Hi dave I have been researching my mitchell family side for quite a while but had to come to a stop as their are that many mitchells mine are west riding yorkshire if i can help in any way please email me regards Les ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Rossiter <Dave.R@btinternet.com> To: <MITCHELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [MITCHELL] English Mitchells > At 17:00 24/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >As I am only looking for Mitchells in England, I am curious as to whether > this list is just for American Mitchells as I haven't seen any letters from > anyone searching over there Yvonne. > > > > Hi Yvonne, > > There are a very few 'English' Mitchell researchers on the list, myself > included. > > My branch is firmly rooted in Northamptonshire, and I have been able to go > back to one James Mitchell, who appears in the parish of Cranford St. John > in around 1765 having married Sarah Smith in the neighbouring village of > Sudborough. He was parish clerk for nearly 40 years until his death in > 1803, so he could read and write, but was described as a servant in the > 1772 militia list. > > As far as I can tell James was not born in any of the nearby parishes, so I > have two possible theories: - > He could be a son of the rector of Orlingbury who was in residence at about > the correct time and only 8 miles away, but baptised in another area. > or > He was an itinerant herdsman, possibly from Scotland, who stopped off > before/after delivering cattle to market in somewhere like Kettering or > even London - long distance droving did occur around this time. My maternal > Grandmother used to insist there was a connection to the McInnes clan, but > of course that may only have been heresay. > > Out of interest, I do run a Mitchell_UK list on the Yahoo Groups service, > but it is always incredibly quiet. > > All the best > > Dave Rossiter > > > ==== MITCHELL Mailing List ==== > To contact the list administrator, please send a message to: Mitchell-admin@rootsweb.com. > >