Christmas With Jane Austen | Part One | Attitudes To Christmas Kate Hurst Family History Research 2026-09-22 | Christmas With Jane Austen | Part One | Attitudes To Christmas
Dr. Chews Asylum at Billington | Part Two Kate Hurst Family History Research 2025-09-14 | The second part of my investigation into the Lunatic Asylum at Billington is long overdue, but with all the background work complete, the time to return to the Chew family has finally come.In 1769, at just twenty-two years old, Abraham Chew took over the management of what he later would call his house “for the reception of Lunatics”, but this tiny detail was only one aspect of his life. Abraham’s story led me down a path filled with Yorkshire churches, evidence that several of his patients were buried outside the same church where his children were baptised, official reports into the care he offered at the Asylum, and even a few clues that the pastimes he enjoyed out of working hours might have allowed him to indulge in a diet that wasn’t especially good for his health . . .RESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOHeld at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire:Will of James Chew, surgeon of Billington, 1 April 1769 [document reference - WCW/Supra/C465B/7]Draft Will of Robert Parker of Dunnah the Elder, of the parish of Slaidburn, 16 April 1779 [document reference - DDKW Box 3/4]Report of visitation to Mr. Abraham Chew’s house for insane persons at Billington, 8 November 1780 [microfilm reference - QSP/2124/2]Will and Codicil of Abraham Chew, surgeon of Billington, 24 July 1800 [document reference - WCW/Supra/C585A/7]From www.familysearch.org [free to access; log-in required]"England, Yorkshire, Bishop's Transcripts, 1547-1957", FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68ZH-CQW5 : Fri Mar 08 12:14:08 UTC 2024).Marriage entry for Abraham Chew and Jane Parker, 22 October 1769.The Registers of St. Andrew’s Church, Slaidburn 1771-1837; 1771-1852 (1998; transcribed by Chris Spencer and Reg Postlethwaite) [printed book]From the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website www.lan-opc.org.uk [free to access]:Burial registers for St. Leonard’s Church, LanghoMarriage registers for St. Mary the Virgin, BlackburnFrom the British Newspaper Archive - www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [subscription required]:Manchester Mercury, 2 January 1787, pg.2Manchester Mercury, 10 November 1789, pg.2Manchester Mercury, 23 October 1792, pg.2Manchester Mercury, 8 October 1793, pg.2Manchester Mercury, 17 October 1797, pg.3Manchester Mercury, 24 September 1799, pg.2 Chester Courant, 29 September 1795, pg.3Manchester Mercury, 22 July 1800, pg.1andrewsgen.com/matlock/lists/c18thlists_1785gameslists.htm - for information about the Game Acts (1784 and 1785) [accessed 21 April 2025]www.measuringworth.com - for calculating the modern value of game certificate costs [accessed 21 April 2025]thornber.net/medicine/html/medgloss.html - for the medical definition of gout [accessed 30 April 2025]Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), 1995, Penguin Classics edition
1826 Lancashire Weavers Uprising | 199th Anniversary Commemoration Kate Hurst Family History Research 2025-05-10 | On Sunday 27th April 2025, a commemorative event was held at Chatterton, near Ramsbottom, to mark the 199th anniversary of the 1826 Lancashire Weavers’ Uprising. This video has been created simply to document the events of the day.Special thanks go to the Ramshackle Wailers, Water Village Band and Wigan True Levellers Community Samba Band for giving permission to include their music in this video.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchThe Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee Facebook Group can be found at: facebook.com/groups/977514889635484The Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee website -weavers-uprising.org.uk
Dr. Chews Asylum at Billington | Part One Kate Hurst Family History Research 2025-04-28 | Reading through historic church registers can be incredibly distracting, leading you to discover aspects of local history that you never knew about; in this case, it created a curious link between my own school days and what was described on a nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey map - very bluntly - as a “Lunatic Asylum”.In the first part of what I hope will be a short series, I’m investigating the identity of the mysterious “Dr. Chew”, his possible connections to the village of Langho and the town of Great Harwood, and his immediate family members . . . with some unexpected help from the first Librarian in Blackburn!This video is only the beginning . . .To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOSourced from the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website - www.lan-opc.org.uk Burial registers for St. Leonard’s Church, LanghoBaptism and burial registers for St. Bartholomew’s Church, Great HarwoodBaptism registers for St. Mary the Virgin, BlackburnFrom the Lancashire Archives online catalogue - archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview Conveyance concerning Dorathy Chew, widow of Poulton and Edward Chew, yeoman of Billington, February 1722/23 [document reference - DDO/6/50]maps.nls.uk/view/102343928 - 1848 Ordnance Survey map for Billington, Henthorn, Langho, Mitton, Whalley and surrounding areas [accessed 22 March 2025]cottontown.org/Culture%20and%20Leisure/Libraries/Pages/Librarians.aspx#4[accessed 22 March 2025]hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/25-6-Abram.pdf - digitised edition of “A History of the Township of Billington, in the Parish of Blackburn, Co. Lancaster: Its Ancient Families, Lords, and Freeholders; With an An Account of the Parochial Chapel and Chapelry of Langho” (1873) [accessed 22 March 2025]nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/manors - Definition of a mediaeval manor [accessed 26 April 2025]historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1362340 - Historic England listing for Potter Ford Farmhouse, Billington [accessed 26 March 2025]Will of James Chew, surgeon of Billington, 1 April 1769 [document reference - WCW/Supra/C465B/7; held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire]measuringworth.com - for calculating the modern value of bequests in James Chew’s will of 1769yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/messuage - Definition of a messuage [accessed 26 April 2025] All images in this video were taken by Kate Hurst; some have been altered using filters in my video creation software, but all are an accurate representation of real scenes photographed by me.
A Pre-1841 Challenge | Researching Regency Publicans In York Kate Hurst Family History Research 2025-01-27 | In England and Wales, census records are fairly essential for tracing ancestors and other family members who were alive before 1921, but what happens when you find clues that an ancestor existed but all the evidence is telling you that they lived, worked and died before the first “useful” census was taken in June 1841? Is that as far as your research can ever go, or can you build up an impression of your relative’s life using other resources?Over several years, armed only with his name and occupation (as stated on his daughter’s 1847 marriage certificate), and half a dozen entries found in church registers in York city centre, I’ve delved into all sorts of different historical records to piece together an idea of the life my 4xgreat-grandfather lived in early nineteenth century York, maturing from a bit of a daredevil to a familiar face in his local community.And it all started with a long weekend in York! To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOFrom the British Newspaper Archive www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [subscription required]:York Herald, 7 May 1803York Herald, 21 April 1810York Herald, 14 December 1810Dublin Observer, 26 February 1832From www.ancestry.co.uk [subscription required]:UK Poll Books and Electoral Registers 1538-1893yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/ale-draper [accessed 28 October 2024]From the England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 collection on www.familysearch.org [free to access; log-in required]:Baptism Registers for St. Denys with St. George’s Church, YorkBaptism Registers for St. Margaret’s Church, YorkBaines’ History, Directory & Gazeteer of the County of York, Vol.2, 1823 (pp.128-129)Pigot’s Directory of Yorkshire, Part Two, 1828-1829 (pp.1139-1140)specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/232396[accessed 27 October 2024]maps.nls.uk/view/231287106 [accessed 27 October 2024]Sheet Map of York (no. 12), surveyed 1851 and published 1852 From www.thegenealogist.co.uk [subscription required]:Pigot and Co.’s National Commercial Directory of Yorkshire, 1834 (pp.525-526)Death certificate of John Dunning, aged 58, registered December quarter 1838, York registration districtherbalhistory.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rudys-List-of-Archaic-Medical-Terms-1.pdf [accessed 27 October 2024]http://www.kirkcudbright.co/historyarticle.asp?ID=349 [accessed 15 January 2025]All images in this video were taken by Kate Hurst; some have been altered using filters in my video creation software, but all are an accurate representation of real scenes photographed by me.
