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CHAIRMAN Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings Ken Toll Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA 20 North Road E-mail: [email protected] Three Bridges Website: www.one-name.org W Sussex RH10 1JX Registered as a charity in England 01293 404986 and Wales No. 802048 [email protected] Guild information

Sales VICE-CHAIRMAN Peter Walker AS well as Guild publications, the 24 Bacons Drive Sales Manager has a supply of Jour- Cuffley nal folders, ties, lapel badges and President Hertfordshire back issues of the Journal. The Derek A Palgrave MA FRHistS FSG EN6 4DU address is: 01707 873778 Vice-Presidents [email protected] Howard Benbrook Peter Goodall 7 Amber Hill Ernest Hamley SECRETARY Camberley John Hebden Kirsty Maunder Surrey Peter Towey 11 Brendon Close GU15 1EB Tilehurst, Reading England Guild Committee Berkshire RG30 6EA E-mail enquiries to: The Committee consists of the 0118 9414833 [email protected] Officers, plus the following: [email protected] Rob Alexander Forum Howard Benbrook REGISTRAR THIS online discussion forum is Jeanne Bunting FSG Roger Goacher open to any member with access to Rod Clayburn Springwood e-mail. You can join the list by John Hanson Furzefield Road sending a message with your mem- Barbara Harvey East Grinstead bership number to: Cliff Kemball W Sussex RH19 2EF [email protected] Paul Millington 01342 326663 To e-mail a message to the forum, Roy Rayment [email protected] send it to: [email protected] Librarian TREASURER Sandra Turner Vacant Regional Representatives Regional Reps Co-ordinator 2 St Annes Close Barbara Harvey Winchester A LIST of Regional Representatives Bookstall & Sales Manager Hants SO22 4LQ of the Guild in a number of UK counties and overseas can be found Howard Benbrook 01962 840388 [email protected] on the inside back cover of this Forum Manager Journal. If you are interested in Sharon Symons EDITOR becoming a Regional Rep, please Website Manager Roy Stockdill contact the Regional Representa- Paul Millington 6 First Avenue tives Coordinator, Barbara Harvey Publicity Manager Garston, Watford (address and phone number on the Roy Rayment Herts WD25 9PZ inside back cover). Data Processing Manager 01923 893735 John Hanson [email protected] The Journal of One-Name Studies is published quarterly by the Guild of SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMEN One-Name Studies and printed by Executive Ken Toll Flexpress Ltd, 5 Saxby St, Leicester Publications Ken Toll ISSN 0262-4842 Seminars Jeanne Bunting FSG © Journal of One-Name Studies Vol 8 Issue 10 April–June 2005

MAIN ARTICLES 6 The making of the Guild Marriage Index – COVER STORY PETER ALEFOUNDER describes how members can use the Index to discover where marriages took place 9 Six million WWI medal index cards are to be destroyed by the MoD 10 Researching 21st century contemporary sources for your one-name study JEFFREY KNAGGS gives a rundown on finding living people with your Guild name 11 Did the Surdival surname get to Ireland from France? ELLEN MAKI searches for the source of her registered surname in Normandy 14 Webwatch – UKBMD is a wonderful resource for one-namers – COVER STORY The growing online, county-based indexes are described by JOHN HANSON GUILD REPORTS • NEWS • EVENTS 18 Successful joint seminar on maps and directories with Essex SFH 20 Seminars update – Computer Seminar at Bletchley Park and Occupations Seminar in Sunderland 21 Marketing the Guild’s profile • Website aliases for members REGULARS

4 Chairman’s Notes KEN TOLL 5 Just My Opinion ROY STOCKDILL 22 A View From The Bookstall HOWARD BENBROOK 23 Registrar’s Notes ROGER GOACHER 24 Reviews – “Receipt book” of a 17th century Delia Smith 25 Letters – your views on issues in the one-name world

ARTICLES, letters and other contributions are welcomed from members, especially accompanied by illustrations, and should be sent to the Editor. Publication dates will normally be the first day of January, April, July and October. Copyright of material is to the Editor and Publishers of the Journal of One- Name Studies and the author. No material may be reproduced in part or in whole without the prior permission of the publishers. The views expressed in the Journal are those of individual contributors and are not necessarily those of the Committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies.

3 Handing over office after somewhat of a roller coaster ride FTER TWO years in the more data is entered, so keep as an area in which we need to role, this is my last sending in and updating your provide further investment, sup- column as Chairman. I marriage information. port and encouragement. have, however, decided After a slow initial take-up, Last year we sent copies of to put my name forward to stay the Guild Online Data Archive is the 2004 Register of One-Name on as a Committee Member and also a success, enabling mem- Studies to about 80 public take on a lesser role or two. bers to preserve their data away libraries in the UK to improve This will enable me to ensure from their home PC, which is the publicity given to your there is a smooth handover to critical these days. I have heard studies. This year we plan to your next Chairman (to be of several members who have widen the net and include appointed after the AGM) and either had a disc crash or com- record offices and LDS FH Cen- continue to help where plete computer failure in the tres. The Marketing Sub-Com- required. I will at last have some past month alone. I understand mittee continues to pursue ways time for my own one-name members can elect whether to of increasing the profile of the study, which has been sadly share their data with everyone Guild and its members’ studies. neglected these past four years. or just Guild members. I shall My term in office has been investigate the facility further in Constitution somewhat of a roller-coaster my anticipated spare time. I have continued to work on ride, with many ups and downs. Seminars continue to be very revising the Guild’s Constitution, On balance I have thoroughly successful and our 2005 Confer- and will continue to do so if the enjoyed it, but there have been ence and AGM looks as if it will next Committee wish me to. episodes I’d rather wish we be every bit as popular as One of the changes I am plan- could all have avoided. previous ones. Planning is ning is to increase the term of already well under way for the Trustees on the Committee, who Achieved 2006 Conference. currently stand down every 12 We have achieved much dur- The Guild is in a very healthy months and, if re-appointed to ing the past year or so. The financial state and we are in a the Committee, can stand for a problems with Journal distribu- good position to take on new further term. This can (and has) tion have virtually been elimi- projects. What the Committee lead to difficulties in forward nated since handing the whole needs now are volunteers who planning. process over to our printers, are prepared to identify pro- I hope to propose a three- Flexpress. It took a little while to jects, gain Committee approval, year term for Trustees, which is bed down but the previous and manage the projects suc- more in keeping with the Char- problems have not recurred. We cessfully. I know there is a lot of ity Commissioners’ guidance. I are, however, still at the mercy talent out there, so let’s have envisage that one-third of the of the mainland and interna- some really good ideas. Still in Trustees will stand down each tional postal systems and the the pipeline is a potential pro- year, and the Committee will be odd Journal still goes astray. ject to investigate getting online assured of the continuity of ser- Thanks to the work of Mary access to data for members. I am vice of the remainder, unless Rix and Peter Alefounder, the still awaiting a decision from the they decide to stand down. Guild Marriage Index has now Charity Commission on the use I would like to end by thank- become a really useful tool – not of our funds in this way. Pro- ing your Committee, the Guild only for finding other Guild gress has been very, very slow. Trustees, who do so much to members interested in the same Apart from the Journal and keep the Guild moving forward. couple, but also for finding the seminars, our next main point of Without their efforts, much of parish identity for a post-1837 contact with members is what you have come to expect GRO marriage reference. It will through our Regional Represen- as part of your membership just become progressively better as tatives. This has been identified would not happen. ❍

4 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 RIP “Harold Crooks-Faker”, the charlatan of genealogy

