Heritage Weekend
We had our own version of the Heritage Weekend at Grasby. It started with the thrills of a walk around the village with Richard Clark who gave us all an insight into the whys and wherefores of the siting of Grasby village along the spring line of the wolds which joins villages by the dozen in a similar point in the landscape. We now know how to tell the oldest houses in the village just by looking at the chimneys. Finishing just in time to go into the Village Show for a cup of tea, at which moment it felt as though the ancient village life was alive, well and carrying on in spite of modern attitudes to living.
On Sunday was the Family Tree Workshop and how to get hooked on a life long hobby. During the day I picked up a few new names to look at and passed on the advice to the students that if you want to know anything on the county (any county) then join a local Family History Society. I have only ever been linked to the excellent Lincolnshire Family History Society and I feel that they have the family tree data fairly well covered with indexes for everything even though I am still waiting for the baptisms index (. I would be interested to hear if there is something that you know about other societies that Lincolnshire could have a go at.
The name GIRLING is a rather surprising sort of name with its original spelling being quite different present day look. Nowadays one says GIRLING and many of us think of brakes. The only break that would happen in many places with this one is a tooth. The word for a small apple in many counties is a codling but in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire this is the name for a small cod. Quite natural really with Hull and Grimsby being the biggest fisheries for a very long time. For some reason it is thought that the French coeur-de-lion or lion hearted is linked to the solid centre of the apple and with the accent changes to GIRDELION and later to GIRDLING and GIRLING. Further south the name became QUODLING and QUADLING in Norfolk and Suffolk. It is all down to accents again.
Another name is that of BEMMENT. This one for Suffolk if said with a strong accent will soon lead you to the origin. Delightful view of a hill it may be but it is usually spelt BEAUMONT. There are five places in Normandy that could the original home of the name but I am afraid it is up to your research as to which is which.
Bits and Bobs
Thomas SHARPE, a regular customer, was charged by Policeman No. 3 with being drunk and riotous that morning at three o´clock, against the Fourteen Houses. The Officer stated that he heard the prisoner when at a great distance from him, making use of the most horrible obscene language to some girls, who would not admit him into their house, and such was his violence that he disturbed the whole neighbourhood. He was drunk, but not without a knowledge of what he was doing. Prisoner denied that he was drunk, and asked the officer if he did not tell him he was sober when he locked him up. He said that in this town he got punished for things of which he was not guilty. Their worships told him the sooner he left the town the better and fined him £2 and costs, or two months in prison, from which he only came a few days ago.
No doubt his mother didn’t love him!
Friday, September 22, 2006
Selling the Family Silver
Selling the Family Silver?
With the introduction of online access in the reading rooms at Kew, The National Archive finds that it has a certain number of redundant microfilms and is offering these free on a first-come, first-served basis. The batch is of the Women's (later Queen Mary's) Army Auxiliary Corps: Service Records, First World War 1917-1920 and to be found listed in CatRef WO 398. There are 240 reels and it is a single organisation that gets the batch. If you know of a deserving home for these then get them on line to the National Archives before October 2nd, and if you feel the need to take a look at WO398 before making a request for the film then the easiest way to get to Kew Gardens is with Pam and the Grimsby Family History Group coach trip. You do not need to be a Family History enthusiast to use this bus. All the genealogists have reserved their seats so the group is throwing the final few seats open to those who might like to visit Kew Gardens. They will be starting from Immingham at 4.15 am then Grimsby - Caistor - Caenby - Lincoln getting to Gt Gonerby for 6.30 a.m. Contact Pam for details on 01469 560152.
