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I won't ask for translations... though I have a great need of them it would be too mammoth a task for someone to do!

What I would really appreciate is some advice on how my ancestors might have acquired the surname Jegsing. It occurs for a very short period in, it seems, just one area and doesn't follow the usual patronymic pattern.

Though information on naming patterns suggest that patronymic naming went on until the 19thC, I've found that, with a few occasional exceptions in censuses, my family took the name of Clausen from Claus Jegsing with the birth of his son, Jens, in 1774 and passed the Clausen name on from then on (marriages, deaths and most census head of households took Clausen, even though they may have been listed as Jensen or Hansen in censuses as children).


I know that sometimes families took the name of a previous occupant of a farm or a nickname, especially if this name was less common than their real one... but I can't find anything in Danish... or through "detect language" on Google translate to work out where Jegsing came from. Though I can't find Claus Jegsing's birth (or any Claus in the only parish the name appears around his birth in 1748), there are some Jegsings baptising children at the time... Ole Jegsing and Jorgen Jegsing.


At Marriage, Claus was named Claus Mortensen Jegsing... so I was thinking he was likely to be son of Mortne Jegsing, but there's no sign of a man of this name.

Any help would be much appreciated

I'm desperately seeking some missing church records for my Marshall family and I'm hoping someone out there has some databases of local parishes not covered by the online parish clerk/IGI.

This family seem to regularly fail to record their events at St Cuthberts, North Meols, even though they lived in Birkdale in North Meols Parish. I'm wondering if they used another local parish church because of the distance to St Cuthberts.

If distance was the main issue, then I imagine Formby would be the most likely parish to use.

I'm ideally looking for any/all Marshalls in the parish, but particularly the first marriage of edward Marshall to Alice before 1668 and children of Edward Marshall c1760-1826 (he married twice) and also for Ellen Marshall born c1795, who was his daughter OR grand daughter.

If not in Formby, it's possible they may have used Halsall or Scarisbrick, as Edward did have land in Halsall and Birkdale.

I'd be so grateful if anyone has access to any of these parishes to help me out with a search

Does anyone have access to marriages in Grimsby for the year 1944? I'm looking for the marriage of Eric Hodge.

Hoping for some help. I can't find any comprehensive database online for Penwortham. I'm looking for any records for the Sherdley family of Farrington in Penwortham parish, particularly 1600-1800 (there shouldn't be too many of them). In particular:

Gen 1
Richard Sherdley, his wife, Ellinor and children James, Ralph & Edward.

Gen 2
Ralph (son of Richard), wife Sarah and children Thomas, Richard, John, Ellinor, Margaret (and/or Margery)(= Thos Eives) and Dorothie (= John Taylor).

Edward & children Ellin (married Edward Loxam), Richard & John

Gen 3
John (son of Ralph), Yeoman... only child Ralph

Richard (son of Edward)... children Edward, James (and probably John, Margaret & Elizabeth)

I'd be really grateful for any help from someone with access to full records for this parish

Thanks

Impy

Perhaps a more peculiar thread.... My GG grandfather was a Danish sailor who settled in Liverpool after his marriage to a local girl in 1885. He was a steward and interpreter for the White Star Line, but became a docker in the last few years of his life (re-registered as an alien seaman in 1916 and died in 1920, so was presumably only on the docks after 1916).

My grandmother 1910 - 1999) was the eldest of his grandchildren, and his favourite. When she was about 8 or 9, her Danish grandfather gave her a wooden pogo stick.

We are certain that this pogo was one of the "spoiled" cargo from Germany to the US, destined for Gimble Brothers' Department Store. The wooden pogos warped in the damp ship during the passage and were "unusuable", so Gimble Brothers approached George Hansburg to come up with a better design. He patented his metal Pogo stick in 1919.... as far as I can make out, this was the first patent ever taken out on a design for a pogo stick.

Sailors and dockers have long had "arrangements" where a cargo was either falsly reported as spoiled... or slightly/partially damaged cargos reported as completely ruined... then the sailors/dockers share the undamaged cargo amongst themselves... usually selling it on cheaply. As the cargo was claimed to be spoiled, the owners would claim on insurance... so almost everyone was happy!!!

Owing to he timing of the pogo coming into my grandmother's posession, and the fact that her grandfather was well established in sailing/dock circles, we are certain this pogo was one of the "spoiled" cargo. She told us how they were the envy of the neighbourhood... as no-one else had ever seen one before.

I'm keen to find the information on the circumstances around the shipment and insurance claim. Many ships travelling from Germany to the USA would have stopped in Liverpool.... was the cargo unloaded here and taken directly home to his grand daughter?... or was the warping discovered in the USA, in which case my GG grandfather may have still been at sea (doing the trans-Atlantic runs), where he picked it up and brought it home... or maybe he was on the docks by then and got it from a sailor coming in from the USA.

I have found a photo of an original wooden pogo stick which matches a replica of the original 1918 design (pre-patent). The original in the picture is warped, and I believe it is also from the original "spoiled" shipment. (photos attached)