ID MANY Guild Brooks-Baker became involved plaining about the fact that his members read, I with Burke’s Peerage, and the newspaper kept on quoting wonder, the recent edition published in 1999. By that Brooks-Baker. I got a note back obituaries of Harold time, the title and rights to the that said: “Harold is an old rogue Brooks-Baker, the self-styled and book had been sold to another but he talks a good game!” oft-quoted “royal expert”, who company with which Brooks- According to the Mail on presented himself unashamedly Baker had no connection. Sunday, the Queen and the other as Britain’s premier genealogist? However, he traded on the royals hated him and Bucking- Trawling the Internet, I could- name by retaining the business ham Palace went to the rare step n’t help noticing that American title and continued to describe of issuing a statement saying he newspapers particularly appeared himself as Publishing Director of knew no-one in the royal family. to have been completely taken in Burke’s Peerage, publishing a few Even the hyphen in his name by the machinations of their minor books, thus deliberately was bogus and assumed. Still, he countryman, who aspired to confusing the issue and taking in seemed undeterred and con- become the epitome of the typi- much of the media, who never tinued on his merry and incorrig- cal English gentleman. understood the true situation. ible way, presenting himself as a British newspapers like The Family historians remember royal expert and media darling. Times and Daily Telegraph mostly only too well a series of rubbishy We shall not see his like again contented themselves with books called the Burke’s Peerage – hopefully! straight-forward reporting of his “World Book of...” [fill in any old life, combined with a little gentle surname you like] which he sold mickey-taking of his innumerable to the gullible. These contained A bouquet for Scotland observations on the doings and no more than lists of names and I RECENTLY spent three days at frolics of the royal family, ridicul- addresses (many of them out of the General Register Office for ing his pontificating and some of date) culled from CD-ROMs, elec- Scotland, researching the ances- his more absurd comments. toral registers and telephone try of a Westminster MP for my Only the Mail on Sunday, as far directories, etc., with a potted series on well-known people in as I am aware, exposed Brooks- guide to the particular surname Practical Family History magazine, Baker as the charlatan many of us of little genealogical value. I I have to report that with their in the UK genealogical world suspect even a few Guild mem- wonderful computerised system knew him to be. In an entertain- bers may have been conned into at New Register House in Edin- ing two-page spread, they buying one. burgh, I achieved in those three described him as “Harold Crooks- days what normally takes me Faker”, the “Nabob of Snob” and Titles from four to six weeks to do at even a “shady American business- Another of Brooks-Baker’s the Family Records Centre when man with a trail of debts”. sidelines involved selling obscure ordering certificates, returning to Harold Brooks-Baker’s standing Scottish and French titles to those collect them four days later and amongst real genealogists was with more money than sense, and then ordering more. zero. He was constantly described he even launched his own Burke’s At New Register House you can in the press as the Publishing Peerage credit card. simply call up the digitised Director of Burke’s Peerage, but Unfortunately, he took in the images of the register entries, this was a deception to win him media because he was, quite sim- discard the ones you don’t want acceptability in the media and ply, useful to them. He was what and print out the ones you do for with the public, who were unaw- the press calls a classic rent-a- 50p. Even allowing for the £17 a are of the true facts. quote personality, who could be day entrance fee, I saved many In fact, he never published a guaranteed to come out with a pounds on the cost of buying single edition of Burke’s Peerage, pithy comment on any royal sub- English certificates, not to men- the so-called bible of the aristo- ject you cared to name, even if it tion the fact that Scottish certifi- cracy. There was a near 30-year was frequently inaccurate. cates contain much more gap between an edition pub- I once wrote to a major tabloid information. lished in 1970, well before editor, a former colleague, com- Well done, Scotland!

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 5 The making of the Guild Marriage Index and how you can use it to discover where marriages took place

HE ORIGIN of the Guild Marri- contributed marriages from their one- By Peter age Index (GMI) can be traced name studies and on September 20 Alefounder back to Paul Millington’s that year the Guild committee gave article1 in the Journal in 2001, final approval, making it an official in which he proposed the creation of a Guild project. By then Mary Rix had database to exploit his discovery of a recruited me to write the web pages method by which the parish or other and software. place of a marriage in England or Wales in the period 1837–1911 may be Sample inferred from its reference in the Gen- In November 2003 a small group of THE Guild’s online eral Register Office Indexes. Guild members began testing a small Marriage Index There was no interest in this from sample database on web space kindly database was the the organisers of FreeBMD, who were provided by David Banks, the Guild’s brainchild of Mary Rix unwilling to add to their database own website at that time being com- (Member 1328), who anything not in the GRO indexes, and pletely full. This database was made proposed the idea in at that time only limited interest from available to the Guild Committee for 2003. the Guild2. their approval in February 2004. However, it had its The present Index arose from an The first proper edition of the GMI, origins earlier in an initiative of Mary Rix who, having can- on the Guild’s new website, was article in the Journal in vassed opinion at a Guild meeting in released on April 23 2004. Since then 2001 by Paul 2003, proposed the construction of the two more editions (the second on July Millington, who GMI mainly to help Guild members find 22 2004, the third on January 20 2005) described a method for the unknown spouses in marriages have appeared. discovering the extracted from the GRO Indexes, but There are now 94,140 entries online, location of marriages with the benefit of also identifying with contributions from 197 members from the General places of marriage. (see bar chart below). Register Office Indexes This proposal was sent by e-mail to without having to those known to have an interest and Construction purchase the was also published in the JOONS3. By Mary Rix collects information sent in certificates. August 2003 over 70 members had by Guild members and enters it into an The GMI also Access database. It is this enables members to database that occasion- discover the names of ally makes an appear- unknown spouses. ance at Guild meetings In this article, Peter and conferences. For the Alefounder, who wrote online database, further the software and web processing is required. pages, describes how All entries are subject the Index is put to verification – a com- together and how puterised check intended members should use it. to detect typographical errors. This does not ensure that all entries are cor- rect, but it does allow the removal of many of the errors that are inevit- able in a database of this sort. For example, digits are not normally found in names and the soft-

6 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 the online index is also checked before final process- Paul Millington’s discovery ing. For each new edition of the GMI, Mary Rix produces a large CSV file from her Access database. I The essence of Paul Millington’s article1 was reduce this to a set of much smaller index files which that marriages were not inserted into the are sent to Paul Millington for uploading to the GRO index at random. Instead, for each Guild website. quarter and district there first appears the marriages in Church of England parishes in • How to make use of the GMI alphabetical order of parish, then other The GMI resides in the Members’ Room on the marriages: non-conformist, other religions, Guild website, www.one-name.org. You will need civil ceremonies in register offices. Thus, for the username and password, which are provided each quarter and district, it should be poss- each year on the back of a Journal address sheet ible to draw up a table showing which page and are also available via the Guild website, numbers were used for each parish or other www.one−name.org/forgotten.html. There are two place of marriage. A GMI place search pro- ways to search the Index... duces such a table (to the extent that the places are known). • Surname search You may, as Mary Rix envisaged, search for your surname of interest among the entries submitted by ware would detect any use of the numeral 0 instead other members. This search is conducted only on the of the letter O. spouse surnames, and not the registered surnames, The verification software does not remove entries of these entries. A powerful wildcard facility is from the database. It merely draws attention to provided, of which details can be found on the web those where there may be a problem. Thus, excep- page just below the search forms. Having found an tions can be made – one such is for the marriage of entry, you may then contact the submitter and a 3rd Earl. Dates are also checked to ensure that hopefully enjoy a fruitful exchange of information. they are within range (1837–1911) and that they actually exist, allowing for leap years. The current database contains one entry with an • Marriage place search impossible date, June 31 1877. The correct date is Practically all members will have lists of marriages unknown and, for all we know, June 31 may be from the GRO. Obtaining the details of these (name what is written in the original document. of spouse, exact date and place, etc.) by purchase of The verification also ensures that registration the certificates would be an expensive course of district names are standardised, essential for the action. In most cases, these details are also available later addition of links to the GENUKI lists of parishes from the parish register. for each district. A single registration district may contain many Periodically, a set of new entries is sent to me for parishes and, particularly in London, a single parish checking and the full database for a new edition of may encompass several churches, each with its own

How the Guild Marriage Index is produced

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 7 preferably to just one, although as yet that is unlikely to be achieved. As the GMI grows and more contri- butions are added, it will become much more useful for this purpose. For this type of search, the informa- tion required is the year, quarter and GRO volume for the marri- age in question. For JavaScript equipped browsers, the year and volume are selected from the drop-down menus. Suppose you have found a marriage in The GMI search forms. The exact appearance will the GRO index for 1851, depend on which web browser is used 2nd quarter, volume 17 register. Searching all these may take up much page 54, in the Cheadle registration district. No valuable time in the record office. fewer than 20 parishes are listed by GENUKI for The role of the place search is to reduce the Cheadle. A search of the Guild Marriage Index gives number of registers that may need to be checked – the result you see in the illustration (bottom left). Recalling from Paul Millington’s article that each parish begins on a fresh odd-numbered page in the GRO index, it is clear that this marriage must have been in Cheddleton St. Edward. We might not have been so lucky. Had the page number been 57 or above, the marriage

Ken Toll searched the GMI for Toll/Tole and found that Charlotte Tole married William Chandler at Dunton, Bedford- shire. Having thought the Tole family extinct in that area, he contacted Guild member Dick Chandler by e-mail. “We have both gained from this exchange” – Dick Chandler

could have taken place in Dilhorne, Draycott in the Moors, East Vale, Farley, Forsbrook, Ipstones, Kingsley, Oakamoor or Whiston, all those parishes from Dilhorne onwards in the GENUKI alphabetical list for the Cheadle dis- trict. This is nine possible parishes – a lot to search but still a considerable improvement when compared with the complete list of 20.

