Okay, I can't resist such a good offer as all those Pikes <G> Eliz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike W" <casofilia@xtra.co.nz> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] PIKE//PORTER | Hello Fellow Wiltshire Descendants. | | A while ago I was looking for a connection between the PIKE family, who had | a PORTER as mother, and my PIKEs. This came from WiltsBMD births of PIKEs | registered in Malmesbury. My connection is that my gran was a Malmesbury | PIKE. | | I was put onto the PYKE family from Great Somerford as the childrens' names | turned up in 1861 as PYKE from Great Somerford. Then Daphne Guthrie sent me | some information from a book on Great Somerford on the PIKE family from | there, whose name had changed to PYKE. I think that that changed c 1730 | with a change in incumbent. | | I was interested and so have used Hugh Wallis' site, FreeBMD and WiltsBMD | and the censi to do a family tree of the Great Somerford PIKE/PYKEs. It has | helped to sort out our "unknown" Malmesbury PIKEs from the BMD, most of whom | are accounted for as Great Somerford PYKEs (misspelled). The later ones | were Great Somerford PIKEs, the PYKE name seems slowly to have changed back | to PIKE in the middle of the 19C. | | If anyone would like a copy of the family tree material I have gathered from | the public sources I am happy to provide it. Other names that appear in any | quantity are:- BODMAN; BROOKES; COOKE, FREEGARD; GROVES; ILES (with | variants); LLOYD; SIMMONS; SKULL; TANNER; WAIT and WARNER. The counties | covered are Wiltshire and Gloucestershire (Marshfield). | | If someone on this list is also on the Gloucestershire list (I'm not) feel | free to "pass it on". | | All the best. | | Mike, on a sunny wintery July day in Whakatane, NZ. | | | ==== ENG-WILTSHIRE Mailing List ==== | Use the link within a GATEWAYED message to reply. Message board users are rarely subscribed to the list. | | ============================== | 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 | | |