The Journal Of The Guild of One Name Studies
G.O.0.N.S aRegisteredCharityNo.802048 THE GUILD OF ONE NAME STUDIES Regamity 802048 Famded1979
President: Derek A. Palgrave MA FRHistS FSG. ViePPreJidents: Sydney Brewin FC4 John He&&n, Peter Towey Honoran, Oflicers Cbairmaa: Etmorary Registrar: P&r Goodall, 3 Dixey’s cottages, Dominic Johnson, GreatNor&RoaQLondonN2ONS.(01814443100) 33 Redhill Lodge Drive, Redhill, Vice-Chairmam Nottingham NGS 8JH.(O115926 2085) Mr. Alec T&ton, Ingletoq Church Lane, Honorary Treasurer: Barnhmq West SussexPO22 ODG(01243 555453) Mr. Peter A. Prismall, 1 Holly Close, Eoaoraryseeretary: Wallingto~ Surrey SM6 OQB.(O18177398%) Mr. Mike Spathaky, 9 Fairstone Hill, Honorary Editor: Oadhy, Leicester LE2 5RL.(O1162713494) Mrs. Mary E. RomseyBA, 29 Queens Road Alton, Hampshire GU34 IJG. Executive Committee The Honoraw Ofliws together with Mr. Roger Lovegrove, Mr. Keith Plant. Mr. GeorgeLashbrook, Mr. Kelvin Wa& Mr. Chris Swarbrcoke other Appldmtment5 JoornaJ Distributor Meetings Cv-ordinator Mr. Roy cox Mr. Chris Swarbmok Overseas Liaison Covenants Secretary Mr. Keith Plant Mr. GeorgeLashbrook Guild Marriage Index Sales Officer Mr. Ketin Wmth Mr. Ron Duck&t Connty Reps Co-ordinator Mr. Roger Lovegrove (If in doubt to whom corrwooadeoce should be directed, the Box G address below should be used, as it should for general corresvondeace) Contributions to this Journal should be sent to the Editor at the above address. Whilst enquiries Specific to individual office may be dimted to them at their appropriate addresses,all other correspondenceshould be atldmsd to:- THE GUILD OF ONE-NAME STUDIES, Box G, 14 CharterhouseBuildings, Goswell Roa& London EClM 7BA.
TABLE OF CONTENTS From the Editor’s Desk Mary Rmnsey._.....,._.,..,...._,.... 2 The Chairman’s Notes Peter Goodall 3 The secretary’sNotes Mike sjwhaky 3 The Five Hm&edth Anniversazy OfNewfoundland Keith Plant ___.._____.._.__.____...... 4 calmly Represmtatives as of 11 October 19%...... 4 The Treasurer’s Notes Peter Plismall...... ,. 5 An Appreciation of David Cutten Ron Duck&t ._._...,_,.._.....__...... 6 How Useful to One-Namersare the Indexes to Patents? Gillian B&ingtIeld .._._...._.._.6 Datahes for One-Name S&es Jim Tatcbell...... 7 The Origins of the SPE(A)K(E) Name J. D. Spcakc.__..______._____.__...... 8 DUGDALE, HARLEIAN, SURTBES, etc. John Hitchon _..__.__,.___...._._.,,.13 How Big is the ELDRED Family? Vernon W. Eldred _._..___,..._...15 The Guild’s New Constitution RogerLovegrow .__...._.._,,.._..,16 Guild Seminar at Kelso, Roxburghshtre .._.._.._.._._...... ,... 20 The Third Update to Name Identification Ronald Smallsbaw _...____...._._.20 A SHEARMURFamily Get Together Mary Mather ___....._...... ___....___22 Letters to the J?ditor._.._.._.._....__.._...... i __._,._.,_._.._,,_...., ...... __.77 . Book Reviews .._....._._..._...... _....._._....._.__...... ____,_.._ ...... _...... 27 News & Items of Interest .._...... _.._.. .._.._.._...... ,...... 28 Changesto the Register . .._....._.._.,_.._...... ,...,...,.....,...... 30 Forthcoming Events _. ______. _. ,______._ .______...... 33 -es ._. .__ _. .___. ._, _...__ __ ._ .___ ...... 33
Front cowr - ShearmurFami!v Gel Together 1996
Guild Email Address Guild Web Site Address 100417.2363~comtmserve.com wvw.leicester.w.uk/guild/ The loumal of The Guild 01 One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 02623842
From The Editor’s Desk Mary Rumsey
Thisisthc~ofthcnewformatJoumal.1~~vthatthe 4.2 It wiU thercforc be an offence. from Scptcmbx size will not pleaseeveryone. but it will enablecharts, maps lY92_ for any pxson (not just m&es) to give the and pictures to be included without loss of visual clarity. 1 Commissioners information which is false or hope that in the course of time all memberswill come lo misleading: enjoy the new format Journal. What wc needis more articles from you the memlxn which includes photographsetc. We if the personknow the information to lx cm now axep articles on disk in any &mat but would falseor misleading: prefer Rich text Fomxit 01FT). If send photographs*please if the Penn does not can: whether it is rememberto send an s.a.e. should require the photo to be falseor misleading and doesnot checkit: return& For memberswith scannerswho wish to send a scan.please use TlFF format. 4.3 This applies whether or not the Commissioners have specifically asked for the information. The A Spaial General Meeting (SGM) of the Guild held at Commissionersr&l be ptting reminderson some Dartford Ken< at the quest of thirty-hvo signatoriesm&r of their most impomt forms about the need to the provisions of Section9b of the current Constitution of the supply correctinformation. Guild of One-NameStudies. &ted in less than ten of the signatories attending. This makes a mocker)- of the The ahe has lxcn taken from: “A Tmstce’sGuide to the Constitution which gives membersthe right to requestsuch a Charities’Act 1992”. SGM with a minimum of twenty signatories. It has been al&xl that the m&g at D&o@ was too far away for the It is cszemely mgrettablc that a small nmntcr of pooplc signatotiesto attendand yet over 75 membersdid attend but would appearto be. for reasonsbest known to *hems&es. there was no wy that this meetingcould havebeen comhincd attcmping to destroythe Guild both in regardto its fioanas. with the SGM held at Tamwonh to considerthe proposalsfor namely in calling an SGM and then not attending and h the new Constitution. since the latter went on all day as had attempts to either destroy the reputation of individual beenpm&sly anticipated membersof the Executive Committee(the trusteesm&r the abat Act) and/or by s&@ting them to stressb incessant Many of those at Dartford had come to receive information correspondencese-mail and solicitor’skztters. to resign becausethey were cluelessas to what it w-asall about. .andno wonder! Lettersand e-mail had beensent to certain members It is totally unfair to membersthat the Guild shou!dbwr the and not to others. while many of the recipients of these costof a SGM brought by lessthan 2% of the membershipon klievul they had ban sent to all mcmixrs including the generalised.la&y hearsayand unsabstamiatcdallegations. Exenrtive Committee about which only a small number of meml!ers has bxn informed but someof whom have mistakenly beliewd they In q pmious editorial published in the Oaotcr 1996issnc. wcrc in receipt of inform&ion conmnmi~ted to the toti I stati that “any memberbelieving that the election was memlxrship. unfair and/or illegal has had the opporhmity for recourseto the charity commis.sioners. The i&l that this course of In view of the abow 1 \\ish nlcmtxxs to consi&r the action has not teen t&q 1b&eve speaksfor it&P’. following:-
In relation to this I plblish below the relevant pamgmphsof That the mnditions allowing membersto ~11a SGM rmxting Section 4 of the 1992 Charitin Act. namely. “Giving false shall bc as follows: infomWion to the Commissioners”. as I t&we some membersare unawareof theseprovisions and as the result of 1) A SGM will require the signaturesof ii& membxs recent events may well lid lhemsclvesin a p&ion whcrc or at the instigation of the Exondivc Committee theymaybec4mmihganoffenoe. 2) ALL memtcrs must receive a form for their 4.1 The Commissionersrely upon information given to signature which clearly gives specitic reawns for them by trusteesand employeesof charities. and by the calling of an SCM. membx of the public. It is elitrcmely impxtant tha< where the Commissioners arc g&en 3) If less than two thirds of the signatoriesattend the idmnation which they will use when making a SGM, then the signatories will txz liable for the ckcision abwt a charity, this information should be eqmses of calling the SGM. aawate. 1 do not consider point 3 alxwe to be undemocratic. candidatesmming for Parliamentforfeit their dcpwt if they The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 ixciveasmallnumb~ofvotes. LuinfuhueSGMsbeab.xa calling it am willing “to put their money when: their mouth seriouslmsines for which to use a poker eqression. those is”
The Chairman’s Notes Peter Goodall Inspiteoftaoorthreememlwsorchestratingacallfora mauimum. The CommitteewiU then electfrom its number.a special Gened Meaing (SGM), with the view to Cs Vice-Chairman Editor. Regislrar~secretary and q@antingthe-tFZxectdiveCommitteeandrq&ingit Treaswx. Ien&d~RqorttotheAmmaJGeneraJ with a “pqpt” mmmiltm: their motion was rcwmdin& Meeting last JTZUat Oxford with the wxds. “- and J look defeatedat Dartford on the 30th November la.% thereby fonwd with enthusiasmto wving just one more year”. E3y permillin~ the ori@nal ConstitulionaJ SGM to go ahead the time of this year’s ACM and Conferenceit will be live unhinderedthefdlowing- Atfbtford87ach1aJ years since I stated wit& “The Chauman’sNotes”. The memlxrsattended,wke~only35wereatTamworthto presentcommittee has only eleven membm w them slmuld dEhteandYoteonchangestothec‘Jtitution. Thisjust teamplercamforbotholdandnewbcszs goesto show the supportand’wnfidmce membersmust have in the Committee and the e&is of the Constitutional The mention of the millennium reminds me I first raised Working Group, in strengtheningthe Guild before entering “What\*iutheGuilddotomeetthenewem?”intheJan~ the twenty-iirsl c*. Joumall99S and later that )rar the idea of Guild “premises” wa5mnsi~ Duelolhelmumasofthisyeartosomc WiththisJoumalaswelIasacopyoftheNewConsliMio~ extent the Committeehas beenunable to plrme this matter. is a nomination form asusual: tut this year candidatesfor the 1 hope that now beforeit is too late somethingcan k started newcommitteew+llnotbepmposedforanypDsltio~allwill by the in Guild in xcqnition of the YEAR 200. stand for election for a Cxxnmiaee of f&en persons
The Secretary’s Notes Mike Spathaky One aspea of the Guild Committee that I have found redtions were agreed with some uselid amendments encouraging has been its willingness to examine its own submittedty members.Election pm&m-es are now more effectiveness.Each memberhas a spxilic responsibility and closelydefined and p3staJt&lots havebeen iwrodwd as the ailaleengagedinthecolle&etaskof&iningtheroles mclhcd of &ciding axtain typzs of msJltion including moreclearly. Membelsarekeentosreamlin~ linther changesto the Gmstihdion The Constitntion as it such as ckahg with new membership applications or ~%UKkislXiIlgbeingmtomembersWiththisJoumal. arranging publicity for meeting. The Committeehas agnxd alsothatitne&tohavesomestandbgorclers. Asinany Other dexl~nts were Listedin my letter to membersin group of people.there is a rangeof views on most issues,tut November. Many are designed to present the Guild as a membersll.wdJy manage to amommodateto these. with thrhing i”lcmatioIlai forward looking or@nisation. somegiveamit&eandagleneralcommitmm1tomovingthe Guild forward In addition to the events leading to an The SeminarsSubcommiaee r&xdt otten get a mention in e.\pulsion in Septemkr. that w.s causehr concern when the Journal.but the Guild is very forhmatc to haw this group thirty-hvo memberscalled for a Special GeneralMeeting to of hard woddng membersto organist its SUCCeSSllseries of dismiss the Committee. The proposaJ was &feat& One-DayRegional Seminars You should be reading this in ovtxwhelminglyatawellatten&dme&ngatDaHotd.Ken~ timetotookalastminuteplxeattheDartfordSemiwon on 30th November. Only three members voted for the ~25~JJanuaryandyoushouldcertainlytakealwkat disnissalm~m theinteresbhgpmgrammechrissw-hasor~ for OUT Annual General Meeting and Conference at The work of the Con&utional Woddng Gmq has now Nonhanqxon on I%-20th April 1997. I hope to see yw come to hition with the Spedal General Meeting at there! Tam* StalTonishire,on 7th Deoember. All the main
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The Five Hundredth Anniversary of Newfoundland Keith Plant In 1997 Newfoundlandis celebratingthe 50th anniversa~ Hene VII and the searchfor Asia. or the pro\ince’s discovery by John Cabot. As many The CabotVoyage Newfound~rs cm tract their anccstq to the West The Matthm Replica Country of England the Guild has assistedthe organisersof Culture and Contact the celebration by forwarding to them a list of local and *Workshopon English WestCounty family roots family history socictics in Hampshire. Gloucestershire. The Etvopea” Presence Comwall~ Wiltshire. Berkshire. Devon_ Dorset; Somerset. The GratesCave Tradition Bristol and Avon. Cabotand Identity Ships.Navigation and Maps The list containsdetails of 342 wcieties in theseareas and if CabotFolklore any memberwould like a cop?please send a” SAE to mc~ * This sessionmay bc of interestto solne Guild members The tin synpxiom will take place in June 1997 and will w County Representatives as of 11 October 1996 BEDFORDSHIRE HAMPSHIRE Mrs Polly Lawrence. 7 St. Nicholas Roy Clayton; 17 Second.4\~cnue. Road Ravenswing. Aldermaston~ Ncwben);:Berks RG I4 5PR. DERBYSHlRE Berks RG7 4PU. Tel: 01635-44X36 Mobile: 0374. Ron Duckett. ChItwoodHills Far”~, Tel: 01734-8155976 245436 Lower OutwoodsRoad Burton on Trem DE13 OQX. HEREFORDSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Tel: 012X3-561557 HERTFORDSHIRE CAMBRIDGESHIRE DEVON (SOUTH) DEVON (NORTH) KENT CHESHIRE David C”fley. 55 Broomhill Road. Keith Plant. 22 Chapel Croft. DORSET Dartford Kent DA1 jHT. Chelford Paul Oastler. 12 Cranemoor Tel: 01322.22392 Near Macclesfield Cheshire Avenue. SKI1 9SU. Highcliffe; Christchurch. LANCASHIRE Tel: 0 1625 860074 Dorset BH23 5AN Tel: 01425-2753X4 LEICESTERSHJRE CORNWALL Frank Brockiehurst. 1 Park DURHAM Avenue. CUMBERLAND Ma&ield_ Leicestershire Brian Pwiner. Midtown Farm ESSEX LE67 9WA. TOrpe”hOW. JessJephcott. Tel: 01530-24443370 Carlislel Cumbria CA5 1JF. 73 All Saints Avenue. Tel: 016973-71385 Colchester.Esscs CO3 5PR. LINCOLNSHIRE 4 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCh&itv No. 802048 lSSN:0262-4842 Mrs Norma Neil. “Col~wzll”. Somerset BA5 ZQS. Richard Moore. Commonside.Westwwdsidc. I Cambridge Close. Lawn. Doxaster. DN9 2AR STAFFORDSHIRE (EAST) Swindon. Wiltshire SN3 1JG. Tel: 01427-75692 STAFFORDSHIRE (WEST) WORCESTERSHIRE LONDON SUFFOLK YORKSHIRE (EAST) MIDDLESEX Frank Hakney. 19 Church Street. SURREY(EAST) Elloughton. North Humberside NORFOLK HlJ15 1HT. Mrs Mq Griffths. 20 Knyett SURREY (WEST) Tel: 01482-668340 Green. Martin Gegg 4 Little Orchard. Ashwellthorpe. Norwich. Woodham. Norfolk NR6 7DP. Addleslonc. Surrey KT15 3ED. YORKSHIRE (WEST) SeeYorkshire East. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SUSSEX Christopher Swarbrooke.Flal 3. YORKSHIRE (NORTH) NO-ITINGHAMSHIIU! Ensign Court. 96 Marina. Dominic Johnson. 