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From: Michael Bruff <>
Subject: Re: Another lurker
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:17:25 +0100
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Kathy from Texas wrote:

>I am another one who lurks around this list hoping something will pop up.
>I am researching Twitty's. Thomas Twitty was born in Claines around 1671.
>Came to American in the late 1600's or early 1700's. He is in Va on the
>James City Quit Rent Rolls in 1704. Lived in New Kent Co. Va. May have had
>a brother named Robert. They both may have been baptized in St. Swithins.
>If so their father was Thomas Twitty.
>
>Anybody have any information on them?

TWITTY is not a common surname in Worcestershire (or anywhere else,
for that matter), so there is a very good chance that a TWITTY from
Claines would have his offspring baptised in one of the Worcester
city churches. Claines is immediately north of Worcester, and in fact
the parish took in a large chunk of the city. You really need to
order the films from your local friendly LDS centre to check them
against the IGI submissions, though. Might be worth asking SKS to
look up TWITTY wills/marriages at Worcester CRO (or contact the CRO
and ask them to make this search--charges I'm not sure of, but they
will be very reasonable).

Surname is related to TUITT/TYRWHITT -- TUITTs were slave-owners in
the West Indies.

An excellent way of tracking an uncommon surname via the IGI is to
run searches using a common forename (John, Thomas, William, Ann,
Elizabeth, Mary/Mary Ann), starting 1530, +/- 20 years, all events,
specify Worcestershire, note batch number, move to 1550, and so on.
Go up to 1837, then run batch searches of every parish. Just the
surname, the batch number, any event, don't worry about the date,
etc. Do *not* try this with SMITH, BROWN, JONES, etc!

The UK batch no. site at:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Trail/8333/index4.html

has full information on how to run a batch search.

Remember that Worcestershire is *tiny* by US/Canadian/Australian
standards. North to south, you can drive one end to the other in 45
minutes, observing the 70 mph speed limit (and assuming the M5 is
clear!). It's well worth buying the parish map from the Society of
Genealogists' bookshop (http://www.sog.org uk) and plotting it
against a modern map--for preference, the OS 1:50,000 Landranger
series, but the OS Road Atlas (I believe, widely available outside
the UK) will do just fine. One nifty trick you can do with this map
is to have a few b & w photocopies made and use these to mark off the
parishes where your surname turns up, using a colour code for dates,
etc. Having a visual record like this is very handy, as it gives you
a clear idea of the surname's migration over the years.

Mick

Tottenham
Middlesex
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