Hello Elaine Samuel Burt and Julia had these two children baptised at St Philip & Jacob church in Bristol on 22.8.1858. Frederick Arthur Phoebe Ellen On the 1841 census for Castle Green, Castle Precincts, Bristol, Samuel is shown as age 17 a cabinet maker the son of John Burt age 55 , Independent, and Hester age 50??. All born in the county of Gloucestershire. Hope this helps. Bernice ----- Original Message ----- From: "elaine westaway" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET Digest, Vol 7, Issue 238 I am looking for info on Sameul Burt. he was born in Bristol in 1826 and married to Julia Haynes in Liverpool in 1870. Julia was the daughter of a sailor from Strood in Gloucestershire. Samuel gives his father's name as John Burt carpenter and his own profession as cabinet maker. I cannot find any information of Sameul prior to 1851 or on his father. anyhelp on the Burt and the Haynes family much welcomed and Iwould love to know why they went to Liverpool, they remained on Merseyside and had a family there. thanks Elaine Westaway ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2012, 8:02 Subject: BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET Digest, Vol 7, Issue 238 Today's Topics: 1. Bristol Pound officially launched across city -- article in The Post (Josephine Jeremiah) 2. Manorial Documents Register -- National Archives (Josephine Jeremiah) 3. Re: Lesson learnt (klausdach) 4. Re: Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be appreciated (Mike Matthews) 5. Re: Lesson learnt (Edie) 6. Re: Lesson learnt ([email protected]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:28:26 +0100 From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <[email protected]> Subject: [B&S] Bristol Pound officially launched across city -- article in The Post To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Hi Listers, Today will go down in history as the day that the Bristol Pound was launched. There's an article in The Post: Bristol Pound officially launched across city http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Bristol-Pound-officially-launched-city/story-16934165-detail/story.html Josephine ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:45:35 +0100 From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <[email protected]> Subject: [B&S] Manorial Documents Register -- National Archives To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Hi Listers, The Manorial Documents Register in the National Archives may be of interest to listers who haven't heard of it before: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/ Using the advanced search http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/searches/advancedsearch.asp I've just searched for Bitton in Gloucestershire and found a number of references. Josephine ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:50:27 +1000 From: "klausdach" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original You are all confirming what I know and have proved. There are at least 7 Family Lists on Ancestry pertaining to my family and all have it incorrect. There is a mistranscription between the Parish Records and the Bishops Transcripts giving a different Bride, same date. Phillimores Marriage Records for the Parish Church and another for the Local Church also differ but then the entry on the Phillimores Directories on line notes the incorrect entry giving both Brides. I have obtained all the original entries, Banns, Marriage, Baptism of their children entries so believe I have the correct information so I can only presume they have either all followed one another or not confirmed their information. Patricia G. in Melbourne. > Dear List, > Last year we joined ancestry and duly added all my information on my > family from Midsomer Norton.Now I am usually really pedantic about my > research and check and double check and follow up with certificates where > I can.I didn't have much on my GGrandfathers brother Richard but a hint > got me in contact with a lady who was related to him which made me very > excited.For 2 years we have been corresponding and I didn't recheck what > was given to me .Now my new cousin has informed me that at last she has > sent for her GGGrandfathers marriage certificate and instead of Richard > being his father she has discovered it was a James,therefore throwing all > the information I have out the window.Maybe somewhere down the track we > may find a connection and have decided to stay in contact as "adopted > cousins" but this has taught me a big lesson,ie even when all appears > right please don't take it as gospel.You still need to check it all > yourself and follow up with certificates etc where you can.. > I started this email to ask for a lookup but will do so in another email. > Regards Elaine Skehan, > Victoria,Australia. > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 9.0.0.888, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.20620) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:39:22 +0100 From: "Mike Matthews" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [B&S] Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be appreciated To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAA[email protected]boddyparts.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Andy Thanks for your message. I have commissioned bits and pieces of research work with the CM registers in an effort to solve the mystery, but without much luck. It would appear that John and Elizabeth did not marry in Chewton. Emborough burials are alleged to have ceased before John died in the 1840s, which makes the reference on the CM memorial that he was "interred at Emborough" rather confusing. However I believe some later burials did actually take place in Emborough and records for these are still kept at CM church. As yet I haven't established whether this is indeed correct or, if this is the case, how I can access them. Best wishes Mike -----Original Message----- From: Andy Phillips [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 September 2012 16:34 To: [email protected]; Mike Matthews Subject: Re: [B&S] Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be appreciated Hi Mike, The Chewton Mendip registers are still being transcribed for FreeReg, ChewtonHundred and Somerset OPC. Currently baptisms and burials are up to 1812 and marriages to 1753. You might find it useful to conact the Chewton Mendip OPC (who is also the transcriber). He is Steve Bumstead who's email address can be found at http://wsom-opc.org.uk/index.php?id=39&k=272. Andy, FreeReg Area Assistant for Somerset and Chewton Hundred Moderator ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Matthews" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:47 PM Subject: [B&S] Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be appreciated > Dear all, > > > > I am descended from Mary FLOWER, baptised in Chewton Mendip, Somerset in > 1823. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth FLOWER, and I have had > great difficulty identifying them. > > > > The 1841 census shows the family living in Nedge, John aged 35 and > Elizabeth > aged 30. However these ages are clearly rounded down as their first > child, > Eliza, was born in 1819 and it's therefore more likely that they were both > born c.1795-1800. > > > > John died before 1851, so all I know about him is that he was born in > Somerset. Elizabeth lived into the 1880s and later censuses show her > birthplace as Chewton Mendip, around 1799. > > > > John and Elizabeth's children were: Eliza (1819), James (1821), Mary > (1823), > William (1826), George (1828), Edwin (1831) and Ann (1834). > > > > I have found no trace of their marriage on FreeReg or the IGI, though I > realise that not all Somerset marriages are on these sites as yet. > > > > I have found a marriage for John Flower and Elizabeth Flower in St > Nicholas, > Bristol in 1816, which is tantalising. Only one John and Elizabeth Flower > were living in Bristol (Shirehampton) in 1841, and later census records > indicate that this John would've been too young to marry in 1816. So > maybe > the St Nicholas couple were my ancestors? The only drawback with this > theory is that there is no trace of a baptism for Elizabeth Flower in > Chewton c. 1800. > > > > John's origins are also a mystery. His gravestone indicates that he was > interred in Emborough, which perhaps indicates a family connection to this > parish, and indeed a John Flower was baptised in Emborough in 1798, son of > George and Betty. However, an old family tree I have seen shows George > and > Betty with a son called George born just 8 months before John was > baptised, > and I have a feeling that George and John were the same person, i.e. he > was > baptised John but later renamed George. This tree was compiled by a > descendant of George, and while no sources are provided I suspect George's > birth date might come from a family bible. > > > > There was also a John baptised in Chewton in 1797, but he corresponds with > the burial of a John Flower in Chewton in 1820, aged 22. > > > > No wills seem to be available to provide any further clues. > > > > John and Elizabeth's daughter Ann married a man from Timsbury, and I know > that a lot of Flowers lived there. So perhaps my John came from there > originally. A John Flower was baptised in Timsbury in 1805, son of Josiah > and Ann, but unless he was baptised when several years old, he would be > too > young to be my John. > > > > Another point worth noting is that John and Elizabeth's daughter Mary > married Thomas CURTIS, and they named their second son Henry, which was > not > a name used greatly by the Curtis family. They could've just chosen the > name on a whim, or it could be a significant name in the Flower family. > > > > I have a feeling that I'll never find a marriage for John and Elizabeth, > or > find out where they came from, but any thoughts or suggestions would be > most > welcome. > > > > Regards > > > > Mike > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:50:22 +1000 From: "Edie" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Maybe the more correct of the two between Parish Registers and Bishops transcript, would be the Parish Registers. Did you check the Banns as well should correspond with the Parish register, or License whichever way it went. I understand the Bishops transcripts could have been copied anytime up to a month after the event. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "klausdach" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt > You are all confirming what I know and have proved. There are at least 7 > Family Lists on Ancestry pertaining to my family and all have it > incorrect. > There is a mistranscription between the Parish Records and the Bishops > Transcripts giving a different Bride, same date. Phillimores Marriage > Records for the Parish Church and another for the Local Church also differ > but then the entry on the Phillimores Directories on line notes the > incorrect entry giving both Brides. I have obtained all the original > entries, Banns, Marriage, Baptism of their children entries so believe I > have the correct information so I can only presume they have either all > followed one another or not confirmed their information. Patricia G. > in Melbourne. > > >> Dear List, >> Last year we joined ancestry and duly added all my information on my >> family from Midsomer Norton.Now I am usually really pedantic about my >> research and check and double check and follow up with certificates where >> I can.I didn't have much on my GGrandfathers brother Richard but a hint >> got me in contact with a lady who was related to him which made me very >> excited.For 2 years we have been corresponding and I didn't recheck what >> was given to me .Now my new cousin has informed me that at last she has >> sent for her GGGrandfathers marriage certificate and instead of Richard >> being his father she has discovered it was a James,therefore throwing all >> the information I have out the window.Maybe somewhere down the track we >> may find a connection and have decided to stay in contact as "adopted >> cousins" but this has taught me a big lesson,ie even when all appears >> right please don't take it as gospel.You still need to check it all >> yourself and follow up with certificates etc where you can.. >> I started this email to ask for a lookup but will do so in another email. >> Regards Elaine Skehan, >> Victoria,Australia. >> >> >> >> ======= >> Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. >> (Email Guard: 9.0.0.888, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.20620) >> http://www.pctools.com/ >> ======= >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:57:41 +0100 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: "Edie" <[email protected]> > Maybe the more correct of the two between Parish Registers and Bishops > transcript, would be the Parish Registers. Did you check the Banns > as well should