Pask, Paske One-Name Study Wins Guild Awards

We are delighted to announce that the Pask, Paske One-Name Study has received two Guild of One-Name Studies Award of Excellence 2012.

The first was for the blog, and the second for the book Pasks of Lincolnshire Volume 1 - Great Gonerby.

One Person Script

The website was updated today Tuesday 24 April. This was a minor technical update, due to some missing files.

However, at the same time I included some new functionality available from Second Site - One Person Script.

In future, when selecting a specific person it will only show that one person. Previously it showed up to 25 people on one page.

Many thanks to John Cardinal, for this smart feature.

New Search Facility on Website

In the lastest website update today, a new search facility is now available.
Just select the Search option in the narratives section.

I really like this option. Many thanks to John Cardinal, who develops the brilliant Second Site tool that enables me to create an award-winning website with very little effort. Well done John!

Search Facility

Website Updated 22 April 2012

The website was updated today Sunday 22 April. The focus of this update was:

• Descendants of William Joliffe Paske, as detailed in the blog dated 24 April. 
• Descendants of Caroline Matilda Garrett née Pask, as detailed in the blog dated 18 April.
• Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Pask née Marshall, as detailed in the blog dated 22 March.

The updates included relate to the following charts / family groups:

• Chart 03: Indented Chart - Lincolnshire Main Progenitor - Johannis [John] PASK, (c1545 - ) wife Elizabeth ARCHER lived in Washingborough, Lincolnshire #1597
• Chart 06: Indented Chart - Unknown PASK lived in Kedington, Suffolk #13655
• Chart 42: William PASK (c1720- ) lived in Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire #10869

There are 50 new narratives added since the last update, making a total of 9,362 detailed narratives now available on the website - although there was an increase of 125 people, making of total of 14,846 people in our database, that includes living people.

A full list of the recent changes to the narratives is available in the New or Changed Narratives section.

William Jolliffe Paske

This information relates to the descendants of William Pask (c1720- ) who lived in Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire.

Katrina Jordan has provided us additional information on the family of her 1st Cousin 4 times removed William Jolliffe Paske.

William Jolliffe PASKE was born on 5 May 1863 in Bristol. He was the son of William & Fanny Paske née Jolliffee. He married Emily Bevan, and they emigrated in 1886 to America, and he became a Minister. 

William then married Ida Olive Kline in 1888 in Nebraska. They then moved to Milwaukee Wisconsin, and East Norriton in Pennyslvania, and finally Altadena in Los Angeles where he died at the age of 80.

William and Ida had three children:

• Ralph William Paske b. 4 Jul 1889, d. 11 Dec 1943
• Charles Herbert Paske b. 2 Dec 1890, d. May 1973
• Oliver Wendall Paske b. 9 Dec 1893, d. 10 May 1935

We are in the process of including this family into our database. It would be great to hear from any of our American cousins.

Caroline Matilda Garrett née Pask (1808-1881)

This information relates to Chart 6 - Unknown Pask who lived in Kedington, Suffolk.

We received an inquiry from Jan Humphries from Australia, relating to her ancestor Caroline Matilda Garrett née Pask born 1808 in London.

Jan wrote:

"Caroline Matilda Pask married John Wells Garrett on 24 October 1825.  The witnesses at the wedding were Henry Frost Pask and Ann Pask. Henry was the fifth child of Peter Pask and Rebecca Basham and was born in 1799. There was then a gap of a number of years until the birth of Maria Louisa Pask b1815 Christchurch, Newgate. The family seems to have moved to London and I have been unable to find the birth of Caroline Matilda – any suggestions?  The first child of Henry Frost Pask was called Caroline Matilda also."

Unfortunately, I did not find Caroline's baptism. However, I did find several of her children's baptisms, and the family in the 1841-1871 censuses. This information will be included in the Pask database in the near future.

Many thanks to Jan for providing this missing link. 

Website Updated 6 April 2012

The website was updated today Friday 6 April. There are only 12 new narratives added since the last update, making a total of 9,312 detailed narratives now available on the website - although there was an increase of 170 people, making of total of 14,721 people in our database, that includes living people.

The focus of this update was

• Descendants of Christopher Harold Paske
• Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Pask née Marshall, as detailed in the blog dated 22 March

The updates included relate to the following charts / family groups:

Chart 03: Indented Chart - Lincolnshire Main Progenitor - Johannis [John] PASK, (c1545 - ) wife Elizabeth ARCHER lived in Washingborough, Lincolnshire #1597
Chart 06: Indented Chart - Unknown PASK lived in Kedington, Suffolk #13655
Chart 23: Edward PASK, (1771-1836) lived in Barholm, Lincolnshire #3043 
Chart 42: William PASK (c1720- ) lived in Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire #10869

A full list of the recent changes to the narratives is available in the New or Changed Narratives section.

Descendants of Christopher Harold Paske (1906-1984)

This information relates to the descendants of William Pask (c1720- ) who lived in Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire.

Katrina Jordan contacted us, and provided extensive information on the descendants of Christopher Harold Paske who lived in Torquay, Devon. In particular his eldest daughter Pauline, Katrina's grandmother, who has ten children, 30 grandchildren, and 42 great-grandchildren. 

Katrina's information has been included in our Pask database, however as most of it relates to living people, the family chart shows only the names.