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Originally posted by Roy Parkin 20/04/2008

Hi jo100, my name is roy parkin and i was born in crowle and attended crowle county school fieldside crowle 1945/55 i lived in windsor road then and a few doors along lived a COCKIN family i also new a HARRISON family that lived on windsor road but they moved to eastoft road, dont know if this of any help but feel free to conntact me

e-mail, royparkin@hotmail.com cheers for now roy

Originally posted by jo100 04/05/2008

Hi Roy,

Thanks for the reply. The families you mention are most probably connected to mine, but my interest in these families is quite a bit further back, 1700/1800's.

Would have helped a bit more if I'd put the dates I was interested in against the names, wouldn't it?

Kind regards,

Jo.

Originally posted by Dismo on 04/03/2009

Hello

I have an interest in Halkon of Eastoft. My great x 2 grandfathers sister Hannah Barley was married to Thomas Halkon

hi its mary lynch but my name was cockin and there is margreate cockin aswell she is 63 years old now but she changed her name to tomlinson aswell she left crowle around about 1968 ish

Shores.

Adam Shores was born in Worksop 1667 and died Belton Sep. 1727. He must have moved to the Isle of Axholme as a young man his wife Mary Glew born Belton 1678

Mary Glew's parents. Francis Glew b. 1643 Owston d. July 1681 Belton

Mother Mary Parkin. b. 1645 Owston. Parkin is still a well known surname in Crowle.

Francis Glew was the illegitimate son of William Isodor Glass b. 1620 d. 1674 Owston and Tryphena Glew b. 1620 Owston d. 1674 Haxey. Glass used to be I do not know if it still is a surname in Crowle.

Adam's son Aaron Shores b. Belton 29 Dec. 1701 Belton d. 27 Jan 1743 Owston

Wife Susannah Crosland 1700 – 1741

They had seven children, one surnamed Shore, five Shores and William Shoers.

Then parish clerks were semi-literate and would write down surnames phonetically(As they heard them.)

In the First Kirkburton Registers abt 1515 to 1640 my surname has about 12 different spellings.

William Shoers b. 5 Sep. 1736 Kelfield, Owston d. 16 Dec 1817 Owston his wife Elizabeth 1736 to 1823.

One of their daughters Elizabeth Shoers b. 4 Jul 1770 Owston d 12 Apr. 1818 Owston married Thomas Till b. Feb. 1769 in Haxey. d. 1833 in Owston.

In Haxey the Tills I believe were weavers in Owston they became maltsters. Moving into the north of the Isle fo Axholme they became farmers.

David Till and his sister who still live in Crowle are descended from that marraige.

Elizabeth and Thomas's granddaughter Annie Elizabeth Till married my great grandfather Edmund Oates.. b 1829 Burringham. Burringham was then part of Althorpe parish and he was baptised at Althorpe church. Annie Elizabeth was born in Eastoft, where her father farmed and was baptised in Crowle. Eastoft church was not built until abt 1852.

Edward Oates lived at Gaythorne Farm, 6 acres, Washing Hole (now Hall) Lane, Eastoft, he was a boot and shoe maker and is recorded as employing two jounrymen and an apprentice. He was a Primitve Methodsit Local Preacher and left wing Liberal. I have his photograph and an Oates Family Acrostic

Which I will put on the forum.

Go to the website red1st.com ( for those wth roots in the Isle of Axholme)where you will be able to follow the Till family and their relatives by marraige.

Have fun

Bill Goldthorp

Note OWSTON, not Owston Ferry, then two seperate settlements, Owston and West Kinniard's Ferry

Kinniards is a corruption of King Edwards. Edward the Confessor established the ferry when he wanted help form Northern allies to suppress a rebellion in the south.