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Thanks, Peter SUFFOLK List Admin. -------------------------------------------------- Edward CROWE born 4 Feb 1791 - 18 Feb 1871 UFFORD, Suffolk This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: KarenBoxall Surnames: CROWE Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8798/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Looking for parents of Edward Crowe born in Ufford, Suffolk he married first Ann Broom because she died he then married her sister, Hannah Broom. Any information on the Crowe family would be useful as Im tryig to put a Crowe Tree together of Suffolk Regards Karen -------------------------------------------------- Edward CROWE born 4 Feb 1791 - 18 Feb 1871 UFFORD, Suffolk This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: KarenBoxall Surnames: CROWE Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8798/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Looking for parents of Edward Crowe born in Ufford, Suffolk he married first Ann Broom because she died he then married her sister, Hannah Broom. Any information on the Crowe family would be useful as Im tryig to put a Crowe Tree together of Suffolk Regards Karen -------------------------------------------------- Re: Edward CROWE born 4 Feb 1791 - 18 Feb 1871 UFFORD, Suffolk This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lulupat Surnames: Crowe Classification: birth Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8798.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Closest one I can find. Just a couple of miles away. parents: Edward Baldry Crow,? Fanny Lockart name: Edward Baldry Crow gender: Male baptism/christening date: 15 Oct 1792 baptism/christening place: MELTON,SUFFOLK,ENGLAND father's name: Edward Baldry Crow mother's name: Fanny Lockart indexing project (batch) number: C06270-1 system origin: England-ODM source film number: 919623 -------------------------------------------------- Re: PARKHURST This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: debbiepeesjones Surnames: PARKHURST Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/129.269.271/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Do you still need information on PHEBE PARKHURST? I have a book on the Parkhurst Family that was published in 1897. It lists Phebe Parkhurst. She was born in England, married Thomas Arnold in 1640. George Parkhurst was the founder of the family in the US. He came from England on or about 1635. He brought at least two children with him - George, Jr., and Phebe. They lived in Watertown, Mass in 1642. He was probably a man of means for he owned a large tract of land, besides a homestead of twelve acres. In 1643 he was admitted freeman. He married his second wife, Susanna, widow of John Simpson, sold his Watertown estate and moved to Boston. They had no children. Thomas Arnold came to this country in may of 1635. He was admitted freeman in 1640. In Oct of 1651 he was fined 20 shillings by the court for offense against the law concerning baptism. April 2nd, 1654, he was fined 5 pds for neglecting public worship twenty days. April 2nd, 1656 he was fined ten pds for neglecting public worship 40 days, and his land was levied upon to pay it. Mr. Arnold seems to have inherited hsi study independence from his ancestors. Arnold was able to trace his ancestry back through seventeen generations to YNIR, KING OF GWENTLAND A.D. 1100, who was a direct descendant of WESSEX, who was King of the Britons 688 to 728. No information on children that I can find in the book. Let me know if you received this information. Debbie Jones [email protected] 5/2012 -------------------------------------------------- Missing person This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: joakawoofa Surnames: Holmes Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8799/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm look for any information regarding a man called 'George' who we believed live in Norfolk, England. He would of known a lady called Muriel Wright or Holmes and had a son with her. -------------------------------------------------- Re: Edward CROWE born 4 Feb 1791 - 18 Feb 1871 UFFORD, Suffolk This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: KarenBoxall Surnames: Crowe Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8798.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for finding this information. -------------------------------------------------- Re: STEGGLES This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dawnb8170 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/69.158.163.326/mb.ashx Message Board Post: hi i believe these are my ancestors. I am trying to find descendants MANNINGS in Wales. -------------------------------------------------- Re: Harriet Pretty This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Lindacalvert11 Surnames: Pretty Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8797.