d 3f One Name Studies
Tale of a one-name study and captured World War II airman
Reviews of LDS
Church CD-ROMs Civil Registration in Scotland
Volume 6 Number 10 April 1999
ISSN: 0262-4842 of One-b 3tie Studies
Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings Coswell Road, London EClM 7BA England Committee Notes ’ E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.one-name.org 213 From the Editor’s Desk Regisreredas a charity in Englandand WalesNo. 802048 President Derek A. Palgrave MA FRHistS FSG 214 Chairman’s Notes Vice-Presidents John Hebden, Peter Towey, Peter Goodall Guild Officers 215 Treasurer’s Notes Chairman Roger Lovegrove 215 Secretary’s Notes 0181 888 5609 I I Marlborough Road, Bowes Park, London N22 8NB E-mail: [email protected] Vice-Chairman AlecTritton 01243 555453 Ingleton, Church Lane, Barnham, W Sussex PO22 ODC E-mail: vice-chairman~one-name.org Secretary James lurd Who’s Who 01293 41 1 136 74 Thornton Place. Harley, Surrey RH6 SRN E-mail: [email protected] Registrar Dominic Johnson BSc LHG Inside Front Cover 01 15 926 2085 33 Redhill Lodge Drive, Red Hill, Nottingham NG5 8JH Officers and Committee E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer David Abbott Inside Back Cover 01582 865812 57 Leaf Road, Houghton Regis, Dunstable LU5 5JG Regional Representatives E-mail: treasure#one-nameorg Editor Mary Rumsey BA 01420 85661 29 Queens Road. Alton, Hampshire GU34 I jG E-mail: edito@one-nameorg Cover Illustration Guild Committee Guild Sales The Committee consists of the Officers, together As well as Guild with Ernest Hamley, Sue Lawn, Geoff Riggs, Mary publications, the Guild Rix. Rev Stockdill. Graham Tulev.~. Alan Tunman. Cohn Sales Manaaer has a Witheridge and Karen Naylor. supply of Journal folders, ties, lapel badges and Other Appointments back issues of the Journal of One-Name Studies. Journal Distributors Peter Prismall/vacant His address is: Librarian John Witheridge Ron Duckett Marriage Index Kelvin W&h Outwood Hills Farm Regional Reps Cwrdinator Graham Tuley Lower Outwoods Rd Covenants Secretary George Lashbrook Burton-on-Trent Sales Manager Ron Duckett SGT. David Readman, wireless DE13 OQX operator on a Halifax bomber Forum Manager Brian Teece England Web Manager Karen Naylor that crashed in Holland in 1942, E-mail enquiries to: was being sought by a young [email protected] Subcommittee Chairmen Dutchman writing a history of his Executive Roger Lovegrove area. Guild member Keith Seminars John Witheridge The Guild Forum Reedman took up the challenge and found the airman’s widow. Publications AlecTritton This discussion forum is He tells the story on page 218. Contributions for the Journal should be sent to open to any member the Editor (address above). with access to e-mail. ournal layout: Roy Stockdill d From the Editor’s Desk’ -,,.. of One-Name Studies Mary Rumsey FIRST, to all members who are computer users, I would like to remind you to always back up your work on either Zip discs or floppies. Somehow, after my graduation from an Amstrad PCW to a computer Main articles with a hard disc, I acquired a certain belief in the infallibility of modern technology, so I was not unduly worried when I suddenly could not access 216 Trump card in my search for family roots any information at all. However, it happened to be Peter Amsden and his orphan grandfather my son’s birthday, so when I phoned him I told him 218 My ONS and a World War II airman what had happened and he said it sounded as if the hard disc had gone. Keith Reedman solves a Dutch mystery Now, I knew his hard disc had gone, a very good 219 We’re Camin - but from where? friend’s had gone, as well as several other people’s, Len Camin hunts for his ancestors but no - this couldn’t happen to me! After all, their 220 Orrs at war: thematic approach to an ONS computers were older and had seen more wear and Brian Orr finds the soldiers in his study tear. So, imagine my surprise when a few days later it transpired that, indeed, the hard disc was 222 How accurate are pedigrees on the Net? corrupted and had to be wiped. It was goodbye to Bob Cathcart questions web family trees all that non-backed up data. However. I immediately 223 The Scottish Statutory Registers of BMDs thought it was still all there in hard copy, which Jim Floyd on Civil Registration in Scotland brings me to my next point. 227 REPORTS, NEWS, GUILD EVENTS - Recently having gone on the Internet. I have been very interested in wme of the points raised on The real ethos of the Guild, by Derek the Guild Forum. One of these was how best to keep Palgrave, President information in a retrievable format, since the rapid SoG computer seminar for one-namers advances in technology can make data inaccessible Conference reminder * SoG Fair because there are no computers left which can Toseland Clan Society AGM access it. During this discussion, Michael Tedd, Member 329, suggested that hard copy was the Surname Hodgson Association Assembly best method of preservation, with which I would Publicity pack l New members graph agree. Surrey Seminar Oxfordshire members’ show Guild flag Data preservation Cornish Interest Group We are considering the preservation of processed Look-ups from Soldiers Died in Great War CD data, not archival material such N birth, marriage and death certificates. Therefore, we are not trying 1881 Project update to preserve the paper as such and if one buys a 232 Reviews good quality paper and has a clear printout, and LDS Church CD-ROMs: 1851 Census for especially if it is kept out of the light, it should last at
Devon, Norfolk, Warwickshire l Australian least 20 years. judging from some of my hard copy, Vital Records Index . Vital Records Index, which is over 25 years old. Incidentally, what has faded has been the old photocopies. Thus one can British Isles produce hard copy that will scan into a new Metcalfe: History of the Clan computer when the old one is obsolete and the Welsh Family History process can be repeated over again, giving the data 234 Letters an unlimited lifespan. Privacy and the genealogist - more of your In relation to the preservation of data. at the Woking Seminar Mr Clive Essery, Member 881, views on the controversial issue renewed his generous offer to store backup discs for 235 Other letters members, 50 that if one’s house is burnt down, A back-up for my back-up burgled, etc. all is not lost. Surnames as forenames. Eborall arms To continue in reference to the Internet. I would 236 It’s a funny old genealogical world - like to remind members not on the Internet that it A celebration of the comic and curious Continued on next page !4 cr 213 Chairman’s Notes By Roger Lovegrove
lTH this edition, we see the end of yet another highly successful Hemingway for helping to administrative year for the Guild. The growth and change that transport material for Guild we have seen within the Guild over the past couple of years, displays. and to Frank Scott for W but during the last year in particular, have been due to the being the independent examiner of committed efforts of the members of the Guild’s organisation. the Guild’s accounts. I would very much like to thank Mary Rumsey, Committee Could I ask anyone who may the following for their efforts over member; Editor. need to contact a Committee the year: Roy Stockdill, Committee member by email during the next David Abbott, Committee member; Journal layout and few months to please “se a” member; Treasurer. production: Publications “official” Guild email address such Roy Cox, UK ]ournal Distributor. Subcommittee. as chairman~one-name.org, if Ron Duckett, Sales Manager. Brian Teece, Forum co-ordinator. possible, rather than the person’s Peter Goodall, Vice-President. Peter Towey. Vice-President. personal address. This will ensure Jules Crlbble, Chairman, Working Ken Toll, Working Group on that your message will get through Group on Privacy Privacy. correctly even though postholders Ernest Hnmley, Committee Alec T&ton, Committee member: may have changed as a result of member: Seminars Subcommittee. Vice-Chairman; Chairman of the the election and the subsequent John Hebden, Vice-President. Publications Subcommittee; appointments. Jim lard, Committee member; Membership Data Manager. Secretary. Alan Tupman, Committee Ll Farewell as Chairman Dominic Johnson, Committee member, Web Site Manager (until I am writing this in early member; Registrar. ll”le). January. and so do not yet know lain Kerr, CD look-ups. Graham Tuley, Committee whether or not there will be a George Lashbrook Covenants member; Regional Repesentatives contested Committee election, Secretary. Coordinator; Guild representative although you will know by the time Sue Lawn, Committee member: o” SAFHS. that you read this, since you would Publicity Manager. Kelvin Wwth, Marriage Index Co- have been balloted if one should Polly Lawrence, Seminars ordinator. have been necessary. Subcommittee. John Wltherldge, Committee After four years on the Karen Naylor, Committee member; Librarian; Chairman of the Committee, I am now stepping member; Web Site Manager (from Seminars Subcommittee down. I hope that there have been September): Publications As last year, I would like to give some nice changes introduced Subcommittee. an all-encompassing thank you to over my time as Chairman, but - Derek Palgrave, President. all the Regional Representatives, if there have been - then that is Peter Prismall. Non-UK journal who are too many to list here. due to the commitment and hard Distributor. Thank you, too, to Mike work of my fellow Guild workers. Geoff Riggs, Committee member. Spathaky for helping us out of a I wish the new Committee, its 188 I Census project co-ordinator. hole when we were without a Web new Chairman and the Guild Mary Rix, Committee member; Site Manager for a while. Also to generally the best of fortune for FFHS representative. Barbara Harvey and Maurice the forthcoming yeor. 0
From The Editor’s Desk, continued years it WN believed that a certain and was busy increasing the village William Windebank from Alton, population. Hampshire, who was transported to Now, imagine if this error had can be accessed in a number of Australia, was the same man as the appeared on the Internet - think of places including the larger public son of John Newman Windebank, how many people could have libraries. However, when accessing who was born in the village of accessed it and proliferated it. So I information one must ask, how Bentworth. suggest that data accessed from the accurate is it? Also in this issue we 1 began to question this and soon Internet is treated with extreme have an article by Bob Cathurt, found c,“t that, while the William caution and should always be Member No 2969, on the rather who was transported managed to personally verified. extraordinary conflicting data that get d ticket of leave to marry in But, of course, that applies to any can be acquired in this way. 1837, the William born in Bentworth data that you have not personally A case in point is that for many was still living there, had married gleaned yourself. 3
214 The Journal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 Treasurer’s Notes By David Abbott
S the saying goes, there is in a loss-making situation and is good “e,vS and bad. First, something that I will resist strongly. UK Journal distributor the good news. Guild THE Guild urgently needs CI A membership continues to u Subscription increase? volunteer. or volunteers. to grow. Like the previous year, this Assuming that we do have to pay distribute the CpTt4~ year will again show an increase in for stuffing, there are only two membership mailings to UK membership. As far as bad new5 solutions, as I see it. The first will be members. Uniquely within the goes. there is none at present. to increase the subscription by at Guild, although having been though whether this will remain the least $2 to cover the stuffing of the done by an individual in the case depends on you, the members. Journal and other items you are post, it is ideally suited to Despite the revision to the sent. The second will be to omit or being mode into ~7 group membership subscription under two cut back on items that you normally activity under the Distributor% years ago. your Committee has a expect to receive. Have a look at direction. difticult dilemma to consider. The the last set of accounts (in the The postholder would be subscription level ~a5 set with the middle of the July 1998 journal). responsible (using supplkd unwritten objective that no increase note 4, and consider where we preprinted lobe/s) for stuffing would be considered this side of the could make this saving. and posting approximately millennium. The costing5 and Alternatively, maybe you could 1,300 polythene envelopes projections I provided were based spare a day or 50. four times a year, (polyopes) every quarter. The on current and previous spending and really help the Guild. For more contents consist of the journal, patterns, with some adjustments. details, see the panel alongside. p/us various other publications Unfortunately, we are now faced and leaflets. Roya/ Mail both with unplanned expenditure that a Bank Errors deliver the mail bags and may well approach fZ.000 a year. I have always thought that banks collect. are fairly inefficient organisations. lf this post continues U Volunteers However, since becoming Treasurer unfikd, then we shall need to A5 most of you will know, with I have come to the conclusion that employ a professional very few exceptions nothing gets they are also inept. Although some distribution house. The done within the Guild unless it is member5 have made errors, it is expense of this is something done by a volunteer. This may have mostly banks that have created that we could not realistically to change N nobody has come more than 60 duplicated expect to afford; (II) increase forward in response to the request subscriptions. I am writing this in in subscriptions would, in January’s Journal for a new UK February, 50 hope to be resolving therefore, be very difficult to Journal Distributor. If nobody is these by the time you read this. I do avoid. willing to undertake this role, we urge all of you to be vigilant in If you ore interested in will have to pay a commercial examining statements. taking up the post, please organisation to stuff the quarterly Keep CI close watch OR both contact the Vice-Chairman, mailing. Either that or nothing will direct debits and standing orders, Alec Tritton, as soon 05 get sent to you. If the Guild has to OS these seem to be prone to the possible. 0 pay for this service. it will again be most errors. 0
