Medieval Family History - taking the plunge...

[willow154]

Hi Keith,
Wondered if you've come acorss this site:
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html
Sounds very interesting - if only I could find my lot in 1780s
Paulene

[LizzieW]

David - Thanks for pointing that out.  9 x g.grandfather was born in 1570, so 10 x g.grandfather must have been born at least 16 years before that.  However, it was the grandson, with the same name, who died in 1662, aged about 52, I'd just added the details to the wrong man when I was making my notes.  As I said, I need to go to the village in Yorkshire before I confirm anything.

Lizzie

[Keith Sherwood]

Willow,
That looks like another very useful site...
and Lydart, will let you know if Dorset gets a mention.  I'm taking it a page at the time at the moment and hoping to be taken by surprise - i.e. suddenly coming across my GURNER family traced by someone else to the year dot - only joking, of course!
(Is anyone else like me, in purposely not looking at the index if you've bought a book, so as not to spoil suddenly coming across an unexpected nugget of relevant family information.  I behave completely differently when in a repository or library, skimming through indexes relentlessly, picking the bones out of what I can, with shortage of time a factor...)
keith 

[Lydart]

OK Keith ... I'll be patient !   

(But if it was me, I'd have gone through the index first with a fine tooth-comb !)

I try only to buy FH books that might be useful, so as my lot are mostly Dorset ... I wondered !

I'll wait !   

[Keith Sherwood]

Lydart,
Sorry to be so hard on you, remind me again which family/ies you're interested in down in Dorset...!
keith

[Lydart]

Lots !

Trowbridge, Vincent, Sturney (spelled various imaginative ways), Prince, White, Adams ...

Then there's Pomeroy in Cornwall ...

Don't dip into the index on my behalf, please Keith ... I was just curious to know if it was worth my while to buy the book.

[MarieC]

That medieval genealogy site looks great!  Already found an article about the medieval Norreys family through it.  Can't at present access the second half, so I hope I can connect them to my later Norreys!   

MarieC

[little meg]

Hi Keith,
sounds like an interesting challenge, and the books sound like great reading.

I was lucky to attach to a family line, Overend, not quite a one name study, but he does have his own website for all to contact.
This family are back to William Overend, b.c. 1560. who married Agnes Robertshaye in 1586 Kildwick, Yorkshire.  based on his charts I do match in, but I am still working my own way back to prove it to myself. 

The name changes over the years could be interesting, My simpson's appear to drop the 'p'  in the earlier years.  So perhaps someone was Sim's son, or son of Sim, ahhh but who was Sim??   Yeah, I know getting a little nutty here.

Good luck with it all.

Margaret

[Lydart]

Perhaps Sim was a Simon ... Simonson ... and I know a Symandson ... interesting how names change