I have the MI's for Hamsterley, Romaldkirk, Gainford and Ingleton if anyone would like a lookup. Please try and be specific Kind Regards David

What are the earliest dates in the MI's? Would there be any for the 1700's, early 1800's? Nancy My web page: http://community.webtv.net/nanspage

Hello List Thought I'd give this another try! I'm hoping that someone with access to the 1891 census might be able to look up the following families William DUDLEY - wife Ann, and their children - possibly at 2, Durham St, Stockton on Tees Thomas DUDLEY - wife Margaret, and several children (and step-children named CROWTHER) possibly at 28 Mitre Street, Stockton on Tees I've 'lost' a James DUDLEY (born Lazonby, Cumberland -1873) who was staying with relatives in Yorkshire in 1881 - and I'm sure that he belongs to one of these 2 families Thanks for any help Jane

Hello My name is Carol Barber and I am a Co-ordinator for the FreeCensus Project, you may already know of the project. It involves transcribing the 1891 Census for Yorkshire from fiche, therefore access to a fiche reader is necessary, and uploaded to the FreeCensus Website for free for view access. At the moment we have 4 pieces uploaded and in the very near future more will be added - the URL is http://freecen.rootsweb.com to see the overall project. We are looking for volunteers who would like to help with the transcriptions. If you would like further information about what is involved, please contact me at the above address. Regards Carol FreeCensus Co-ordinator for WRY http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~westridingyorkshire

Hello Folks Seeking some advice on what we see on the index of wills etc for England, as viewed here in Melbourne Australia. David Bernhard.. it gives date of death and the date of the will, only a couple of months apart in 1937. It says probate granted to two men surnamed Bernhard and a solicitor and the amount (round £88000). That is all typed. Added by hand is "resealed Shanghai 1942" and a new figure which looks like a re-assessment of the benefits. We are OK with it all apart from the "resealed in Shanghai" . Does it mean perhaps the will was challenged, or at least investigated, by someone in Shanghai? Thanks Dawn (Melbourne, Australia)

Hi Reasearching PARNABY family (farmers) living in Co Durham who originated in Bedale Yorkshire, Especially Robert PARNABY born about 1830 married Ann Elizabeth THOMPSON in 1859 in Durham. Kathryn _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

Has anybody got access to the 1861 census for Langton in the parish of Gainford?? I'm looking for a Mary WHITE aged 5 Any help is greatly appreciated Kind regards David Hall

Diane The MI's for St Peter's Croft index two Bell entries. (a) At item 20 (in church interior) "Framed manuscript on pillar" "Rectors of Croft" which includes George Bell 1683, George Bell M.A. 1710; (b) At item 109 it notes Willm Bell d. Feb 14 1756 aged 80 years. Mike Hutchinson Canberra Australa -----Original Message----- From: lizzy johansen [mailto:lizzy.johansen@btinternet.com] Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 2:56 AM To: ENG-DURHAM-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [D'hamYorks] BELL - Croft on Tees If anyone has the MI's for Croft on Tees Churchyard, could I please ask you to see if there are any BELLs listed in the index before I purchase them? Many thanks Diane Johansen ==== ENG-DURHAM-YORKS Mailing List ==== ----------> ALL CAPS or UPPER CASE Letters Permissible Use <---------- When typing a surname? YES! Absolutely! A must! For general text? NO! It's shouting, bad manners (Netiquette) and hard to find surnames. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

If anyone has the MI's for Croft on Tees Churchyard, could I please ask you to see if there are any BELLs listed in the index before I purchase them? Many thanks Diane Johansen

I have received transcriptions of some old family documents. Whilst the information is very muddled and confusing, I have located one item which may help me to locate the burial place for my 3 x great grandfather, James BELL. James was born in Middleton upon Leven in l790. His family moved, at some point, to Hornby near Great Smeaton where his father was the miller. He married there in l8l5 and had 5 children. After the death of his wife, Margaret, James remarried and I have found him on the l85l Census with his much younger "new" wife and baby son. Despite checking numerous post l85l censuses in the area of Gt. Smeaton I have not found any further reference to a once-large BELL "clan" who lived there. This document claims that James "was killed at Shildon Junction and is buried at Middridge near Darlington", but gives no date. Can anyone help with possible cemetery locations where I might start my search? Also "killed at..." would indicate some kind of accident so I wondered whether there might be an index of such things? Grateful thanks Diane Johansen

