Family Chat
I wrote, back in November, of the DIMBLEBY name and the latest information is that cousins of one sort or another keep popping up for Gillian BAKER. On the female side of her family is the HANDFORD surname and it is this one that has been found to have a connection with a family in Norfolk, it originates from one of the places by the same name. She has given me couple of other names that are in the family. On her father’s side her great-great-grandfather married Sarah MALEM in Lincoln. Happily for her their son Jabez Bunting DIMBLEBY was in the habit of writing to other relatives who lived in Derbyshire and some of these documents still survive. The family chat is all about other members of the family and the family history as it was in the very early part of the 20th century. Lucky thing!! The name MALEM is an unusual one for Lincolnshire. For me I have the feeling that it is a name straight out of a Victorian novel for it has that certain ring about it. According to the 1881 census there were few individuals living in the county; the concentration for MALAM is Cheshire with a sprinkling in Lincolnshire. However if it is spelt with two LLs the concentration changes to the northern borders and Dorset and a goodly number around Liverpool. It is thought to originate from the medieval female name MALIN which was a pet form of Mary. I do wonder though about the concentration around Liverpool and whether there could be an Irish influence here. The reason I say this is because of the surname MELLON for it has the variation of MALLEN and these are the anglicised versions of the Irish name of O Meallain, the descendant of Meallan.
A new name for me is SCATCHERD which was put onto the internet by Mike Parker who is looking for more information. One of the most prominent holders I found with this surname comes from Morley and she was the first Freewoman of Boston. Alice Cliff SCATCHERD lived from 1842 till 1906 and was a noted Liberal, philanthropist and radical suffragist; Alice sought to improve working women's legal and social position in many ways.
John PATEMAN has moved to Lincolnshire from London since the turn of the century. During his research he has found that there were a fair number of families with the PATEMAN name and they stayed stable in numbers between 1881 and 1998 he says. Using those two dates I assume that John has used the Surname Profiler but the highest concentration of the name is in the Stevenage area and a question that I must ask is “What does the website mean by the entry Mosaic type with highest index # - White Van Culture?” The name PATEMAN and its variation PATMAN have a very straight forward origin and comes from the pet form of Patrick. In England the name Patrick was found generally in the north as it was commonly of Scottish origin. Today we think of it as generally Irish but the name did not become popular in Ireland until the 1600s and the influx of the Scottish settlers. The PATEMAN family that John is most interested in is the one that lived near Sleaford and was thought to be either of gypsy or traveling origin. I guess if they had come all the way from Scotland they could be classed as travellers without much fear of contradiction. In 1881 in Lincolnshire the PATEMAN families were invariably linked to the land with many being Ag Labs as you would expect.
Bits and Bobs
March 7th 1817 – Marriage – On Tuesday last Mr John MAPLETHORP to Miss M BLOW, aged fifteen years: also Mr James FAIRWEATHER to Miss Elizabeth BLOW (sister of the above) all of Billinghay near Sleaford.
Lincolnshire Family History Society Magazine 2000
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Saturday, December 24, 2005
What to do in the boring bit
What to do in the boring bit twixt Christmas & New Year
Laura Hayes of Lincoln set the ball rolling with the question of where I found the information for last week’s column. She has been carrying out research into the THISTLEWOOD family for some time and so with everyone’s family getting together for the festive season now is the time to ask the questions. Where does the family come from? How long it lived there? What are the Grandparents names and where did they live? And so on and so forth. Paul at paul@pthistleton1739.freeserve.co.uk gave me the first part but then it was on line and from the census material which is readily available. Information from all the censuses can be found via the national Archives website at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/ and the IGI and 1881 census can be found at the Latter Day Saints site www.familysearch.org where you can also get the Personal Ancestral File program. Back ground material and some free forms to record your data can be accessed at http://genealogy.about.com/.
There are 129 different directories containing Lincolnshire information that is available for you to look at on the Leicestershire University website at www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp. Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history. The Historical Directories project came to the end of its funding on 31st October 2004 but the will remain freely available for the next 3 years. These directories have a mass of data on the villages that your ancestor lived in. If he was the butcher, baker or maybe the candlestickmaker he could be listed. You can, if you so wish, buy your own copies of Lincolnshire Directories via the Archive Books site at www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/lin.html where you can also purchase some of the census material on CD.
For a look at the village layout where your ancestors lived and worked then the www.old-maps.co.uk/ site is the place to go to. There is a gazetteer that puts you in the right area and the maps are very high quality and detailed. You can purchase a copy if you wish. The one I looked at was dated 1854 with the option to print, look at an aerial version, see a modern map, then even enlarge or buy it.
To pinpoint a specific individual then take a look at www.freebmd.org.uk/. FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records. It is a part of the FreeUKGEN family, which also includes FreeCEN (Census data) and FreeREG (Parish Registers). Here we are talking about 135,000,000 records. I’ll type that in again – its 135 million records. Many of these are the certificate information you will need to get a certificate from www.gro.gov.uk/gro/. The index reference number is the code that is allocated to every event of birth, marriage or death registered in England and Wales relating to the year, quarter, and district in which the event was registered. It is particularly important that you make a note of this, as you will need to quote it when you apply for a certificate in order for the GRO to identify the correct entry. I put in DRUST as I usually do when I want to make engines really work and found the Leonard DRUST was registered at Caistor in June 1910 in volume 7a page 678. If I sent this information to the GRO I would receive in quick time a copy of his birth certificate. I happen to know that his father was William Johnson DRUST and he was named after his uncle who died in 1875 and William’s marriage is at freebmd but they have not yet indexed his death.
All you need to do now is to have a long chat to all your relatives and you have started on a hobby that will last a lifetime or two.
