Another Website Update - Friday 20 December

The website was updated today, Friday 20 December - twice in one month! However, this is a comparatively small update. The focus was on the following charts / family groups:

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

• Chart 02: The Suffolk Main Progenitor - John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow
• Chart 04: The Monmouthshire Main Progenitor: Isaac Pask, (c1705 - ) lived in Llanvihangel-ystern-Llewern, Monmouthshire
• Chart 06: Indented Chart - Unknown PASK lived in Kedington, Suffolk
• Chart 11: John PASK, (c1745-1793) married Elizabeth FOUNTAIN and they lived in Gautby, Lincolnshire

13 new narratives have been added since the last update on 14 December. This makes a total of 9,980 detailed narratives are now available on the website - although there was an increase of 19 people, including living people, making a total of 16,323 people in our database.

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

Many thanks to all who contributed.

DNA Test Results for Chart 39

This information relates to Chart 39 - Thomas PASK, (1766-b1851) who lived in St. Pancras.

As mentioned in a previous blog dated August 25, a member of family group 39 - tester 267830, kindly agreed to do a DNA test. It has been very amiss of us not to provide an update on the results. However, we needed to consult with knowledgeable colleagues as there was some confusion on the results.

Chart 39 was relating to the descendants of Thomas & Martha Pask née Dent. They married in London on 9 October 1808. There was no indication, or paper trail, where Thomas originated from. However, through DNA testing, we have found that the new tester 267830 matched 34 out 37 markers with tester 191613 from Chart 06 – the descendants of Peter & Catherine Pask née Frost, who lived in Stoke by Clare, and Kedington in Suffolk.

However, whilst there are now six testers in Chart 06 group – see http://www.pask.org.uk/Pask-p/dna_project.htm, using the ‘classic results’ report, which requires a minimum match of 34 out of 37, the other four testers in this group did not match with the new tester. The reason is because there are a lot of mutations in this group. 

Using the new FTDNATiP™ report that calculates the likely time to a common paternal ancestor for two project members it shows that tester 267830 has the probability that he shared a common ancestor within:

·        16 generations with tester 153252 – 7 mismatches

·        12 generations with tester N15380 – 6 mismatches

·        10 generations with tester 191613 – 3 mismatches

·        16 generations with tester 205757 – 6 mismatches

·        12 generations with tester 255440 – 7 mismatches

On the basis of 3 generations per 100 years this ranges between 400 and 500 years ago, i.e.  1400s to 1500s. 

Chart 39 is now merged with Chart 06.

If you require any additional information on these results, or DNA generally, please do not hesitate to contact us. We may not have the answers, but we do know someone who will. 

Website Update 14 December 2013

The website was updated today, Saturday 14 December.

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

• Chart 01: The Lincolnshire main progenitor, John Pask, (c1520 - 1591) who lived in Washingborough, Lincolnshire. (Stuart's own ancestors).
• Chart 02: The Suffolk Main Progenitor - John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow
• Chart 04: The Monmouthshire Main Progenitor: Isaac Pask, (c1705 - ) lived in Llanvihangel-ystern-Llewern, Monmouthshire
• Chart 06: Indented Chart - Unknown PASK lived in Kedington, Suffolk
• Chart 09: John PASKE, was a Yeoman of Stradishall, Suffolk (d1577 )
• Chart 10: Essex Main Progenitor - John PASK, (1771-1847) Thundersley, Essex
• Chart 11: John PASK, (c1745-1793) married Elizabeth FOUNTAIN and they lived in Gautby, Lincolnshire
• Chart 14: William PASK, (1791-1874) from Caythorpe & Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire
• Chart 16: --?-- PASKE, (c1755- ) lived in Hackthorne, Lincolnshire
• Chart 29: Thomas PASQUE, (c1700-1754) lived in Theberton, Suffolk #4483
• Chart 38: Thomas PASK, (1820- ) Upminster, Essex
• Chart 39: Thomas PASK, (1766-1846) lived in St. Pancras. This
  family is now combined with Chart 06, as a result of recent DNA testing.
• Chart 42: William PASK (c1720- ) lived in Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire
• Chart 43: John PASK (1769-1835), lived in Northamptonshire & Cambridgeshire
• Chart 46: William PASK (1860-1914) born in Southery, Lincolnshire
• Chart 48: George PASK (1818-1904), lived in Northamptonshire
• Chart 49: Charles PASK lived in Dingestow, and Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire
• Chart 52: William PASK was born in Llanover, and lived in Llangattock, Monmouthshire

There is a total of 9967 detailed narratives now available on the website. We now have 16,304 people, including living people in our database.

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

Many thanks to all who contributed.

Tendring Registration District Marriages

This information relates to:
Chart 02: The Suffolk Main Progenitor - John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow
Chart 06: Unknown Pask lived in Kedington, Suffolk

We have just received three marriage transcripts, provided by Marion Hopkins, as part of the Tendring Registration District Marriage Challenge.

The Marriage Challenge is a Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS) Project in which volunteers (Challengers) search for marriage entries in the deposited Parish Registers for a particular Registration District normally for the period 1837 to 1911. However in this case, Tendring RD was abolished after quarter 2 in 1939. So Marion took her searches up to 1939.
Marion has kindly provided the following marriages:

• Alfred Elisha Parsk and Emma Cocks.  Their marriage transcript shows they married on 7 October 1905 at St Nicholas, Harwich. He was a Bachelor aged 32, a Painter residing at 18 Fernlea Road Harwich. His father was listed as James Parsk, a Retired Gamekeeper. Emma was a Spinster aged 33, a Dressmaker residing at 43 Haydon Park Road Wimbledon. Her father was listed as Walter James Cocks, a Traveller. Alfred, also known as Alfred Elisha Pasque, was a descendant of Chart 06: Unknown Pask lived in Kedington, Suffolk.
• Emma Pask and Willie Ware.  Their marriage transcript shows they married on 30 April 1921 at Frating. She was a Spinster, aged 40 residing in Frating. Her father was listed as George Pask, a Farm Labourer. He was a Widower aged 50, a Farm Labourer residing in Frating. His father was listed as John Ware, a Farm Labourer. The marriage was witnessed by Martha Almond, and Percy R. Almond. Emma was also a descendant of Chart 06: Unknown Pask lived in Kedington, Suffolk.
• Ernest Arthur Paske and Hilda Maria Winney. Their marriage transcript shows they married on 30 April 1930 at St. Lawrence Church, Bradfield. He was a Bachelor aged 27, a Footman residing in St Mary's Bury St Edmunds. His father was listed as Ernest George Paske (Deceased), a Stableman. She was a Spinster aged 32, residing in Bradfield. Her father was listed as William Winney, a Roadman. The marriage was witnssed by John Frederick Burrell (his brother-in-law) and W. WINNEY (probably the bride's father). Ernest is a descendant of Chart 02-1 John PASK, eldest son of Suffolk Main Progenitor - John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow #3372.

Many thanks to Marion and her helpers for providing these marriage transcripts. This information will be available in the next website update.

DNA Testing for Pask Family Group 39

This information relates to Chart 39 - Thomas PASK, (1766-b1851) who lived in St. Pancras.

A member of family group 39 has kindly agreed to do a DNA test. The test kit has now arrived at the laboratory at Family Tree DNA, and assigned to the PASK DNA study.  

The results will take approximately 6-8 weeks. So hopefully by late October we should have the results.

What will it tell us?  Optimistically it will match with one of the other family groups. This will give us a direction on where to focus to find documentary evidence. With a name like Thomas, it is difficult to distinguish which Thomas this may be - especially as we currently don't know where he originated.

A conclusive test will enable us to identify the origins of several of Thomas & Martha Pask née DENT descendants, like (to name a few):

Sergeant Major John Pask (1884-1963), who served in the 2nd Battalion Kings Regiment in Bengal, where he married Marion Tristram in 1917.

Edgar Henry Pask (1879-1959), who married Evelyn Clara Flowers in 1901. In the 1911 census, he was listed as a Captain of a Private Yacht.

Edgar's great-great niece Naomi Pask, who lives in Gibraltar. We met her, and her family, in March earlier this year.

Edgar's great-granddaughter Clare Pask, has provided information on his descendants.

Walter Pask (1876-1908) who died at the age of 32; He was killed in a railway accident, leaving his wife Jane Annie Chester, with four children. This included Arthur Pask (1905-1991), who together with his brother Walter, and his grandmother and Aunts Nelly and Kate, immigrated to Melbourne Australia in 1912. Arthur was a very talanted man. He played the cello in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, he was an accountant, and also the Team Manager for the Australian Archers in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.

Arthur was the father of keen family historian Yvonne Pask. We have been in correspondence with Yvonne since 2009 and she has provided extensive information on both this family and other Pasks who lived in Australia.

Isaac Arthur James Pask, M.C., DSO., R.G.A. (1881-1916), who was a Captain in the Royal Field Artillery, 28th Brigade. Isaac was killed in action on 1 September 1916, fighting in World War I in the Somme, at the age of 35.

James Morton Pask (1848-1930), who joined the Royal Navy as an Instructor. Whilst serving on the H.M.S. Druid, he took part in the Ashantee war led by Sir Garnet Wolseley in Oct 1873-March 1874. James had in his possessions two skulls shaped into drinking cups, that were taken by King Hama-dikky (King of Dixcove). These are now deposited at the British Museum.

James' great-great nephew John Morton Cross, who we met at the Pask Family Gathering in 2008, and who has extensively researched this family and provided detailed narratives.

If you are a Pask, Paske, or Pasque male, we encourage you to take a DNA test. To date, we have tested 23 men, and this has helped us considerably with the Pask One-Name Study. Alternative if you are a Pask, Paske, or Pasque female, we ask you to encourage your fathers, or brothers to do the test. More information on the process, cost, etc., are available from pask@one-name.org.

Website Updated 26 July 2013

The website was updated yesterday, Friday 26 July - long overdue! However there has been continuous changes, since the last website update - I just did not get round to updating the website.

