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Huntingdonshire / Re: James smith born 1837 in st Ives.

« on: Sunday 20 October 19 16:34 BST (UK) »

I research the history of my village (Holywell-cum-Needingworth) and have a website with information about our people, that I try to update regularly. The details I have found in the past for the James Smith mentioned can be found at https://www.hcnhistory.org.uk/blank-for-people/getperson.php?personID=P1582&tree=hcn. I don't know if it helps, as the birth is definitely 1839, not 1837.

Peter

Huntingdonshire Lookup Requests / Re: John Thang of Needingworth/Bluntisham/Colne

« on: Monday 16 September 19 10:35 BST (UK) »

I do have some info, but cannot get to it just now. I may be able to tomorrow - what sort of thing do you want?

My website about the people of Holywell-cum-Needingworth is hcnhistory.org.uk and I am in the process of updating it in the next month or so.

Huntingdonshire / Re: Houghton/Holywell-cum-Needingworth

« on: Tuesday 25 June 19 07:14 BST (UK) »

I research Holywell with Needingworth and have lots of data including all Parish Registers on the website hcnhistory.org.uk.

Family Search does have Holywell with Needingworth for one batch where it should have been Houghton. This caused me a significant problem several years ago, and I told them but there has been no correction. The two villages are on opposite sides of St Ives.

Huntingdonshire Lookup Requests / Re: Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834

« on: Sunday 03 January 16 07:59 GMT (UK) »

There is a useful website for the history of Holywell-cum-Needingworth at www.hcnhistory.org.uk (disclaimer - it is my retirement project!) which includes PR images. I do not see any Minney there. By the way the IGI has a mistake and many entries under Holywell-cum-Needingworth in the IGI were actually for Houghton and Wyton, so this sort of confusion is possible. I worked from the original documents for my transcriptions.

Any HcN questions can be sent to me via that website, as I only occasionally look at RootsChat.

Cheers

Huntingdonshire / Re: Amazing website with Needingworth parish registers!

« on: Tuesday 24 February 15 20:46 GMT (UK) »

Hi relatedtoturnips, and anyone else interested,

I am Peter Cooper, and the hcnhistory.org.uk website has been my hobby and work of passion. I am so glad that you have found it useful - and I want to say a special thanks to Huntingdonshire Library and Archives and Holywell-cum-Needingworth PCC who have let me photograph and publish both the transcripts and images of the Parish Registers.

I am currently working on improving the transcripts, and relating the people of the PRs to those I know about already (censuses etc.). I hope to issue an update to the website, and the database of people it contains, within the next two months. If any of you would like to be on my mailing list for the occasional (3-4 times pa) note about an update, please just use the comment form on the website, or email me.

I have so much more to add to the website - I estimate that only 5% of what I have in my off-line database is on the website, and then there is so much more I want to find out about the village and its people.

If any of you have any images, stories, facts etc. relevant to Holywell-cum-Needingworth then do please let me know. I know I already have a pile of contributions that I still need to work through, but I shall get to them all eventually (as long as my health holds!).

Thanks for your interest.

Huntingdonshire / Re: Sarah FAREY b abt 1786 Holywell cum Needingworth

« on: Monday 13 February 12 16:05 GMT (UK) »

Hi
My name is Peter and I am doing a one-place study of Holywell-cum-Needingworth, including all its people, buildings, maps, documents, history etc. I only moved here 8 years ago, and only started my study a few months ago and so have little to add to what has been said in this thread already about Sarah Farey. There may be more I find out over the years as I manage to link people together and get more data.

I note on the 1841 census there is a John Golding b 1811 living with his family (wife Ann, children Joseph, Maria, George) in Needingworth High Street. He might be one of Sarah's 6 children, as well James who is with her in the 1851 census. (I think James is in Huntingdon on the 1861 census.) Sarah Golding seems to be living with Sarah Ayres in the 1841 census, and it seems the same Sarah Ayres lives next door to her in the 1851 census.

I do not know where this Sarah Ayres fits in but the Ayres are well represented in Holywell-cum-Needingworth records. I have some details on at least 60 of them.

The Hunts Family History Society are publishing a transcript of our PRs soon and I am looking forward to them. Of its nature I am not able to spend as much time on each family and individual as I would like to, so will make more errors than I would like. But I am hoping to build up a fuller picture as the years go on.

I hope this is of interest. If you are at all interested in people who have lived in our village(s) do feel free to let me know at * and I can swap information with you and keep you informed of progress.
Peter Cooper
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Huntingdonshire / Re: Holywell, does anyone know?

« on: Sunday 27 November 11 19:37 GMT (UK) »

Hi all
I am new to Roots Chat and have only just caught up with your question. I am collecting as much information about Holywell-cum-Needingworth as I can, as I live in the village. I suppose you could say that I am doing a "one-place" study. I visit the Huntingdon Archives fairly regularly and am photographing as much as I can that they have about our village(s). I am planning to collate all I find out about people, houses, business, stories etc. and make it available to locals, and anyone else interested.

I know that the PRs have been transcribed, and are being checked at the moment. I hope that they will be published by Hunts FHS in 2012, although I have no role in this. I have the censuses and linked everyone I can by semi-automatic means. I have past maps and am currently trying to "repopulate" the censuses so I know who lived where when. I also have the PR data from Ancestry, and am starting to collect old photos, oral memories etc.

If you have an interest in the village, or any of the people who have been here, and would like to either contribute things that you have found out, or would like to know something about the people etc of the village, then please do contact me. I have only started on my project a few months ago and expect it to be a "fifty year" project (or as long my mind keeps active!!!), so do not have all the answers yet, but I might be able to find out.

I am not sure how it works on RootsChat yet, but I suppose there is a way to contact me privately. I am hoping to build up a mailing list of interested people.

Regards to you all
Peter