ROLL CALL: TODHUNTER:WILKINSON:WOOD:MOUNSEY:COWPERTHWAITE:BRAITHWAITE:MITCHINSON

[Jenny Todhunter]

Hello, my roll call is for:-

John Todhunter born 1600 Greystoke

William Todhunter of Aldby (Dacre) b.1635

 

We  have a Lancelot Todhunter b.1676. who left provision in his will for his youngest son Williams education.  William, who married Agnes Allinson of Penrith, became the Curate of both Morland & Lowther church.

Do you think he would have been educated at St. Bees?  If so, are there any records from this period?

I also collect old samplers, and have been doing research on the following;

DOROTHY MOUNSEY of PATTERDALE

MARGARET COWPERTHWAITE(COUPERTHWAITE) of MUNCASTER

CATHERINE MITCHINSON b. 1873 UNDER SKIDDAW/BASSENTHWAITE

JANE HARRIET MITCHINSON BOWNESS ON SOLWAY.

ELIZABETH BRAITHWAITE b.1836 ? maybe around Braithwaite.

 

Any help gratefully received, or if anyone wants a photograph of these embroidery samplers, just shout.

 Regards to all,

Jenny Todhunter in cold but sunny Lancashire.

 

 

 

[Sarah]

May we see the samplers?  I'm related to Mitchinsons in Keswick maybe.

 

Did I send you the photos of Greystoke? CRS.

 

There is a good chance St. Bees will have the records, some they do, some they don't.  St. Bees responded when I emailed them. There is an excellent website at http://www.stbees.org.uk/history/hist_theocoll1.htm . Then there is St Bees school at http://www.st-bees-school.org/ and you can email them there.

 

I can't find the gentleman I emailed 5 years ago, I wasn't as good at keeping files then. :(

 

Sarah

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[Sarah]

Found this in Michael Moon's shop...

 

[Petra Mitchinson]

Great, some MITCHINSONs! None of my own, I'm afraid, but I am interested in all Cumberland MITCHINSONs.

 

Catherine was the daughter of Norman & Ann MITCHINSON. Norman (bp. 05 Jan 1823) was the youngest son of John MITCHINSON and Mary HEWITT of Syke, Bassenthwaite, who were married in Crosscanonby in 1801. John's parents were John MITCHINSON and Jane BAITY, who were married in Bassenthwaite in 1758.

 

I know a lot about MITCHINSONs in the Bowness-on-Solway area, although I haven't got a Jane Harriet. The only birth of a Jane Harriett in the Civil Registration indexes up to 1909 was born in June Quarter 1867 in Pateley B., Yorkshire. Have you got any more details so I can try and "integrate" her into the Bowness MITCHINSON family tree?

 

Petra

[Jenny Todhunter]

JANE HARRIET MITCHINSON b.1867 was the daughter of

WILLIAM  MITCHINSON b.1831 Holme Cultram &

MARY ANN TOPPING b.1830  Bowness (d. of Thomas Topping Bowness on Solway)

WILLIAM MITCHINSON s. of

JOHN MITCHINSON & Mary Robinson of Aikton

 

That is all I know of her family.

Regards

Jenny

[Jenny Todhunter]

Thanks for that link Sarah.

I will get the samplers photographed & send them to the list.

Incidentally, does anyone know why Sarahs messages don`t appear in my inbox, but go straight to deleted items?

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From: Sarah

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[Eddie Edmondson]

>Incidentally, does anyone know why Sarahs messages don`t appear in my inbox, but go straight to deleted items?<

 

Waiting for a flood of smart remarks from our resident wags!

 

Eddie

[Sue Obrien]

They must be out,It's very quiet tonight Sue

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[Sarah]

Who said that? I haven't gotten that one yet. Actually it is because I have become very selective about whom I want to read my messages, so I have them run thru the unsavory meter in reverse.

 

 

>Incidentally, does anyone know why Sarahs messages don`t appear in my inbox, but go straight to deleted items?<

 

Waiting for a flood of smart remarks from our resident wags!

