Thank you The person I am stuck with is Elizabeth CLARKSON who disappears from the Arkendale registers. If I am to trace my maternal line back further, I need to find her baptism. I could try the Knaresborough registers when I go to the Yorksgen holiday but if I do find an Elizabeth Clarkson of about the right era, how will I know she is mine???? Every other girl it seems was called Elizabeth and the name Clarkson is not uncommon. If it were otherwise perhaps I am related to Jeremy???? Chris ----Original message---- >From : [email protected] Date : 31/12/2014 - 09:17 (GMTST) To : [email protected], [email protected] Subject : Re: [YORKSGEN] brick walls and maternal lines Re Sarah: A quick check of censuses shows that Thomas and Sarah were living with their son in Durham in 1881 - there is a death registered at Auckland, Durham July quarter 1882. The date of birth on the certificate is 1804. The age she gives on censuses gives a year of 1803. The Arkendale records are at North Yorkshire Archives - keep an eye open for when one of the group members is visiting and offers look-ups. Wendy -----Original Message----- From: CHRISTINE WILLOTT via Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 12:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] brick walls and maternal lines Happy new year everyone. Hoping that at least some of your brick walls will come tumbling down. Roy has posted an interesting comment recently (elsewhere) about maternal lines so I thought I would post something here on mine in the hopes that someone will have some ideas. Me - Christine Mary (nee) BOYES / Mother - Olive Mabel CHATTERTON b. 1914 Ferryhill co. Durham d. 1992 St George's Hospital Tooting / Grandmother - Alice FOSTER b.1876 Pudsey Yks d. 1943 Ferryhill Co Durham / Gt grandmother - Hannah WOODWARD b 1843 Thornton Bridge Helperby Yks d.1920 Bishop Monkton Yks / 2x gt grandmother - Sarah CLARKSON b about 1810 Arkendale Yks d ? / 3x gt grandmother - Elizabeth CLARKSON stuck Sarah Clarkson's birth is in the Arkendale PRs but no relevant entries before this. For the post 1837 births, I have the certificates. Elizabeth Clarkson is the lady from whom I inherit my mt DNA so I would like to try to trace her back a bit further. It is some time since I looked at this line, but it would be interesting to see Elizabeth's origins. Many thanks Chris ------------------------------- 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

Chris as you are looking for the maternal line you only give details of the women - so some questions: do you have any details about Sarah's father who appears to John CLARKSON ; Elizabeth CLARKSON nee GIBSON'S marriage to John CLARKSON ON 20 Oct 1810 at Knaresborough? (Arkendale was in Knaresborough parish) That John and Elizabeth baptised 9 children including Sarah? that Elizabeth was baptised 20 April 1777 at Knaresborough daughter of James GIBSON and Mary INGLESON who married 11 April 1773 at Bilton Ainsty, near Harrogate. If not then it is probably worthwhile checking the family tree on Ancestry and contacting the owner, Jenny Hobson, who appears to have done a lot of apparently sound research on this line. If you are not a member you can take out a free trial. I also found the following records on Ancestry: there is a baptism record at Bilton Ainsty for Mary on 2 September 1753 father Henry POTTER mother Sarah INGLESON - from which it would appear that though the parents were not married the father had accepted the child. there is a baptism record at Farnham, Harrogate for Sarah INGLESON daughter of Matthew INGLESON, 8 Jul 1738. It does not give a year of birth and would mean that she was 15 at the time of Mary's birth. there is a marriage record for Matthew at Farnham to Ann ROWBOTOM on 30 Mar 1719. There is a baptism record for Mathew at Farnham 10 May 1690 son of Mathew but did not see one for Ann ROWBOTOM. Elizabeth CLARKSON is on the 1851 census at Boroughbridge as born 1777 at Arkendale. wENDY -----Original Message----- From: CHRISTINE WILLOTT Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 11:18 AM To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] brick walls and maternal lines Thank you The person I am stuck with is Elizabeth CLARKSON who disappears from the Arkendale registers. If I am to trace my maternal line back further, I need to find her baptism. I could try the Knaresborough registers when I go to the Yorksgen holiday but if I do find an Elizabeth Clarkson of about the right era, how will I know she is mine???? Every other girl it seems was called Elizabeth and the name Clarkson is not uncommon. If it were otherwise perhaps I am related to Jeremy???? Chris ----Original message---- >From : [email protected] Date : 31/12/2014 - 09:17 (GMTST) To : [email protected], [email protected] Subject : Re: [YORKSGEN] brick walls and maternal lines Re Sarah: A quick check of censuses shows that Thomas and Sarah were living with their son in Durham in 1881 - there is a death registered at Auckland, Durham July quarter 1882. The date of birth on the certificate is 1804. The age she gives on censuses gives a year of 1803. The Arkendale records are at North Yorkshire Archives - keep an eye open for when one of the group members is visiting and offers look-ups. Wendy -----Original Message----- From: CHRISTINE WILLOTT via Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 12:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] brick walls and maternal lines Happy new year everyone. Hoping that at least some of your brick walls will come tumbling down. Roy has posted an interesting comment recently (elsewhere) about maternal lines so I thought I would post something here on mine in the hopes that someone will have some ideas. Me - Christine Mary (nee) BOYES / Mother - Olive Mabel CHATTERTON b. 1914 Ferryhill co. Durham d. 1992 St George's Hospital Tooting / Grandmother - Alice FOSTER b.1876 Pudsey Yks d. 1943 Ferryhill Co Durham / Gt grandmother - Hannah WOODWARD b 1843 Thornton Bridge Helperby Yks d.1920 Bishop Monkton Yks / 2x gt grandmother - Sarah CLARKSON b about 1810 Arkendale Yks d ? / 3x gt grandmother - Elizabeth CLARKSON stuck Sarah Clarkson's birth is in the Arkendale PRs but no relevant entries before this. For the post 1837 births, I have the certificates. Elizabeth Clarkson is the lady from whom I inherit my mt DNA so I would like to try to trace her back a bit further. It is some time since I looked at this line, but it would be interesting to see Elizabeth's origins. Many thanks Chris ------------------------------- 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