Beech Farm, Scagglethorpe, near Malton

[gazania]

Hi Highfields,

Please post one more time. Then I can leave a personal message for you & my contact details. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.  I have just had breakfast of hot porridge - the first cold morning of winter.  The sun is shining and the skies are clear & blue.  Shall be a lovely day.  Bye, Gazania

[highfields]

Your chilly mornings are not quite ours!  And we've had the 'chills' for months.  But all is relative!

(as you will know, blue skies are not our speciality).

Bye, talk again.  Highfields

[bassets]

Hi
My maiden name was Cundill and I lived at Beech Tree Farm as a child in the 1950s. The brothers who farmed were George Arthur and Robert (I called them Uncle George and Uncle Robert - they were in fact my grandfather's cousins) and they had a brother Alfred who farmed at Rillington. They had a sister Annie? Taylor who also lived in Scagglethorpe at one of the other farms they owned - I think they had 3, but probably only small ones. The first record of Cundills in Scagglethorpe is a marriage at Settrington in 1638. Scagglethorpe has no church and BMDs are all at Settrington. Uncle George said that Cundills had been at Beech Tree since before the Civil War which started in 1642 (I think), so this is probably when they moved there. Before this there are records of Cundills at Rillingtonand Winteringham, both local villages.
Jackie

[gazania]

Hi Jackie,

Great to hear your story. My branch left in the 1800s and went to Thorne then to OZ and the USA. Our branch kept the Cundith spelling or they had a lisp. You will have to make two more posts before we can make contact by personal messages.  Looking forward to hearing from you, Gazania