Secretar@ Notes refer to names that are being written to me.” Well you are in the researched. I send these enquners same boat as me, but our day will the name and address of the come! Some members get regular By Jim lsard member of the Guild who is doing enquiries. ACH week 1 receive the research. Just so I know how the system is approximately 50 letters If the member has an e-mail working. I would be interested to through Box G. About 35 address I give them this as well. I hear from those of you who are on- E of these relate to suggest they write to the researcher line. I get enough letters to open enquiries about names that are and ask them to give the researcher and it is easier to read e-mails. being researched. These letters may my name. So please send me an e-mail if ask about one surname 01 20 So, how many of you have been you have received an enquiry and llalnes. contacted where they have given the enquirer mentions my name. I I reply to each letter and my name as a reference? I can hear will then have some idea of how probably about 15 of these letters some of you say: “No-one has ever the system is working. 0
The Journal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 215 I held a trump card in my search for family roots By Peter Amsden
HEN do you start family history? I suppose first step was to write to the Surrey Record Office and that I began when I was around 10 years ask if there were any records available. The reply that old, although at that time I was completely came back put the brakes on my initial efforts. I dis- W unaware of the fact. For 5ome inexplicable covered that all of the records had been transferred to reason I was given a card relating to my grandfather and London and lost in the Blitz during the war. admonished to “look after it”. A rather grubby 4’11 x 3 inch piece of card soliciting the votes of the Governors Amsden doctors to The New Asylum for Fatherless Children in Reedham, With .a degree of persistence I decided to tackle the Surrey for john Amsden, aged two years, it was dated medical angle and wrote to the Royal Society of Medi- June 1859 and appeared to have originated from five cine to ask if any Amsdens had been doctors. Here I wa5 people belonging to various professions. in luck, for there had been three reglstered over the Why I should have been the recipient of this gem I years, John, George and Walter. John and Walter had have never fathomed. There were plenty of other been surgeons and George the Resident Medical Super- children in the family and 50me much older than myself. intendent of the Essex Lunatic Asylum. All very Perhaps it was because someone recognised that I interesting, but where on earth did these people fit into hoarded things. An indulgent grandfather had already my family history? At least I knew from the information let me make considerable inroads into his cigarette card supplied that both John and George had lived in Hoxton, collection, although where they came from is a mystery London, so it seemed logical to scour some of the in itself, since he never smoked. Like the dutiful child I London records and the only one5 that I could think of must have been, the card wa5 secreted away inside one were in the Guildhall Library. of my favourite children’s books, Block Beauty, never to I had no idea that the Guildhall was not the best place see the light of day again for many years. to search for those who had lived in Hoxton, but the My hoarding instinct somehow prevented me from choice was fortuitous because here was found the record ditching the book and I must have been about 26 when of another John who had been a chemist and druggist in the card came to light once more, since I was now in the the City of London back in the mid- 17005. There had to business of reading bedtime be a connection here, some- stories to my children and it where. fell into my lap. 1 still paid I needed to know more scant attention to it, and it about the family in general, was tucked away in 5ome and turned to the telephone drawer or other where it directories for the entire UK. I remained for some more found about 20 Amsdens, years. It finally surfaced again some I knew, but most I had during a move to another no idea about. so I wrote to all house. I had now reached the of them. It was rather like age of 45 and could find opening the flood gates. I was more time to devote to suddenly inundated with so unravelling its meaning. much information that it took By this time. grandfather, The ancient cord that inspired Peter Amsden ‘s many months for it to make father and a few uncles who search for his family roots. my logical sense. The two could have been useful, had departed this world. I was most important replies cane from a second cousn wno left with the card and a few odd rumours that I remem- I didn’t know existed, and another family member, both bered from childhood. The family had been doctors; of whom had been doing their own research into the chemists; had run a shoe business and had a trade mark family history for some time. of an American Indian’s head with feathered head dress; We decided to combine our efforts, and an interest- there was a big business in the city; they had been poor; ing meeting took place where many of the issues were they had been rich: and inevitably there WN the myster- discussed. What became rapidly apparent WN that ious family secret, something to do with money. whilst my second cousin clearly belonged to my branch I had absolutely no knowledge of genealogy, apart of the family. the other member came from quite a from the fact that somewhere births, marriage5 and different one. We discovered that surgeon John was the deaths were recorded. From my schooldays I remem- son of the chemist and druggist John, and that surgeon bered this a5 being Somerset House. Since the card George and Walter were surgeon John’s brothers. related to an orphanage in Reedham, Croydon, and I At least the rumours relating to doctor5 and chemists knew that my grandfather had been there, the logical was bearing some fruit, and it transpired that the other
ii6 The Joornol of One-Nome Stud&, April 1999 family member belonged to a branch of the family through scxne documents. She asked my wife if there associated with the important haberdashery firm of had ever been any doctors in the family, since she had Olney-Amsden & Son in the City of London. So the just turned up a marriage certificate relating to a Sep- mystery of the big business in the City was also cleared timus St. George Amsden marrying an Elizabeth Turton up. It also pointed to wealth at some time. The poverty in Staveley in 1853. The father of Septimus had been part I had been familiar with, but I was interested to find none other than surgeon John and the address of Sep- out what happened to turn one into the other. And timus was given as Hoxton in London, the same area where had the Amsden of Olney-Amsden come from. where it was rumoured that my grandfather came from. since there was no obvious connection between the two Elizabeth was the daughter of a mill owner and how she branches. either in direct family connections or locality? came to meet the son of a London surgeon is one of It was at this point in time that I discovered the now those mysteries yet to be solved. familiar ICI. but, since I lived in Cumbria, the nearest LDS Family History Centre I could find with these records was Five family branches in Huddersfield. I spent some days there, noting down After more diligent research into family records, it every Amsden I could find. There was no printout facility transpired that there were five branches of the Amsden at this time and writing down everything in longhand family: my own, originating in the City of London: the was a laborious and tedious business. especially since Amsdens associated with Olney-Amsden, originating they would only hand out one fiche at a time. Suddenly with a William in Wandsworth, London; another group in there were a great many counties in England, but I was Leyburn, Yorkshire, who came originally from Tring in determined to wade through every single one and went Hertfordshire: and two smaller branches, one that home with armfuls of paper. stemmed from d toothbrush maker called Richard in I now had Amsdens dating from the 1560s all the London and another from three orphaned brothers. way up to the late 18005. It looked interesting, but Eventually, it was possible to show that the Wandsworth turning it into anything that made sense was another Amsdens and Leyburn Amsdens had common matter. At that time I didn’t even own a computer, so ancestors, but where the two smaller branches fit into the end result was simply to add to the mass of paper I the picture remains a mystery still being investigated. had already acquired. In my innocence, I firmly believed I have a shrewd suspicion that somewhere back in that if I could unravel the tangle, then everyone would time the Wandsworth William and the City of London fall nicely into place and I would have a neat family tree John could have been brothers, but we are now back stretching back to medieval England. I hadn’t realised at into the 175Os, the great black hole of genealogy. To this time that the IGI is not a factual record of everyone make matters more complicated, it appears that both that had ever been born or married. Why were there so William and John were Baptists, and although every many gaps? effort has been made to find references to them it has so far proved to be d vain search. No one seems to know Poverty where the Wandsworth Baptist records have vanished to When I finally discovered the truth, the whole thing and, again, the London Blitz has been blamed for their made more sense. Rather than starting at 1500 and demise. Those for the City of London are scant indeed; trying to work forwards, I tried it the other way round. It many may never have existed at all. was then that I discovered, hidden in this mass of paper, Census research has also shown that there were names that actually started to mean something. Like the Amsdens in the shoe trade, some having a manufactur- person who was clearly my grandfather and, in turn, his ing business. The American Indian? Well, so far not father and grandfather. They still needed to be checked, connected with the shoe trade, but there are arms but it emerged that surgeon John had a son called attributed to some Amsden in the past that do have Theophilus who became a chemist and druggist. It was wings. So the feathers are there somewhere. There may he who had died young with the result that my grand- be more to these family rumours than meets the eye. father ended up in the orphanage. It had reduced my Sadly, my second cousin died two years ago, but great-grandmother to a state of poverty and I began to with hwo published editions of the family history I still see where the rumours relating to cash flow came from. cony on, trying to make sense of it a// and gleaning Why had the presumably well-off brothers of my more snippets along the way. How it fell that I should great-grandfather allowed his widowed wife and family be the one to attempt the task of assembling all this to fall into this state? To this question I have never found information I hove never been quite sure. Perhaps it is an answer, but it is easy to see how a possibly mean because I am o sucker for volunteering. On the other attitude became changed into a long lasting feeling of hand it may hove been because I held o trump card. 3 bitterness in the family. There was possibly good reason, but it is difficult now to go back and ask questions. A rather extraordinary coincidence occurred during Dl this early search for family information. My wife was Peter C. Amsden, Member No. 1053, engaged on some private research in the archives at Oakbank Southwaite Cumbria CA4 OEW Kendal in Cumbria. She spent quite a lot of time there, E-mail: [email protected] so she became well known to the archivist. One of her visits happened to coincide with the archivist sorting
The /ourno/ of One-Name Studies, April 1999 My one-name study and the remarkable tale of a World War II airman By Keith Reedman
URlNG the six years of my Guild membership I of D&d’s 1948 marriage in Scarborough to lean May have only received one enquiry. This has not McGregor as well as the record of his birth in Middles- I gwen me any cause for concern because I borough in 1915. He found no record of them having D have always had plenty to occupy my time, any children. particularly with local history enquiries relating to the To begin with I started on telephone directories and families of other people. did a fair amount of fruitless telephoning. However, I did The big day when I did get an enquiry about my learn two interesting things. Firstly, that in the north-east registered name was in Februaty 1998 when I received where Readman is the more common spelling, the name an e-mail from our Secretary, James Isard, asking for my is pronounced “Redman”; secondly, in Scarborough, the help with an enquiry he had received from a lady in name Fozzard (which is quite rare anvwhere) is ore- H&d who W& trying to find a nounced Fo-zard, with the emphasis David F. Readman. This was not on the ‘2‘. Not once did I encounter good news. I had never attempted Eventual rebuff or incivility - but there was no any research on spelling variants of my registered name Reedman, but success came ProY:u:e,meanwhile was not to help a lady overseas I agreed to sitting back. He was writing to news- do some work and asked James to on a plate - papers in Yorkshire and the north-east send copies of the correspondence and one letter to a Leeds paper pro- to me. well. a disc, duced a response. The occupier of a Lieuwe Boonstra, who lives in house formerly owned by David and Heerenveen in the province of his wife was able to tell Lieuwe that Friesland, North Netherlands. is writ- David had died and that his widow ing about the local history of the had remarried. district. In 1942 a Handley Page So. on my next visit to London I Halifax bomber which was returning called at the new Family Histay Cen- from an air raid of Bremen in Cer- tre for the first time and was able to many became unflyable over Holland obtain a copy of David’s death certifi- and the crew of seven baled out in cate. What I could not find was any the vicinity of Heerenveen. record of Jean‘s remarriage and this
Prisoners The plane crashed harmlessly in pasture land. The crew landed safely but were captured by the occupying German forces and were sent to St&g VlllB prisoner of war camp until the end of the war in 1945. Lieuwe wishes to publish an account of the plane and the men who flew it because of the relevance to the local history of Heerenveen during the ’ 1997 was of very limited use. It Second World War. SERGEANT David F: Readman, crashed the computer frequently and I corresponded with Lieuwe to wireless operator on the only recorded people who had a discover the extent of current crashed Halifax bomber. telephone listing, and then only gave knowledge. One of the first things which I learnt was surname and initials. The second version only runs in that Lieuwe is not a woman but a young man who has Windows 95 and it was some time before I could obtain already published a book detailing the events surround- access. However, this version contains not only people ing the loss near Heerenveen of a Lancaster bomber with a listed telephone but also many more names and which, on the same night, crashed killing all the crew. addresses for those either without a phone or who might He had been researching the Halifax crew for five years be =x-directory. And it also lists people’s first forename. and had located six of them. Unfortunately, it very rarely gives a second initial. The seventh, Sergeant David Fozzard Readman, the The breakthrough came with Version 3, which I wireless operator, was his stumbling block. Some obtained in November 1998. Promoted as containing 42 progress had been made. Lieuwe had found the record million UK residents, the big advantage to me was that
218 The Journal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 as well as the first forename in full, it also gives the initial of a second forename. After the first installation of the We’re Camin - but disc, just for curiosity I carried out a search for Jean M. Readman. She should not have been there, having from where? remarried, but nevertheless I was curious. The search produced two matches: one in Bedford, WORKING in the City of London in the 19505 in i the other in Leeds. Guess which one I phoned first? Yes, building on the corner of Cannon Street and Martir just one phone call and lean May Readman was dis- Lane, I used to look out of my second floor window a covered. My next call was to The Netherlands - no, my the clock sticking out from what looked like a churd next was to international directory enquiries, then The tower. It wasn‘t actually. but it did mark the site of the Netherlands. Lieuwe was delighted and there was ancient St Martin Orgar Church, now no longer there, certainly a euphoric atmosphere in my house. It fascinated me. Forty years later and retired, I was poking into the Surprise records of the Huguenot Society of London, in the Jean was naturally very surprised to find herself to Guildhall Library, for details of the Berens family, whc have been the subject of d long search. She was lived in Sidcup in the 18th century. They were there astounded, though not and further along in the upset, at the amount index was d Camin! A of information which Huguenot? My paternal we had gathered grandfather had come about her and her fam- From Germany in the ily. Happily, lean has 1890s. This was a Cather- photographs of David ine Camin married to when he was in the Anselme Pigou, whose RAF as well as other first child was baptised at material which will be L’Eglise de Londres in useful to Lieuwe for his Threadneedle Street in book 1710. The baby was Following my phone given the name Cram- call to Jean I wrote to melin, and the witnesses her giving an account were lean Camin, Jacob of what I knew. She Crommelin and Marie Pigou. The Crommelin family, has shown the letter to when compelled to leave France in 1698, had settled several of her friends in Ireland, at the invitation of William III, to organise who have been quite the manufacture of fine linen. thrilled at the appar- Catherine had 13 more children in the period 1712 ently exciting events. to 1730. Twelve were baptised at St Martin Orgar, More things which I which had been given over to the Huguenots. Just have learnt: both Jean wer a couple of centuries later Len Camin was there! and David were only Are we related? Dunno! I’m just reminded that my children and it was original curiosity as to why my grandad had a Latin- confirmed that they shaped family name seems to be answered by the had none of their own later discovery that Camins were once numerous in - and in lean’s words the South of France. “reports of my remarri- When the Huguenots were pushed out, a lot went David Readmon with age were greatly exag- to Germany and another lot came to England, in fact his wife Jean. gerated:’ Lieuwe will anywhere sympathetic to their Protestant beliefs. It is keep in contact with Jean but he has recently had the possible that descendants of some of those who went disappointment of his publisher pulling out. to Germany came to England in the 19th century when But knowing his tenacity I’m sore he will eventually economic conditions triggered off a minor invasion succeed and I not on/y look foonvord to having my own From that country. I thought I had tied things up, but copy of the book, but also to meeting Jean. 0 I’ve now Found a load of Camins in the town of Trent0 I” northern Italy. You may have noticed that most countries in Europe use the word Camin, with varia- tions of spelling, to mean chimney or fireplace. I ask The Author: myself if the word was introduced by the Remans and, Keith A. Reedman, Member No. 2060 if it was, then I have to look to Italy for our origins, 107 Curzon Street, Long Eaton don’t I? 0 Nottingham NGlO 4FH Leonard Camin, Member No. 2 I74 E-mail: [email protected] I 75 Langford Place. Hatherley Road, Sidcup, Kent DA14 4AZ
The Journal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 219 Orrs at war - a thematic approach to a one-name study By Brian Orr
HE Commonwealth War Graves Commission valley to Tennessee and Arkansas and all points west to maintains the graves of the known dead and Texas. the memorial5 to those with no known grave I was surprised to learn that slavery and its abolition T for both World Wars. Many of the smaller was not initially a major issue in the American Civil War. graveyards that were scattered throughout the war However, realisation that the Conkderacy were using zone5 have been consolidated and now also contain the slave labour to further their war effort led to the Second dead of World War II. Confiscation Act and Militia Act (July 1862) and It speaks volumes that our soldiers gave their lives in authorised the enlistment of all able-bodied citizens two wars at or near the sane places such that they can between the ages of 18 and 45, including “persons of lie together in a foreign field. The opening of the CWCC African descent.” web site afforded many members the opportunity to A consequence of this was General Order 143, search for relatives who, hitherto, had been just “Uncle Adjutant General’s Office, May 22nd 1863, and the Fred, died in WWI”. The recent addition of Soldiers of creation of the Bureau of C&red Troops. The first the Great War CD to the Guild’s resources gave regiment of the United States C&red Troops was additional information. mustered in June 1863 and 24 black American Orrs. This wealth of information for my already large ONS former slaves or sons of slaves. served the Union cause. prompted me to adopt a thematic approach - the Orrs By way of illustrating the way the wider Orr “family” was at war, which could be both a factual record of persons split, there were 16 Orrs who served with the and an understanding of their history and background Confederate regiments from Louisiana. events. A total of I,41 I Orrs appear in the Muster Rolls. Some served for years, while others responded to alarms Mercenaries and only served a few days before they were stood It is likely that Orrs met their maker from the earliest down. Two Orrs were awarded the Medal of Honour for time5 through military service. As d West coast of courageotis action under fire: Scotland farnilv, some may well have been employed as Charles A. Or& born in Holland, New York, joined the “galloglass” (mercenariesi in Ireland a5 Army at Bennington Nk! As o Private, long ago as the 13th century. In the Company G, 187th New York Infantry, lbth, 17th and 18th centuries many he and h.vo others rescued several disenchanted Protestants and Catholics wounded and helpless soldiers at sought military service with other Hatchers Run, Virginia, on October 27 European states and served, often with 1864. great distinction, in France, Spain, Robert L. Orr Lxx” March 28 1836 Germany, Poland and Sweden. in fhilodelphio, PA, sewed os o Major Orrs were prominent in a variety of ways in the in the 61st Pennsylvania Infants. At Petersburg, Virginia burgeoning America and 5orne 102 of their number have on April 2 1865, he retrieved the colours which had been found who served in the Revolutionary War or War hyice fallen and carried them under fire at the head of of Independence (1774-1783). Hugh Orr from the column. Lochwinnoch (17 17-l 798) manufactured 500 muskets in 1748, and in the war he was well established as an High price iron-founder and arms merchant. In modern times the American Orrs paid the highest His son, Colonel Robert Orr (later General Orr), was price in World Wars I and II, Korea and in Vietnam. The armourer at Springfield, Massachusetts. Perversely. American aspect of the two world wars is work in division occured between emigrant families, with many progress, but I do know of 45 Orrs who were killed in of the Loyalist supporter5 going to Canada during the action during WWII and a further 29 who were prisoners conflict. The remainder supported the American cause of of war. Eight American Orrs were killed in action in the independence. Korean War. In Vietnam, 524 Orrs were in action there, No fewer than 129 Orrs from 16 States are recorded of whom 14 are listed as killed and are commemorated as taking part in the 1812-14 War against Britain. The at Arlington National Cemetery. distribution of the volunteers is an interesting illustration Turning to the Commonwealth countries, I was of how mobile the immigrants were. Their spread was surprised to find that Australian units took part in the across the country from Vermont, Mzaachusetts, Boer War 1899-i 902 and three Orrs were among their Maryland, New Jersey and New York in the north-east, number: D. Orr of New South Wales; H. Orr of down the coastal plain through Virginia, North and South Queensland; and John Orr of Tasmania. who was a Carolina to Georgia; through Pennsylvania and the Ohio Corporal in the Fourth Tasmanian Contingent, Second
220 The Journal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 Imperial Bushmen, Colonial Military Force. Killed in elder brother Charles (my father). at the time acting Action, November 18 1901. Regimental Sergeant Major in the same regiment, had By the time of the Great War, 1914-1918, very many the task of collating casualty reports and learnt of his Orrs had emigrated, taken citizenship and joined up. brother’s death while so doing. He survived the war There were those who had recently emigrated and and the later conflict in Korea, serving with the colours returned to the land of their birth to join up and those for over 21 years before taking d Commission, retiring who signed up anyway. such as S. Orr and John Richard as. a Captain Quartermaster. Another brother, Samuel Orr from Downpatrick, Co. Down who served in the Orr, Sergeant, 42 Commando, Royal Marines was killed Canadian Infantry: Thomas Orr from British Columbia, in action in Malaya in December 1950. . Canada, who served in the Ist/5th Northumberland Fusiliers ; and Wallace Orr of San Francisco, California, who served with the 1st Bn. Canadian Machine Gun Corps. The Orr Roll of Honour The Canadian Orrs were well represented, with 236 of their number listed in the Canadian National Archives American War of Independence as serving in the Canadian Expeditionary Force of WWI. 1774-1783 Sixty thousand Canadians died in WWI (1 I ,ooO with no War between Britain and America known grave) and are commemorated at the Vimy 1812-1814 Memorial, Pas de C&is, France. American Civil War Four hundred and one UK and Commonwealth Orrs 1861-1865 died for their country in the two World Wars, including Boer War two persons who adopted the Orr surname as an alias 189%1902 when joining up. Based upon the origin of the regiment World War I or service that they served in, the distribution is: 1914-1918 World War II Australia 36 1939-l 945 Canada 40 Korean War Hong Kong 1 Vietnam War Ireland 33 Malta I New Zealand 17 Scotland 132 South Afria 4 Trinidad I In the UK every town has its War Memorial and we Wales I are familiar with the sight of the Cenatoph. Nineteen- England 134 ninety-eight WN the 80th anniversary of the Unknown I Remembrance Day services and included poignant scenes from the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Those One death in a family is tragedy enough but there commemorated at these places are but a few of the were occasions when brothers were lost. Two sets of whole and we should not forget that the roll call at other brothers were among the New Zealand losses in WWI: memorials runs into millions. Robert Charles Orr and John William Orr from Auckland; The theme approach is certainly very interesting and and Ernest Orr and Henry William Orr of Hamilton. There rewarding, providing the opportunity to look at diverse were brothers Herbert Orr and F. Orr horn Oldham, aspects of my family. On the topic of war, it was Lancashire. From the tiny island of Malta, brothers Atihur heartening to see the patriotism that caused young boys George Orr died in 1917 and David in 1945. to lie about their ages in order to sign up and the It is particularly sad to record the death of both father stoicism of families who lost loved ones and suffered and a son in active service. Sapper James Orr, 6 Bomb great hardships without a bread winner. Disposal Coy. Royal Engineers died October 3 1940. His I was not prepared for, and was chastened by, the son, Robert John Dillon Orr, 2nd Bn Royal Ulster Rifles, numbers of soldiers, sailors and airmen who emerged aged 20, died at Caen, France on July 19 1944. Neither from my research as having no known grave, were the civilian population spared from family disaster. whose only memorial, if any, is on a plaque somewhere. In Glasgow, Annie Orr, aged 29, and her mother Annie This, more than anything else, demonstrated for me Goodwin Orr were killed in their home at 2, Shiskine the wonton obscenity of wa% Street, Maryhill, on March 14 1941. In all, nine civilian Orrs were killed by enemy action. The Author: The brothers theme continues in my immediate Brian J. Orr, Member No. 2986 family. I found the record for Rifleman Harold Smith Orr, 47, Heathetways, Formby 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles, who died aged 20 on Merseyside L37 7HL March I 1944 on the beach at Anzio, Italy. He is buried E mail : 113257.3213@compuse~e.com I at The Beach Head Cemetery, Anzio, plot XXILA.3. His
