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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: False Coat of Arms on Tomb
« on: Friday 07 January 22 21:54 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the quick replies. First, to Rena: This was a knight's tomb inside the church, complete with an effigy. It was not a gravestone outdoors, but thanks for the informative website. It will come in useful for some other family members.
KGarrad: No, these two people were not connected in any way.
Mckha489: That is very helpful indeed. It is the first time I have found a similar circumstance.
I am concentrating on taking a deep dive into this three generations of family because they are worth of TV mini-series. They were highly influential and very split, vocal, troublesome and public about their religious, financial and political differences in a time when this could have grave consequences.

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Graveyards and Gravestones / False Coat of Arms on Tomb
« on: Friday 07 January 22 18:47 GMT (UK)  »
Is anybody out there scholar in English Ecclesiastical History from medieval times to 17th century? I have asked this question and it either goes off topic, or people just guess at the answer. You lot are pretty sharp so I am hoping somebody will know.

I have a knight who died in 1618. A respected genealogy and antiquarian book published about 1907 said that he had a tomb and effigy in a chapel in a certain church. I found it, still there in the church. Later research (not by me. This comes from the church.) found a masons mark on the tomb. This mason died at least 100 years previous to my knight. Research also showed that the original knight's coat of arms had been removed and replaced with my guy's. Research also showed that the chapel was a Chantry for the previous knight before the Reformation. So my question is this. Was it common practice in that era to do what my knight did? I was kind of shocked, but then it was a different time.

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Durham / Re: Surtees History of Durham confusion
« on: Sunday 02 January 22 23:32 GMT (UK)  »
Eureka! In case anyone else wants to know, Ancestry has these volumes, but you have to dig for them in the card catalogue, and they don't say Volume 1, 2 or 3 (there is no 4). You have to know what you are looking for. Thanks!

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Durham / Re: Surtees History of Durham confusion
« on: Sunday 02 January 22 21:48 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: mckha489 on Sunday 02 January 22 21:45 GMT (UK)
Is this it?

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/antiquities-durham/vol2
Yes, this is the volume, but because it is not paginated, I am unable to look up the page references that I have from another source. Still helpful, though. Thank you

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Durham / Surtees History of Durham confusion
« on: Sunday 02 January 22 21:42 GMT (UK)  »
Happy New Year Rootschatters. Hoping some of you can help me with with publications by Robert Surtees History and Antiquities of the County of Durham. I know it comes in 4 volumes, with the fourth being completed after his death by James Raine. I have references to look up in each of the volumes. I know Volume 1 is Sunderland District, Volume 2 is Gateshead, Volume 3 is Hartlepool, and don't know what Volume 4 covers.

I have downloaded Volumes 1 and 3. Does anybody know where I can download Volumes 2 and 4, please? Preferably for free? I have checked the Surtees Society, Open Library and the Internet Archive, mainly.

Our University library has them but due to Covid restrictions I cannot visit.

Before anybody posts, yes, I know there are other books by Hutchison and Fordyce with the same or similar names. I am not confusing them.
Thank you.

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Durham / Re: Rev. Thomas Blakiston 1602-1652 Vicar of Northallerton
« on: Saturday 09 October 21 19:54 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for all of this. It is very helpful, especially the rootsweb link. This is definitely the right family. They are worthy of a soap opera. Half of them devoted Roman Catholic or very High Church and the other ardent Parliamentarians. Almost all of them very vocal and of high status in turbulent times. The direct ancestor is Tobye Blakiston, the oldest son, who seems to have tried to keep his head down and keep the family fortune together so he might have something to inherit. Dinner table conversation must have been a riot. Literally.

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Durham / Rev. Thomas Blakiston 1602-1652 Vicar of Northallerton
« on: Friday 08 October 21 18:57 BST (UK)  »
I am going way back here. Rev. Thomas Blakiston was a member of a very prominent Durham family. His brother John was one of the Regicides, but his father Marmaduke was very high church. His brother George emigrated to Maryland. The Maryland Historical Magazine (Vol.2 Issue 1, 1907 p.54) says that Rev. Thomas Blakiston was "ejected during the Civil wars 1640/1". I want to know why and how this happened. Does anybody know? Or does anybody know any Civil war sites, experts or forums where I could ask? I have to do this online because I am in Canada.

Thanks very much for your help. You folks always come through.

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Durham Resources & Offers / Re: Link; Durham Historic Images Online
« on: Saturday 02 October 21 19:10 BST (UK)  »
Just tried the link. Looks like the domain is for sale.

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Lanarkshire / Re: University of Glasgow graduates
« on: Saturday 19 April 14 18:34 BST (UK)  »
Thanks everybody. He didn't graduate from University of Glasgow according to that site. I am now trying University of Strathclyde.

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