"History of the Bartletts of Pendomer" http://www.bartlett.to/Pend0.htm &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Interesting to see the surname spelling below as BARKLETTE, maybe pronounced once as BARKLEE, BARCLAY, or BARTLE etc. Men of the sea? Edward [Ted] pronounced the BARTLETT surname as BARTLE in his Uncle Mose stories. "Uncle Lij BARTLE" http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Elijah+BARTLETT%22+Newfoundland&fr=ush1-mail Cheers, Lloyd &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& --- Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas et al: > > My research would indicate that Robert and Anne Gillingham who > were the > Bartlett servants at Waterston may have been descendants of the > Lydlinch > Gillinghams. There is a Lydlinch baptism for a Robert > Gillingham on > November 24, 1658, son of Nicholas Gillingham. I have searched > through the > marriages and burials and there is no sign of this Robert again. > Could he > have left Lydlinch and moved to the Puddletown area? If so, the > Robert > Gillingham who was the servant to the Bartletts at Waterson may > have been > his descendant. The first names of Robert and Ann Gillingham's > children are > similiar to the Lydlinch Gillinghams, ie. Elizabeth, Nicholas > and William. > > If this is true, could the same be true for some of the Bartlett > family? > ie. could a Bartlett have left the Puddletown area and settled > in the > Lydlinch/Bagber/Sturminster Newton area perhaps in the early > 1500s? There > was a John "Barklette" who appears in the Lydlinch burials for > October 05, > 1570, no age given. Perhaps the Bartlett/Gillingham association > is older > than the marriages of the two Gillingham sisters to Bartletts. > > I know it's nothing conclusive, however, I don't think we should > rule it out > as a possibility. Only more research will tell for sure. > > Food for thought... > > Regards > Robert > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas R Cole" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 11:19 PM > Subject: Re: [DOR] Fw: Bartlett/ Gillingham > > > > The original quest here on this thread was for Bartlett/ > Gillingham > > information in the Sturminster Newton area. > > > > The sisters Anne GILLINGHAM and Eleanor Gillingham were bapt > in Lydlinch > in > > 1726 and 1728 respectively; both were married in Sturminster > Newton 1747 > to > > Henry BARTLETT in Sturminster Newton and to Joseph Bartlett > respectively. > > The girls were the children of Richard Gillingham alias FARR > and his wife > > Dorcas. When baptised in 1675 at Lydlinch, Richard and his > father Nicholas > > Gillingham alias Farr were from Bagber. > > > > Re: Bartlett of the Sturminster Newton area - Mary married > 1745 to > Hezekiah > > GUY. Another Mary Bartlett, daughter of Henry & Ann > (Gillingham) as above > > married in 1780 in Manston to a more junior Hezekiah Guy. > Correspondence > > still extant reveal that this Mary junior was living in Broad > Oake in > 1785. > > Priscilla Bartlett, another daughter of the above Henry & Ann > (Gillingham) > > married 1781 to John NEWMAN. > > > > What is interesting to note, at least for my personal study, > is that all > > surnames mentioned above were in the Newfoundland trade. If > there is a > > connection with Bartlett of Puddletown, Pendomer and > Hardington > Mandeville, > > Somerset, that would be interesting but to date no such > connection is > made. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com