correspond with the Parish register, or License whichever > way > it went. I understand the Bishops transcripts could have been copied > anytime up to a month after the event. < > Edie Sometimes a year after the event! Particularly when some clerics were bone idle and didn't get round to doing the BTs until they suddenly realised the Bishop or the Archdeacon would be chasing them up and panicked. Or if they were really lazy they'd get the curate or parish clerk to do it, which is why it is always worth checking both the registers and the BTs if you possibly can because sometimes they don't agree with one another. I have a classic example in my Yorkshire researches in Scarborough where the IGI, which had been extracted from the BTs, showed my great-great-grandfather as being 18 at marriage and his wife 20. In fact, when I went to check the registers it transpired that the nought in 20 was actually a 6, so my great-great-grandmother was actually 26 and some 8 years older than her "toy boy" husband and not two years older. A good friend of mine, Colin Blanshard Withers, another well-known Yorkshire genealogist, cites a case where the incumbent used to scribble out the details of baptisms, marriages and burials on the backs of old envelopes, sugar bags and the like and then once a year he'd write them out properly and send them to the Bishop, presumably storing the envelopes and sugar bags in a drawer as the original registers! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." 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Hi Elaine and List, Have not read the previous posts on this thread but did find a baptism for Julia Haines on 15 Feb 1829 in Stroud, Gloucestershire. She was the daughter of John Haines and Hannah. This information is on the FamilySearch site, batch number 102035-6. Cheers Bev In a message dated 20/09/2012 17:35:32 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:19:50 +0100, elaine westaway <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for info on Sameul Burt. he was born in Bristol in 1826 and > married to Julia Haynes in Liverpool in 1870. Julia was the daughter of > a sailor from Strood in Gloucestershire ... > anyhelp on the Burt and the Haynes family much welcomed and Iwould love > to know why they went to Liverpool, they remained on Merseyside and had > a family there.

I hope we pass your test. :-( David E. Cann [email protected] or "david.e.cann" on Skype -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john king Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [B&S] Testing Am attempting to rejoin after a five year gap but am get ing lost in the new registration requirements/jargon. This is jjust to check whether I am in touch or not. John King

Hi Listers, The following article, featuring a tearoom in the style of the 1930s in Castle Cary, conjures up a different way of life: Serving up a sweeter side of 1930s life http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Shop-look-town-s-past/story-16948191-detail/story.html The illustration of waitresses wearing white headbands threaded with black ribbon reminded me that, some years ago, I inherited some white, lacy, maids' headbands with ribbons of black velvet to thread through them. Although probably from the 1920s or 1930s they were brand new being part of the stock of an old-fashioned draper's shop. Josephine

Hi Listers, This may be of interest to some list members. Yesterday's Country Customs: A History of Traditional English Folklore by Henry Buckton is featured in an article in the Wells Journal: Author's look at traditions http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Author-s-look-traditions/story-16947789-detail/story.html Josephine

Correction - the chest was left open and UNlocked! Jean Wood > Message du 20/09/12 10:21 > De : "Jean WOOD" > A : [email protected] > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt > > And more so! I used to live in Wigan, where the important town documents were kept in the Parish chest - a real, physical wooden chest. These documents included things like Court Leet reports, trials, accounts of fairs, even the Town Charters and a precious demand for recognition by the king of the pewterers Guild to have the power to search (for unfit pewter - like the silver assay office) For many years this chest was not properly locked. A 19th century historian, Sinclair, raged in his writings (From memory c 1870) that the chest was left open and locked so that any passing person could help him or herself to any of the documents, paper was expensive, and use them for writing shopping lists, memos, letters - anything they chose. I do not know if this state of affairs was corrected before or after this tirade. Around 30 years ago I read this in his book for myself. It is not an anecdotal remark on my part. Jean Wood > Message du 20/09/12 07:59 > De : [email protected] > A : [email protected] > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt > > From: "Edie" > > > Maybe the more correct of the two between Parish Registers and Bishops > > transcript, would be the Parish Registers. Did you check the Banns > > as well should correspond with the Parish register, or License whichever way > > it went. I understand the Bishops transcripts could have been copied > > anytime up to a month after the event. < > > Edie > > Sometimes a year after the event! Particularly when some clerics were bone idle and didn't > get round to doing the BTs until they suddenly realised the Bishop or the Archdeacon would > be chasing them up and panicked. Or if they were really lazy they'd get the curate or parish > clerk to do it, which is why it is always worth checking both the registers and the BTs if you > possibly can because sometimes they don't agree with one another. > > I have a classic example in my Yorkshire researches in Scarborough where the IGI, which > had been extracted from the BTs, showed my great-great-grandfather as being 18 at > marriage and his wife 20. In fact, when I went to check the registers it transpired that the > nought in 20 was actually a 6, so my great-great-grandmother was actually 26 and some 8 > years older than her "toy boy" husband and not two years older. > > A good friend of mine, Colin Blanshard Withers, another well-known Yorkshire genealogist, > cites a case where the incumbent used to scribble out the details of baptisms, marriages and > burials on the backs of old envelopes, sugar bags and the like and then once a year he'd > write them out properly and send them to the Bishop, presumably storing the envelopes and > sugar bags in a drawer as the original registers! > > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