Bits and Bobs
October 8th 1790 Marriage: On Thursday last was married at Donington, Richard NICHOLS, (commonly called ´Saucy Nichols´) aged 71 to Ann DIXON aged 22. The good old man, hoping to avoid the ridicule of the multitude, led his Bride elect along a bye lane to the Church.
Lincolnshire Family History Society – at www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/lfhs/
Laura Hayes of Lincoln set the ball rolling with the question of where I found the information for last week’s column. She has been carrying out research into the THISTLEWOOD family for some time and so with everyone’s family getting together for the festive season now is the time to ask the questions. Where does the family come from? How long it lived there? What are the Grandparents names and where did they live? And so on and so forth. Paul at paul@pthistleton1739.freeserve.co.uk gave me the first part but then it was on line and from the census material which is readily available. Information from all the censuses can be found via the national Archives website at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/ and the IGI and 1881 census can be found at the Latter Day Saints site www.familysearch.org where you can also get the Personal Ancestral File program. Back ground material and some free forms to record your data can be accessed at http://genealogy.about.com/.
There are 129 different directories containing Lincolnshire information that is available for you to look at on the Leicestershire University website at www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp. Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history. The Historical Directories project came to the end of its funding on 31st October 2004 but the will remain freely available for the next 3 years. These directories have a mass of data on the villages that your ancestor lived in. If he was the butcher, baker or maybe the candlestickmaker he could be listed. You can, if you so wish, buy your own copies of Lincolnshire Directories via the Archive Books site at www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/lin.html where you can also purchase some of the census material on CD.
For a look at the village layout where your ancestors lived and worked then the www.old-maps.co.uk/ site is the place to go to. There is a gazetteer that puts you in the right area and the maps are very high quality and detailed. You can purchase a copy if you wish. The one I looked at was dated 1854 with the option to print, look at an aerial version, see a modern map, then even enlarge or buy it.
To pinpoint a specific individual then take a look at www.freebmd.org.uk/. FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records. It is a part of the FreeUKGEN family, which also includes FreeCEN (Census data) and FreeREG (Parish Registers). Here we are talking about 135,000,000 records. I’ll type that in again – its 135 million records. Many of these are the certificate information you will need to get a certificate from www.gro.gov.uk/gro/. The index reference number is the code that is allocated to every event of birth, marriage or death registered in England and Wales relating to the year, quarter, and district in which the event was registered. It is particularly important that you make a note of this, as you will need to quote it when you apply for a certificate in order for the GRO to identify the correct entry. I put in DRUST as I usually do when I want to make engines really work and found the Leonard DRUST was registered at Caistor in June 1910 in volume 7a page 678. If I sent this information to the GRO I would receive in quick time a copy of his birth certificate. I happen to know that his father was William Johnson DRUST and he was named after his uncle who died in 1875 and William’s marriage is at freebmd but they have not yet indexed his death.
All you need to do now is to have a long chat to all your relatives and you have started on a hobby that will last a lifetime or two.
Bits and Bobs
October 8th 1790 Marriage: On Thursday last was married at Donington, Richard NICHOLS, (commonly called ´Saucy Nichols´) aged 71 to Ann DIXON aged 22. The good old man, hoping to avoid the ridicule of the multitude, led his Bride elect along a bye lane to the Church.
Lincolnshire Family History Society – at www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/lfhs/
Sunday, May 22, 2005
Saturday, September 18, 2004
CanDo Exchange Comes to Grasby
After an uncomfortable hour spent in a traffic jam at Newark, the Scarman Trust in the guise of Anne Rockliffe, Operations Manager for the Trust, and ably assisted by Georgie and Cat finally arrived at Grasby Village Hall. The event, which was set up for the benefit of the village and arranged by Ifor Barton, could now start and Ifor could now put away his worry beads!
To begin in a civilised manner a buffet had been provided by Joan Barton, and while we did our best, it was the Vicars Tart (copyright Rev Ian Robinson) which vanished first with what seemed like hardly a dent made in the rest. Anne introduced the Trust to the those assembled and gave a summary of the mission of the Scarman Trust which was set up by Lord Scarman in consequence of the riots of 1981.
This was followed by the formal part of the proceedings with the presentation of Award certificates to Roy Harvey for the Grasby Open Learning Centre - Kirsten Stimson who also had an award was unable to attend - and Wendy Melbourne for the Grasby Graffiti.
To begin in a civilised manner a buffet had been provided by Joan Barton, and while we did our best, it was the Vicars Tart (copyright Rev Ian Robinson) which vanished first with what seemed like hardly a dent made in the rest. Anne introduced the Trust to the those assembled and gave a summary of the mission of the Scarman Trust which was set up by Lord Scarman in consequence of the riots of 1981.
This was followed by the formal part of the proceedings with the presentation of Award certificates to Roy Harvey for the Grasby Open Learning Centre - Kirsten Stimson who also had an award was unable to attend - and Wendy Melbourne for the Grasby Graffiti.
The workshop continued with a presentation of the CanDo Exchange and the what the beneficial impact on the village would be. It was equated to the Swap Shop that was once on television on Saturday mornings and as this program was for children it was decided that a section of the Exchange be set up for their use. The Exchange allows those register to swap skills and resources and to highlight their needs.
Two of the tools used by the Trust to facilitate project ideas are the Power Tool Kit and the Millennium Fact Bank. The fact that three kits were used and each group came up with the same problems and answers must say something for its use by groups.
To end the session the Open Learning Centre was used to access the CanDo Exchange website and allow those that wished to register their interest and five or six took up the opportunity to join. It is free so the price is exactly right!!.
The team felt that the visit had been a great success and that there were some highly motivated people in the village of Grasby and hoped that they would be invited back sometime in the future.
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