The May 2005 Rootschat challenge-now with recap

[alllegs]

Ohh  One essay down - woohoo!

Lynwings....I just noticed that you had Fenn's from London in your family history - are they related to the Elizabeth Fenn I found earlier I wonder...??!

I though Frederick Spice was living at 19 Hawthorn St, Elswick, Northumberland on the 1881 - sorry I'm being pedantic!!
RG11/ 5051 67 3

[Jan42]

Wow you lot!! mind boggling
guess who's printer ran out of ink half way through!! loads still to look at  but to let you all know some of what I have.
Richard hunter brn warcop 1814
married Emily Couchman 7th August 1845 st benet fink
children were

william 1846 (married Keziah mason in 1874)
emily Jane 1849 (married Alfred William Cutler)
Richard Frank 1852 (married Hannah Murrell in 1873)
Edward Couchman 1854 (married Ellen B)
Elizabeth J
Florence annie 1859 (married Fred Spicer)
Edith Beatrice 1863 (married John Shore Tate)

Richard Hunters parents were Henry Hunter 1775 from Longmartin
&
Jane Gibson 1879 from Warcop died 1873 Westmorland

Jane Gibsons parents were Robert Gibson 1854 Westmoreland and Margaret Perkins
Emily Couchman parents were William Couchman and Elizabeth Fenn
children were Emily brn 1817
and Elizabeth ann 1815 who married Robert Heke Beedle in 1838


Jan xx

[Paul E]

http://edenlinks.rootsweb.com/1gp/RECORDS/WIN_TAX_NW_LM.HTM#milb

Lists a few Hunters - incuding a William - in Milburn in the Window Tax records from 1777.

Paul

[Jan42]

Update on my last post
Elizabeth Fenn Hunter
married
Henry John Conolly in st pancras 1876

:-)

[piedstilt]

I'm still wondering about those poles ... 

Ros

[Kevwood]

i cant believe that out of the two random choices so far that both we have had people who have them in their tree. Shows how wide spread rootschat is getting and hopefully Jan, we will do as much as last month.

Paul E just shows what a fantastic idea you had .

Kev.

[piedstilt]

From Freebmd:

Hunter, Richard
Record Type:        Deaths
Age at death:        84
Quarter:        June
Year:        1898
District:        Islington 
County:        Greater London London Middlesex
Volume:        1b
Page:        166


Name:        Hunter, Emily
Record Type:        Deaths
Age at death:        75
Quarter:        September
Year:        1892
District:        Islington 
County:        Greater London London Middlesex
Volume:        1b
Page:        141

[emilysiobhan]

There seem to be whole clans of Hunters from Westmorland......found quite a few on various pages of transcriptions from members of the Cumbria FHS.

Including:
 HUNTER Wm m Bridget Robinson 18December1768 (Milburn PR)
 HUNTER Bridget w of William Yeoman (38) bur 28May1784 (Milburn PR)
 HUNTER Eliz d of William & Bridget (13) bur 1April1784 (Milburn PR)
 HUNTER Henry s of William yeoman & Bridget bapt 14Apr1775 (Milburn PR)
-to confirm those that allegs found on the IGI yesterday

+many more from Milburn to at least as far back as 1699

http://janelittle.members.beeb.net/Parish%20Registers/Humble_to_Hutcheson.htm
 
and have also found:
 ROBINSON Bridget d of Michael & Margraet [sic] bapt 30Jun1745 (Milburn PR)


 

[Manchester Rambler]

Why "Florence"?

The name Florence - used in medieval times for both boys and girls -  had virtually died out in England by the beginning of the 19th century, until a well-off couple named Nightingale, on an extended honeymoon tour of Europe, named their second daughter after the Italian town where she was born.  Florence Nightingale became a national heroine in 1854, when she took a party of British nurses to the Crimea, and in the following years, thousands of girls were named after her, including the subject of this month's challenge.

MR