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Topic: any Culfears lurking in kent? (Read 101 times)
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gazza
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Hi ,I'm trying to find a rare surname Culfear. There are only about 1/2 a dozen of these in the entire country censii. All but 2 I can fit in my tree. The earliest one I can find pops up in Norfolk c1839.
tried all manner of Spelling variations. The worst mistranscription found so far is Crefear.
I found the following ref on A2A archives which has led me to the Kent Board hoping that someone may find others perhaps in parish recs or Censii pre 1861.
"item: The petition of Mathew Culfear of Rhodes Common, a poor and disabled man with a sick wife, living in a non-parochial area, for relief from the county. Note that 18d. a week granted to him. - "
My Culfears were mariners so may have originated from Kent??
Thanks for any help.
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Bryan.
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Kings Lynn Union Workhouse.
Ruth Culfear abt 1831 Kings Lynn, Norfolk, Pauper. South Lynn, Norfolk
1901 census RG13/1890 folio 108 page 2
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Brownell...Sheffield. Rodgers....Sheffield Harper...Great Barford,Beds. Hull...Roxton,Beds Wostenholme,Sheffield, Elliot, Baslow,Derbyshire Duke, Birmingham.....Sheffield Palmer, Nottingham....Holbeach Hall,Nottingham     Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Bryan.
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Death
James Culfear Birth: abt 1834 December 1889 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk
Vol 4b page 220
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Brownell...Sheffield. Rodgers....Sheffield Harper...Great Barford,Beds. Hull...Roxton,Beds Wostenholme,Sheffield, Elliot, Baslow,Derbyshire Duke, Birmingham.....Sheffield Palmer, Nottingham....Holbeach Hall,Nottingham Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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gazza
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Hi Bryan, thanks very much for looking. Very sorry,but I should have made it clearer, I know of all the ones in Norfolk. I'm looking for any others elsewhere ,particularly Kent at the moment. 
Cheers
Gazza
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gazza
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Rohdes common appears to be here:-
"Selling is a village of many parts but no real heart, straggling up hill and down dale. It contains a great many fine listed period buildings and a handful of working farms. Much of the recognisable village is set within a Conservation Area, and is made up of several small hamlets: The Street, Hogben's Hill and Harefield, Poppington, Shepherd's Hill, Gushmere, Perry Wood, Neames Forstal and Rhodes Common
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carol_cholsey
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Hi Gazza,
Have checked through the 1851 census of Selling, but have not been able to find any Culfear families:
There is a Curling family living in Rhoad Court
A Smith family in Rhoad Common
A Harris family in Little Rhoad Farm
It must be a very tiny hamlet, with just three families. Do you have an approximate date for the reference to Mathew Culfear found on the a2a website ?
Hope someone else has more luck for you.
xx Carol
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WINTON in Sussex & Kent; ALGER, ANTHONEY & MERCER in Rotherhithe, Surrey & Deptford, Kent; WHITBREAD in Shefford, Beds; KEELING in Yorks, Lincs & Leics; BLONK & SEASTRON in Sheffield, Yorks; BENNETT, MILLER, SUMMERS, BOSSLEY, WOULDHAM & SHOVLAR in Gravesend, Kent Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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carol_cholsey
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Have been through the 1841 census of Selling:
Rhode Common had two families - Smith and Turner
Roades Court had the Tapsell family, with lots of servants, and the Keeler family.
The nearest I got to 'Culfear' was:
ref HO107 475-14 folio 11: Selling Street
Caroline Culver age 26
Fanny Culver age 2
both born in county
I suppose with regional dialect it could become Culfear.
xx Carol
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WINTON in Sussex & Kent; ALGER, ANTHONEY & MERCER in Rotherhithe, Surrey & Deptford, Kent; WHITBREAD in Shefford, Beds; KEELING in Yorks, Lincs & Leics; BLONK & SEASTRON in Sheffield, Yorks; BENNETT, MILLER, SUMMERS, BOSSLEY, WOULDHAM & SHOVLAR in Gravesend, Kent Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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gazza
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Thanks very much Carol for looking up.
If I recall ,I think the date in A2A ref was c1670.
I've often wondered about "Culver" weather it was a corruption or vice versa.
I dont know though,to have the spelling the same in 1670's then again in the 1800's  ....hard to decide. Need to find more in between, which is my goal, to see if any consistency of spelling.
Cheers
Gazza
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