In message <015e01c63c2c$ee299d10$07341c40@your6bvpxyztoq>, Edwin and Cornelia Moore <fenenga@connpoint.net> writes >I descend from the relatively large Quaker CROSS family of Woodbridge >and Walton, Suffolk and of Colchester, Essex, however, they covered >more names and areas than I've just listed. as mentioned in earlier >posts, the Cross's entered the Quaker faith in 1655, and remained in it >until at least the early 1800's. I can find some of them right up to >1837 at Colchester Meeting. I have no access to later digests or >records, so the later individuals are often unknown as to which faith >the followed. I have Quakers, Independants, Wesleyan Methodists and >CofE's in my tree. and the non-practicer's who appear out of no-where >in one or another church, presumably after being slapped with a heavy >fine for not attending church. > >I had started to post all the members of the tree back when QBI was new >to me (50 members back then, no idea how many now) and it had just been >mentioned in the Rootsweb's Review, but got too busy to complete it. >still very busy, but in need of a well earned break, so will try to get >my name list out-in about 3 postings. it's rather long. >one problem. some of these people may not be Quaker. I'm trying very >hard to weed them out of this post. I do know they married into my >Cross family in England, or were born into the tree with a Quaker >birthright, or joined the Quaker faith early on, depending on whom we >are discussing.... one instance is that some of the later lines of the >Harris family left the faith, as did some of the later lines of >Cross's. so it's a bit difficult to sort the members from the >non-members. if I accidently put some non-Quakers in the list, it is >from a lack of knowledge of when a specific individual left the faith. >I do not have the digests or records at hand. there may be errors in >spelling of places and occasional errors in spellings of names. >corrections are appreciated. See notes inserted in respect of various families: >ALEXANDER-place not yet known m. Algernon PECKOVER of ? >ALSTON-Bocking & Colchester, Essex >ARNOLD-Stapleford, Herts & and Tallenhall & Waverton, Cheshire >ARTHINGTON-place not yet known m. Mary Ann HARRIS of London >BARBER-place not yet known m. Cecil HARRIS of Hants >BARR_TT of Purleigh, Essex and of Colchester, Essex two different but >intermarried lines which may be related closely to one another. >BASSETT of Leighton Buzzard, Beds QFHS bookstall has a few copies of a book about this family ("The Bassetts: Leighton Buzzard's first family" by M Brown and J Masters). Contact me off list if you want a copy. >BERKLEY of Marleyhill, Lumley and Medomsley, Durham >BERRY-place not yet known m. Victoria MAYO of Colchester >BIRKBECK of Bradford, Yorks >BLAND-place not yet known m. Elizabeth CROSS of Colchester >BOWLEY-place not yet known m. Katherine PECKOVER of ? Christopher Bowly who m. Katherine Elizabeth Peckover was the son of William Crotch Bowly of Cirencester, Glos, and nephew of the temperance campaigner Samuel Bowly (who you will find in the Dictionary of National Biography). Samuel Bowly married my 3xgreat aunt Jane Dearman Shipley >BREWSTER-place not yet known m. ALEXANDER, KING & PECKOVER's >BRIGHT of Rochdale, Lancs and Putney and Kensington, London This appears to be the family of the well known Quaker politician John BRIGHT (1811-1889), who was born in Rochdale. >BULL of India (British subject) m. Frederick BASSETT of Leighton Buzzard >BURD of Inwardleigh and Okehampton >BURNHAM of Colchester, Essex >BUSFIELD of Bingly >BUTCHER-place not yet known m. in Colchester to Elizabeth CROSS of >Colchester >BYAS-place not yet known m. Samuel SHEPPARD of Wartham Upton, Essex >CALLENDER-place not yet known m. George HARRIS of Bingley, Yorks >CAMPS of Norfolk >CAREY of Showlands, Kent >CARTWRIGHT of Lilling, Yorks >CATER of Harwich, Braintree and Colchester, Essex >CATHCART-place not yet known m. Wm BUSFIELD of ? >CAVANAGH of Hythe, Kent >CHAMPNEY of Wendover, Bucks and of London >CHANCE-place not yet known m. Annie HARRIS of Bingley, Yorks >CHARLTON-place not yet known m. Maurice WATERFALL of Halifax, Yorks >CHURCH-place not yet known m. Aubrey CROSS of Sudbury and London >CLARK-place not yet known m. Sarah CROSS of Colchester The best known Quaker Clark family is the shoemakers of Street in Somerset, but