Parishmouse contains transcriptions from historical books that I have collected over the years.
The site was setup up some years ago because, having hit a brick wall in the search for my own rellies, I realised how infuriating it was to buy a CD of a book and then find that the rellies that you were sure should have been mentioned in the book/cd weren’t there and you had wasted the money on the CD. So I thought well why not transcribe some of the books that I have and put them on the web for everyone to enjoy for free and then at least everyone would know whether or not their rellies were where they were supposed to be or not. So that is how Parishmouse was born as it were.
Since then the site has grown as I have had time to do the transcriptions and have added to my collection of historical books and will continue to grow as I get time to add more transcriptions.
All the transcriptions have been made by me from the original books.
I hope you all enjoy the site and find it useful.
I can’t thank you enough. In the record of my 4th Great Grandmother’s marriage, it states that Sarah Burroughs was the daughter of Mrs. H, of Hill. From other sites, I know she was the daughter of John Burroughs and Hannah Motley. I did find a marriage in Hill for Samuel Adams and Hannah Burroughs in 1792.
Since I live in Brooklyn, NY it’s hard to find my English/Irish ancestors. Thank you
What a great idea. Thank you so much for all your work and for your generous spirit!
I’m writing late medieval period England and your site provides color and detail.
Donna
You provide an excellent resource for all the online genealogists! Thank you! I just found my great great great great grandfather, Arthur Gardiner Jones, of Hanwood on your site!
Sarah Fisher
Alma, Ontario, Canada
Thank you Sarah, it is good to know that people are finding the site useful.
Hi Admin,
My name is Fred Goddard and I live in Australia, emigrated from UK in 1955.
Have found an entry about the Grave of my Grandfather Frederick Daniel GODDARD
late of Bredon. A woman named Catherine who I must be related to is the person
concerned. My question, is there any way of finding her email address so I can
communicate with her. I have not been back to the UK since emigrating and
have no knowledge of family still over there.
Could you please help..
My email is frepatgod@grapevine.com.au
Thanks
Yours Sincerely
Fred Goddard
Hi Fred, Catherine did leave an email address when she made her comment but to protect her privacy I am unable to give it to you. However, If you would like me to I will email her with your details and then she can reply to you that way. I hope you understand. Let me know if you would like me to contact her.
BFN
Sally (Admin)
Yes, thank you for creating such an innovative and helpful website! I am struggling to find ANY information about my father, his siblings, and parents who had ties to in Manchester, Lancashire; Warsaw, Wrocław and Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) in Poland; and possibly Ireland before WWII. Their imprisonment in concentrations camps and subsequent dispersal & emigrations complicated my research exceedingly. I don’t even know my paternal grandmother’s maiden surname! (OK, venting complete.) Your data and sources have renewed my determination! Thank you.
This is a great site and I admire your industriousness in transcribing so much material. Barely a day goes by without something new being added. Keep up the good work!
Roger, Bedfordshire, UK
Thanks Roger and glad you like the site. The transcriptions that are going up at the moment are ones that have been done over the last few years. I doubt whether I shall be able to add quite the same amount per day in the future but will do my best.
Thanks
Sally
Hi Sally,
Would be great if you could contact them for me, I’m sure they would be pleased
to know there are myself and my brother with 3 children (grown up now)
and 5 grandkids.
Looking forward to conversing with them and sending some photos etc
Thanks Muchly
Yours Sincerely
Frederick John Henry Goddard
Hi Fred, I have sent an email to Catherine telling her that you wish to contact her and gave her your email address and a copy of your messages. Let me know how it works out.
All the best
Sally
Hello Sally
Fred Goddard here, thanks for passing on my emails to Catherine,
but so far have had no response from her, was wondering
if you could be so kind as to send her another Email.
Would be most grateful
Yours Sincerely
Fred
Hi Sally
happy New Year —- now retired and living in France so lots of time to look for my ancestors!
what has happened to parishchat…… cant find the forums
best wishes,
chrisg
Hi Chris,
Happy New Year. Parishchat, has been retired as it was hacked several times and with my dodgy internet connection it was proving very difficult to maintain. If people want a forum we could resurrect the yuku boards which are maintained by a commercial company rather than me swearing at my internet connection. Hope the weather in France has been better than here the last few weeks. We are nearly drowning here in Mid Wales and the wind was really bad the other day. Getting very fed up of the mud! I suppose I shouldn’t moan too much as I have just been for a fab walk with the dogs for an hour. No cars or people, just sheep, sheep and more sheep and a few bunnies. Nearly got run over by a red kite and the views were fantastic. You could see the mountains miles away. Truly bliss! Hope France is proving as nice for you.
