Medieval Family History - taking the plunge...

[willow154]

Hi MarieC,
Glad you're finding it useful.
I came across it a while back and stuck it on my favourites list, just in case I managed to get back that far - if only
At least it's helping others.
Paulene

[MarieC]

Paulene

I do hope that you will manage to get back far enough to use the site!  Keep persevering, you never know!  And at the very least - in the true Rootschat tradition of helpfulness to others, you've given a great boon to people like me! 

MarieC

PS  Off to plough through all those Norreys right now!

[Keith Sherwood]

After my little fit of pique on Tuesday at only finding one reference to my family at my first go at medieval genealogy at the CCRO, I was thinking that if anyone with Cambs  genealogy would like me to look in that excellent book:"Cambridgeshire Subsidy Rolls" next time I'm there, it really had lots of fascinating details of tax records on families as early as 1260...
keith

[Lydart]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html

What was it Victor Meldrew used to say ?

'I don't believe it ...'

Well, I've just spent an hour going through the above site with a list of all the names on my tree, and NOT ONE of them occurs, not with any variation in spelling either !   As I've got about 150 surnames, I did think I might find one ... 

Ah well, once an insignificant ag.lab, always an insignificant ag.lab.

[Lady Di]

After my little fit of pique on Tuesday at only finding one reference to my family at my first go at medieval genealogy at the CCRO, I was thinking that if anyone with Cambs  genealogy would like me to look in that excellent book:"Cambridgeshire Subsidy Rolls" next time I'm there, it really had lots of fascinating details of tax records on families as early as 1260...
keith

You really shouldn't have said that Mr Sherwood 

Want my list now or later 

[Keith Sherwood]

Definitely later, Lady Di!
But I'll PM you when next I think I'm going to the CCRO,
keith

[Lady Di]

Thanks Keith - I was only joking. I don't have many from Cambs anyway and you have more than enough on your plate looking for all your lot.

Good luck

Di

[MarieC]

Well, I'm sorry for those who can't find a family name on the medieval genealogy site.  But I spent a couple of hours last night and have traced my Norreys back in a direct line to a man born ca 1110, the earliest to be called le Norreys!     Yee haaa!!!  Of course I have no way of checking all this from Australia, but the person who compiled it has included masses of detail, and it all gives the impression of being pretty carefully researched!

No sign of my other two gentry/minor aristocracy families.  But I'm happy that I've struck oil with one of them!

MarieC

[willow154]

Wonderful, MarieC - you've made my day!
Even if I did get further back the names I'm looking for aren't on the site - Adams and Richards (not unusal enough, probably).
Never mind - it seems to have lots of interesting things to suggest in the ways of sources, etc. Something else to read, while I'm sitting scratching my head!
Paulene