And more so! I used to live in Wigan, where the important town documents were kept in the Parish chest - a real, physical wooden chest. These documents included things like Court Leet reports, trials, accounts of fairs, even the Town Charters and a precious demand for recognition by the king of the pewterers Guild to have the power to search (for unfit pewter - like the silver assay office) For many years this chest was not properly locked. A 19th century historian, Sinclair, raged in his writings (From memory c 1870) that the chest was left open and locked so that any passing person could help him or herself to any of the documents, paper was expensive, and use them for writing shopping lists, memos, letters - anything they chose. I do not know if this state of affairs was corrected before or after this tirade. Around 30 years ago I read this in his book for myself. It is not an anecdotal remark on my part. Jean Wood > Message du 20/09/12 07:59 > De : [email protected] > A : [email protected] > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt > > From: "Edie" > > > Maybe the more correct of the two between Parish Registers and Bishops > > transcript, would be the Parish Registers. Did you check the Banns > > as well should correspond with the Parish register, or License whichever way > > it went. I understand the Bishops transcripts could have been copied > > anytime up to a month after the event. < > > Edie > > Sometimes a year after the event! Particularly when some clerics were bone idle and didn't > get round to doing the BTs until they suddenly realised the Bishop or the Archdeacon would > be chasing them up and panicked. Or if they were really lazy they'd get the curate or parish > clerk to do it, which is why it is always worth checking both the registers and the BTs if you > possibly can because sometimes they don't agree with one another. > > I have a classic example in my Yorkshire researches in Scarborough where the IGI, which > had been extracted from the BTs, showed my great-great-grandfather as being 18 at > marriage and his wife 20. In fact, when I went to check the registers it transpired that the > nought in 20 was actually a 6, so my great-great-grandmother was actually 26 and some 8 > years older than her "toy boy" husband and not two years older. > > A good friend of mine, Colin Blanshard Withers, another well-known Yorkshire genealogist, > cites a case where the incumbent used to scribble out the details of baptisms, marriages and > burials on the backs of old envelopes, sugar bags and the like and then once a year he'd > write them out properly and send them to the Bishop, presumably storing the envelopes and > sugar bags in a drawer as the original registers! > > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Maybe the more correct of the two between Parish Registers and Bishops transcript, would be the Parish Registers. Did you check the Banns as well should correspond with the Parish register, or License whichever way it went. I understand the Bishops transcripts could have been copied anytime up to a month after the event. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "klausdach" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt > You are all confirming what I know and have proved. There are at least 7 > Family Lists on Ancestry pertaining to my family and all have it > incorrect. > There is a mistranscription between the Parish Records and the Bishops > Transcripts giving a different Bride, same date. Phillimores Marriage > Records for the Parish Church and another for the Local Church also differ > but then the entry on the Phillimores Directories on line notes the > incorrect entry giving both Brides. I have obtained all the original > entries, Banns, Marriage, Baptism of their children entries so believe I > have the correct information so I can only presume they have either all > followed one another or not confirmed their information. Patricia G. > in Melbourne. > > >> Dear List, >> Last year we joined ancestry and duly added all my information on my >> family from Midsomer Norton.Now I am usually really pedantic about my >> research and check and double check and follow up with certificates where >> I can.I didn't have much on my GGrandfathers brother Richard but a hint >> got me in contact with a lady who was related to him which made me very >> excited.For 2 years we have been corresponding and I didn't recheck what >> was given to me .Now my new cousin has informed me that at last she has >> sent for her GGGrandfathers marriage certificate and instead of Richard >> being his father she has discovered it was a James,therefore throwing all >> the information I have out the window.Maybe somewhere down the track we >> may find a connection and have decided to stay in contact as "adopted >> cousins" but this has taught me a big lesson,ie even when all appears >> right please don't take it as gospel.You still need to check it all >> yourself and follow up with certificates etc where you can.. >> I started this email to ask for a lookup but will do so in another email. >> Regards Elaine Skehan, >> Victoria,Australia. >> >> >> >> ======= >> Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. >> (Email Guard: 9.0.0.888, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.20620) >> http://www.pctools.com/ >> ======= >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

From: "Edie" <[email protected]> > Maybe the more correct of the two between Parish Registers and Bishops > transcript, would be the Parish Registers. Did you check the Banns > as well should correspond with the Parish register, or License whichever way > it went. I understand the Bishops transcripts could have been copied > anytime up to a month after the event. < > Edie Sometimes a year after the event! Particularly when some clerics were bone idle and didn't get round to doing the BTs until they suddenly realised the Bishop or the Archdeacon would be chasing them up and panicked. Or if they were really lazy they'd get the curate or parish clerk to do it, which is why it is always worth checking both the registers and the BTs if you possibly can because sometimes they don't agree with one another. I have a classic example in my Yorkshire researches in Scarborough where the IGI, which had been extracted from the BTs, showed my great-great-grandfather as being 18 at marriage and his wife 20. In fact, when I went to check the registers it transpired that the nought in 20 was actually a 6, so my great-great-grandmother was actually 26 and some 8 years older than her "toy boy" husband and not two years older. A good friend of mine, Colin Blanshard Withers, another well-known Yorkshire genealogist, cites a case where the incumbent used to scribble out the details of baptisms, marriages and burials on the backs of old envelopes, sugar bags and the like and then once a year he'd write them out properly and send them to the Bishop, presumably storing the envelopes and sugar bags in a drawer as the original registers! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

