Research al Fresco

Research al Fresco

Wendy PANKHURST sent in the following information that St. Peter's Church at East Halton will be holding an Open Day for family history researchers.  They will get the opportunity of looking at the Parish Records and Bishops Transcripts where they were written and a map of the graveyard will also be available.  The great day is on Saturday 19th August and at the same time you can enjoy the refreshments that will be available.  Perhaps other churches will follow East Haltons lead.  The surname PANKHURST along with PENTYCROSS and PERRYCOST all come from the Old French Pentecost and were generally born during that festival.  
Sold recently was a Mortgage of an estate in Winterton, Lincolnshire, between John THOMPSON of Winterton, plumber and glazier, and Isaac LEVI of Barton upon Humber, silversmith. It was dated 25th March 1818 in the 58th year of the reign of King George III.  The LEVI surname was not regularly found in Lincolnshire. By 1881 there were just two and these were both immigrants.  One is from Russia and the other from Poland.  The name LEVI means "attached" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Levi was the third son of Jacob and Leah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of the Israelites (the tribe that eventually became the priests of the Israelites). In the New Testament this is another name for the apostle Matthew.  Tending to be of Jewish origin the occupation also hints at the same conclusion.  I wonder what happened to him? Isn’t it odd how one can get sidetracked?  I looked up George III in Wikipedia as I was unsure as the veracity of his reported 58-year reign.  Then I moved back in time to the Jacobite Rebellion of the 18th century and thought about who, if anyone, was claiming the English throne today through their descent from Bonny Prince Charlie; and there is someone.  I found that Francis II of Bavaria is the present claimant.  The  heir presumptive of Franz, Duke of Bavaria, is his younger brother Prince Max of Bavaria. Then his daughter Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein, and then her eldest son Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, born 24 May 1995 in London. Prince Joseph is first heir in the Jacobite line born in the British Isles since James III and VIII, The Old Pretender in 1688.  Well I found it interesting and by the way George III was on the English throne from 1738 until his death in 1820.  
Bits and Bobs
Humberstone (more recently spelled Humberston) is from the Old English Humbre+stone for "the boundary stone in the River Humber". In the 1086 Domesday Book, it is rendered in its original form as Humbrestone.   May 5th 1815 – Death – Lately at Humberstone, near Grimsby, aged 83 years, Ann KILLOCK: she had performed the duty of Clerk to the Parish church for 20 years and followed four husbands to their grave, and left 60 children and grandchildren behind her.  Lincolnshire Family History Society Magazine 1997.
This must be an unusual occurrence for a woman to have been the Parish Clerk in the 19th century.  Her surname is thought to have originated  from the village of Kilnwick in Yorkshire.