My first field trip! Advice needed.

[Sueh2]

Diana,

I have used the Record Office in Beverley and they were very helpful, there is an online catalogue so you can check what is available and oreder things in advance I think.

Enjoy your trip through the villages and places where your ancestors once lived. I had a wonderful time a couple of years ago doing just that. Though I think that i tried to cram too much into one day and sadly some of the places are a bit blurry in my memory.

Anyway have a great time

Sue

[suttontrust]

Just a word of advice about consulting the Hull City Record Office - you need to ring up and make an appointment.  Your best bet for records is the Beverley Record Office, but do take time to see the area.  It's my patch, and I envy you, since none of my ancestors come from here!

[Bee]

Diana

Do you have any relatives buried in the Eastrington area?
I'm near by so it would be no problem for me to have a look and take photos for you.

Bee

[DianaM]

Thanks for more useful advice!

Suttontrust - I think I will get the parish registers for Hull at Beverley - am I right?  I have booked a full day at Beverley for a Tuesday (9:30 to 8pm if my eyesight and brain can stand it!).  I could go to Hull another day if you thought it a good idea.  I'm also going to the resource centre in Sutton on Hull as that is where my ancestor John Cavill worked as a corn miller.  I know what you mean about being remote from your ancestors - I live in West Sussex myself!

Bee - Eastrington is very much the focus of my visit, my chief aim to find out how far back my Cavill family go there.  The earliest that I know of is John Cavill born in Hive/Sandholme in about 1789 (he won't be buried there as he lived later in Sutton then near Snaith).  I certainly hope to take a look at the graveyard for myself towards the end of Easter week but if you were able to come up with anything sooner, that'd be great to point me in the right direction, so to speak!

Thanks again
Diana

[suttontrust]

I don't know what the Sutton resource centre has.  I suspect most records to do with Hull (in which Sutton now is) are in Hull.  If you let me know what you're looking for particularly I can check it out for you.

[DianaM]

Hi Suttontrust
I'm going to the Sutton resource centre mainly to get the historical context to where John Cavill lived and worked for about 3 decades.  Any specifics I find out about him will be a bonus.
Thanks for your help & ideas
Diana

[Nick Carver]

One of my distant cousins (GR, not Rootschat find) works part-time in the library in Snaith. I'm sure she would answer questions about the area if needed.

[Bee]

Hi Diana

Had a lovely walk round the graveyard in Eastrington this morning, but sad to say I couldn't see any headstones for your Cavill family.

 As is usual, there where lots of unmarked graves and unreadable headstones but there where about a dozen stones that I couldn't get access to as one corner had a small fence round and though the gate wasn't locked I didn't fancy the look of the solitary large black and very shaggy sheep complete with horns that was muching the grass

If you get to Eastrington, it's easy parking outside the Black Swan pub and the path to the church runs alongside the pub, it's quite a nice village though it's the first time I've been for over 10 years and it's only a couple of miles up the road.

enjoy your visit
Bee

[DianaM]

Thanks very much to everyone for your ideas, and thanks to Bee for looking at the churchyard.  I did visiit and take some photos, but drew a complete blank at every churchyard where I did look for graves!
My head's now spinning with it all and the dining table covered with my notes which all need assimilating!
But it doesn't appear as if my Cavill family originated in the area - or at least not as far as the Eastrington and Howden PR's are concerned.  I have discovered since the 1841 came online that my earliest Cavill, George, was not born in Yorks, so I'm pursuing Lincolnshire as a possible origin.
George was mis-indexed as Carile so it was one of my kind contacts who found him for me, which leads me on to a little challenge if any of you fancy a go - where is George's son John in 1841?  John Cavill was a corn miller, or employed by a corn miller.  Born 1789, married Frances/Fanny in Howden in 1819 when he was living in near Market Weighton, sons George (1825) and James (1831).  Both sons born in Sutton on Hull/Sutton in Holderness.  In 1851 John, Fanny & James are in Sutton so I would have expected them to be there in 1841 but no sign - I've been through all the pages.  By 1861/71 John & Fanny are in Snaith/Cowick area (mis-indexed as Cavert!).
Any ideas?
Thanks
Diana

Nick, I may well take you up on the offer of putting any questions to your cousin in Snaith - when I have a chance to work out what to ask!