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Ann began researching
her CLAY ancestors aeon's ago when she was a student, though
it is only for about the last forty odd years that we
have both been researching more thoroughly.
In the table on the right are the surnames we are researching.
The links take you to more information. For example, details
of approximate time range, place and UK county are given.
 British Standard
County (Chapman's) Codes
We've also provided short pedigrees. For simplicity, and
to save space, we've only gone back to our 2 x great grandparents
with these, so we have only given the dates
for our respective 2 x g.grandparents to indicate historical
time. But this is not where our research ends. We have the
details of almost every ancestor in the next generation back,
with several lines extending much further back into history.
We now have well over 11,000 people listed on our primary
'Family Historian' database.
If you think you share a common ancestor with us, or have
a surname link in the locations we are researching, please
send us an e-mail and we would be delighted to exchange a
little information, although not large GEDCOM files. |
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surname indexes now include: |
| Surname |
B |
M |
D |
| Darke |
1837-1940
(2,315) |
1837-1950
(1,814) |
1837-1950
(1,719) |
| Exell |
1837-1951
(228) |
1837-1949
(383) |
1837-1961
(598) |
| Exall |
1837-1951
(350) |
1837-1949
(391) |
1837-1961
(544) |
| Excell |
- |
1837-1949
(882) |
- |
| Hobbis |
1837-1941
(816) |
1837-1949
(539) |
1837-1949
(437) |
These indexes, which now cover over 11,000 individual entries are
proving very helpful in his own research and he is always happy to
search them for anyone searching their own family's history. >Contact
Andy
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| Surname Research and Interests, Further Details |
ANDREW
Andy's ancestors through gg grandmother
Mary Ann ANDREW
Andy's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DEV, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Barnstaple
Period of interest: 1820 - 1880
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
William ANDREW, a glazier/painter, and his wife Mary with the
'abode' given as Litchdon Street, Barnstaple in 1821.
Other information:
This line has to be more fully researched. |
ANDREWS (also
ANDERS, ANDRUS, ANDRES)
Andy's ancestors
Andy's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: BRK, ENG (now part of OXF,
ENG)
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: East
Hagbourne & Didcot and surrounding area
Period of interest: 17th century - present
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
John and Elizabeth (nee COUSINS) ANDREWS were married at New
Windsor, BRK (St. George's Chapel) on 4 Apr 1706. They had
3 sons and 2 daughters, all baptized at St Andrews Church,
East Hagbourne.
Other information:
The family, including the baptism of Andy's father, can be traced
in the parish registers of St Andrews Church for eight generations.
*Just round the corner from Andy's grandfather's family home.
**The Golden Domes Cinema, Streatham; The Plaza Cinema, Catford, The Ritz Cinema, Balham
***Reginald Andrews' trip to the Crimea in WW2
What's
in a name - The Surname Andrews |
BRYON (also BRYAN,
BRIAN)
Ann's ancestors through gg grandmother
Elizabeth BRYON who married John CLAY
Ann's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DBY, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Shirland,
Alfreton, Tibshelf, Crich and Wessington
Period of interest: 18th - 19th century
Earliest known ancestor with this surname: John BRYON who married
Hannah RADFORD (nee LIMB) at Shirland on 14 Feb 1788.
Other information:
The BRYONs farmed at Shirland Lodge from about 1795 - 1857/8,
and John (above) also ran a carpentry business. Although BRYANs
were in Shirland earlier than this, no direct link has been
established to date.
The family of BRYAN PEACH who lived at Bents Hill were also
part of this family.
The name has also been spelt BYRON in some documents.
Also see HOOL(E)
South Wingfield Association, 1796, for the prosecution of
felons. Also included Shirland and Higham. John Bryon was a member.
See Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1891: Shirland |
Crich | Tibshelf | Wessington
Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Shirland, St. Leonard's Church
- 5 images
Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Shirland church - interior, mentions John Bryon |
CALDERBANK
Ann's ancestors through 4xg grandmother
Sarah CALDERBANK who married John Timperley HARDY
County & Country of habitation: CHS and LAN, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Bowdon and Altrincham
Period of interest: Before 1700 to 1881
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
John CALDERBANK who married Tabitha ASTLES at Bowdon in 1712.
Other information:
The family group lived in the area around Altrincham, CHS. I'm
particularly interested in the family of John CALDERBANK and
Sarah PICKSTONE (1777 - 1870) at Manchester
Cathedral, LAN on 18 Feb 1800. The couple had 12 children. John
Calderbank (above) was recorded as a gardener and a farmer.