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, In the England & Wales Criminal Registers 1791-1892 there's a record for a Hannah PRETTY with an alternative name of Harriet PRETTY submitted by patriciafinnigan 31/12/2011. Suffolk Assizes 1st April 1851 Held at Bury St. Edmunds. Offence - Larceny by servant. Imprisonment 6 months. Best wishes Linda -------------------------------------------------- Re: Harriet Pretty This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dabriggs_1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8797.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Linda Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure that this is the same person although there are several things in common. The Beccles Gaol was a small town lockup local to where Harriet lived. Bury St Edmunds seems to be to far away. I have seen mention of a document listing inmates at Beccles but have had no luck locating it. -------------------------------------------------- Re: STEGGLES This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: PeterDeAth Surnames: STEGGALS Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/69.158.163.326.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Dawn, Wow, that was posted over 12 years ago! My STEGGALS ancestors hail from Haughley but my GG GF William STEGGALS was born in Great Finborough Suffolk in Mar 1776. He married Frances FENDICK in 1803 in Northwold, Norfolk and died there 1860, having been the Parish Clerk for many years. What STEGGALS ancestry do you have and where are they from? The Haughley ancestors I have are: John STEGGALS 1735-1817 John STEGGAL 1709-1757 John STEGGAL about 1678-1757 Note the surname is spelt variously - i.e. STYGAL STEGGLES STEGGELS STEGGAL Do we have a match? I have no knowledge of MANNING in Cardiff. Regards -------------------------------------------------- Re: THOMAS B. FRENCH born 1820 Haverhill (Risbridge) Suffolk This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kevinf51 Surnames: French Haverhill Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8191.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi ELL in Spain, this is Kevin French in Cape Town. My great great grandfather is the older brother of the Thomas French you are referring to. He moved to Norwich and married a Mary Middleton and their son Thomas John went to the Kimberley diamond mines in the early 1870s and that how I got to be here. I am researching French family in Haverhill. Are you? I'd like to link up with anyone researching the French's there. Please let me know. Regards Kevin French -------------------------------------------------- Re: Suffolk Yeomanry / Loyal Suffolk Hussars photos This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Gobbitt Surnames: GOBBITT, SHARPE Classification: military Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8671.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: As noted previously, the uniforms and history of the Suffolk Yeomanry (SY) in the 1900s are featured in the Aug. 2005 Bulletin of the Military Historical Society. Lance Corporal Charles Harry Gordon SHARPE of Thetford (1885-1949) is mentioned on page 27 of that edition, being one of five SY members to receive the Coronation Medal in 1911. His service record shows that he attended all the annual training camps of the SY from 1902 to 1914 (WO 364/3649; Ancestry image 15888): 1902 Lowestoft 13 to 29 May 1903 Bromeswell Heath [near Woodbridge] 4 to 21 May 1904 Bury St Edmunds [Grange Farm?] 9 to 26 May 1905 Ipswich [Gippeswyk Park] 8 to 25 May 1906 Thetford Bridge 7 to 24 May 1907 Beccles [Roos Hall Beccles Common Sotterley Park] 13 to 30 May 1908 Churn [Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)] 19 May to 2 June 1909 Lowestoft 18 May to 1 June 1910 Ipswich [Bixley Heath] 23 July to 6 Aug. 1911 Grantchester [near Cambridge] 16 to 30 May 1912 Hengrave [near Bury St Edmunds] 14 to 28 May 1913 Lowestoft 9 to 23 May 1914 Ipswich 8 to 22 May My great-grandfather, Henry Moyse GOBBITT, must have forgotten some these dates or locations in later decades, when he sent the attached photographs as postcards. Writing to his son Herbert or Don (who had emigrated to Australia) in 1927, he captioned the first as Thetford Camp, 1904. If he was right about the place, this was in fact 1906. His uniform is no great help here, as light Bedford cord breeches with scarlet welts were worn with blue puttees and black ankle boots from about 1901 until 1909, and his long-barrelled rifle and webbing bandolier were also in use throughout that period. I've copied the sergeant separately from another example of this picture, only half of which has survived. The later scene, showing Corporal GOBBITT (1877-1963) in field service order, was recalled in 1944 (when he sent it with happy birthday wishes to my father) as Grantchester, Cambs., 1906. But the khaki uniform was not issued to the SY before 1908 or perhaps 1909, so this photo seems more likely to date from 1911. The phantom legs on the other side of his horse are not so easily explained, and I don't know whether the man at the rear was training for a suicide mission or simply oblivious to the danger of playing with a rifle. David Gobbitt -------------------------------------------------- Re: parish records lookups This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: angelabishop800 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8609.31.1.2.