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

• Chart 01: The Lincolnshire main progenitor, John Pask, (c1520 - 1591) who lived in Washingborough, Lincolnshire. (Stuart's own ancestors).
• Chart 02: The Suffolk Main Progenitor - John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow
• Chart 04: The Monmouthshire Main Progenitor: Isaac Pask, (c1705 - ) lived in Llanvihangel-ystern-Llewern, Monmouthshire
• Chart 06: Indented Chart - Unknown PASK lived in Kedington, Suffolk
• Chart 09: John PASKE, was a Yeoman of Stradishall, Suffolk (d1577 )
• Chart 10: Essex Main Progenitor - John PASK, (1771-1847) Thundersley, Essex
• Chart 11: John PASK, (c1745-1793) married Elizabeth FOUNTAIN and they lived in Gautby, Lincolnshire
• Chart 14: William PASK, (1791-1874) from Caythorpe & Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire
• Chart 16: --?-- PASKE, (c1755- ) lived in Hackthorne, Lincolnshire
• Chart 23: Edward PASK, (1771-1836) lived in Barholm, Lincolnshire
• Chart 26: Thomas PASK, (1777-1855) Brockley, Suffolk
• Chart 30: James PASK, (1835- ) Southrow, or Southrey, near Bardney, Lincolnshire
• Chart 35: James PASK, (1807-1889) Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
• Chart 38: Thomas PASK, (1820- ) Upminster, Essex
• Chart 39: Thomas PASK, (1766-1846) lived in St. Pancras
• Chart 40: Hezekiah PASQUE, lived in Cripplegate, London
• Chart 41: James PASK, lived in Finsbury, London c1758
• Chart 42: William PASK (c1720- ) lived in Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire
• Chart 43: John PASK (1769-1835), lived in Northamptonshire & Cambridgeshire
• Chart 44: William PASK lived in Timberland, Lincolnshire
• Chart 45: James PASK (c1780- ) who lived in Nantylgo, Monmouthshire
• Chart 46: William PASK (1860-1914) born in Southery, Lincolnshire
• Chart 47: Robert PASK, formerly PASS born in 1884 in Freiston, Lincolnshire 
• Chart 49: Charles PASK lived in Dingestow, and Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire
• Chart 51: Joseph PASK lived in Wisbech Cambridgeshire in 1840-1860 

There is a total of 9837 detailed narratives now available on the website. We now have 16,090 people, including living people in our database.

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

Many thanks to all who contributed.

Website Now Back Online

The Pask-Paske One-Name Study website is now back online. Unfortunately, whilst we were on a cruise to St. Petersburg, the domain required renewing and although this was done the technical backend of the website was not accessible to us until we were back in the UK.

Many thanks for all those who notified us of the website unavailability.

During the cruise I had time to do a lot of updates. So a website update is imminient.

Descendants of Charles Herbert & Marjorie Alice Paske née Signs

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

Kareen Frances Bennett née Pask

Sadly today we were notified of the death of Kareen Frances Bennett née Paske, the granddaughter of Charles Herbert & Marjorie Alice Paske née Signs.


Kareen, known as Kari, was born in Anchorage, Alaska on July 1 1970, and died on May 7, 2013. More information is available in her Obituary.

Kareen was the sister of Jennifer Helen Paske, who was born on August 7, 1972 and died on January 16, 2009. More information is available in her Obituary.

Jennifer Helen Paske

Kareen, and Jennifer's 2 x great-grandfather William Joliffe Paske, together with his first wife Emily, originally immigrated to America in 1886. Shortly afterwards Emily died, and William remarried Ida Olive Kline in 1888 in Norfolk, Madison County, Nebraska where they raised 3 sons in the early 1890s. William was born in Bristol, in England although the family originated from Monmouthshire.

Our thoughts are with the families.

Descendants of Walter Claud & Maisie Pask née Dennis

This information relates to the main Suffolk tree - descendants of John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow, born c1680 who lived in Wickhambrook, Suffolk. In particular descendants of Daniel Pask (1711-1763) their second son.

A few days ago we received an e-mail from Aaron Pask, the grandson of Walter Claud & Maisie Pask née Dennis. He has kindly provided information on his wife and their three children.

If you a related to Aaron, and have any additional information on your own family, do let us know. Only names of 'living' people are included on the website. 

Hopefully in the near future, after my retirement at the end of this month, we plan to republish the PASKs of Suffolk books, and also include some new titles. For more information see Pasks Publications.  

Descendants of Phoebe Elizabeth Kaucher née Pask

This information relates to Chart 06 - Unknown Pask who lived in Kedington, Suffolk.

We had an e-mail yesterday from Janice Hecker who lives in Australia. She is the grand-daughter of Phoebe Elizabeth Pask, from the Suffolk Family Chart 06.

We searched www.ancestry.co.uk for some additional information, and found Phoebe's marriage to Edward Kaucher in the parish register of St. Judes, Bethnal Green. Also her school admission in 26 August 1901 to Cranbrook Road school in Tower Hamlets.

Janice advised that she also had an Aunt Phoebe, who was not listed in the narratives. So we need to do some more research here.




Janice's parents and her siblings immigrated to Australia in 1962. We look forward to receiving more information from her.