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From: Rob Thompson <>
Subject: GENUKI Family History News 150
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:05:42 +0100 (BST)

GENUKI FAMILY HISTORY NEWS
No 150

24 October 2003

Hello everyone and a warm welcome to our 150th
edition, still cant quite believe I have done this
many, and we are still going strong!

However my apologies for the long gap. The Rootsweb
admin server was out of action for a week meaning I
could not do some of the work needed to make sure we
are not spamming people who no longer want the
newsletter and then last week I came down with a
terrible cold, so I have been out of action! Anyway,
back to business here is this weeks newsletter!

Rootmap and Anthony Adolph have joined the other
retailers at the still fast growing Parish Chest
(www.parishchest.com)

I received this email from Stuart Raymond this week:
Following on the enormous success of my 'Family
History on the Web: an Internet Directory for England
& Wales', I find myself preparing a 3rd edition. I
know you have criticised the very idea of printed web
directories in the past (I did not give this a good
review, but we are all wrong sometimes, or so I am
told always!!! Rob); however, the fact is that many
people have told me how useful they are - and the
sales figures speak for themselves. Currency is a
problem I agree - but approx 90% of the URLs in the
2nd edition will be the same in the third edition. The
reason I am emailing you is that I need information on
new sites that ought to be included in the 3rd
edition. I do keep track of new sites listed by
yourself, in Cyndislist, and in Family Tree Magazine;
however, it is likely that some of your readers will
know of new sites which I ought to list, but may not
have picked up. I would be very grateful if they could
e-mail me with details of such sites.

Stuart Raymond, Genealogical Bookman
P.O.Box 35, Exeter, EX1 3YZ
Phone: (01392) 252193
Email:

I received this news this week from Achievements:

Gretna Green Marriage Index On-Line at
http://www.achievements.co.uk
Family histories abound with stories of elopements.
Often the destination of couples who wished to marry
without parental consent was Gretna Green, just over
the border with Scotland in "debatable land". After
1753, when English law forbad irregular marriages, a
number of people who objected to marrying in a church
wed in border centres where the couple's own consent
to marriage before witnesses was legal under Scottish
Law. Gretna is the most famous of these. Marriages
were conducted by self appointed ministers at the
border Toll booths along the few roads into Scotland.
The "priests", as they called themselves, often had
other jobs giving rise to the stories of being married
over an anvil by the village Blacksmith. Held at The
Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies
(www.ihgs.ac.uk) the index covers entries between 1795
and 1895, with a few earlier references. In all over
4500 entries are recorded for those lost marriages.
Ask yourself: "Did my great-great-great grandmother
elope to Gretna?”
Searches to see if a match is present are FREE!
This is the fifth UNIQUE database available and FREE
to search on line at http://www.achievements.co.uk.
26,000 Armigerous Ancestors may help your seventeenth
century and earlier ancestry;
500 UK Trade Directories;
6000 Archived cases provide Millions of ancestors!
10,000 entries for Crisp’s London Marriage Licences
between the mid 1700s and the commencement of General
Registration in 1837.
- Also coming shortly: Catholic marriages, Irish
families, the Phillimore genealogical archive,
Culleton's collection, and marriage licence bonds

NEW RELEASES FROM ARCHIVE CD BOOKS

Calendar of Wills Relating to Northamptonshire &
Rutland 1510-1652
Published in 1888 this is a list of surviving wills
showing the name of the testator and the place they
were from.

The Registers of Headon, Nottinghamshire 1566-1812

The Gentlemans Magazine Library 1734-1868, Manners &
Customs
Wonderful details of social and local manners and
customs, plus details of games as our ancestors would
have played them

The Gentlemans Magazine Library 1731-1868, Popular
Superstitions
A highly entertaining book which details festival days
and seasons, superstitions and witchcraft.

The Gentleman's Magazine Library 1731-1868, Dialects,
Proverbs and Word-lore
An excellent book which describes the meaning and
origins of English words, dialects and proverbs,
including place names and surnames.