Betty Uptons Story | 2024 Weavers Uprising Commemoration Kate Hurst Family History Research 2024-05-08 | For the past couple of years, I’ve been assisting Dr. David Gordon Scott with some research into a series of incidents that took place in East Lancashire in spring 1826. Long known as a series of “riots”, these events are now being re-examined and re-evaluated, with a view to marking the Weavers’ Uprising Bicentenary in April 2026. Using newspaper archives to Investigate the militia’s armed response to starving weavers breaking looms at Chatterton, near Ramsbottom, brought the death of one man to life in startling detail. On 26 April 1826, James Whatacre’s death was unusual; an inquest declared that he’d been wilfully murdered by unknown soldiers, and died in the house of a young widow named Betty Upton. Her evidence was reported in contemporary newspapers that offered me just enough information to tell her story.After I was invited to tell Betty’s story at the 198th anniversary commemoration by the Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee on 28 April 2024, a video version was suggested. In turn, that gave me the inspiration to find out what happened to her after 1826.Timestamps00:10 Introduction 07:28 Betty Upton’s Story15:06 Betty in the Historical Records20:49 A Wife and Mother25:10 What Came Next? Betty’s Life after 1826To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchThe Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee Facebook Group can be found at: facebook.com/groups/977514889635484 RESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOmaps.nls.uk/view/229917168 [accessed 30 April 2024]1846 Street Plan of Haslingden showing location of King Street Wesleyan Chapelwalsinghammethodist.com/why-is-this-chapel-so-special/king-street-wesleyan-haslingden [accessed 30 April 2024]Historical information and images of King Street Wesleyan Chapel, HaslingdenTrade Directory Reprints 1818-1888 for Ramsbottom, Edenfield, Holcombe, Tottington, Walmersley and Shuttleworth (compiled by Andrew A Todd, published August 1986, printed and published by Allen and Todd, 9 Square Street, Ramsbottom)Newspaper archives on microfilm at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire:Preston Chronicle, 15 April 1826, pg.4Preston Chronicle, 22 April 1826, pg.3Sourced via the General Register Office [fee payable for certificate orders]:PDF Death Certificate of Betty Roberts, registered in Bury district (Pilkington subdistrict), June quarter 1859Sourced via The Genealogist website [subscription required]:Baptism registers for King Street Wesleyan Chapel, Haslingden 1851 census for Little Holcombe, Tottington Lower End, Lancashire1841 census for Whitefield, Pilkington, Lancashire1851 census for Bury Road, Whitefield, Pilkington, LancashireSourced via the British Newspaper Archives [subscription required]: Morning Herald, 9 May 1826, pg. 3 Lancaster Gazette, 13 May 1826, pg.3Morning Herald, 1 June 1826, pg. 4Trades Free Press, Sunday 4 June 1826, pg. 13-14Sourced via the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website www.lan-opc.org.uk :Indexed marriage records for St. Mary the Virgin’s Church, BuryIndexed baptism records for Dearden Gate Independent Chapel, HaslingdenIndexed baptism records for Walmsley Chapel Presbyterian Meeting HouseIndexed marriage records for St. Mary the Virgin’s Church, PrestwichIndexed burial records for Edenfield Chapel, EdenfieldSourced via www.familysearch.org [free to view; log-in required]:Marriage registers for St. Mary and St. Denys and St. George’s Church (Manchester Cathedral), Manchester
Stories From The Churchyard | St. Leonards Church, Downham Kate Hurst Family History Research 2024-04-04 | A new addition to my occasional series, Stories from the Churchyard, takes me back to St. Leonard's Church, in Downham near Clitheroe. The location footage was filmed in May 2023, but other work commitments have meant that I haven't been able to tell the stories of some of those resting in the churchyard until now.It turned out to be a great reminder that not everyone who is buried in a graveyard spent their whole life in that locality . . . and that a gravestone can reveal as much about a person's hobbies and interests as a census record can tell you about their address and occupation.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOSourced via the Lancashire Archives online catalogue archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview :DDBR/4/1 - Conveyance concerning Thurstan Duckworth (clerk), John Braddyll, James Odye and Antony Watson of Colcotes, 14 May 1542'Townships: Downham', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, (London, 1911) pp. 552-558. British History Online british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp552-558 [accessed 24 March 2024]oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100428884;jsessionid=25B15DAD444C971ADEE8163BC38C2534 [accessed 22 July 2023]for information on Rose’s Act (1812)measuringworth.com - for calculating the modern value of hay and livestock described in 1863Sourced via the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website www.lan-opc.org.uk :Baptism, marriage and burial registers for St. Leonard’s Church, DownhamMarriage registers for St. Michael’s and All Angels, CrostonBaptism registers for St. Peter’s Church, LiverpoolBaptism registers for St. Mary’s Church, Edge Hill, LiverpoolMarriage registers for St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, ClitheroeSourced via The Genealogist website [subscription required]:1851 census for 29 Spekefield Cottages, West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire1851 census for Hoocliffe, Downham, Lancashire1841 census for Church Bank, Church, near Accrington, Lancashire1861 Census for Hoocliff, Downham, Lancashire1871 Census for Hoocliffe, Downham, Lancashire1881 Census for Hoocliff, Downham, Lancashire1851 census for Downham, Lancashire1861 Census for 50 Village, Downham, Lancashire1871 Census for West Lane End, Downham, LancashireSourced via www.lancashirebmd.org.uk :Indexed death registration of Agnes Robinson, aged 37, in Clitheroe subdistrict, registered 1849Indexed death registration of Sarah Higson, aged 67, in Clitheroe subdistrict, registered 1881Sourced via the British Newspaper Archives [subscription required]:Preston Herald, 28 March 1863, pg.7Preston Herald, 16 May 1863, pg.7Sourced via www.familysearch.org [free to view; log-in required]:Baptism registers for St. Ambrose’s Church, Grindleton (part of the England, Yorkshire, Bishop’s Transcripts 1574-1957 collection)
Ormskirk Mediaeval Festival 2023 | Ormskirk Parish Churchyard Walk Kate Hurst Family History Research 2023-11-12 | A long overdue compilation of moments - and pitched battles - from the Ormskirk Mediaeval Weekend in May 2023, followed by a wander through time in the churchyard surrounding the Anglican parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul, featuring some seemingly ordinary gravestones that lead to Kirkcaldy in Scotland, Habergham Eaves in east Lancashire and across the Atlantic to Canada . . .This is time-travel in more than one sense!To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOhttp://www.william.gould.bibso.com/William%20Gould.pdfA link to June Bibby's article on William Gould (1735-1812)From the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website www.lan-opc.org.uk:Baptism, marriage and burial registers for St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Ormskirk, LancashireSourced via www.thegenealogist.co.uk [subscription required]:1871 census for Shop Lane, Maghull, Lancashire1881 census for 142 Sandy Gate, Habergham Eaves, Lancashire1891 census for Birch Street, Southport, Lancashire1861 census for St. Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire1881 census for 5 St. Helens Road, Ormskirk, LancashireMUSIC FROM THE YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARYYonder Hill And Dale, Aaron Kenny, February 2018In The Temple Garden, Aaron Kenny, August 2020
The Terrible Fire At Lydiate | 25 April 1894 Kate Hurst Family History Research 2023-08-19 | Our Lady’s Roman Catholic Church, on Hall Lane, Lydiate, Merseyside has been a significant venue in my family’s history for several generations. Dozens of my relations were baptised, married and buried there - although not all of them have gravestones.In July 2023, I visited Our Lady’s Church for the first time in several years, where I noticed the grave of three members of the Liptrot family, and remembered the story of my great-grandad’s cousin Margaret Whalley. Margaret was unusually difficult to trace on the census records, until a chance find in some digitised newspaper archives led me to discover exactly what she and the Liptrots experienced on one terrible night in the spring of 1894.How well this story is known today, I do not know, but I believe that it’s worth sharing, in memory of the four people who lost their lives that night, and to acknowledge the bravery of those who tried to save them.I hope it proves that your family history research can be brought to life, simply by taking the time to look beyond census records.POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE CONTENTThe story told in this video involves the death of four people (including a toddler) and some descriptions of the event that were considered appropriate to publish in late nineteenth century. You may wish to use your own discretion before watching it, or allowing children to watch it.Sourced via the British Newspaper Archives (subscription required):Ormskirk Advertiser, 17 March 1949, pg. 5Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 26 April 1894, pg. 8Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, Thursday 26 April 1894, pg.3 Irish Independent, Thursday 26 April 1894, pg.6 Newcastle Journal, Thursday 26 April 1894, pg.5Ormskirk Advertiser, 3 May 1894, pg.3 and pg.5Sourced via The Genealogist website (subscription required):1891 census - Canal Bank, Bells Lane, Lydiate, Lancashire1911 census for Canal Bank, Fir Grove Lane, Lydiate1891 census for Sandy Lane Farm, Lydiate, Lancashire1911 census for Plex Lane, Halsall, Lancashire1939 Register for Willow Hey, Maghull, Lancashire1939 Register for Model House Farm, Halsall, LancashireParish registers for Our Lady’s Roman Catholic Church, Lydiate are held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire.Unless otherwise stated, all dates of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial are sourced from my personal family history research. All family tree diagrams and photography by Kate Hurst.