Also see:
Picture
Gallery : Cheshire - Bowdon, St. Mary's Church. With description
of Bowdon from Charles Balshaw's Stranger's Guide & Complete
Directory to Altrincham, 1855 |
CLAY (also CLEYE,
CLAIE)
Ann's ancestors through father
Ann's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DBY, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Matlock + Matlock Bath,
North Wingfield and Shirland
Period of interest: 1300 to present
Earliest known ancestors with this surname:
Roger Clay, whose son was John Clay of The Hill, North Wingfield;
John's will was proved in 1558 whilst his father was first mentioned living in
the village in 1533/4 (Inventory of Aliys Symson). However, an earlier
CLAY in the village was William who was almost certainly father of Roger
and is believed to be a direct ancestor, taking the line back a further generation.
These earliest Clays had no title.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE ARE NO MALES IN MY LINE WHO WERE KNIGHTED,
so no Sir John's or Sir John Thomas Clays or Lady Mary Anne's.
Other information:
Descendants of Roger and John Clay lived in various villages
and hamlets around North Wingfield (including the CLAYs who
were at Ault Hucknall from about 1650 - 1900+). Like many families
of the times, the younger sons spread their wings and sought
employment away from the family farms. One branch of the family,
a 7 x g uncle, went to Sheffield, YKS (1680 - 1800) and some
of his descendants emigrated to Philadelphia, PA, USA about
1700 (also living in Newcastle, DE, USA). A 6x great uncle
founded the branch who were in Liverpool, LAN, from whom Rev.
John CLAY, the Prison Disciplinist, descended (see Help
Needed).
Later on other members of the CLAY family went to Birmingham,
WAR, Bishops Wearmouth, DUR, Manchester, LAN, Nottingham,
NTT and London. Within Derbyshire, Clays settled in Bonsall,
Lea (Dethick) and Matlock in the 18th century and in the 19th
century several CLAY marriages took place in London, including
that of my gg grandparents (John CLAY & Elizabeth BRYON).
I should like to hear from anyone who has the surname CLAY
mentioned in any documents relating to their own line; I am
particularly interested in CLAYs who witnessed, or were mentioned,
in non-CLAY wills or in CLAYs who witnessed marriages (from
any of the known areas where the family members lived).
This bookplate is from the Shirland family's bible, that
I (Ann)
own, and dates from 1835.
Papers from 1755, researched by Mr. Reynolds of Crich
and Thomas Clay, attorney of Alfreton, indicate the families
of the Hill, Shirland, Liverpool
and Sheffield were entitled to
use this crest. Having
a family crest does not mean
that the first person to
have it was knighted by the monarch. |
Monument of Robert Clay of Bonsall (1799-1874) in St.
James' churchyard. Robert was born at Bonsall and
descended from the Clays of Shirland. His father later
farmed at Dethick where some of his children were born.
Photographed by Ann's father 5 Aug 1962. |
This crest shown in the bookplate and on the monument was
originally for Clay of Crich; it was confirmed in 1588
although it was in already use at the time of the 1569 Visitation.
It is the only crest for a member of the Clay family within
Derbyshire in those early times. I have four sound references
for the confirmation of this crest, which has been included
on a web page about Mr. John Clay of Crich.
Crich
Parish Church & Mr.
John Clay, Gentleman.
Like anyone, I would be delighted to find family links to knighthoods
and famous events like battles, such as the one at Tewkesbury.
However, I have found none.
For more information about the CLAYs, their areas of settlement
and other information see
Frank
Clay, artist. Examples of the work of a Derbyshire artist.
Frank was Ann's father.
Matlock
- a one place study
Bequest
to the parish of Matlock
Matlock
& Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Vaccination
Cases - August 1898
Some CLAY family MIs are on
in the Matlock section of this web site. Go to: Matlock & Matlock
Bath's Memorial Inscriptions, Surnames C
Clays
of Derbys, Notts, Leics and Rutland are also listed in Kelly's
(1891) Directory
See Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire,
1891: Shirland | Bonsall | North
Wingfield
Research
Queries
A family memorial at Etaples - Our Picture Gallery
Clay surname on Matlock war memorial
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CROKER (CROCKER)
Andy's ancestors through gg grandmother
Hannah CROKER who married Joseph PAGE on
29 Mar 1827 in Reading.
Andy's
Short Pedigree
Town, County & Country of habitation: Reading, BRK &
Coombe (or Combe), HAM, ENG
Period of interest: 1800 - 1850
Earliest known ancestors with this surname: James & Elizabeth
(nee Tanner) CROKER who married at Combe in 1805.
Other information:
Not much is known of this family at present. |
DAKIN (DAYKIN)
Ann's ancestors through gg grandmother
Ann DAKIN who married Thomas HATTON. Ann
was a daughter of James DAKIN who married Catherine SNAPE
at St. Alkmund's, Derby on 15 Dec 1817.