33 Redhill St. Lconards on Sea. SCOTLAND Lodge Drive. East SussexTN3X OXA. John Hitchon. tomatin Cottage. Redhill. Nottingham NC5 XJH 52 Lonmore. Gairloch. WARWICKSHIRE Ross-Shirt IV21 ZDB. OXFORDSHIRE Jennifer Crantield RoseCottage. Tel: 03445-712355 Church Street. SHROPSHIRE Fen”? Compton. WALES Wanvickshirc CV33 OYE. GeofI Rings. Pcacehawn SOMERSET Tel: 01295-770285 BadgersMeadow. Pwllme~ric. Eric Banwell. Chepstow.Gwent. Brinton Lodge. Tel: 012Y1+26417. 27 Milton Lane. WeUs WILTSHIRE The Treasurer’s Notes Peter Prismall No&vi-g my noteswith the Cktd.cr Journal and the noteson the renewl notice itself. a disapp%ntingnumlrr of On a more pxonal note. I do not intend to cndorsc any fom have teen returned to the Re&rar and myself I will nomination of myselffor election to the “eu conmtincc This take the blame for the form design which has causedso”rz dension has been ma& as I do not concu wjth the revision membersto think thawlkq did not have to s&y and date the of the Constitotion whe& there are no nominations for the r0m1before rmming it to us and others perhapsto assume positionsof Officers of the Guild. It is now lcli lo the newl!~ thatifthey1eftthebox- in the line “1 agreeto my- elected conmlittee to chcose from amongst their number &ails appearingin the on-line version of the Register”then thosewho wiiI tiII each Off~ccrposition. I sincercly~bclicve we would treat this as a “yes”. However.for the protectionof that this is a retrograde step becauseof the special skills both the Guild and the individual memberhave not accqxed bwolved in certain positions These p&ions range down this as an instrucbon for inclusion! If you still have the from the Registrar with decreas@ degrees of relewnce i-CIWdnotiCesentWilh~oUr-lownal.plcaSeti thrmgh the positionsof Treasw I. secretaryand Editor: The withnimllE&e~ifyouwishanyc~gK(inchrdioge- positionsof chairman and Vice-Chairmanform spxiaI cases mail addwses or & numbers)to te included in the 1997 whereI havemiwd feelings Register. If memberswish to joining me in balloting memberson this I intea if time is awdlable. to send subscriptionrermnders pint I &ill be pleasedto hear from you. ollti”Ja”w.bUtthe- even with the pmbabte late”uiI@ofthe”ewstyleJan”aryJou~wilI”xanthat IwwldWretomakeitcIearthatIamnotrunningaw~from onceagain we *iI1 not be able lo hold luck the Journalof the a forthcoming subscriptionincrease which must comeon 1st Janwy 1997. The clincher for an increase has lxcn (he 1997wpaid member. This is not a problem if thoseunpaid unforeseenexpense of the 1996 SCiM at Danford which cost membersau siltaqm@ py up (01ret”m the Izeckage)! the equivalentof 5Opper member. In addition the Guild has 5 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharityNo.802048 ISSN:O262-%42 beenliving in pal on the fat of covenantedsubscriptions, but reached after the .wWption for 1997 had been s& and the 19% will be the last year in which we have collected two end of Volume 5 in Oaober 19% meant if a a& format was yearsclaimsineachyearandagainwearetalldngof50pper not in- a changewould be delayedfor a forther three member. Also the new format Journal will be more years. iZpXlShtO~,tUtWehopethatyoUWiII~ti the ciifkw; tmfo~WW+ the decision on the-Journal was AN APPRECIATION of DAVID CUTTEN by Ron Duckett 1tisaithdaepregretthat1havetoinforyywlhatuleoffer Davidwsanmdentresearcherandalthoughhismainholzby inthe&tober1YY6Jomnaltotrmwibcaamesfivmthe (precccu@on) was hniIy hismy. his other interestsranged F’mtateIn&xes, is na longer awiIable>dw to David Cutten’s from Treasurer of The Roberl Peel Societyto a memberof ontimely death on Wednesday16th oaober lY%> aged 45. The Titanic Society. My associationwith him goesback to m wife and I attended his funeral at St. Editha’s Church, the Goil& Local Midland MembersMeeting. long beforethe Tamwoe not only as friends, but also as representativesof CountyRepresentatives came in At thesehe could alwaysbe theGuild relied on to have an interesting item horn his latea xsaxch 01travel to tell. The onIy consolation is that he died peao&ly in his sleep born a brain haemorrhage.This was in contrastto his lie of With David being a bachelor. his parents, who live in the pin, as he was invalided out of the Navy after contra~g South are distr&wting his research material to the polio. This letl him a cripple and later he had to take appropriatearchives’ offices. When this is completei$ they redmdnm from the GPO when iuthritis tc& over in his wiIl let me have a list of the locations. deformedjOiNS The&posalofstodleswasoftendisxswlatoorlocal Last year. atIer a few yews asa temporaq he was taken on to meetings. I can rememberDavid’s comments that hc had the statI of Staffordshire Archives. Guild members who already &pc&d copies of data at the Society of attended the Lichtield Meeting in October lYY4 will CieneaIogistq but they nor any of the other archive rememberhim as the chwful bear& chap on the Lichtied rcpositarieswill acqt memorabilia. In his czw; his family ROstand. allhaveaniolerestin~~history,theo~ironyofthisis that his ColIectionhas now beensplit into diffemnt lines. HOW USEFUL TO ONE-NAMERS ABE THE INDEXES TO PATENTS? Gillian Bediogfield 1knewthatmywher, stanThooder, are relativeIy few individuals’ names patents you wish to have qied I had taken out a @ent in the late for the 20th centmy and pamcola@ spenta long a&mooo there, paid for lYf& which was why 1 decidedto do so after 1950 Having found an entry capies of hvo patents and wmte out a search for my Thunder one-name forthedesiredname~usoallytheonly &tails from the indexes for hvo study Much to my sqxise and other uselid infonnatio~ from the others. Some of the descriptions. delight 1found that my father’spatent genealogical pint of view. is the Falticulady of modern patents,were, wasnottheoolyonetakenoutbya ilNento~saddmss. Thiswasusetid however,~~-g! relative. Also some of the Irish for one or hvo of the Irish Thunders Thunderr totauy UnreIated to the as it showedthey wereoverseas. An application for a a patent English Thunderq had been “htlpwements rekaing to Internal inventive. ThePatentOfficeat25 SooUnptoo Combustion Enghtes” by James Boildin@, Holborn, Londoq if it has Ao@stusThonderwasmadain1Y13 Myfather’spatentforaboardgame notmovedsiweIvisitedinlY86,has andshowxithathewas~rkingfor may one day be of use to family name indexesto patenteestium 1617 an Amerim company of Ohio. historians as it names both my :o the lY8Os. The t&t volume covers Another, by Andrew Thunder n 1868 bmthers and me. gjving our 1617 to 1832 and after that there is for “Improvements io Stoves and relationship. However,his i&a never onebc&pcryearwiththevolumes Furnaces for Heating Air” ws sent tookoff.sowcshalltibemaking inaming in size. OLxiousIy, the hmAusMiaandgaveAtx%Ws our fommes Most modem patents tiWlleedadCkpt&OllhOW~ ccxxpation as brewer. His are taken out by complnies so there entries are found and how many application however, said “my 6 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 0262-4842 inventioo is WelJ adapted for the machine. Edward Thunder. senior. a beenunabletofindootifitwasever pilrpw of dlying wool” so perhaps builder. also of Brighthebwone, mark* which I doubt very much. he wascons&ring changing careers invented in 1790 “a Machine of bum perhaps one day 1 shaU fmd Machinesfor Mangling and Washing someone willing to make a model The hvo patents taken out by my cvcry Article made of Line& Woolz hm the detailed drawings and distant relations were inventions ky Silk or Cotton that will bear 52pMfiGltiOnS. father and sm. In 1805 l%wrd Washing whereby those Articles Tmmder gentleman Of will rw&e much less Damage than The answer to lhe question: “How Brighthehnstcw Suse~ a&id for by any Method now in use”. This lls&Iaretheindexestoptents’l”has a patent on a system for keeping was really up lo date - it heatedthe to be, honestly “not ve@‘, but my pianos in tune and he wznt on to sell water (a fire on&r the tab) sod by relative’s 18th centmy invention has his prcducts The best of all lhat I tuming a handle the washing could prodwed much interest on several fowl& however, was Edwards bcagitalcdinthetobaithesametimc oocasions. falhes invemion of a washing as somemangbng was done. 1 have Mrs C. M. Bed&$eld. MemberNo. 873 me Barn_37 Silver Street,Congr&ory_ Bristol BSI9 5EY.I DATABASES JWR ONE-NAME STUDIES Jim Ta&hell I would like to comment on the entered in a suitable database b&h as Rebecca AM. So far so article “To Every Purpose There Is program lhey can be searchedvery goad. we then come to Nellie and A Program” (Vol.5. No.7). I agree e&ctively by using its powerful Ella in the 1881 Census. A starch with much thaf Mr. Lindlicld search and display facilities. Some shows that Ellen’s birth was writes, and particularly the facilities do exist in Brother’s registered in 186Y, quarter 4: and desirability of using only one Keeper. but they are inter&d for a Ella’s in 1871. qoaner 1. Ellen program for all purposes in a one- different job and are not flexible appears m the 1871 Census as name study. However. I think it is enough. Ellen age 1, but Ella does not, an unattainable aim, and do not A greater difficulty is how to store although she was born by then. In think he makes a convincing case census entries. A family found in a the 1881 Census Nellie must be that Brother’s Keeper can be used particular census could be entered Ellen. and Ella is still called Ella. for all purposes. straight into Brother’s Keeper. but but who is (he Ellen age 20 in the The criteria for membership of the the subtleties of fhe entries would 18Y1 Census? Ey lhe age it is Ella Guild include tbe extraction of all be lost unless lavish use was made who has changed her name. mstances of the registered of notes. also the entries in the We then come to Simeon. Junior. surname(s) from the GRO Indexes, next census seldom agree exactly who seems to change his name IO which generates lists of births. with the previous one. Ages. Reginald. My seven entries in the marriages and dealhs. How do you names. places of birth, often di!Tcr database tell us &at his birth was store them on a computer? Sorely and one has to use judgcment as to regislered as Simeon in 1878, not using a program like Brother’s which piece of data is tree. It is quarter 3, there was a baptism in KeZZpCr. Such a genealogical essential that the original entries 1879 of Robert Simeon, who may program is excellent once you can are entered in the database,where have been he or his brother Robert. link the birth of John Tatchell with they can be studied and compared. As we have seen he is in the 1881 his marriage and death. but it 1 give as an example two ccnsw Censusas Simeon and in the 18Y1 seems entirely inappropriate to entries for the family of Simeon Census as Reginald. However. at enter three Joho Tatchells, one to T&hell. selected and printed his marriage and death he was rcxord the birth details. another for directly from the MasterFilc Reginald Simcon. the marriage and a third for the database described in my article All this was only deduced because death. “Helping A One-Name Study With the data in the MasterFile database Mr. Lindtield admits that you need A computer”. The ages arc [airI> can lx searchedn any criterion and to work hard lo find the links consistent bol the Christian names displayed in di&rent ways to bring b&teen these entries and suggests are not: out the important facts. I cannot writing them out on a large sheetof Bessic’s binh was registcrcd as understand how this can bc done paper. 1 suggestthat if the data are Elizabeth in 1865. and Annie’s with Brother’s Keeper. The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies ISSN: 0262-Jk42 To sun up - I feel it is essential to was disappointed to find no the gwcalogy program as soon 3s store the ‘?a\~” data in a adequate facilities in Pedigcc. I they are found. A one-name stud\ conventional database. separate think the problem is that the is entirely different. ?,u collect from the genealogy “family” \xiters of genealog~~programs are masses of information “on spcc”. database. It would be convenient if obscsscd with the recording und which you may not USCfor years. the two databaseswere included in display of family trees and do not but which suddenly becomes the same package. but they need to understand the problems of’ storing important when somconc writes to be structured in different ways and data for a one-name stud\. ask for information abou! an only very loosely linked probably Someone who is researching his ancestor. It must be stored in its by reference number. I do not own Cdamilyneed only record the original form and tx casil\ know of any program w,hich does items of information that rclatc to available when needed. both jobs effectively. Brother’s family members. and these can Keeper certainly does not; and I probably ix entered straight into Mr. 1. A Tatchell. Member No. 1528 174Arthur Road. Wokingham_Berkshire RGI 1 2SY.l THE ORIGINS OF THE SPE(AbK(E) NAME .I. D. Speake All the available reference books Speight. Splight: and from Old suggests this may refer to places point towards two sources for the French e-h(e)_ cspek Speake. where wine were fed This is purely mmc SPEAK and all its derivatives: spcdr Speckand Spcke.” conjectoal and dots not seem one being a nick-name and the other probable. a placename. The origins of the place Spekc in SouthLancashire arc much lessclew A more recentsource the “Dictionar) P. H. Reaney in his “Origjns of the E. &wall in his book “The Place of Place Names of the British Isles” English Surnames” states “The Names of Lancashire” suggests by Adrian Room. Bloomsbury 1988. wxlpxker has @en us a variety of bmsh\rood twigs etc._ without gives a more plausible derivation names probably due to its place in statinghis reasonsfor this. Wyld and Speke - “A district of Liverpool. folklore: Pike and pick arc at times, Him in “PlaceNames of Lancashire” whose name means “(place by) from Old English pit, Latin picus: soggcst tcntativcly “swine paslur&. Bmshwxd”_ from the Old English from old English speohtor speht;and and state“The Old English word spit spaec(small branch pmbbly related Mediaeval English Wight. wc have mcms lxcon land etc. Kcmble to the modem‘spoke’ and ‘spike”‘. X The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharitv No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 the De Ros tkily and sukqwntly Buckinghamshin: 1130. William to the Mamen family. who today are SPIK so” of Richard in Leicester the Dukes of Rutland owners of 1251 and William SPEGHT in Vtiations dthe SpeakeName BeiToir casuc in Li”col”shirc and Cornwall 1297. It is dear tium the derivations above HaddonHall in Dhyshiire. thatma”yvariantsof~namgare valid: in addition to the common The cvkst mention of the DE The Period 13061700 SPEAKE. SPEAK. SPEKE. SPFEK. ESPEKfamily in the WestCounby is In the first half of this period the only SPEAKS and SPEAKES,we should in 1154_when a Richard ESPECheld wmstent ocamencesofthename also add sF7xiHT>sPAJGHT> land from Rob& FitzRcgk son of fwnd b a systematic wrch of SpECKandAznPECKandpEAK. HemyII. Alkrthisdatethefamilyis printed souIces in the Cambridge Tothatlidfrom~mwtreFearch.1 “mtio”ed tegldarly in official UMty Library are of the xv&d a&i SPA(C)K(E). SPATE and recordsLlnd it is clear that this Family DevoniSomcrset SPEKE Omily. SPOAKE increasedits holdings of land by royal They appsr in “u”lel-ous state patronage and by marrying eligible dccumenc~and many were knighted I” nly scperiencename chalig~ have heiresses! It has bee” assumed in rmgnition of their sewicesto the ke”awnstanliadorinsPEAKE without evidcncc. that this famiJy is CIIJWL hismq. IhavesgnaPEAKEalias r&al to the William SPECH of SPEAKE PCC Will 184 (Devon). I” 1085. 