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Hi list, further records have been added to the Yesterdays site, link below, including huge numbers of school admissions with pupils shown to be from all over the British Isles. Also further Wills and Settlement Examinations plus much more. If link fails Google Yesterdays Journey. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

Hi list, further records added to Yesterdays site, link below. Includes Apprenticeship records for Melbourne Derbyshire with Masters shown to be from Staffs and Warwickshire. Also list of apprentices from Marston Montgomery and Netherseal plus other areas. Convicts transported after being found guilty by Quarter Sessions in Derbyshire 1837 are also an addition. Gives names of "victims" and what was taken from their property. If link fails Google Yesterdays Journey mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

Hi list, further Wills added to Yesterdays site, link below. If link fals Google Yesterdays Journey. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

Hi list, further Wills and Miscellany added to Yesterday site, Wills for Derbyshire, Lancs, and Miscellany including Wales, Staffs, Warwicks and America plus others. Link below, if it fails Google Yesterdays Journey. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

Hi list, further Wills, Transportation, Miscellany, School admissions, Settlement Removal and illegitimacy records added for persons throughout Britain, plus much more. Link below, if it fails Google Yesterdays Journey. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm<http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Espire/Yesterday/index.htm>

Has any one any advice on how to find a soldier in world war 2 I need to find his enrolmentWhen and Where. Beryle Mason

Hi list, more records added to site, link below. Includes persons transported having been found guilty in Quarter Sessions courts in Derbyshire. If link fails Google Yesterdays Journey. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

Hi list, thousands more names added to Yesterdays site, link below. Includes over a thousand Derby Wills, plus Wills for Staffordshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Hampshire, Yorkshire. Lots of Kent under Kent Miscellany, bits under Suffolk, Surrey, Shropshire, London and Notts Miscellany. Herts, Northants, Wilts, Warwicks, Lancs, Lincs, Notts and Yks mentioned in references under Ashover Settlement Examinations. If link fails Google Yesterdays Journey. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm<http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Espire/Yesterday/index.htm>

Hi list, further updates added to Yesterdays site, link below, or Google "Yesterdays Journey" Includes Wills for Derby, Alfreton, Ashbourne, Brassington, Crich, Cromford. Settlement Examinations for Scarcliffe and North Wingfield. Law and Order for Youlgreave, Bakewell, Edensor, Winster. Parwich Illegitimacy. mike. -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

Seeking Albert Edward SCUDDER, Victor Alfred MORRIS, Frederick GREEN and Joan Mary CARTER or their families who were friends of Harry Frank VALENTINE who died at Westminster in June 1958. I am trying to locate Harry Frank Valentine's wife Dorothy VALENTINE. Any information regarding their marriage, Dorothy whereabouts or possible children would be much appreciated. Pam Valentine

Replied off-list as concerns possible living persons. Allen On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:12:40 +0100, pam valentine <pam@pamval.id.au> wrote: > Seeking Albert Edward SCUDDER, Victor Alfred MORRIS, Frederick GREEN and > Joan Mary CARTER or their families who were friends of Harry Frank > VALENTINE who died at Westminster in June 1958. I am trying to locate > Harry Frank Valentine's wife Dorothy VALENTINE. Any information > regarding their marriage, Dorothy whereabouts or possible children would > be much appreciated. > > Pam Valentine > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRITISH-CONNECTIONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Hi list, further Wills added, especially for Derby, Belper, Chesterfield, Brampton, Buxton, Whittington, Bakewell, Middleton by Wirksworth, Heanor and Melbourne but another 40 areas covered also. Link below, if any trouble with link Google Yesterdays Journey. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm<http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Espire/Yesterday/index.htm>

Hi list, further updates added with Derby Wills and Administrations. Google" Yesterdays Journey " if link below fails. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm<http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Espire/Yesterday/index.htm>

The Rich Family Association has been running a Y-chromosome DNA project for men with the Rich/Ritch/Reich/Reach surname for a few years. We now have data on 83 men representing at least 15 distinct family lines in the US. We also have 11 unmatched participants who may represent 11 more families in the US, Jamaica and South Africa. We have been unable to make any connection between our Rich families and the UK, except for our South African Rich whose ancestor was Thomas Rich born in Davenport, England in 1707. We have been raising money to pay for DNA testing which will broaden our reach and would like to sponsor some Rich men in Britain. We are using DNA Heritage (_http://www.dnaheritage.com/_ (http://www.dnaheritage.com/) ) which operates in both England and the US. Their 43 marker test is going for $149 US when initiated through our project. I'm not sure how that translates into pounds or other currencies. If any of you have any good ideas about how we can contact more Riches in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa, please let me know. Dick Rich in Whitman, Massachusetts, USA

