tempest? what does that mean?

[BumbleB]

TOTH - yes they did.  My Missionary was Mayor of PMB for a number of years - James Archbell.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  D-in-law's home town, though her ancestors went out later, about 1860.

[BumbleB]

I think that James was mayor at that time then, he died in 1866.

[hanes teulu]

Might the tree relate to "Tempest Shawe, bap 6 Jan 1596, father Thomas, Parish St Mary le Strand"?
Transcript only - doesn't indicate whether "son/daughter"

[BumbleB]

Image on Ancestry = Tempest, daughter of Thomas.

[heywood]

Might the tree relate to "Tempest Shawe, bap 6 Jan 1596, father Thomas, Parish St Mary le Strand"?
Transcript only - doesn't indicate whether "son/daughter"

Robert mentions Lancashire.

[ThrelfallYorky]

I knew a young woman with the first name of "Tempest" in Lancashire, a few decades ago. It was a family name, she said at the time. It was also a surname I met a few times over there.

[heywood]

I can just imagine a Lancashire mother at the door, calling ‘our Tempest, you’re tea’s ready!’ 

[Pennines]

I can remember a previous query some years ago about someone named Tempest.

This must have been a Tempest living close to the Lancs/Yorks Border. It sticks in my mind because just past Thornton in Craven, virtually on the border of the 2 counties -- is a pub named the Tempest Arms.

And no - I didn't frequent it -- just drove past it many times on the way from Lancs to Leeds.

I know this is a meaningless addition as regards the query - but I just went on Lancs OPC and input a christian name (any event) of 'Tempest' -- and there were 208 results.