Thanks Christine for sharing your success's which must resolve your family story. Mine is the opposite as my father was adamant his grandmother was not the daughter of a hawker from Selby. His sister however left a sheet of paper for my cousin with the names of her grandparents and where they had come from which disagreed with him. So this Yorksgen I pursued my Buxtons from Selby starting with visits to Pontefract & Harrogate registry offices where the certificates (£10 & £16 respectively) confirmed the relationship I had long suspected. Now I know why great grandma Annie changed her age (4years younger) her name (from Ann) & the occupation of her father James (she said labourer when he was a licenced hawker). They appear to have travelled around having children in various locations and without the census tracking them would have been impossible. I have one record (Borthwick BT's) of a baptism in Rawcliffe C.E. and then two non-conformist baptisms in Knottingley but the other seven children including my Annie were not to be found. They finally settled in Selby in around 1865 when my Annie would have been 10 living on East Common for many years allowing the younger children to go to school, (Selby Abbey school records from Borthwick). I have her uncles & aunts placed in the census variously "on the road", in fields, on the waterside so I am thinking all the siblings of James were travelling people all selling pots/ earthenware, though their parents were residents of Knottingley where he was a potter. Annies mother Eliza lived to the grand age of 87 years so must have been made of strong stuff and sounds to have been a fiery character having been had up at the Petty Sessions for using obscene language in the market place, (Selby library old newspapers). I look forward to tracking the rest of the Buxtons to see if any of the others escaped to a better life like my Annie. Thanks to Janice & Christine See you at Yorksgen 2013 Gillian Cattell On 3 August 2012 10:12, CHRISTINE WILLOTT <christine.willott@btopenworld.com > wrote: > Janice usually asks us to report to you our successes at the current > holiday. Sometimes what you don't find is as important as what you do, so > one of the things I did was to wade through 1/4 sessions records at > Beverley to try to find my Joseph Chatterton, recusant ancestor who married > in Hemingbrough in 1769. I did not find any Catholics let alone Joseph in > the record book I saw. There were an awful lot of people taken to court > for not keeping up the roads which were full of potholes - what's new. So I > am still looking for a clue as to the parish of Joseph's origin - or was he > another Adam? > > Several of you followed the thread on my search for info on my great aunt > Emily Lee (nee Chatterton) and were very helpful with ideas. The news of > this front is very positive. I was able to meet with her granddaughter, > Karolyne for the first time. We found the history of her hospital stay and > were able to go to the Wakefield archives together where Karolyne read the > hospital notes. She bought a photocopy which included a photo. She did not > have a picture of her grandmother so this was special. Whilst Karolyne did > this, I went to the deeds room and found the details of the transactions > relating to the house where our g grandfather William Chatterton lived. The > history of the property right back to when it was a green field was all > there. Kath Webb at the Borthwick found Emily's death for us so we can get > the certificate. Interestingly there was a family story of Emily lived for > 40 years in a padded cell which I had dismissed as exaggeration but it turns > out she was in hospital for 40 years. Unfortunately although she died in > Naburn, we were not able to find her grave. She is not in Fulford cemetery > where most of the Naburn burials took place. We wanted to lay some flowers. > Her notes said there was an aunt with a similar health problem, so now - > mission find the aunt! > > The 'find the aunt' mission rather took over, so I have not pursued the > Kay family back any further. We think it was a Kay aunt rather than a > Chatterton one, but of course a lot of people called aunty were not real > aunts. > > As well as this - we had several visits to Bettys, a 1950s style tea party > and a trip across the North York Moors on the top of a double decker bus to > Whitby for fish 'n chips. Some brave souls climbed the steps to the abbey. > Carol Meggit and I made our progress on the bus. We had lots of chat and > lots of laughs and we learned lots (thanks Colin for being our onsite > tutor). > > Chris > ..... > Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; > www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; > www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >