Sketchley Leicester

[ankerdine]

Thanks Valda for even more census info.
I must have made a mistake about the sexton Sketchley living next door.  I think I was confused with another census record I had seen recently.
Thanks for translating "chevener". I couldn't find it anywhere. I had searched the dictionary but to no avail. I know that Nottingham was famous for lace making and had thought there might have been a connection there.
Don't worry Michelle about having important ancestors. Last year I discovered that I had tinker/gypsy/vagrant as occupations in my Scottish roots!.........................and my married name is hawker!

[mich b]

Thanks for that Ankerdine.

I live in hope. I'll probably find someone carted off to Oz for some crime or other.

There are a lot of Scottish Gypsies, at least its romantic especially the idea of Romany blood (not that all Travellers are Romany). Travellers have a strong and interesting heritage even to this day. Travelling people have always suffered prejudice, you may well find that your relatives weren't vagrants, but useful members of society that others considered didn't "fit in". Tinkers were some of the first "recycler's". They mended almost anything and used renewable resources to make pegs and baskets etc.

What a coincidence having the name Hawker is that related to your gypsy ancestors or a partners name?

Happy hunting. Its rather addictive isn't it?

Mich 

[Valda]

Michelle

I don't see it as casting aspersions since anyone can make errors no matter how experienced they are, I was just trying to clarify what you were precisely questioning.

Reading senile decay instead of Denile Decap or chevener etc. is not so much about being clever (though of course I am not saying your friend is not!), but really much more to do with having more experience and having seen it before. That means even if you think the word says lawyer you question it because the person's neighbours and other family members' occupations don't match a middle class occupation like lawyer, which would usually mean that person had a higher level of education, in a time when that would have been expensive to acquire.

Regards

Valda

[ankerdine]

Just found this old thread of mine again and thought you would like to learn that I am off to Leicester the week after next. I am going to the Records Office with a friend so will be able to double check all the Sketchley dates and places.

Guess what, when I asked my friend what names she was going to research in Leiceste; she has been doing genealogy for some time; she said "Sketchley"! What a coincidence, eh? I think hers is John and not William.

I haven't been able to find Timothy Sketchley again so was wondering if he died or emigrated. Will have to wait and see.

Bye for now.

Thanks for all your help in the past.

Judy

[craig patrick]

My gt.x3 grandfather was William Sketchley b.c1784 , married Mary (?) and I think there were children as follows:
1833 Sarah Sketchley, 1822 Timothy Sketchley.Sarah married my gt.2 grandfather Charles Saxton in Nottingham.
The name Sketchley appears very infrequently on genealogy websites, indeed it is not listed at all in Rootschat surname interests.
I should be interested to hear whether anyone knows anything at all about this Sketchley family in Leicester. William Sketchley is down as a lawyer on one of the early census records.

hi my name is craig patrick i live in australia i was looking up my family tree and came across that i was related to the sketchley a william and mary lived in oz and had 6 kids but mary died in 1849 than remarried again in 1851 to jane all of his kids names are sarah william mary henry margret that was to first marrage then there was james henry samuel charles elizibeth jane joseph thomas john to the second marriage he was brought to australia for stealing in 1830 he 19 years old he got married in newcastle his second wife was irish jane mcconckey

[belinda350]

Hi Craig,
My family is directly related to the William sketchley line- we reside in newcastle and still own the property that william was granted in the hunter valley after he served his convict time. Do you know where he came from in England?

[belinda350]

I should have added that it is newcastle, NSW australia and the property is in the hunter valley NSW Aus.

[ankerdine]

Hi Belinda

I think he came from the Leicester area in east/central England. My William Sketchley came from there too but was a generation before your William.

Someone, maybe Craig, told me to Google William Sketchley Leicester and I think you will find out quite a lot by doing that.

When I return home from my extended holiday I will try to find my paperwork on that side of the family.

Judy

[craig patrick]

Hi Craig,
My family is directly related to the William sketchley line- we reside in newcastle and still own the property that william was granted in the hunter valley after he served his convict time. Do you know where he came from in England?

hi belinda it craig i live at charlestown in newcastle he came fromleicestershire i came across all this information when doing the family tree il start from my pop his name is arthur patrick his dads name was james patrick and he married eileen sketchley and her dads name was henry john sketchley and so on and so on its a small world if you want 2 meet up let me no i have birth and death certificates