While at the Kew you might like to look at the photographs of the Victorian Prisoners. On the website there is a link to one of Julia Ann CRUMPLING aged seven. She was given a weeks hard labour in 1870 in an adult prison for stealing a baby carriage. Ah the Good Old Days. I can’t find mention of the CRUMPLING surname in the dictionary. There are too few of them for a mention in the Surname Profiler as well. Both of the names CRUMP and CRAMP mean curved or hooked so one assumes that one of their children would be the diminutive adding - LING on the end. The curved or hooked item might have been a physical item as with King Richard Crookback. The only link I find in the search engine is the one to the National Archives and there certainly weren’t any in Lincolnshire in 1881. They all seem to have lived in Hampshire.
Still with Kew I found a link that took me to the 1871 census for Albert Square., East End at St Paul’s Shadwell. It is no laughing matter but one has to smile when one reads that the head of the household is a brothel owner and the majority of the female occupants living in the square are listed as having ‘fallen’ as an occupation and most of the males are down as ‘sailors’. One of the occupants is Thomas FLINN who was a costermonger from Ireland. Being Irish but living in England means that the ‘O’ is dropped from O’FLINN and back in Ireland anyone could have told you that the should be the descendant of FLANN. Coming from the Irish O FLOINN this was a nickname meaning red.
Bits and Bobs
Boothby Graffoe General Register – Jun 6th 1736 – Mary daughter of Lydia saunders, a travelling woman was baptised, whose husband died at Halifax. Peter, the father of Mary saunders and Lydia Carter were married at White Chappel, London and legally settled at Norwich but in which particular Parish the said Lydia did not remember.
With the introduction of online access in the reading rooms at Kew, The National Archive finds that it has a certain number of redundant microfilms and is offering these free on a first-come, first-served basis. The batch is of the Women's (later Queen Mary's) Army Auxiliary Corps: Service Records, First World War 1917-1920 and to be found listed in CatRef WO 398. There are 240 reels and it is a single organisation that gets the batch. If you know of a deserving home for these then get them on line to the National Archives before October 2nd, and if you feel the need to take a look at WO398 before making a request for the film then the easiest way to get to Kew Gardens is with Pam and the Grimsby Family History Group coach trip. You do not need to be a Family History enthusiast to use this bus. All the genealogists have reserved their seats so the group is throwing the final few seats open to those who might like to visit Kew Gardens. They will be starting from Immingham at 4.15 am then Grimsby - Caistor - Caenby - Lincoln getting to Gt Gonerby for 6.30 a.m. Contact Pam for details on 01469 560152.
While at the Kew you might like to look at the photographs of the Victorian Prisoners. On the website there is a link to one of Julia Ann CRUMPLING aged seven. She was given a weeks hard labour in 1870 in an adult prison for stealing a baby carriage. Ah the Good Old Days. I can’t find mention of the CRUMPLING surname in the dictionary. There are too few of them for a mention in the Surname Profiler as well. Both of the names CRUMP and CRAMP mean curved or hooked so one assumes that one of their children would be the diminutive adding - LING on the end. The curved or hooked item might have been a physical item as with King Richard Crookback. The only link I find in the search engine is the one to the National Archives and there certainly weren’t any in Lincolnshire in 1881. They all seem to have lived in Hampshire.
Still with Kew I found a link that took me to the 1871 census for Albert Square., East End at St Paul’s Shadwell. It is no laughing matter but one has to smile when one reads that the head of the household is a brothel owner and the majority of the female occupants living in the square are listed as having ‘fallen’ as an occupation and most of the males are down as ‘sailors’. One of the occupants is Thomas FLINN who was a costermonger from Ireland. Being Irish but living in England means that the ‘O’ is dropped from O’FLINN and back in Ireland anyone could have told you that the should be the descendant of FLANN. Coming from the Irish O FLOINN this was a nickname meaning red.
Bits and Bobs
Boothby Graffoe General Register – Jun 6th 1736 – Mary daughter of Lydia saunders, a travelling woman was baptised, whose husband died at Halifax. Peter, the father of Mary saunders and Lydia Carter were married at White Chappel, London and legally settled at Norwich but in which particular Parish the said Lydia did not remember.
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