• Contributing to the GMI Contributions can be sent by e-mail to Mary Rix at [email protected]. The preferred format is a comma separated variable Results of a place search. The links from the districts (CSV) file, although most other formats can be are to the corresponding GENUKI lists of parishes. read and converted. The information required

8 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 Six million WWI medal Paul Millington had a reference to a marri- age in 1842, 4th quarter, vol 6 page 213, in index cards are to be Abingdon, Berkshire, registration district. A search of the GMI revealed a marriage on destroyed by the MoD page 217 in Abingdon but the particular AMILY and military historians have reacted church was not given. He presumed the with horror to the news that some six marriage he was looking for was in one of million World War One medal index cards the Abingdon churches and found it in are to be destroyed, following their digitis- Abingdon St. Helen. This marriage is itself ation and placing online by The National Archives at now in the GMI. the DocumentsOnline website. “A splendid resource” - Paul Millington Both the Ministry of Defence, which holds the cards, and TNA claim the realities are such that there is no other option. They say the cards have been offered to institutions such as regimental museums, is year, quarter, surname, forename(s), registration but the costs of transferring them and storage are district, volume, page, spouse surname and fore- prohibitive. However, Col. Iain Swinnerton, a promi- name(s), exact date (day, month, year) and place. nent military researcher and founder member of the Mary will accept incomplete entries – further details Guild, says: “This is an absolute scandal – these are can always be added later. However, for the online historic documents and should not be destroyed.” index, entries must be useful for the surname search Iain also points out that... or the marriage place search, preferably both. • There is information on the back of some of the Entries that include neither the spouse surname nor cards that has not been filmed and will be lost the place could not appear in the results of either forever. type of search and so will be excluded from the • There are many family historians who do not online index. have Internet access. Non-ONS marriages He adds: “These are priceless original documents and for some 60% of the 5.5 million men who Marriages that are not part of a one-name study served in WWI they are the only record of their can be included in the GMI. Such entries will be service. It is disgraceful that TNA want to get rid of accepted if they include the GRO reference, place, them. I think every FHS and ONS should be jumping date and the names of both partners. The names up and down and complaining to their MPs. will be entered both ways round, so that surname “I have been sent examples where home searches will include both bride and groom. addresses have been written on the back, often of The Guild of One-Name Studies must surely be in the relatives who applied for the medals. So often, a unique position among genealogical societies in particularly with our former colonial cousins, all they being able to construct an index of this sort from have is a faded sepia photo with no identifying the collected knowledge of its members. badges or markings, and if their ancestor’s docu- Many thanks to those who have already contrib- ments were burnt that is all they will ever have.” uted a list of marriages. If you have not yet sent Your Family Tree magazine has started a cam- any, please do so and help to make the GMI a paign to save the cards. Editor Garrick Webster said success. ❍ in a message posted on genealogy newsgroups and References mailing lists: “The MOD claims it holds copyright on the cards and it can do what it wishes with them. 1. Millington, Paul (July 2001) JOONS Vol 7 Issue These cards are part of the nation’s heritage. They 7, pp 6–9. “Locating marriages in England and Wales are public records and remind us of the enormous between 1837 and 1912” sacrifice and loss incurred by men and women in this 2 Benbrook, Howard (Jan–Mar 2002) JOONS Vol 7 country during WW1 and of their bravery. They Issue 9, pp 14–15. “Advantages of being a GOON has enable the children and grandchildren of those who the e-mail electrons humming!” died and those who survived to find out some of the 3 Rix, Mary (July–Sep 2003) JOONS Vol 8 Issue 3, p lost details of their forebears.” 24. “Proposed Marriage Index 1837-1911” The National Archives says the cards are stored in 143 cabinets, each almost six feet high, in an MoD PETER ALEFOUNDER facility at Hayes, Middlesex. No institution wants to Member 252 take them because of the huge costs involved in 3 Tennyson Court transferring and storing them. TNA also claim only 50 Winn Road about two in every 300 cards has something on the Southampton back. “The resources required to identify and extract S017 1ER that small percentage of cards from within the total [email protected] collection of 5-6 million cards cannot be justified,” a spokesman said. ❍

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 9 Researching 21st century contemporary sources for your one-name study By Jeffrey Knaggs S MEMBERS of the Guild of One-Name The cause of death can sometimes be inferred from Studies, we are required to research ALL details of where donations may be made. occurrences of our chosen surnames. This Many local newspapers have a website that includes all those people who were born, carries these announcements but they are often not married and died this century. This branch of study archived, so we have to look every week. Most has difficulties all its own. In this brief overview I national newspapers, however, have websites with will mostly confine myself to the situation in Eng- an archive that can be searched and all sorts of land, as that is where I do my own research. interesting news snippets can be found. Subscribers • Civil Registration to Ancestry.com can receive automated news of This would appear to be fairly straightforward. obituaries in (mostly American) newspapers and the For England and Wales, the GRO Indexes normally Rootsweb obituary site has a free database and take about a year to appear at The Family Records associated distribution list. Centre, so the indexes for years up to 2003 are now • Censuses and directories available. However, you might have difficulty order- Few of us will live to see our own entries in the ing a copy of a birth certificate unless you already 2001 census and future censuses are likely to be less know what’s on it. This subject has been raised here and less useful to family historians anyway. For and elsewhere before, so I won’t go into it. details of where people live now, we have to turn to Of course, the majority of one-namers don’t live telephone books, local trade directories and the in London or the South-East of England, so have to electoral register. www.192.com is a useful pay-to- rely on available online indexes. FreeBMD, although view site where contemporary people can be found an invaluable source for the 19th and early 20th using these sources and this organisation also centuries, holds nothing later than 1983 (after which produces a version on CD-ROM. Many foreign the indexes changed from quarterly to yearly). telephone books, both white and yellow pages, are 1837online hold records up to 2002; it is a pay-per- online. See www.yell.com for British yellow pages. view site, and, although not without its detractors, • Monumental Inscriptions many people recommend it. Many people in Britain opt for cremation these The civil registration review has been shelved for days and only leave a simple memorial giving a the time being but it is bound to be revived at some name and a range of years. But traditional head- stage, and for how long we will be able to browse stones are still being erected and often provide the indexes and order certificates is a matter of information, or at least clues, difficult to obtain concern to family historians. elsewhere. Many now include a photograph of the • Probate deceased and I wouldn’t be surprised if video, or Even today, the majority of people still die intes- even voice-mail, soon follows. Few modern MIs are tate, but the probate indexes and corresponding listed online, but family history societies have wills are a valuable contemporary source. Unless ongoing projects to record them. there are complications, details appear on the • People computers at The National Probate Registry within a I have left to last that resource which, when few months of death and you can still order a copy researching our own tree, we are encouraged to of any will for £5. The biggest problem is that there consult first – human beings. People getting mar- is no online index. ried, having children, being bereaved or just existing • Newspapers are alive and can be contacted. But be careful! Most Local newspapers are a valuable source of infor- people have no interest in family history and at best mation on births, marriages and especially deaths. will see you as a harmless nutter, at worst a nosy- However, there has been a trend over recent parker who ought to be reported to the police. decades towards greater informality, with fewer Some of the people you contact, or who see you hard facts in these announcements. These days more taking down particulars from their loved one’s and more children are born to unmarried parents grave, have an overwhelming desire for privacy and and announcements are quite likely to give only the you might need to use tact and discretion. mother’s surname or to give a hyphenated one, in This has been just a quick overview of some of either order. There are few marriage announce- the more obvious sources that are still useful to ments these days, and wedding photographs are one-namers researching modern people. But its almost never accompanied by a date. But the major- main aim has been to remind you that family ity of deaths are announced in local papers, and history didn’t end 100 years ago – it continues now there are often lists of children and grandchildren. and into the future. ❍

10 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 Did the Surdival surname get to Ireland from France?

atrick Sullivan lay for tcihvoei cwe ho lived in a town where they believed my two years in the infir- great-grandfather had been born: Belcarra, County mary at Whiston Work- Mayo. And a second family member recalled having house, the result of a been told as a child that before settling in England, traumatic head injury suffered the family name had been Surdival, not Sullivan. I while quarrying clay near his consulted the parish records for the Irish Roman home in Eccleston, Lancashire. Catholic parish of Balla and Manulla2, which With that accident, financial includes Belcarra, at my local Family History Centre support for his wife and nine in Toronto. Baptisms for my great-grandfather and By Ellen children came to an abrupt end. his siblings were quickly spotted and the family tree Patrick’s wife, Maria, took in began to take shape. Patrick Surdival alias Sullivan Maki laundry to make ends meet. was the eldest son of a farming family. The children, accustomed to With a sense of satisfaction at having discovered hearing their father sing as he returned home from my great-grandfather’s birthplace, my attention was work, now left school for good to help support drawn to the surname Surdival itself. It was not a themselves. Then, finally, on August 19 1907, Patrick name that I had encountered prior to beginning my Sullivan passed away at the relatively young age of family history research and I was curious as to its 46, the cause of death as certified by origin. Surdival is not an old Irish clan the doctor being cerebral name, so how did it come to be used degeneration. as an Irish family name? How long Patrick Sullivan was my great- have there been people of that name grandfather and the details of his in Ireland? demise were pieced together from The name Surdival itself suggests recollections of my mother, several a possible origin. Located in close aunts and cousins and with informa- proximity to the English Channel in tion from his death certificate. By all Manche, France, there is an historic accounts, the last years of his life town named Sourdeval. In his work were grim. But his earlier life was on the origins of English surnames, very different. Although he toiled Reaney states that the names long hours to support his family, they were a great Sirdifield, Cedervall, and Surrell derive from this joy to him. He told his children of his life in Ireland, location3, while Baring-Gould gives Sordwell as the where he had been born and raised, and how he modern version of Sourdeval4. Although the sur- had sailed to England where he met, fell in love name Surdival is not mentioned by either of these with and married Maria Moran. The couple settled authors in connection with Sourdeval, France, it in the St. Helens area of Lancashire to raise a family. seems reasonable to hypothesise that it, too, might have arisen from a locative surname, de Sourdeval. Daunting There is some evidence for this and I will explain this I wanted to learn more about this man and what by going back to medieval England. had led him to leave Ireland for England. I under- Following the death of Edward the Confessor in took to research the family history, but what a 1066, there was much political turmoil around the daunting task I faced. Although I knew that Patrick issue of succession. Believing he had a rightful claim Sullivan had been born in Ireland about 1861, I to the throne, the Duke of Normandy, later known didn’t know the precise locale or even the county in as William the Conqueror, successfully invaded which he had been born. According to the Math- England that same year and became king. Richard eson report based on 1890 data1, (O’)Sullivan was de Sourdeval, also of Normandy, is reputed to have the third most common surname in Ireland and it attended William the Conqueror at the Battle of seemed unlikely that I would be able to identify Hastings during this Norman invasion and his name which of many Patrick Sullivans born about 1861 appears in the Battle Abbey Rolls5. was my great-grandfather. Attempts to find his That Richard was present at Hastings is a some- marriage in the English civil registration indexes what contentious assertion, but what is not in doubt turned up nothing and I was unable to learn his is that Richard tenanted many English manors after father’s name. the conquest, particularly in Yorkshire. After the Two lucky breaks cleared the hurdle. One family success of his invasion, William claimed all English member provided the name and address of a rela- lands as his own and rewarded his supporters with