Hi list, further school records added to Yesterdays site, link below, (or Google Yesterdays Journey) .The new records can be found under Wirksworth, Tibshelf and New Mills. Pupils from all over the British Isles listed. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm<http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Espire/Yesterday/index.htm>

Hi list, for those with English ancestors, the Yesterdays site, link below, has been updated with thousands of new school admission records showing pupils from all over the British Isles and beyond. Many other records also added. mike -- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm<http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Espire/Yesterday/index.htm>

Allen Williams wrote: "How do, Pat The last Pindell (spelt like that) appears to have died in 1840 in Windsor Registration District (Berkshire), according to freeBMD. Fortunately, this is just after Civil Registration began (July 1, 1837), but this is equally unfortunate, as there is therefore no easy way of tracing this character's antecedants by this route. Mar 1840 PINDELL Sarah Windsor 6 207 It has been suggested that the name originates in Lancashire and derives from what is now Pendle Hill near Colne. This is possible, and I have found one baptism on LANOPC: 1 Aug 1613 Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England Edmunde son to Hughe Pendell of Manchester plus two more "Pendle" family entries. However, if we look at www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk in 1881, "Pindell" and "Pendell" are too rare to be covered, but we see that the Pendle surname is concentrated in East Anglia, and a quick look on freeBMD for Pendle (and names like it) confirms this. But, there also seem to be enclaves around Faringdon in North Berkshire (now part of Oxfordshire) and in the "Three Choirs" area (Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester). I therefore strongly doubt the Pendle Hill theory. People named after that area are called Pendleton, after the town, not Pendle after the Hill. The name Pendleton is strongly Lancastrian but Pendle, surprisingly, isn't. But then, there is always the possibility that Pindell morphed into Pinder (there is a phonetic similarity), and Pinder is characteristically a Yorkshire name. Very confusing. No doubt you have collected as much as you can about Thomas's activities in the colonies. What he did there might be a clue as to what he did here, and that might help pin down where he came from. Similarly if you can determine why he went to Maryland, and who with, it may assist in locating him here. If he went in the 1600s, he may well have been simply seeking his fortune, or he may have been escaping something here. Unfortunately, there is no One-Name Study on Pindell, Pendle, etc., so that is not a viable route. If you have not done so already, I would post a message on the boards (if they exist) for Norfolk and Suffolk, and maybe Essex, to see if there is anyone with information about the Pindell/Pendell surname around the time of Thomas's emigration. I would also try the Berkshire site (if there is one, again) specifically to see if anyone can shed light on the "last of the Pindells" lass above who died in Windsor in 1840. What you should certainly do, is go to www.freeBMD.org.uk and search for "All Types" of entry from Sep 1837 to (say) 1960. You will see that (particularly in the earlier years) there is a lot of Faringdon, Abingdon, Wantage and Reading events (although there are quite a lot of East Anglian ones, too, but very few from "up north"). All four named places are in (old) Berkshire. Since 1974, the first three have been in Oxfordshire (Vale of the White Horse District). My bet is that your man may well have come from round here. Try the Berkshire and maybe Oxfordshire lists to see if anyone is looking into Pendells from this area at around the relevant date. I don't know how well up you are on British history in the 17th century, but that is when we had our Civil War. An extremely bloody affair, it could well have prompted a reasonably well-off individual to cash in his chips and get out of the country. The area around Oxford was staunchly Royalist (it is where Charles I had his wartime capital - London was staunchly Parliamentarian). If your chap was of Puritan inclination, he wouldn't have found it easy during or in the years running up to the war. If he was a Royalist, he'd have been fine, but with the Parliamentary victory, that would have changed. Either way, he may have decided to get out at some stage of the proceedings. I hope this is of some help. Apologies if I am teaching grandma how to suck eggs. Best wishes Allen Sale Cheshire" ============================================================ Thanks, Allen, and no problem! I'll look into these resources and see what I can find from this side of the Great Pond in the US of A! -- Pat McCoy, M.S.Addiction Psychology Slow Down and Enjoy Your Garden!