1~ her “Cencalo@ of the For other bmnchcsof the family it is Halilk. Yorkshire. SPEYGHT was Speke Family” Matilda Pine-Coffin clear that their social status does not modified lo SPEAKE in the acknowledgeslbat I’... it ha ken give a Mlkiently large sample of gcnemtion behwen 1538 and 1568: imfmssiblekforethecarlyputofthc data to lx vq lu;eful. AAer 1550. in Dar&ton Sta&o&hire Shadmch fiilemlh cc- to place the headsof with lrcmds ilmihbie for all Icvcls or SPAlTE cha”ged his name to the family in Genealogicalor&r ...I’ society. it is @Me to i&nti@ four SPEAKE as his social position It is howver rwsonablc to conclude main gcogrdphicalgm”p. improved In B”ckinghamshire. from her documentaryevidence that SDmemmlkefs of a l%h ce”t”ry this bmily is almost ceMy of 1) There were SPEKE families PEAKsfa”luychangedlbeirnamcto Norman French origin. cnablished in lkvon Somersel SPEAKS.while in North Shropshire. and comwaJJ Gom abmt 1152: homeofma”ysF%AKEfamihe.qd”e In the Speke dititi of South thisgmupis~ofNon”a” to didect titions. the spelling was Lauashire. there is mention of the French origin. The main lint of SPACKE in the 1500s.modiijing to DE SPEKE family in d&s relating this family enjoyed wealth and SPAKEthmllgh the late 1800s.when to the Norris family: who were Lords favour from the Crown from the it “standard a~SPEAKE oftheMamrfmmatkast1314.and medicval per&d through to who in Ekkctha” timcs built Spckc “lc&mcunes. tnthe19fkkmymai&“AuntOlive Hall which sill stawk today The SPEAKEofkially changedher “ame collection of Norris deeds predates 2) There WCIFSPEKE “of Speke” by dd poll to SPEKE. as she was their pxsession of Speke. and so families in the South Lancashire erroneously convinced that we were Gilbert DE SPEK is mentioned in area horn at least 1240 onwards. dated to the Somersetfamily of John 1240 and Rdwt son of Huuy DE but the last nlcntion of this fztily Hanning SPIKE. the Viamian SF’EK is mentioned in 1265. Them thtxe is in 1497.and by the stall exploreratxlitwasbecauseofthis are at Iem ten clilTae”t DE of the parish registers in 1538 that I staad -hing my family SPEUSPEK pxsons mentioned onwards. tbcrc are no entries for IliStO~! living in this area prior to 1300. the name This gro”p derives its These people appear to have keen namefkvrn the place,so they were SpeakeFamiMsPm-1300 “amedatlertheplacetbeyi”habited: paddy of “English” .sto& ThcDo~Boakof1085showsa thqdidwatgivetheirnametothe However.by the 1520sthere were WiIhm SPECH holding lands in place. Thu.sthqareL%Tmidy”otof SPIKE fanlihe in the Iubbk War&n Bedfordshire, and he is known Nomun French or@“. Valley in North East Lancashire UsJauy assumedto be the f%her of However. it is apparent from the and by the start d the parish Walter ESPEC, founder of the deedsthatmanyofthemmedtheDE registers they were well AtkqsofRi&3mLxa”dKukhami” SPFKE name as a hereditary cstablishcd and they continue to YoMlilea”d&otheAbkyat sllma”E have a !Gtrong presence there waKk”l.?iKa 1135,suggestingali”k today There is some tentative bz+wa?”the two ge”mio”s waker Other mentions of the mm in this evidence that the SPEKE family ESF’EC’slan&passedafkrhisdeath early period are vq sporadic. but from Liwrpool may be linked to his sisters>and the” by marriagelo include Alfkn SPEKE in directly to the Ribble Valley 9 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 1)X2-4842 branch; Gilbert DE SPEK _well 1525. which tried to bri”g peaceto much or a coincidencethal this date assoclilted with Speke in the theseborder areas. For centuriesthe and place correspondswith the first Norris Lkals, qxars in the Welsh had inladed this port of mention of the SPEKEiSPEAKE Cattulq of Whalley A&y in England, k”oun as the Welsh hnily in Shropshire. This n;ll lx North Fat Lancashirecirca 1230. Marches, and stolen cattle, burned investigatedfurther. houses and on occasion killed the 3) In Yorkshk we find a wide inhabitants In Westburyparish the For several years I worked on the diShibUtiOti of the name graxing gro”“& for cattle on the themy that the ShropshireSPEAKEs SPEGHT/SPEYGHT/SPEIGHT western (Welsh) side of the parish could possibly have originated in tkm the east coast at Burton were unusedin 1537 ‘I,.. for that the Somersetpossibly through a !o”“gcr Fleming near Bridlington, across country was then wild and many so” of the landed family. or a branch tOHdif&Si”theWestRkii”g~ out1awvsand thieves haunting among of it. The ShropshireSPEAK& were the time of the surviving parish them by whom their cattlewere dzily financialIy prospero”s and literate registers. By the mid 1500sthis stolen and conxyed away off to the from the earliest times in Shropshire. name sometimes mod&s to mountains”. However> although the Somerset SPEAKE It wo”Id appear that SPEKES are “xso”abl~ well the name here has its derivation Correspondenceto the newly fornvxl documentedin the period l4?0-1525 from the Old English and not Council of the Marches, based at for the eldest inheriting SOIIS.the from the Norman French “Eqx? Ludlow in Shropshire,in 1537speaks younger sons arc infrquentl>~ of Walter ESPEC. of 0. thefts, murders. rebellions, mentioned I haw also looked for wilful burning of houses and other other landedfamilies ~1ho “light have 4) In Shrqxhire~ in spite of sculerous deeds and abominable had an interest in Somerset.Devon extensive research. there is no malifxtes be so ro&d and tixed in and Shrophire. nho could hxc evidence of SPEAWSPEKE the sane people.that they be not lie prolidcd the link behwn the two families lhtig there before the to cease““less somesharp correction places.as well as a” oppxunit!~ for a Lay Subsidy of 1525 which and punishment lx provided”, yo”“gyr so” to better ~mself~ This records a William SPEKE of myestlgationis continumg. Weduty The parish registersof One possibility is that the Shropshire the adjacentparish of Pontcsbmy fanlily migrated down from south The Shropshire SPEAKE k”niI>~. indicate there were two families Lancashire: they were at Burton from itr tirst appxance at Westbuv. by 1550. A probate is recorded Woodas late as 1479.and somewere was by the 1560salso establishedat for this WiIliam SPEKEin 1552> in Flinr Norlh Wales in the late Prieshvestoni” the parish of Chi~bur~ bat unfortunately the will itself 1540s. Also we know the name near the Welsh border. I” the 1570s has not sur+xI. The Shropshire occnrredtormer west in the Midlands h-o casesof “riotous assembl!~”were hntiIia bane firmly established in Coventry. so did these people brought against them in the Court of in the cmnty and were later one migrate west to Shropshire? This Star Chamber b( more established of the largestgroups i” England latter proposition is not supportedby families in the parish. B!, the earl!~ any milable midence I have seen. 17th Cenhp thq~ had s”cccssfull~ Shropshirr Families integrated into the local w.ziet\~with In Lqkgton North Shropshire~ Another intriguing coincidencecanlc some links by marriage and senicc there are several references to to light this sll”l”Er hX”@- one into the local ge”@~.and at that time SPA(C)KE(S), including a William years after 1 started this shldy! The were most prosperous.having wills SPAKE recorded in the 1524 Lay Dukes of Rutland (Manners fatly) proved in both the PCC and the Stidy, and the Lichfield probateof mentionedearlier as the inheritors of touts of the Dioceseof Hereford as 1538 of WiIIian~ SPACKE is Walter ESPEC’slands, came to own well as sending their sons to prdnbly his In 1538, Richard so” Ha&on Hall in Derbyshire by Shrewsbtq School. then “... the best of Richard SPACKES of Battlefield marriage with an heiress of the Schoolin England” This branch also “ear sm. was apprenticedin ver”o” t%iIy. The vernons also migrated to Herefordshire. although Bristol, but this branch qxars to die owned lands in Shropshire, where this wasa tcmponn~sojoum. out soonatIer someofthe~yhadliwdfromat least 1436. In 1520 Humphrey and he tmttIkr Of the RieShvstOn Where had the ShropshireSPEAKES Thomas Vernoq younger so115of Sir htnil~~. known as John SPEAKE of come from? One theory is that the He”q Vernon knight of Had&q Minon moved at sometinvz prior to SPEKE family moved to Westtury Derbyshire and Tong, Shropshire 1591 to the parish of Fiti “ear (on the Welshborder) at the time of (1445-1515) bought the Manor of Shrewsbury. R~ the title fhe the ““ion of England and Walesin westtury, Shropshire. It SBenlstoo Cw branch had died out in the 10 The JOumalof The Guild of One Name Studies R&ted ChaYltv No. 802048 ISSN: 0262-4842 w~~recompeosedtheceafter. A memlmship is that the majority of the branch of this f&i& scitlixl at trkanbmclaimtheiran~from HazeIturyuaaOri”WiltShk,ci”X Thomas SPEAK who enligmed to 1601. Oneh”n&dandfiJlyyears Marylandcim 1665. There appean later,thkbranchdit?doutwhe”ti to- have bee” wry few SPEAK was”o”lakheir,kmi”gado”“a”t emigrantsfrom England to Amcri% kGllm%y. ThisftmiIyhad~ evcniothelate1!9th~tmy Itis cathouc t+mpthis with iwo thought that this Thomas SPEAK genaationsstudyingatibecatholic was a Catholic as his will leaves swinatyatDmaii”Belgil”” -0”s that his &ikk” he brat@ up in that faith His wife I” the reign of Charles II, anti- Elklxth BOWLING was from a cathouc~wasamusedby catholic hnily originauy t&n aarble makers who feared that Bowling near Bradford who later arc Charles’stmther James,a Catholic> totel%u”dl”-astias wuldsuoceedtothcthnme Mach thewesRidi”gofYclrkshkThc of the “lis-i”fOrmati0” that was --tRollslist~eral spread has been attriM& to Hugh Lanmhim SPEAK& of the Ribble SPEKE of the whiM@” Vallq: 1630- Elbabeth SFZAKE of (somerset)~~> and hi.5 dRwus Bill&b& widmv. tined E2 13s 4d brotherjn-law Sir John Trenchard - pm annum; 1666- wlllianl SPEAKE “CapaMeof any viuainy that was false OfAlkar. Atthee”dorthep&o”s enough”. This mischief cuhninated amtuy it was recorded that “Mr ‘in the iIlh”mw “popish PI@” of speake*puson of Bailey, pteterredto 1678_when a nuwured lmminaa ktXpthepraQHithhiSpl-iShiO”tXS i”wsio”tyIrishcatl~licswasused rathalhantoRportlhe”?. asanarrusefortidesz3ledamageto Catholic prop3Iies esp%aUy in North Country Families LO”&“. ‘The North Country farmlies as a&r atom 1550 are mncentrated i” hue HughSITKJ3tm!Aemakinghad main areas:(1) the North-Eastco”wr other nagic vs. I” 1685. of Lancashire along the Iwzk hea”dhisbmtherJoh”hadkclared Valleyz q&ally in the parishes of their stypi for the Duke of Downham Whalley and Grear Motmcdh’s (CharIesIFS illegitimate Dow&m and also just over the son) bid for the throne and offeredto border in Yorkshire at Gisturn. and raiw4o$Oo”le”forhim. whe” (2) in the west Riding of Yorkshire. thei”thnmsJudgeJ~brought C%pXdl~i”thC~SlK3Of~~ retribution to the Westcountry for its a”dHqor&all mppon of Monmoti. Hugh’s el&t brother John escapedeve- but Before 1700. I have found no Jetkys was intent ~0” revenge. evidenceof any signitimnt “@-dtio”s Hqh’symmgerbrmher Charles.who ofSpEAKEEuniliesfmmtheshw was visiting Whikkkington fium areas The SPEAKEs in Shropshire Jis home in Lma” when and-appeartohavetee” Monmmdh was entertained there. tenant t%“ters rather than wass@kdotrt;“...hisfblyowea mzholders. I” Yod&ire sonle lif...heshalldieforhis”a”Rsaw SPEAKE fanluia were associated was~armment andinduc with the woollen and cloth tra& -charlesSpEKE~hanged fium at least 1612. when Willian~ fmr”a”c&treei”IIminermadret SPEAKEofGisbumisrecordedas plaoe. “Tailor” Also in 1636. Abraham SPEFKE was a clothier at EmiyEmi@ntkmtoAmeti Hqxo”stal1. There is h3day a large SPEAK FAMILY ASSOCIATION in the USA A” urrm;ual feature of its The Journal 01 The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharitv No. KtJZOlX In 1709. Abtxham Derblj first made iron at Coalbrcokdalein the valln; oC the River Severn in Shropsiire. There bad been an ironworks tbcn: Wcs( Country Families from 1638. but it was Da& who Somers& ancestml home of the revolutionised the process@ using Whitelacki”gto” SPEKE fail!;. coke rather than charcoal as fuel. never lxc2mc industrialised This (Coalbmok&lc was not the ““1)~ rmlil~~yonp was a1\\ays“unwicall~ place in Shropshire where small but financially significant cuperimcn(s had been Carnal M11 compued with ihe Midlands and with fnmaax John SPEAKE or Nottbcm SPEAKEgroups. Monfoa Shropshire. was in 1664 occupying part of a site on the banks Ailer 1800 uilh a mpidly youing oI’ the Severn. a few miles population. improwd trwsportation downstream from Coalbrcokdale. and lncraslng indostrialiwtion. called “Brond~~s“r& where secret Shropshire SPEAK& migrated ,o eqmimcnts wth mm making had S”uth WaJes~where large s&c coal been carried out in the 1630s. Iron mining and steel industries had OR. wood and coal rverc JI readilv dewlopcd. The) also went norih to availablein Shrop&ire.) the Lixqxwl arca rrhich had been industrialised The n”“1txr of Thcs rapidly expanding activities in SPEAKE fantilics mo\ing to the CoalbrooM& otTeredan altemarivc industrial Midlands from Shropshire to work on the land for local people. also aurlerated. Many SPEAKE families miyxed to the rapidly ywing prrishcs 01 Oversear Emigration Madely. Broselq and Wellington to So far I have on& found one work in tbw new industries and @ SPEAKE cowict tmnsportcd tu the 1750s Shmpshirc iron making Australia on an?; one of the three ws bad spread cast to lbc initial “Fleets”. He was Richard Birmingham arca By IS(M) t11c SPEAKE of Church Strctton Coalbrookdalcarea was al the start of Shropshire. who was scntcnccd I” its long decline as the new “Black 0cath at +h?k.