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 11 possible that the name Surde- ville, found in East Flint, Haw- arden, Manor and Rake in Wales may be a version of Swrd- wal, or Surdeval. During the 12th century, the English invaded Ireland, and among the newcomers may have been descendants of Richard de Sourdeval, either from Yorkshire or Wales. At the time of the founding of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin, in 1177, a Hugo de Swordeval or Surdeval made a grant to the new abbey9. Charter In the charter of this abbey, the town Balisurdeval, also referred to as the “ville” of Hugo de Surdeval in “Nas”, in or near the parish of “Kil”, is mentioned several times. Apparently, Hugo de Surdeval was well established in the county of Kildare in the twelfth century and lent his name to lands there. Both the surname and the town name have persisted in Ireland over the centuries, although the town name is per- haps barely recognizable today as originating from Surdeval. In the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery for 1596, the village of Surdewalston in County Locations connected to the Surdival surname in Ireland Kildare is given as a location choice properties. One of those acknowledged in from which one John Ewstace was entitled to corn this manner was William’s half-brother, Robert de acreage tithes10. Mortain, Count of Mortain in Normandy. Robert was Half a century later in 1654–56, the civil survey of granted several hundred manors in England, and it Kildare was undertaken. At this time, the parish of was a number of these that were tenanted by Kill in County Kildare comprised a townland named Richard de Sourdeval6, Robert’s neighbour in Nor- Shurdwalstowne11. Later, as seen in the wills left by mandy and fellow supporter of William. Hugh, the eldest son of Some selected occurrences of Surdival variants Richard de Sourdeval, established himself at Aberscir, Brecknock- Year Name Location shire, Wales. According to the Routh Family History7, Hywel c. 1066 Richard de Sourdeval Yorkshire, England Swrdwal or Surdwal, the Welsh c. 1088 Hugh de Sourdeval Brecknockshire, Wales heraldic bard, was a descendent 1177 Hugo de Surdeval Kildare, Ireland of Hugh. Morgan and Morgan8, 1297, 1302 Simon Surdeval Kildare, Ireland on the other hand, are somewhat c. 1450 Hywel Swrdwal Wales more tentative in making asser- 1673 Edward Surdeville Dublin, Ireland tions about the poet’s ancestors, 1796 David Surdivale Mayo, Ireland stating only that he may be a 1837 Shreiff Surdeville Dublin, Ireland descendant of Hugh. Present day Surdival Mayo, Ireland Whatever the relationship, it’s

12 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 Alexander and George Graydon of County Kildare in References 173912 and 176213, respectively, the lands in ques- 1. R E Matheson, Special Report on Surnames in tion were referred to as Swordwallstown. And by Ireland, with Notes as to Numerical Strength, Deriva- the time of Griffith’s evaluation toward the middle tion, Ethnology, and Distribution. Printed for H.M. of the 19th century, the townlands were known as Stationery Office, by A. Thom, Dublin, 1909. Swordlestown North and South. 2. Catholic Church, Parish of Balla and Manulla, After the first mention of Hugo de Surdeval in Mayo, Ireland. Parochial registers of Balla and the charter of St. Thomas Abbey, variants of the Manulla (Mayo), 1837-1905. Filmed by the surname continued to appear in Kildare and else- Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1984 where in Ireland. For instance, Simon Surdeval was a 3. P. H. Reaney, The Origin of English Surnames. juror of two land disputes in County Kildare in 1297 Routledge and K Paul, London, 1969. and 130214. His connection to Hugo de Surdeval is 4. S. Baring-Gould, Family Names and Their Story, unknown. Was he a descendant or other relative? Seeley, Service, & Co. Limited, London, 1913. Or did he simply have some connection with the 5. Duchess of Cleveland, The Battle Abbey Roll town bearing Surdeval’s name? with Some Account of the Norman Lineages, John Murray, London, 1889. Will 6. T. Hinde, The Domesday Book: England’s Approximately 25 miles north-east of the parish Heritage, Then & Now, CLB International, Surrey, of Kill, the site of Hugo de Surdeval’s lands, is the 1995. city of Dublin. Given this short distance, it’s not 7. H. C. E. Routh, A Short History of the Family of surprising to find bearers of the Surdeval name in Routh, 1953, available at: Dublin in the years after the abbey charter. A gen- http://www.langhorns.co.uk/langhornline/ tleman of Dublin by the name of Edward Surdeville Routh%20Booklet.pdf left a will in the year 167315. The name continued to 8. T. J. Morgan and P Morgan, Welsh Surnames, appear in connection with Dublin until at least 1837, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1985. when a Mr. Surdeville is mentioned in The Times 9. J. T. Gilbert, ed. Register of the Abbey of St. (London) in an article on Irish agitation as the late Thomas, Dublin, H.M. Stationery Office, London, Sheriff of Dublin16. 1889. Toward the end of the 18th century, there are 10. J. Morrin, Calendar of the Patent and Close indications of Surdivals in County Mayo. David Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, Vol. II, H.M. Stationery Surdivale appears on the list of flax growers for Office, London, 1862. 179617, apparently having planted flax in the parish 11. R. C. Simington, The Civil Survey, Vol VIII, of Drum and been awarded spinning wheels for its County of Kildare, Stationery Office, Dublin, 1952. processing. How did the Surdivals come to be in 12. P. B. Eustace, ed, Registry of Deeds, Dublin: County Mayo? Is there a connection between the Abstracts of Wills Vol. I, Stationery Office, Dublin, Dublin Surdevilles and the Mayo Surdivals? I wond- 1956. ered if any landowning Surdevilles from Dublin or 13. P. B. Eustace, ed, Registry of Deeds, Dublin: Kildare had been relocated to County Mayo at the Abstracts of Wills Vol. II, Stationery Office, Dublin, time of the Cromwellian transplantation. 1954. 14. H. S. Sweetman, ed, Calendar of Documents, French Relating to Ireland, Vol. 4 & Vol. 5, Kraus Reprint, Consulting Simington’s published list of trans- Nendeln, 1974. planted individuals18, I found no mention of 15. A. Vicars, ed, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Surdival/Surdiville in Mayo. Given that French forces Ireland, 1536-1810, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., were present at Castlebar, County Mayo, during the Baltimore, 1967, reprint of the 1897 edition. rebellion of 1798, it seemed possible that the Mayo 16. The Times, Lord Mulgrave and Irish Agitation, Surdivals might have arrived as part of this French London, England, Tuesday, October 3, 1837, Page 5. contingent. However, the presence of David Surdi- 17. Ulster Historical Foundation Flax growers vale’s name on the flax growers’ list two years Bounty List 1796. Ulster Historical Foundation, earlier invalidates that argument. Belfast, 1999 In summary, my research to date has shown that 18. R. C. Simington, The Transplantation to there have been Surdival/Surdeville families in Connacht 1654-58, Irish University Press for the Irish Ireland for over 800 years. However, the question of Manuscripts Commission, Shannon, 1970. how and when bearers of the name settled in different parts of the country is still unanswered. Dr. ELLEN CLARKE MAKI To make the study more intriguing, one needs Member 4279 only ask how the Surdivals found today in different 19 Broadleaf Road countries around the world are related, if at all. It Toronto seems that I have at least as many questions about Ontario the surname Surdival as I did when I began my M3B 1C1 research. ❍ Canada