Ann's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DBY, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in:
Derby, though connections with Alsop en le Dale, Fenny Bentley,
Tissington and Wirksworth.
Period of interest: 17th - 19th century
Earliest known ancestors with this surname:
John and Lucy DAKIN of Alsop en le Dale.
Tissington Church |
DARKE
Andy's ancestors (through grandmother
Elizabeth Jane DARKE)
Andy's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: BRK, CON & DEV, all
ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Barnstaple
& Holsworthy , DEV + Reading, BRK
Period of interest: 17c - 19c (Barnstaple), 18c (Holsworthy),
19 - 20c (Reading & Maidenhead)
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Thomas Darke who married Honnor HEAL at Kilkhampton, CON on
10 Jun 1679. Thomas DARKE's parents were probably William and
Susan DARKE.
Other information:
See ROLLE DARKE below
Ernest
Victor Darke's CWG memorial at Wimereaux Communal Cemetery
Frederick
Darke (no relation) is commemorated at Wimille
Andy has extracted all DARKE Births,
Marriages and Deaths from GRO indexes up to 1950.
Please
email Andy if you would like him to search his database
for particular names.
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DEARLOVE
Andy's ancestors through 4xg grandmother
Frances DEARLOVE who married Thomas ANDREWS
County & Country of habitation: BRK, ENG (now part of OXF,
ENG)
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Blewbury & Upton
+ East & West Hagbourne
Period of interest: 1700 - 1860
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Avery DEARLOVE who married Margaret BANNISTER on 24 Jun 1708
at Wallingford, BRK (St Mary's Church)
Our
Picture Gallery has photographs of East Hagbourne |
DODGSON
Ann's ancestors through 3xg grandfather
Thomas DODGSON
County & Country of habitation: YKS, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Tong/Pudsey/Hunsworth?
Period of interest: Alive 1813
Other information:
Thomas DODGSON was the father of Rhoda Dorcas STEAD |
EDMONDSON
Ann's relatives through the marriage
of 3xg grandmother Faith STEAD and Jonathan
EDMONDSON
County & Country of habitation: YKS, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Tong - Westgate Hill
Period of interest: 19th century
Other information:
Jonathan EDMONDSON, who was born in Kenilworth, WAR, ENG was
a tailor in Westgate Hill, Tong. They had 5 children, four
of whom who survived into adulthood. They were the half siblings
of Rhoda Dorcas STEAD. |
ELLIOTT
Ann's ancestors through g grandmother
Caroline ELLIOTT who married John HATTON
Ann's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DBY, ENG, LEI, ENG & LIN,
ENG.
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Derby
and Leicester (possible links with Belper, where nails were
made).
Period of interest: 19th & 20th century
Earliest known ancestor with this surname: Joseph ELLIOTT,
a nail maker, who married Caroline BLACKWELL. Six of their
children were christened in Grantham, LIN.
Other information:
Only three generations have been identified for this surname.
Walter Elliott, Caroline's father married twice. He married
first Sarah Ann SUDBURY in 1858 and then,
after her death, Ann HARRISON in 1870. |
EXELL (also EXALL)
Andy's ancestors through mother
Andy's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: BRK, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Shinfield and Reading
Period of interest: 17c - 20c
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Thomas & Mary EXELL who lived in Shinfield from 1724 onwards.
Other information:
This is not a common surname. There are supposedly around 600
Exells in the UK; others live in Canada, the USA and in Australia.
Picture
Gallery: Berkshire - a picture of Shinfield Church
A
family memorial - Commonwealth War Graves
Exall
and Exell Surnames - Andy's miscellany of information
Please
email Andy if you would like him to search his BMD database
for particular names. |
FRANKLIN
Andy's ancestors through grandmother
Jessie Maud Rogers FRANKLIN
Andy's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: GLS, WIL & BRK, all
ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Bisley, Stroud &
Minchinhampton (briefly) GLS + Swindon, WIL + Didcot, BRK
Period of interest: 19c - 20c but would like to solve the problem
of whom the earliest ancestor was (see below)
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Thomas FRANKLIN, whose occupation on his daughter's marriage
certificate in 1850 is given as Mason. His daughter, Elizabeth,
was born in Bisley.
Other information:
Elizabeth FRANKLIN married Charles CANTER at the Baptist Chapel,
Stroud, GLS on 24 Nov 1850 and they lived in Minchinhampton
for a while before moving to Stroud. Andy's ggrandfather
Harry was born at The Bourne, Stroud in 1844.
