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Evening all,

Whilst clearing out my grandmothers loft we came across this bible from 1885.

Apart from struggling to see the chaps name, we believe Harry Torry?

I did a quick search of John Mitchell's in Doncaster at the time and there seems to be a quite prominent footballer who played for Doncaster Rovers and Newton Heath.

Is there any way of discovering if this John Mitchell was the same guy who went on to play professional football?

Hi all, hope someone can help. i'm trying to locate what church, and then if possible a plot ref for the burial of Norman Gibbon born 1932 died 1934. All i have to go from is the registration district of Skirlaugh, although in the 1939 register the family lived in Holderness.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many Thanks in advance

Jason

Hi all,

With the 100th anniversary approaching, i realise i know little about my x2 great grandfathers, i have read the service records but to be honest i'm not clued up on military history so still am not much the wiser. I was wondering if anyone with the knowledge would be kind enough to look up the records of my great grandfathers, both of whom survived the war and give me some insight into what they did, where they went and their roles withing the war, it would mean no end. they were

Herbert Prestidge born Newbold on Avon 1894 son of Daniel
Thomas Gilliver born 1895 Nuneaton, reg number 19610

Many thanks in anticipation

Hi all,

As i'm sure is the same with many genealogists, whilst studying a particular surname and going back through the centuries, we sometimes stumble across spelling variations. Davis, Davies or Dennis, Dennies, but whilst studying my own family it appears that unanimously they all change the spelling of their surname at the same time, and this has perplexed me for several years, so I thought i'd give some background into the family and see if anyone may have any idea at all as to why this may happen.

The family in question are the Wileman's of Measham, they first settled in the village pre-records and have had members of the family in Measham from the mid 1500's to present day where many still reside. From the mid 1500's all the way through the 1600's and 1700's they were the Wildman's, every baptism, marriage and burial was Wildman and there was lots of them! between the years 1801 -  1825 there were 136 Wildman / Wileman children baptized in the small village, and from the late 1700's all the way through the 1800's there was dozens of individual families, totalling anywhere between 1-200 people in the village with that common surname all linked in some way to the first occupants with the name, and then not over a period of time but all at once it changed, in 1813 they stopped calling themselves, recording themselves as Wildman and instead all changed to Wileman! at first i thought maybe the priest/clergymen misheard them when the names were given, but to miss hear several hundred inhabitants of the village i dismissed this, and taking the D out completely reshaped the pronunciation of the name and it's meaning! so any ideas .... why