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 13 IVE YEARS AGO Cheshire Registration Ser- projects is listed under its own county, this lists them vices were the first county to post their all in one place and, at the time of writing, the births, marriages and deaths on the Internet. following areas are covered... Under the auspices of CheshireBMD, it is a Using the Cheshire database engine are Bath, joint project between the registration services and Cheshire, Lancashire, North Wales, Staffordshire, the local family history societies. West Midlands, Wiltshire and Yorkshire. In addition, Requests to the Registrar for a copy of a certifi- County-based UKBMD website is a there are similar projects for Cambridgeshire, Darl- cate entailed them manually searching through ington Borough, Durham, Isle of Wight, Kent, handwritten indexes to the weighty copperplate ledgers. Researchers can now make use of the wonderful resource for one-namers indexes and the simple search facilities to identify let’s look at some of the other options. which are always worth looking at. the names they are looking for and order the • One-Name Studies • Mailing list Figure 3 – Lancashire BMD certificates accordingly. Other counties and family The section titled ONS lists a number of one- The Register section contains a link to enable you Newcastle, Tees Valley, Warwickshire and Wrexham history societies have followed suit, many using the name studies and, yet, I could only count eight to subscribe to the mailing list that keeps you but they all use differing search engines. To begin same code as the original Che- Guild-registered names among informed of the latest releases. The list is main- with, though, lets look at the Cheshire-style ones. shire site. the 21 listed sites. Mind you, tained as part of the British Genealogy website, You will need to look at each county to see the UKBMD – www.ukbmd.org.uk there was an entry to the Guild counts several Registrars amongst its members and, coverage, as they vary greatly. Cheshire (see Figure – started life as a means of ena- Archive (well, letter A of it – I like a lot of similar lists, is a fount of information. 2), for example, now has nearly four million records bling the original sites to be wonder how many will look at • County Option online, with the majority being births, while Lanca- found easily but has progressed the other letters?), so those who This part of the site allows you to select the shire (See Figure 3) has only just over two million to a portal giving easy access to have their data on it are in some county that you are interested in and then by but concentrates on marriages. many sites offering BMD infor- ways catered for. I am not con- clicking on the word “County” (strange wording to Each site has a section on the updates that have mation, as well as others offering listings of parish vinced how serious the one-name studies on Jones been made, detailing what has been added and records and bishops’ transcripts. and Piper are, though! when. Selecting any of the types will take you to a • The main site There are a number of interesting sites in the screen that enables you, amongst other things, to Figure 1 shows the main page to the website, but section on the census, both the well-known national Figure 2 – the pioneering Cheshire BMD see the listing of which registration districts have before I concentrate on the main part of the site organisations and also some private local ones been covered. my mind) displays the listing of related sites. Unfor- Selecting a district will show the list of churches, tunately, the main county for my own ONS – Suffolk chapels, etc., that are included in the district, – is not very well covered. together with dates applicable and codes, but, more What I want to concentrate on, though, is the importantly, the dates that have been indexed on part covered under “Local BMD”. While each of the the site. Figure 4 shows part of the index for the

Figure 1 – the opening screen of UKBMD Figure 4 – the index to marriages at Bury, Lancashire

14 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 15 Figure 5 – Simple Listing Figure 6 – Surname Search marriages in Bury, Lancashire. church where the marriage took place. Figure 6 Going to the search page you are presented with shows the search screen for this surname search, two options, Simple Listing and Surname Search. which is easy to complete. This happens to be the Part of the Simple Listing is shown in Figure 5 and one for marriages but they are all basically the this will simply list all of the people with the sur- same. You select the region that you are interested name beginning with the first letter of the surname in, enter the surname and in the case of marriages selected. You can if you wish restrict the registration you can enter the spouse’s surname. district and you can select multiple years if required. You can, of course, add the initials of the parties To my mind though, the major benefit of the site as well, if required. Next, select the type of match is the Surname Search and, in particular, the marri- that you want – exact, soundex, etc. – and select the ages. Why? Well, even from 1837 onwards they list “Display surnames” button. the spouses’ full name and also the name of the Well that isn’t quite it – I missed the year and for

Figure 7 – part results of a search for the surname Halstead in Lancashire

16 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 Figure 8 – results of clicking on the hyperlink in Figure 7

Figure 9 – saved files opened in an Excel spreadsheet a good reason. The help text says that you can select see how they work, as they are all different. Some, multiple years by holding down the Control key and like Kent, will only let you search a single year at a selecting the separate years. If instead you leave the time, but if you use it in conjunction with the GRO first year highlighted, use the mouse to move the indexes it can be reasonably painless. However you slider to the bottom of the list and, holding down do sometimes stumble on the odd little gem. A the Shift key, click the last year. You have now selected every year in the list. Figure 7 shows part of the result of searching for the name Halstead in Lanca- shire. You can see the wide variety of places involved. But there are two things to note – firstly, the spouse’s full name is listed even in 1843 and the other is that the entries are organised in complete years. You will also note that the entry for Mary Halstead in 1844 Figure 10 – two children born to a mother whose has an asterisk beside it and is, in maiden name was Halsted fact, a hyperlink. Selecting the link will display the search in the Isle of Wight for the name Halsted details shown in Figure 8. The page does explain revealed, amongst others, the entries shown in that there are seven possible reasons why there are Figure 10. two names for Mary, only one of which is re- Clearly, two of the entries have come about marriage. because the mother’s maiden name is Halsted, so You may also notice from Figure 6 that you can behind the scenes they have indexed it. A search of output the result of the search to a file rather than the 1881 census and the GRO indexes showed that a to the screen. In this case you will be prompted for Helen Jane Hasted married a George Cheverton in the file name to save the details to. The files open 1878 on the Isle of Wight. easily in a spreadsheet, as Figure 9 shows. To my mind, this is a wonderful resource for one- • Other options namers and now all I have to do is find an easy way You will have to play with the other websites to of working out the ones that I have checked before!

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 17 Collaboration between Guild and Essex SFH ensures a stimulating and successful Maps and Directories Seminar By Derek Palgrave area. Using published maps to ties Fund project to set up and find the whereabouts of relatives maintain Internet access to HEN THE GUILD was mentioned in local directories images of several hundred local launched at the end and census returns had not been directories spanning the period of the 1970s its straightforward. The dates of 1750–1920. The Local History members, although publication of the maps rarely Department at the university had aware of the fact that their coincided with those of the direc- a substantial collection of histori- research methods had so much in tories or census years and the cal directories but many had been common with those employed by situation was borrowed from elsewhere in other family historians, still often exacer- order to provide optimal geo- tended to place greater emphasis bated by the re- graphical cover of England and on the problems peculiar to the naming of Wales. Owing to possible prob- study of a single surname and its roads. lems with trade marks and variants. In many copyright, it was considered However, with the advent of instances, sec- undesirable to include post-1920 newer techniques, the greater tions of several directories. accessibility of source material long roads had The lecturer described the pro- and enhanced capacity for com- Jeanne Bunting been given dif- cedure which had been adopted municating information, all ferent names, so it was difficult to transfer the researchers, irrespective of their to pinpoint a given location until information to specialities, are realising that it is the house numbering had been computer and the becoming more and more impor- resolved. The lecturer had philosophy behind tant to share in this expanding worked out a procedure to the search rou- pool of knowledge. It was, there- accomplish this, which she illus- tines. She fore, a particularly welcome trated with some excellent conceded that the initiative on the part of the Guild graphics. site had not been and the Essex Society for Family designed with History jointly to organise a Redevelopment Evelyn Cornell family historians in major seminar at Chelmsford. She and her husband had mind, but it was fairly straightfor- The venue at the Essex Record visited some of the areas ward to search on keywords Office was very well appointed concerned in order to establish if which could be surnames. In fact, with an excellent lecture theatre the buildings in which they were it was not necessary to specify a and good facilities for partici- interested were still standing but, geographical area or a time-span pants to circulate in between as is so often the case, urban so for a one-namer this was ideal, lectures and during the lunch- redevelopment had removed any although it was liable to be quite hour. Furthermore, there was earlier evidence. However, in one time-consuming. Several mem- sufficient space to accommodate instance they had been able to bers of the audience indicated the many bookstalls offering a photograph an extant bridge that they had used the site but at wide range of books and soft- which was known to have been least one described the mode of ware. very close to an area where searching as somewhat cumber- Jeanne Bunting started the ancestors had been living and some. Nevertheless, there had first session by describing some of working. been a steady stream of around the problems she had encoun- The next speaker was Evelyn 30,000 visitors each month, so it tered when trying to find people Cornell of the University of was proving a worthwhile enter- in large conurbations. She drew Leicester. As an information prise.. on her personal experiences in librarian, she had been involved Regrettably, the future of the both Sheffield and the London in the three-year New Opportuni- site was uncertain. The funding