The /oornal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 221 How accurate are pedigrees on the Net? By Bob Cathcart
N the course of scouring the Internet for any other is Richard of Sychdin Llewys, born circa 1520, reference to my one-name study, C&hart, I whose wife, we are informed, was Louri Fychan Con- have come across one person many times, way. The latter couple cane from a database of over I namely, Sarah Cathurt who is supposed to 15,000 persons (Sarah was the only C&hart) which have been born in Penarth, Glamorganshire, Wales, seemingly traced some antecedents back about 1,000 circa 1572, and married William Lewis in the same years. place on August 3 1592. It would seem that one of the couple’s children, Fioyals and aristocracy William II_ was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who went to The index was liberally sprinkled with the names of America on the Mayflower. A suspicion has formed in royalty and many of the aristocracy of the UK and my mind that Americans seek Pilgrim Fathers in much Europe. It might be of interest to note that Richard of the same way that many Australians search for convicts, Sychdin Llewys was about fifteen and his wife about and Sarah has become something of a curiosity to me. five when their supposed son, Edward, the father of Randomly choosing four different deposits on the William was born. Internet, I downloaded the CEDCOM files and created Further down the American line, there are many four separate databases. I then carefully merged the discrepancies between two of the databases, which databases one by one whilst deleting identical refer- show conflicting family events for identical individuals ences but leaving conflicting ones. in both Connecticut and Massachusetts. I am well aware Also, because they were irrelevant to my study, I of marriages being repeated but it Is somewhat difficult deleted such references as LDS Ba&isms. Seal Child. for births and deaths! Seal Spouse. etc. The Another error which is very easy to make is that of “A suspicion has results are interesting transposition - there is an American Lewis who is formed in my and give some rather supposed to have been married in 1688, just four years peculiar information. after his christening on August 18 1684, but another mind that I may be wrong. but I record showed that event to have taken place on the Americans seek consider any information same date in 1648 which, happily, coincided with his about a person to be birth year. Pilgrim Fathers in more accurate if some detail is given. much the same Date confusion For example, if it is A different form of transposition can result when way that many stated that a subject was researching American records because dates are shown born circa a given year in the order day/month or month/day and Americans Australians search and “possibly” at a cer- themselves fall into the error when they show yet for convicts. ” tain place, I treat all of another Lewis as being married on 2nd December 1685 the information from that and 12th February 1685. source as being highly doubtful. However, when What is the point? I guess there are several. First, I consistent detailed dates are given in respect of births. think I can accept that there was a Sarah Cathcart, who marriages or deaths, I am more inclined to respect such married a William Lewis in Wales circa 1592 and that a source. some of her descendants now live in the USA. Sec- ondly, there seems to be ample warnings here not to Credibility gap trust any of the information on the Net unless reliable Care still has to be exercised, even when data seems sources are quoted. more reliable. The data for Sarah’s marriage to William Thirdly* I do wish my American cousins would all might look fairly good but is immediately thrown into show the dotes in the sofne format, whichever one doubt when we are informed that William died on the they choose! 0 very same date! This, despite the fact that he is sup- posed to have sired at least four children during the 1 next six years. Of these, two have “circa” years of birth The Author: and two have day, month and year. The eldest is Mr R. B. (Bob) Cathcart, Member No. 2969 supposed to have been born at Penarth and the rest at I I Bushman Court, Pomona Llandough. Queensland, 4568, Australia Credibility is stretched when we find that William has E-mail: [email protected] two grandfathers. One is Edward, who is supposed to have died circa 1560, with no other information. The
222 TheJournal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 The Scottish Statutory Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths By Jim Floyd
HE Registration (Scotland) Act, 1854, cane total of 1027 districts with numbers starting in the north into force on January I 1855 and initiated the of the country at I (Bressay) in the Shetland Islands and system of Statutory (Civil) Registration of Births, running to 901 (Wigtown) in Wigtownshire in the south. T Marriages and Deaths in Scotland which con- with the numbering of individual parishes/districts c tinues to this day. following their alphabetical order within each county. The preceding voluntary system of recording of In Renfrewshire, for example. numbers ran in the baptisms and marriages was the responsibility of the series 559 (Abbey, Paisley). 560 (Cathcat) etc., to 575 individual parish ministers or session clerks in the Church (Renfrew). Ayrshire followed, in the series 576 (Ardros- of Scotland and, thus. did not generally include the large un). 577 (Auchinleck), 578 (Ayr) etc., to 620 (West numbers of Roman Catholic and other non-established Kilbride). The larger cities, towns and parishes had subs denomination events. Being both voluntary and denomi- districts numbered in the numerical format 64411 national, the system was neither universal nor (Glasgow. Central District, 1855-1874). though in later maintained to a common standard. years some alphanumerical formats were used such as The statutory payment of three pence required by the 4818 (Grangemouth, 1874-1900) and even combina- Stamp Act for each baptism. marriage and death entry tions of the two such a~ 7lA/l (Kinurdine, 1873-1892). UK-wide during the period 1783-94 was also d major Over the years. the numbering system has been disincentive to registration, particularly of baptisms. amended on several occasions to accommodate the Even without this, the ceremony was sometimes negle- changing population distribution. cted until many months or even years after the birth of the child, and it was not uncommon for entire families of Current practice children to be baptised on the same occasion. Although The most recent rationalisation of the numbering the individual dates of birth of each child were some- system, in 1972. involved a change to an entirely times recorded in such multiple baptisms. the long time numerical 3.digit system (no doubt with computers in gap and the frailties of human memory could lead to mind) ranging from 100 (Unst in Shetland) to 875 entirely innocent errors of fact. One particularly useful (Whithorn in Wigtownshire). Large numbers of Registra- feature, regularly found in Scottish baptisms. is the tion Offices were amalgamated and there are now about recording of the maiden surname of the mother. 360 offices throughout Scotland, with the larger one5 Marriages were generally recorded as the banns being allocated blocks of 3-digit district numbers and the being read from the pulpits in the respective parish entry number also being restricted to 3 digits (001-999). churches of both bride and groom on three successive For current births, the combination of the year. district Sundays. The recording of deaths. usually as burials or number and individual entry number also doubles as the hire of mortcloths, was particularly fragmentary. Note: a National Health Service (NHS) Number for the person mortcloth was a large black velvet cloth used to cover concerned, in the (example) format 1999/100/l I I. the coffin from the time the body WN placed inside until Note that in Scotland, unlike in England, each birth. the interment. marriage and death has always had a unique entry number, which is the same in the original copy held at Old Parish Registers the local Registrar’s Office as in the duplicate copy At the start of statutory registration, the Church of deposited with the Registrar General for Scotland in the Scotland records from the more than 900 parishes were General Register Office for Scotland, New Register gathered into a central location in Edinburgh and are House, Edinburgh. Page numbers in the register itself now preserved in New Register House as the Old Parish have no significance as a mean5 of identifying events in Registers (Of%). Microfilm copies of the original regis- the Scottish system. ten are widely available for general research and d Although registration in Scotland was introduced microfiche index has been prepared by the LDS. This some l7’% years later than in England, the details OPR index is also available as part of the computer included in the registers (and on the corresponding searching system in New Register House. No similar certificates) have. from the very beginning, been more systematic gathering of Catholic or non-established extensive. and hence more usetil to the genealogist, registers was carried out in 1855 and these original than those in the equivalent English registers. records are still held by a variety of custodians, including The first year of registration, 1855. WN exceptional, the respective churches, private individuals and the even by Scottish standards, in the amount of information Scottish Record Office. demanded by the Registrar during the formal registration Initially. almost the sane numbering system was of an event. For example, on a birth certificate one has, utilised throughout Scotland for the OPR parishes and N well N the obvious details of the birth itself, also the the Census and Civil Registration districts. There were a name. age, place of birth and occupation of father; the
The /ourno/ of One-Name Studies, April 1999 223 name, age, place of birth and maiden surname of deaths usually record the results of a precognition mother; place and date of parents’ marriage: number (preliminary examination of witnesses to establish and gender of previous children and whether these whether there are grounds for prosecution) if the death children were still living or were deceased. It can, was sudden, unexplained, suspicious or the result of an therefore. be seen that finding a birth in 1855, especially accident. In Scotland, the latter may be investigated at a of a late or youngest child in the family, can give an Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI). conducted by a sheriff. excellent summary of the whole family up to that point. Similar extensive details were demanded for the The indexes registration of marriages and deaths in 1855. Marriage The indexes to the births, marriages and deaths in registers include, for each party: birthplace: age; marital Scotland are now on computer and easily searchable, for status (single, widow/widower); whether this was a a daily fee, in New Register House in Edinburgh. They second or third marriage; any children by previous are also searchable, again at a cost, at several other marriages and whether living or deceased: name and official locations, for example in Glasgow, Aberdeen and occupation of father and whether living or deceased; London. Indexes for events over 100 years old, have name and maiden surname of mother and whether recently been made accessible online on the Internet at: living or deceased. Death registers give name of spouse http://www.origins,net (if married): names and ages of living children: names Many older indexes are also available on microfilm at and age at death of deceased children: father’s name, various LDS Family History Centres The computer index occupation and whether living or deceased; mother.5 simply transcribes the previous paper (manuscript or name, maiden surname and whether living or deceased; printed) indexes, with the same increasing range of place of burial and name of undertaker. details being included through time. Some transcription It seems that, once the system WN operating, the error5 in the original indexes, which have been spotted authorities realized that this huge amount of information over the years by researchers, have been corrected in being recorded was somewhat more than was necessary the computer index. Sadly, human nature being what it for their own purposes. The details demanded were is. some new errors have also been introduced as well. rherefore reduced for the following five years (I 85640). One major advantage of the Scottish registration with subsequent slight modifications in the details system over that in England and Wales is the compila- required in 1861, 1866, 1921, 1967and 1972. From the tion of separate male and female indexes. Although this genealogist’s point of view, one of the most annoying may at first sight seem a trivial difference, it does mean omissions was the failure to record the name of the that one does not have to guess at the gender of spouse in the death registers in the period 1856-60. individuals with unusual, archaic or otherwise obscure Fortunately, this detail was restored in 1861 and has Christian names. It also helps on those occasions where been recorded ever since. children have been given surnames as Christian names. Since Scottish civil registration works on an annual Duplicate registration basis. there is no equivalent in Scotland of the quarterly There are occasional instances, especially in the early indexes as exist in England. However, some idea of the years - and sometimes today - of duplicate registration date can often be judged from the index number, which of events. This is most common in births where the started again at “1” in each year. Naturally, events with event may have been registered in both the