How do, Pat The last Pindell (spelt like that) appears to have died in 1840 in Windsor Registration District (Berkshire), according to freeBMD. Fortunately, this is just after Civil Registration began (July 1, 1837), but this is equally unfortunate, as there is therefore no easy way of tracing this character's antecedants by this route. Mar 1840 PINDELL Sarah Windsor 6 207 It has been suggested that the name originates in Lancashire and derives from what is now Pendle Hill near Colne. This is possible, and I have found one baptism on LANOPC: 1 Aug 1613 Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England Edmunde son to Hughe Pendell of Manchester plus two more "Pendle" family entries. However, if we look at www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk in 1881, "Pindell" and "Pendell" are too rare to be covered, but we see that the Pendle surname is concentrated in East Anglia, and a quick look on freeBMD for Pendle (and names like it) confirms this. But, there also seem to be enclaves around Faringdon in North Berkshire (now part of Oxfordshire) and in the "Three Choirs" area (Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester). I therefore strongly doubt the Pendle Hill theory. People named after that area are called Pendleton, after the town, not Pendle after the Hill. The name Pendleton is strongly Lancastrian but Pendle, surprisingly, isn't. But then, there is always the possibility that Pindell morphed into Pinder (there is a phonetic similarity), and Pinder is characteristically a Yorkshire name. Very confusing. No doubt you have collected as much as you can about Thomas's activities in the colonies. What he did there might be a clue as to what he did here, and that might help pin down where he came from. Similarly if you can determine why he went to Maryland, and who with, it may assist in locating him here. If he went in the 1600s, he may well have been simply seeking his fortune, or he may have been escaping something here. Unfortunately, there is no One-Name Study on Pindell, Pendle, etc., so that is not a viable route. If you have not done so already, I would post a message on the boards (if they exist) for Norfolk and Suffolk, and maybe Essex, to see if there is anyone with information about the Pindell/Pendell surname around the time of Thomas's emigration. I would also try the Berkshire site (if there is one, again) specifically to see if anyone can shed light on the "last of the Pindells" lass above who died in Windsor in 1840. What you should certainly do, is go to www.freeBMD.org.uk and search for "All Types" of entry from Sep 1837 to (say) 1960. You will see that (particularly in the earlier years) there is a lot of Faringdon, Abingdon, Wantage and Reading events (although there are quite a lot of East Anglian ones, too, but very few from "up north"). All four named places are in (old) Berkshire. Since 1974, the first three have been in Oxfordshire (Vale of the White Horse District). My bet is that your man may well have come from round here. Try the Berkshire and maybe Oxfordshire lists to see if anyone is looking into Pendells from this area at around the relevant date. I don't know how well up you are on British history in the 17th century, but that is when we had our Civil War. An extremely bloody affair, it could well have prompted a reasonably well-off individual to cash in his chips and get out of the country. The area around Oxford was staunchly Royalist (it is where Charles I had his wartime capital - London was staunchly Parliamentarian). If your chap was of Puritan inclination, he wouldn't have found it easy during or in the years running up to the war. If he was a Royalist, he'd have been fine, but with the Parliamentary victory, that would have changed. Either way, he may have decided to get out at some stage of the proceedings. I hope this is of some help. Apologies if I am teaching grandma how to suck eggs. Best wishes Allen Sale Cheshire On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:20:39 -0000, <p.a.mccoy@att.net> wrote: > > > Allen writes: > > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:30:42 -0000 > From: "allen williams" <gerald.williams23@ntlworld.com> > Subject: Re: [BRITISH-CONNECTIONS] Any British Residents Here on This > Forum? > To: british-connections@rootsweb.com, > british-connections-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <op.u2qjdgs0o2u7rf@one> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Shoot > > Allen > Sale Cheshire > ====================================================================== > > Hi, Allen. > > I've been trying to solve a genealogical "brick wall" regarding my > patriarch, Thomas PINDELL. > > There are records of him in colonial Maryland during the 1600's to > 1710 but I have been unable to track down his family origins in > Europe before he turned up in the British Colonies. > > Any hope in solving this mystery? > > Thanks! > -- > > Pat McCoy, M.S. > Addiction Psychology > > Slow Down and Enjoy Your Garden! > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRITISH-CONNECTIONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/