%zes ht Shrewsburyin Countty” or 17Y8. The Scntcnce\vas commuted Wolvcrhampton/Binninghamtxcamc to spwn rears IranspxUion with the industd heartland of England. hard labour. He was 31 )exs of age As this was only twen& miles from had a wife and four small children. the border with Shmpshirc. SPEAKS who were Icli lxhind. His crime was madethis moveeast. stealing two caJf skins and some piecesof lather. He arrived alive ;It North County Families Port Jackson as detailed in the steam power wl.9 also finding imknts but his fate in Aushalti has application in the spinning and not !” kc” dilso\Trcd wca\ing trxks of Lancashire and Yorkshire. transforming them t?om SeveralSPEAKEs were in the sewice previous cottage indostries to large of the East India Companywhich Iwd scale factov pmdu% in the rapidly sole trading righls in India. .Many“T ending towns of Bradford them were in the Company’sarm:~ Rochdale and Leeds. which saw 3 and nay. This was no sinecure. 111 rapid rise of population as labour was 1757. it is recorded thsl William drawn in from the surrounding SPEKE son of Henr) SPEKE Esq. CmniIy arcs By the la1c 1Yth CqUi” 01 “HMS Kent”. loa his leg centq- membersof the fami@ arc and his lift a( the capture of Fort listed as “worskd Manufachlrcr” of Orleans in Bengal. A Samuel Bradford. “Weaver” of Hcptonstall SPEAK of the Bomb+ Marine and “Wc&mnber” of Kcighlq. “nunicd” circa 1785itn lntian Ia&. Fatima.who was subsequentlyknown The Joumal of The Guild of One Name Studies Registmxi Chatitv No. 802048 ISSN: 0262-4842 Canadain the early 1990sand I know SPEAKE Surname Distribution fact SPEAKS is a pl~ronymic of of another family who moved fmm Today SPEAK meaning “son of SPEAK”. s** via south Iialmhe to Although the 20th century has seen theUSAinthe 1950s thcbn?ak”pofcloselyk”itfanlily Thcphonc disc for Awtraha shows @ups which characterised the just 34 entries giving an eslimaled The”Kwe”x”tofsPEAKEfamilies previous centuriq it is surprising total SPEAKE pqdation of about awy from agriculhlre to indwry and that eve” t&y i” the UK that the old 120. approximately half of theseare c4heroonrpati0nscatlkdeadyseen distributions remah largely in Western Australia and the others . bycomparingthe 1881censusretwns unaltered. Itcameasamrprisetom fairly equally distritalted between for shm&ire with the 1995 phone thatinthcuKhowregiodarclhe Queensland Victoria and New Souh book In 1881 the “umber of variations of the name s@ling. 66% Wales. S~AKEfamilyunitswas73with18 of alI SPEAK E&lies are locatedin of thosein industrial occupations.AU Notlh East Lancashire and the West For the UK it is possible fmm the the others were still living and Riding of YOd&ire> lut o”ly 5% information on file to nuke a wking in the countryside,wj* for oocw in Shropshire; wales and the statistical analysis for the SPEAKE CxamphL 12 families in the Eaton West MidIan& For SPEAKE the tkndia. This esumatesthe cume”, lnxkr Hqwood can8ngton situation is revad only 12% in UK pqmlation of SPE(A)K(E)(S) as Rllshhq: chinch Strcno” diaicl NorthE&-a”dtheWest 2.788 with an annual birth rate of 37. where they had lived for more than Riding of Yorkshire with 38% in Therefore a SPE(A)K(E)(S) farnil> three hundredyeats Shropshire, Wales and the West membertoday is I in lY.ooO people Midlands For SPEKEthe figures are of the total p@atio”. “I 53 Today thcrc atr 64 entries in the more ponounml with 7% and 36% SPEAKI px million in the LJK Shm@irepho”ebo&asi”liku respectively The number of SPEIGHT and “nmbx of ho”sehol& with 60% IntheUSAasimilaran&sisisalsc SPA(I)T(E) peopletoday in the UK is living in Shxwsbq and only 3 pxsible fmm the phone &SC.when: about the same as SPE(A)K(E). entties for the church Sn?“on area there are 1.690 SP(E)(A)K(E)(S) SPECK being abwt half of either Howwr. the agricultural act&<&s of entries represerltinga probable total SPEIGHTor SPEAKE the SPEAKE flmilics arc not of 7.otlt). One surlang diuerence c4mlpl~lycndaisia:theremstin behveenthcUKandthcUSAisho\\ For the period 1541to 1991.the total 6fadieslidgintheWesttury “nwmmo” the variation nunlber persons of the name. who am. some working as famlers. an SPE(A)K(E)Sis in the UK and bow n-cr Iivcd in ElIgland is estimatedas actMy unbrokenfrom at least 1525. olkm it appearsin the USA II has about 10.00(. 50 my one-namestu$ only just come to my notice that in nuy noI be so impossibletier all! Mr J. D. Spcake.Monber No. 1818[2 I I Wilton Road CambridgeC&l 1XC.j DUGDALE, HARLEIAN. SURTEES, ETC. John Hitchon cm chetham Dugdale. They gcncrally try to pislish one XLVIII.) The Camden S&et!! can l-larieian -rho-. Thoroton and vcdm a year. although with costsor lx contacted through the Royal WiUhl!hh.&thesenameS~ publishing hardback voh”nes king Historid society anything to you? You may have met what they are. this is not always The Chctham Society.is named atlcr some of them i” Pauline Saul’s psiie. Hwqhrcy Chetha”~ a pmspemus “Enqtdre Within” but they were Cam&n Society began Manchestermerchant and lan&n+ner. &bteratcly not included in Brian z&ing volumes of imponant who in his will of 1653 I& the bulk C-s “SourcPsfor CheNamz IU@W texts for historian.5 in of his fort”nc for charitable Sludia amI for c&r Fans@ 1838and confirmedpm.king annual endmwnen~ one of which was the Hiuolians”. They are nearly an the vohnnea until 2nd May 1897 when c&blishnxnt of a “librarie within the nameE of local sccietia whose the saciely amalgamati with the IOWICof Manchcstcr for the USCof objeaives are to pbbsh original Royal Historical society Although scholars and others”. The Society &mmmtsr&tingtoaqmificlmal mainly intended for xa&nic was f”“nckd in 1843 For the mahGnyv.mfmm&dalongtime hismiam they do include the pJblicati0” of remains hisloi-ical and ap,butares6upllbwhgvohlmes cllxasio”ai volume of interest to iitenlty amnected with the Palatine thatateofparti&inteK?stto genealogists(for example;Old Series Counliez of Lancaster and Chcstcr. genealo* and hmily hislokm. vol. LXXXIII and New Series vol. although since the 1870sthe literdv 13 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 0262-4X42 element has bee” dropped. The society New Series. The Harleian Thoroton. the renownedx~tqr,~~ of chetham SC&y can be wnlacted sociely call be co”taclcd through the Notlinghamshirc is the cou”t~‘s through the Hon. Sec. at Chethams Collegeof Amw, London. principal historical society Through Library, Long Millgate. Manchester. Iccturcs.excursions and pubiintuons~ The Seldcn Sxiety was founded in ii seeksto promote the study of tbc The Dugdale Society, named after 1887 to encourage the shldy and histoy. archaeologya”d antiquities of WCXWiCkSMi distinguished advancelhc knowledgeof the Histop Nottinghamshire~ Contact ~~1ith ihc antiquary, Sir William Dugdale of English Law It publishes an Thoroton Societyof Nottinglumshirc. (X105-1686), was founded in 1920 annual series. now nnlni”g to over to give it its full name. is via with the objectof publishing original 120 vohmcs. most ol’ which contain Nottinghanuhirc Archives. Couut: dccuments relating to the h&or) of records or rcp’ts (printed in the Hoosc Nottingham. the County of Warwick. fostering origi”al Lati” or French. with interestin historical recordsand their translationsj of praxedingz in many The William Salt Archaci~logjwl presenation and w=* diffemt kinds or coult Each So&h. now The Stanimlshirc encouragingthe stndyof local history individual volume is fully md&xed Rcwrd Society. w-as fomxxl in The Society publishes. as fiqocntl~ The Secrciq ol’ the Scldcn Society *w”ion~ al William S:ilt. William ils its ~esou~ce5and circumstances can b: contactedat ‘The Faculty of Salt washorn in Low&” it1 1808. Hc Pm volumes of original Laws. Queen Mary and Westfield was a member of the Stafford documentsnlating to the counly of College.London. bmking T;mlil!; whose &ii home Warwick together wilh oc&xsiOnal was a* Wccpi”g Cross, I-fc \\as Papersbased on mrds relating to The SuaeeSSociety was formed in interestedin any material that shed Warwickshire Sir William Dugdalc 1834 to publish dowmen& 01. light on StalTordshirc’spast a”d hc was educatedat the Free Grammar historical and genwlogiczd hui!l up a \ast, coikction of prin!ed School,Co\ientry, from 1615to 1620. significance appertainit~g to the lmoks pan1phlets. original His work Antiquities of Warwickshire Durham and Nonhomberlandregion. nla11uscnpts. trallscn~s uf &wlmmS was ~Jishcd in 1696. The Dugdale The StnleesSociety’s secrc* can bc and maps. prints a”d cngmi”~ society can be contactedthrough The contactedat 5 The College,Dorlw. during his tiietimc. He. and people shakw centre. S”2lf0rd-upon- working for him. carried out B gwt Atton. The T’horesb\So&v was established deal of work on czntttai gowmnwnt The Harleian Societywas founded in to promote interest In the histoy of records relating to Staffordshireand 186Y ror the jdishing 01. Lx& and its neighbourhood to hc conunissioncdpxplc to tcrnsctitx manuscriptsof heraldic visitations of coliect and make availabic books. Iargc sectionsof the Public Kccords the cxmntiesof England and Wales docl”“e,..l an, Aer malerial for this and holdings of the British Muscum and unpublishedmanuscripts relating purpose and to publish rclcvant relating to the county Willialii Salt to gcnealogv. annory and heraldry in p;lpers and documents. ‘To date the &cd in 1863. The So&t! “amcd the widest Sem. Its volumes have Society has published ii&nine aJlcr him subsyue11tly bxalne The always ped to be of great due to volumes since 18Y1 in two series. Staflordshirc Record Socict: and to genealogistsand lhosc interested in The l’hon+ Society hat its this day wulinues Lo publish lx&z tkdy hislory. vol”l”es have been headqwten at Claretnont. Leak under the banner Collections for a published in two sections. The whcrc il shares prcmiscs \+ith the Histor! of StatTordshirc~The So&$ Visitation Section and the Register Yorkshire Archaeologicalxxiety is lweti at The William Salt Libmiy section: but in 1979 bath sections The Thoroton Society, foul&d in East@teStreet. StafTord. were amalgamated as Harleia” 1897 and named after Robert SUMMARY Name AI-en Founded Vols Published (to 1996) Surtees DlUham 1834 221 Chl&” GreatBritain 1838 105old series + 62 “ew series + YJthircIsxxics + 44 fourth series + Xtifihsc%s 1843 IIIoldscrics + Zindexes + 110new wits 14 The Joumal of T’be Guild of Oae Name Studies Registered (3harity No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 Area FOUIlded Vol.%Published (to 1996) + 4othbdseris Heraldic Vitatiom 1869 117visitations + 89 registers + 12newseries Leeds 1891 64 + 5.sKmdseries + 3monographs . 1897 39m7xdsaKs .’ + 95txmsadions c. 1875 18oldwies + 48 new series (no thid series) + 16fcurthseries 1920 36 Main Series + 36 oaasional papers Thevolumesplblishsdhytheabove Mitchell Library in Glasgow. Scdtish Texts and Calendatx: An organisationsshould be found at any conlplete list.9of the individual titles A”aIytical Guide to serial major referenoebbmy, or university ofthescvolumesaretobefoundin Puhlicatio”s Ia”li”the”lidstof haGng a History FaaUty For hvo twks hy E.L.C. MuUins cmpiling from lists pm&d ty each exa”lple,1haverbu”dthe”li” plMIshedhyTheRoyalHi.storical society.a &&list of individual titles BimtQham Central Reference Society,Texts and C&I&IX 1. An i”wfornIypefionalwm Li~andasanextemalmembzrof a”al+al Guide to serial L-mn~0” with my one-nanlc study lk Univemity of Birmingham publications to 1957: Texis and and which may eVC”tWU~ Library I have teen able to aaess c!alendars:2. A”.fwlylicalGui&lo cmphment Brian Christmas’sbook themthereonopenshehw. Now1 Serial Fuhlicatiom 1957 -1982: and and be of we to other COONS. we a”llivingi”smuarKl1expecttom the book hy David and Wendy shallsee. them in the National Lii of s~“aJ~plblishedjoi”uy~tJle scouandEcfinturgh,a”dti RHS & Scottish Record sxiely. Mr JohnHitcho~ MemberNo. 488 (Tomatin Cottage.52 Lonemore.Gairloch. Ross-shinz.Iv21 2DB. Tel: 01445-71233551 IIOW BIG IS TEE ELDRED FAMILY? Vernon W. Eldred Grahanl Fidler’s interesting the population in England and population as a whole. as Graham contribution @How Big Is Your Wales (ie: about 1150 of the in total Fidler has assumedfor his family. One-Name Study?@ (Vo1.5, No.9 in 1981/2) and. after conversion over several years prior to that. I page 278) t-minds me of an from phone book areas lo 1981/2 had made notes at St Catherine’s exercise 1 undertook from 1981 to c4nn1ties,revealed that there were House and Alexandra House of all 1983 on the frequency and thirteen counties. predominantly in the Eldrcd births and deaths in distribution of the Eldred name in the eastern half of England in England and Wales between July England and Wales, details of which the concentration was above 1837 and December 1851. In that which were inch&d with papers the national average. In the great period 252 births and 146 deaths deposited in the Library of the u&on melting pots of London and were registered From birth and Norfolk and Norwich Gewalogical Birmi@am the concentrations death rates estimated Society in December 1994. were exactly the national average. approximately for the middle of The first exercise, akin to Graham Selecting only people with (hat period (1844) from the graph FidIer’s, involved measuring for telephones is, of course, a repmdwxd on page 342 of G. M. each phone book area the colatnn notoriously misleading method of Trevelyan’s English Social Hstoyv kngth~edbythefa”lilyname pqndation sampling for many (1944), it was deduced that there and expressing it as a percentageof purpmes and the exercise muld be were around 525 members of the total column length. That justilied only hy assuming that the family in England and Wales al indicated that there were. on family had, on average. prospered that time. Interpolation between average,2.4 Eldmds per 100,000 of no better and no worse that the the population figures for 1841 and 15 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 185I ~~vcnin Whhitaker!sAlmotmk lOO.tK~Ofrom phone books in ration has been constwt :!t -I: I. (1982) provided an &mated of 198112)were close enough to give nou estimate that thcrc \\crc 16.5 million for the population in some confidence that they vjerc around 2200 El&d births and 520 1844, indicating that there wcrc about right. In view of their rather Eldred man,ilgcs bcI\\cw 1% I about 3.2 Eldrcds per 100.000 of rough and ready naturc~ I did not and IXXI. the population. Analysis of the attribute any significance to the A full answer to the question posed. information in, terms of coontics differcncc beI\vccn them (perhaps rcqulrcs. of COutSE.an eslim;lIc 01 highlighted ah”\~c IWtagC being rcluctanl to accept that numbers world!