district 01 low numbers are likely to be early in the year, though it the birth (or perhaps the previous home district of the obviously depends on the population size of the district. mother) and the current home district of the family. In Scotland, it has long been customary for married One point which should be borne in mind is that the women to retain their maiden surname, particularly for duplicate birth and death Registers in New Register legal purposes, and to use it instead of, or a.5 well N, House record the actual signature of the informant. This their married name. Thus, one commonly finds on is not the case for the marriage registers (or Schedules), Scottish gravestones, inscriptions in a form such as: which are copies made by the local registrars and do not “Here /yes the corps of May WILSON. relict of John contain the actual signatures of the parties or witnesses. BROWN” In this example, Mary was the widow of John As in England and Wales, events which occurred tow- Brown and her maiden name was Wilson. In the com- ards the end of December in any year were commonly munity she would have been known as “Mrs John not registered until the January of the following year. Brown”. at least while her husband was alive, but any The Register of Corrected Entries (RCE) is a means of legal documents would typically record her as “Mistress recording fuller details OF any alteration relevant to the Mary Wilson or Brown”. Reflecting this common use of original register entry. This is added (in manuscript) N multiple surnames. married women are indexed in the “See RCE Vol.....” in the register. These RCE Volumes death registers under both their maiden and all married may be inspected and copies taken. For births the RCE names. As a consequence, the female death indexes are may record an alteration of name or date, or latet usually substantially larger than those for males. marriage legitimising d child. For marriages 185S-April For example. in my own study of FLOOD/FLOYD 1984, the RCE is the only method of recording and families in Scotland. there are 1,104 female and 831 cross-referencing a divorce (legally possible in Scotland male (total 1935) entries in the deaths Index for the from 1560). A separate Register of Divorces granted in period 1855-1997. The difference between the two, Scotland has been kept from May 1984. RCE entries foor 273, presumably gives a rough measure of the number
224 The ]ournal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 MARJJA‘LINDLX 185E 1929- MARRIAGEINDEX 18s @a- 19% ,MALE& FEMALE) (MALL)details 1928 date (FEMALL,detailr 1863 I928 date
Name ofgroom Y- w Name of bride yes Yes Yfi
Surnameof bride NO yes S”mameoFgmm yes NO yes Forename(r)of child Dirtria andentry Dirtrid and entry Y- Ye Y- Yes Yes number “““lb3
MAWAGE CLRTIFKATEISCHEDULE)
Denomination (if religious ceremony involved)
Name and occupation of fathe,
Name and maiden surname of mother and whether deceased Age, place of birth (and if registered there) of mother “maI address of pre”cs iii different horn place of binh) Date and ,&se of parents’ marriage
Number and sex of children ban prior to the registration pl the child in 1855: and if these children wece still living or not
Name and relationship of infomlnnt If Regular Marriage, name and designation of minisw or Residenceif out of house in priest /or Registrarhorn 1940) solemnising the marriage. If which bird- accurred irregular Mardage (185%1939) date of conviction. Decree
TABLES showing the details which are AddrerseJ ofwirneaer NO NO Yes Ye recorded in Scottish birth, marriage and death indexes and registers/certificates Dateof regisrrndon Yes Yes Yes Yes during various time periods. of married women in the index. Comparable data for only guaranteed to the indexes, not to the original births are 1.0% female and 1.215 male (total 2314), and registers (though it may be possible to see a register for marriages 703 female and 672 male (total 1375) over briefly, particularly if the office is quiet). Naturally, the the same period. local offices only have the indexes to their own registers, The great advantage of the Scottish system of civil not those for the whole of Scotland. The local indexes registration, for both single-family and one-name were simply the handwritten index at the back of each studies, is that the daily fee for searching the records annual volume. and are duplicated in the copies in New (including OPRs, census, GRO indexes) also allows one Register House (which also has the cumulative annual to see and extract details from microfiche copies of the index for the whole country). Registrar General’s duplicate set of the original registers. In addition, since all the Old Parish Registers from the It is also possible, for similar fees to those at New Church of Scotland were long ago centralised in Edin- Register House, to do some searching at local registra- burgh, there is no equivalent local source of pre- tion offices. However, in this instance, right of access is registration marriage and baptisms comparable to that in
The ~oornal of One-Name Studies, April I999 225 England. It can be seen, therefore, that it is possible, and more economical in time (and generally money as well), to do the bulk of one’s Scottish research in Edinburgh. The ability to extract complete details from the birth, marriage and death registers means that it can be feasible. depending on the frequency of the surname, to build up complete sets of families in Scotland from the official records as part of a one-name study. Indeed, the indexes themselves can be much more useful than their English counterparts. since the system of district naming and numbering in Scotland means that districts are smaller and more numerous. This allows greater resolution of geographical location and means that clusters of names become more obvious and meaningful. The unique entry number for each event in Scotland. the same both in the local Registration Offices and the GRO(S), is also a” advantage. One useful result is that twins generally have consecutive entry numbers in the birth registers and can often be spotted N such from the indexes. Although the Scottish system of civil regis- tration of births, marriages and deaths started later than that in England, the resulting records are much more detailed and of grea- ter value to genealogists. The facility allowing searchers access to copies of the original registers, right up to the penultimate year or so, is particularly welcome, especially for one- name studies. The exhaustive cross-indexing of the various potential surnames of married women and step children also means that searches for a particular surname in Scotland can be particularly thorough. The accornpany- ing tables show the details which are recorded in Scottish birth, marriage and death Indexes and certificates during various time periods. : >
Selected Bibliography Gory, Kathleen B. 1990. Tracingyour Scottish Ancestry: 2nd edition 1996 (Edinburgh: Polygon). Registrar General for Scotland 1994. The Registration Districts ofScotland. (Edinburgh: General Register Office for Scotland). Sinclair, Cecil. 1990. Tracing your Scottish Ancestors. (Edinburgh: HMSO).
NOTES ON TABLES
The Author: Dr. Jim Floyd, Member No. 26 I9 Regional Representative for South Scotland 84 Pentland Terrace, Edinburgh EHlO 6HF E-mail: [email protected] I
226 The@mxd of One-Name Studies, April 1999 Your guide to what’s happening in the Guild world... The real ethos of the Guild of One-Name Studies By Derek Palgrave, President
HE decision to form a “Guild” to foster the Guild for societies as such. After all, their one-name study of single swnames was taken during a societies were already embraced by the Federation, conference on this topic organised by the which had been founded in 1974 to provide services T Federation of Family History Societies at Leices- and support for all of its corporate members. ter in 1978. At that time, the number of societies making Those who joined the Guild at the outset did KJ in up the Federation was 93, of which 29 were one-name order to share their ideas with others and to explore societies. those aspects of family history peculiar to one-name A year or so earlier, I had been appointed by the studies, such as surname evolution and development. Federation Executive to liaise with one-name groups. To linguistic corruption and the geographical ramifications facilitate matters. I chaired a small sub-committee of of a surname and its variants etc. individuals associated with one-name societies who It is abundantly clear that there are many individual were interested in developing single sumdme studies. family historians who are engaged in one-name studies. It was as a result of the efforts of the sub-committee However, only a relatively small proportion make this that the 1978 One-Name Conference at Leicester was type of research their primary objective, but later go on arranged. A large number of enthusiasts in this field to adopt the approach advocated by the Guild, to attended, including many who were involved in compile a comprehensive index or database which will individual studies of single surnames but were not enable each of them to develop a balanced view of the associated with, nor did they wish to form, a one-name historical and geographical distribution of the surname in society as such. question, in addition to establishing the basic genealogi- It was for this reason that the term “Guild” was cal links. adopted to emphasise that the members were all individuals practising a specific craft, using a wide range Few one-name societies of methods, sources and knowledge. Many who choose this route join the Guild, but the The very first Register of One-Name Studies was number who consider the formation of a one-name published by the Federation but subsequent editions society as an essential step seems to be remarkably have been compiled and published by the Guild. The small. For instance in the current (14th) edition of the main objective of the Register is to provide the reader Register of One-Name Studies there are only 57 mem- with a list of surnames which members of the Guild are bers who are associated with one-name societies. researching comprehensively. However, everyone who As CI proportion of the sumomes registered, this registers a particular surname has an obligation to number is only 4%. so taking into account the members respond to all reasonable enquiries about that surname. of the Guild who hove not registered a surname, the proportion of the membership os o whole is somewhat Categories less. /n other words, for over 95% of Guild members, the The idea of classifying entries A, B and C. WN to let formation of o one-none society awxiuted with the the reader know if he or she was contacting an surname each has registered, is not really LI major individual Associated with a formally constituted one- pd0dty. name society (A): an individual or individual group As one of the 57 members of the Guild associated publishing a regular Bulletin (B); or a dedicated with a one-name society, I fully appreciate that I am one individual, with a substantial collection of data, operating of quite a small minority. Consequently I do not expect as d Clearing house for a registered surname (C). The any special privileges within the Guild just because I am categories were purely descriptive and were in no way Secretary of the Palgrave Society, nor do I expect the intended to imply any differences in status within the Guild to devote much of its energy and effort to one- membership. name societies per se. However, I do hope that it will Although many of those who were involved in continue to give due emphasis to all those other inter- launching the Guild were associated with one-name esting topics which are unique to one-name studies. societies, they did not feel that it was appropriate to I realise that some one-name studies, being sup- create a separate category of membership within the ported by a one-name society, are registered with the
The Journal of One-Name Studies, April I999 227 Guild by an individual who may or may not be an officer Forthcoming events of that society. There is no reason why that society should not make provision in its own constitution or standing orders to enshrine an arrangement whereby SoG day seminar for that individual retains his or her Guild membership and surname registration in order to maintain its continuity. computer one-namers Of course the individual concerned would be bound, THE Society of Genealogists is holding a seminar on by clause 2. 2. 7 of the Guild’s constitution, to deal with Saturday luly 24 from 10.30 am for “One Name Studies all reply-paid enquiries about the registered surname. on Computer - pedigree building and surname distribu- so, in the event of a. breakdown in communication tion.” Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake will describe work on between him and the other members of his one-name mapping and relative frequencies of surnames from ICI/ society, he could be regarded as having breached his VRI. the 2% sample of the 1851 census, electoral rolls. written undertaking. and, hopefully, the 1881 census on CDROM. David This might render him liable to forfeit his registration Hawgood will describe correlation of the 1881 census or membership or both, so the way could be clear for with births, marriages. deaths and wills, followed by the another registrant. 0 building of pedigrees linking many different households. Other contributions are invited in three forms: d 20- minute lecture on the day: poster presentation, display The Author: of a pedigree built from a one-name study, display of d Derek Palgrave, President of the Guild table, graph or map of surname statistics; papers in Member No. 103 advance by contributors who cannot be present (these Crosstield House, Dale Road will be available to those attending). It is intended to Stanton, near Bury St Edmund5 make all contributions available subsequently in pub- Suffolk II’31 2DY lished or electronic form. If you wish to contribute. contact Dr Douglas Jopling up to March 31 at 46 Kenton Rd, Kenton, Harrow. Middlesex HA3 8AB (e-mail: [email protected]); or David Hawgood at 26 Cloister Road, Acton, London W3 ODE) (e-mail: [email protected]) afrer March 31. To book. contact the Society of Genealogists. 14 SOCIETY OF Charterhouse Buildings, London ECIM 7BA, phone 0171 253 5235, fax 0171 250 1800, email: ;ENEALOGISTS [email protected]; web site: www.sog.org.uk. The price for the day is i 18, or f 14.40 for SoG members.