Research Queries
A family memorial - Commonwealth War Graves |
HARDY (also HARDEY)
Ann's ancestors through gg grandmother
Martha HARDY who married William Henry SMITHIES
Ann's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: CHS and LAN, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Ashley, Bowdon &
Dunham, CHS + Davyhulme & Salford, LAN
Period of interest: Before 1720 to 1891
Earliest known ancestors with this surname:
Henry HARDEY (c.Dec 1704) was the son of James Hardey of Dunham.
He married Mary Renshall but after his death in 1749 his widow
married Edward STELFOX.
John HARDY, the son of Henry, married Martha FLETCHER
at Bowdon, CHS on 6 Sep 1754. In 1813 their son John was of
Dunham Farm (now Home Farm), Dunham Massey, CHS
Other information:
John HARDY (b. Dunham and bap at Bowdon in 1813) was farming
his 71 acres in Ashley in 1861, but the family was not in
the village by 1871. He and his wife Sarah (nee CALDERBANK)
had at least 13 children.
Also see:
Picture
Gallery : Cheshire - Bowdon, St. Mary's Church. With description
of Bowdon from Charles Balshaw's Stranger's Guide & Complete
Directory to Altrincham, 1855
Research Queries |
HARGREAVES &
Variants
Ann's ancestors through 4x g grandmother
Martha HARGREAVES, daughter of Lawrence, who married Matthew STEAD
County & Country of habitation: YKS, ENG
Village and town ancestors and their relatives lived in: Tong
and Bradford
Period of interest: 1600 - 1860 approx
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
John HARGREAVES who married Alice WOOD at St James Church,
Tong, YKS on 11 Dec 1621.
Tong - St. James' Parish Church |
HATTON
Ann descends from two families with
this surname, through her grandmother, Ethel Lily HATTON, and
her great grandmother Jane HATTON. The families are linked by
time, occupation and place, but no relationship has been proved.
Ann's Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DBY & LEI, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Melbourne,
Ticknall, Derby & Matlock Bath, DBY + Packington, Staunton
Harold & Breedon on the Hill, LEI. One branch moved to Nuthall,
NTT. HATTONs have also been identified in Hartshorn, DBY and
Ashby de la Zouch, LEI.
Period of interest: 1750 - present in Melbourne & Ticknall;
aft 1855 in Derby. Would like to trace HATTONs before 1700.
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Robert HATTON who married Sarah KYDEAR at Packington, LEI on
2 May 1768 (grandmother's family)
William HATTON of Staunton who married Mary Knifeton at Markfield,
LEI on 9 April 1723 (g grandmother's family).
Other information:
The occupations were varied: bank messenger, cordwainer, farmer,
gardener, labourer, market gardener and tailor.
In 1907 Thomas HATTON of Derby left his mother's family Bible
to his daughter Agnes Ann GASKIN, then living in Derby. The
whereabouts of this Bible is unknown, but it may contain details
of the HATTONs - or it may relate to the HAYS family.
Also listed
in Research Queries
Melbourne Church. See Picture Gallery - Derbyshire
Melbourne Church, interior. |
HAWKSWORTH
Andy's ancestors through gg grandmother
Sophia HAWKSWORTH who married George EXELL
Andy's Short
Pedigree
Town, County & Country of habitation: Shinfield, BRK
Period of interest: 1750 - 1870
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
John A HAWKSWORTH who married Miriam BARBER at Shinfield in 1790.
Two generations of this family have been identified so far.
Picture
Gallery: Berkshire - a picture of Shinfield Church |
HAYWARD
Andy's ancestors through gg grandmother
Mary HAYWARD who was married to Thomas DARKE
Andy's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DEV, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Barnstaple & Bishops
Tawton
Period of interest: 1797
Earliest known ancestor with this surname: James HAYWARD who married
Mary BLAKE on 14 Dec 1797 in Barnstaple. He was a soldier.
Research Queries |
HOBBIS (also HOBBES)
Andy's ancestors through ggrandmother
Mira HOBBIS
Andy's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: BRK, ENG (now part of OXF,
ENG)
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: East Hagbourne,
East & West Hendred, Grove & Wantage. Many of the burials
for this family were in Ardington, BRK.
Period of interest: 17c - 19c in BRK, though interested in any of
this surname.
Earliest known ancestor:
John and Mary HOBB[I]S (bu. 1698) who lived in Grove, parish of Wantage.
Other information
More than one branch of this family emigrated to the USA in the
late nineteenth century.
Derbyshire's
Parishes, 1811 mentions Thomas Hobbes, 'the
celebrated philosopher and free-thinker'*.
Look under Hault Hucknall (H).