18 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 was of limited duration and there much data that they should be commended several others, such were no plans to operate beyond more widely used. Most local as John Cary’s 1787 Map of Lon- three years. Many of the audi- authorities had good collections don, Stanford (1867), the London ence suggested that it was a in their public libraries and record of Charles Dickens Junior, (1879) good candidate for conversion to offices. We were left in no doubt and more generally MACH (1881), a pay-per-view site, but being a that this cartographical informa- but this was only available for university project, this was unlik- tion was too good to miss. three counties. He singled out the ely to happen. There was a David Hawgood, who spoke 1958 Atlas of London on CD-ROM possibility that a further grant, immediately after lunch, as it had a good street index. enabling an expansion of the site described some work he had Users of FTM had access to to include Scottish directories, been doing recently maps but the gazetteer was dis- might extend its life. but this was to generate maps appointing. However, it was by no means clear. for blind and par- worth looking on the internet for The morning concluded with tially sighted peo- links from Cyndis’s List, Google, an expertly presented survey of ple. He pointed out etc., together with the specialist traditional maps by Clive Paine, a that for the partially map websites, Oldmaps, Street- well-known local historian and sighted some con- maps and Multimaps with aerial extramural tutor. He showed us a venient form of photography options. sequence of magnification was Also mentioned were maps maps dating David often sufficient but from specialist genealogical sites from the 16th Hawgood for the totally blind such as www.british- century onwards. it was essential to produce tactile genealogy.com with free down- He drew atten- images, usually in conjunction load offers, such as the 1871 Post tion to the series with a spoken commentary. Office Map of Essex. of county maps Special paper was available on The lecturer concluded by published by which an image could be printed offering some advice on produc- Clive Paine John Speed in the in black. Subsequent heat treat- ing maps to incorporate one’s early 1600s, illustrating an early ment of the paper caused the findings. He method of displaying topographi- encapsulated chemicals pointed out that cal features. The ancillary matter immediately below the printing early versions of on the margins and in the corners to expand and lift the image into EXCEL included a received special mention: for relief. County boundaries, roads feature which instance, there were often coats and towns could be included, allowed the inser- of arms associated with the local together with Braille characters tion of quantita- gentry, drawings of buildings for more detailed identification. tive data into and, in many instances, town Examples were passed round for John Hanson maps, but he plans. There were town maps per the audience to examine. regularly used Steve Archer’s se, often showing important local It was envisaged that a sound GenMap V2.1 to illustrate a range details such as mills and lime commentary and PDF files could of geographical distribution data. kilns, etc. be downloaded from the web So ended a very successful Manorial and estate maps and printed out onto the special- Seminar. The collaboration were of especial value to family ist paper for local heat treatment. between the Guild and the Essex historians as they often displayed The author had already estab- SFH in arranging such an interest- field names, landholders and sig- lished a website at ing and stimulating programme nificant local landmarks. Support- www.dhmap.org to provide for was more than justified. ing documents listing names and the growing selection of maps for I found it was a day well spent. land usage were especially impor- this purpose. Work was continu- not only in the lecture theatre tant. Later on, in the 19th ing in order to develop rather but in other parts of the Essex century, the tithe maps and more sophisticated images incor- Record Office. There were plenty schedules, which are almost univ- porating OS grid references. of opportunities for meeting peo- ersally available, recorded The final session on Mapping ple and for paying a visit to the extraordinary levels of detail, so Your Ancestors was presented by Essex SFH’s impressive Research much appreciated by family John Hanson. He observed that Room. historians. one of the most likely starting The speakers and the organis- Ordnance Survey maps were points for many of us was the ing team deserve our congratula- first established in the time of Phillimore Atlas and Index of Par- tions. ❍ Henry VIII but published versions ish Registers, but there were now did not appear until the 1830s. several options including Cassell’s • Pictures by Keith Tunstill of The lecturer stressed that the 6- Gazetteer (1898) and Steve Arch- the Essex Society for Family inch, 25-inch (and occasionally 50- er’s Surname Atlas, both avail- History and Gordon Adshead of inch) scale maps provided so able on CD-ROM. He also the Guild of One-Name Studies.

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 19 Occupations Seminar in the Web pages on the agenda North-East in Computer Seminar MEMBERS of the Guild have often asked: “Can we have a at Bletchley Park secret seminar in our area?” So, in order to spread its wings, the Guild will be holding a seminar code centre at St. Peter’s Campus, the Uni- versity of Sunderland, on By Jeanne Bunting Saturday, August 20, starting at 9.30 a.m. for 10.00. It is open E HAVE chosen the magnificent Bletchley Park mansion in to all and the subject matter Buckinghamshire, the former home of the legendary will be “Occupations”. wartime secret coding centre, as a fitting venue for this It is intended that we have a year’s Computer Seminar, which is all about web pages mix of speakers, local and and how to create them. national. John Hanson, of the The Seminar on Saturday, May Halsted Seminar on Society of Genealogists, will 28, will be in the Library and introduce the computer ele- there will be a line-up of expert one-name studies ment with his A to Z of Occu- speakers on the subject. THIS year’s seminar to promote pations. Guild Vice-Chairman Peter one-name studies, kindly spon- Geoff Nicholson will speak Walker will tell you all you need sored by the Halsted Trust, will be on Trade Directories and Trade to know to get your own one- held in Wreningham Village Hall, Guilds. Neil Richardson will tell name web page up and running Norfolk, which is about 10 miles us about Master Mariners, Ship and John Hanson will show how south-west of Norwich. The date and Steam Boat Owners and you can get instant and not-so- is Saturday, July 2. David Butler, a Durham Archiv- instant web pages from Alec Tritton, the Trust’s Chair- ist, will speak on “Behind the genealogy programs. Paul Milli- man, will be answering the Green Baize Door“ – In service ngton, the Guild’s website question, “What is a One-Name in the first half of the 19th manager, will demonstrate his Study?”. Derek Palgrave, well- Century. new initiative, DIY web pages for known to Guild members as our Guild members, and Jeanne Bunt- President, will be speaking on Bookstalls ing will give a personal view on “Surname Variants and The Guild Bookstall will be websites. Deviants”. Peter Walker will then in attendance and it is hoped discuss ways of storing your that the Northumberland and Museum tour records, covering options from Durham FHS. will also provide The day will end with an record cards to genealogy pro- a bookstall. The cost of attend- optional tour of Bletchley Park grams and I will repeat the talk I ing the seminar will be £10 or itself, as well as the Computer did for the last Halsted Seminar, £13 with lunch platter. Museum. This is offered to parti- “What happens when I die?”, Booking forms will be avail- cipants at a cost well below the discussing how you should ensure able from the Guild website normal tour price. your research is preserved. http://www.one-name.org/, Numbers will be limited to 50 The Seminar will be free to all, and from the Seminars Secre- and places will be allocated on a members and non-members alike. tary, Rod Clayburn, 4 Winnham first-come-first-served basis, so it There are no food outlets nearby, Drive, Fareham, Hants PO16 will be essential to book early on so we will be providing a buffet 8QE. the form that is included with lunch and will be asking you to Forms will also be obtain- this Journal. Further forms may pay £4 to cover the cost of this. able from the N&DFHS Library be photocopied or downloaded An application form is at Bolbec Hall, Newcastle- from the Guild website. enclosed with this Journal and upon-Tyne, as well as North- Total cost, including a lunch- further copies will be available on East local record offices and time buffet and morning and the Guild website. Do bring along libraries. Please join us. afternoon tea and coffee, will be your friends, particularly if they £20 for those wishing to take are either just starting out in Jeanne Bunting advantage of the tour and £18 family history or contemplating Chairman for those who do not. taking on a one-name study. Seminar Sub-Committee

20 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 interpersonal skills who is prep- ared to help raise the profile of the Guild. Any volunteers? ject ideas we would like to pur- We are also working on pro- Marketing the sue, but we need your help. ducing Guild mouse mats to give Regularly, e-mails are sent to: away to record offices and Guild’s profile [email protected], libraries. Here’s your chance to By Kirsty Maunder [email protected] win a Phillimore Atlas by entering [email protected] our competition to design the OU WILL no doubt have (all of which are received by me) artwork. It really doesn’t matter read the Chairman’s asking for someone to speak at a what format the design is in, Notes over the last year family history society, local whether computerised or by Y and noticed that during studies library or record office hand. But your design must: the course of this year we have event on the subject of one-name • Advertise the Guild. seen the formation of a new sub- studies and/or the Guild. Several • Be a standard rectangular committee tasked with improv- retired committee members have size (200mm x 235 mm) whether ing the marketing of the Guild. I in the past willingly obliged. But, landscape or portrait. agreed to chair the group on a I am sure there are many other • Include the Guild logo and temporary basis, which inevit- Guild members who would be website address. ably will not be in any way more than willing to speak at The design may be used in temporary! I am pleased to their local FHS or similar, with a other Guild publicity material, so report that after only two meet- little help from the Marketing copyright of the winning design ings the Marketing Subcommit- Subcommittee. would be owned by the Guild. tee are making great progress We are currently working on a Please send entries to me by post and many new projects are standard Guild PowerPoint pre- (address on the inside front already under way. sentation which can be adapted cover), or by e-mail to One obvious way to promote to meet individual presentation [email protected]. Closing our members’ studies and attract needs, so you would not be date is May 31 2005. new members is to place adver- expected to spend hours prepar- There are many more market- tisements in the major genealogi- ing a slide show – just a little time ing initiatives in the pipeline – cal magazines worldwide. That to make your own! Just as impor- take a look at the new Register said, this is not the only way to tant is the coordination of these and spot the new contact details. increase the profile of the Guild talks, finding speakers, liaising We would welcome new blood and educate the public about with the venues, etc. so we are on the Marketing Subcommittee, one-name studies in general. looking for a Lecture Coordina- so if you feel you can contribute We’ve come up with several pro- tor, a role for someone with good in any way please get in touch. ❍

your ISP’s free web space but There is no need for Guild Website aliases then change ISP – for example, if members whose website is regis- for members you switch to broadband. tered with the Guild to do Some people buy their own anything. Their equivalent By Paul Millington domain names, eg website alias (with Millington FOR SOME time now, Guild mem- www.myonename.org.uk and replaced with their registered bers have had the use of e-mail point this to their actual website surname) is created automatically aliases, such as millington@one- in order to maintain their appar- and updated whenever they name.org. These aliases allow ent address even when the notify the Guild of a change in members to change their actual underlying website address their actual website address. For e-mail address – for example, changes. But for others there is a those members who use an e- when you change ISP – without problem when your website mail address of the form having to notify all correspon- address changes. The website also [email protected], the dents. Using the one-name.org lacks the “branding” of Guild e- first dot is replaced with an address also shows that the recip- mail aliases. underscore “_” when quoting the ient is a member of the Guild. However, with the launch of a web alias, thus... Members can also have their new facility, Guild members can http://www.one-name.org/ own register-a-website addresses also now quote a Guild website homepages/john_smith. with the Guild, but up to now alias. The alias can be quoted in Not only does this allow peo- members have had to notify their one of two forms: http:// ple to maintain contact with your friends and contact the Guild www.one-name.org/homepages/ web site, but it provides a Guild whenever this address changes. millington or http://home- branding. I hope this new facility This often happens when you use pages.one-name.org/millington will prove of benefit to members.

