Kezia from Turvey

[jbml]

If you search the digital archive for people called Kezia buried in Bedfordshire, you will find that there are 165 of them.

And of those 165, no fewer than 14 (or 8.5%) are buried in a single parish: Turvey

Any ideas what might have caused such a concentration of such an unusual name in a single parish?

[StevenG]

I don't consider Kezia(h) to be a particularly unusual name. I have heard it was more popular among non-conformists (though I haven't got any data to back that up), and Turvey/Harrold/Carlton was strongly non-conformist.

[jbml]

Turvey/Harrold/Carlton was strongly non-conformist.

It was?

THat's worth knowing ... I've been having difficulty finding baptisms ... was assuming that the ancestors in question had migrated South and I'd find them next time I went to Northampton RO. Still might with some of them, of course ... but with those that I don't, this may be my answer.

Thanks 

[StevenG]

When I was analysing the Bedford Registration District marriages, I found a lot from Bozeat that were in a non-conformist chapel (these can sometimes be deduced). These were, going by the marriages on the same page, almost certainly at Harrold, but few of the registers have been deposited so I don't suppose I'll ever know.

[bedfordshire boy]

Lob a few names at us jbml, we may recognise them

[jbml]

Lob a few names at us jbml, we may recognise them

Sure.

I've got William Eyles, c. 1771 - 1795, and his wife Phoebe Eyles (nee Sumpter) 1770 - 1800



Then I think William's parents were Elisha Eyles, c. 1750 - 1818 and Elizabeth Eyles (nee Skevington) c. 1750 - 1807 or 1815

Phoebe's father was Thomas Sumpter (I know this from her will)



Elisha's parents may have been John Eyles and Catherine Eyles (maiden name not known)

Elizabeth Skevington's parents may have been William Skevington and Kezia Skevington (nee Knight)


William Skevington's parents may have been William and Hester Skevington

(sorry about lack of dates ... I've got notes on them somewhere ...)

[TicknerV]

I have an ancestor from Hampshire called Keziah KEMP! Interested in the EYLES family, because they were also found in Hardingstone in Northants, and link with the WHITWORTH family who were in Turvey in the 19th century, of whom an ancestor of many of them was a Mary BODDINGTON, who came from Turvey in the 17th century.