A Coronation Walk Through Time In Clitheroe Kate Hurst Family History Research 2023-06-30 | On 6 May 2023, I set out for what turned out to be a fairly rainy walk through Clitheroe, in east Lancashire, determined to capture a few images of the shop windows that had been decorated to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III . . . but sometimes, historic moments make historians curious, so I started to dig into the town’s past. Clitheroe is a very old town, but a chance discovery of an 1840s town plan on the National Library of Scotland’s Historic Maps website quickly revealed that - during the early Victorian period - certain streets in the town looked completely different.Join me for a walk through time to discover more about vanished Methodist chapels, two long-gone inns with confusingly similar names, and a newspaper report featuring some very significant errors about the Royal Family. Along the way, we’ll also meet the family of a doctor whose burial site remains a mystery (for now) and a surprising number of people residing in Harris Court in 1851, before ending with a case study that centres on an address on Wellgate.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEO1844 Town Plan for Clitheroe, located using the National Library of Scotland Historic Maps websitemaps.nls.uk/view/229913811 [accessed 14 May 2023]Sourced via www.thegenealogist.co.uk [subscription required]:Baines’ History, Directory and Gazetteer of Lancaster (Vol.1, 1825, pg.615) [accessed 14 May 2023]1841 census for Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for Harris Court, Clitheroe, Lancashire1861 census for Red Lion Buildings, Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1871 census for 24 Wellgate, Clitheroe, Lancashire1871 census for 28 Wellgate, Clitheroe, Lancashire1881 census for 24 Wellgate, Clitheroe, Lancashire1891 census for 24 Wellgate, Clitheroe, Lancashire1901 census for 24 Wellgate, Clitheroe, Lancashire1911 census for 24 Wellgate, Clitheroe, Lancashire1939 Register for 24 Wellgate, Clitheroe, LancashireHistoric England official list entry for 13-19 Castle Street, Clitheroehistoricengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1072370?section=official-list-entry [accessed 14 May 2023]Historic England official list entry for 11 Castle Street, Clitheroehistoricengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1362212?section=official-list-entry [accessed 14 May 2023]Historic England official list entry for 3 and 5 Church Street, Clitheroehistoricengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1072377 [accessed 26 May 2023]Sourced via the British Newspaper Archive britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [subscription required]:Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 12 July 1946, pg.4Manchester Times, 25 October 1834, pg.2Preston Chronicle, 20 April 1839, pg. 3Sourced via the Lancashire Archives online catalogue at archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview [accessed 29 May 2023]:Will of Wilkinson Baldwin, draper and iron monger of Clitheroe, dated 23 January 1830 [reference number - WCW/Supra/C885/9]Sourced via the Historical Directories section of the University of Leicester Special Collections website specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/318854 [accessed 14 May 2023]: History and Directory of Mid-Lancashire (1854, publisher - P. Mannex, pg.457)Sourced via FamilySearch.org [free to access; login and password required]:England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887 for marriage date of Thomas Baldwin and Elizabeth Wilkinson [accessed 29 June 2023]Sourced via www.lan-opc.org.uk [free to access]:Baptism registers for St. Peter and St. Paul, OrmskirkBaptism, marriage and burial registers for St. Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe
Stories From The Churchyard | St. Wilfrid’s Church, Melling Kate Hurst Family History Research 2023-05-29 | When a work commission took me to St. Wilfrid’s Church, in the village of Melling, near Lancaster, in spring 2023, I couldn’t resist lingering in the churchyard for a little longer, to see whether any of the gravestones would reveal clues about the people whose lives they remembered.That was how I learnt that St. Wilfrid’s is the last resting place of a woman named Lettice, a man who spent twenty seven years as a widower, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire whose daughter died in India, a farmer whose second wife was young enough to be his own daughter, and the schoolmaster who served as the local census enumerator in 1881.To draw things to a conclusion, this edition of Stories From The Churchyard ends with a handful of extracts from the burial register at St. Wilfrid’s that really make you wonder . . .To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOriponcathedral.org.uk/st-wilfrid [accessed 17 May 2023]'The parish of Melling', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1914), pp. 186-191. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol8/pp186-191 [accessed 26 April 2023]Sourced via www.thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription required):1851 census for Wrayton, Melling with Wrayton, Lancashire1851 census for Ingleton Hall, Ingleton, Yorkshire1861 census for Wray House, Wray with Botton, Lancashire1871 census for Egremont, St. Helens, Isle of Wight1881 census for Albion Hotel, Plymouth, DevonshireOverseas Marriage for Edith Jane Marshall, station - Bareilly, year - 1892, page 132Sourced via www.familysearch.org (free to use; log-in required):Marriage registers for St. Helen’s Church, OvertonMarriage registers relating to Thomas Webster and Elizabeth Burrow.England, Lancashire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1746-1799 (relating to Robert Burrow and Elizabeth Guy)Sourced via the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website www.lan-opc.org.uk :Transcribed baptism, marriage and burial registers for St. Wilfrid’s Church, MellingFor birth and death registration indexes relating to the Marshall Family (free to access, but a log-in and password must be created to search the records):gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates For the date of Easter in 1871:timeanddate.com/calendar/?country=9&year=1871 [accessed 28 May 2023]For the date of the 1871 Census:1911census.org.uk/1871 [accessed 28 May 2023]From the British Newspaper Archives (subscription required):Westmorland Gazette (12 January 1856, pg. 5)Lancaster Gazette (1 March 1856, pg.5)Lancaster Guardian (21 November 1857, pg.5)Liverpool Albion (23 November 1857, pg.6)Blackburn Standard (25 November 1857, pg.3)Montrose Review (Scottish paper, 27 November 1857, pg.8)Staffordshire Advertiser (28 November 1857, pg.3)Kendal Mercury (13 August 1859, pg.5)Lancaster Guardian (18 August 1860, pg.5)Lancaster Gazette (17 September 1881, pg.5)Yorkshire Evening Post (21 September 1892, pg.2)
A Victorian Easter with the Preston Chronicle | April 1848 Kate Hurst Family History Research 2023-04-12 | Family history researchers can make use of all kinds of materials, but I have long suspected that most of us have a certain fondness for a particular kind of resource - and newspaper archives are one of my favourites.175 years ago, in 1848, Easter Sunday fell on 23 April. As an exercise, I decided to study an edition of the Preston Chronicle dated 29 April 1848, to see whether I could find out more about early Victorian Easter festivities - and life in general - in my home county of Lancashire.Welcome to a world of tea parties, well-connected fishmongers, aspirational stationery, tea disappearing gooseberry trees . . . and some very shocking behaviour in Coppull!To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOgenuki.org.uk/big/easter [accessed 2 April 2023]historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/smith-john-1802-1871 [accessed 8 April 2023]Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining and EngineeringCharles Tomlinson (1866, Virtue and Company), pg.800books.google.co.uk/books?id=CSJAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP15&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wafers&f=false [accessed 6 April 2023]historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pace-Egging [accessed 9 April 2023]From www.thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription needed to view records):1841 Census for Penwortham Hall, Penwortham Lancashire1851 Census for Wheatley Lane, Barrowford, Lancashire
I’m A Family History Researcher | What Do I Actually Do? Kate Hurst Family History Research 2023-03-17 | If someone told you they worked as a family history researcher, what do you imagine their typical working day to be like? Sitting around browsing the internet all day? Spending hours in the local archives expertly decoding mediaeval documents that no one else can understand? Hiding away behind dusty books that were published when Queen Victoria was on the throne? Or is there another picture in your mind?The past few months has seen me spending dozens of hours carrying out research at my local archives - so I decided to make something of that experience, and tell you about how I prepare for a visit to the archives, what I actually do when I get there and some of the tips and techniques I use to get the most out of my working hours.I’ll also talk about the huge range of resources that are waiting to be explored at any regional archives, how some of the visitor management strategies adopted during the pandemic help me to structure my working week, share some thoughts about why you can’t always just “do your family tree using the internet” . . . and discuss the exciting side of research, too!To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchspecialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4The Historical Directories section of the University of Leicester Special Collections Online site
Christmas Tree Festival 2022 | Chester Cathedral Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-12-27 | December 2022 has turned out to be exceptionally busy for this family history researcher, and - as I’m sure you can appreciate - sometimes research commissions have deadlines that need to be met, which means that making videos has been on the back burner for a few weeks.Even so, at the end of November, I had a free day to meet a friend for a trip to Chester Cathedral to enjoy this year’s Christmas tree festival.As every good social historian knows, churches and cathedrals are excellent places to learn more about noteworthy people from past centuries. With that in mind, I’ve created this very short film featuring some of the Christmas trees and other interesting historical details that the memorial plaques and architectural features inside the Cathedral inspired me to research the building and its connections.To my surprise, I even discovered a memorial to a family with a remarkably similar name to the man who employed my great-great-great-grandad in Anglesey during the 1850s and early 1860s. Maybe an idea for a future video - if I can just establish whether or not the Reverend Bulkeley Williams of Beaumaris and Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams Bulkeley, 10th Baronet Bulkeley of Baron Hill, near Beaumaris are actually related to one another . . . To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOJ S Barrow, J D Herson, A H Lawes, P J Riden and M V J Seaborne, A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 2, the City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions, ed. A T Thacker and C P Lewis (London, 2005), British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol5/pt2 [accessed 27 December 2022].chestercathedral.com/about - a brief summary of Chester Cathedral’s historyNorth Wales Chronicle, 1 October 1859North Wales Chronicle, 24 December 1859 North Wales Chronicle, 6 April 1861All photographs taken by me (except for the picture of me with the Christmas tree at 3.37, which is courtesy of my friend Lisa).
A Trip To Eighteenth Century Bath | Family Historian On Holiday Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-10-12 | For the first time since I set up this channel, life has become so normal again that I’ve been able to do the unthinkable - in September 2022, I escaped from Lancashire and headed to the south-west for a holiday. My destination? Bath, in north east Somerset!Being an enthusiast for all things Regency, I couldn’t help but notice just how many clues a walk around Bath can offer about how people lived, worked and generally enjoyed themselves as it evolved into a highly fashionable spa town during the Georgian period where life was anything but boring.If you’re into architecture, you’ll definitely find something to see in this video. If you’re into social history, perhaps I can interest you in a brief guide to Bath that draws together biscuits, bathing, a seriously expensive, well-known historical figures living side by side at some very famous addresses, the importance of staying on the right side of Richard Nash, the logic behind taking out fire insurance in the 1700s . . . and a very daring elopement?To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO RESEARCH THIS VIDEOlocalhistories.org/a-history-of-bath/#:~:text=Bath%20in%20the%2018th%20century,Bath%20in%20the%2018th%20century - Tim Lambert’s brief overview of the history of Bath, from the Roman period to the presentbathintime.co.uk/image-library/image-overview/poster/15452/posterid/15452.html - an example of an Insurance proposal from the Bath Sun-Fire Office, dated 1767, from the Bath In Time Image Librarybatholiver.com - the Bath Oliver Preservation Society’s websitevisitbath.co.uk/things-to-do/great-pulteney-street-p1704883 - general historical information about Great Pulteney Street1851 census for Great Pulteney Street, Bath, Somersethttp://www.thepeerage.com/p1156.htm#i11551 - details of the family of Caroline Powlett and William Vane, 3rd Duke of Clevelandgeorgianera.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/elizabeth-ann-sheridan-nee-linley - Elizabeth Ann Sheridan nee Linley, article by Sarah Murden, 25 November 2014thebathmagazine.co.uk/duelling-for-the-love-of-eliza - “Duelling for the Love of Eliza”, article by Catherin Pitt
Stories From The Churchyard | St. Mary and All Saints, Whalley | Heritage Open Days 2022 Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-09-06 | It’s early September 2022, which means the Heritage Open Days Scheme is about to begin in England. It seemed like the perfect time to investigate the history and connections of a Lancashire parish church which can claim to be older (in parts) that the ruined Cistercian abbey a few hundred yards away! I’ll begin with some very old attempts to record the name “Whalley” (some are very old and some are quite creative), and find out exactly how extensive the original parish really was, before uncovering hints of some turbulent local activity long before the county of Lancashire ever existed.My walk around the churchyard led me to find some gravestones that were just asking to be investigated further. At first glance, you might not think a savings bank actuary, a house agent, a draper’s clerk, a mantle-maker, a semptress and her timber merchant husband, and a publican could ever have anything in common with a set of sixth-century crosses, but St. Mary and All Saints’ Church, Whalley draws them all together.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchREFERENCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEObritish-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol2/pp131-139 'Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Whalley', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 2, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1908), pp. 131-139. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol2/pp131-139 [accessed 3 September 2022].british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp349-360'The parish of Whalley', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 349-360. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp349-360 [accessed 3 September 2022].british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp381-388'Townships: Whalley', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 381-388. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp381-388 [accessed 28 August 2022].specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/318769 P. Mannex, History and Directory of Mid Lancashire, P. Mannex. 1854 (pg. 371-373), accessed via the University of Leicester Special Collections Onlineforl.co.uk/online-resources/brief-history-of-lancashire - The Friends of Real Lancashire’s short timeline of events in the county’s history, including the first reference to “the county of Lancashire”englandsnortheast.co.uk/northumbria-bernicia-deira - a map showing the extent of Northumbria in the pre-Viking eraFrom the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks site at www.lan-opc.org.uk (free to view):Transcribed baptism, marriage and burial registers for St. Mary and All Saints, WhalleyTranscribed baptism registers for the Collegiate Church, ManchesterFrom www.familysearch.org (free-to-access, log-in required):Baptism registers for Millbrook, Hampshire (from the England, Hampshire Bishops Transcripts 1680-1892 collection)From www.thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription needed to view records):Death registration of Thomas Forthrop Wilson aged 53, Ormskirk registration district, September quarter 18831851 census for the George Inn, 28 Rochdale Road, Manchester, Lancashire1881 census for Upper King Street, North Meols, Lancashire1861 census for 30 Portland Street, Southampton, HampshireThe Jellicoe family tree diagram was drawn by Kate Hurst in 2022.