To all looking for members of the Raine Family I have a Jane Ann Raine born 1851 at Newfield County Durham Married Robert Syson born 1848 at Ingleby Arncliffe Yorks they had 6 children , Elizabeth 1871, Mary J 1872, Robert 1874, John G 1879. George Raine(Syson) 1876 and Henry 1883 in 1881 they were living at Byers Green Co Durham. Ron Syson in Cyprus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph A. & Ruth O. Ryan" <ablee@bellsouth.net> To: <ENG-DURHAM-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [D'hamYorks] Names Interests > No, Pam, I havn't heard that, but it's quite logical. The RAINE family I > have is a collteral line, with information beginning in1927, when James > Raine married Doris COWLING from West Cornforth. All the children > were b. in Cornforth. > Thanks for your posting. > Ruth > > > > ==== ENG-DURHAM-YORKS Mailing List ==== > ~~ The List's Golden Rule ~~ > Keep it clean! Keep it Cool! Treat others on the List like you want them > to treat you . . . . . . . . . and we'll get along just fine!! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

Hi, My Watsons, came from Leeds to Stockton & lived in Blue Post Yard. Later my gt/grandad , Isaac watson lived in Nelson St, Stockton & my gran Rosannah was one of about 11children. She married William Jeavons & they lived in Sadberge Rd, Stockton. Regards from Pat

Hello Ruth My OLIVER connection is a widow ,Mary Oliver (nee Smith) who married my Gt/Grandad Henry Shields ( widower )in 1896 at All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. They had son Edward born in 1895 in Middlesbrough. Previously Henry was b in Liverpool & Mary was born in Chester-le-street or Byker. In 1901 they lived in Tarring St ,Stockton. Where were yours from in Stockton Pat from Stockton

Whilst going through a box of family photographs I came across one of a castle. If I knew where it was taken it could give me clues as to the movements of one particularly elusive family member. I have posted the picture at http://www.staithes.demon.co.uk/where.html <http://www.staithes.demon.co.uk/where> and would be really grateful if anyone could tell me where it is - and hence where a certain Albert Henry Wilson was between 1881 and 1901. If anyone could tell me who the two elegant Edwardian ladies are that would be even better- there was a dark secret in his life in the shape of a barmaid called Maud who has never been identified! Thanks in anticipation John Wilson

Hello Barry, Many thanks for your reply. My details are rather sketchy as I have taken them from the IGI. What I have follows: Jonathan RAINE b. c 1710 Yorkshire M abt 1735 Martha HUNTER b. 30 May 1706 Romaldkirk Dau: Elizabeth RAINE b. 15 Jul 1737 Norgill, Romaldkirk M. 14 May 1759 Yorkshire Richard BRIGNAL b. 24 Jun 1734 Kirkby Ravensworth That is all the detail about the immediate family. I am somewhat lacking in dates/detail. Regards, David from north Cornwall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Kirtley" <bkirtley@bigpond.com> To: <ENG-DURHAM-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [D'hamYorks] Names Interests > Hi David > > I also have some RAINEs from the Teesdale area - mainly Romaldkirk parish - > Mickleton and Lunedale. I have transcribed a number of RAINE entries from > the local parish registers and, if you don't already have it, the details of > your Richard and Elizabeth's mge are : > > Richard of chapelry of Hutton (ie Hutton Magna) > Elizabeth of this parish > By banns > > Unfortunately, this parish did not record the witnesses until 1800, rather > than the usual 1754. > > I didn't see Elizabeth's baptism there. Around the time she would have been > born, there was a John RAINE of Dalton Fields having children and a > (probably older) Thomas RAINE who was a churchwarden in 1743. Could have > been a family who had just moved to the parish and Elizabeth was born just > before they arrived. Hope this helps. >

Many thanks for the several postings I have had regarding a request for an 1891 look up. I now have established that the people I am after were not at that address in 1891. You have also established for me, that there is a Lemington near Newburn and yet another near Alnwick. This opens up a whole new area of research for me. Wthout the advice of some list members, I'd never have worked it out!

