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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: AngelaF67 on Monday 30 January 23 16:37 GMT (UK)
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Hello my name is Angela and I've just joined your fabulous forum, I have been busy reading the beginners chats and have already found a wealth of information that will help me as I wander through my family tree.
I've only been searching for 6 months seriously but I first started many years ago when I sent out a questionnaire to all the adults in my family which at that time was about 10 questionnaires, sadly I only got back 3, mum, dad and grandma. The rest just ignored my requests for help.
So I lost interest and put all my ideas and information away only to dig it our some 20 years or more later when all but my mum are left, and we had no idea what happened to anyone else, we weren't a close family with aunts and uncles like some people are.
Anyway I’m getting along nicely with a brick wall here and there and I’m so happy to have found this forum, it’s brilliant although my initial though was oh my goodness there’s so much stuff on here, it blew my mind :)
I’m mainly researching the following families, Foxcroft from Lancashire and Skipton, Atkinsons from Lancashire and the Nutters from Lancashire, Alice Whittaker Nutter is my 11th great grandmother and was one of the Pendle witches. I've roughly proved the relationship on my tree on Ancestry and I’m now going back over everything to confirm relationships and adding as much information as I can.
I look forward to getting to know people on the forum and to learning from you all, have a great week and thank you for letting me join your forum.
Regards
Angela x :)
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Welcome to RootsChat! :D
Have fun here - you'll soon get the hang of things.
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Welcome, Angela :)
I became very interested in the Pendle witches many years ago and recognised your mention of Alice Nutter. Those days were brutal. Somewhere I have some photos of the Pendle Hill area that I took when I was down that way.
Gadget
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welcome to Rootschat !
You`ll enjoy it !
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Welcome to Rootschat Angela.
You will find plenty of people here to help you whenever you get stuck. :)
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A warm welcome from me Angela. Thanks for sharing your story and your surname interests. It a very busy and friendly forum where we all help each where we can.
If you have any old photos that need repairing or dating, Take a look at the Photo Restoration and Dating Board that's where you will find Gadget, myself and others who practice our hobby.
Have fun, and don't be afraid to ask for help.
Carol
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I've just found this thread that Angela may find interesting:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=785998.0
Gadget
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Yes - welcome to this site.
I have found the rootschat family to be very helpful with all sorts of queries. Don't be afraid to ask questions and you may find your research can help someone else as well.
Jackie
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Hello Angela and welcome to Rootschat where you will find friendly and very helpful members.
As Treetotal mentioned take a look at the photo restoration forum where you will see the fantastic work our members do with old photographs.
Happy hunting and don't be afraid to ask for help.
Ian
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A warm welcome to Rootschat Angela
is this YOUR Alice Nutter ? - if so - where does the Whittaker come from ?
Baptism: 21 Jan 1682/3 St Mary, Newchurch in Pendle, Lancashire, England
Alice Nutt[er] - fil[ia] Jo[hannis] Nutt[er]
Register: Baptisms 1599 - 1704
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Hello Angela and welcome to the forum. I'm sure you will find it very useful. I have had so much wonderful help from the people here since I joined.
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A warm welcome to Rootschat Angela
is this YOUR Alice Nutter ? - if so - where does the Whittaker come from ?
Baptism: 21 Jan 1682/3 St Mary, Newchurch in Pendle, Lancashire, England
Alice Nutt[er] - fil[ia] Jo[hannis] Nutt[er]
Register: Baptisms 1599 - 1704
The Pendle witch trials were held in 1612 so I don't think this is the one.
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Welcome to this wonderful site, filled with wonderful and generous people :)
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A warm welcome to Rootschat Angela
is this YOUR Alice Nutter ? - if so - where does the Whittaker come from ?
Baptism: 21 Jan 1682/3 St Mary, Newchurch in Pendle, Lancashire, England
Alice Nutt[er] - fil[ia] Jo[hannis] Nutt[er]
Register: Baptisms 1599 - 1704
The Pendle witch trials were held in 1612 so I don't think this is the one.
Thank you everyone for the warm welcome I’m so glad I found this site, I’ve got information overload, which is totally brilliant, especially because it’s all useful.
Gadget & Garstonite - This is my Alice Whittaker Nutter - Whittaker being her maiden name.
Born: 1540 • Roughlee Newchurch Pendle Lancashire, England
Death:20 AUG 1612 • Lancaster Castle, Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Mother: Elizabeth Nowell - 1504 • Lancashire, England
Father Gyles Whittaker - 1500 • Huncoat, Lancashire, England
Husband: Richard Nutter
Born: 1537 • Roughlee Newchurch Pendle Lancashire, England
Death: 1584 • Roughlee, Newchurch, Pendle, Lancashire, England
She is actually my 13th Great Grandmother not my 11th as I said before.
I still have a lot to learn about this lady but our family tales say she wasn’t a witch at all but a staunch Catholic who was at the wrong place at the wrong time and kept quiet in case she gave away her fellow catholics to the authorities, catholicism was banned at the time I believe. Other tales I’ve read suggest she wasn’t quite sound of mind and therefore had no clue what was happening to her, not sure how true that is though.
Witches we’re treated appallingly back in those days, often being tortured night and day for days on end until they had no clue what they were saying and often admitting that they were a witch just to make the pain stop.
Thank you for the link Gadget, I’m off to take a look now :)