BFN
Sally
dear administrator, good on you bloke…. a lady left a comment last month and from it i was able to clarify a whole link i never even contemplate keep it up…….. sorry i was heavy on the traffic today but i had a bit time to do some family history ……
regarding burroughs above, there has been others chattering about this worldwide, and of this I can say the name with hill is found in London. Now that Ancestry site is up in full swing I strongly suggest looking on there for Burroughs but if you send email to me I will drag out my files.
Deaths Jun 1878 GODDARD Frederick Daniel 19 Chorlton 8c 444
this is the only only listed on bmd hope it helps, now go to ancestry and seek out date that is all i can see, free bmd uk search will get his birth if born britain, note he is only 19 so give or take a year that should represent 1868/9
marty
palimpapest; is vellum parchments that have been scraped over to remove ink and parish registers rewritten. Xrays and ultraviolet light reveals the impressions underneath, it is also helpful for entries made on the page above. The lacemakers of Wiltshire are reported as to removing parish registers for lace making, so not all early registers were burnt during the plague years ie 1666. King Charles (beheaded) was also responsible for distroying early parish registers because of his Catholic wifes beliefs.
i have just done base work for fordred (kent), simmonite (oldham), rushton and venhem of London, all rare names….. I noticed an extremely high rate of infant deaths with simmonite….. this was due to many reasons one of which was children born of parents with venerial disease…. which led to all manner of nastys …. dissentry was another reason pauper children died apart from german measles, sids, and dip. very rare to see a family with such high infant mortality rates though.
I notice a few people are getting into trouble with data on bdm, one needs to get regindex pdf which has all places mentioned in bmd and say for example urchfont in old pre victorian records becomes devizes, or broad chalk that becomes wilton.
another example now is bournemouth which used to be in Hants, now in Dorset.
Census records are based off last birthday age so a variation of up to two years should be observed when comparing to bmd, similiarly a christening may be anything up to the day of marriage, some people only knew themselves as being the age of when they were christened not the age they were born….. another point that should be made… eg date 12.1.1801/2 in Phillimores means that the couple married in December the prior year but it wasnt registered until in eg 1802. Similiarly some infant deaths do not have birth certificates and most of these are written on the day of death.
To the best of my knowledge there are no maps depicting the changes to registration districts over time, and as you may have gathered, their boundaries were constantly changing.
For the period 1837-1930 the registration district boundaries co-incided with those of poor-law unions, so you might find this website of some assistance:http://www.workhouses.org.uk/map/
It doesn’t take into account all the changes, but it should give you some idea of their relative locations.
the principle of international genealogical index is to show foundation records of a family in a particular area, it may not cover all the family through Victorian BMD. Once a person has seen IGI then one moves to 35 microform only available by joining local genealogical societies who subscribe to LAtter Day Saints library films. Some churches in Britain did not allow the Mormons to microform the parish registers. Phillimore published a great deal of marriages up to about 1820 and phonetic searches are often required when seeking these records. The Local Shire Council BMD sites are different to GRO BMD because each local office has specific details, and quite of some of the administrative mishaps that arent on the GRO Victorian BMD. Ancestry now covers a lot of births, deaths and marriages etc but always create a data file for yourself covering all these sources to check overlaps.
Good genealogy uses all methods of records including the exclusive ones listed here on Parishmouse.
Marty
in this parable I want to talk about the Bound. The Bound varies from country to country. In a simple way to tell anyone new to genealogy it is the basis of Privacy Law. In Great Britain it is 100 years, in Australia it is 50 years. It is the year 2011 ; that means any material past 1911 to the current day in a genealogy must not be published inclusive of dates (years excepted), ie Australia 1961 is latest year one can publish actual dates (years excepted). Because of frauds and identity theft it is best to adhere to this rule, as you the genealogist or publisher are liable. If you want to do trees or articles simply place name in position, place then optional year, with wording ” still living
i am in agreeance with government on this given the speed of information transfers. If you want actual date details please buy the certificates. At current there is a petition circulating on the net regarding release of the 1921 census, Anyone doing English history will know that it will only give addresses and occupations. You can do all work without 1921 and any up to the current day.
