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MAY 2007 NEWSLETTER
(circulated to members of the Adamthwaite mailing list on Rootsweb)
Information about Quakers (see
History section – more info about Dissenters and Quakers)
I
picked up a useful booklet about Quakers in Westmorland at the recent
‘Who do you think you are - Live!’ Exhibition at Olympia – which has
made me even more determined to seek out any more records about Adamthwaite
Quaker births, marriages and deaths to fill the gaps. (Who IS the John
Adamthwaite who married Isabel Keasley??) I discovered from a very helpful
woman on the Quaker Family History stall that there was an early meeting
house at Dovengill, near Fell End which was in use between 1659 and about
1705 as well as the Ravenstonedale Meeting House which was used from 1705 to
about 1793 after which date the Friends Meetings took place at Narthwaite
(just down the fell from Adamthwaite). Perhaps there are records somewhere
that give details of baptisms and marriages of some more Adamthwaites that
took place at these places?
Palaeography
Through the Guild of One-Name Studies I have been attending a short course
on Palaeography (which to you and me means reading old script) and as a
result I am attacking all the new wills and chancery documents I have found
at the National Archives with much more confidence! Can’t cope with Latin
though or that spiky 16th century script, so I am very grateful
to Jonathan (Paula’s son) who has provided a transcription (with explanatory
notes) of one of the oldest documents that we have – take a look at
http://www.adamthwaitearchive.or.uk/Wills/Manorial_Court_Document_1591.htm
Birth, Marriage and Death
spreadsheets
These
have just been updated and now almost all of the entries after the late
1700s have been allocated to one of our nine family lines – however, please
remember that these allocations are in many instances no more than ‘educated
guesses’ based on matching birth information with age at death and mother’s
maiden name with marriage information as well as cross indexing individuals
on the BMD tables and the census tables. Without checking the actual
certificates I cannot be at all sure of the accuracy of the information (and
obviously it would cost a fortune to buy all those certificates!) So there
are probably MANY ERRORS, which I would be very grateful to have pointed out
to me. You may also interested to know that although it does not appear on
the website, I have got BMD information right up to 2004 – and if you would
like me to send you an excel spreadsheet of your family line (e.g. all the
PINK entries) just email me and I will get that off to you. All I ask is
that you check through it and tell me where I have made silly mistakes, and
fill in any missing information.
I am
hoping to produce maps for each family line showing how they have spread
across the UK – if I base these on birth data they can go right up to the
present day, unlike the census distribution maps which obviously stop with
the 1901 census. But I would like to feel that I am using the most accurate
information so I really need your personal knowledge to make the data as
complete as possible. |
