Website Update 19 August 2009

The website was updated yesterday, Saturday 19 September. This focuses on information, as detailed in the previous blogs:

Descendants of Bertie & Ella Kate Pask née Sargent
Ernest George & Rose Pask née Pitches

Also this includes several updates based on information found in the London Metropolitan Archives Records, and 1911 Census.

A full list of these recent changes to the narratives is available in the New or Changed Narratives section. There are now 8,104 narratives available on the website.

Ernest George & Rose Pask née Pitches

This information relates to the main Suffolk tree - descendants of John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow, born c1680 who lived in Wickhambrook, Suffolk.

Whilst researching the family of Bertie & Ella Kate Pask née Sargent (see previous blog), I looked at all Pask(e) births, marriages, and deaths and 1911 census in the Colchester / Newmarket registration districts. I identified the family of Ernest George & Rose Pask. Initially I could not find their marriage, then realised that Ernest was also known George Ernest. He was in fact duplicated in our database.

We originally included him in 2004, as we visited his grave in the Military Cemetery, in Roclincourt, Pas-de-Calais, France. We were intrigued as although he was 50 years old, he was at that time a Sergeant, in the Army Veterinary Corps, 170th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. We found that he had died in a riding accident during military sports on 5 June 1917. He left a widow and three children.

After his death, his widow Rose married his widowed brother John William Pask.

Descendants of Bertie & Ella Kate Pask née Sargent

This information relates to Bertie Pask who lived in the Colchester / Newmarket area in the early 1900s.

We were contacted by Christopher Pask in December last year inquiring about his Colchester descendants. We were able to trace him back to Bertie Pask, who lived in the Newmarket area. When we acquired the 1911 census images recently we contacted him and provided the census information for Ella Kate Pask née Sargent, and her twins Frederick Bert and Rosa Evelyn. They were inmates in the Newmarket Union Workhouse, Exning Road, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire.

Unfortunately no additional information has been found on Bertie & Ella, however the marriage certificate has now been purchased. In the meantime, based on the information provided by Christopher, Chart 50 has been compiled showing their descendants, who span four generations.

Many thanks to Christopher for providing us with the information. Hopefully in the near future we will be able to link this family to one of the main Suffolk families.

London Metropolitan Archives Records

This week has been extremely busy. I started working on the 1911 census entries, as detailed in a previous blog. However before I had real chance Ancestry announced that the indexed images of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials from the London Metropolitan Archives are now available.

There are:

• PASK: Baptisms 176; Marriages 195; Burials 31 - Total 402
• PASKE: Baptisms 13; Marriages 21; Burials 4 - Total 38
• PASQUE: Baptisms 17; Marriages 14; Burials 10 - Total 41
• PARSK: Baptisms 2; Marriages 1; Burials 0 - Total 3

I have downloaded the index, and will in time include this valuable information into the database.

Website Update 13 September 2009

The website was updated yesterday, Sunday 13 September. This focuses on information, as detailed in the previous blogs:

Laura Irene Morley née Pask of Hargrave
1911 Census - PASK, PASKE, PASQUE, PARSK
Power of DNA

A full list of these recent changes to the narratives is available in the New or Changed Narratives section. There are now 8,093 narratives available on the website. In the database there are 11,661 people in total, including 3568 living people (excluded from the website).

Power of DNA

This information relates to Chart 6 - Peter & Catherine Pask née Frost, born 1739 in Kedington, Suffolk.

In May, we exchanged information with Raymond Pask of Australia - see the blog titled
Descendants of James & Charlotte Mary Pask née Chaffin. Raymond kindly agreed to do a DNA test. When his results came back they matched exactly with another Pask, also living in Australia. Raymond did not know of his existance.

A fortnight ago Raymond, together with his brother Edward met Colin Pask, and his sister. They established that their grandparents Henry James Pask, and Arthur Pask were brothers. The family had immigrated to Australia in the late 1890s.

If you are a male Pask, and are interested in doing a DNA test, do contact us, and we will explain the technicalities, costs, and outcome. Alternatively look at the webpage Pask DNA Project for more information.

1911 Census - PASK, PASKE, PASQUE, PARSK

Last weekend I completed the downloading of the PASK, PASKE, PASQUE, and PARSK images from the 1911 Census.

We now have over 500 images, covering 1400+ names from the 1911 census. This will keep us busy for some considerable time!

We hope to have them all in the database by the PASK Family Gathering in July.

Laura Irene Morley née Pask of Hargrave

This information relates to the main Suffolk tree - descendants of John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow, born c1680 who lived in Wickhambrook, Suffolk.

Yesterday we had an e-mail from Kai Davey the grandson of Laura Irene Pask. "Nene" as she was always known as, was the daughter of of Frederick William & Ellen Maud Pask née Phillips. She married Frank Morley and they ran Hargrave village Post Office and store. Kai writes:

She lived her whole life in Hargrave pre-retirement at the Village Post Office and adjoining house and post retirement just over the road at Orchard End next to the Methodist Church.

Kai has provided the above photograph, and some corrections to Nene's narrative. These have been included in the database, and will be available in the next website update.