\ide. pas, nod concentrations in nine counties Eldreds might have been less present. lf any members has fully around 1844: all of them in the successful al ge:etling telephones tackled that more ditlicuh qwiion casterhalf of England. than others). but have tended to for a particular tarnil\~ IhC Those estimates obtained from accept that the telephone estimates conclusions ma!; be of xdue to I”rall~ unrelated s”“rccs of were the morc 3cc~rate using 2.5 mm! \\ ill1 xlmcs IhllI i,rc !ong information over 120 years apart per 100,009as a working figure. csrablishcd and not too rxc~ (about 3.2 per 100,000 from 1X37- Thanks to Graham Fidler. 1 can. by 1851 registration data and 2.4 per assuming that the Fidler/Eldrcd Dr Vernon W. Eldr4 Member No. 2556 [Fell Gate. Santon Bridge; Holmrook. Cumbria CA19 IUY.] The Guild’s New Constitution Roger Lovegrove, CWG Chairmar, Members will know that the Constitutional Worhng The Draft Document (D.D.) which resulted from CWc’s Group (CWG). which was formed in April 1996. was xork had been circulated I” mcmbcrs i\ith the 0cwt.w given the task of rcwiting the Guild’s Constitution and Jo~ur~ul.It WE this thnt formed the basis for the ncv presenting recommendations to a Special General Constitution and which vas voted upon at Ihe SCM. The Meeting (SCM) I” be held before the start of the 1997 D.D. \+as based upon a questionnaire prc! ioosi! AGM and clcction process. That SCM. held on circulated I” ntcmbcrs. nhich in turn ws basedon cnrlicr 7 Dcccmber. accepted. with some minor ar.~endnwts. informal discussions both within CWG and with CWG’Sproposals. “le”Ibc*S. In outline. the deadlines and other important datesinvolved in lhe formation of the new Constilution were as follow:- March 1996 Committee decides in principle to set up CWG April AGM. CWG formed. mid July Qocstionnairc circolawd late Augost CharityCommissioners approachedfor approval of alterations to Sections2. I I. I2 The SGM neededto consider the eighl subsuntix resolutions contaioed io the DUDEand Ii amendment The major substantive differenceswhich membersmay nor& betweenthe nev, and the old Constitution xc rci:ltiv$ ten ~- . Changes to the Consliluion. appeals against l Candidakx I” the Cornmitiec no\\ h;l\ s 111~ri@ I” expulsion sod proposals to wind the Guild up will haw published clcction SI:IICI~!‘IIISup Io 700 uor~ls now be decided by a postal ballot of all members. l011g. 20 signatories arc needed to place Constiluiiunal changesbefore the membcrsbip. The m-crall o~+Ii\.c wils Ihat the ncu CwrI~Iution . Timescales for ballots have been sobstantiall~ should “pen up the decision-making process \\iIhin the increased to give overseas members adequate Guild and help to rcsolw sow of lhc ;~r~unwx~ ;~nd opportunity for returning their vote% disagrccmcnts\dticb hxc Iaken plxe o\ CT1111. ,x,x, ><;,i l Otficers will be etectcdby the Committee: The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 8020& ISSN:0262-4842 CWG thought that members might be interested to see details of the replies to the July questionnaire It was not Some 280 questionnaires were retu’n~ representing pcksib!e tn plblish these b&m the SGM, although they 18% of the UK membership and also 18% of the non-UK were made known to the members present at the SGM membership. itself MAXIMUM LENGTH OF ELECTION STATEMENTS c Members were asked two questions: what would they members. Since CWG realised that there was the real id4y like to see as the maximum permissible length. possibility of a tie, the second question (about acceptable and what range of maximum petissible lengths would lengths) was asked to act as a tie-breaker if necessary. they find acceptable? CWGs intention was to base its rwmtmendation on the ideal length which raziv@ the greatest support from There was almost a tie between 100 & 200 words. but 200 was slightly in the lead. Since the acceptablevalues also peakedat 200 words and since the mean of the ideal lengths also happened to be very close IO 200 words. CWG had no hesitation in reconlnlending this. ACTION TO BE TAKEN ON OVERLENGTH STATEMENTS Here. members were asked to choose between hvo specific options: do not publish: truncate. They were also asked an open- OVERLENGTH STATEMENTS ended question requesting an aitemalive in case neither of those specitic options was liked The clear choice was for truncation. So far as the alternative suggestionsare concerned there was no substantial support for any other choice The commonest- requested was that overlength statements lx edited. However. since this had in effect been the major causeof the disagreemenls during the last elections, would almost certainly not be acceptable IO a substantial number of candidates. and since it was suggested by only a very few members indeed this was not followed up. Other. also not well-supported suggestions included disbarring the candidate from the elections: charging for any excesswxds 17 The Journal 01 The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 MN: 0262-4X42 ALLOWANCE FOR POSTAL DELIV?ZRYTB Here. memberswere askedfor the minimum time to be allowed betweenposting ballot papersin the UK and the deadline for their receipt back in the UK. CWG’s criterion was to selectthe smallest convenient time which had the support of at least two thirds of the LK and also 01 the non-UK respondents. ALLOWANCE FOR POSTAL TIMES -UK Figure 1 There is surprisingly little qualitative difference between something needs to be sent out 2nd replied to: for the rcplics from the UK and non-UK mcmlxrs Both cumpic. CWG wcrc abie to allon I calendar rno~& + I indicatcl calendar month as being the 2/i wluc. Of week for the return of Amcndmcnts aficr the D.D. uas MUIS+ there is nothing special about ballot papery as circulated. such. so the same minimum criterion applies whenever ELECTION OF OFFICERS METHOD OF ELECTION OF OFFICERS Members wcrc asked to choosebctnccn three options: direct election by pasta1ballot (ie. the method then in existence): election b\~ the Committee from amongst their onu number: electiw b\ the \CiRl from amongstthe newly-elected Committee. Surprisingl!. about 5% of the rcspondcnts prclcrrcd to lea\ c :!iis to the Committee. Whcrc reasonswere given. these uerc usualI! along the lines that the members felt the\ could not hwc adsquite knowledge of the candidates to bc able to m;lke :I sensible choice. Slightly fewer than one third wre in favour of retaining the old method. If a candidate should want to enhance his/her chances of election by drawing attention to specialist skills which mig111bc appropriate to one of the Offices; or by implying or stating an interest in ;I specific Office. then the no\+-gwarantcedclcction statementcan be usedto do so. 18 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredChafiW No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 POSTAL VOTING The replies to the two questions about whether OI not to have postal votes were virtually identical. AIthough there were minor differences POSTAL VOTING AT ALL? of detail, thesetended to cancel out to give the samenett proportions. Special Ordinary Approximately 94% of respondentswere in favour of having postal voting on changes to the Constitution. on ratification of expulsions and on Winding the Guild up. The majority were against postal voting on other (“Ordinary”) items. POSTAL VOTING AT ANY TIME ? Special Ordinary The same proportion. 94%. were in favour of having postal voting on those items a~any time. Y N I N CONCLUDING REMARKS 0” behalf of CWG. I wo”ld like to thank all ofthose memberswho took the time and trouble to respondto the questionnaire Without your help. it would not have been possible for CWG to carry out its work at all. PcmnaIiy. 1 would very much like to thank my CWG Finally. I should like to thank those memberswho braved colleagues Mike Spathaky and Graham Tulq for the a cold and very foggy morning to travel to Tamworth for immense effort that they had to put in: 1 suspectthat the the SGM. The meeting was enjoyable and good natured amount of work they needed to do will never really thoughout. and showed the Guild al its very best. with become known to the membership as a whole. The memberspitting different points of vier\ and expressing various deadlines which needed to be met along the way different wishes in a non-contentious. constructive and placed them w&x intense p”sure. It is to their personal “Cry friendly way. credit that CWG managed to meet all of those deadlines Its task having bee” completed. CWG is now formally and prodwe a superb ConstiNtiO” -which should not o”ly disbmdcd But the processof Constitutional change is not place the Guild on a firmer foundation for the fuhuz but completed: this should be a continuing process if the also act as a model for other international societies to Guild is to adapt to ever-altering needs and membership follow. wishes. Roger Lovegrove. CWG Chairman 11 Marlboro”gh Road BowesPark LONDON N22 4NB 19 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 0262-4842 GUILD SEMINAR AT KELSO, ROXRURGHSHIRE The Guild is a memberof the Swttish Asscciationof Family cmwersationand using the tookstzdlsprovided by the Society Histow Societiesand it wasa pleasureto lx representedthcrc of Genealogists.SAFHS. Aberdeen and North East Swtland on two daysin Septemkr. FHS and the Guild we returned to a sssion on On !3ahuday14* September19% there wt.5a welI supported communicationled by JessJephcott covering newspqxrs and sand at the SAFHS conferenceauendcd by wmc 250 with p&k&y gcncrally WC completed the day nith gc:cIwmI wtontyGuiidgoodsfor~ee_butalsoourMarriagc~~ delxte of severalmatters of interest to those present. It was for szmtiny which proveda popular attraction. idly an exciting day with almost everybcdy present Gn sundae 15th the Guild held a seminar which had 31 conhibuting to the discussions~We trust that wenone ucnt members&scwing a wide rangeof topics. home having bcnctittcd from their attendanceand having Audrey Mitchell. the Chaimun of the Borders FHS gave a enjoyedtheir time in K&o redly enthusiastic demiption of what to \isit in Kelso. WClo& fonwrd to a good turnout at Dartford on Satutiy. followed~~(he~sesdononBasicSourccsled~Sheil;l 25th Januaq 1997; when a similar pmgmmmc x\ill k Spias and Graham Tnley The semncl sessionwas led by o&red in the south of England. Doreen Hcaton on holding gatherings including her attendanceat B Witheridge event After lunch with more THE THIRD UPDATE TO “NAME 1DENTIFlCATION” hy Runald Smallshaw This is my third update concerning my idea of "Name Identification". The findings now show: Name Identification Member Number& Category ALPH 5 Norfolk Mr C.A. Ulph 050lB BANWELL 14 Somerset Mr Eric Banwell 098LE CAREW 21 London Mrs J.A.C. Richardson 1217B CHOYCE 4 Leicestershire Mrs 5. C. Sheehan 0192R HERITAGE 36 Warwickshire Mr John Beritage 00673 ESSERY 13 Devon Mr Clive Essery 0881C GOULTY 5 Norfolk Dr G.A. Goulty 0059B HACKWOOD 4 Staffordshire Z_ P. IKelvin 6387B ISARD 4 surrey Mr J.W. Isard 1803B KENDRICK 102 Staffordshire Mr Edward Kendrick 22?2B KENWRIGHT 12 Lancashire Mr Edward Kendrick 2272C LINTER 3 Hampshire Mr Graham J. Linter IS4iB MARRIAGE 8 Essex Mr H.M. Knight 1750B MULCOCK 8 Gloucestershire Mrs H.J. Gardener 0963B PATTENDEN 26 Sussex Mrs K.C. Tayler iOOlB PLUCKNETT 2 Somerset Mrs s..v. Merrett 2189C POOK 28 Devon Mrs M.J. Spiller 1204c SMALLSHAW 8 Lancashire Mr R. Smallshaw 07588 SPIKINS 8 Yorkshire Mr Geoff Spikir,s 2586C STOTT 228 Lancashire Mr W.T. Stott 0125B (Hon. Sec. The Stott Society) THOMPSTONE 5 Cheshire Ann Laver 11098 TUPMAN 7 Lancashire ML A. Tupman 2013c "LPH 6 Norfolk Mr C.A. Ulph 05018 VICARY 25 Devon Mr Ian S. Vicary 2185C WAGSTAFFE 112 Yorkshire Mrs B. Kent l"E2B (for The Wagstaff Society) WHITEHOUSE 267 Worcestershire Mr Keith Percy 1032B !Thr Whitehouse Information Centre! WYARD 13 Suffolk Mr C. White i259B The Jow”al of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCitarity No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 Isubnitthef”lknkig62xcer@~correspondence forthei”terest”f”x”lbeIs legMmtionsforthe5ocommonest alsOinchxkd ‘ich’ endings.” sumames using this metho& a mmparatw is avaiMle I believe Gmff spikinr: “The nanle I an that the 1853BMD methodis bestfor Tesearchingis my own but I have thcRwith-afmediwnhigh included the valiant.?. SPlKrN. fiq”e”q,whileforrare-a SPIKQG. SPIKINS. Averagefor all muchgreaternumbaofyearsis variants = 7.5. Averas fur SPIKlNS rqnired to prcdnm a result which is only = 2.5.” reaso”ablyacNlatL. whatisnmded is a combinationof such n&hods and Che Esq called on me in psw”. the-armembenwhh He was to show me his very large na”Ksof”tcak”~tow compder pIi”to”t.s of his fan@ both Thiswculde”ablethetw0 twarctesandwastogivemesound metkxi9 to be “joined together”. advice as to the Pentium computer I Altho”gh f have calculated “ly intend to tq to replacemy old (but “SmaUshawNnmkr”, I do not see be!&) A”lst”d He designs thatithasanyothertithanasa soUwarcand,havingrcadhisletterh fttxpaq i”dimtor, which in my thecm&rJmma.1a”lsurehe~ view, is i”faioI to the 1853 “l&hod pmveaverywluabkmemkofthe for thosewith cmnnxonsurnames and Guild too itxxwate to lx useful for those with very rare names. However.I do I have much enjoyedthe letters I have z3ppLmdyour initialiw bexam! :,cu rcaived from Guild members and have hunched a d&ate. This is h.whap@yqGdtoakThqhold TahJable. It is ibdplbl for OUT inMigent and positive @nions, and mrrespondcnts to “ndxstand how makcmcrealkthatifIamtoIind fmpent a nameis.” agreementwith the opinions of the majority of rnmlws. more and more Hi& J. (iardener (“cc Mnlmck): membersneed to invohe th~mxhes -we seem to ix extioguishing f&St in the idea of Name I&&ication variom “lctho& of dmlatio” which is presently ht a novel snggcst there are bctwce” 250 and cqxximmt yet has potential for the 350 people with the name Muloxk future. The dcq searching IivingintheIJKnow,6omatotalof “Iathmlaticians determinedto alsure 2155 individwls on fde altogether thC-~ofthcmlmter.andthe d&i&. ” mhltio” OF the “ph%x or origin” 5?zekfmare of s@litbnt iq!ottancC FM KC&kk -hi”g to the future well being of the Guila KENDrucK/KENRIcw but let us stari on a simple basis of KENWRJCK etc: “In determining “Name Identification” understoodby thesenumbersIhadtomakea au “le”llEn. “ln&a @f c3Ecisio”sas to what amstit”tedavariantfmthisplrpose, 1waspxticuMypleawdtoreczivea andIdxidCdtoigwxemanyofthe letter from Eric Banwell. Rcadcls variantsassuggestedi”- may recall that when my i&a was textbxlks, for example KFRRIcy first plblished in the Jarmary lYY4 COURAGE.etc. Ialsoignotedthe Jwmal ny conch&n was “With the -y, MacKENDRY, helpofallnsmbqsuchnumben MaxENDIucK and siniku would perh;gs help tind Eric ‘varianti which my have a 00-n Banwcll’s long sought ‘Mr Average’.” origi”ifonewe”tbadrEuenmgl... In his article in the Oaoba Journal ThevadantsIhaveacmptedi”clude Eric explains his oxwkktion as to onlyminordifferewxsuhasending thelkquCncyofsumamcs and titcs with a” ‘s’, ‘e’, or ‘es’, OTin&ding This forces me ta ConcIwk that the a”d‘e’asi”IcENDERrcIc Ihave Guildneedstodewlopsomedjective 21 The Journal 01 The Guild uf One Name Studies RegisteredCharih. No. 802048 ISSN: W62-4842 definition of the mric of a rcgistcrcd NameIdcntiJication Nombxs out of a two yearsuill giw lhc “ldcntilicalion name that can tc simply~used by a MaI membership of over 1500. I Place”. I shall keep my lists open Ibr member. Perhapsas more returnsare remi”d membersthat they only have more update. Should I be flooded b submitted for the nxxntly initiated to count the births ol’ the namebeing a thousandrcplics or more. I shnll~in SmallShaW Name 1de”ufKati0” vxarchcd plus variants in the years .