The Parish Registers of Claverley
Printed transcripts. 1568-1837

The Visit of Queen Victoria to Sheffield - May 21 1897
The official programm for the Queen's visit to
Sheffield to open the new Town Hall. Contains the
names of those invited to attend and some beautiful
old photographs of the building itself. Did your
Sheffield ancestors witness this event?

The History and Antiquities of Scarborough
Localised history books such as this are always much
more detailed than county histories. The authors are
usually very familiar with their subject and so can
give a much more precise account of their
surroundings.

Ashburton and its Neighbourhood - Charles Worthy 1875
A history and description of the churches and
antiquities in the area which includes the parishes of
Manaton, Dean Prior, Tor Brian, Staverton and
Landscove.
Written by the author of 'Devonshire Parishes' which
is also available on CD

The Clergyman's Intelligencer - Alphabetical List of
Patrons in England & Wales 1745
A complete alphabetical list of all of the patrons in
England and Wales with the dignities, livings and
benefices in their gift and their values.

Archive CD Books homepage -
http://www.archivecdbooks.com

WEBPAGE REVIEWS

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bob.cumberbatch/index.htm
A nice, if somewhat over fussy website dedicated to
the Cumberbatch name, possibly most famously attached
to the Cumberbatch Trophy in Aviation. The site has a
lot of details of the various families, including a
lot of background work, social history and a bit of
local history. There are some nice trees, and
genealogy, and the site is well worth a browse. I
found the fussiness of the design and page a little
irritating after a while, but maybe you will have more
patience than me! There was a nice section of the
Cumberbatch family in Barbados, which was well
researched and like most things unusual a little more
interesting than the main family!

http://www.bodiam-mill.net/
Absolutely top-notch website. I was surprised when I
first looked at this, and then after a while was even
more surprised you did not have to pay! (Please don’t
get any ideas webmaster! ) This is a website
revolving around the village of Sandhurst in Kent. On
the site are a multitude of lists, including fully
transcribed parish register, apprenticeship records,
title deeds, property deeds, wills, parish books. All
this and a large amount of local history as well. If
your ancestors came from this area this website will
provide you with such a wealth of information you will
not believe it, I just wish there were thousands more
websites like this. Plain and simple in design it is
not much to look at, but barring a slow loading time
the site is easy to move around. Some pages have a lot
of html coding on them and take some time to load, but
most are fine

http://www.benpalmer.co.uk/movillerecords.htm
Another absolutely stunning site revolving around one
place, this is a website concerned with Moville in
County Donegal Ireland. The sheer amount of records on
this site makes it a contender for the best website I
have seen this year, combine this with a clarity of
design and an ease of navigation that is excellent
makes this site one of my all time favourites.
Contained on the site are transcriptions of Griffiths
Valuation, 1901 & 1911 census, mid nineteenth century
directories, and early muster rolls making the dates
of transcriptions from 1630 to 1911, there is also a
history of the area, and some pictures. A truly
excellent site that all of you should visit – if you
have Donegal Ancestors its worth a visit, if not its
worth a visit to see just what you can do with a
locality website

CERTIFICATES

MARRIAGE
HARVEY, Samuel & ELLIS, Louisa Jane, 31 Jan 1880,
Rochford, ESS*
ORME, Benjamin & MORIS, Annie Louisa, 26 May 1886,
Birmingham*

DEATH
MARSHALL, William, aged 73, 2 Jan 1848, Grantham*

If this is of use to you in your own personal
research, drop me a line
At and I will put you in
touch with the current holder
Meanwhile, if you have a certificate you don't need
that may be of use to someone else then drop me a
line, and we will advertise it in an upcoming
newsletter .

If you have a spare certificate that is of no use to
you at all then you can either send me the details via
email, or send me the certificate. If the certificate
is sent to me then it will be sent on to any
enquiries. After six months if nobody has claimed the
certificates as interesting to their research then
they will be deposited at the SoG library. I will
however keep all the details of the certificate on
file and pass them on to any relevant one name studies
registered with the Guild of One Name Studies.