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 21 one of the coldest, windiest days and a book you’ll keep turning to of the winter and my habitual and priced at £11.70 (plus p&p) to enthusiasm was pushed to the Guild members. limit. And someone left the back door open! I have never worn my coat behind the stall before. And then, as if to see if we were really serious, there was a fire alarm. Exactly what we needed, stand- ing in a wind-swept car park when there’s trading to be done.

ERENDIPITY! It hap- How the mighty... pened again! Regular It’s funny, but the big sellers readers may remember don’t usually last long. The initial that I very nearly put enthusiasm for the National two people together at the Bath Burial Index 2nd Edition has Family History Fair last year. They begun to fade. That doesn’t make both asked after the same sur- it any less of a product, of course. name on the same day, but they It just means the pent-up demand has been released. Did you get were several hours apart and I Price list couldn’t bring the two together. yours yet? I still have stock. Well, blow me, but it hap- But don’t you think it’s weird, As before, there’s a new price pened again in Crawley, Sussex. how we all clamour to get at the list (please dig out that sheet of There I was, in a vast, draughty latest release of data? It’s not as green paper you threw in the hall on a perishingly cold day, if it’s going to go away. Remem- bin). There are a few alterations doing my stuff with Surname ber when all those enthusiastic from last time, at least one new Atlas. A lady enquired after the genealogists brought the 1901 title (see above) and I’ve removed name PASHLEY. I demonstrated online census for England and a few slow-moving items. A that the name is particularly Wales to its knees? Why all the couple of prices have changed, focused in the Doncaster/Shef- rush? I try to tell myself, when I too – please do throw the field area. She seemed pleased. get the time to do some previous (yellow) price list in the Not three minutes later another genealogy research, that I should bin. You can also download the woman approached me with take it steady, that the records latest price list from the Guild exactly the same surname! will still be there tomorrow. But I website, or just let me know and I broke off from my spiel and get so wrapped up in the pursuit I’ll send you a copy. that as the clock gets moves tow- managed to intercept my earlier Where we’ve been customer before she left the stall. ards closing time at the record I put the two together and office, I’m frantically scribbling The year began for me with a enjoyed the sight of two total everything that I can get down. trip to the world of my ancestors, strangers discussing their com- London’s East End. The East of mon interest. There’s no price tag What’s new, what’s big London FHS had organized a Fair I could put on that. A warm glow What’s new? I rather like in Queen Mary College in Mile surrounded me for hours. Robert Blatchford’s Family & End Road, slap bang opposite the Local History Handbook, now in street where my grandfather was Winter its ninth edition. It’s one of those born. Not that the street bears It’s just as well, because the useful books, crammed full of any resemblance now to its men- British winter is now well under articles (I counted over 70) by tion in Charles Booth’s Survey way. When you’ve been around well-known authors. I particularly into Life and Labour in London the circuit a few times, you get a liked the account by Anthony (take a look at the website: http:// booth.lse.ac.uk/). Then described feel for the good venues and the Adolph of the on-off relationship not-so-good. Crawley is not on between genealogy and the as “the worst street in the sub- my list of good venues, I’m afraid. media. At its core, the book has a division [of Stepney], owing to For a start, the exhibition hall has very full directory of useful refer- the thieves and ticket of leave only one door where you can ences to things like record offices, men living in it”, it’s now part of bring your goods in on a trolley – family history societies, registrars the Ocean Housing Estate, a for the rest, there are stairs to and libraries in the UK and Ire- group of those anonymous multi- climb. Great! I bet the architect land. There are even some handy storeyed buildings you get in never tried to carry six or seven hints on digital genealogy, which Britain’s inner cities. heavy boxes of books across a car may help if you’re struggling Then it was the Bracknell Fam- park and up a flight of stairs. Add with computerese. It’s 450 pages ily History Fair. If you’re not

22 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 familiar with Bracknell, it’s not a Wolverhampton, April 10 Applause, applause! If you are place you’d readily associate with • South Coast FH Fair Roy Rayment, Peter Copsey, Ken history. But there must be Worthing, Sussex, April 24 Toll (twice!), Rob Alexander, something about it because it’s • SoG Family History Show, Steven Whitaker, Christine Col- probably the third biggest fair Pimlico, London, April 30 bourne, Helen Williams (twice!), around the country. I’m told • Oxfordshire & Bucks FH Fair Barbara Harvey or Ken Grubb, there were more than 1,800 peo- Kidlington, Oxfordshire, May 8 then you should sit back and ple through the door that day. I • Coventry FHS FH Fair, listen to the thunderous recep- talked my socks off! And we did- Coventry, May 15 tion. With your help, the Book- n’t do half bad on the Bookstall. • Guild Computer Seminar stall has contributed several Bletchley Park, Bucks hundred pounds to Guild funds in Where we’re going May 28 the last few months. It’s difficult There’s not a lot happening in • Essex & East London FH Fair to say it well enough, so I’ll just March that I can get to, but this is Brentwood, Essex, June 12 say – thank you, all of you. what the plan looks like for the Do pop along if you’re near If you’d like to contact Howard Bookstall caravan thereafter: and you’ve got the time. It’s about any of the items he holds • Guild AGM & Conference always good to see you. And on the Bookstall, you can write to Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire, we’ll always welcome a new face him at guild.bookstall@one- April 1–3 behind the tables – there’s lots to name.org, or 7 Amber Hill, Cam- • Wolverhampton FH Fair do! berley, Surrey, GU15 1EB, U.K. ❍

of the files (e.g. “can’t be read Be sure to with xxx” or “disk will not autorun”). include a • Copyright information. If you are depositing such a CD ReadMe file with the Guild you should also indicate in the ReadMe file the with your basis on which it is being lodged, e.g.... ONS research • “Should I cease to be a mem- ber the Guild may release the information on this disc in whole IN MY Notes in the January equivalent program for creating or in part to anyone interested in Journal, I wrote about text files on Mac would be Text- my registered name.” depositing information Edit, Edit on Acorn computers or: concerning your ONS with and probably emacs or vi on • “Should I cease to be a mem- the Guild or other repositories. I Linux. ber the Guild may release the am grateful to all those members information on this disc to any who contacted me with com- Text file future researcher of my regis- ments or queries, or who sent me Producing the ReadMe file as a tered name.” CDs of their ONS material. text file enables the file to be or: I was asked to provide more read on almost all machines, even • “Should I cease to be a Guild information about ReadMe files. if other files are produced in gen- member this disc should be I sent a message to the Guild eric software packages. destroyed/returned to me.” Forum on the subject and I am 3. Contain information about: repeating it here for members • What files are on the disk Librarian who did not see the message. and in what formats. We hope to appoint a new • The programs used to create Guild Librarian shortly and make Information the files, with version numbers/ an announcement in the next In the context of a CD of ONS dates, (e.g. Excel XP, FTM2005). Journal. Besides looking after the material, we envisage the • Date the disc and files were Guild Library’s documents, the ReadMe file containing informa- produced with version number Librarian will also take charge of tion about the rest of the mater- and history where relevant. deposited studies on electronic ial on the disc. It should: • Details of the author and media, and will issue further gui- 1. Have the file name contact points. dance in due course. “ReadMe.txt”. • Any special handling instruc- In the meantime, if you want 2. Be created in plain text tions for the information (e.g. to deposit a copy of your study using a simple text editor such as open file YYY first and follow the on CD with the Guild please con- Notepad or Wordpad on Win- hyperlinks). tact the Chairman or myself. ❍ dows computers. I think the • Any known incompatibilities

