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Gisburn, Lancashire, UK April 1612 to Seek Help to Murder Thomas Lister THE SPEAK SPEAKE SPEAKES SPEAKS Family Association Bulletin Fall 2013 Volume 34, Issue 3 Speak/e/s/es Family Association Officers PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT ARCHIVIST Susan Sills Jerry Draney John Payne 637 W. Main Street 4320 Forest Hill Dr Unit 104 4802 Guilford Rd Brownsville, TN 38012-2534 Fairfax, VA 22030 College Park MD 20740 (731)772.2026 (703)591.1095 (240)463.7671 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SECRETARY TREASURER HISTORIAN Pat Wiltfong Bonnie Speake Alexander Phyllis Speak Danner 119 Essex Lane 4944 Corte Playa DeCastilla 99 Glenmoor Lane Georgetown, TX 78633 San Diego, CA 92124-4126 Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113 (970)988.9461 (858)573.1745 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PATRON MEMBERS Jones, Norman E. Love, Ruth Speak Mullins Sr., Major William G. Speake Sr., Johnny T. & Patricia Tibbets, Nancy Speakes Zeigler, Edward T. SPONSOR MEMBERS Alvarez, Dawn Savell, Alwilda Speake A WARM WELCOME TO Bartley, Francis & Janice Sparkman, Roy D. NEW SFA MEMBERS Bannister, Bruce Speak, Georgia M. Brown, Virginia Speaks Speak, Melinda J. 2013 New Members Chalk, Virginia Speak, Michael • Thomas Kreun, Smithburg, MD Cobey, Dr. James C. & Janet H Speake, Jo Ellen • Carol and Carl Cooper, Crater, Doug & Loretta S. Speake, Robert E. & Charlott Turtletown, TN Danner, Dr. Paul & Phyllis Speak Speake, Dale E. • Michael Speak, Rolla, MO Danner, Todd R. Speake, Elizabeth Peck 2012 New Members Draney, Jerry & Maxine Speake, Harold L. Galvin, John A. & Anne A. GA Speake, Melissa R. • Rebecca Payne McClanahan, Ham, Don & Dolores Speake III, Dr. Dan W. & Mary (sister to John Payne), Kirksville, MO Hentschel, Wolfram H. & Mary F. Jane • Reva Mae (Speak) Payne, Hurst, Roger & Linda Speaks, William E. (Roscoe) (mother to John Payne), Kirksville, Hurt, LaVerne Speaks, Paul Dwayne MO Kuren, Thomas Kreun Speaks, Bob • Steven E. Speaks, Montgomery, Mahannah, Jan Speaks, Fred A. AL Martz, Dale & Lillian Speaks, Glenn L. • Linda Speake, Santee, CA Matthews, Ruby Speaks Speaks, Melvin P. & Pat McCue, John & Susan S. Speaks, Steven E. • Shauna Teeter, Quapaw, OK Miller, Susan K. Speaks III & IV, John C. • Chris Morey, (son of Susan Sills), Mollway, Paul & Lin Spillman, Jane Speakes Arlington, TN Morris III, John S. Sills, Susan Speake • Paul Danner lll, (son of Phyllis & Payne, Dr. John H. Waters, Margaret Speaks Paul Danner), Jacksonville FL Prague, Linda Belle Wiltfong, Patricia • Todd R. Danner (son of Phyllis & Rawls, Bessie L. Speake Paul Danner), Olathe, KS Rote, Cindie The Speak/e/s/es Family Association was organized in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, on Saturday, August 25, 1979 (under the Name Speak/e/s/es Historical Society), for the purpose of exchanging information with others researching Speak/e/s/es geneaolgy. We welcome new members into our organization. Annual membership dues are as follows: Regular ~ $15; Sponsor ~ $25 - $99; Patron ~ $100 or more. Our fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 30. Please send your dues to the Treasurer listed above. A membership in SFA is an excellent Gift for any member of your family. Thanks to all of the Patron and Sponsor Members! We appreciate you! If you were left off this list and should be on it, please notify the editor. The bulletin is published quarterly by the Speak/e/s/es Family Association. Items for publication are needed and your help in meeting the deadlines is much appreciated. The Deadlines for 2013 are Jan. 1, April 1, July 1 and Oct. 1. -2- 2013 FALL EDITION the SPEAK/E/S/ES FAMILY ASSOCIATION village of Charnock Richard, where the Bowling family lived, and on to the town of Standish to visit A Word From St. Wilfrid’s Church. The Bowling family was known to be Catholic recusants in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholics associated with the The President church at Standish, while the protestants remained By Susan Sills, President in Chorley. Dear Speak/e/s Family, In Cambridge, we visited with John Speake, who Our long anticipated trip to England was an has researched the Speak/e family extensively awesome experience—at times even surreal! The throughout England and who has written numerous Ribble Valley in Lancashire, where our ancestors articles for the SFA Bulletin through the years. It lived, and worked, raised families and worshipped is was fantastic to finally meet him!! John has given an exquisitely beautiful place. There are rolling us a synopsis of his research along with a detailed hills, meandering streams, sheep grazing in the digital record of his findings. These will be kept in fields, and stone cottages everywhere-- and all our archives. surrounding a landmark known as Pendle Hill. Members of Doug Speak’s family joined us in Cambridge and Gisburn. It was delightful to meet them! Also joining us in Gisburn and Downham were several local Speaks who were also researching their family history. Two of those families have trees that