Primrose Mill, Clitheroe | The Story of Lucy Jane Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-08-03 | Eight months after I began my investigation into the Thomson family of Primrose Mill, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, I am finally drawing it to a conclusion, with the story of Lucy Jane, daughter of Henry Thomson (a younger son of the mill owner) and Martha Read (a domestic servant to Henry’s family), who spent parts of her childhood and adolescence in Manchester and modern-day Merseyside. Like many young women of the mid-Victorian period, Lucy married and had children; in this video, I take a closer look at what some of the details on various census records reveal about her lifestyle, social status and even her psychological condition in later life, before making use of a variety of newspaper extracts, passenger lists and probate records to understand more about the lives and careers of her children, particularly her very adventurous younger sons George and Charles.I would like to express my particular thanks to Eric Parsotam, who contacted me via e-mail in February 2022 to offer some crucial information about Lucy’s middle son George Speyer that I would never otherwise have known.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO CREATE THIS VIDEOFrom the British Newspaper Archive at www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (free to search, subscription needed to view digitised pages):Liverpool Mercury, 28 October 1858Liverpool Albion, 30 April 1860, pg. 18Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 21 January 1869, pg. 2Preston Herald, 10 April 1875, pg. 2Sussex Agricultural Express, 23 January 1904, pg.12From www.thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription needed to view records):1861 census for Westmorland Villas, Huyton, Liverpool, Lancashire1871 census for Moss Grove, Moss Side, Manchester, Lancashire1891 census for 68 Talgarth Road, Fulham, London1901 census for Gephwyafa, Abergele Road, Eirias, Conwy 1911 census for Glan-Y-Don, Old Colwyn, Colwyn Bay, Carnarvonshire1911 census for 12 Mandeville Place, Marylebone, LondonRG34: Worldwide Foreign Marriage Returns 1826-1921 (listed under Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial BMDs; source for Charles Santley Speyer’s marriage)Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Outwards Passenger Lists (BT27) (listed under Passenger Lists) Consular Births (1911-1915, 1916-1920)From the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks site at www.lan-opc.org.uk (free to view):Transcribed baptism registers for St. Mary’s Church, Hulmemaps.nls.uk/view/1021802461888 Ordnance Survey Map of Denbighshire, showing the site of Glan-y-DonFrom www.familysearch.org (free to view):Marriage registers for St. Hilary’s Church, Wallasey, LancashireWorld Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms 1534-1983Canada Passenger Lists 1881-1922From https://trove.nla.gov.au/ (free to view):The Mercury, 19 October 1912, pg. 1Information on changes to the school leaving age in the nineteenth century:parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/school/overview/1870educationactFrom probatesearch.service.gov.uk (free to view):Various extracts from the England and Wales Probate Calendar concerning the Speyer family.
Primrose Mill, Clitheroe | The Read Family Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-07-13 | In December 2021, I thought I had concluded the story of the Thompson family who operated Primrose Mill in Clitheroe, Lancashire during the first half of the nineteenth century . . . as a family historian, I really should have known better!Not long afterwards, I was contacted by a descendant of Henry Thompson (the mill owner’s eldest son), who offered the intriguing information that Henry had a daughter, born in the mid-1840s. Confused by the fact that Henry, his spouse Martha Read and their daughter Lucy were impossible to find on the census records, I started investigating - but it took a while to uncover the relevent information.To my great surprise, Henry Thomson and Martha Read (although apparently not social equals) had a few things in common. This video explains how I pieced together the evidence to connect them, Martha’s family background . . . and a little something that I learnt about my own house along the way!To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO CREATE THIS VIDEOFrom www.thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription needed to view records):Tithe Apportionments, 1836-1929 [database online]. TheGenealogist.co.uk 2022; Original data: "IR29 Tithe Commission and successors: Tithe Apportionments" The National Archives1841 census for Bawdlands, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for Bawdlands, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for 14 Queen Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for Russell Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1861 census for 13 Queen Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1861 census for Water Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1861 census for 42 Knowsley Street, Everton, Lancashire1871 census for 27 Queen Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1841 census for Little Moor, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for Primrose, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for Chapman Street, Chorlton, Manchester, LancashireFrom www.familysearch.org (free to view):1851 census for Chapman Street, Chorlton, ManchesterMarriage registers for St. Hilary’s Church, WallaseyFrom the British Newspaper Archive at www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (free to search, subscription needed to view digitised pages):From the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks site at www.lan-opc.org.uk (free to view):Transcribed baptism, marriage and burial registers for St. Mary Magdalene, ClitheroeTranscribed baptism registers for the Collegiate Church, ManchesterAll family tree diagrams drawn by Kate Hurst
A Brief History of Clitheroes Shops | Platinum Jubilee Virtual Tour Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-06-14 | In early June 2022, I went into Clitheroe with a camera, intending to document the way that the different businesses had decided to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, but what began as a simple plan to capture a moment in local history began to evolve into something else.With a bit of help from census records, old Ordnance Survey maps, trade directories and even the odd newspaper, I attempt to explore a bit of the history behind the shops and businesses on Moor Lane, Castle Gate, Castle Street and King Street, before taking the scenic route home and ending up near a location that I’ve mentioned in several previous videos.To find out more about my family history work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO MAKE THIS VIDEOhttp://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/278585 - History, Topography, and Directory of Mid-Lancashire, with an essay on geology (Mannex & Co., 1854, p.453-459)From britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (subscription required):Clitheroe Advertiser, 23 March 1900, p.6 -7Manchester Mercury, 13 March 1764, p.3Manchester Mercury, 21 November 1797, p.5Lancaster Gazette, 10 July 1819, pg.615Resources from www.thegenealogist.co.uk -1891 census for 40 and 42 Moor Lane, Clitheroe, Lancashire1891 census for 1 Moor Lane, Clitheroe, Lancashire1901 census for 5 Moor Lane, Clitheroe, Lancashire1861 census for Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1861 census for Moor Lane, Clitheroe, Lancashire1901 census for 10 Castle Gate, Clitheroe, Lancashire1891 census for Eshton Villas, West View, Clitheroe, Lancashire1901 census for Eshton Villas, West View, Clitheroe, Lancashire1881 census for 26 Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1901 census for 26 Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1911 census for 26 Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1871 census for 31 Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1881 census for 31 Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1881 census for 10 and 12 King Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1901 census for 14 and 16 King Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1891 census for 14 and 16 King Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1901 census for 15 and 17 King Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1911 census for 15 and 17 King Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1901 census for Victoria Street, Clitheroe, LancashireHistory, Directory and Gazetteer of Lancashire, Volume 1 (1824, author - Edward Baines, publisher Wm. Wales and Co, Liverpool, p.608-616)britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101072366-4-12-castle-street-clitheroe#.YqJOF-zMK7Y - information from Historic England about numbers 4-12 Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashirelancashirecc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=28466a7354574ebf952e6a8a6f909577 - Lancashire County Council MARIO Map Viewer Reference to an assorted box of documents held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, including accounts for the Swan, Clitheroe (1749-1757) and a list of landlords (1773-1876); reference number DDX 28/2nd deposit/19 [located via archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview]www.lan-opc.org.uk - Transcribed parish registers for St. Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe sourced via the Lancashire Online Parish Clerk websitemaps.nls.uk/view/102343904 - National Library of Scotland’s Ordnance Survey Map of Clitheroe (published 1847)maps.nls.uk/view/126516269 - National Library of Scotland’s Ordnance Survey Map of Clitheroe (surveyed 1910, published 1912)