*This description from:
'Topographical
and Historical Account of Derbyshire' by D & S Lysons
(1817)
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HOOL[E]
Ann's ancestors through gg grandmother
Elizabeth HOOLE
Ann's Short
Pedigree
Country & County of habitation: DBY, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Alfreton
and S. Normanton
Period of interest: 18th & 19th century
Earliest known ancestors with this surname: George HOOL[E] of Sutton
in Ashfield, NTT (bu.1762) who married Alice RAWSON. Their son Edward
HOOLE married Elizabeth SMEDLEY 4 Aug 1785 in Alfreton.
Other information:
Elizabeth HOOLE married William BRYON and they farmed at
Shirland Lodge, Shirland, DBY where her father, Edward HOOLE, died
although he is buried at St. Martin's Church, Alfreton. Some
of Edward HOOLE's descendants (through the male line) lived at Hazlewood,
Heage, Duffield and Windley, DBY.
There were HOOLE's in the area earlier than the dates I have given,
but at present there is no proven link to them.
Sources -
navigate to GOONS as there is a HOOLE One Name Study
St. Martin's Church, Alfreton |
IRELAND
Andy's ancestors through g grandmother
Harriet IRELAND
Andy's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: GLS, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Painswick & Stroud
Period of interest: 18th & 19th century
Earliest known ancestor:
David IRELAND, a cloth worker, who married Mary ROGERS on 21 Feb 1819 at Miserden, GLS (St Andrew's Church).
Other information:
Although David IRELAND was baptised at Painswick to Thomas and Mary
IRELAND, no marriage has been found for them and it is likely that
one of the parents names was incorrectly recorded - a busy Christmas
day of baptisms in 1796!
Four photographs of Painswick |
KEAT(E)
Andy's ancestors through 6xg grandmother
Mary KEATE
County & Country of habitation: BRK, ENG (now part of OXF,
ENG)
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: East Hagbourne
Period of interest: Late 17th and early 18th century
Earliest known ancestor:
Benjamin & Susannah KEATE, both buried at St Andrew's Church,
East Hagbourne in 1708. |
LEATHER
Ann's ancestors through gg grandmother
Sarah Anne LEATHER who married James HARDY
Ann's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: Davyhulme, LAN
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Urmston & Davyhulme (Barton
Upon Irwell) & Salford, LAN
Period of interest: 1790 - 1870 +
Earliest known ancestor with this surname: Richard LEATHER of Urmston
who married Mary Hill at Manchester Cathedral in 1786. His son Richard,
a farmer, married Ann ROGERS.
Other information:
Sources -
navigate to GOONS as there is a LEATHER One Name Study |
LEWIS
Ann's ancestors through g grandmother
Martha LEWIS, one of the five children of Edward and Maria
Lewis christened at Mochdre between 1806 and 1815. Martha,
the youngest, married first Richard LEWIS at Llanllwchaiarn
in 1835 and secondly George SWAIN at
Newtown, MGY in 1847.
Ann's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: MGY, WLS
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Mochdre, Llanllwchaiarn
and Newtown
Period of interest: 1700 - 1883
Earliest known ancestors with this surname:
Edward LEWIS (c Mochdre 1781 and son of David & Sarah Lewis
of Kerry) who married Maria WOOLLEY (c Mochdre 178 and d of Edward
Wolley and Diana Gough) on 6 May 1805 at Mochdre. Edward's occupation
was given as gardener on his daughter Martha's marriage certificate
- her second marriage.
Also see:
Picture
Gallery, Wales : Mochdre, Montgomeryshire - St. Asaph's parish church,
with trades directory quotes |
MASSEY
Ann's ancestors through 3xg grandmother
Martha MASSEY
County & Country of habitation: LAN, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Heaton Norris, with baptisms
at Stockport, Didsbury and Heaton Norris
Period of interest: 1750 - 1881
Martha married Hugh MOTTRAM at Manchester Cathedral
in 1828. She was one of the descendants of William MASSEY of Heaton
Norris, who died Jan 1791, through her father Joseph. Most of his
descendants have been identified to 1881.
Also interested in Ann MASSEY nee PICKFORD, bap Stockport 1823
and who moved to Macclesfield with her husband, Joseph, a reed
maker, and sons (Joseph Massey's parents were George and Elizabeth,
née SMITHIES). |
MOTTRAM
Ann's ancestors through gg grandmother
Martha Ann MOTTRAM who married Jonathan SMITHIES
Ann's
Short Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: LAN, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Burnage,
Didsbury, Heaton Norris / Heaton Chapel, Salford and Wilmslow
Period of interest: 1700 - 1890
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Hugh MOTTRAM of Burnage, tanner, who married firstly Hannah TOPP in
Alderley in 1748 and then Mary TAYLOR at Manchester
Cathedral in 1756. Hugh is a Christian name that crops up in every
generation of my MOTTRAM ancestors. The occupations of the menfolk
were varied: yeoman farmer, husbandman, publican, tanner, banker and
labourer. Hugh MOTTRAM's sister Martha, married Vincent LEWIS at Condover,
SAL in 1754.
