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It’s News

Maddy TICKNER has found a relative amongst the reams of newspaper reports on the area surrounding Grasby that I have put onto my website.  She would like to know if there are any more items out there on the DANBY family.  The DANBY family came from Middle Rasen and it was of Elizabeth DANBYS suicide that the newspaper spoke of.  Further information given was that her sister lived in Grasby and that she was staying there after leaving her employment at Audleby.  The paper gives the verdict of insanity but today the condition would be seen as medical and appropriate drugs given.  Newspapers have always been a good resource for family information and a second question Maddy asks is would they appear in any 17th century newspapers.  Sadly the answer to this is no.  The earliest continuous coverage begins in 1714 and is with the Stamford Mercury.  This is listed as being historical and political observations of the transactions of Europe, together with remarks on trade 1714-1732, which later became the Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury.  There were many others that had a short history and these can all be found listed via the GENUKI website.  There is a link here to the newspaper library at Colindale and it is at Colindale that the details can be found.  it is worth reading the different editions of old newspapers as the same incident is presented differently in accordance with the newspapers political affiliation.  Much the same as today really.  
There are other links to be found at the site.  These are of work carried out be people of some of their local newspapers.  This is the sort of thing you will find.  1896  - former Boston MP, Mr H.J. Farmer ATKINSON was now the owner of a 'Wicked Bible’, which was auctioned at Sotherbys, on March 3.  Only 5 copies are known to exist.  So called because the 'NOT' is left out of the 7th commandment.  "You shall not commit adultery". In the main the focus is on all the articles with names in them that have been recorded.
The name TICKNER is supposed to come from a locational name.  The Old English word twicen was a crossroads or fork in the road.  Due to my lack of evidence I can’t ague with this but it does seem that there are a great many crossroads and forks in the road but very few TICKNER family members who were all concentrated in the Kent region in 1881.
DANBY on the other hand is very much of this area being from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.  There are several parishes with Danby in the title.  The Danby is listed in the Domesday Book as Danebi and is the BY or homestead belonging to the Dane.  The others all have a river name attached to them as in Danby Wiske
Bits and Bobs
"Hull News" 23 April 1864  - ACCIDENTS. - On Wednesday, a man named CASS, in the employ of Mr DEBEER, Ropery Street, had his knee severely crushed by his rully passing over it, in Lister Street. - About the same time a youth named JOSEPH WHITE fell from a window in Dock Street, to the ground, a distance of twenty feet, and was most severely injured.
This is the first time that I have seen the word ‘rully’ used in a news item.  It is still in use today with those of ancient Lincolnshire extraction carrying on the tradition of swapping constants around ie lorry to rully and signal to single.