You can also find Dade registers in Leicestershire too, esp in Melton Mowbray. Hope everyone has a lovely New Year. Julie > From: djmarriott@dccnet.com> To: nottsgen@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:45:17 -0800> Subject: Re: [NTT] Dade lists> > You may not have heard this too often from me Roy but thank you for the > information. I had heard of the lists but not really had cause to > investigate them. I shall now.> > David Marriott> Delta BC Canada> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <nottsgen-request@rootsweb.com>> To: <nottsgen@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:01 PM> Subject: NOTTSGEN Digest, Vol 1, Issue 20> > > > > Message: 6> > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:46:33 -0000> > From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com>> > Subject: Re: [NTT] England & Wales Christening Records> > To: <NOTTSGEN@rootsweb.com>> > Message-ID: <495BBE09.15436.2B0EF3F@localhost>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII> >> > From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com>> >> >> I think Phil has your answer, given Mansfields close proximately to> >> Yorkshire> >>> >> Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK)> >>> >>> >> Chris,> >>> >> This may well be an example of the Dade Parish> >> rtegisters, which idea started in Yorkshire.> >>> >> <http://www.pontefractfhs.org.uk/Dade_registers.htm>> >>> >> is a link which explains more. >> >> > I rather thought everyone knew about the famous Dade Registers. I have> > written about them enough times on many lists and in the family history> > magazines.> >> > The Rev William Dade was a far-sighted Yorkshire clergymen and> > incumbent of a number of Yorkshire parishes. He was one of very few> > clerics who actually foresaw that there was a time when ordinary people> > might want to trace their ancestry, so he instituted a system of record-> > keeping that gave much greater detail then the usual perfunctory entries,> > especially for baptismal entries. In a classic Dade entry you get a 3-> > generation family tree back to the grandfathers and I have even seen> > ones that give a 4-generation tree.> >> > If you come across a Dade entry, then they are an absolute goldmine!> >> > The Dade registers are principally found in Yorkshire but Dade's> > influence spread to several contiguous counties like Lancashire,> > Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. One or two are even found in Essex> > and Surrey.> >> > Dade registers exist from circa the mid-1770s up until 1812, when a new> > system was introduced under Rose's Act that, ironically, actually gave> > less information than Dade's entries did. There were similar registers in> > Durham and Northumberland from the mid-1790s called Barrington> > Registers after Bishop Shute Barrington who copied the Dade style.> >> > I can confirm from a list in my possession that Mansfield was one of eight> > Notts parishes that had Dade-style registers. The others were Beeston,> > Coddington, East Stoke, Finley, Sutton Bonnington, Syeston and> > Teversal.> >> > --> > Roy Stockdill> > Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer> > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:> > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html> >> > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,> > and that is not being talked about."> > OSCAR WILDE> >> > > > Notts Surname List> > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get a bird’s eye view of the world with Multimap http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/115454059/direct/01/