We only publish certificates more than 100 years old,
but pass all certificates on.

The address for spare certificates to be sent to is:
GFHN, 66 Northern Road, Aylesbury, HP19 9QY

READERS QUERIES

McKINLEY from Ireland, via Derbyshire, UK

The McKINLEY family is on the three 1851-71 censuses
for Stoney
Middleton, Derbyshire,
having left Ireland (allegedly Waterford) perhaps due
to the famine.
Thereafter they disappear, apart from:

- my greatgrandmum Hannah MILLER (nee McKINLEY)


- 1881 census piece 3456 folio 18
John McKINLEY a bootmaker at 1 Green Head,
Hatheresage, Derby born
c1838 and
wife Maria (nee MILLIGAN) born c1836 and
eight children:
Mary J born 1860,
Elizabeth A born 1862,
Maria born 1864,
Susanah born 1866,
Theresa born 1867,
John F born c1869,
Agnes born 1872 and
Anistatia born c1875, and

- 1881 census piece 3322 folio 152
James McKINLEY a miner at Sherwood Rise, Kirkby in
Ashfield born c1843
andw
ife Charlotte born c1857 and
three children:
Frank born c1878,
George born c1880,
Harriett B born 1881.

I cannot find any of them on the 1891 or 1901 censuses
or elsewhere.
Hopefully, someone can help discover what happened to
the McKINLEYs or
suggest lines of enquiry.

Stan DENCHER
Email


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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

The Central Scotland FHS is hosting the Scottish
Association of Family
History Societies 15th Annual Conference in Stirling
in 2004. Details,
including how to book for the Conference are available
on the web-site:

http://www.csfhs.org.uk/


See more events at: -
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~malcolm/genuki/geneva/

NEW ON GENUKI

Cornwall Links/Pages added/amended:
[Newlyn East] Map of the Area
[Newlyn East] Photographs of Newlyn East
[Newlyn East] Kelly'1873 Directory of St Newlyn East
[Newlyn, St Peter] Kelly#39s Directory of Cornwall
1893
[Newlyn, St Peter] Cornish Emigrants to Akron, Ohio,
USA
[Newquay] Map of the Area
[North Hill] Map of the Area
[North Petherwin] Map of the Area
[North Tamerton] Pictures of North Tamerton
[Padstow] Enumeration Districts 1 to 3
[Paul] Map of the Area
[Paul] Kelly#39s Directory of Cornwall 1893
[Pelynt] Pictures of Pelynt
[Pendeen] Geevor tin mine
[Pendeen] men who were killed or injured
[Pendeen] Kelly#39s Directory of Cornwall 1893
[Penponds] Enumeration Districts 11 to 14
[Penponds] Enumeration Districts 15 and 16
[Penponds] Enumeration Districts 17 and 18
[Penzance] Domesday Survey of 1086
[Penzance] Historical Timeline of events in Penzance
[Penzance] Half a Century of Penzance (1825-1875)
[Penzance] pictures of Penzance
[Penzance] Pigot's Directory of Penzance 1823
[Penzance] Pigot's Directory of Penzance 1844
[Penzance] Coulson'Street Directory of Penzance -
1864
[Penzance] Kelly'Directory of Cornwall 1893
[Penzance] Cornish Emigrants to Akron, Ohio, USA
[Penzance] genealogical webpage for Penzance
[Penzance] Newspapers in Penzance
[Penzance] Publicans and Public Houses, Inns, Taverns
and Hotels in Penzance
[Penzance] Map of the Area
[Penzance] Map of the Area
[Perranuthnoe] Photographs of Perranuthnoe
[Perranzabuloe] Map of the Area
[Perranzabuloe] 1841 Census of Perranzabuloe
[Perranzabuloe] Photographs of Perranzabuloe
[Perranzabuloe] Kelly'1873 Directory of Perranzabuloe
and Hamlets
[Philleigh] Map of the Area
[Philleigh] Photographs of Philleigh
[Port Isaac] Map of the Area
[Probus] Photographs of Probus
[Quethiock] Map of the Area
[Redruth] Enumeration Districts 1 and 2
[Redruth] Enumeration Districts 3 and 4
[Redruth] Enumeration District 5
[Redruth] Enumeration District 6 and 7
[Redruth St Andrew] Map of the Area
[Ruan Lanihorne] Map of the Area