Adventures at the Ormskirk Mediaeval Weekend 2022 Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-05-20 | An interest in family history can take many forms - internet searches, talking to relatives, and spending hours in the local archives are just three ways that you can learn more about your ancestors.My day-to-day work involves carrying out research for other people who (for whatever reason) aren’t able to visit archives in north-west England for themselves, but some years ago I became involved with a family history society that covers the area of West Lancashire where many of my paternal ancestors lived and died, and I’ve been helping them out at public events ever since.May 2022 brought the return of the Ormskirk Mediaeval Festival, which has given me two perfect excuses to make this video - not only can I give you a glimpse into a very popular weekend (courtesy of the Historia Normannis re-enactment group) I can also offer a brief tour of the extensive churchyard around the famous St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Ormskirk. You’ll even get a chance to see the tower and spire!SOURCES REFERENCE TO MAKE THIS VIDEO'Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Burscough', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 2, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1908), pp. 148-152. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol2/pp148-152 [accessed 20 May 2022].'The parish of Ormskirk: Introduction, church and charities', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 238-246. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp238-246 [accessed 20 May 2022].ALL MUSIC FROM THE YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARYAngelic Forest, Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions, November 2014Yonder Hill And Dale, Aaron Kenny, February 2018Cantus Firmus Monks, Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions, November 2014To find out more about my family history work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearch
Sense and Sensibility | A Family Historian’s View | The Brandon Family Tree Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-04-21 | To round off my series on Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, I’m investigating possibly the most nebulous family to feature in the book. On the surface, you might think that there just isn’t enough information in the text to map out Colonel Brandon’s family tree . . . but dig a little bit deeper and it’s surprising what you can learn about this younger son with no defined first name.This video will see me attempt to work out how many siblings the Colonel has, and pick out the clues that suggest that some of them married, before investigating the background to why the thirty-something Colonel is still unmarried at the beginning of the novel, in spite of the fact that his estate - Delaford - is really very desirable!I’ll offer a few suggestions for those who might be trying to trace their families in eighteenth century British India, explain why the Colonel returns to England to find his first love living in a debtors’ prison, and go further back in time in an attempt to answer that big question - was duelling illegal in Regency England, or was it an acceptable way for gentlemen to settle personal differences?Finally, I’ll end on a literary note, with some thoughts about why I think Colonel Brandon and Marianne Dashwood have the potential to be a good match as husband and wife.To find out more about my family history work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO CREATE THIS VIDEOJane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), 1995, Penguin Classicsnationaltrust.org.uk/canons-ashby/projects/restoring-the-medieval-stew-ponds-at-canons-ashby - an explanation of the purpose of a stewpondjaneausten.co.uk/blogs/jane-austen-life/eliza-de-feuillide-jane-austens-outlandish-cousin - a brief biography of Jane Austen’s cousin Eliza Hancock The Army List for March 1788, pg.333 [sourced via www.thegenealogist.co.uk] britishempire.co.uk/forces/20thlightdragoons.htm - information about the history of the 20th Light Dragoonsfibis.org - the website of the Families In British India Societyhttps://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=879&s_id=340 - Families In British India Society index to Officers of the Bengal Army 1758-1834 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp937-939'June 1654: An Ordinance Against Challenges, Duels, and all Provocations thereunto.', in Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, ed. C H Firth and R S Rait (London, 1911), pp. 937-939. British History Online [accessed 18 April 2022].All family trees and illustrations were created by Kate Hurst.
Sense and Sensibility | A Family Historian’s View | The Steeles, Middletons and Jennings Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-03-29 | Most of the family groups in Jane Austen’s 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility are easy to map out, but one collection of relatives are a little bit more complex.Using the clues in the text, I will try to to work out how Sir John Middleton and his wife (the former Mary Jennings) are related to Anne and Lucy Steele, and I’ll explore exactly how tenuous their connection is. I’ll investigate a few casual references that reveal more about the social status of Mrs. Jennings and her late husband, explain exactly what the novel meant when it described her as a widow with an “ample jointure” (and how that differed from a dower), and draw some comparisons between their family and the Bingleys of Pride and Prejudice.I’ll look at some examples that show how the vague details of Charlotte Palmer’s pregnancy, lying-in period and the newspaper announcement of her son’s birth reflect the real-life conventions relating to childbirth in the Regency period, and how this subplot actually serves to work out which years Jane Austen may have chosen to set the novel in.In the final section of the video, I turn detective to try to work out how the many relatives mentioned by Anne and Lucy Steele might fit into their family tree, use information that the characters share about the occupations of those family members to make some deductions about the level of education they were able to offer their children, and investigate why Anne Steele’s seemingly inane chatter about the eligible “beaux” she has met actually reveals a lot about her family’s understanding of their place in wider society.To find out more about my family history work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOJane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), 1995, Penguin Classicsdictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dower - a definition of a dowercollinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/jointure - a definition of a jointuredr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/easter-date-tables.html?century=18 - source for Easter Sunday dates in 1796, 1797 and 1798theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=97655 - source for information about the original location of Bartlett’s Buildings, Holborn and its destruction during World War Twomeasuringworth.com - for a calculation of the present-day value of the money that Mrs. Jennings gives to Anne SteeleAll family trees and illustrations were created by Kate Hurst.
