds & Pte 3065 G W Watkinson. The numbers are very handy if you are going after the individual’s military papers.
Norma of blueyonder.co.uk has set me a nice easy task to start this week with. Here name of interest is COWLEYSHAW and the question is “Where did it come from and what does it mean?” In this case they are both the same thing. This surname is a locational name and comes from the village of Cowlishaw in Lancashire. The word -SHAW is from the Old English scaga for a copse. The first element COWLI- is thought possibly to come from a similar root as the first element in COLLEYHURST. Colleyhurst is a village in Lancashire. COLLEY as a first element is generally thought to be from coal dust, black, or swarthy HURST by the way is a hill that may be wooded. It therefore looks as though parts of Lancashire are covered in coal dust. The explanation is of the names are of a copse or a hill that might be wooded that is covered in coal dust . Examples of this word are top be found as colley-sheep which are those with a black face and legs. A colley in Somerset is a dialect name for a blackbird.
Another name I am working on at the moment is that of HAYES. The surprising thing is that if you type Patrick HAYES into the 1881 census national index almost without exception every one born before 1860 and given this name comes from Ireland. The name comes from the Old English haes and the word hease which is found as places in Sussex as Heaseland and Heasewood. This originated as the Old French heis and brushwood.
Norm ASHTON is trying to figure out why his ancestor Alfred JACKSON, who was born in Belper in Derbyshire, would have moved to Boston by the time of his marriage to Harriet Hand SMITH and the birth of their first child in 1855. Alfred was a blacksmith and nail-maker by trade. He must have itchy feet for by 1881 they are living in Toronto. Alfred had a son named Samuel and he kept a small diary in which he kept his important dates. Any of these of interest to you? Sarah Ann SMITH/RASON - 14 Feb; Ethel SHEPHERD - 20 Feb; Ada SHEPHERD - 14 Mar; S. RASON Jr - 24 Mar; Alfred SHEPHERD - 2 Apr; Cousin Gertie (G.E.) JACKSON/HOLBEACH - 12 May; M.E. JACKSON, cousin Mary Edith HOLBEACH - 1 Jun; A. M. JACKSON, cousin Maud - 2 Jul; Arthur SHEPHERD - 23 Jul; G.L. RASON - 8 Aug; W. H. SHEPHERD - 14 Aug; C. SHEPHERD - 15 Aug; G.H. RASON - 22 Sep; E. M. RASON - 27 Sep; F. B. RASON - 17 Oct; G.E. SHEPHERD, Grantham - 7 Dec; Aunt E. JACKSON - 22 Dec. Do you have something similar in your family?
Bits and Bobs
For sale on eBay with one day to go and already up to £275. Mons Star Trio with Bar & Rosette on Star all named to 9358 Pte Thomas Harry Johnson 1st Lincs BUT plaque named Henry Johnson!!. I hope that it is a family member bidding. At the same time the following were for sale - Trios to Pte 9547 S T Hayward, Pte 16790 R J Dodds & Pte 3065 G W Watkinson. The numbers are very handy if you are going after the individual’s military papers.
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