The website was updated today, Thursday 26 March. This update focuses on the Lincoln registration district marriages so kindly provided by Marion Harper Hopkins as part of the Guild of One-Name Studies marriage challenge, as detailed in the December blog titled Lincoln Marriages.
All the 55 marriages have now been included in the database. The marriage transcripts from numerous Lincolnshire parish registers are available as downloads in the Sources of Information section of the relevant individual narratives.
We are looking forward to meeting Marion this weekend, as we are attending the Lincolnshire Family History One Day Conference at City School, Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln. It has been over 20 years since we attended a Lincolnshire conference, and we look forward to renewing old acquaintances.
A full list of these recent changes to the narratives is available in the New or Changed Narratives section. There are now 7961 narratives available.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Website Update 26 March 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Lungley-Pask Families
In January Sheila Bourne contacted us. She had seen in the December edition of Suffolk Roots, the article from Jo Pask on the Pask Family Gathering, July 2008. She wrote that her cousins Lewis H. Lungley and his sister Gladys G. Lungley had married a Pask brother and sister:
- Lewis Herbert Lungley married Ruth Pask on 13 July 1940 at Falkenham, Suffolk
- Gladys Gertrude Lungley married Herbert Arthur Pask on 2 August 1941 in Ardleigh, Essex
Ruth and Herbert were the son and daughter of the son of Arthur & Janet Pask née Ramsey.
Today we received a package from Sheila containing 36 certificates relating to these two families. We are delighted, and indebted to Sheila for sharing this information.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Website Update 15 March 2009
The website was updated today, Sunday 15 March. This update includes information, as detailed in the previous blogs:
- Edna Coulson Pask (1920-1934)
- Yorkshire PASKs - Charles William & Ada Pask née Bee
- Yorkshire PASKs - William Edward & Mary Pask née Cliffe
- George & Maria Simpson née Pask
- Descendants of Henry & Elizabeth Pask née Asman
- John Jabez Daubney Pask
- James Pask b1871 Bury St. Edmunds
- New Chart 48 - George & Mary Pask née Fitzjohn
- John Joseph Stephen & Julia Wiber née Pask
- John & Mary Hannah Beard née Pask
- Susan Pask born 1820 Llanmartin, Monmouthshire
Susan Pask born 1820 Llanmartin, Monmouthshire
Earlier this month Paula Payne, our ardent Monmouthshire researcher wrote to us. Recently she and her brother Peter saw the original Nebo Independant Chapel, Wolvesnewton records and determined that the Pask baptisms were wrongly transcribed.
In particular it was originally believed that Susan was the daughter of Isaac & Mary Pask née Morgan. Paula confirmed that it should read:
Susan the daughter of Isaac Pask and Elizabeth Pask of the Parish of Llanmartin was born in 28th February 1820 and was baptized 29th March 1820 by David Thomas of Nebo Independent Chapel Wolvesnewton.
This has been amended in our database, and be included in the next website update.
John & Mary Hannah Beard née Pask
Last month we received a letter from Christine A. Paisley, who lives in Albany, West Australia. She writes that her husband's grandmother was Mary Hannah Pask, the daughter of John & Elizabeth Pask née Crockett. Mary was born on 15 February 1885 at Barbadoes Green, Tintern, Monmouthshire.
Christine has provided details that has enabled us to identify John & Mary's children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and 2 x great-grandchildren. This information will be included in the next website update in Chart 04.
John Joseph Stephen & Julia Wiber née Pask
Today we received an e-mail from Mandy Bourdon. She writes:
I live in Australia ... my ggg grandmother was a Elizabeth Louisa Wiber daughter of John Joseph Stephen Wiber and Julia Pask but on your website it only states an Emma Wiber.The reason for only having Emma was because the information came from the passenger list of the "Parsee". If there were other children they must have been born in Australia.
Mandy is going to provide more information. In the meantime, we will include Elizabeth in the next website update.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Toffee Pask (19 July 1994 - 13 March 2009)
Our beloved burmese cat Toffee sadly died yesterday. His real name was Rascal Robbie, and he lived up to his name. We had to include numerous bells on his collar to warn all the local birds, mice, squirrels, and even rats. Nothing was too big for him.
He was always with me whilst I worked on family history. Frequently I had to move him off the mouse mat as he got closer and closer. We will sorely miss him.
New Chart 48 - George & Mary Pask née Fitzjohn
A new chart will be available in the next website update - chart 48. This will group together over 40 people who descend from George & Mary Pask née Fitzjohn who lived in Northamptonshire in the middle of the 19th century.
George was the illegitimate son of Sarah Pask. He was born on 12 July 1817, and baptised on 7 June 1818 in Thorney, Cambridgeshire. It is currently not known where Sarah came from.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Barbara Pask Painting
Recently I was searching the internet for the name Pask, and came across this delightful painting by Barbara Pask.
Being a cat lover, I thought this was an excellent painting and captured the look of a cat.
So I was delighted when she put it up for sale on e-bay. I snapped it up, and will receive it from Ohio in the next couple of days. It will take pride of place in the lounge.
James Pask b1871 Bury St. Edmunds
Yesterday we received an e-mail from Geoff & Pam Gough. Fortunately they solved a long outstanding mystery relating to James Pask, the son of John & Susan Pask née Buckle.
We had found James in the 1881 & 1891 censuses, but not in the 1901 census. There was additional confusion as there was two James born in Bury St. Edmunds - James in 1871 and James Henry in 1872.
Fortunately we found him in the 1911 census living in St. Pancras. This in turn, enabled us to locate him in the 1901 census, where he gave his place of birth incorrectly as London. Together with the information provided by Geoff & Pam, we have been able to piece together that he married Katherine Markell in 1893, and they had five children:
- Lily Florence Pask born 1894
- Gladys Ethel Pask born 1896
- Dorothy Maud Pask born 1903 (Pam's grandmother)
- Ivy Molly Francis Pask born 1907
- Katie Maria Pask born in 1910
James' siblings have been well researched by Dorothy Pask, and David Hodge.
Geoff & Pam will be providing more information in due course. In the meantime, the next website update will include the basic information on this latest find.