&milting Up&c 4 to Ihc cdiux Number we will be abIe to give 1870and 1970and divide the total by leave the future posslbtitxs of my goidanccon frcqucnq identification.” 2. so finding the avcmgc(counting a idea 10 those tnorc capable than half as one) which will give the “lp2K. More returns? Here’sthe rub! To “ldentiticatio” Number”. and the date 27 mcmlxrs have provided thcrc co”“ty most ofic” mcntioncd in these Mr R Smallshaw.Mcmtcr No. 758 [5 Heathacre.Old Bath Road C&&o& Slough BerkshireSL3 OH?. Tel: 01753682081~ A SHEARMUR FAMILY GET-TOGETHER - 28th September lYY6 Maq Mather Our fatily onynatod in WCCcharts and to:~sfor the childrcn~ never mel kforc and others had not Glouccslershirca”d is a branchof Ihe We sent an invitation and “letter 10 seen exh other since clUldhwd! pat sHEARMAN/sHEARMANNE guests” to evqone on our mailing After an hour and a half of “tingling. ISHERMANISHERMER clan thal lisle I1 outlined the progra”me for chawxing and lookitlg at displays. can be tracedlo BcrkClC\circa 1560 the day and inch&d a map witi bus Da\id called us to be seatedand hex John Shemw of North Nib@ born and train details of how to get there greetings from those who could not 1751. had three sons nho gmdull! and rcqucstcdB reply on a twr off join 11s~ Al 1.3(10WC c~ijo!~cd our adapted the spelling SHEARMUR~ foml which askedTar names of those buffet lunch and a, IHJ+lp@sed !br 3 Samuelborn 1777.Ja”ws born 1785 in their party and contribution of Q group photo f us_ taken with some and Timothy born 17X7in Aldcrlc)~. 1x1 adult to help with cxpcnses. scaledand others slanding fxing the were fordathcrs of ihose on my Lunch was on a bring and shareb&s stage on to which climbxl a fanliiy tree. 1 have bee” researching (thoseborn Januaryto Juneproviding succession of willing cameiamc” the sumamcSHEARMUR since 1988 a savoxq dish and thoseborn J&p to Them wasthen an opportoni~ lo !wk and so I& have not li\und anyone of Ek~mber a dessert)- enough Ibr all amund the church. plose [or prayer that namethat I cannot “almost link” their lz&y ;I:;s r..: extra. so that our and take a moment to listen to the into the rami& With the help of “smior” famil?~mcmbcn could bz OUT mwic of the T~isiling orchcslra. relatives 1 now have an e.xtensiwsc1 guestsOn the da?~the advancepulr* Before OUTfinal cup ol’ ~ca and of interlinked chaIts and we are i” (cousins David and Nanq: Aunt farewellsat 1600.1 was ableto updale touch \+a au im”ua1 “Shcarmur M@rie. ncphcu William and pllicnt SO”lCof I”)~ charts. glean clots for News” with Iamilics in England. husbandChristopher) ani\,cd at IWO tinding lost relatives and be Icn~ Swiizerland Canada a”d Australia. to ammgc cloths and flcnlen on the precious old family photos to laser In May my cousin David his wilti lablcs. “IR. up” the tw urn. switch on scan for the archiws This Imil! Nancy Aunt Marjorie and “xysclf background music. lay the floor rug gathering has gijrcn us a dclighhll‘ul decidedto plan a family get-together and spreadout toys_pit a notice on senseof ‘belonging” - a value to k in Wanslcad Cast London for I& the slrc~~door to \vclcomc cvcrqw. trcasllrcd~ We shall cn,o> Scpccmbcrand avidl! read Ihc book and scl oul charts and family photos. rcmc”lkang our get-roge:ethcr “Phmning A One Name Gathering”. As guestsaniwd at 1100.they were thinking of each other _ and those Aunt Majoric VC” kindl! lxx&cd her grmlcd \\ith 3 cup of ta. a list of who have gooncbelox Long Liw church hall. David agxcd lo be MC. others atIcnding and a colour cc&d Fan+ Hislov and all who make it Nancy “ndxmok the catering nametag to help them find their way possible. ammgcmentsand I prcduccd family around the funill; WCC. Many had MI’SMan’ Masher.Mcmtxr No. 1416 I13 Horse11Park Close.Waking SurreyGU2 1 4I.Z De&bs BENNY. Katbkcn 1982- 1996 JACOB,Trcvor 19% i 9% CLAXTON. John lY86 1996 LOCKE. Charles 1993 1096 CUTIEN. David 1YXY - 1996 ORTON. P&r I Y92- 1YY6 CRACK Kcnncth lYY3 - lYY6 PARTRlDGE.Bartie I’)‘)4 - lYY6 22 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No 802048 - ISSN: 0262-4842 Letters to the Editor High Frequency Name Studies since plMicatio0 of ‘nigh Another sacred cow that I am ?Frcqwnq Name Studies” in the Ail this snggzststhat the 188I Census abandoning is treating England and CktOblY%lwmaL~d~ should be OUT base else for Wales as an entity becauseEngland tx32”varied and interesting. The one mmparison. when the Lancashire with Wales. Scotland and Ireland c.xtremeia-rknextsiepshouldbeto in&x begme avdable at the end of have tecn the three areas of civil haveapmpxl%vMmp~end aogost lYY6wehadfortbciirsttime re&mtion since. 1837. 1855 and devotedto the subjea .._.I l-hi.9 WI.3 a 100% sonple basefor the whole of 1864 respecliveiy Most of us have adoally asking should the Great Britain that could be used. A teen brainwashed into aazpting “s-w nomt!er” be a pilot for coontymuatofaspeciticsumanx England with Walesas one. We were creating a tam standard? The other could be made in an hour or two. aware of somenames we acceped as cxtrcme was a pditc m&t which Dlzspitehaving give” the “Smallshaw of Welsh origin. but I personally lud Idlytmktosay.-cbesitmattera monbx”snnesupportonlytbreeago. no4 seenlhis so clearly dc.mo”strated dXNl~.dOlttwaste~time! caumefickkifyo”bkebot1now until1readtheill~O”iOthC I” Between are a “umber of personally have abandoned it in excellent book. “The Sunames of interesting suppestions. phone book thwr of the 1881 Census data Wales”b Johnand Sheila Rowland% coontsstillfeatoreasabaFealthoogb complriwn. That ah goes for the published@ FFHS lYY6. That lists I abandoned them as a rdiabbz Regis&x General tqxt of 1856 for the “Top Ten” namesof England and ftrpmcy-overthreeyeanago. vayhighfrequencynamestudiesaod wale3 separateb.based on tbclr scud\ Guppy 18YOfor disuiion studies. of the early to mid 1Yth century The gcwd view is that the 1881 Those together with Phone Books Welshnmrds \rith the 1856report I Censuscould form a universal txie for have been In) sacredcow until now. have taken the top tco surnamesfrom both ovetau fi-qlmq and 1 would also say abandon Phone the 1856 report and split them tx.wl dimiLNti0” of a name. There were a Elooksfor tiqlcnq shldies but thq on 1881 cLxlsns data. Figwcs varietyofviewsonhowfteqwqbe arx s3dl a ll.s&l 1001for one-name represent% of popllation compirod prsentedA rehnemad of 1881 contads ad more partiallady withthemspxtivecmm~asa Census use was pmposed by Jack distritmtion if you havea 20th oentoc uholc. Blencow in the sameJoomal as my imm&ml snmane interrsf. article with su&om on how ek7ladsktatNJati E&and& Waka En&ad Wales 1853 i88l 1881 SMITH 1.37 1.43 0.44 JONES 1.32 0.55 12.96 WLLIAh4S 0.87 0.48 6.81 TAYLOR 0.68 0.70 0.20 DAVIES ,0.62 0.23 6.53 BROWN 0.57 0.59 0.24 nm4As 0.51 0.25 4.54 EVANS 0.51 0.24 4.52 RoBE3(Ts 0.43 0.26 2.93 JOHNSON 0.38 0.39 0.09 I suggest the atzaw table from the 1881in&x. I could statemy owl etch as a scientific approachto dcomaam why it is sensible to views on how they should presentthe determinethe possible“epicentre” of separateEngland and Wales for the frqnenq and distritution of theti a name or studiesof migration. lack tint level of fiIqu%q and stndy nanw~>ha that wndd only Blencmvcis suggestingthat the Guild Di&htionshldica. lcsoltinfdha mrrespondence=d consider a pjozt drawing together where&wgo6om~. First1 s”~ons for alternatives and similar shalie5. 1 tidy suppon this hope all Guild members are refinement. There are nomerous view and would go further, The collecting the names and nti other ways that the census &&I wn be Guild shootd crctte a forum where 23 The Journal of The Guild of One None Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 0262-4842 the topic could lx discussed and number of projects and the this subject. as an alternative if’ hopzfally, a co”se”s”s of opinion lx presentation of resultant data I nccessaq, in the 1997 AGM and reached on dctining a sensible wooId like to seea sessiondevoted IO Conferencewekcnd programme. Mr Eric Banwell. MemberNo. 981 printon Lodge,37 Milton Lane, Wells, SomersetBA5 ZQS.] - Eric Banwell in his intenzstingarticle indexes held by both societies and base” so meetings have bxn at asked organisers of societies with individuals and haveexantined all the various places_ each b+ith w”x high fqoenq surnamesto outline indexes prblished by the Hadeian connectionwith the name. Howexzer. howthqma”ageandIwooldlikelo society,Index Library, etc. the “umkrs attending have tee” loo attemptthis. Ah I am dkcting details of the small to consider having a post 1858wills and am hoping in doe Constitutionor forming a Cotittee When I startedthe Wags@ Society coorse lo study the mcdieval Someme&en arc veer helpful with in 1987I certainly did not realisehow d+xunents WhiCh have keen rcscarch.items for the Ncwsl~%crand common the name was. bat I did publishedby the PRO. organising meetings, but I have 110 realise I could not managewith card help with the correspondence indexesas I had &no for just “q own I am not CcUccting phone book subscriptions,etc. branch. My husband is ve’en; entries as I do not feel this is worth interestedin computerprogm”“ni”g the effort Writing to Wagstalls “out I do not think the frquenc\~ of the so that lhe s(ati of the Scciety of the blue” has “ot bee” veq wamc is rclatiw to the auntxr of coincided with the pwchase of a pmdwtive in gaining new members, helpersone gets.as it is likely~thar the home wmpder and his &igning tul gendogiwl directories, the nl01c rare one’s niune is the more proglammcs for mc. since then 1 GOONS thcmsclws. rvord of mouth likely one is to take up fatily history have amassed a” index of over and local press publicity at meeting To date I have not seen this point 43.ooOentries. 1 do have all the IGI. times, have all brought in membxsl commenteda” al all. all the 1881 Census (exccpl now *umtxri”g abut 120. II is lard work running the Socict! Lancashire)and am attemptingto get A Newsletterstarting with one page but I enjoy it and I have not only the GRO cntris. I an, ooncenlrating and now with eight pagesh;ls lxx” lamed more on my pxsoual line. but on the earlier 011~sof mwo, and sent out every qaartcr. Get-togcthcn ma& mxxy friends and lcarncd a lot doubt if I shall ever completethe post have been held approxi”tately moreabout family history in generdl~ 190 ones 1 have purchased annuaUy. With a high fiqwncy WagstaJTexvac1s from numerous name there is not a sin& “home Mrs k3ah.m Ken< MemberNo. I%2 [ 17Rat Hill; Stoubridgcl WestMidlands DYR 1NA.l St.Catherine’s House I appearto have a problem. Whether were born before the September or am I wong? What is rhe rexso” or not others have 01 have had the Quarter 1837>the number of deaths for this’! same problem I don’t know. but I total 619. Out of these 233 births One exq$wion could lx that some woold be pleased if somalne could wwe co”“e&d representing only names were entered as LaNder not give me an answer. 37.7% l&&r bccaue a script ‘u’ can look Having collectedall the referencesto From the June Quarter 1969to 1992 very much lie a” ‘N’. 1 often haw m name at SI Catherine’sHouse. I whcrc birth dates are given. the correspondenceaddressed to Lander thought that it would be a reasonably number of deathstotal 151; of these on account of this confusion. Does simple task to match a person’sdate 75 births were found represetlting this mea” that I have to consider of birth with his death and hopefully 49.7?,& L;mnderas a varianl? Surely not. this to tit io his &age somewhere I In total 308 biis were connectedto is a name in its own righl isn’t it’? have had the following results. 770 deathsgiving e& 40% However_if 1 did then how would I Considering men only from the ETre” making allowanm for people sort out t’othcr from which’? March Quarter 1866 lo the June having comeacross the border to live I would appreciatehelp fro”1 ow of Quznter 1969 when ages at death and die in Engkmd or Wales; this OUTmembers who has met a sin&u were give& but excludi”g all who scans to me to k a very low figure. difficuhy Mr Maurice Lauder, MemberNo. 2352 [78 Atthor Road Rainham Giliingha~ Kent MEX 9BX.l The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies Registered Chby No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 News fmm a New member lMlohnlcalifomia! Asanew scopeofmyowointheMidlands I will be of help to others. It seemsto mwbeiOfcooNS,IhavedWith takegmatpleasweinhearing~m me that Guild membershipshould not muchitltemttbezetters”~lmti otbers~itenablesmetosharethedata be limited IO cxmlplele shldia or theJoum&forthis~year. It 1 have so laborioosly ColIexed tcquhTd categories;we musl all begin appears that the trent contested thmghtheyearsandsaeitofwto somwhere. As a libraiaq I was eleaion, and the pmoessof rewriting other researchers. The very pt-lxes taught that we go to school not to our constiMion, has mted what I or orgmizing my records for km eveqthin~ but to learn how to wwIdcalIa”CrisisofIdmtity”. It membashipandadvertising~~ fisd cut what we need to kmw. hascausedmetoponderiqvrwscms societyto various local aily history similarly; I view the timction of a forjoitdng the Guild, ekunining what societieshas teen of tremen&us help. One name Study reg&trant as not IfeelIhawtooffertheGuildand Ihavema&manynewcontxts,and necessanh someone with all the what in rehtm memtership0Ifem me. look fmward to many more answers &xh “experts” would bc ditlicolt to find)2 but someonewho tvly-motivatcmwa;tohave .4saGuildmembexIhavema&the creates a nehrork which is able to a fonlm to “advertise” and make collsclousCommihYlent to amassdata help oihas Iind answers 1 view omtactwithotherwhosharemy tothebestofmyabuy Ibavebeen my& as a “Cmnti exchange”. interestintheSprucesumame Alas hK*y to find co~ndents wllo sharing any pxtinent information Ihavenotreu%edoneletterfroma gmemtsly sharetheir researche&r& that 1 my have while keeping car&l researcherstating “I saw your name a.9well This includes St. (%herine’s track of my Sprucecomaas so that I in the Journal”. 