Other information:
See the
onsite transcript for Burnage from the Lancashire Directory, 1858
Volume III
1841
census for Matlock, DBY, ENG, has MOTTRAM entries though they
are not related to my own line.
The
Matlock MOTTRAMS are also found in other Matlock census returns and MI's |
NAPPER
Andy's ancestors through g grandmother
Mira HOBBIS
Andy's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: BRK, ENG (now part of OXF,
ENG)
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: East Hagbourne, West Hagbourne
and Appleford
Period of interest: 19th century and before
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
John NAPPER of Appleford who died in 1805.
Picture Gallery : Photographs of East Hagbourne |
NEWTON
Ann's ancestors
County & Country of habitation: DBY, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in:
South Wingfield and surrounding villages
Period of interest: Bef 1600 - 1850+
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
William NEWTON of Oakerthorpe, South Wingfield who died about
1650 is Ann's 9 x g grandfather.
His eldest daughter Anne
or Anna, married Roland SUDBURY, a yeoman, at South Wingfield
in 1625. They lived at Cotes Park, Alfreton.
A younger daughter, Alice (Ann's 8 x g grandmother) married
Richard SUDBURY of Ufton Hall.
William's grand daughter married Imanuel HALTON (who is mentioned
on Wingfield
Manor (2), during and after the Civil War).
Other information:
See SUDBURY below |
NUTTALL
Ann's ancestors through 3 x ggrandmother
Sarah NUTTALL who married John CLAY
Ann's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DBY, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Matlock, Ashover and possibly
Darley and Youlgreave
Period of interest: 1740 - 1880
Earliest known ancestor with this surname/ other information:
Sarah and her sister Elizabeth were both born in Matlock. Their parents
were Henry NUTTALL, son of George and Elizabeth (formerly TAYLOR nee
BUTLER), and his wife Mary (nee SHARP) who were married at Darley
on 16 Dec 1782.
Of interest, but not yet proven link, is to the Nuttall whose
estate was contested
The
Great Matlock Will Case - see the Court Report
100th
anniversary newspaper article
Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1891: Ashover | Darley | Youlgreave
Matlock
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NUTTALL family MIs are on in the Matlock section of this
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Matlock:
Eighteenth Century Lists: Land Tax, 1780. Contains the
names of some with the NUTTALL surname |
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Andy's ancestors through ggrandmother
Elizabeth Ann PAGE
Andy's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: BRK, ENG (now part of OXF,
ENG)
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Frawley and Reading.
Period of interest: 18th & 19th century
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Joseph PAGE, who married Hannah CROKER 29 Mar 1827
in Reading.
Other information:
Not much is known of this family at present. |
PAINTER
Andy's ancestors through gg grandmother
Martha PAINTER who married Henry ANDREWS
Andy's Short
Pedigree
Town, County & Country of habitation: Blewbury and Woolstone,
BRK & Chalgrove, OXF, ENG
Period of interest: 1800 - 1850
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
George PAINTER (1800 - 1873) a grocer/shopkeeper, baker and farmer,
who married Amy WELLS at Ardington in 1826.
Three generations of this family have been identified so far. |
PARSLEY
Andy's ancestors through g grandmother
Elizabeth PARSLEY
Andy's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DEV, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Barnstaple, Pilton and Sherwill
Period of interest: 1720 - >1891
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
John PARSLEY who married Ann JOCE at Sherwill on 12 May 1754.
Other information:
We read in a dictionary of English surnames that Parsley is linked
to Parslow and Parsloe, though not to the surname Paisley (as
some have suggested). |
PICKSTONE & Variants
Ann's ancestors through 4 x g grandmother
Sarah PICKSTONE, who married John CALDERBANK at
Manchester Cathedral, LAN on 18 Feb 1800
County & Country of habitation: CHS and LAN, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Bowdon (Sinderland) and Altrincham
Period of interest: Before 1600 to 1881
Earliest proven ancestor with this surname:
Richard BICKSTON of Bowdon who died in 1672. It is probable that
Richard was born in Runcorn.
Also see:
Picture
Gallery : Cheshire - Bowdon, St. Mary's Church. With description
of Bowdon from Charles Balshaw's Stranger's Guide & Complete
Directory to Altrincham, 1855 |
ROGERS
Both of us have ROGERS ancestors, but they lived in different parts
of England and are unconnected.
1. Andy's ancestors through gg grandmother Mary ROGERS who married David IRELAND
Andy's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: GLS, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Miserden and Painswick.
Period of interest: late 17th - early 18th century
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
John ROGERS, who married Hannah SHEWELL on 15 Oct 1792 at Miserden,
GLS (St Andrew's Church).
