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Vasquez109
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Ive just come back from Northants RO and saw they had a map of the parishes of the county. Does anyone know if they are available online and for other counties too?
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Northamptonshire - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs
Swansea (Morriston) - Thomas, Williams
Derbyshire - Harlow
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London (Bethnal Green/Islington) - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Collecott, Webb, Curgenven, Trevarton, Blamey, Dunn
Gloucestershire - Harper
County Durham - Proud, Duke
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Rena
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go to this website page and at the bottom click on
"Northants Parish map"
http://www.northants-familytree.net/northants%20maps.htm
Cheers,
Rena
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Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy
Leith area: Mason, Telford, Darling, Cruikshanks, Sime, Bell
Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar
Ross, Urray:Mackenzie
Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell
Perthshire: Brown Ferguson
Wales: McCarthy, Thomas
England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells
Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke
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Vasquez109
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Thanks Rena.
Its what I was getting angry over today at Northants RO.
David.
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Northamptonshire - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs
Swansea (Morriston) - Thomas, Williams
Derbyshire - Harlow
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London (Bethnal Green/Islington) - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Collecott, Webb, Curgenven, Trevarton, Blamey, Dunn
Gloucestershire - Harper
County Durham - Proud, Duke
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osprey
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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if you look at the Genuki page for the counties you're interested in, and check maps, there are sometimes parish maps. The ones for Yorkshire are really good
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/#Maps
Link to the Cornwall one seems to be broken
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Cornwall: Bosisto, Carnpezzack, Donithorn, Huddy, James, Retallack, Russell, Vincent, Yeoman
Cards: Thomas (Llanbadarn Fawr)
Glam: Bowler, Cram, Galloway, James, Thomas, Watkins
Lincs: Coupland, Cram
Mon: Cram, John, Philpot, Smart, Watkins
Pembs: Edwards (St. Dogmael's)
Yorks: Bowler, Elliott, Hare, Kellett, Tebb
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behindthefrogs
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British History On-line is a very useful source of maps of Hundreds, enclosure awards etc.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Default.aspx
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Vasquez109
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Thanks everyone. Youve all been very helpful as always!
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Northamptonshire - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs
Swansea (Morriston) - Thomas, Williams
Derbyshire - Harlow
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London (Bethnal Green/Islington) - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Collecott, Webb, Curgenven, Trevarton, Blamey, Dunn
Gloucestershire - Harper
County Durham - Proud, Duke
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Vasquez109
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Appear to have got into difficulty again. Cant seem to find a parishes and hundreds map for Leicestershire.
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Northamptonshire - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs
Swansea (Morriston) - Thomas, Williams
Derbyshire - Harlow
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London (Bethnal Green/Islington) - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Collecott, Webb, Curgenven, Trevarton, Blamey, Dunn
Gloucestershire - Harper
County Durham - Proud, Duke
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behindthefrogs
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The following is a modern parish map:
http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/leicestershire_map/parishmapdistrict.htm
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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behindthefrogs
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Here is an antique map of the Hundreds. If you click on it you can enlarge it a little.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra40-s21
There are six modern hundreds but back in Doomsday there were only four.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Vasquez109
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Thanks for that. So just to clarify, a hundred is one or more parishes?
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Northamptonshire - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs
Swansea (Morriston) - Thomas, Williams
Derbyshire - Harlow
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London (Bethnal Green/Islington) - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Collecott, Webb, Curgenven, Trevarton, Blamey, Dunn
Gloucestershire - Harper
County Durham - Proud, Duke
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behindthefrogs
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A hundred was originally a Saxon area of land. It consisted of one hundred hides and was sufficient to support a hundred families. A shire which was administered by a shire reeve (sheriff) consisted of a number of hundreds.
Al though they are often aligned the boundaries of hundreds did not correspond to county boundaries. The hundred court was responsible for the mantenace of the Frankpledge system annd through the sheriff to the King.
The Hundreds Courts started to fall out of use in the 17th century and were finally replaced by the County Courts in 1869. They had no legal or administrative role after 1886 when they were no longer used to define parliamentary boundaries (many constituencies were constructed from one or more hundreds) although they were never formally abolished.
Some of the new London Boroughs in 1969 were actually named after the hundred which constitutued much of their area.
David
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« Last Edit: Wednesday 08 April 09 21:27 UTC (UK) by behindthefrogs »
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Vasquez109
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A mine of information. Most informative. Thank you!
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Northamptonshire - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs
Swansea (Morriston) - Thomas, Williams
Derbyshire - Harlow
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London (Bethnal Green/Islington) - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Collecott, Webb, Curgenven, Trevarton, Blamey, Dunn
Gloucestershire - Harper
County Durham - Proud, Duke
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sougher
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Thanks to this topic I've found the map of my home county of Derbyshire.
Incidently when talking of the Shires, Hundreds and Parishes of a County don't forget Wapentakes and Liberties! Actually Wapentake is another name for a Hundred in areas of Viking Settlement such as the Soke of the Wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire. A Liberty is the legal term for a district of jurisdiction within which certain exclusive privileges may be exercised and it's boundary usually follows that of the parish boundary. It is an area usually outside the remit of a Sheriff, and in Derbyshire applies only to the area covered by the lead mining laws. This mineral area in the north of the county called the King's or Queen's Field (depending who is on the throne) is within two Hundreds, the High Peak Hundred and the Soke of the Wapentake of Wirksworth Annually a court (the Barmote Court) is held in April each year at the Barmote Court, Wirksworth, formerly it was held bi-annually. It is an industrial court which is a separate judiciary system from the rest of the country's legal system and has been in existence since the 13th centuary. Basically it is for the regulation of, and for deciding questions connected with the workings of the mines, settling disputes and matters appertaining to lead mining laws. The important legal right of a Mining Liberty was that until the two major Acts of Parliament of 1851 and 1852 which legally confirmed a lot of the old lead mining laws, only the Barmaster (he ran the court) or his Deputy could hold the inquest into any accidents or deaths occurring below ground or on the surface of the mine, the inquest was outside the jurisdiction of a Coroner, thus lead mining inquests until those dates cannot be found in Coroners records, only in a Barmaster's book, which often was destroyed or lost after he left office. Neither could a Sheriff arrest a lead miner on the "body of the mine" ie. either below ground or on the surface, only a Barmaster.
I apologise for side stepping the main theme of this topic and hope that I haven't bored you. I suppose I should post about the Barmote courts and lead mining to the Derbyshire section it is more applicable there. I am a member of Derbyshire Family History Society and if anyone is interested in reading further into this fasinating subject I wrote an article on "Lead Mine Accidents and Inquests in the King's Field, Derbyshire" which was published in their Magazine, Issue 88, March, 1999 pp34-34.
Margaret
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Vasquez109
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Margaret, that is absolutely fantastic. Very very interesting!
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Northamptonshire - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs
Swansea (Morriston) - Thomas, Williams
Derbyshire - Harlow
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London (Bethnal Green/Islington) - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Collecott, Webb, Curgenven, Trevarton, Blamey, Dunn
Gloucestershire - Harper
County Durham - Proud, Duke
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