Hi, Long time since I posted my Families happy to hear from anyone with similar research interests Researching PIGG North Shields (pre 1835) /Sunderland 1837 onwards KILMARTIN Sunderland 1900+ WALLACE Sunderland /North Tyneside 1880+ METCALF Sunderland 1800's ATTIS/ATAS Sunderland 1770-90's CLARK/CLERK Sunderland 1770-90's STOBBS Sunderland 1820's SVENS(S)ON Sunderland /Sweden 1870's onwards Also researching (Outlaws) HELLENS/HELLINS Sunderland 1800's /North Tyneside/Cumbria/Stockton on Tees SIDNEY Sunderland 1800+ TEASDALE Sunderland 1880+ MARTIN Sunderland 1880+ McDONALD Sunderland1890+/SouthAfrica1890's/Scotland 1800's SMITH Sunderland 1800's Keith

Hi David I also have some RAINEs from the Teesdale area - mainly Romaldkirk parish - Mickleton and Lunedale. I have transcribed a number of RAINE entries from the local parish registers and, if you don't already have it, the details of your Richard and Elizabeth's mge are : Richard of chapelry of Hutton (ie Hutton Magna) Elizabeth of this parish By banns Unfortunately, this parish did not record the witnesses until 1800, rather than the usual 1754. I didn't see Elizabeth's baptism there. Around the time she would have been born, there was a John RAINE of Dalton Fields having children and a (probably older) Thomas RAINE who was a churchwarden in 1743. Could have been a family who had just moved to the parish and Elizabeth was born just before they arrived. Hope this helps. Regards Barry Kirtley Sydney, Australia ----- Original Message ----- > Hi Bill, > I have a Elizabeth RAIN, married to Richard BRIGNEL at Kirkby > Ravensworth, 14 May 1759. > > Any link? > > David from north Cornwall

Hello, Don't remember if I sent this before, if so please excuse me. Ralph and Barbara SMITH, he was born at Richmond, Yorkshire and she was born at West Hartlepool, County Durham, about the 1830s.They were Quakers. They married in the 1850s. In 1878, they were living at 16, Maple Street, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, and their Daughter, Elizabeth SMITH, age 20yrs. married Frederick RENNEY, age 21 yrs. Elizabeth and Frederick were my Grandparents. They were C. of E. Regards, Pam [ RENNEY ] McKinley in Arizona.

Hello all, I am very pleased to announce the arrival of a new publication from the City of York & District Family History Society. The latest volume, in the ongoing 1891 census index project, is a part of the Wetherby Registration District (See list below). This index is on a CD, in .pdf format, requiring 'Acrobat Reader' which is included on the CD. All the Society's publications are now available from www.yorkshireancestors.com, where most major credit cards are accepted. The City of York & District Family History Society covers the modern Archdeaconry of York which stretches from Coxwold, Hovingham and Sherburn in Harfordlythe in the North to Ledsham, Birkin, Selby and Drax in the South.As well as from Bramham, Bilton and Sherburn in Elmet in the West to Huggate and Bubwith in the East. The Society's area overlaps parishes covered in the West by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and in the East by The East Yorkshire Family History Society. 1891 Census Index, Volume 2. Piece Nos. 3522 & 3523, Registration District: Wetherby (part)covers the following places: Angram, Bardsey, Bickerton, Bilton, Boston Spa, Bramham, Clifford, Clifford cum Boston, Clifford Deaf & Dumb School, Collingham, Cowthorpe, Dun Keswick, East Keswick, East Rigton, Harewood, Hutton Wandesley, Kearby, Kirby Overblow, Kirk Deighton, Licklinghall, Linton, Little Ribstone, Long Marston, Micklethwaite, Rigton, Scarcroft, Shadwell, Shadwell Industrial School, Spofforth, Spofforth with Stockeld, Stebbingmoor, Thorner, Thorp Arch, Tockwith, Walton, Weardley, Weeton, Wetherby, Wighill, Wigton, Wike, Wilstrop, Wothersome Volunteers are still needed to help with this and other very useful projects. If you have half an hour a day to spare, please contact me or email to yorkfamilyhistory@btopenworld.com Regards, Janice Wood www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk www.yorkshireancestors.com