2. Ann's ancestors through 3xg grandmother Ann ROGERS who married Richard LEATHER
County & Country of habitation: LAN, ENG.
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Davyhulme - baptisms at
Flixton and Eccles.
Period of interest: late 17th - late 19th century.
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
George ROGERS, the father of William ROGERS whom I now believe
married Ellen Jones at Eccles 1762. |
ROLL(E)
Andy's ancestors through 5x g grandmother
Sarah Rolle who married Roger DARKE
Andy's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DEV, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors lived in: Holsworthy, Meeth
Period of interest: 1600 - 1800
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Maurice ROLLE and Mary UNKNOWN who were married at Meeth on 3 Jan
1655.
Other information:
See ROLLE DARKE below |
ROLLE DARKE
County & Country of habitation: DEV & CON, ENG - also found
in LON and BRK.
Andy's Short
Pedigree
Following the marriage Sarah ROLL(E) and Roger DARKE in Feb 1722/3 it has been common for the name Rolle to appear as the
second given name to male DARKEs. At present not all males who bore
the name Rolle DARKE can be proved to be descendants of Sarah and
Roger, though it is likely that they are. We should like to hear from
you if you have an ancestor or relative who has this combination of
names.
Other information:
See DARKE and ROLL(E) above |
SMITHIES
Ann's ancestors through mother
Ann's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: CHS & LAN, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Macclesfield
and Stockport, CHS + Heaton Norris/Heaton Chapel and Salford, LAN
Period of interest: 1750 - present
Earliest known ancestors with this surname:
Joseph SMITHIES (b.1799), a mechanic - although when he died
in 1858 he was described as a joiner. Joseph was the son of
John and Mary Smithies, both of whom were buried at St. Mary's,
Stockport. He was married to Mary PICKFORD (nee HOPWOOD), who
outlived him. He and Mary were married in 1835 at St. John, Deansgate,
Manchester, before civil registration began. Joseph had previously
been married to Mary Ann HODKINSON.
Male SMITHIES ancestors married into the HARDY,
HOPWOOD, MOTTRAM and WALKER families
and female SMITHIES ancestors into CLAY family.
Smithies
Surname The first four and a half years of Births, Marriages and
Deaths registered in England and Wales (Sep 1837 - Dec 1841)
Smithies
Casualties of War, WW1 & WW2
SMITHIES Surname : Wills Index,
probate information up to 1905
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STEAD
Ann's ancestors through gg grandmother
Rhoda Dorcas STEAD who married Benjamin Lewis WALKER
Ann's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: YKS, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Lordship
of Tong, on the outskirts of Bradford. Also North Bierley and Bradford
Period of interest: 1500 - 1900
Earliest proven ancestor with this surname:
Robert STEAD, husbandman, of the Lordship of Tong within the parish
of Birstall who died in April 1572 leaving his wife Agnes and three
children, Roberte, Richarde and Mary.
Other information:
There were STEADs living in the Lordship of Tong from at least the
middle of the 1500's and there are a great many entries for the surname
in the parish registers. Their occupations ranged from farmer, cornmiller,
cordwainer, tanner to clothier and woolstapler; some of them were
Churchwardens. Amongst the gravestones in the churchyard of St. James
Church, Tong is that of my 4 x great grandfather, Richard STEAD of
Tong (1681 - 1757); the inscription is is still readable today.
*Includes a pedigree for this family.
Beauchief
- Kelly's 1891 Directory. Although not related to my own
research, one family of STEADE, who changed their name, lived
at Beauchief Abbey.
Stead-Steed
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SUDBURY
Ann's ancestors through gg grandmother
Sarah Ann SUDBURY who married Walter ELLIOTT
Ann's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: DBY, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Belper,
Derby, Horsley and South Wingfield
Period of interest: Bef 1600 - 1850+
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Richard SUDBURY of Maplebeck, NTT. There is a marriage from him,
to Elizabeth Fox, at Maplebeck in 1581. His descendant, Richard,
married Alice NEWTON and the lived at Ufton Hall, South Wingfield.
Relationship to Roland SUDBURY, a yeoman of Cotes Park, Alfreton,
who married Anna NEWTON at South Wingfield
in 1625 cannot be proved at present, apart from through his wife.
Other information:
Another
family with this surname were living in Ilkeston in the 18th & 19th
centuries and one branch moved to Bonsall.
Kelly's 1891 Directory of Bonsall |
Horsley | South
Wingfield |
SWAIN
Ann's ancestors through g grandmother
Margaret Jane Swain, a daughter of George Swain of Berriew
and Newtown by his second wife Martha LEWIS (nee
Lewis). Margaret Jane married Randolph WALKER
Ann's Short
Pedigree
Country & County of habitation of habitation: MGY, WLS
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Berriew
(Township of Trustewelin), Bettws and Newtown.