Sense and Sensibility | A Family Historians View | The Ferrars Family Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-03-15 | For the third part of my series on Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, Sense and Sensibility, I’ve decided to concentrate on the Ferrars family, and they’ve turned out to be more interesting that I first realised!By cross-referencing apparently minor events described in the novel, I’ll investigate the details that tell us more about the late Mr. Ferrars, the clues that suggest that he made a will before he died and what it reveals about his attitude to his long-serving servants.I’ll piece together some evidence about exactly how wealthy the family are, offer suggestions about why Mrs. Ferrars might have been in a position to give either of her sons a piece of property in Norfolk, why the description of that estate is of interest to family history researchers and explain why it’s so outrageous that she gives her daughter £200 in bank notes.I’ll try to work out which order the three Ferrars children were born in, why Edward Ferrars felt obliged to honour his engagement to Lucy Steele even after they’d grown apart, and explore some options that might have generated a little extra money for Edward after he decided to become a clergyman. Finally, I concentrate on what Robert Ferrars reveals about his relatives, the way that his education was different to his brother Edward’s tuition, and why his superior attitude might have prevented him from seeing what Lucy Steele really hoped to gain from marriage into the family.To find out more about my family history work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOJane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), 1995, Penguin Classicscommonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04817 - information about the Old Age Pensions Act (1908)moneyadviceservice.org.uk/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-keep-a-dog - information about the average cost of owning a dog in the UKmeasuringworth.com/datasets/interestrates/result.php - online calculator used to determine UK interest rates in the 1790sroyalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/richard-cruttwell-1 - biographical details about Richard Cruttwell (bookseller, printer and newspaper proprietor) of Bath, SomersetThe following extracts were sourced via www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [subscription required]:The Derby Mercury, 31 August 1797, pg.3Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 25 August 1796, pg.1Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 6 September 1798, pg.2All family trees and illustrations were created by Kate Hurst.
Sense and Sensibility | Painting Barton Cottage Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-03-01 | When studying Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, Sense and Sensibility, I couldn’t help but notice that the text is dotted with all sorts of details about the Dashwoods’ new home at Barton Cottage. Everything from the garden and the entertaining rooms to hints about where their three servants will sleep seems to get a casual mention. Initially, I noted all these details from a social historian’s perspective, but somewhere along the way, I began to look at them in a more artistic sense. So, does Sense and Sensibility offer enough hints about the look of Barton Cottage to give me a chance of creating a watercolour impression of it? You’ll find out in this video diary . . . As a footnote, in no way can I claim to be an accomplished watercolour artist. I’ve recently got back into it, and Barton Cottage became my first larger-scale project. It’s far from perfect, but I hope you enjoy seeing its creation, anyway!To find out more about my family history work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOJane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), 1995, Penguin ClassicsOxford English Dictionarysquarepianos.com/square.html - Square Pianos - A Short History, Michael Cole, February 2021 (including some interesting images of surviving eighteenth-century pianos)All art materials used are from my own supplies.ALL MUSIC FROM THE YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARYDance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, Tchaikovsky, September 2013If You Close Your Eyes, I’m Still With You, Late Night Feeler, December 2018C Major Prelude, Bach, June 2014
Sense and Sensibility | A Family Historians View | Barton Cottage Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-02-15 | In the second part of my series Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, Sense and Sensibility, I investigate some clues in the text that can help us to understand more about the arrangements that would have been made when Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters moved to Barton Cottage, in Devonshire, had they really existed.I’ll consider why the family rented the cottage (rather than buying it), how Mrs. Dashwood’s stepson and his wife are able to calculate that she will have an income of £500 a year, and why the taxation system in late eighteenth-century Britain meant that Elinor Dashwood was sensible to persuade her mother to sell their carriage and horses before leaving their home in Sussex.A few thoughts on why Sir John Middleton built the cottage in the first place are followed by a study of Jane Austen’s description of the various rooms inside and what we can deduce about the rooms that are mentioned in the novel (and also those that aren’t) before heading upstairs for a brief tour of the bedrooms, and ending with my illustrated interpretation of what Barton Cottage may have looked like, had it really existed.To find out more about my family history work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOJane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), 1995 Penguin Classics editionThe Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition, editors - Judy Pearsall and Bill Trumble, Oxford University Press, 1996squarepianos.com/square.html - Square Pianos - A Short History, Michael Cole, February 2021 (including some interesting images of surviving eighteenth-century pianos)Sourced via www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk - Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 6 September 1784, pg. 4 (information about the Horse Tax)Bath Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, 29 December 1796, pg.3The theoretical floor plan of Barton Cottage was created by Kate Hurst in February 2022.The watercolour interpretation of Barton Cottage is my own work, drawn and painted between 22 and 29 January 2022.
Sense and Sensibility | A Family Historian’s View | The Dashwood Family Tree Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-02-01 | In spring 2021, my love of Pride and Prejudice and my passion for family history collided when I challenged myself to re-read Jane Austen’s classic novel as if I was a researcher looking for clues about the family connections between different characters. This year, I’m trying the same approach again . . . with Sense and Sensibility!Using clues from the novel, I’ll explore how the different members of the Dashwood family are related to each other, how the late Henry Dashwood came to inherit Norland Park in Sussex, what might have motived John Dashwood (Henry’s son and heir) to enclose Norland Common and what that may have meant for his poorest tenants.I’ll draw comparisons with personal research into my own family history to work out what the widowed Mrs. Dashwood actually inherits from her husband, and make some deductions about why she chose to transport the items to her new home by water, rather than over land.Dotted through the video, you’ll also find charts to show how I think the Dashwood family tree evolved over time. To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO CREATE THIS VIDEOJane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), 1995, Penguin ClassicsOxford Journal, 14 December 1799, pg.4 [located via www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk, subscription required]measuringworth.com - for a calculation of the present-day value of Fanny Dashwood’s dowryparliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/landscape/overview/enclosingland - A short history of enclosing land in the United Kingdom, with a description of the system John Dashwood might have used to enclose Norland Commonbrightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/history/short-history-of-the-royal-pavilion - Brighton Museums’ brief guide to the history of the Royal Pavilion, BrightonThe will of James Leigh, gentleman, of Lowton, Lancashire, 13 October 1791 [held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire]All family trees and illustrations were created by Kate Hurst.