Next year on the internet probably in Commonwealth countries the laws have been changed on downloading, whether it is songs, video clips or other data files. Your host providers are now responsible for manditory reporting . You will recieve a notification from your provider advising of copyrights. If your IP address is found to not stop multiple downloads then expect action to be forthcoming. I am not certain of all the information regarding this, but I do know that Beirne Convention has a large play on this. But look at it this way… if you create a creative site, with your photos, clips or other material you are lawfully entitled to a) sue for copyright breach, b) charge money for service provided and c) take further actions.
when creating your files, please protect yourself and when saving or creating material fill in the data box in SAVE. Another advantage of this will be sites ie XYZdata base wanting you to pay fee who you know has removed data from another site. I cannot name names here but in genealogy I have noticed about 30 mobs worldwide fleaing of public domain records. I will however suggest polite emails to copyright owners asking permission to use materials before inclusion on open internet sites. Protect yourself…. dont risk it…. governments worldwide are desperate for revenue they will have a go . thanks folks for listening.
once you have discovered the raft of birth death and marriage details, census details the next area of discovery is occupation…. sometimes on census, but sometimes it helps to look old alamacs, post office directories, the national archive, the national portrait gallery, phone books, literary resources such as Gentlemans Magizine, war records., and criminal registers (for convicts etc), Probates are also handy because they often tell one about relatives you might not know about.
If you are absolutely stuck then join a chatroom and post a specific request, however as I saw the other day was a person with false bravido posting timewasting material, so be warned take heed about the material without first conversing with the forum or checking it out. Most messages posted will be observed but may not be responded to unless it attracts related people. Old wifes tales are helpful but remember they are an interpretation of facts or events… some can be substanciated through newspaper articles and the like. I notice more recent obits are coming on line they are also useful….
Marty
just went on a site called Cindis List….. watch out folks some of the site links will not release you from the sites and you will have problems like freeze frame and you need to shut down and restart your computer…… There is an amalgamation of genealogy places worldwide but most of it seems to revolve around Ancestry.com materials. C’s List seems to be running out of USA, its a good idea but if you see Ancestry stuff best to log on with Ancestry engine. Watch Australian Govt stuff as their sites will not release you maybe ASIO is watching……
as a final note on the how to… society’s of genealogists often keep detailed genealogies, then of course there is the heraldry side of things and these cost real money…. the library of westminster is now online so pre 1500 is somewhat available, but check Burkes LAnded Gentry first. Burkes was published for great many decades and often has older genealogies, as does the Visitations… The visitations are harder to come accross but are written in old english and latin so f is representatitive of s- example fiffiol is actually sissiol. Bardesley also college AZ of English families and his work is primary for the base of his discovery of the earliest genealogies throughout the period of Henry, Charles and Anne. some of the other genealogists may wish to help me here and add to resources that are required reading….
Marty
And now to land dealings, quite often the County Offices of Britain hold “land assessment documents (or deeds), these are exceptionally useful in determined the dowry marriages and the place where a soul lived. The early surviving documents are given a small parable online, this is in part all you need to know about the content and the early surviving documents are usually refered to in History of County in Victorian Volumes, ie wool processing or mills or weighbridges or churches. Land cases are a large part of English LAw where a marry-in party does not adhere to terms. 99 years or 3 lives documents are exactly that. However a lot of people were of the fuedal manorial system simply paying rent on a tithe, allotment or estate…….
Hi Sally,
Would you mind resending the reply to Catherine. Have not
heard from her so presumably either her email address has
changed or she’s not interested.
Thankyou
Fred Goddard
Hi Fred, I contacted Catherine and she replied to my email and said she would contact you but she wanted to sort out the relationship between the two of you first. It may be that sorting out the family tree is taking a while or she has decided that she is not interested or of course it may be that life has got in the way, which often happens to me. As she is aware of your messages and has replied to me I am not prepared to contact her again as that tends to upset people. I hope you understand. It is very difficult in these situations when you are a website admin.
All the best and I hope she does get in contact.
Sally
Thanks Sally,
I understand, thanks very much for your help
Hope you have a Great Christmas
Regards
Fred
Hi Sally,
All the best for the new year, just letting you know
that Catherine contacted me and we are related. I used
to visit her older brothers
Thanks for all your help
Keep Warm
Fred Goddard (in warm and wet Canberra)