Period of interest <1650 - 1950
Earliest known ancestor with this surname: Abraham SWAIN, who married
Ann COLEY.
Other information:
Great Aunt Fanny SWAIN, widow of
Magaret Jane's brother, assisted with weddings at Gretna Green
in the early part of the twentieth century. One of Margaret Jane's
half brother's, David, moved to Brockton, SAL. Her eldest half
brother, John, was 43 years older than her.
Margaret Jane and her husband lived for several years at Bonsall.
View four postcards of Bonsall Cross
Research Queries |
TAYLER/TAYLOR
Both of us have ancestors with this surname, but they came from different
parts of England and are unconnected.
1. Andy's ancestors through 3x ggrandmother Ann TAYLER who married James ANDREWS
Andy's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: BRK, ENG (now part of OXF,
ENG)
Villages and towns ancestors/relatives lived in: East Hagbourne
Period of interest: 1730 - 1850
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
William Tayler of Compton (d. 1777) who was married to Ann Unknown.
Other information:
Henry TAYLER (d. 1837) 'for thirty years filled the office of Clerk
to this Parish' - Gravestone, St Andrews Church, East Hagbourne.
Our Picture Gallery has photographs of East Hagbourne
2. Ann's ancestors through the marriage of Hugh MOTTRAM of
Burnage, tanner, and Mary TAYLOR at Manchester Cathedral in 1756
Country & County of habitation of habitation: LAN, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Burnage
and Heaton Norris
Period of interest < 1680 - about 1740
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
John TAYLOR of Heaton Norris who was buried at St. James, Didsbury
on 10 Dec 1715.
See
the onsite transcript for Burnage from the Lancashire Directory, 1858
Volume III |
WALKER
Ann's ancestors through grandmother Daisy
Eveline WALKER who married James Hardy SMITHIES.
Ann's Short
Pedigree
Country of habitation of habitation: ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in:
About 1800 - 1920 Pudsey, Bradford & Tong, YKS
1837 - 1855 Clayton West, YKS
1877 - 1880 Newtown, MGY (Randolph, Margaret Jane and children)
1880 - 1940 + Bonsall, incl. Slaley, DBY, then Salford, LAN. Daisy
was born and lived for several years at Bonsall, near Bonsall Cross.
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Jeremiah WALKER who was buried at Fulneck. His wife was Martha
STOCKS.
Other information:
Great grandfather Randolph WALKER was born in Bradford. Towards the end
of his life he worked at The Albion Hotel,
Piccadilly, Manchester. He was the youngest child of Benjamin Lewis
WALKER, a worsted overlooker, who married Rhoda Dorcas STEAD.
They lived for a long time at Clayton West before Randolph was born. B L
WALKER was born in Pudsey in 1811 and baptised Tong St. James.
Kelly's
1891 Directory of Bonsall
Research
Queries
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WELLS
Andy's ancestors through 3xg grandmother
Amy WELLS who married George PAINTER at Ardington
in 1826
Andy's Short
Pedigree
Town, County & Country of habitation: Ardington and Blewbury,
BRK & Chalgrove, OXF, ENG
Period of interest: 1750 - 1850
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
John Michael WELLS who married Elizabeth MALLAM at Ardington in 1791.
Three generations of this family have been identified so far.
Photographs of Ardington |
YARWOOD
Ann's ancestors through gg grandmother
Elizabeth YARWOOD who married Robert HATTON
Ann's Short
Pedigree
County & Country of habitation: LEI, ENG
Villages and towns ancestors and their relatives lived in: Shepshed,
Castle Donnington and Coleorton
Period of interest: 1600 - 1890
Earliest known ancestor with this surname:
Richard YARWOOD (who married Alice GAMBLE at Shepshed on 26 Dec 1716)
was the son of John YARWOOD of Shepshed and probably the grandson
of Jervase Yarwood of Shepshed who died in 1670, though this last
is unproven.
Other information:
The above Richard YARWOOD was born about 1685 and was a weaver. His
brother was Gervase YARWOOD (1672 - 1759) of Coleorton who was married
to Elizabeth (nee BOULTBEE). The YARWOOD's lived in the village of
Shepshed until the 1840's. Although the family lived in Leicestershire
for several centuries, by the 1881 census there was only one person
with the surname left living in the county; she was Ann (formerly
BEXON) who was the second wife of another Richard YARWOOD, gg grandmother
Elizabeth's father. Ann was then 81 years old.
* Gervase and Elizabeth YARWOOD are mentioned in the BOULTBEE Family
History
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