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 23 cream, ten eggs; beat them with the whites. Then putt to them three-quarters of a pint of sack, and let them stand together till it be almost ready to boyl; then take the milk off ye fire & pour it as high as you can to ye sack & eggs; and let it stand by ye for tinguished scholar and mathema- half an hour. “Receipt book” tician Dr. John Wallis, a founding fellow of the Royal Society, was Sack was white wine, in those of 17th century born in 1656, married Sir John in days usually from Spain or the 1675 and wrote her “receipt Canaries, and Christina Stapley in Delia Smith is book” in 1694. her modern interpretation sug- Today we would call it a recipe gests using sherry. She says: a fine piece of book but in the 17th century the “Possets were very popular in word for culinary instructions was Lady Anne’s day. They were social history “receipts”. The book gives a fasci- wonderfully nourishing, warming nating peep into the kitchen and and medicinal strengtheners, THE RECEIPT BOOK OF LADY ANN dining room of an upper class particularly for someone unable BLENCOWE, Interpreted for today society lady of the time, with rich to digest a full meal.” by Christina Stapley, published gourmet fare like lemon syllabub, by Heartsease Books, 5 Cromwell peaches in brandy syrup and Warning Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 almond flummery. The book also contains herbal 5NR. Hardback, 164 pages, ISBN 0 – or “Physical” – recipes for cur- - 9522336 - 5 -7. Price £7.50 Facsimile ing ailments and these come with The original has been lost but a health warning! It says they are NOW here’s a real novelty! The a facsimile limited edition was not for modern use and some Journal doesn’t normally review published in 1925. Now, it has include ingredients that are cookery books, but we are mak- been republished for Blencowe either unobtainable or could be ing an exception since this one family members and general harmful. Here is one somewhat has been published by the initia- readers. Christina Stapley, an extraordinary sample... tive of a one-name society, the expert on herb cultivation and To make ye horse dung water Blencowe Families Association. It historical herb uses in cooking, Take horse dung & putt to it so has been edited by Jack Blen- was asked to interpret the recipes much Ale as will make it like cowe, Guild member 2010. for a modern audience. The book hasty puding, and put it into your Lady Ann Blencowe was a kind is arranged so that some of Lady still. Then putt on ye topp one of late-17th century Delia Smith, Ann’s original recipes are given, pound of treakell, and a quarter who was married to Sir John Ble- followed by the modern of a pound of genger an powder, ncowe of Marston St. Lawrence, descriptions. and a quarter of a pound of Northamptonshire, a Judge of A nice touch is that a foreword sweet anniseed, and so distill all has been written by Peter Blen- these together. This water is good cowe, a six-times great-grandson for women in labor and in child- of Lady Ann. In it, he writes: bed, for Agues and feavers and “Both Ann’s husband, Sir John, all distempers. and her father, Dr. John Wallis, Er...yes, but don’t try this at lived to a ripe old age, the former home! 84 years and the latter 87 years. Christina Stapley comments on “Could it be as a result of sam- this recipe: “At least the ginger pling the healthful recipes and and aniseed might cover for ‘physical cures’ described in Ann’s whatever flavour came from the Recipe Book written in 1694?” horse dung! We cannot help but The recipes contain such 17th feel sorry for the patient drinking century delights as To make a this but perhaps they were unaw- sack possett att a wedding, To are of the ingredients. If they did Broyle a carp and A Good Pota- they must have been thankful it toe pudding, ye best. was distilled.” And what, you may well ask, is All in all, this is a fascinating Common Pleas and Member of a sack possett? Well, here is Lady piece of social history and will be Parliament for Brackley, Anne’s “receipt”... enjoyed by many more than just Northants, from 1690 to 1695. Take a quart of milk, or cream; those keen on cooking. Lady Ann, the daughter of a dis- if milk, take fifteen eggs, if ROY STOCKDILL

24 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 extraordinary conclusions that 1881 census population of 30 Article on hapex could be made from his analysis: million (the base for the analysis). that the other 92% of the popu- So anyone whose one-name surnames give a lation utilise less than 5% of all population in the 1881 Census the recorded surnames (with 59% numbers 300 or fewer can state whole new of the population using only now with some statistical backing about 810 surnames, just 0.5% of that they are indeed researching meaning to a the total recorded), and there- a “very rare” surname. fore that, quite counter-intui- one-name study tively, 95% of all surnames are Criteria actually “very rare”! Combining and expanding on I WAS fascinated to read Donald the data in Tables 7 and 8 of Hatch’s article on “hapax” sur- Frequency Donald Hatch’s article leads to names (January–March 2005 Of particular interest also were the definitions of rarity and Journal), ones that occur only the frequency distributions assessment criteria shown in the once in the records. These sur- associated with each category of table below. names give a whole new mean- rarity, for I believe that these The definitions that Donald ing to a “one-name” study! could be used to give one-namers Hatch proposes thus appear to be While the author clearly ans- a measure against which to assess a useful reference for one-name wered the question posed in the their own studies and thus ans- studies, and his statistics indicate title of his article (“Do many of us wer a question perhaps of more that there are surely many thou- really have rare surnames or do interest to individual GOONS, sands of potential researchers of we just think we do?“) by draw- that of “How rare is the name “very rare” names yet to join the ing attention to his key conclu- that I am researching?“. Guild! sion that only eight per cent of Clearly, a name which occurs us have, by his definition, “very only once in 100,000 (Hatch’s Ben Kaser rare” surnames, a conclusion boundary between a “quite rare” Member 4029 which accords well with one’s and “very rare” name) implies 41 Mathison House intuition on the matter, he didn’t that there must be 300 Coleridge Gardens draw attention to the more individuals of that name in the London SW10 0RR

Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 25 more relaxed about my computer, have not previously attended Why I am still a although I will never store my such seminars, I would heartily names there. recommend they give one a try. paper person You will probably think of me as a half-wit but I have my metal GORDON TUFF THIS is my answer to your chal- box ready to take my papers and Member 4184 lenge in the October–December photographs, and should fire 10, Oakfield Rise 2003 Journal (”Tell us how you break out at 32 Areca Drive, all Holmes Chapel run a one-name study without a will be carried out into the Cheshire CW4 7DY computer”). I am slow in garden along with Henry the [email protected]@one- responding because I was sure Staffordshire, who, though name.org that you would be swamped by lovable, is only interested in food. GOONS who favoured paper over Memories of Sir Matt computer. Evelyn Weir AS a librarian, I often find myself I have been a paper person Member 4098 handling books on subjects which since I wrote my first poem at age 32 Areca Drive would not normally interest me. nine, which I still have in my Scarness Recently I opened a book called scruffy old book. I will always be Hervey Bay McFootball: the Scottish Heroes a paper person. The thought of Queensland, 4655 of the English Game, by Norman losing all of my hundreds of God- Australia Giller. As I was flicking through it, win names because of some [email protected] the following caught my eye in a temperamental machine is chapter entitled Sir Matt Busby: unthinkable. I admit that compu- Thanks for the Father of Football... ters frighten me. Guild seminars “Busby was a wonderful racon- Convicts I have been researching my teur. He had a bagpipes accent own family of TUFFs for many with a strong West of Scotland I returned to the workforce tone, and to the untrained Eng- when my youngest daughter was years but as a recent recruit to the Guild, may I say how much I lish ear could sometimes be 15 years old in order to pay for almost unintelligible, as he him- Anne’s and my own university have enjoyed two GOONS semi- nars in recent weeks? self would admit. fees, and for the next five years “I remember when I was play- wrote about the history of other The Introductory Day on One- Name Studies held near Lichfield ing with Liverpool in the 1930s,“ people. I then began to write my he said, “and there was a own family history, all on paper, and the Computing Seminar held near Nottingham gave those of national census. In those days with the help of my typewriter, they used to do it by sending which I was able to control. us living up-country a chance to participate in Guild events. people to your door to ask ques- I have now completed the tions. When I told the young lady story of my first two ancestors Although I have already gained a great deal of benefit what I did for a living, she wrote who arrived in Australia: John down ‘fruit boiler’.“ Holmes, convict, of Donyatt in over many years from belonging to my local (and very thriving) It would be interesting to Somerset, and Charles Godwin, know whether the census data convict, of Hampshire. Charlie is Family History Society of Che- shire, it was wonderful to get a was generally collected this way my choice for my one-name in 1931 and when the present study. one-name perspective on various genealogical matters. system of distributing forms I didn’t have to go into a cave began. in Somerset to find my John Holmes. I found his baptism in St. Faces to names June Willing Mary’s Church, Donyatt, during a It was also good to have the Member 2117 visit to England in 1982. opportunity to put faces to 15 Strathcona Gardens names seen previously in JOONS Glasgow G13 1DN Task and to have a chance to talk to [email protected] I realize that choosing the them during the coffee and tea name Godwin was the beginning breaks. Both events were very (Forms, called schedules, were of an enormous task, but having well organised and the presenta- distributed from the earliest cen- already collected a large amount tions were interesting and suses, but often the enumerator of Godwin names on my visits to informative. would have to help a Hampshire between 1982 and Informal chat with other parti- householder fill one in. I find this 1996, and having recently down- cipants also gave me various surprising in the case of Matt loaded more than 7,000 Ameri- leads to follow up on returning Busby, but perhaps he was enjoy- can Godwins, and 4,000 Canadian home. ing a joke, either with the girl or Godwins, I am beginning to feel For any Guild members who the author! – Editor).

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