Website Update 16 August 2020

124 new narratives have been added, and 123 changed, since the last website update on 24 May. There are now a total of 13,224 detailed narratives available on the website and 21,000 people (154 new) in our database.

This update again was mainly focused on the descendants of William MOULDS, (c1710-1774), Stuart's 5th great-grandfather, who lived in Little Ponton, Lincolnshire. This covers the states of Iowa, Missouri, and Oklahoma. This is still work-in-progress. 

These changes relate to the following surnames:

PASK, PASKE,

ALLEN, BARCLAY, BARTHOLOMEW, BILK, BISDEE, BLOWER, BUTLER, CHURCH, CUMMINGS, CURRY, CURTIS, CURZON, DAVIES, EDWARDS,ELDRIDGE, FARR, FLEETWOOD, FLETCHER, FOALE, GIDDINGS, GOODEY, GOWERS, GRAHAM, GRIFFITHS,    GUY, HADDON, HARRIS, HARRISON, HAYWARD, HILL, HOBSON, HORTON, HOWES, JAY, JOHNSON, JOSEPH, KNIGHTLY, LEAT, LEATE, LECY, LUKE, MARLOW, MOULDS,   MUSSON, NEWCOMB, NIEBUHR, NIXON, NUNN, OWENS, PALMER, PARKER, PIATT, PRICE, QUANTRILL, REDFORD, REED, RICE, RICHARDS, RILEY, ROBINSON, ROGERS, ROSE, SEASE, SIMS, SKINNER, THRESHER, TRICKER, TURNER, VERGSON, WEAVER, WHITE, WILLIAMS, WING

These updates relate to the following charts/family groups:

• My paternal family, as indicated by the 'related to Stuart Pask' relationship image.
• Chart 01: Lincolnshire Main Progenitor - John PASK, (c1520 - 1591) he lived in Washingborough, Lincolnshire
• Chart 02-2: Daniel Pask, second son of John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow
• Chart 04: Monmouthshire Main Progenitor: Isaac PASK, (c1705 - ) lived in Llanvihangel-ystern-Llewern, Monmouthshire #3687
  
• Chart 06: Unknown PASK lived in Suffolk 
• Chart 10: Essex Main Progenitor - John PASK, (1771-1847) Thundersley, Essex #2493
• Chart 26: Thomas PASK, (1772-1803) Brockley, Suffolk #3874 
• Chart 34: Philip PASK, (1771-1843) lived in Bryngwyn, Monmouthshire #4977
• Chart 35: James PASK, (1807-1889) Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk #891
• Chart 49: Unknown PASK (c1695-) who lived in Dingestow, and Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire #17418  
• Chart 51: Joseph PASK lived in Wisbech Cambridgeshire in 1840-1860 #8861

Website Update 10 May 2020

59 new narratives have been added, and 46 changed, since the last website update on 12 April. There are now a total of 13,029 detailed narratives available on the website and 20,692 people (105 new) in our database.

These changes relate to the following surnames:

PASK, and
ADAMS, BORCHARDT, BOWYER, CANNON, CLEMENTS,
EDEN, FRIEND, GAME, GRIFFITHS, HAND, HEARD, HILL,
JACKSON, KEY, LAMBE, LUKE, MASSEY, MERCER,
MOULDS, NICHOLLS, PROCKTER, REED, RILEY,
ROBINSON, ROSE, SHREEVE, SWINTON, THRESHER,
TURNER, VAUGHAN, WANSTALL, WARREN, WESTON,
WIDDRINGTON, WILSON.

These updates relate to the following charts/family groups:

• Chart 01: Lincolnshire Main Progenitor - John PASK, (c1520 - 1591) he lived in Washingborough, Lincolnshire
• Chart 06: Unknown PASK lived in Suffolk 
• Chart 10: Essex Main Progenitor - John PASK, (1771-1847) Thundersley, Essex #2493
• Chart 35: James PASK, (1807-1889) Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk  
• Chart 51: Joseph PASK lived in Wisbech Cambridgeshire in 1840-1860 #8861
• Chart 56: Daniel PASKE born 1776 Moulton Suffolk #13899  
• Chart 85: August L. Pask lived in Wisconsin, USA #21212

A full list of the recent changes to the narratives is available in the Recent Updates section.

Website Updated 12 April 2020

24 new narratives have been added, and 29 changed, since the last website update on 16 January. There are now a total of 12,970 detailed narratives available on the website and 20,587 people (25 new) in our database. 

These changes relate to the following surnames:

PASK, PASKE, and
BROWN, CAMPBELL, CURTIS,  FULLER, HALL, HELMS, HILL, JACKSON, JOLLY, KINSEY, LANG, MANGAN, PARKER, PARTINGTON, PATTERSON, QUANTRILL, ROSE, STEWART,
THRESHER, TINSLEY, TURNER, WALKER, WHEATLEY, and WILSON

These updates relate to the following charts/family groups:

• Chart 01: Lincolnshire Main Progenitor - John PASK, (c1520 - 1591) he lived in Washingborough, Lincolnshire
• Chart 02-1 John PASK, eldest son of Suffolk Main Progenitor - John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow #3372 
• Chart 02-2: Daniel Pask, second son of John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow
• Chart 06: Unknown PASK lived in Suffolk 
• Chart 09: John PASKE, was a Yeoman of Stradishall, Suffolk (d1577 ) #1600
• Chart 14: William PASK, (1791-1874) from Caythorpe & Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire #745 
• Chart 35: James PASK, (1807-1889) Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk  
• Chart 51: Joseph PASK lived in Wisbech Cambridgeshire in 1840-1860 #8861 

A full list of the recent changes to the narratives is available in the Recent Updates section.

Website Updated 23 April 2019

7 new narratives have been added, and 26 changed, since the last website update on 24 March. There are now a total of 12,749 detailed narratives available on the website and 20,360 people (134 new) in our database.

These changes relate to the following surnames:

PASK, and
BAKER, CRAGIN, HARRISON, MARLOW, ORME, PRICE, QUANTRILL, ROWLAND, THRESHER, TURNER and WEBER.

These updates relate to the following charts / family groups:

• Chart 01: Lincolnshire Main Progenitor - John PASK, (c1520 - 1591) he lived in Washingborough, Lincolnshire
• Chart 02-2: Daniel Pask, second son of John & Mirabel Pask née Sparrow
• Chart 04: Monmouthshire Main Progenitor: Isaac PASK, (c1705 - ) lived in Llanvihangel-ystern-Llewern, Monmouthshire #3687
• Chart 06: Unknown PASK lived in Suffolk  
• Chart 34: Philip PASK, (1771-1843) lived in Bryngwyn, Monmouthshire #4977
• Chart 35: James PASK, (1807-1889) Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk #891
• Chart 51: Joseph PASK lived in Wisbech Cambridgeshire in 1840-1860 #8861

A full list of the recent changes to the narratives is available in the Recent Updates section.

Update to 25th Elgin Cemetery Walk

This information relates to Chart 51, the descendants of John & Mary Pask née Hammond who lived in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire in the 1840-1860s.

Through www.findagrave.com, I contacted Anna who has advised me that there are several other Pask buried at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin. She has provided this photograph.

Additionally she provided a link to an excellent Youtube video of the 25th Elgin Cemetery Walk.  Brilliant!

The power of the internet.

Elgin Cemetery Walk - Francis Joseph Pask

This information relates to Chart 51, the descendants of John & Mary Pask née Hammond who lived in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire in the 1840-1860s.

Just recently through Google Alerts, we were notified of the 25th Elgin Cemetery Walk by Dave Gathman from the Elgin Courier News in Illinois, USA. Dave reported:

"The cemetery walk is put on each year in Bluff City Cemetery as a fundraiser for the Elgin Area Historical Society. Actors who volunteer to re-create each person and have researched that person’s life dress up as the person would have looked, stand at the real person’s grave and speak for five to seven minutes about the life of the person whose remains lie below. Tour groups move from one such gravesite to the next...
...One couple being portrayed, Francis “Shanty” Pask and his mother, Maryann Pask, had a life story so odd that it once was featured in the nationally syndicated comic strip “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” in 1941. "

Having read the detailed account I decided to identify where his mother Mary Ann originated from.

Mary Ann Pask née Lamming, immigrated together with her husband William Pask, departing from Liverpool on the "Constellation" arriving in New York on 13 April 1854. They settled in Elgin, Kane County, Illinois, USA. I found the family listed in the 1860 through to the 1940 censuses. William was listed initially as a Farmer, and then a Gardener. They had six children:

• Mariah A. Pask b. 1854
• George Lamming Pask b. 7 Jul 1856, d. 24 Oct 1927
• Elizabeth Pask b. 1858
• Francis "Frank" Joseph Pask b. 1860, d 6 Jun 1940 - known as "Shanty"
• Lottie J. Pask b. 1862
• Julia Pask b. 1864

William was born in 1828 in Moulton, Lincolnshire. He was the son of Joseph & Mary Pask née Hammond.

William married Mary Ann Lamming in 1850 in the Glanford Brigg registration district. In the census of 30 March 1851 in Howsham, Lincolnshire, he was listed as a Rail Labourer, aged 23 born in Moulton Egate [Moulton Eaugate], the son-in-law of George Lambing. 

William died in Elgin, between 1880 and 1900. Mary Ann died on 18 October 1919, and is buried in Bluff City Cemetery. Her son Francis after being paralyzed by spinal damage in 1913, died on 6 June 1940, having spent 27 years in hospital.

The Elgin Cemetery Walk was well attended, as reported by Tara García Mathewson from the Daily Herald.

Up-to-date information on this family will be available in the next website update.      

Chart 51 - Descendants of Joseph & Mary Pask

This information relates to Chart 51, the descendants of John & Mary Pask who lived in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire in the 1840-1860s.

A new chart will be available in the next update - Chart 51. Whilst this is a small chart, it contains seven generations. We have compiled it in the hope of identifying where Joseph originated from, and his link to one of the major trees.

From the 1851 census for Hooks Drove, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, Joseph was listed as aged 65 born in Thorney, the Head of Household. He was living together with his wife Mary, who was born in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. She died in 1853 in the Wisbech registration district, and Joseph died in 1859.

We are trying to establish when they married (c1825), and what Mary's maiden name was.

Their only son John married Emily Liquorice on 17 July 1861 in St. Mary, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. John & Emily have currently 14 known descendants.

This information will be included in the next website update.