Dorset Links/Pages added/amended
East Burton
[East Burton] East Burton - Pictures and bibliography
[East Burton] East Burton - From the Dorset Page
East Chaldon
[East Chaldon] East Chaldon - From the Dorset Page
East Holme
[East Holme] East Holme - Pictures and bibliography
[East Holme] East Holme - From the Dorset Page
East Knighton
[East Knighton] East Knighton - From the Dorset Page
Easton
[Easton] Easton - From the Dorset Page
Eype
[Eype] Eype - Pictures and bibliography
[Eype] Eype - From the Dorset Page
Farrington
[Farrington] Farrington - Pictures and bibliography
[Farrington] Farrington - From the Dorset Page
Ferndown
[Ferndown] Ferndown - From the Dorset Page
Fiddleford
[Fiddleford] Fiddleford - From the Dorset Page
Fifehead St Quintin
[Fifehead St Quintin] Fifehead St Quintin - From the
Dorset Page
Fishpond Bottom
[Fishpond Bottom] Fishpond Bottom - Pictures and
bibliography
[Fishpond Bottom] Fishpond Bottom - From the Dorset
Page
Forde Abbey
[Forde Abbey] Forde Abbey - Pictures and bibliography
[Forde Abbey] Forde Abbey - From the Dorset Page
Forston
[Forston] Forston - From the Dorset Page
Fortuneswell
[Fortuneswell] Fortuneswell - From the Dorset Page
Frome Whitfield
[Frome Whitfield] Frome Whitfield - From the Dorset
Page
[Gillingham] Gillingham - Pictures and bibliography
Glanvilles Wootton
[Glanvilles Wootton] Glanvilles Wootton - From the
Dorset Page
Goathill
[Goathill] Goathill - Pictures and bibliography
[Goathill] Goathill - From the Dorset Page
Grimstone
[Grimstone] Grimstone - From the Dorset Page
Grove
[Grove] Grove - From the Dorset Page

Northumberland Links/Pages added/amended
[Halton] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Haltwhistle] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Hartburn] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Haydon Bridge] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Hebburn or Hebron] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Heddon on the Wall] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Hexham] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Holy Island] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Horton] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Howick] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Ilderton] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Ingram] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Kidland] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Kirkharle] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Kirkhaugh] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Kirkheaton] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Kirknewton] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Kirkwhelpington] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Knaresdale] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Kyloe] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Lambley] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Lesbury] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Long Houghton] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Longbenton] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Longframlington] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Longhorsley] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Lowick] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Lucker] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Meldon] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Mitford] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Morpeth] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Netherwitton] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Newbiggin] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Newbrough] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Newburn] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Newcastle upon Tyne] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Norham] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Ovingham] The National Gazetteer (1868)
[Ponteland] The National Gazetteer (1868)

Angus Links/Pages added/amended
Tay Valley Family History Society

Northamptonshire Links/Pages added/amended [Lutton]
The War Memorial.

Hampshire Links/Pages added/amended Portsmouth Museums
& Records Service.

London Links/Pages added/amended
Library catalogue
Local History
Archives and Local Studies Library
Wandsworth Local History Service
Wandsworth Museum Service
West Surrey FHS - 1851 & 1861 census indexes
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
Royal Mail information sheet on postcodes.

Bedfordshire Links/Pages added/amended
War Memorials for Bedfordshire
[Ampthill] Ampthill War Memorials
[Arlesey] Arlesey War Memorial
[Aspley Guise] Aspley Guise War Memorial
[Barton in the Clay] Barton War Memorial
[Battlesden] Battlesden War Memorial
[Bedford] Bromham Road Methodist War Memorial
[Bedford] St Paul's Methodist War Memorial
[Bedford] St Leonard's War Memorial
[Bedford] military graves from Bedford Cemetery
[Bedford] Bedford Embankment Peace Memorial
[Bedford] Bedford Grammar School 1914-1918 Memorial
[Bedford] Bedford Modern School Memorials
[Bedford] Bedford Boer War Memorial
[Bedford] Bedford St Paul's Boer War Memorial
[Bedford] Bedford St Paul's Campaigns Memorial
[Bedford] Bedford St Paul's North West Frontier
Memorial
[Bedford] Bedford St Paul's West Indies Memorial
[Bedford] Bedford St Paul's World War 1 Memorial
[Bedford] Bedfordshire Police Memorial
[Biddenham] Biddenham War Memorial
[Biggleswade] Biggleswade War Memorial
[Biggleswade] military graves in Biggleswade Town
Cemetery
[Bletsoe] Bletsoe War Memorial
[Blunham] Blunham War Memorial
[Bolnhurst] Bolnhurst St Dunston War Memorial
[Bromham] Bromham St Owen War Memorial


Westmorland Links/Pages added/amended County Map.

Surrey Links/Pages added/amended ENG-Surrey.

Sussex Links/Pages added/amended
West Sussex Record Office
West Sussex and A2A
ENG-SUSSEX-EASTBOURNE
ENG-Sussex
[Barnham] Kelly's 1867.

Cambridgeshire Links/Pages added/amended
Extracts from the Soham Chronicle 1787-1899
[Abington Pigotts] Abington Piggots War Memorial
[Arrington] Roll of Honour site
[Ashley cum Silverley] Ashley-cum-Silverley War
Memorial
[Babraham] Babraham War Memorial
[Balsham] Balsham War Memorial
[Barrington] Barrington War Memorial
[Bartlow] Bartlow War Memorial
[Barton] Barton War Memorial has been transcribed and
and the men researched
[Bassingbourn with Kneesworth] Bassingbourn War
Memorial
[Bassingbourn with Kneesworth] Gravestones
[Benwick] Benwick War Memorial has been transcribed
and and the men researched
[Bottisham] Bottisham Holy Trinity War Memorial
[Bourn] Bourn War Memorial
[Boxworth] Boxworth War Memorial
[Brinkley] Brinkley War Memorial
[Burwell] Burwell War Memorial
[Caldecote] Caldecote War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge Crematorium War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge St Johns War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge St Marks War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge Boer War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge Shire Hall Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge "Coming Home" memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge County High School for Boys
memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge Guildhall Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge Leys School Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge Perse School Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge All Saints War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge Holy Sepulchre War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge Holy Trinity War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge St Andrew the Great War
Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge St Benedicts War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge St Giles War Memorial
[Cambridge] Cambridge St Mary's War Memorial
[Carlton-cum-Willingham] Carlton War Memorial
[Castle Camps] Castle Camps War Memorial
[Caxton] Caxton War Memorial
[Cherry Hinton] Cherry Hinton War Memorial
[Chesterton] Chesterton, Arbury War Memorial
[Chettisham, Ely] Chettisham War Memorial
[Cheveley] Cheveley Hinton War Memorial
[Childerley] Childerley Hinton War Memorial
[Chippenham] Chippenham Hinton War Memorial
[Coates and Eastrea] Coates, Eastrea & Turves War
Memorial
[Coates and Eastrea] separate memorial for Estrea
[Coldham, Elm] Coldham War Memorial
[Comberton] Comberton War Memorial
[Conington] Conington War Memorial
[Coton] Coton War Memorial
[Cottenham] Cottenham War Memorial
[Coveney] Coveney War Memorial
[Croxton] Croxton War Memorial
[Croydon with Clopton] Croydon cum Clopton War
Memorial

GENUKI’s Home Page – www.genuki.org.uk

AND FINALLY

Well that’s all for this week! Next week I hope to
brig you the news from the sunny climes of Curacao, as
I am flying off to Surinam and then Curacao next week

Have a good week, and keep your news coming in!

Rob

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