 

Eddie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Sarah]

They were all deterred by my wag meter.

 

They must be out,It's very quiet tonight Sue

[Petra Mitchinson]

Hi Jenny,

 

Not surprising I had lost track of that family because they moved to Yorkshire before returning to Preston Quarter (Whitehaven) in Cumberland!

 

Here they are in the 1881 census:

 

 Dwelling: 11 Woodville Ter
 Census Place: Preston Quarter, Cumberland, England
 Source: FHL Film 1342252     PRO Ref RG11    Piece 5188    Folio 64    Page 9
 Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Wm. MITCHINSON M 48  M Abbey Holme, Cumberland, England
 Rel: Head
 Occ: Carpenter
Mary A. MITCHINSON M 50  F Bowness, Cumberland, England
 Rel: Wife
Sarah A. MITCHINSON U 22  F Causewayhead, Cumberland, England
 Rel: Daur
 Occ: Dressmaker
Jeremiah MITCHINSON U 20  M Bowness, Cumberland, England
 Rel: Son
 Occ: Stone Mason
Emma MITCHINSON U 19  F S B Clint, York, England
 Rel: Daur
William MITCHINSON U 17  M S B Clint, York, England
 Rel: Son
 Occ: Office Clerk
Harriet MITCHINSON U 14  F S B Clint, York, England
 Rel: Daur
 Occ: Scholar
Hannah M. MITCHINSON   12  F Skelton Owden, York, England
 Rel: Daur
 Occ: Scholar
John MORRIS   19  M Chew Magna, Somerset, England
 Rel: Boarder
 Occ: Assistant School Teacher

Mary Ann TOPPING, Jane Harriet's mother, was not the daughter of a Thomas TOPPING but of a Jeremiah TOPPING, Labourer, according to William & Mary Ann's marriage certificate (in the BTs). Indeed, their son Joseph MITCHINSON (born 1854) was staying with his grandparents Jeremiah & Ann TOPPING in the 1861 census.

 

You certainly have William MITCHINSON's parents right. His father John was born c.1791/92 in Scotbit, Kirkbride, and I am sure he was the son of William MITCHINSON and Mary MATTHEWS, who were married in Kirkbride on 24 Mar 1791. No baptism of a son John was recorded to this couple, but they had two Josephs baptised in 1792 and 1794 while living at Scotbit. None of these Josephs appears to have died young, so I am sure one of them was John! Because of the variation of ages on census returns and burial records, I can't however say for certain which of the two baptisms refers to the real Joseph and which to John...

 

I have a huge family tree for this extended MITCHINSON family which I can send you off list if you like. It doesn't (yet!) contain Jane Harriet and many of her siblings, but even so...

 

Petra

[djocelynel]

Hi Petra -
Another Mitchinson - in the Slater family line -
John Slater of Parkergate(b 15 Feb 1762, d 27 Mar. 1810 age 48 yrs)
married in 1793
Grace Mitchinson of Syke (b 13 July 1769, d 18 Aug 1844 age 75 yrs)
--both are buried at St. Bega's

Had 8 children Jonathan, Jane, Joseph (married Elizabeth Dobson of
Moorside in 1820) - had 10 children), John, William, Henry, Grace, Mary

[Petra Mitchinson]

Thanks for that. Grace was another child of John MITCHINSON & Jane BAITY of
Syke, Bassenthwaite. Someone had given me most of those details but not their
eldest child Jonathan!

Petra

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Subject: Re: ROLL CALL:
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[NL Shann]

What a great idea
I'm still searching for the following:
Metcalfe (Broughton)
Graham (Ditto)
Anderson (Whitehaven circa 1837)
Stewardson (1856 -ish in Dalton in Furness)
Robinson (Ditto)
and the lovely Gunson-Holmes family of Cockermouth - any information
gratefully received!

I've recently tape recorded my mother talking about her early memories,
which will be transcribed later on.-which is a great help to putting family
history in context. I wonder if we should do the same - just jot random
memories down and file them either personally or online. For example - When
my mam tells me stories - I should write them down, but also I remember
things from my childhood (which my kids say uh huh to) - which may be of
interest to someone else later on - rather like the newspaper stories!