Still room at AGM & Conference PLACES ore still avoiloble for the Guild’s 1999 ACM and Conference, to be held ot the King Charles Hotel. Giliinghom. Kent, the weekend of April 1618. but get Unrivalled range of exhibitors and lectures your bookings in NOW! The conference will have o militow and sea-going theme, “‘Musket, Fife and Drum “, Day Admission with speakers on topics ranging from World War I $6 records to the Coastguard Service. Two hours hove on the door been set aside on Saturday for the ACM and there will be o demonstration of Custodian. Advance Tickets (before April 16th) SoG Fair &4 THE Guild will have a stand at the Society of Geneal- ogists Family History Fair on May I and 2. Volunteers will be needed to help man the stand both days. Please contact Alec Tritton if you are willing to help.
Saturday and Sunday Toseland Clan Society AGM 1st & 2nd May 1999 - loam to Spm THE 5th Annual Genera/ Meeting of the Toseland Clan Royal Horticultural Society Society will be held in the Vi//age HO/, Little Harrow- New Hall and Conference Centre den, Wellingborough. Northants, on September 25 and 26. Doors open at 10.0 am both days and close at 6.0 Greycoat Street, Westminster. London SW1 pm on Saturday and 4.0 pm on Suncloy The only Regi~teledCh;irity NO. 233701 VATNo 240 h”70 “2 formality will be the AGM at 2.0 pm on Soturdq and the remaining time con be spent searching through the
228 The Journal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 Graph reveals membership ups and downs
79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 Number of new members joining each year
CHAIRMAN Roger Lovegrove soclety~ extensive records. Visitors displays; three computers, plus drew the above graph, illustrat- ore invited to contribute to them. binders; discs and CDs: and a publi- ing the ups and downs of A ‘ontee” will be avoi/oble both cations table. Saturday sojourn to membership in the 20 years dw and cold lunches co” be ord- Bede’s World, new I I -acre since the Guild’s formation in ered in advance. Entrance fee is f 1 museum. Sunday morning visit to 1979. It shows we gained a per adult. There will be o word pro- Washington Old Hall. record number of new members cessor, fiche reader photocopier Registrar: David Hodgson, in 1998. and computer ovoi/able for use. Society Chair, 20. Beach Road, Year Number joined Contact Mrs. E /ennings. President, Tynemouth. Tyne &. Wear NE30 79 198 40 Moresdole Lane, SeocroR, Leeds LNS, UK Home Tel: (0191) 257 80 74 LS14 6SY te/: o/132 259954. 0 0313, E-mail: [email protected] 81 79 82 a9 SHARE assembly THE Guild has introduced o publi- 83 100 c& pack which is ovoilab~e for 84 138 THE Surname Hodgson Association 85 any member who would like to 127 8. Resources Enterprise (SHARE) 6th 86 147 attend any Fair, whether it be Assembly will be held from October 87 187 loco/ or timily history, to pro- S-10, at the George Washington 88 I61 Country Hotel, Washington, Tyne & mote the Guild. It contains 89 212 Wear. Rooms 295, or single 51 15, laminated posters, application 90 21 I includes 3 meals, 2 snacks and facili- forms and other helpful items for 91 164 ties. Non-resident delegates f29 per o foil Anyone interested in hov- 92 163 93 181 day, including 2 snacks and lunch. ing the pock should contact the 94 I69 There will be sessions. sharing. pub/icily monoger. Karen Noy/oc 9s 155 searches; PCs and materials; sup- at public@[email protected] or write to her. Advanced bookings 96 117 port; speakers; database: demon- 97 for the pock ‘on be taken. 149 strations on big screen: delegates’ 98 288
The /ourno/ of One-Name Studies, April 1999 229 ily tree into a hedge. There was a steady stream of people to the Guild stand. However, we felt that we could have done with a display Surrey Seminar ple asking what the Guild did and pack, membership packs and a com- how it could help with their plete list of registered names. Other AN extremely well attended Surrey research. We pointed many towards idea5 would be appreciated. Regional Seminar at the Salvation the website and for others who were Army Church Hall, Woking, on looking for specific registered names Marc C. Hiles, Member No 2186 Saturday, February 6, included talks we looked up addresses. We had a 16 Shadwell Road, Berinsfield and discussion5 on several topics of number who were thinking of join- Near Wallingford profound interest to one-namers. ing and some who had written for Oxfordshire, OX10 7PN First, In the morning session, the initial pack. but had been put off Martin Ges spoke about the new by the different categories. Data Protection Act and led a Here I digress. After reading the Cornwall Group debate. Then Colin Ulph enthused january Journal. I have to agree with THE Cornwall Interest Group met at members with his ideas and sugges- Mrs Vivienne Fitch that we should the Public Record Office at Kew on tions for organising a one-name have a D category. This would be March 20 and time was spent trans- gathering. After lunch, ]eanne Bunt- either for a specific country. or be a cribing from BT1 26, the alphabetical ing spoke on using computer5 for probationary category where people index of Masters and Mates. one-name studies. Vice-chairman who had information on a name and This information will be lodged Alec Tritton led the closing general it5 variants could be encouraged to with the Cornwall Family History questions session. join and then be helped to another Society and the Cornwall County 0 The next Regiona Seminar is category. I started in category C and Record Office as a research aid for the Somerset one at West Monkton am now in category B. Whether the people who cannot get to the PRO. Vi//age Ho//, West Monkton, near low frequency name of Hiles will The Cornwall Family History Taunton, on Saturday, May 15. ever become A category remains to Society is repeating its Family be seen. I don’t think it would be History Fair at the Princess Pavilion. Oxfordshire day out lowering our standards to have a D Falmouth, on May 29130. Members AT our first regional meeting. category. but would increase access of the Group who exhibited at the Oxfordshire members suggested we to information which has been Birthday Fair in 1997 received great should have a Guild stand at the researched and help new members benefit from it and made a consider- Oxfordshire Family History Research with that first step. able contribution to the research Day on September 28 1998. John Back to our day out, which was services on offer to the general pub- Sermon, who is now busy writing not only a success for the Oxford- lic, so a booking form for this year’s his book on the Sermons, and I, set shire Family History Society, but also fair is being 5ent to all members. up our stand displaying our own for myself, as one of the requests newsletters, the Guild Journals and was for Hiles. As a result, I have a Chris L. Barrett Member No 257 other one-name publications. new cousin. solved a family history Flat 3, 44 Earls Avenue We had a steady stream of peo- puzzle and changed part of my fam- Folkestone. Kent CT20 2HD look-up service from Great War CD offered to Guild members S many of you know, the Guild has acquired a and a wide variety of responses. One name had no copy of “Soldiers Died in the Great War”, a CD entries (no charge made) and the most WN a total of database compiled from the 81 volumes of the eight officers and 2 I9 soldiers ( 12 A4 sheets). Some of A book which were originally published in 1921. the more interesting have been searches for all soldiers The CD is held by me on behalf of the Guild. I am ready born in. resident in and enlisted in a specific place. It is to offer a look-up service to members. It should be al50 possible to find which soldiers died on a particular noted that the database output list5 the entries sorted by date or in a theatre of war, or to search for particular surname and Christian Name- but on paper only. battalions of a regiment. The database can be searched by regiment (and How does the data compare5 with that from the battalion or sub-unit of a regiment), sur- “Debt of Honour” on-line database recently name, Christian name. and place/county of pGx?q opened by the Commonwealth War Graves birth or enlistment. The output offers sur- Commission? The obvious point is that name; Christian name: place (but not date) of birth; place “Soldiers Died” only listed the British Army casualties. of enlistment: sometimes the place of residence; num- There were other publications of the Royal Navy and her, rank: regiment, cause, place and date of death: and Royal Marines and Royal Air Force dead. The CWGC sometimes additional text indicating service in another cover5 all Commonwealth (formerly British Empire) dead regiment. Output for officers is slightly different. of all armed services and is concerned with all who have A pilot scheme for those on the Guild electronic fallen in war5 since 1914. mailing list has so far produced a total of 45 requests The original “Soldiers Died” publications seem to
230 TheJournal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 Update on the 188 1 Project - by Geoff Riggs when those towards the front of the line would receive their output - but From annus horribilis to the digitus extracturn! I hadn’t banked on three month’s delay. I am sorry. THE Royal Family don’t have a mon- which deprives one of sight in that One or two members remain opoly on “annus horribilis”. They eye while it lasts. I’ve had it before a unconvinced about the need to can’t have, otherwise the 1881 Pro- few times, and visits to the Emer- adjust the figures for London RDs, ject wouldn’t have been plagued as gency Eye Clinic normally clears it and for some surnames they may be it was during 1998! within a week or 50. This time, right. However, for others the differ- You must be accustomed by now though, because I didn’t want to be ence in the final figures is very to the chronicle of delays the Project prevented from giving my talk, I significant, and we must analyse all suffered during the year. Firstly, the delayed visiting the clinic (knowing the figures in a consistent way. refusal of Microsoft Paintbrush and they’d 5ay I couldn’t drive once the The diagram shows the percen- Windows 3.1 to “talk” to Microsoft treatment with steroid drops tages of populations in the three Paint and Windows 95. Then back to started). As a result, the iritis lasted counties concerned which are inside the drawing board to cater for the almost three months. and outside the London RD area. disproportionately large populations Now that it’s virtually cleared, the But the best way to illustrate the in the London RDs. production line is moving again. At * significance of the adjustments is the However, by the table at the foot of this article, which middle of October, I’d gives actual examples of the worked up a good head “before” and “after” positions. of steam, adjusting the You can see, in particular. the data on the input forms increase in the density of “Outer” to reflect the London Middlesex for the surname Tritton. RDs. It looked as thoueh and even greater increases in “Outer” Surrey for Woodger and Woolgar. Conversely, Scotchmer decreases in “Outer” Surrey, as does in threis, and the third Y Tritton to a lesser extent. ( 1 (and biggest) blow came in October. Swindon, each of the members Two days before I was due to present learnt where he or she was Geoff R&s, Member no. 2408 speak on the Project at the Swindon on that production line. And, antici- Peacehaven, Badgers Meadow Seminar, I suffered a severe attack of pating only a week 01 two’s delay Pwllmeyric, Chepstow iritis, inflammation of the eye-ball because of the iritis, I also forecast Monmouthshire NPG 6UE
Continued from previous page have been based on War Office casualty lists as pub- f2.00; to include up to four A4 sheets. Additional pages lished in all national and local newspaper5 throughout will be charged at lop per sheet. There is a charge of the war and horn some local information, which 3Op For postage and packing (43~ for overseas mail). accounts for significant numben who died at “home”. This service is for Guild member5 only. The “Soldiers Died” data was effectively frozen when I require the following information: surname or name5 published and has had little amendment. The CWGC and variants to be searched (or places if you prefer): your Debt of Honour list is developed from their original card name, membership number and postal address for the index of actual graves and memorials to those “with no printout. Payment is in arrears by cheque, sent to me but known grave”. The CWGC data has been added to over made out to the Guild of One-Name Studies. I look the past 80 years as bodies have been found and as forward to lot5 more requests. (1 burials in UK cemeteries have been identified as those of lain Kerr soldiers. The two sources complement each other as Member No. 2404 valuable aids for one-namers. 51 Clewer Park, Windsor The Guild Committee agreed the following for look Berkshire SL4 5HD ups from the ‘Soldiers Died” CD. The initial enquiry is email [email protected]
The Journal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 231 Our round-up of some interesting genealogical iews publications By Jane Morson