1 wuld IWX& 1818 Censusindex data. ZGI can help to conned thosewith similar enthusiastically w&xnne “the rIxmd$ calm.5 inrotmation and interests. I feel the “0nlllwu.s helpful inc#santdri7lleof@@r, whatever else conoxns the spruce nply” so well &a&d by Mr clispuaged by one letter writer! I oame. While I will pobab~ be E&mwcll.Member No. 98 I. should be considerno SW enquiry irrelevant llmble to collect ALL nxards. dw to the goal of all Guild mcmbcrs. to my tEseatck untangling other my geographicand time Iimibtions, 1 tnmAshelhelpsmetou-the do feel that what we have amassed Mrs Kathy Compcpno,Member No. 2544 1457Rifle RangeRoad. El Cerrito. California 94530.USA 1 I88 1 Census onwofauone-~I 16$00 plus names and these have caught possi& mis-transcnbed A adamwledgeallthehaldworkpd teen rearranged into mily g!qx cops’will be &posited with the SOG into the 18881 censos Index. our A full litig has beendeposited with thah go out to one and all. In the sonely of Genealogistr(SOG). Can I finally add my mppon to the additiotl to extracdngall referencesto conunentsof Nicholas Fogg (Vol. Il. myre~redmandvatiantsof For researchers of the No.12. &t&r 1996)inthat Itxlieve SAGAR I haw extmctedall variants SAGARJSAGERISEGARnames: an the census to be most important of SAWYER which inch& extended listing with all names of souroc ror one-namers. The 1881 SEAGAR(S), SEGGER(S), others in householdsand institutions Censuslndq in particular_should kc SAWER@)and SAYER(S). None of is being prqwed An estimated a requirement - it has already thesenamesarecurrentlyregistered twenty families kmwn to exist in “solved” many outstandingqwics WiththeGoild Inallthereare 1871 and 1891 are cunently being Mr. Joho H Saga, -No. 595 [8 Mom3 Avenue. Hoa West SwsexRHl2 ODD.] Ideas Sort lnthemutseofmyone-namestudies inwluabIe tools While working on WILKINSON. Thesemmiagcs took forI?ahtJlenamecumbedandand the cumberlancl marriage list from placeonthel4thofFebnuyl762at Sh%%kl&loaapilef%XUtIKIGLSt the IGI 1 noticed that THOMAS Bmssington in Derbyshire_T&m in catheriae’s~lndexesandparish cuM%ERLANDhasanunusual Warwitihire and Tit&hall in ttgstmchroaologicalofbirths prefeme for marryinl Norfolk On 14th of Januar) 1779at ad maniam. Thes2listsm SwallowIield in Berkshire, on the 25 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN:O262-4812 17th of Ianwily 1790 at St Pd”rs regjslers. ht lhcrc seemsto be no regiwd cntnes in the ICI emanating Bedford and on the 17th of J”ne logical explanation and according to from rela~ivcs. 1802 at Th”dasto~ Leiceslershire the IGI there is no issuefrom any of and Sha&.uy; Shropshire. I have these marriages~ Normally I did Haveany membzs am ideas‘? not bee” able to check the original Pat Wd MemberNo. 2483 [2 Bedwrdine House,56A Henwick RI+ WorcesterWR2 5NT.l This is a mpmt for advice. comment At the time of the Lay Subsidiesof lamm famiiy members haye lxx” or information from fellow members: one-tenth and one-fifteenth levied in listed without being g&c” the “dc so- 6 E&yard Ill (1322) Adam de and-so” surname? The SEcond The cvlim memlm of Ux Blencowe %lencm was not li+i”g i” Blcncow. questionis whether it is reawnablcto fm of whom much is lolo\\n is hc was in Grcystokc. and ws the w%=l lhal John labelkd Adam de Blencowe, who took his richest ma” in the village: “has in “genttin” was annigcm”s? The name from the +Uage of Blencow in gcals t4 19s". In “e&y Sk&on village of Blencmr was& so tin! that Cumbria, noi far from Pemith. William de Blencow “has in gocds it is highly unlikely that mox than Adam was a vassalof William Baron 19s" and Adam de Blencow (probably one gentle fan@ held land there of Grqstoke,wlmbyawanantdatcd29 rhc same Adam) “has iti goods 16s Uw Greystokes. Fd~maq 30 F&ard IU (1356/7). 48’. In Johnby. John de Blcncow As a footnoteto the Creq ston: it is cwrckd him and his heirs the right “has in goods 15s 6d”. One of my recordedthat Greystokedid not join to bear the Greystoke arnz - a” collatmators has mitten: “Twenty- the amy before Calais until a&r the escutcheonsable winlth a bend closeted two personspid the tax in the hantie~ Battle of Neville’s Cross and Adam argent and acre, with three chaplets of Blencow, “one of them name \vas mentionedas Axing ,rt the siege gules - iqxx.mwy as a rewrd for Blencowe”. However, mother has of that city So; hc could not have his scnica as kings standardbearer pointed out that someof those listed been at Cq: but hc roxiwd a at the Battle of Crcq. there is reason there bore no f&y name: John p&n in 1348“for his good services to believe that this was an gentilman John so” of Wiliam. John in Ciasomy in compa”~~of Henna. “augmentation” to the arms borne prepositus. Gilbert so” of John. Earl of Lan~asier.of the King’s suit earlier by Adam or his family -gulcs_ William so” of Robert. John so” of for all felonies and trespassesin a quartu argent simpkily or the Hemy. William so” of Tho”us and Cumber~ tcfon: the passageof latter coat implies thal it would have Thomas son 0r hotie. she s~ggnts the l&d to the said pans. whet& hc been the more ancient, and i( was that all these would have been “de is appealed and of any subseqent subsqtently borne by the juior Blenmw” ht not listed as such OUlla\~Ti~“. As for the s&j”dard branch of the family that “wed south becausethey were actually living in bearer story, is the Battle of Pohiers to the village of Mxston St Lawrence the village. in September 1356 a more likely in the 15th ce”h”y reaso” for Ihc award to Adam of Ihc My tint question is. has anyone a” Gqstoke arms? example from this period where Mr. JackBlencowe. Member No. 2010.[24 Dale Close.Oxford OXI ITK] Largest Pedigree Having read Mr Sa>in’sletter i” the OneName Societieswho have “xmy II s(ands to reason therefore. thar January 1996 journal, qwryi”g the researchersto pwl resources. everyone of our family memberswho largestnumber of namesto appearon In the ezly 1970s the Bcrcsford can nmently attach himself or herself a family (rcc; and ha\i”g read follmv fa”xil~‘s Master Pedigree> which to the Master Pedigree would have up lctlcrs which would appearto take co&enced in Norman Times, had the sameextensive pedigree which. if his q!l&ion seliollsly. 1 feel that 1 in the region of 3$00 namesincluded he wished to wite it OUI or plaocit on must write to pit things into context on it. Since the fotmdation of the computer. wodd pmducc a rcsull An bxlividual one-namercm cxpea society at the end of the 70s decade, which is heading for 1O.OUolinked to spend “xmy years prl(ing togcthcr this number has mushmo~ pilu, namesat a rate orknots! an impressivefamily tree. Howwcr, with researchadding \vhole branches This lcttcr in NOT intcndcd (0 these individual one-namcts must praiously ““attached and partly encouragea section on genealogyin qmmte that Ihey are in a different bxawe of the gnxt annual bifihrace The GuitlnessBook of Records. It is leagueentirely from the leagw of the around the w~orldwhich adds new simply intcndcxl to saw qxcc in the nameseveq year. Journal by redwing the stream of 26 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 8020.?8 ISSN: 02624842 letters which appearedto k arriving monaming is VERY BIG teamzsof researchersbeawing away with Emily treg which Q not yet BUSINESS these days, and the continuously. reachthcl,GOnamemark Pleaselet families who take it seriously have ~@walmembershipreaIisethat Mr Dqlas Baesfoa Member No. 230. I”Rmel”_ 13 Dcswmsvay, Alderky Edge, Cheahim SK9 7XB.l County Representatives Havingjusl;mendedRon~s odyhadabouta lo%tEsp3~tohiS does help htlwmq in gieg me the openwxkshcpathishomeinBlnton letters_but oln generatedfollow up oppoItunity to broa&n my cqxricn~ onTtm&IwoIdIiketothankthe telephonecalls. of OtW.-IUIN shldic!s thmugh Guild for the idea of county I havebeen a memberof the Guild for conferences.local meetings and the tzpresmtaW. They do mabIe eight yeas and only had two loomal and I do appreciateall the contacts IocaUy with other one- enquiries regarding q name effort pit into these. namers. Itisagreat@ythatthatn generatedb memtwship. The Guild Mr Roy R Domiclift-e, MemberNo. 1281115 Hillway: Chellasto~ DerbyDE73 lRN] Food for Thought Yooaskforviex%ontheamtentof correspon&nce content is too high qrinting in the Journal if such the restyledJournal. I have long felt Many of the letter and in&d much articles are of wide appealand merit. thattheJoomaIshooldaimtoleadby of the “Guild admit? content would Those active in the centre of the example in promoting good one- be far lxtter published in a more Guild should have a reasonable name ShKIiesand techniques. This ephemeralvehicle. saya ncwslcttcr. a ovcnicw of the aw3ilable material, meansthat a good proportion of each journal ought really to he mainly for and could sekt good articles to get isax shculd be given over to v&l material wo&y of pnservation for us going. If w are lo adjust the wlinen “cast stud&“. i&ally the record 1 would seesuch material balamxoftkJoomal~Ifcelitwould combining intrinsic interest and a wing mcstly under three broad be quite in order for the editor to model for novices. A similar thought headings cumpletedresolts: s5luKz: oommission specific articles. and promptedmy earlier suggestionfor a and techniw. I sospxt that pxt of a@y a luthIess blue pencil to any Guild “anniversary volume” in the oar problem is that many of the better offerings which miss the mark. We year 2lxw Clearly. tk editorial articles by the ktter organised ought to have a Guild journal that is smpe of my plMic.ation is researchers corrmtly end up in regankl as the vehicle of firsi resort conditiod by what contriktolx send individual one-name slxiety for InembeIs test outpIt. ~butatpxsent,IktdtheJoomak @kations That should not stop us Dr JamesHodxloq MemberNo. 72 [32 King’s Road Cheltenh;un Glouceste&irz G1526BG.J Book Reviews THE NEVITT HISTORIAN Issue 1. Spring 1996, A.5 format> 17 pages. Edited by June Parkins. 133 BenaresRoad. Plomnead London SE18 1HU. Giventhatthisisthefirstissocofthe the titers and the reason for their of contents. However. my main Nevitt Historian I was pkasandy interest in the name, which is not criticism$ not only of this, but many suqxixd Ly the standad and clear always as straight forward as w other one-namejoomals. is that they layoutofthepumal. 1twasexLxknt think are witten @ enthusias& wk tend toiindafirstissuewithmorethao There are one OI two points that I to forger that not all their readers oneco~. E?ilticularIypI~ think might improve the poblicati~ sharethis enthm but haveonly a w.sthe”potte#biographyofeachof the lint king the addition of a table vague interest in the name. A good 27 TheJoornalof The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 0262-4842 example in this journal is an cnby been printed on a sepamtc line enjoyedby everyonewho has a copy fmma marriage register, where w without any indication as to who they Keeping this in mind 1.feel thal the headingsarc given. I assumethat not are. However,this is only my view of Journal has a strong future and I look ““yone lmding this wiill t!e famihar how I would like to see a one-name fonvard to tiewing a linther copy in withswhamgisterandparlscould journal and othersmay well disagree. saytenyearstime! cause confnsio% espmiaUy the OvaaIl I enjoyed this jou& each B.W. fathefs nameand fathefs occupation. article has been clearly and which bxzmse of lack of spree hme entertainin& witten and should be THE HOGWOOD FAMILY NEWSLETTER Volume 1, Issue 3, September 1996 A4 format. 8 pages, Contact Paul Hogwc& I5 Northdown Avenue. CliAomille. Margate_ Kent CN9 2NL Tel: 01843-221726or Gerald Grxey-Co.~ “I3ellbangers”,64 MilI Street,Kidlington O.xford?.hireOX5 2EF. Tel: 01865-375933. This is only the third Naaktter novice a like. There is a genuine Examplesare given of @ lea& that publisha the iirst being in May feeling of warmth and friendship havebeen sqqlied and the outcome. 1993. It is well edi* easy to read, permeating the pages Records are A veq good effort. Ho@dIy we wilI and the reprcdwtion is of good encouraged to te a part of the see issues on a more regular basis, Wm. Newsletter and readersare asked to even containing !&nily trees and a Although a small Newsletter it is keep a “look out” for alI referencesto pichue or mo. padred with infomution for both the Hogwwd family M”le. J.M. experienced famiIy historian and MAINE GAZETTE Volume VII, Number 3, Fall 1996. Fornut US qwto bwklct, 24 pages. US publication. subscril%ion$15. UK Contact:David Gore. The Red House, bwz Basil* Berksbirc RG8 9NG. US Contact: Nancy L. Childress Services;3709 W. Gardenia. Plwniw, Arizona 85051-8266,USA This Gazettehas been published for interesting article on John Thomas It w~ouldbe interesting to see this mm years and consistsof material Maqnc (3792-3843)entitled “A Mild Gazette in a more reader frien+ copied in its original format. Caseof GenealogicalDeception”. format. Included in this edition is an J.M News & Items of Interest BUZZAs OF TAE WORLD or 9uo WARS OF TBE BUZZAs WORLDWIDE Jack BUZZA of Tmm in Cornwall, Tow&a& St Ives. West penwith. 3 smau vilIage called has jut completed worldwide CoInWall. FRANCOFORTE!near Simcosa on researchinto the surname BUZZA. Although the name BUSOW is first the island of Sic@ One day perhaps For most people it is a formidable mentionedin the A&e Plea Rolls of liicr proof will come to light. but task to just trace their own family 1284, Jack is of the opinion that it most of the e&y records were lineage f@wvw~ Jxk has spentthe gms tack cvcn fwthcr than this; in dcstqed by the Gemms in the war. last ten searstracing and tracking the fact to 1124 in Genoq Italy, where 1939-1945. movementvof every known kunily of the nameBUZZ0 appxs. This is an As centuries ago. the Italians traded BUZZO/BUZZA which is a very Italian occupational name from the uith the Comish for tin. lack bciicws ancient locative surname from the word BUZZACARNINA the name that some of these traders stayed hamkts of Higher and Lower given to a shil%oiIder. Although no behind in Cornwall and married into BUSSOW in the parish of records now mist_ Jack’s Itsearches the early families whose ancestors have led him to the place of origin as had been there since time 28 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 immemorial. They set up home on hvotmesumameswhwrootscanbe If you have my additional RosewauHiu.apmlitictinstreatning traced back to Cornwall. those being information to add or wxld like any area since the Bronze Age and they BUZZA and BUZZO. information on the BUZZA “clan”, called the place BUSSOW. There JaCkhasCh&daboldtwenty please write in the first i&awe has always been a mutation of the tlhmand BUZZAs in a massive enclosing a SAE or IRCs to: Jack double “Ss” and the “zz” as with tbe family tree. Along the way he has Bum, Member No. 2313. 