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Glemsue, since I was last on ancestry I have been incontact with a family member back in the UK and foud out that Violet Mabel Knights did indeed live on the common with her Grandparents Richard Knights [Gypsy] and Sarah [Happy Sally] nothing much is known about her parents although she did have siblings it appears that her father may have died when she was small, and her mother was only able to look after the younger children Im still researching this side of the family to find out more, My Great Aunt now lives in the house that her parents Violet Mabel, and William Ward Hardy lived, in Shilling St Lavenham -------------------------------------------------- Re:- James Morris 1807 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kerryfarmery Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8801/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi can anyone shed light on a James Morris brn 1807. Either Suffolk/Scotland. We don't know if he's adding the name Fulcher. As we've tried looking for James Morris Fulcher but nothing. We know he's in the UK up till 1840. Then he turns up in Australia. any info would be appreciated Kerry -------------------------------------------------- Re: STEGGLES This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: suffolkmawther Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/69.158.163.326.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: ..... and our line from Wingfield tends to use STYGALL and STIGALL :-) Pat ... -------------------------------------------------- Re: parish records lookups This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Ronbasford2 Surnames: Challis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8609.62/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Kate, Can you please help with my research for my Canadian pen pal ? I have got back to his GGgrandfather and need to find the next father back. - If the FATHER is shown of James Challis on his marriage to Rebecca Smith on 25/12/1835 at Haverhill.Suffolk. Regards Ron Basford of Romsey [ I do Hampshire look ups ] -------------------------------------------------- Challis-Help Required This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Ronbasford2 Surnames: Challis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8802/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Researchers, Can you help ? I'm looking for the name of the father of James Challis who married 25/12/1835 at Haverhill,Suffolk. to Rebecca Smith. The 1841 census gives his and her age rounded up or down to 35 later census shows all the family born at Haverhill. Regards Ron of Romsey -------------------------------------------------- Re: parish records lookups This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: glemsue Surnames: Challis Classification: birth Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8609.62.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: To Ron You won't get fathers names on marriage pre civil registration which started in 1837, however I can tell you that on the Suffolk Marriage Index it says James was a widower at the time of marrying Rebecca. I see they are in Haverhill in 1841 and James was born c1806, I have found the following baptism. St. Mary, Haverhill James Challis bastard born 13th April, 1804 in the poorhouse baptised 27th December, 1818 mother Elizabeth no mention of father. -------------------------------------------------- Re: parish records /James Challis This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Ronbasford2 Surnames: Challis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8609.62.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Sue, Thanks for your quick reply and help. so Rebecca was his 2nd Wife and she died after 6 years.He then married Sarah Backler. Was there by any chance any witnesses shown on that 1835 marriage ? The ages on the 1841 census were rounded up or down to the nearest 5 so it would seem that that the James you found,born out of wedlock, is correct. Thanks for your excellent help Regards Ron of Romsey pp John A Challis in Canada -------------------------------------------------- Re: parish records /James Challis This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: glemsue Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8609.62.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am afraid the index doesn't include witness names, you would have to consult the actual parish register for those. -------------------------------------------------- Re: parish records /James Challis This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Ronbasford2 Surnames: Challis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8609.62.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Many thanks again, 11 year gap - James and Ann ? I like the look of the marriage of James and Eliza Willis and son John - they waited 6mth to baptise him - after they were married ! Her death date works well with the next marriage. John must have died young as 2 more "John's"followed The LDS site shows 2 dates for this John c132261 Do you have access to any "Bastardy Bonds ? Regards Ron --------------------------------------------------