Doug Hawkes and other responders from "The List", Thanks for the link! What a wonderful resource of information. Somewhere in that list of 250 Thurgaland families is my direct line ;) Many of these names we are familiar with from our research. Thanks to everyone else who responded to my newbie questions, giving me a better understanding of "the list" and how it works. As I mentioned. My interest is in the name THURGALAND. And unlike the name Shoemaker or Smith....it's a very rare name. My biggest interest is to just find someone living who shares my name. See what they might know about their name and where it came from. 1 year ago I found a woman in Australia with a surname of Thurgaland, on the net, but she never replied to my attempted contact. If anyone can find any current information on a living THURGALAND, the info would be greatly appreciated....if you have anything to share on the name or the town. And for those of you who are interested in what I do know of the name, here ya go.... Until 10 yrs ago we didn't even know there was a Village in England called Thurgoland. My fathers father died when my Dad was 6 yrs old. As a result, he knew little or nothing about his name, he knew our ancestors came from England, that was about it. My father spent some 20 yrs searching for another THURGALAND, but never found anyone who shared our name anywhere in the US. So we knew very little until one day, 10 yrs ago, my sister was serving tables (a waitress) and a couple of customers from England said "Tayla, what a beautiful name, what is your Surname"? When she told them they replied "oh, well we live about 20 minutes from The Village of Thurgoland". The next day we got a map of England and there it was!!! 8 yrs later, my 56 yr old father and 92 yr old grandmother took a trip! A visit to THURGOLAND: a village in England. It was 2001. They stayed in the Thurgoland Inn for a week and researched the area church records and walked the cemeteries. There research took them to other villages and towns nearby, as no living Thurgalands could be found in Thurgoland. They did find out much with their limited time, though. They even ate dinner with the Thurgarland family in Rotherham. They got much information, history, and stories from them. They visited an old Thurgoland family Home from the 1600's in Murfield. Across the street from that home was a larger Thurgoland manner home with 11 hearths built in the 17 or 1800's that was torn down for the wood, and other materials, to be used in construction after WWII...it was run down and had been abandoned for 100+ yrs. My father seems to think that our ancestors, The Thurgolanders from Thurgoland, were run out during the Cromwell era. They were dispersed and settled in areas just north of there. Was our family lord of the manner? tax collectors? These are some of the stories we have dug up and been told. Many more bits of information my father has filed away from his trip. We know our roots trace back to this area, this village, these people, but we are missing the connections from then to now....the migration to the US. That's a vague idea of what we know of our family name history. My Dad has a little bit better handle on it than I do, but the facts we think we know are still pretty disjointed. We would welcome any new information or thoughts anyone can share. Since Sheffield is so close to Thurgoland, I thought maybe some of your kind people might have additional bits of information for me. Thank you for your interest, ideas, or help TODD THURGALAND -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Hawkes [mailto:dhawkes@ee.ryerson.ca] Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:53 PM To: Todd Thurgaland Subject: RE: [SHEFF] What newspaper - TODD THURGALAND Hi List, Todd Thurgaland piqued my curiousity about the name THURGALAND. I went to the IGI and found hundreds of entries. Todd go to: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/sear ch_IGI.asp&clear_form=true Enter Region: British Isles. Country: England and type your last name in the Last Name Box and hit enter. You'll have hours of fun sorting them all out. -- Doug Hawkes e-mail: dhawkes@ee.ryerson.ca > > Hello all, > > My name is THURGALAND. I live in Florida. There is a village in N. > England called Thurgoland. It is near Sheffield. I have never found > another living Thurgaland and am interested in anyone past or present > who shared my name. > I know that the name split off into many spellings and there are > Thurgarlands in England. > > My main interest is to just know if anyone knows anything about the name > THURGALAND. > > Thanks to anyone that might respond to my questions > > TODD THURGALAND > > >> > > ==== ENG-SHEFFIELD Mailing List ==== > Visit: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/ > Visit list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ENG-SHEFFIELD-L/ or > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=ENG-SHEFFIELD- > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

Hello Todd, You will probably already know this but I have just been trawling the net and found that Thurgoland Parish Council have a website which mentions on one page the setting up of a local history group which might be of use to you, see link below, http://www.thurgoland.org.uk/index.htm Also whilst searching I came across a THUGALAND website in Florida (which when I opened it I saw a picture of you). I thought I'd found a relative for you until I saw your name. Best Wishes Jeremy Crawshaw (Temp. List Admin) Crookes SHEFFIELD ---------------------------------------------------- Outgoing Mail protected by: NORTON Internet Security 2004 Updated: 21st May 2005 ---------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Thurgaland" <rthurgalandjr@cfl.rr.com> To: <ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 8:14 PM Subject: [SHEFF] RE: Thurgaland - THURGOLAND > Doug Hawkes and other responders from "The List", > > Thanks for the link! What a wonderful resource of information. > Somewhere in that list of 250 Thurgaland families is my direct line ;) > Many of these names we are familiar with from our research. > > Thanks to everyone else who responded to my newbie questions, giving me > a better understanding of "the list" and how it works.