I am looking for info on Sameul Burt. he was born in Bristol in 1826 and married to Julia Haynes in Liverpool in 1870. Julia was the daughter of a sailor from Strood in Gloucestershire. Samuel gives his father's name as John Burt carpenter and his own profession as cabinet maker.  I cannot find any information of Sameul prior to 1851 or on his father. anyhelp on the Burt and the Haynes family much welcomed and Iwould love to know why they went to Liverpool, they remained on Merseyside and had a family there. thanks Elaine Westaway ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2012, 8:02 Subject: BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET Digest, Vol 7, Issue 238 Today's Topics:   1. Bristol Pound officially launched across city -- article in       The Post (Josephine Jeremiah)   2. Manorial Documents Register -- National Archives       (Josephine Jeremiah)   3. Re: Lesson learnt (klausdach)   4. Re: Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be appreciated       (Mike Matthews)   5. Re: Lesson learnt (Edie)   6. Re: Lesson learnt ([email protected]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:28:26 +0100 From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <[email protected]> Subject: [B&S] Bristol Pound officially launched across city --     article in    The Post To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed;     delsp=yes Hi Listers, Today will go down in history as the day that the Bristol Pound was  launched. There's an article in The Post: Bristol Pound officially launched across city http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Bristol-Pound-officially-launched-city/story-16934165-detail/story.html Josephine ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:45:35 +0100 From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <[email protected]> Subject: [B&S] Manorial Documents Register -- National Archives To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed;     delsp=yes Hi Listers, The Manorial Documents Register in the National Archives may be of  interest to listers who haven't heard of it before: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/ Using the advanced search http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/searches/advancedsearch.asp I've just searched for Bitton in Gloucestershire and found a number of  references. Josephine ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:50:27 +1000 From: "klausdach" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";     reply-type=original You are all confirming what I know and have proved.  There are at least 7 Family Lists on Ancestry pertaining to my family and all have it incorrect. There is a mistranscription between the Parish Records and the Bishops Transcripts giving a different Bride, same date.  Phillimores Marriage Records for the Parish Church and another for the Local Church also differ but then the entry on the Phillimores Directories on line notes the incorrect entry giving both Brides.  I have obtained all the original entries, Banns, Marriage, Baptism of their children entries so believe I have the correct information so I can only presume they have either all followed one another or not confirmed their information.      Patricia G. in Melbourne. > Dear List, > Last year we joined ancestry and duly added all my information on my > family from Midsomer Norton.Now I am usually really pedantic about my > research and check and double check and follow up with certificates where > I can.I didn't have much on my GGrandfathers brother Richard but a hint > got me in contact with a lady who was related to him which made me very > excited.For 2 years we have been corresponding and I didn't recheck what > was given to me .Now my new cousin has informed me that at last she has > sent for her GGGrandfathers marriage certificate and instead of Richard > being his father she has discovered it was a James,therefore throwing all > the information I have out the window.Maybe somewhere down the track we > may find a connection and have decided to stay in contact as "adopted > cousins" but this has taught me a big lesson,ie even when all appears > right please don't take it as gospel.You still need to check it all > yourself and follow up with certificates etc where you can.. > I started this email to ask for a lookup but will do so in another email. > Regards Elaine Skehan, > Victoria,Australia. > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 9.0.0.888, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.20620) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:39:22 +0100 From: "Mike Matthews" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [B&S] Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be     appreciated To: <[email protected]> Message-ID:     <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAA[email protected]boddyparts.co.uk>     Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" Hi Andy Thanks for your message.  I have commissioned bits and pieces of research work with the CM registers in an effort to solve the mystery, but without much luck.  It would appear that John and Elizabeth did not marry in Chewton. Emborough burials are alleged to have ceased before John died in the 1840s, which makes the reference on the CM memorial that he was "interred at Emborough" rather confusing.  However I believe some later burials did actually take place in Emborough and records for these are still kept at CM church.  