If anyone has any suggestions as to how we could collate our stories I would
be very interested. Mine started with the discovery of the family bible in
1969. I was fascinated in the way that my great grandmother had recorded
everything - I am the proud owner of it now.

Could we develop our own repository of stories?

Regards

NL

[ANNNEW...@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/4/2006 6:18:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, nl.s...@btinternet.com writes:

I've recently  tape recorded my mother talking about her early memories,
which will be transcribed later on.-which is a great help to putting family
history in context.

That is a great idea NL, I am going to do that with my Mom.

[Barb Baker]

Dear Norah-Lynn &c &c &c &c:

'Tis interesting to see what happens, once people start exchanging experiences with other people !!  When I was a little girl, one of our Saturday night's "looking forward to" events was to invite our friends over, sit around the round dining room table, and play "Button Button, who's got the Button". Sound silly ?? and dull ??  No, because my Sister and I remember exactly who was there fifty years ago; we remember the laughter; we remember the memories of those times.

 

This past year, when my two grandbabies came to stay over, I got out my Mom's button jar, and started them off playing the same game.  Ingenious little wonders these grandbabies are; they found many ways of covering up the button, so that no one knew where it was !!!

 

Their Daddy [my second son] was an "uh huh" kind of guy; but recently he asked me where that game had come from in my family. He had always assumed that it was something that I had made up.

 

Nice to share old memories with your kids while you're still here.  Take the time to ask, record, share the memories with your Moms, Dads, Aunties, Grandparents, &c &c &c.

 

Now I must research the "real" origin of Button Button, who's got the Button.

 

This Roll Call on this list has been a real revitalizing pleasure.  Thanks, Ann, for thinking of it.

 

Barb, Ontario, Canada.

[NL Shann]

Brilliant! My mam still has her button jar in the front room.

Now - how do you play that game?

NL

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From: Barb Baker

To: Genealogy-...@googlegroups.com

Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 11:47 PM

Subject: Re: ROLL CALL

[Sarah]

> Could we develop our own repository of stories?
> Regards
> NL

 

Our beloved List Marm is ALIVE!!!!

 

Where in the doodley have you been, girlfriend?

 

[ANNNEW...@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/4/2006 6:48:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, bbak...@sympatico.ca writes:

This Roll Call on this list has been a real revitalizing pleasure.  Thanks, Ann, for thinking of it. <<<<

 

 

It is my pleasure, I am really enjoying everyone's posts.

 

Anyone who hasn't posted your interests PLEASE do, we really want to hear from everyone on the list.

 

Ann

[Sarah]

We played it a little differently. You sat in a circle on the floor, and passed around the button. At some point someone decided to keep the button, and acted loke they were passing it to the next person, who then acted like they were passin it on. Everyone made a big deal of getting it into the next person's hand.  At the end of the game you had to guess who had the button.

 

I don't remember who guessed.

 

Or why.  Just the squealing.  Once my cousin hid it in his nose and couldn't get it out, had a nosebleed all over the place. He squealed a lot and nobody noticed.

 

Thanks Barb.

 

 

 

Brilliant! My mam still has her button jar in the front room.

Now - how do you play that game?

NL

[Barb Baker]

I'm sure the rules are different for every family.  But what we would do is:

 

1.  sit around a round dining room table.

2.  send one person out of the room

3.  pass the button around from person to person

4.  have the person come back into the room and guess who had the

     button.

 

The only rule was that you had to place your hands on the table, one hand on top of the other hand, so that you all looked the same.  I've changed that rule to one time placing hands on the table; next time placing hands on top of head; next...hands behind the back.

 

I'm not at all sure what the Official Rule Book would say !! and I don't think it matters.

 

The kids have great fun choosing which of my Mom's buttons to use for the game.  After the game, we have great fun sorting the buttons by colour; by size &c. &c. &c.