1851 CENSUS for DEVON, NOR- or a hospital. If you wish to see who records that might exist for a per- FOLK, WARWICKSHIRE. Family was living next to a household, this son. You can search using a name, History Resource File. The is also possible. This can be rep- year, type of record or the state the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter eated as many times as you wish, event took place. A successful Day Saints. CD-ROM, 1 disc. viewing as many neighbours as search will give you a list of possible Published 1997. Price f3.65, inc. required. It is just as simple to individuals and last name, first P&P. return to the original household by name/s, type of record, year, state, backtracking. It is also possible to and name of a relative. THIS CD-ROM is of the census taken tag records so that they can be A birth/christening search allows on March 31 1851. It is fully printed or saved to a disk. Printing a search to be conducted for infor- indexed and gives names, ages, out any records is also straight mation about an individual. You can gender, relationships, marital status, forward. also search for all the children of a occupations and birthplace. It also The LDS is to be congratulated couple. For example. a succes5ful includes the source references to for producing this excellent product search will give you last name, first the original census records for each at such a superb price. name/s, sex. event date, registration household. The information appears. y=iV, reference number, father’s as much as possible, as entered by AUSTRALIAN VITAL RECORDS name, mother’s name, event place. the enumerator on the original doc- INDEX 1788-1905. Family History registered state and parish. ument. As the registration districts Resource Files. The Church of The marriage search lets you often crossed the county bound- Jesus Christ of Latter Day search using either the groom or aries, these entries are a.150 Saints. CD-ROM, 4 discs. Pub- bride’s name. or both if known. The included. This CD was produced as a lished 1998, f14.60, inc. p&p. information can contain both the pilot for the 1881 census. groom’s and bride’s names, ages. The following system require- THIS set contains an indexed collec- marriage date and place, index year, ments are suggested: 486DX tion of reference5 to 4.8 million registration year, reference number. processor (486DX66 recom- births, christenings, marriages and registered state and parish. mended), Windows 3.1 or better, deaths from the states of New South Searching the deaths gives you (will run on Windows 95 or NT), 4 Wales (178%1888), Tasmania the details on an individual death. MB RAM (8MB recommended), CD- (1803-1899), Victoria (1837-1888), This can contain, last name. first ROM drive (2X drive recom- and Western Australia (1841-1905). name/s, age at death. death date, mended), SVGA monitor with 256. Queensland, South Australia and the index year. registered year, refer- colour-capable video card. Northern Territory are not included. ence number, father‘s name, References include names of mother’s name. spouse, death Easy to use individuals, the year and place place, birthplace, registered state The CD is very easy to install and events were registered, and and parish. just a5 simple to use. There are indexed references that enable you The A to Z Index search enables many ways for a search to be con- to order copies of the original certifi- you to access individuals by the first ducted. The A to Z Index allows a cates from the State civil registration letter of their last names. This Index search through the censu5 using office in Australia. Some references also allows you to backtrack and go only the first letter of a last name, may also include names of parents to the next record and the previous then by first and middle names. An and spouses. dates and places of record. It has the same printing and individual search allows a search for events, ages of individuals when tagging system as the 1851 census. a specific person, which may include event5 occurred and other informa- Another excellent LDS product! the person’s name, birth year, birth tion. System requirements are the place and census place. Once an same as for the I85 1 census disc. VITAL RECORDS INDEX: BRITISH individual is found, it is possible to Searching this index is easy. If 1SU.S. Family History Resource File. switch to the household entry. you cannot find an individual, try The Church of lesus Christ of Lat- A household search includes searching different spellings or ter Day Saints. CD-ROM, 5 discs. information about the individuals abbreviations. There are four types Published 1998. Price f13.50, inc. that were residing within the resi- of searches that can be made. P&P. dence at the time the census WN A full search enables you to taken. A household might also be an search the entire index for all birth, WHAT would we do without the institution, such N a prison, school, christening, marriage and death LDS? They have produced another
232 The Journal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 wonderful index for us to view at manual is provided, which can be founding of Nappa Hall and the trials leisure in our own homes. This is a printed from your computer. Also and tribulations of the descendants great help to all genealogists and an included is the Family History of this branch. Again, this section is extra bonus for those of us doing Resource File Viewer, a program that brought to life with illustrations and one-name studies. allows a view of the information, colour photographs. This index contains approxi- contained on any of the resource In another section we are treated mately 5 million births, christenings files created by the LDS. The viewer to the occupations and lives of 79 and marriages taken from a partial does not contain any data or infor- branches. These branches, each with collection of records in the British mation, but you can add a resources their own trees, are based on the Isles from about 1538 to 1888. The file to your viewer. evidence of two or more ancestors index is not complete. It will con- . AU the above CD sets ore ovoi/- of society members being alive in tinue to be updated, adding millions able from: The Church ofjesus Christ 1850 who can be traced back to a of names with each update. These of Latter Day Saints, Distribution cannmn source. The closing section records have been extracted, which centre, 399 Garrets Green Lane, is on the Metcalfe Coats of Arms, means that wneone has copied Sheldon, Birmingham, West Mid- also well explained with illustrations. selected pieces of information from lands, 533 OUH, England. Tel: 012 1. This is o beautiful publication. the original record. However, not all 784-9555. The Metcalfe Sociely is to be con- the important genealogical informa- gratulated on producing such CI tion has been extracted, so you are METCALFEz HISTORY OF THE CLAN. masterpiece. 0 advised to check the original entry. 8.5” x 12” hardback with dust The British Isles comprises Eng- jacket. 252 pages. ISBN 0 9533267 WELSH FAMILY HISTORY: A Guide land, Wales. Scotland, Ireland, and 0 5. The Metcalfe Society. Pub- to Research, second edition, the Isle of Man. The Index does not lished 1998. Price: f25. edited by John d, Sheila Rowlands. include the Channel Islands. Time A5, softback. 337 Pages. 15BN 1 spans of the extracted records viuy WHAT is your society producing for 86006 065X. Published in 1998 by greatly from parish to parish. There the Millennium? The Metcalfe The Federation of Family Hlstory is d list which provides a summary Society has given us this absolute Societies Ltd. Price f9.95. of the number of parishes or places gem of a book. Future generations that are included. of this clan will be indebted to RESEARCHING Welsh ancestry can Names have been standardised. today’s members for producing a be very frustrating, so this book This means variant spellings are book of the highest standards, ena- could be the answer to your prayers listed under a common name, e.g., bling it to stand the test of time and if you are trying to follow your Smyth. Smithe, Smeith. are indexed become a precious heirloom. ancestors in Wales. This edition is an under Smith. This enables you to This publication is bursting with update to the tirst, published five search without knowing the exact information. clearly laid out. The text years ago. Since the first edition spelling. However, you can over- is easy to read, not only grabbing there have been several lxal gover- ride the system and search under an the attention of the professional and nment changes in Wales. This has exact spelling. novice genealogist alike, but also 1 caused the relocation of many When searching, the index pane feel that it will whet the appetite of records. Also, many of the authors displays a list of names that match any descendant that has yet to fol- had done additional research, so your request. Scrolling up and down low their own family history. every author was given the oppor- allows you to view all the names Due to the sheer size of the Met- tunity to update his or her text. selected. The list is arranged in order calfe clan, the book only covers the The front cover shows part of the of last name, year, type of event, the UK (there is enough information heraldic pedigree roll compiled in county, then by first name/s. Parents held by the society on the Metcalfes 1591 by Thomas Jones of Tregaron or spouses are also shown. in India to produce a whole book!). for Sir Roger Williams of Pen-rhos, The detail pane is at the lower But the cwersea~ Metcalfes have not near Caerleon. part of the screen. If you wish to been forgotten and they do get a The book itself has 23 chapters, view more details on an individual, brief mention towards the end. which are written by several authors, you click on the person in the index The origins of the Metcalfe clan each an expert in his or her own pane. The person’s record appears are covered in some detail. We are field. Their invaluable knowledge and the information that has been guided through the lives of early has been passed on to readers. If extracted from the original record is clan members with informative text you have an ancestor who is “lost in shown. This can include name sex, brought to life with maps, a family Wales” (I can sympathise with age, event date, where the event tree and numerous colour photo- anyone going through this!). then was recorded, the record from graphs of the sites as they are today. this book could just point you in the which the information was obtained, The Metcalfes of Nappa Hall, right direction. names of parents or spouse and any Wensleydale, are covered in the Although 1 would recommend other information that was copied. next section. We are taken on a that a// chapters were read. the There are many different ways of journey through time from the birth index is superb for those just wish- conducting d search. A detailed of James Metcalfe in 1389, the ing to refer to o relevant subject. (,
TheJournal of One-Name Studies, April 1999 233 whole thing struck me as some marriage or death may be as near to crazy boys’ game. the truth as we can get. Beyond that But people actually apfxar to we enter the realms of assumption, enjoy secrecy It is a kind of social imagination, rumour and what may game where even your date of birth look like a good story. Our Secret World takes on some mystical meaning. For years I was a cameraman I BELIEVE that a secret society is at The higher up the ladder you climb, working in documentaries. 