Janet , Here is some info which might be new to you and possibly worth exploring ....taken from Colin Wither's book on Yorkshire PRs. "The Church , in the Peculier jurisdiction of Trinity college Cambridge is dedicated to St Andrew , in the Deanery of Catterick , Diocese of Chester . Merry Christmas , Harry Sayer , Ambleside . (Any SAYERs in your records ? ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "janet thomas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 9:57 AM Subject: [WRY] Kirkby Malzeard Parish Registers/Marmaduke Horseman > Does anyone know what happened to the Kirkby Malzeard PRs for the > years prior to 1653? Are they just lost or were they recorded > somewhere else, like Patley Bridge? > > I am searching for a Marmaduke Horseman (Quaker) who went to New > Jersey in 1679 with a family (dau Susannah b. abt 1665 - m. 1686 in > NJ) and I think that he may have been from Kirkby Malzeard. I find 2 > Marmaduke Horsemans in the 1672 Hearth Tax rolls living in Stonebeck > Down, which is in Kirkby Malzeard parish. There are no other Marmaduke > Horsemans in the Hearth Tax rolls in West YKS in 1672. There should be > a marriage and birth of children in England. I have looked at the > Kirkby Malzeard PR transcripts and do not find the family. Now, I have > not looked at the original registers, so I do not know what they look > like or whether there are huge gaps. Has anyone seen the actual > registers? Of course, part of the problem may be the Interregnum but I > many events would have been prior to that, including Marmaduke's birth. > > Interestingly, there is a Marmaduke Horseman who was hung at York > Castle in 1670 for murdering a gamekeeper. One of the Marmaduke > Horseman Stonebeck Down hearths was "empty" in 1672. Perhaps the > murder Marmaduke? > > By the way, the IGI gives a marriage for the Quaker Marmaduke Horseman > in 1634 in Keighley. The Keighley PR entry from the transcript gives > no more information than the date of the marriage and name of the > parties. The date and location seem wrong to me for this Marmaduke > Horseman. > > There are also several Marmaduke Horsemans in the baptisms at Ripon in > the 1620s and 30s who could be the right one, but who knows? I have > not found a will that clears that up for me. > > Merry Christmas to All, > Janet Sugden Thomas, Stamford CT > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >