Friday, September 28, 2018

Dorothy Gwendoline Pask (1925-2017)

With the deepest regret, we have to advise that Dorothy Pask, from Beckenham, died on 31 December 2017.

She had been ill for several months, and died in Coloma Court Care Home, Layhams Road, West Wickham, Kent. Her funeral service took place on 5 February 2018. 

Dorothy was the 6th great-granddaughter of John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow. She was the daughter of William John Pask, and Nellie May Woods.

Dorothy was a keen family historian and provided a considerable amount of information on the descendants of John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow. She was very well known with researchers of this Suffolk family.

We had the pleasure of meeting her several times. She attended the Pask Family Gathering in Whepstead, Suffolk on 26 July, 2008. 

We are in touch with her niece, Laura, who lives in Canada. We are sure you will join us in passing our deepest condolences to Dorothy's family. We are honoured to have known her. 

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Website Update 2 September 2018 - Now Available

The website was updated 2 September 2018. However, due to the issues with website, I could not display the update. That has now been resolved - you may need to refresh your browser.

26 new narratives have been added, and 123 changed, since the last website update on 19 August 2018. There are now a total of 12,509 detailed narratives available on the website and 20,071 people (24 new) in our database.

There was a problem with the availability of the website since the last website update. This was due to the domain requiring changes to the site hosting. This has now been completed, and hopefully the website will not experience any further problems.

The focus of this website update was the Lincolnshire family of Henry PASK, and Elizabeth ASMAN, kindly provided by P. Bruce Stephenson. Several of their children immigrated to America in 1872, and settled in Orleans County, New York State. Whilst this family was detailed by the late Shirley Julie Amos née Pask in 2012, it was unbelievable how much new information has become available. For this website update, the focus was on page 7 of Shirley's Family Booklet of Henry and Elizabeth Pask of Lincolnshire. We plan to update other pages in future website updates.

In addition, Michael Neal provided valuable 1939 Register updates on the descendants of Walter and Rosetta PASK née RIXON.

Sincere thanks to all concerned with this latest website update.

These changes relate to the following surnames:

PASK, PASKE, and
ABBOTT, AMOS, ARMSTRONG, ASMAN, BAME, BARNES, BECKETT, BELL, BELLAMY, BETTONEY, CAPES, CAREY, CHESTER, COTTAM, CUTHBERTSON, DECKER, DUFF, GLADDING, GRAY, HACKLEY, HARRIS, HARTWIG, HEY, HEYE, HODGES, JONES, KENWOOD, LEEK, LEVY, MANCHESTER, MARSHALL, MAXWELL, MIELKE, OXBY, PETERS, PLATT, PLATTS, QUANTRILL, RAY, REEK, RIORDEN, RIXON, SCOTT, STEPHENSON, STUBBS, TINKHAM, TWELL
These updates relate to the following charts / family groups:
A full list of the recent changes to the narratives is available in the Recent Updates section.