Why all these Spanish families in Sedgefield in the mid 1600s.

[brushbroomstick]

Thomas Rudd married Jeronima and had a child John baptised in Staindrop in 1691. I cannot find trace of their marriage. I cannot find a birth for Thomas but have found several children with the name Jeronima/Geronima baptised in Sedgefield between 1662 and 1671. The parents of these children are Spanish by their names. There are in Sedgefield 5 families named Quatrado among other Spanish sounding names with children baptised in this period .What is the connection between all these Spanish families settling in Sedgefield?

[LizzieL]

When the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588, a lot of the ships were shipwrecked of the coast of Britain when they were trying to get back to Spain. I was told as a child that our school secretary's husband's family was descended from one of the shipwrecked sailors. This was in south Dorset and there were other families locally with surnames supposed to have similar Spanish origins 

[davidft]

Deleted - in view of later posts

[stanmapstone]

There is obviously  a mistake in the LDS system. If you look up the film number 1332356  in the LDS Library it is for Registros parroquiales, 1569-1887  Iglesia Católica. San Juan (Nava del Rey, Valladolid) Spain, Valladolid, Nava del Rey - Church records, nothing to do with Sedgefield, see http://is.gd/weLrjc

Stan

[jon541]

Good detective work from Stan there ... I thought for one moment you were suggesting, brushbroomstick, that Jeronimy/Jeronima Rudd was Spanish purely on the basis of her Christian name (a search on FamilySearch for 17thC baptisms in County Durham with mother = Jeronimy turns up several other examples from families other than Rudd ... including at least one other in Staindrop).

Much less interesting of course than would have been the story of a whole bunch of Spaniards parachuting into Sedgefield at a time when Catholics would not have been made very welcome!

Jon
(Great x 6 grandson of Jeronimy Rudd)

[stanmapstone]

At that date the names in the parish registers would be in Latin, so Jeronimy/Jeronima is someones transcription of what they thought it was.

Stan

 

[jon541]

Not in Latin - the 3 baptisms to this couple are transcribed variously on the IGI as 'Thomas & Jeronima', 'Thomas & Jerry' and 'Thomas & Heronimy' which (unfortunately I can't confirm against my notes from the Staindrop registers as they are currently separated from me by the North Sea) I'm sure are faithful transcriptions of the original entries in English.  I'm fairly sure that the LDS have always sought where possible to transcribe as written rather than to interpret or translate.

It's fun to be able to claim descent from Tom & Jerry 

Jon

[clayton bradley]

it is unusual, isn't it? Hieronymus is Latin for Jerome/Jeremy but I don't remember seeing a feminine version before, claytonbradley

[jon541]

It certainly is.  I'm sure you have the right Latin root for it with Hieronima but there are only a handful of examples across the UK and all restricted to the 1642-1710 date bracket (ignoring the Spanish interlopers which as Stan pointed out earlier are clearly an LDS error).

There are also variants spelt Jeromiah and even Jeromimah which support your point about Hieronymus being Latin for Jerome or Jeremy.

I suppose it's fair to say that most male names have or have had a direct female equivalent so there's no reason why the same shouldn't apply to Jeremy/Jerome.