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Thank you, Kay, well done. I’d also considered if it was kill rather than hill, but the h does seem to match others on the same page.

Maybe it started out as Mulberry Hill? Just a thought!

Keith

By pure coincidence I think I might have found the answer to this.

I was searching for the burial of a John Webster of York (on a different part of my family tree) and came across the attached Quaker grave digging instruction. As it happens this wasn’t the John Webster I was looking for but the deceased’s abode caught my interest.

Stainer Hall is (or was, it’s now a school and housing estate) just under 8 miles from Skipwith so I think there’s a very good chance this could be the Stamerhall from the marriage entry.

I now need to check the Selby parish registers to see if there’s any mention of a Simon Woollas born about 1660. Unfortunately and surprisingly there doesn’t appear to be any baptism records on line for Selby from this period, though a transcript is available from the Yorkshire Parish Register Society.

Keith

I’ve had one of my mysteries solved this morning thanks to the forum so I might be on a roll and thought I’d try another!

Attached is an extract from the Bishop’s Transcript for St Helen’s, Skipwith, for 1684. It shows the marriage of Simon Woollas and Elizabetha Linsley.

Simon is described as of Stamerhall. I think the line above the m means repeat or abbreviation so it’s possibly Stammerhall.

I lived around York most of my life but it doesn’t mean anything to me. I tried looking through old maps for the parish and surrounding area but came up with nothing. I also tried earlier and later BTs for Skipwith to see if there were any other mentions and again drew a blank, which would make me think it’s not in the immediate vicinity. It could well be a corruption of a place name that the vicar was unsure of.

Any ideas, please?

Keith

Thank you for the replies.

Swingler makes sense, I can see it now you’ve said it!

I wasn’t sure how much of the page I could post without it causing copyright problems, but here’s the full page. The first letter of the first word looks most like the L of Lockwood. There are examples of the letter J in capital form but they look distinctly different.