of course the name is a common one and this individual could be from a different family >CLUFF-place not yet known m. Wm HARRIS of Stoke Newington >COCHRANE-place not yet known m. Cecil HARRIS of Burton Latimer >COOPER-place not yet known m. a Colchester CROSS granddaughter >CORK of Seasonscott, Gloucester >CROSS(E) of Woodbridge, Walton, Ipswich and Kelshall, Suffolk, >Colchester, Chelmsford and Halstead, Essex, Moorfields, London, and >Stepney, London, Southwork, Surrey, Sudbury, Exeter, Southernhay and >Topsham, Devon, Weymouth, Dorset, Banbury, Oxon, Leeds, Yorks, Finedon, >Northampton, Medway, Kent, Steyning and Hove, Sussex, Brentford and >Wapping, Middlesex. possibly of Framlingham, Suffolk before Quakerism >(before it was created). >DEARMAN of Surrey Anna Elizabeth Dearman who married Alfred Harris at Peckham in 1835 descended from the Dearmans of Braithwaite (near Doncaster). So do I. There is a lot of detail about this family in "The Families of atkinson of Roxby and Dearman of Braithwaite" by Harold W Atkinson (privately published 1933). >DEWHURST of Farnhill and Steeton, Yorks >DOCWRA of Kelvedon, Essex >DOYLE of Co. Cork, Ireland >DRAKE of West Ham >DRAYSON-place not yet known m. Theodore BASSETT of Leighton Buzzard >DURANT of Tunbridge, Kent >DWYER of St. Johns Wells, Kilbery, Ireland >ELSON-place not yet known m. Frances WATERFALL of Skipton, Yorks >ENGLAND-place not yet known m. Wm HARRIS of Hackney >EVERETT of Colchester, Essex >FLETCHER of Greysoutham, Cumberland >FORD-place not yet known m. Muriel HARRIS of Croydon >FORREST of Gloucester and Exeter and Okehampton, Devon >FOX of Falmouth, Cornwall Well known Quaker family (no relation of THE George Fox). There is a detailed account in various editions of Burke's Landed Gentry. >FREEMAN of Woodbridge and Walton, Suffolk-maybe of Colchester, Essex, >also. a possible related to the other Freemans but seperate Freeman of >Harefield, Middlesex, and another of Birmingham, so three different >lines of Freeman's-all connected to my Cross family tree in different >places and time periods. >FRY of Redborough, Gloucester >GARRATT of Roydon, Essex and of Hatfield, Herts-two seperate individuals. >GATES of Bermondsey, Surrey >GOSSAGE of Melbourn, Australia-m. in Hendon, Middlesex to Rbt HARRIS >GRAHAM-place not yet known m. Isabel HARRIS of Norwood >GREENWOOD-place not yet known m. Joseph PECKOVER of ? >GRIDGE-place not yet known m. Lucy PECKOVER of ? >GRIFFITHS-place not yet known m. in Colchester to Edmund CROSS >HALIFAX-place not yet known m. Guy BUSFIELD of ? >HANBURY-place not yet known m. Emily BUSFIELD of ? There is a Quaker Hanbury family, originally from Panteg in Monmouthshire, but spreading to other places. Some branches are covered in Burke's Landed Gentry. >HARLOCK of Rounds, Northampton Raunds? >HARRIS of Stoke Newington, Chelsea and Finsbury, Middlesex, >Holsworthy,and Hallwill, Devon, Leighton Buzzard, Bedford, Norwood, >Upper Norwood, Walworth, Southwark, Croydon, Kingston, Lambeth, >Surbiton and Wimbledon, Surrey, Bradford, Fulford, Oxton Hall and >Bingley, Yorks, St. Clements Eastcheap, Middlesex, Walford, Herefords, >West Hampshire, Fordingbridge and Froyle Place, Hampshire, Kettering, >Hantsford, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, Walthamstow, Essex, London, >Hackney, Billingsgate, and Kensington, London, Wellington, Shortlands, >Blackheath, Dartford, Abbywood and Bromley, Kent, Rotherwick, Hamps, >Bexhill-on Sea, Leicester, Bournemouth (what county/shire is that in?), >Windsor, Berks, Buckingham, Keynsham, Somerset, Carlisle, Cumberland, >Christ Church, Hants, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Brighton and Eastbourne, Sussex. I expect you know about Joseph Foster's 1878 work "Descendants of Samuel Harris of Fordingbridge". >HAWKINS of Colchester, Essex >HEAD of Neithrop and Banbury, Oxon, Frostenden, Suffolk >HOLDER-place not yet known m. Katherine CROSS(E) of Woodbridge >HOMFRAY of Calcutta, India (British Subject) >HOOP(E)-place not yet known m. Sarah LARKESof Ireland (?) residence >when fa d. may be of London. >HOOPER-place not yet known m. Lois WATERFALL of Darrington, Yorks >HUDD-place not yet known m. Sally CROSS of Colchester? London? Surrey? >her parents lived in all three places. For some members of the Birkbeck, Fox, Hanbury, Harris, and perhaps some of the others, see S B Foster, The Pedigree of Wilson of High Wray and Kendal (2nd edition 1890). -- Chris Pitt Lewis

