MySource:Arthur Owen/Les Bowser, E-mail from Les Bowser on 12 Nov 1997 detailing some of his findings in Yorkshire

Short version of source: Les Bowser, E-mail from Les Bowser on 12 Nov 1997 detailing some of his findings in Yorkshire

Bibliography version of source: Les Bowser. E-mail from Les Bowser on 12 Nov 1997 detailing some of his findings in Yorkshire.

Subject:

       News from Osmotherley
  Date:
       Wed, 12 Nov 1997 09:13:20 +0000
  From:
        (Les Bowser)
    To:

Re: Arthur's comments about Marske Parish Records

I have been working mostly with transcriptions. When I began at the York

Reference Library, I assumed that there was only one version, only to discover later that's not the case. Different parishes have diferent sorts of records. For Acklam (near Malton) Parish, home of the Bowsers, I looked at photocopied pages of the origianl registers beginning in 1716. Some periods were messy, some were clear, depending on the script of the Vicar. In the Acklam Register I found the marriage cert. of Christopher Harper and Elizabeth Leppington (in case anybody is descended from that old gentleman). For Hawnby, I used transcriptions (1653-1722), published in The Yorkshire County Magazine (1893), Vol 3 & 4. Then later, at the County Record Office in Northallerton, there were transcriptions for Hawnby of a much greater period. For Marske, I started at the Society of Genealogists with burial and marriage abstracts which were arranged by surname; then at York, I used the published Register book covering 1570-1812, for Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. Somehow I neglected to note the publisher; there were over 140 of these various register books all together on the open shelves. York's collection is not complete, and other registers can be found at Society of Genealogists, County Record Offices, or the Borthwick Institute for example. A note about Borthwick: It has many original records, esepecially wills. The originals are only available on microfilm and they had a waiting list of 1-2 weeks. They also have an open library, which might yield some interesting stuff. There I found the parish Registers for Hovingham (home of the Fawcetts) Arthur, you could very well be right about the records being in other sources; the trick is finding them. I find it pretty changelling to be working with a puzzle in which the clues are in various libraries spread all over Britain.

I have found the transcripts generally pretty easy to use, which is fortunate for me, because I have very little patience with microfilm.

Now for some news: I'm pretty sure I have tracked down Mary Barker's parents. They were George Barker, of Staithes (buried July 21, 1752, Hinderwell), and Sarah Carter (buried June 10, 1768, Hinderwell); married Jan 7, 1723 in Hinderwell. Mary Barker was born Jan 7, 1727, Hinderwell. (Jan 7 twice? I hope I got it right!) Their other children included Alice, bap. June 13, 1731; Dorothy, bap. May 7, 1727; Sarah buried (sic) June 10, 1768. There don't seem to be any other Carters, Barkers (or Dobsons) in Hunderwell who fit with that family. More about the whole family and Hinderwell Monumental Inscriptions next time.

Carol L & Barb: This from the Thirsk Register: William Wells, bap. Nov 16, 1742, son of William Wells, bricklayer. William Wells, bricklayer m. Nov 30, 1738, Jane Cliff, spinster. (Sorry, no other info) I haven't been to Thirsk yet, but I will look for the Methodist Chapel when I get there.

Anybody descended from Nathaniel Smith and Elizabeth Duck of Osmotherley? I went to see Clack House (not Clock House as I've seen somewhere) where their son John was born. Patriarch Benjamin is buried in the cemetery just down the street from here. It's a lovely little village of 600 souls, and boasts a Post Office, newsstand, antique shop and three pubs each with a fireplace. Everything is so old that going out to dinner is like eating in a museum.

That's it for today.

Les