As yet I haven't established whether this is indeed correct or, if this is the case, how I can access them. Best wishes Mike -----Original Message----- From: Andy Phillips [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 September 2012 16:34 To: [email protected]; Mike Matthews Subject: Re: [B&S] Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be appreciated Hi Mike, The Chewton Mendip registers are still being transcribed for FreeReg, ChewtonHundred and Somerset OPC. Currently baptisms and burials are up to 1812 and marriages to 1753. You might find it useful to conact the Chewton Mendip OPC (who is also the transcriber). He is Steve Bumstead who's email address can be found at http://wsom-opc.org.uk/index.php?id=39&k=272. Andy, FreeReg Area Assistant for Somerset and Chewton Hundred Moderator ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Matthews" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:47 PM Subject: [B&S] Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be appreciated > Dear all, > > > > I am descended from Mary FLOWER, baptised in Chewton Mendip, Somerset in > 1823.  She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth FLOWER, and I have had > great difficulty identifying them. > > > > The 1841 census shows the family living in Nedge, John aged 35 and > Elizabeth > aged 30.  However these ages are clearly rounded down as their first > child, > Eliza, was born in 1819 and it's therefore more likely that they were both > born c.1795-1800. > > > > John died before 1851, so all I know about him is that he was born in > Somerset.  Elizabeth lived into the 1880s and later censuses show her > birthplace as Chewton Mendip, around 1799. > > > > John and Elizabeth's children were: Eliza (1819), James (1821), Mary > (1823), > William (1826), George (1828), Edwin (1831) and Ann (1834). > > > > I have found no trace of their marriage on FreeReg or the IGI, though I > realise that not all Somerset marriages are on these sites as yet. > > > > I have found a marriage for John Flower and Elizabeth Flower in St > Nicholas, > Bristol in 1816, which is tantalising.  Only one John and Elizabeth Flower > were living in Bristol (Shirehampton) in 1841, and later census records > indicate that this John would've been too young to marry in 1816.  So > maybe > the St Nicholas couple were my ancestors?  The only drawback with this > theory is that there is no trace of a baptism for Elizabeth Flower in > Chewton c. 1800. > > > > John's origins are also a mystery.  His gravestone indicates that he was > interred in Emborough, which perhaps indicates a family connection to this > parish, and indeed a John Flower was baptised in Emborough in 1798, son of > George and Betty.  However, an old family tree I have seen shows George > and > Betty with a son called George born just 8 months before John was > baptised, > and I have a feeling that George and John were the same person, i.e. he > was > baptised John but later renamed George.  This tree was compiled by a > descendant of George, and while no sources are provided I suspect George's > birth date might come from a family bible. > > > > There was also a John baptised in Chewton in 1797, but he corresponds with > the burial of a John Flower in Chewton in 1820, aged 22. > > > > No wills seem to be available to provide any further clues. > > > > John and Elizabeth's daughter Ann married a man from Timsbury, and I know > that a lot of Flowers lived there.  So perhaps my John came from there > originally.  A John Flower was baptised in Timsbury in 1805, son of Josiah > and Ann, but unless he was baptised when several years old, he would be > too > young to be my John. > > > > Another point worth noting is that John and Elizabeth's daughter Mary > married Thomas CURTIS, and they named their second son Henry, which was > not > a name used greatly by the Curtis family.  They could've just chosen the > name on a whim, or it could be a significant name in the Flower family. > > > > I have a feeling that I'll never find a marriage for John and Elizabeth, > or > find out where they came from, but any thoughts or suggestions would be > most > welcome. > > > > Regards > > > > Mike > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:50:22 +1000 From: "Edie" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";     reply-type=original Maybe the more correct of the two between Parish Registers and Bishops transcript, would be the Parish Registers. Did you check the Banns as well should correspond with the Parish register, or License whichever way it went.  I understand the Bishops transcripts could have been copied anytime up to a month after the event. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "klausdach" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt > You are all confirming what I know and have proved.  There are at least 7 > Family Lists on Ancestry pertaining to my family and all have it > incorrect. > There is a mistranscription between the Parish Records and the Bishops > Transcripts giving a different Bride, same date.  Phillimores Marriage > Records for the Parish Church and another for the Local Church also differ > but then the entry on the Phillimores Directories on line notes the > incorrect entry giving both Brides.  I have obtained all the original > entries, Banns, Marriage, Baptism of their children entries so believe I > have the correct information so I can only presume they have either all > followed one another or not confirmed their information.      Patricia G. > in Melbourne. > > >> Dear List, >> Last year we joined ancestry and duly added all my information on my >> family from Midsomer Norton.Now I am usually really pedantic about my >> research and check and double check and follow up with certificates where >> I can.I didn't have much on my GGrandfathers brother Richard but a hint >> got me in contact with a lady who was related to him which made me very >> excited.For 2 years we have been corresponding and I didn't recheck what >> was given to me .Now my new cousin has informed me that at last she has >> sent for her GGGrandfathers marriage certificate and instead of Richard >> being his father she has discovered it was a James,therefore throwing all >> the information I have out the window.Maybe somewhere down the track we >> may find a connection and have decided to stay in contact as "adopted >> cousins" but this has taught me a big lesson,ie even when all appears >> right please don't take it as gospel.You still need to check it all >> yourself and follow up with certificates etc where you can.. >> I started this email to ask for a lookup but will do so in another email. >> Regards Elaine Skehan, >> Victoria,Australia. >> >> >> >> ======= >> Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. >> (Email Guard: 9.0.0.888, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.20620) >> http://www.pctools.com/ >> ======= >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:57:41 +0100 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [B&S] Lesson learnt To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From:              "Edie" <[email protected]> > Maybe the more correct of the two between Parish Registers and Bishops > transcript, would be the Parish Registers. Did you check the Banns > as well should correspond with the Parish register, or License whichever way > it went.  