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Pitt Lewis" <chris@cjpl.demon.co.uk> To: <QUAKER-BRITISH-ISLES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [Q-B-I] a long list of surnames A-H snip > See notes inserted in respect of various families: >>BASSETT of Leighton Buzzard, Beds > > QFHS bookstall has a few copies of a book about this family ("The > Bassetts: Leighton Buzzard's first family" by M Brown and J Masters). > Contact me off list if you want a copy. thank you, Chris, I stumbled across this book on Abebooks.com just before Christmas so have had it for a few months. it's a wonderful little book. >>BOWLEY-place not yet known m. Katherine PECKOVER of ? > > Christopher Bowly who m. Katherine Elizabeth Peckover was the son of > William Crotch Bowly of Cirencester, Glos, and nephew of the temperance > campaigner Samuel Bowly (who you will find in the Dictionary of National > Biography). Samuel Bowly married my 3xgreat aunt Jane Dearman Shipley I know nothing of the Bowley's, so this is a great help. (so who was the temperance man William Noble?) >>BRIGHT of Rochdale, Lancs and Putney and Kensington, London > > This appears to be the family of the well known Quaker politician John > BRIGHT (1811-1889), who was born in Rochdale. you are the second one to suggest this. they tie into my tree in 1852, so it's a bit later than John. >>CLARK-place not yet known m. Sarah CROSS of Colchester > The best known Quaker Clark family is the shoemakers of Street in > Somerset, but of course the name is a common one and this individual could > be from a different family my Clark was Samuel Clark who m. 19 Oct 1790 in Colchester, Essex to Sarah Cross. they had 3 known children, Elizabeth, Isaac and Joseph. they disappear from Colchester Meeting, but I don't know if they left the faith. the Cross's were, among other occupations, shoemakers and cordwainers. >>DEARMAN of Surrey > > Anna Elizabeth Dearman who married Alfred Harris at Peckham in 1835 > descended from the Dearmans of Braithwaite (near Doncaster). So do I. > There is a lot of detail about this family in "The Families of atkinson of > Roxby and Dearman of Braithwaite" by Harold W Atkinson (privately > published 1933). I was unaware of this publication unless you mentioned this in a previous correspondence with you and my addled brain has forgot...maybe you did. there's a vague memory... >>FOX of Falmouth, Cornwall > > Well known Quaker family (no relation of THE George Fox). There is a > detailed account in various editions of Burke's Landed Gentry. I'll have to check that at Ancestry. I had great luck with another line in Burke's landed gentry-name slips my memory. Robert Fox m. in 1867 in Luton, Beds to Ellen Mary Bassett. they had 3 known children, Lillian Isabella, Robert B. and Naomi. > >>HANBURY-place not yet known m. Emily BUSFIELD of ? > > There is a Quaker Hanbury family, originally from Panteg in Monmouthshire, > but spreading to other places. Some branches are covered in Burke's Landed > Gentry. my Hanbury was Noel Hanbury and I know nothing more about him except that he m. Emily Mary Busfield. > >>HARLOCK of Rounds, Northampton > > Raunds? yes, I think so-as you are the second person to suggest this. > I expect you know about Joseph Foster's 1878 work "Descendants of Samuel > Harris of Fordingbridge". > no, I'm not aware of that one except as a mention (if memory is correct) in the book "Richard and The Square Mile" by Tindall Collins, another book on the descendants of Samuel Harris. I'd love a real copy of these books but they're exceedingly elusive. > For some members of the Birkbeck, Fox, Hanbury, Harris, and perhaps some > of the others, see S B Foster, The Pedigree of Wilson of High Wray and > Kendal (2nd edition 1890). another book I'm not aware of. I'll dig around and see if I can find a copy within my meager budget... the way the Harris line pans out, my tree will fall over from being so heavy on that side! the Harris's kept busy and left a paper trail, the Cross's were a little more mundane...and harder to research except within the Quaker records. many thanks for all the notes and information. > -- > Chris Pitt Lewis > > > ============================== > 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 > >