Donna, Pauline, all, I'm very interested in history either side of the period of Civil Wars. Not quite Sheffield but BRADFIELD in particular where BROOMHEADs were named in almost a Fifth of Parish Register events up to 1630s. When PRs recommenced in 1660s, they were hardly any Broomheads. I believe the most likely explanation is forced migration - if Bradfield was Parliamentarian as I understand Sheffield was then Catholics (or Royalists, obviously) would have been very unwelcome. There are several Broomhead Marriages & Burials around Hope Valley after 1660 for whom no local Baptism record can be found - I such Marriage/Burials and confirmed Baptism PRs do not include the individual. Such people were most likely Baptised elsewhere - tho unfortunately there are also a few Parishes whose Registers are incomplete or lost from 1600-1630, so local Baptism may have occured. I'm probably directly descended from HENRY BROOMHEAD b 19 Mar 1605/6 Bradfield, married ALICE COATES in 1633 Hope. Interested to hear from people with similar understanding or links. best wishes, Mike Broomhead  (Manchester). --- On Tue, 4/1/11, Pauline Bell <pbell7@btinternet.com> wrote: From: Pauline Bell <pbell7@btinternet.com> Subject: [SHEFF] Research 1600-1650 To: eng-sheffield@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, 4 January, 2011, 12:07 Hello Donna I have done some family history research in locality of Sheffield relating to this period. Can tell you sources used etc. Best wishes Pauline Bell ----- Original Message ----- From: <eng-sheffield-request@rootsweb.com> To: <eng-sheffield@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:00 AM Subject: ENG-SHEFFIELD Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5 > > > When replying always change the subject line to that of the individual > message which you are responding to. > > Please "SNIP" generously, don't repeat everything again.  Including > everything will inflate the size of the next Digest unnecessarily and > could create problems for those who are not on broadband. > > > Today's Topics: > >   1. Bingham pre 1650 (Donna G B Munger) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:28:21 -0800 (PST) > From: Donna G B Munger <dgbmunger@att.net> > Subject: [SHEFF] Bingham pre 1650 > To: eng-sheffield@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <6121.68299.qm@web83901.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi Everyone; > >   Since many folks are restating their interests, I shall pose the > following > question most germane to my research: > Is anyone on the Sheffield List researching anything re Sheffield during > the > time period 1600-1650? If so, I'd very much appreciate knowing. > > Cheers, > Donna Bingham Munger > dgbmunger@att.net > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ENG-SHEFFIELD list administrator, send an email to > ENG-SHEFFIELD-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ENG-SHEFFIELD mailing list, send an email to > ENG-SHEFFIELD@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SHEFFIELD-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ENG-SHEFFIELD Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5 > ******************************************* > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SHEFFIELD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message