1 was heart a sick society, but secrecy can the more secrets will be revealed to aware that the process of sifting take many forms. Undoubtedly, you. We have been playing it for truth from fiction began the moment there is information that needs to hundreds of years. It is only within film moved through the camera. remain secret. We would not expect the last few decades, when modern Absolute objectivity is simply not the police to open up their criminal communications have evolved, that possible. There are those who records to public inspection, the extent of the secretive society ignore the mundane in favour of the although in an ideal world even this has been revealed. dramatic. There are examples from might be questioned. However we Much information is only avail- history: Mathew Brady, who used to have to deal with life as it is, and not able to the privileged few. More and rearrange bodies on the American as we hope it could be. more, people are demanding that Civil War battlefields to create more The important question surround- the veil of secrecy is lifted. They dramatic shots, and the crime pho- ing any secrecy must always be want evidence that secrecy is neces- tographer Weegee, who would “Why?” Who or what is this secrecy sary and not some woolly excuse rearrange bodies at scenes of crime. trying to protect? What information, that it is in the public interest. In recent times, there have been for example, do the census records So what has all this to do with incidents when cameramen have contain that could possibly harm any genealogy? I believe it has become ignored hundreds of well-fed honest person? the norm for people to keep secrets. children in favour of the starving In this case, one must suspect or things they perceive of as secret. few. thus presenting a picture far the secrecy is there to further the People I’ve met have been alarmed removed from the truth. The repor- advance of statistical knowledge, to know that I can legitimately ter’s notebook saves the same rather than to protect individuals. obtain copies of their birth and mar- purpose. He cannot write the history The assumption is that there are riage certificates. To them this is of the world, but he cd” report on people who might not tell the truth private information, as important as an incident and in doing so he is about themselves without the prom- the major secrets of governments. aware that good news does not sell ise of secrecy. Perhaps this is their bulwark newspapers. Having made such a promise. it against a sea of official intrusion. We The editing process doesn’t stop would, in my opinion, be wrong for are not trained to be open: we are there. The editors get their hands on any government to go back on its more likely to grow up believing the material and, because of space word. We can, however, question others are not to be trusted, that in or time demands, more of the truth the sense of making such promises some way they will make use of this is filtered in favour of what it is in the future. information against us. Is it surpris- deemed that the public want to see The UK Official Secrets Act ing, therefore. that secrecy exists? or read. I was told by a film editor appears to cover everything from Of course. there are some who that had Vietnam War footage been weapons of mass d&ruction to see ways to make capital from these shown as taken, the war would have those working at Post Office coun- issues. Those with most to gain are been over in a month. Someone had ters. At one time, there were levels undoubtedly the media. “Publish decided that the truth was too hor- of secrecy within places like the War and be damned” is a useful banner, rifying for the public to see. Office (perhaps there still is). They and in principle is probably the way Along with the desire to publish ranged through Confidential, Secret, in which a more open society comes the question relating to the Top Secret, Cosmic and Top Cosmic, should move. However, we are all invasion of privacy. How private is if memory serves me correctly. aware that what is published fre- private? How much of a person’s It all depended on who was quently falls far short of the truth. private life are we allowed to allowed to see what, and I always How do we ensure that what is expose before we step over the line suspected that Top Cosmic were published is the truth? This is not so of decency? There has been debate letters the Prime Minister wrote to simple as it might appear. A docu- as far N the rich and famous are himself and then shredded. The mented event such as a birth, concerned. But the debate should
234 TheJournal of One-Name Stocks, April 1999 concern itself with all people, since so Statistics Canada cannot transfer upgrade and print out charts I have we are all capable of being hurt by the census records to the National prepared in my own individual way. having our secrets revealed. Archives without breaching the If it is somewhat pedestrian in its The argument is expressed that Privacy Act. approach when I request it to trawl much “private” information is in the The current Government is through largish documents and seek public domain anyway, so who reluctant to amend the Act, since out information, I do have plenty of cares if it is made eve” more public? they believe that would invalidate time at my disposal and can afford But much of it is well hidden. It the guarantee of indefinite confi- to wait for results. takes a degree of research to dentiality promised when the data Recently I bought a booklet, uncover it, and if we plan to blurt it was collected. They further believe “Computer Programmes for the out to all and sundry, we must ask that changes now would jeopardise Family Historian on Amstrad PCW what effect this will have on those Statistics Canada’s ability to collect Computers” by Ken Drake, MA, concerned and why we are doing it. full and accurate information, since FRGS, and read with trepidation that It may be to the public good, but co-operation from individuals would the disc drives have a limited life few incidents in genealogy fall into have suffered from the negative spa”. I also discovered that these this category. We may feel people impact of breaching an earlier PCWs are becoming a” endangered are being over sensitive about what guarantee. species with the passage of time. their grandfather did, but it may be Genealogy is a rapidly growing It is my good fortune that my important to them. A wise friend hobby in Canada, as it is in many eldest so” and my brother both had a maxim: “Swing your fist by all other parts of the world. The consti- bought Amstrad PCW 85125 at means, but if it hits someone’s nose tuency is there in the right numbers, about the same time as I did, you may have gone too far.” If we but it is another question as to the although their needs were later to are in the business of uncovering political clout that can be mustered prompt them to acquire more pow- dastardly deeds that concern all of by so many diverse groups within erful systems. Whilst my Amstrad us, then hitting noses may be neces- the constituency. Perhaps that is has bee” used on a regular basis for sary, but genealogy is hardly in that another subject for discussion in about IO years, theirs have been league. journals such as ours. used for a great deal less. Publish our information and be Happily, my eldest so” was will- damned by all means. but let us Captain Robert A. D. Darlington, ing to let me have his surplus make sure that what we publish is Member No 2776 computer and I was content in the really the truth and that it doesn’t 1820 Merida Place. Victoria B.C. knowledge that, should my faithful make someone’s life miserable. Canada VSN 5C9 companion fail me. my information would not be completely lost to me Peter C. Amsden without having to have a” external Member No. 1053 Other letters.. . drive fitted and pay for all my discs Oakbank, Southwaite to be copied to a different system. Cumbria CA4 OEW A back-up for my back-up Less than three months after I AS a computer-owning mother of acquired this back-up, my machine Privacy computer-owning sons, I have gave up the ghost. Once my son’s YOU published my letter on privacy always been aware of the need to machine was up and running, I was in the January 1999 edition of the back up my discs on a regular basis. grateful that I had bought the book- Journal and, in the interests of total However, I was not aware until quite let which had alerted me to the accuracy, I should now amplify the recently of the necessity for a back- possibility of failure and I had made Canadian government’s position up computer! provision accordingly. Nevertheless, which has recently been brought to I cut my teeth on a m-81, fol- I no longer had the security of my attention. lowed fairly swiftly by a Spectrum, knowing that a replacement was The Privacy Act provides for the eventually upgrading to an amazing waiting in the wings. transfer of records in the National 4Sl<, which I still use for playing However, all is now well, as a Archives and that Act contains Scrabble. Then when I retired and telephone call to my brother wording which prohibited the started in real earnest on the family ensured that yet another machine is release of information until 92 years research, the need for something alive and well, resting quietly in a after it was taken. Privacy extended rather more flexible than a type- loft in Sutton. If my present machine to the census takers while collecting writer became pressing. lasts me another IO years and the the data. Conscious of my inability to pur- third one a similar length of time, For 1906 and subsequent cen- chase a Rolls Royce on a pushbike then perhaps that will see me suses the wording of the Act income. I did the best I could and through! contains statutory provisions which bought a” Amstrad 8512. It has permit the release of information been very good for my modest Mrs. June Morris only to the person named in the needs and has enabled me to write Member No. I355 records. There is no time limit eve” innumerable letters, store and retri- 25 The Glade, Furnace Green after the named person is deceased, eve endless lists of information and Crawley, West Sussex RH IO 6JS
The Joornol of One-Name Studies, April 1999 235 Surnames as forenames ]OHN Titterton’s letter in the Octo- ber 1998 issue of The Journal reminded me of a recent search into the origins of one of the most ele- gant names I have ever come XTOSS, Sir Cloudesley Shovel1 And to my wife, I leave as much wine as (165C-1707) from Norfolk, who became Admiral of the Fleet and she can drink -well up to a limit! Mayor of Rochester in Kent. Cloudesley turned out to be his EFORE his demise, Grange, Banfkhire, on May 2! maternal grandmother’s maiden Samuel Slocock, a brewer 1718... name, and no doubt there was a of Newbury, Berkshire, “Alex Allan in Belnamen had i good reason for its use, but wasn’t it B made careful provisions Son be [sic.] his wife lean Wat bap an inspired choice? My only resewa- n his will of 1748 for the lifestyle tized and called Alar, witnesse: tion is what the local youngsters )f his widow. Samuel’s nephew, Alexr Huie Sponsor for the Chik must have called him when he was IISO Samuel, lived with his aunt because of the parent his gros! their age! md uncle and was instructed to Ignorance who could not bt I am also inclined to wonder what ee to the wants of his aunt on his admitted to hold up his Child...” the attitude of the Church was, in mcle’s death as follows: And there is a mysterious not< those days, to the adoption of non- May Slocock was to be pro- in the Baptismal Register of Keith Biblical names. Was there a differ- vided with “as much Red Port Banfkhire. Following immediateI) ence in this matter, between the Nine or White Wine for herself and after the name of the last witnes! landed gentry, who contributed to ier friends, not exceeding a quart in an entry for 23 April 1742 tht the maintenance of the Church, and ,er day.” Also a carriage and pair Clerk has written, “No Christians ir the peasants? >f horses and coachman should be May!!!” :ept for her to go visiting, but she Although I did look at Grange Mr Leonard i? Camin vds not to stay away overnight. KSR.s to find out how Alexande Member No 2174 L30 pocket money was to be Allan had offended Session, I’ve 75 Lnngford Place allowed per annum. paid quarterly. never found an explanation for the Hatherley Road Should a”Y dispute arise outburst of the Clerk in Keith Sidcup, Kent, DA144AZ between his wife and nephew. [Could he have meant to write. Samuel made provision that it ‘No Christenings in May!!!“? -Ed. 1 Eborall arms hould be resolved by his friends, That Clerk, John Skinner appar- DUNCAN Curie may be interested :dward Lucas of Hungerford and ently had some strong views to know that the arms of Eborall tibert Bunny of Hurstbourne Tar- exemplified by an entry for I Ma) impaling Bake in Hampton-in- ant, Mary’s brother-in-law. Samuel 1735: Arden church (January 1999 ]ournal) Iso made provision that if Mary “William Lawful Son to George were recorded by the well-known vas not satisfied with these provi- Ellis 8, lsobel Boniman ir Warwickshire heraldist, Chris. J, ions she could make her wishes Achoynany Born the last past... Smith. William Eborall died on the .ncwn and have them adjusted. John Boniman his Grandfatha 16th of janvary 1707 but the duns Sounds like Q good being Sponsor his poor fatha are recorded as showing boars rrrangem en t! being pressed prisoner b) rather than hedgehogs. Mary was the daughter of Achoynany to be a soldier...” The arms shown on a mural tablet amuel Heskins, rector of Hurst- My favourites include an en@ in Holy Trinity Church, Hatton, of ourne Tarrant, Hampshire. Her in l’enicuik, Midlothian: Joseph Eberall, died 23rd November ister Martha WN the wife of “Archibald Hall tennent in Mor- I793,,are recorded as, “Azure three abut Bunny. There is a memorial field and Janet Thorburn his spouse escallops Or”. Perhaps the artist 3 the Rev. Samuel Heskins in Hur- had a child born April 12th &. waz mistook mis-shapen hedgehogs for tbourne Tarrant church, the only baptized May the 3d 1736 named sea shells? Stranger things have IESKINS memorial I have found. Archibald witnesses Robert Stewan happened! Janet Heskins, Member No. 2281 &. Archibald Hall father to the for- said Archibald but is misplaced and Dr. Bernard A. ]uby some Scats oddities he not hearing the Minr either” Member No. )URlNG my excursions into Scot- Alyson Kelman, Member No. 901 18 Russell Terrace sh Old Parish Registers over the 4 Clifton Lodge ears. I have collected a few oddi- Royal Learnington Spa CV31 es. For instance, this one in
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