86 “0” and the “U” in the old Comish collectedmany exploits and storiesof Comish Crescen< M&bar. Truro -,whykndyet~own thewaIfandtheyareentereditla comwall TRl3PE. UK. Teday,amundthewordinhventy- massivebook he is titing entitled tbreecoontdes,Jackbasfoundooiy :THE BUZA SAGA”. Adrian JamesWebb. of 6 Rose&q Sheet,Taunton Somerset,TA2 6NF, England has sent in the following two items of intcrcst to members West SomersetEstatea 1834 In the “Act for exonerating Estates._. of mw=Y> Kilton Lilstodq 45,andmaoyofthepq~e1tynames comprisedin the Mardage seulement Strington and Netbcr Stowey The cleariy originate from ownership by of Sir John Palmer A&ad, Banx@ propties listed in&k details of the local families, for example>Bawdrip’s p from the Jointme or Rent- lessee, name of the field/pmpcrtyT M4 Burton’s Close. Blake’s Long chargethereby limited to Dame Sarah acreageand the annual rent or value. croq etc. Maria Palmer Aclan& his widow _., Some of the leasesrecite the age of 27tb June 1834” is a list of all the lessee, for example, Elizabeth properties mncemed in the pG3risk Theme aged 76, Richard Alford aged A list of all the sumamesmentioned in the Act is asfollows: ACRAMAN, ALFOfW, ALLEN, BEARDES,BEER BESSE,BISHOP, BOOTH, BOWLES,BREWER BROWNING. BRYANT, BUCKLAND, BULLAR BURLAND, GAINES, CHILCOIT, COLES, CROCKER CROSS. DAVIS, DENNIS, EVERED, EVILL- FAHlE, FELLOWES, GIBBES. GORE, GROVE. HAYMAN, HBMBURY. HEXT. HOARE, HOOD. JENKINS. KNIGHT> KNEE, LEADER, LEGG, LEVERSHAD, LOIT, LUTIREJ& MANNINGS, MAN’< MARTIN, MASTERMAN, MEAD. MILLARD, MOORE, NEEVE, NORMAN, PARROTT, PAYNE, PERRElT> PINN, POOLE, RAWLINS, RIDLER RIDLEY. ROWE, SEALY, SELLICK SHEPPARD>SHORNEY, STACEY, STAPKIE, STOCKMAN. STODDEN, SULLEY, SWEETING, THISTLE, THOMAS, THORNB, THORNTON; TREVELYAN, TRIPP, VBNN. VlCKERY. VILLIS. WAITS, WELCHMAN, WESCOMBE,wHnE=mD, WILCOX WROTH Teirmmoutb Cbu~ches1815 An Act of Parliament “For Enlarging a six page list of the premises Heriots, Term and Namesof Lives in andqairingtbeParishChmcbesof cmlcemd Tbelistofpqwt%are the Ixases The earliest leas L%tandWestTeignmdlfh...andfor desnibed in detail under the mentioned in the sch&le is dated authorising the sale of divers following headings: tkscri@ion of 1740 and there is an indenture of Hereditaments in East and West Premises, Grantors, Grantem or feotTmeotof 1701recited in the Act Teignmoo&,UsingbmandHighweek Lessees,DatcofLease,~~ given Rqal assentin 1815, contains Rents and Gxwationary Rents, Ali&ofallsuroatns m&oointbeAdisasf0lJ0ws: ADAMS, ARSCOIT; BABB, BARTLEIT> BICKFORD, BLACKSTONE, BRADDON, BRAND, BREWER BRODERS. BULLY, BURGESS, CALCCTIT, CAR% CLAPP, CLQADE, COMYNS, COURTIS, COVE, COWSE, COY% DAVY, DEARINGE, DOWNES, DUNN. DURINGE, EDWARDS, ELLARD, ELLIS; ERNEST, ESCOIT, EVANS, GAUNT, GLASS. GODFREY, GOSS>GRUNDY, HALL, HAM, HARPER HIRTZELL, HOLE, HUBBARD; HURLE, JORDAN, KINGDON, LAMACRAFT> LANGLEY, LOCKE, LOWE, MANWARING, MARGARY, MARTIN, MATTXEWS; MILFORD. MOITON, NANC’E, NEWBERRY, NOBLE, NORRISK PARDON. PENNEWELL. PENSON. PERIMAN; PIDSLEY. PITMAN. PITTS. PRAED, PROWSE; FUDDICOMBE, RENDELL, REZNDLE,RISDEN. SHORE. SHORT. SMITH SQUARYI TAPLEY. TAYLOR, TEMF’LR TILLEY, TOWILL, TIJCKFR UNDERHILL. VICARY. WATERS, WELLS: WHITBORNE. WIDBORNE, WIDECOMBE, WlLKlNGE, WILLS, WOOD. WRIGHT The Journal 01 The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 02621842 If anyoneis imcrcstcdin any of the abovenames. Mr Webbhas a microfiche of the Act (32 pages)available at fl.60. postageas above. The editor has mzeiveda letter announcing a new commercialpublication to help reaearchcrsfind Canadianancestors Originally mrted to give researcherswith families in Canadaa ‘doorway’ for enhancedcommunications with other researchersin Canada Family HistoG News has grown with each issue since it &an as an eight page ncwslctter in Novcmlxr 1995 and had alrcady increasedto twenty pagesfor tbc secondquarterly issuein lYY6. The newsletterhas informative ankles on researchingCaoxkan ancesuyand ClassifiedAds for specific name researchers Publishedquart& by Pan’s Publishing in Oshawa.Ontario. a yzar’s sutmri#on for four issuesis $18.00 for Canada.$25~00 for or&s from outside Canada(please send Canadian drafts or monc? orders)and $20.00for the USA US dollars will be accepted.Payments should be madeout to Pan’s Publishing and mailed to: 525 Ritson RoadN.. Oshawa ON LIG 5RJ Canada CHANGES TO THE REGISTER Change of Address OOSYDR GEORGE A. GOULTY 1688 MR TIMOTHY SANKEY THE KUGEL. 26 SUNNINGDALE. ORTON 1 HARBY BROWE WATERVILLE. PETERBOROUGH GRAFTON CLOSE. WORCESTERPAP& CAh4BRlDGESHIRE PE2 5UB SURREY KT4 7JY 0511 MRS ETHEL M. PHILSON 1885 MR P. J. WOODEN 167 CARLISLE ROAD 3 1 MEADOW VIEW CLOSE BROWNS BAY. AUCKLAND 1310 HAYLANDS: RYDE NEW ZEALAND ISLE OF WIGHT PO33 3EY OS45MR ALAN R. NEWTH 1967 MR CHRlSTOPHER F. BICE 6 I SEYMOUR ROAD 27 HURRELL COURT TROWBRIDGE. WILTSHIRE BAl.l8LY KlNGSBRIDGE.KINGSBRlDGE. DEVON TQ7 IHI 2025 MR DEREK R. BECK 25A LONGWOOD AVENUE 0616 MR TONY POMEROY BINGLEY.WEST YORKSHlRE BD16 2P.X THE KEEP. 3 STOKEHOUSE STY POUNDBURY. DORCHESTER 2056 MR GEORGE L. VlZARD DORSET DTl3GP ORCHARD HOUSE.20 RAVINE ROAD CANFORD CLIFFS 0825 MRS JOYCE E. SKINNER POOLE. DORSET BH 13 7HY 16 COTMAN CLOSE GREENLEYS. MILTON KEYNES MK12 6AF 2110 MR CHRISTOPHER W. ATKINSON 28 LIBRARY ROADPARKSTONE POOLEDORSET BH12 2BE 0830 MR ARTHUR R. TYRRELL 16 THE CRESCENT 2146 MR CHARLES H. CHECKLEY SOLIHULL; WEST MIDLANDS BY 1 IJP 14 BUCKSKIN PATH PLYMOUTH. MA 02360 USA 1160 MR BRlAN T. JOHNSON HAWTHORNS. OLD TOAD ALDERBURY 2206 MR ANDREW W. KELLY SALISBURY. WILTSHIRE SPSSAR 23 GROVE ROAD MENSTON ILKLEY. WEST YORKSHIRE LSZ!, 6JD 1266 MS SHARON FLOATE 22 FLORIN COURT CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE. LONDON ECIM 6ET 30 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 2215 MR ALAN HORDER 2337 MRS GILLlAN M. MOSS 15 CHLJRCHLANE KNIGHTON 13 BRICKFIELDS. SOMERLEYTON LEICESTER LE2 3WG LOWESTOFT. SUFFOLK NR32 5QW 2231 MR MICHAEL R. HASLAM 2444 MR BERNARD J. WATKINS 58 MJLBORNE ROAD. MAIDENBOWER P.O. BOX 1839 CRAWLEY. WEST SUSSEXRHlO 7LP DOUGLAS GA31534-1839 USA 2318 MR KENNETH W. DJLKES 2465 MR J. T. MITCHELL CLEMATIS COT-l-AGE 125 THE MEADOWS WHITSTONE HJLL.PILTON CHERRY BURTON. EAST YORKSHIRE HU17 7SD SHEPTON MALLET. SOMERSET BAJ 4DX 2524 MR PAUL J. OXENHAM 18 NEW STREET. CHARFlELD III WOTI’ON-UNDER-EDGE GLOUCESTERSHIREGL12 8ES New Registered Names 0911 MRS HELEN KlND 2614 MR NElL CRAVEN 9 TOLL CLOSE. MAREEBA 106 BURTON ACRES LANE QUEENSLAND 4880 AUSTRALIA KIRKBURTON. WEST YORKSHIRE HDX OQR KINDT [C] PARRINCHIEF [C] FRUDD IC] The Guild welcomes the following New Members 2632 MR TERRY A. WILLIAMS 33 MUTLEY ROAD. MANNAMEAD 2638 MR SlMON A. QUILL PLYMOUTH DEVON PL3 4SB 63 NEWTON ROAD LlNDFlJSLD. WEST SUSSEX RH16 2NB QUILL [Cl 2633 MR GORDON GRANT 20 BRUE NORTON ROAD 2639 MR NIGEL J. FITCHARD CARTERTON. OXFORDSHIRE OX18 3JF 37 CLOWSER CLOSE LUCKETT IC] SUTTON. SURREY SMl4TP FITCHARD [C] 2634 MRS CHRIS PLAYLE I36 ISLEDANE. ORCHARD PARK 2640 MR WlLLIAM STONE KINGSTON UPON HULL. YORKSHIRE HU6 9AW P.O.BOX 709 HARWlCH PLAYLE [Cl MA. 02645-0709 USA 2635 MRS CHRISTINE FRANCIS LE BOUTILLIER [Cl 106 BARKHAM RIDE FINCHAMT’STEAD. BERKSHIRE RG40 4EN 2641 MR JOHN HEWITT HORSECROFT [C] 13 FRANCIS GROVE OLD BASFORD 2636 MRS KAREN R. TAYLOR NOTTINGHAM NG6 OAG 14 THE ROOKERY. BALSHAM HODBY ICI CAMBRLDGESHIRE CBI 6EU WOODSELL [C] 2642 MR JAMES A. SNASHFOLD 12 BUSHFIELD DRIVE 2637 MR PETER J. RUSHEN REDHILL. SURREY RH15LT 3 ELMS CLOSE. DUXFORD SNASHFOLD [C] CAMBRlDGESHlRE CB2 4RD RUSEEN [C] 31 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Shldies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 0262-4X42 2643 MR DAVID F. GWTON 2654 MR PETER STOTESBURY SPRINGFIELD. 22 LACHE LANE 2 GLEBE GARDENS CHESTER CHESHIRE CH4 7LR OLD MALDEN. SURREY KT3 5RY GUYTON p] STOTESBURY [C) 2644 MR REX A. WHIT-TA 2655 MR COLIN I. ROBERTSON 14 CANDLER STREET 18 MULL CRESCENT SCARBOROUGH,YORKSHIRE Y012 7DF IRVINE; SCOTLAND KAll 1HW WHITTA [C] ROUGIIT [Cl CLERIHEW [C] 2645 MR BRLAN REMJNGTON 2656 MR JOHN L. TRUDGILL 11 NURSERY LANE 18 GRANVILLE AVENUE LEEDS. YORKSHIRE LS17 7ED NEWPORT. SHROPSHIRE TFlO 7DX TRLIDGILL [B] 2646 DR FRANK L. HADDLETON 37 MILESTONE CLOSE 2657 MRS JOYCE 1. CHANDLER STEVENAGE. HERTFORDSHIRE SG2 !JRR 2JTHEAVENUE HADDLETON (C] BRAlNTRE ESSEX CM7 3HY NOSWORTHY [B] 2647 MR SIDNEY J. HATCLIFFE 2658 MR DAVID NORRELL 27 MCGOWAN STREET 5 1 CAIRNGORM WALK. LARNE BENDIGO VJCTORJA 3556 AUSTRALlA Co. ANTRIM NORTHERN IRELAND BT40 ZJ? HATCLIF’F-E [Cl NORRELL [C] 2648 MRS CLAIRE FREESTONE 2659 MR MARTIN J. QUARRINGTON OAKFIELD. I STARRS CLOSE I1 BARLOW CLOSE AXBRIDGE. SOMERSET BS26 2BZ RAINHAM. KENT ME8 YNF CHILCOTT [C] QUARRINGTON [Cl 2649 MR JOHN R. CLAFPERTON 2660 MRS SUSAN M. CODDlNC 2 PEARCE GROVE Y GALWAD. 36 BRACKEN ROAD EDINBURGH; SCOTLAND EH12 8SP MARGAM FORT TALBOT BARSOTELLIA [Cl SCANDROGLIO [C] WALES SA13 2AY PRIDDIS [Cl PETITPIERRE [Cl 2650 MRS JEAN M. FANTHORPE 2661 MR SMURRAY PAKES TEALBY> 483 GATEFORD ROAD FCO (ABU DHABI) WORKSOP.NOTTlNGHAMSHIRE S817DX KING CHARLES STREET FANTHORPE [C] LONDON SWlA 2AH PAKES ICI SOUTHEY [Cl 2651 MRS FIONA C. JENNINGS 40 MORESDALE LANE. SEACROFT 2662 MRS ANNE L. WILLIAMS LEEDS YORKSHIRE LS14 5SY SOUTH PARA TOSELAND [A] R.M.B. 427 KANIVA VICTORIA 34 19 AUSTRALIA 2652 DR JOHN F. MAYBERRY NANKIVELL IB] 7 THE SPINNEY THURNJ3Y.LEICESTERSHIRE LE7 9QS MAYBERRY [Cl 2663 MR RONALD G. HARMAN 62 TREDEGAR ROAD 2653 MR JOHN HUSTIN WILMINGTON 1 LUDLOW CLOSE, SUMMER HAYES DART-FORD.KENT DA2 7AZ WILLENHALL, WEST MIDLANDS WV12 4RZ DUNCE [B] HUSTON [Cl 32 The Journal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCbkrity No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 2664 MRS WENDY I. ANGOVE 2668 MR ANDREW THPxAVES 2 1BRYN SIRIOL 6 MOUNTFORD CLOSE. ROGERSTONE CAERPHILLY CF83 2AH NEWPORT. GWENT NPI OBL ANGOVE [B] THRAVES [B] 2665 MRS HEATHER J. BELCHER 2669 MRS ANNE THOMAS SAXONIA 7 PARK ROAD 2A BERCEAU WALK LITI’LESTONE WATFORD WDI 3BL NEW ROMNIZY. KENT TN28 8NJ MORCOMBE (B] SAINT [Cl 2670 MISS KARLA E. WARTH 2666 MR ALAN R. PRIhlE 57 STEPHENSONROAD MOUNT PLEASANT. STOKE ST. MARY HANWELL. LONDON W7 INN TAUNTON. SOMERSET TA3 5DE WARTH [Bl PRIME [Cl 2671 MR EDWARD C. DEBNEY 2667 MRS JANET BOSHER 8 HUCKLEBERRY CLOSE 28 BENNING WAY PURLEY ON THAMES. READING WOKINGHAM. BERKSHlRE RG4O LXX BERKSHIRE RGX 8EH BOSHER [Cl 2672 MRS KATHY ORFORDPERKINS 4 LINDEN COURT. BEESTON NOTITNGHAMSHIRE NG9 2AG ORFORD [Cl Forthcoming Events 14 April “Sussex by the Sea”. The Fe&-&ion of Family Histcny Societies’Conference. AGM and Council Meeting hostedby the SusexHistory Group in its 2Sth Atmivemxy Year at Bishop Otter College.College Law. Chichester.West Sussex Sendan SAE for boddng form and limber &ails to: Mrs DoreenHayes. 3 1 Poulter’sLane. Wottbing West SussexBN 14 7SS 19 April 1997 WagstalTSmidy Meeting to cddxatc the Society’sTenth Annivcrsq IktaiJs from Mrs B. KcnL 17 Red Hill. Stoubrid&. We&Midlands DY8 INA 29 May 1997 Ulpb Families Gather& at Great Yarmouth from 10.3Oamto 5.m. Details timn Colin Ulph MemberNo.501.1281 Upper ShorebamRoad Shorebarn+-Sea WestSussex BN43 6BB. DEADLINES The deadline for the April 1997 issue is Monday. 3 February 1997 and for the July 1997 issue. Monday. 5 May 1997. Remember.please send lots of articles with lots of photograpgs etc! Pleaseno photocopiesas these da not reproduceat all well. Copytight of material is to the Editor of the Journal of One-Name Studiesand the author. ******* 33 The Jomnal of The Guild of One Name Studies RegisteredCharity No. 802048 ISSN: 02624842 THEI GUILD OF ONE-NAME STUDIES was formed in September 1979 tc~encoumge the exchange of ide& and co- operative liaison between the growing number of family historians who concentrate their research on all references to a single surname including proven variants. In the majority of cases this activity is carried on by an individual working alone and not as a member of a One-Name Society, although many such societies have been established and admilted to the Federation of Family History Societies as formally cons&ted organisations. Such a group, whether or not formally constitote~ may becomeassociated with the Guild through an individaal member. Anyone with a genuine interest in this type of research is welcome to join, membership not being restricted to those who register specific surnames. The Aims and objectives of the GUILD are: (a) To advancethe edacation of the poblic in the study of genealogy and family history of persons with the same name and its variants. (f-9 To promote the preservation and publication of the resultant da@ and to maximise its accessibility to interested membersof the public. In furtherance of these aims the Gail& (i) Provides a foram for individuals and groups of people engaged in the collection of & references and occurrencesof a single name and its variants worldwide. (ii) Arranges conferences,meetings and similar gatherings for Guild membersand others interested. (iii) Encourages one-name research. particularly from original documents, and publishes or assists in the publication of the usefid results of such research. (iv) Prodocesa Journal and other literatore, helpful to One-Name Sulies. w Maintains and publishes a Register of the surnamesbeing researchedand of the places where members have deposited the result of tbeti researches,and through close association with the Federation of Family History Societies, the Society of Genealogists, the Association of Scottish Family HistoT Societies and similar organisations worldwide secures the greatest possible awareness of One-Name research, By means of the Register each member becomes the publicised contact and exprt in the nom+) he or she has regi@rerrd. (vi) Emomges and emares bv a written undertakiw that members deal with all reply-paid enquiries, which relate to their registered names. This undertaking is a primary requirement and should not be given light&, particularlv with the more common names. New applicants for membership of the Guild should send a stamped addressedenvelope to the Regis&w, requesting a Registration Form. 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