connect at the top. Perhaps DNA will determine if we are also related. We are hopeful that some of these Speaks will participate in our DNA project. Planning ahead to our next convention, John Payne will host next year’s SFA Convention in Kirksville, Putnam County, Missouri, about a three hour’s drive from St. Louis. Dates and information We visited churches in the villages of Gisburn, will be announced in the next SFA Bulletin. Downham, and Whalley where Speak/e marriages, baptisms, and burials took place in the 15th and 16th (See article on page 16 for additional details.) centuries. We were greeted most warmly by Lord Your cousin, Clitheroe, Canon Nicholson, and numerous Susan parishioners at St. Leonard’s in Downham. We learned there that the neighboring village of Twiston was most likely where the Catholics would have lived during those turbulent religions times and that that village was also the site of a Quaker movement in the 1600’s. Thomas, baptized 1633/34 in Downham was from Twiston. Also on tour were the towns and villages of Elizabeth Bowling’s family. Jeffrey Wills, Bowling descendant and researcher, joined us in Chorlely at St. Laurence Church, home of Myles Standish (Pilgrim!!). He carried us on a route through the -3- Treasurer’s Report January 1, 2013 – March 31, 2013 by Bonnie K. Speake Alexander, SFA Treasurer Speak/e/s Family Association Balance as of January 1, 2013 $ 9,318.24 Receipts: Membership Dues $95.00 Total Receipts ..................................................$ 95.00 Expenditures: Bulletin Printing ($316.23) Postage ($116.48) Transferring Records to DVDs ($300.00) Total Expenditures .........................................($732.71) Balance as of March 31, 2013 $ 8,680.53 Speaks Chapel Church Fund Balance as of January 1, 2013 $3,466.95 Receipts: None $00.00 Total Receipts ..................................................$ 00.00 Expenditures: None ($00.00) Total Expenditures ..........................................($ 00.00) Balance as of March 31, 2013 $3,466,95 Nicholas & Sarah Speak Cemetery Fund Balance as of January 1, 2013 $1,122.85 Receipts: Donations $00.00 Dividends $ .29 Total Receipts ..................................................$ 00.29 Expenditures: Mow Lawn (1 month) ($55.00) Total Expenditures ..........................................($71.00) -4- THOMAS SPEAKE CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 -5- births, marriages and deaths records and located a Speak/e/s Discoveries Jonathan Speak, born in 1923 in Nelson (next door to Blacko). His father was James and his mother’s in Lancashire name was Margaret Ellen Beanland. Further By Susan Speake Sills research would be needed to determine if this is the One of the more exciting aspects of our SFA same Jonathan, but I think that it is highlyprobable. ancestral tour in Lancashire England, was the mini- Since Blacko, and Nelson, are small hamlets within a discoveries that happened along the way. There mile or two of Gisburn, and Doug Speak’s family (our were new “Speaks” for us to meet, and stories about DNA match) resided in Gisburn in the 1700’s, it Speak families, villages or hamlets where Speaks had would be prudent to investigate further into this lived or were the current residences of Speaks, and Jonathan Speak family. farmlands that once belonged to Speaks. As a result of this newly acquired knowledge, we In Cambridge, and in Gisburn, we were joined by altered our travel plans to incorporate the villages of members of Doug Speak’s family. Peter Speak met Sabden and Blacko, photographing the grassy green us in Cambridge, and David Speak and his family hills and valleys, and agricultural sights--through the met us in Gisburn. David brought his great- bus windows! The landscapes were truly amazing— grandfather’s portrait to share with us. Doug had verdant hills, ancient stone fences and centuries old color-coded his family tree to indicate the lines of cottages and barns, and rolling pastures with grazing Peter, David, and himself. We soon had two sheep and cattle. The entire Ribble Valley was a additional family trees of other Speaks to view as photographer’s paradise, and did we have the well. shutterbugs on this motor coach!! Our first evening at the Stirk House in Gisburn, Another anecdote from our trip was the discovery situated in the beautiful Ribble Valley, we were made of the community of Twiston. Twiston is a greeted by about a half dozen Speaks from the small hamlet, perhaps at one time a village, about a Clitheroe area. They had seen an article placed in the mile from the gorgeous village of Downham. While local newspaper about our visit to Lancashire. They visiting in St. Leonard’s Church at Downham, on our came to share their Speak history and family trees. second morning in Lancashire, we were told by Lord These were Speaks completelyunknown to us, and it Clitheroe—Lord of the manor and the village itself— was quite the surprise! This group of Speaks told us that Catholic families would not likely have about the village of Sabden and a church where there worshipped at St.
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