Geneology/ Crowle as a surname
This surname is rare usually found in Worcestershire. Crowle and Crowle Green are tiny hamlets to the east of Worcester, probably the source. Is there any evidence of our Crowle being used as a surname? Bill Goldthorp.
Family History
Anderson Hind – A crowle Farmer in the 19th Century.
Anderson Hind farmed 700 acres in Crowle. His father, John, bought a Mill in Crowle at the beginning of the 19th Century and by 1841 three sons were farming a large portion of the Crowle countryside. Anderson was living at the Tithe House, his brothers James and Thomas were farming Crowle Grange and Ealand Grange … Read more
The Robinson Family and Tetley Hall
The Robinsons The earliest record of the Robinsons is in the Census of 1841 when John Robinson, a coal merchant born in Epworth in about 1776, was living with his wife Elizabeth (born in about 1780) at Crowle Wharf. The household also included John’s son George born in Hatfield in about 1810 and his wife, … Read more
Early Goldthorpe spellings in the Kirkburton Registers.
Early Goldthorpe spellings in the Kirkburton Registers. Originally the parish of the kirk (church) at Burton 1540 to January 15th 1654. www.archive.org/details/parishregisterso01kirk Parish clerks were only partly literate, word spellings not finalised and they often just wrote down what they heard. In fact a surname can be spelt two different ways in the same sentence. … Read more
Proud to be a Staniforth. Or The advantage of being an Axholme man.
Hannah Stanniforth aged 33 married John Everatt aged 39 in 1857. According to family tradition,(my mother and aunts) an arranged marriage. I have always felt proud of my 12.5% Everatt genes and totally neglected the 12.5% Stanniforth ones. Looking at John Everatt’s career, the reason is obvious, 1841 age 22, agricultural labourer, 1851 age 32, … Read more
Goldthorp Genealogy: The engagement of John Goldthorp and Elizabeth Saville. 1455 or 1456.
It is suprising what you can find with this family history lark. My engagement was not as complicated as this and there is no way Major (he was in the Pay Corps) Hubert Leslie de Courcey ( he added that bit himself to sound posh) Grylls would have coughed up 26 marks when I married … Read more