I understand the Bishops transcripts could have been copied > anytime up to a month after the event. < > Edie Sometimes a year after the event! Particularly when some clerics were bone idle and didn't get round to doing the BTs until they suddenly realised the Bishop or the Archdeacon would be chasing them up and panicked. Or if they were really lazy they'd get the curate or parish clerk to do it, which is why it is always worth checking both the registers and the BTs if you possibly can because sometimes they don't agree with one another. I have a classic example in my Yorkshire researches in Scarborough where the IGI, which had been extracted from the BTs, showed my great-great-grandfather as being 18 at marriage and his wife 20. In fact, when I went to check the registers it transpired that the nought in 20 was actually a 6, so my great-great-grandmother was actually 26 and some 8 years older than her "toy boy" husband and not two years older. A good friend of mine, Colin Blanshard Withers, another well-known Yorkshire genealogist, cites a case where the incumbent used to scribble out the details of baptisms, marriages and burials on the backs of old envelopes, sugar bags and the like and then once a year he'd write them out properly and send them to the Bishop, presumably storing the envelopes and sugar bags in a drawer as the original registers! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." 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You are all confirming what I know and have proved. There are at least 7 Family Lists on Ancestry pertaining to my family and all have it incorrect. There is a mistranscription between the Parish Records and the Bishops Transcripts giving a different Bride, same date. Phillimores Marriage Records for the Parish Church and another for the Local Church also differ but then the entry on the Phillimores Directories on line notes the incorrect entry giving both Brides. I have obtained all the original entries, Banns, Marriage, Baptism of their children entries so believe I have the correct information so I can only presume they have either all followed one another or not confirmed their information. Patricia G. in Melbourne. > Dear List, > Last year we joined ancestry and duly added all my information on my > family from Midsomer Norton.Now I am usually really pedantic about my > research and check and double check and follow up with certificates where > I can.I didn't have much on my GGrandfathers brother Richard but a hint > got me in contact with a lady who was related to him which made me very > excited.For 2 years we have been corresponding and I didn't recheck what > was given to me .Now my new cousin has informed me that at last she has > sent for her GGGrandfathers marriage certificate and instead of Richard > being his father she has discovered it was a James,therefore throwing all > the information I have out the window.Maybe somewhere down the track we > may find a connection and have decided to stay in contact as "adopted > cousins" but this has taught me a big lesson,ie even when all appears > right please don't take it as gospel.You still need to check it all > yourself and follow up with certificates etc where you can.. > I started this email to ask for a lookup but will do so in another email. > Regards Elaine Skehan, > Victoria,Australia. > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 9.0.0.888, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.20620) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Andy Thanks for your message. I have commissioned bits and pieces of research work with the CM registers in an effort to solve the mystery, but without much luck. It would appear that John and Elizabeth did not marry in Chewton. Emborough burials are alleged to have ceased before John died in the 1840s, which makes the reference on the CM memorial that he was "interred at Emborough" rather confusing. However I believe some later burials did actually take place in Emborough and records for these are still kept at CM church. As yet I haven't established whether this is indeed correct or, if this is the case, how I can access them. Best wishes Mike -----Original Message----- From: Andy Phillips [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 September 2012 16:34 To: [email protected]; Mike Matthews Subject: Re: [B&S] Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be appreciated Hi Mike, The Chewton Mendip registers are still being transcribed for FreeReg, ChewtonHundred and Somerset OPC. Currently baptisms and burials are up to 1812 and marriages to 1753. You might find it useful to conact the Chewton Mendip OPC (who is also the transcriber). He is Steve Bumstead who's email address can be found at http://wsom-opc.org.uk/index.php?id=39&k=272. Andy, FreeReg Area Assistant for Somerset and Chewton Hundred Moderator ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Matthews" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:47 PM Subject: [B&S] Thoughts on these Chewton FLOWERs would be appreciated > Dear all, > > > > I am descended from Mary FLOWER, baptised in Chewton Mendip, Somerset in > 1823. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth FLOWER, and I have had > great difficulty identifying them. > > > > The 1841 census shows the family living in Nedge, John aged 35 and > Elizabeth > aged 30. However these ages are clearly rounded down as their first > child, > Eliza, was born in 1819 and it's therefore more likely that they were both > born c.1795-1800. > > > > John died before 1851, so all I know about him is that he was born in > Somerset. Elizabeth lived into the 1880s and later censuses show her > birthplace as Chewton Mendip, around 1799. > > > > John and Elizabeth's children were: Eliza (1819), James (1821), Mary > (1823), > William (1826), George (1828), Edwin (1831) and Ann (1834). > > > > I have found no trace of their marriage on FreeReg or the IGI, though I > realise that not all Somerset marriages are on these sites as yet. > > > > I have found a marriage for John Flower and Elizabeth Flower in St > Nicholas, > Bristol in 1816, which is tantalising. Only one John and Elizabeth Flower > were living in Bristol (Shirehampton) in 1841, and later census records > indicate that this John would've been too young to marry in 1816. So > maybe > the St Nicholas couple were my ancestors? The only drawback with this > theory is that there is no trace of a baptism for Elizabeth Flower in > Chewton c. 1800. > > > > John's origins are also a mystery. His gravestone indicates that he was > interred in Emborough, which perhaps indicates a family connection to this > parish, and indeed a John Flower was baptised in Emborough in 1798, son of > George and Betty. However, an old family tree I have seen shows George > and > Betty with a son called George born just 8 months before John was > baptised, > and I have a feeling that George and John were the same person, i.e. he > was > baptised John but later renamed George. This tree was compiled by a > descendant of George, and while no sources are provided I suspect George's > birth date might come from a family bible. > > > > There was also a John baptised in Chewton in 1797, but he corresponds with > the burial of a John Flower in Chewton in 1820, aged 22. > > > > No wills seem to be available to provide any further clues. > > > > John and Elizabeth's daughter Ann married a man from Timsbury, and I know > that a lot of Flowers lived there. So perhaps my John came from there > originally. A John Flower was baptised in Timsbury in 1805, son of Josiah > and Ann, but unless he was baptised when several years old, he would be > too > young to be my John. > > > > Another point worth noting is that John and Elizabeth's daughter Mary > married Thomas CURTIS, and they named their second son Henry, which was > not > a name used greatly by the Curtis family. They could've just chosen the > name on a whim, or it could be a significant name in the Flower family. > > > > I have a feeling that I'll never find a marriage for John and Elizabeth, > or > find out where they came from, but any thoughts or suggestions would be > most > welcome. > > > > Regards > > > > Mike > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Friends are still looking for the Robert Evans who captained the shi "Columbo" which sank with no survivors in the Calcutta, Bombay, India, storm of October 1864. Robert was married to Mary Ann Tucker at the time. His fathers name was James a shoemaker. We have seen some newspaper reports but I think there could have been much later ones when maybe a body was recovered and the final death notice was issued and family notified. etc. Live in hope. Edie

Hi Listers, The Manorial Documents Register in the National Archives may be of interest to listers who haven't heard of it before: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/ Using the advanced search http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/searches/advancedsearch.asp I've just searched for Bitton in Gloucestershire and found a number of references. Josephine

Hi Listers, Today will go down in history as the day that the Bristol Pound was launched. There's an article in The Post: Bristol Pound officially launched across city http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Bristol-Pound-officially-launched-city/story-16934165-detail/story.html Josephine

Hi Bernice, Thank you for your help Sue

Hi Josephine, I do remember meeting you in Llyswen Churchyard from which I found that my 3 x gt grandfather, grandmother and step-grandmother are buried there although I could not find the graves. My 3 x gt grandfather lived to an age which was not expected in that era (90) so I wasn't looking at the right time space. Thank you also for the John Maddy as seeing that his father was William and came from Glasbury I am sure has relevance to my family tree as they all seem to have come from that area. Joining them up to specific families is the problem. I have hundreds of names but cannot seem to put them into the family lines. Also strange as it may sound, the Meredithus Maddy from Blagdon is on my 1500 family tree as he was born at Dorstone Hereford just over the border from the Glasbury/Llanigon area in the Golden Valley. He was a curate at Blagdon and moved to Woodchurch, Kent and finally ended up in Southwark at the Hospital of St. Thomas. He also left a legacy to the villages of Dorstone and surrounding ones of about £45,000.00 to be held in perpetuity for the poor of the villages and had a village school built for which some of this money was deemed to be used. Thank you so much. That's a great help as I know that some of the later Maddy's (my family included) moved to Bristol and surrounding area. Best wishes Sue in Suffolk

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:41:05 +0100, Sue <[email protected]> wrote: > Please may I ask if there are any Maddys buried at Filton, Bristol and > Bedminster Bristol. Hi Sue, I've looked in the Avon Monumental Inscriptions Finding Aid produced by B & A FHS for MADDY. I didn't find any, but there is an entry for MADEY pre-1700 in Blagdon. So I did a Google search for "Madey""Blagdon" and found the following web page, which has a reference to Meredithus MADEY: http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/locations/DisplayLocation.jsp?locKey=4342 He's probably not one of yours, but nothing ventured nothing gained :-) Josephine

Hi Listers, If you ancestors were among the inhabitants of parishes in the the Forest of Kingswood such as Bitton, St. George, Mangotsfield, Siston, Wick & Abson and St Philip & St Jacob, you may find your family surnames in D. P. Lindegaard's The Kingswood Index. http://www.bristolfamilyhistory.co.uk/kingswood-index It's well worth a look. Josephine

Hi Listers, Thinking about death and burial dates has led me on to thinking about Monumental Inscriptions. There is an Avon Monumental Inscriptions Finding Aid in six parts compiled by Ron Lewin and members of the Bristol & Avon Family History Society on a set of five microfiche: http://www.bafhs.org.uk/bafhs-shop/microfiche Years ago, I bought Part 6 North East Avon in booklet form. Note, this is a finding aid giving surnames names and locations plus a key to years. There is an example of content on the web page given above. Josephine