A Family History Researchers Bookcase Tour Kate Hurst Family History Research 2022-01-11 | If memory serves me well, 2022 marks my tenth year as a family history researcher - but what actually makes someone turn to that career path in their mid-to-late twenties?I had no idea, in the mid-1990s, that a passion for general British history (in particular, anything concerning the Tudors) would evolve from a curiosity about the monarchs of past centuries into an enthusiasm for social history, blended with a bit of English literature, that set me off on researching my own family tree before I decided to dive in, and try to help other people with their ancestors.From one angle, this is a brief tour of the bookcase you’ll see in many of my videos. Look at it from a different way, and I’ll tell you how it all started!If you'd like to know more about my day-to-day work, feel free to visit my website:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchFacebook page - facebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchBOOKS REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO(some may be out of print)The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Antonia Fraser, George Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1992)Kings and Queens of Britain (Josephine Ross, Artus Books, 1994 edition)Queen Victoria’s Family: A Century Of Photographs (Charlotte Zeepvat, Sutton Publishing, 2005 edition)Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch (Nicola Tallis, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 2019)The Oxford Guide to Family History (David Hey, Oxford University Press, 1993) Explore Your Family’s Past (editors - John Andrews and Justine Scott-McNab, Readers Digest Association, 2000)The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England (Ian Mortimer, Touchstone, 2008)The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain (Ian Mortimer, The Bodley Head, 2020)The Register of Estates of Lancashire Papists 1717-1788, Volume III, 1717 (editor - R. Sharpe France, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1977)Life In Regency York (Prudence Bebb, Sessions Book Trust, 1992)The Midwives Book, Jane Sharp (editor - Elaine Hobby, Oxford University Press, 1999)The Rake’s Diary: The Journal of George Hilton (transcriber - Anne Hillman, Curwen Archives Trust, 1994)Halsall: The Village Built on a Rock (John Cotterill, Carnegie Publishing, 2000)A History of Scarisbrick (Mona Duggan, Carnegie Publishing, 1996)Manchester and Salford Directory 1788 (reprint by Neil Richardson, 1984) Lacock Abbey (The National Trust, 2003)Lacock TV and Film Location Guide (Ben Smith, undated, D. Allison Design and Print)Jane Austen’s Letters, 3rd Edition (editor - Deirdre Le Faye, Oxford University Press, 1997)Teenage Writings (Jane Austen, Oxford World Classics, 2017)MUSIC FROM THE YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARYInvitation to the Castle Ball, Doug Maxwell, February 2018
Primrose Mill, Clitheroe | The Manchester Connection Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-12-18 | In the final part of my series on the Thompson family of Primrose Mill in Clitheroe, Lancashire, my efforts to investigate the fate of calico printer James Thompson and the lives of his children after his death in 1850 led me to discover a tiny detail on the 1851 census that offered an opportunity to explore another branch of the family, who had connections to Manchester.As I began to research further, I realised that some of the interesting personalities concerned lived and died before the introduction of birth, marriage and death registrations in England and Wales - would that bring the project to an unsatisfactory end, or would it lead me to other interesting resources that allowed me to map out a family tree even when faced with a parish register where nobody recorded any baptisms at all for exactly the years that I needed to prove a theory? The answers are all in this video!RESOURCES USED TO CREATE THIS VIDEOFrom the British Newspaper Archive at www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (free to search, subscription needed to view digitised pages):Preston Chronicle, 19 August 1876, pg.3Preston Herald, 22 November 1871, pg.4London Evening Standard, 26 September 1828, pg.4Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 24 October 1863, pg.8Lancaster Gazette, 27 May 1820Manchester Mercury, 6 August 1811Lancaster Gazette, 17 July 1819Evening Chronicle, 27 August 1835 pg.1Leeds Intelligencer, 7 July 1838, pg. 8Weekly True Sun, 18 June 1837, pg.1From the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks site at www.lan-opc.org.uk (free to view):Burial registers for St. Mary Magdalene, ClitheroeBaptism registers for St. George’s Church, HulmeMarriage registers for St. Mary’s Church, LancasterBurial registers for St. Mary’s Church, ManchesterBaptism registers for St. Stephen’s Chapel, TockholesMarriage registers for St. Mary the Virgin, BlackburnChurching registers for St. Stephen’s Chapel, TockholesFrom www.thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription needed to view records):1851 Census for Primrose, Clitheroe, LancashireFrom the University of Leicester Special Collections Online Website:Pigot & Dean's New Directory of Manchester and Salford, 1821-22, pg.159, accessed via http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/213668/rec/4
Primrose Mill, Clitheroe | Working Life in the Mill and at Home Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-12-03 | The second part of my investigation into the Thompson family and their connections to Primrose Mill in Clitheroe, Lancashire is all about working life, in the industrial sense and a domestic sense, too.Using Baines’ History, Directory and Gazetteer of Lancaster Volume 1 (1824), I’ll attempt to build up an impression of the impact that the cotton industry had on the town in the early nineteenth century, whilst also considering James Thompson’s attitude to work - was he resistant to change or was he an innnovator?An unexpected find in an Irish newspaper from 1827 will help to tell the story of three ambitious employees at Primrose Mill who hoped to make a new life in America, only for two of them to end up on a sea voyage for a completely different reason . . . Finally, I focus on one of those “looking back on the local past” themed articles from a Lancashire newspaper that was printed nearly thirty years after James Thompson’s to demonstrate just how many clues it offers about his lifestyle, his home and his relationship with his wife in the early nineteenth century.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO CREATE THIS VIDEOBaines’ History, Directory and Gazetteer of Lancaster Volume 1 (1824), pp.612-616 (compiler - Edward Baines, publisher - Wm. Wales and Co., Liverpool)From www.thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription needed to view records):Quarterly Returns of Prisoners In Convict Hulks For 1827 SeptemberQuarterly Returns of Prisoners In Convict Hulks For 1827 DecemberQuarterly Returns of Prisoners In Convict Hulks For 1831 JuneQuarterly Returns of Prisoners In Convict Hulks For 1831 DecemberQuarterly Returns of Prisoners In Convict Hulks For 1832 March1841 census for Primrose, Clitheroe, Lancashirehttp://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/about-us/history/professors/lyon-playfair - Information about the career of Dr. Lyon Playfairhttps://convictrecords.com.au/ships/hoogley/1827Chester Chronicle, 9 April 1813, pg.9Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 14 May 1827, pg. 2Morning Herald, 12 July 1851, pg.8Preston Chronicle, 18 November 1865, pg.5sothebys.com/en/about/our-history?locale=en - general notes on the history of Sotherby’s auction house, Strand, London
Primrose Mill, Clitheroe | The Thompson Family and their Connections Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-11-23 | At Easter 2021, a new nature reserve opened at Primrose Lodge in Clitheroe, Lancashire, and soon afterwards I went out to film some footage for another video on this channel. The new information boards dotted around the reserve contained a wealth of information about the history of the site during the Industrial Revolution, when a calico printing works was established there. They also hinted that a certain James Thompson was in charge of the business, and I saw an opportunity to investigate!That curiosity led me to plan a short series on different aspects of the history of Primrose Mill, and the logical way to start was with the family who owned it. In this video, I demonstrate how I used some basic family history resources to build up a picture of James Thompson’s immediate family, and discovered a connection to a prominent community figure in nearby Blackburn along the way!To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO CREATE THIS VIDEOFrom www.thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription needed to view records):1841 census for Primrose Gate House, Clitheroe, Lancashire1841 census for Primrose, Clitheroe, LancashireBurial registers for St. Nicholas’ Church, Warwick, WarwickshireFrom the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks site at www.lan-opc.org.uk (free to view):Baptism registers for St. Mary Magdalene, ClitheroeBaptism and marriage registers for St. Mary the Virgin, BlackburnBaptism registers for St. James, Church KirkFrom the British Newspaper Archive at www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (free to search, subscription needed to view digitised pages):Lancaster Gazette, 22 March 1806, pg.3Preston Chronicle, 24 December 1841, pg.3Preston Chronicle, 18 March 1848, pg.5Liverpool Standard and Lancashire General Advertiser, 30 October 1849, pg.7Liverpool Mail, 24 Nov 1849, pg.5'The parish of Blackburn', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 235-244. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp235-244 [accessed 22 November 2021].
Cough Elixirs and Man Midwives | Medical Adverts Before 1870 Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-11-02 | Another video that proves that a project inspired by real-life experiences can take you in all sorts of unexpected directions! In this case, a bad cold prompted me to turn to online historical newspaper archives in an attempt to find some clues about how Lancashire’s population might have dealt with similar symptoms in 1861 . . . and found myself on a journey that revealed some surprising things about how British doctors, chemists and other medical professionals marketed their services between 1735 and 1861. Whether or not those services were effective or whether they were simply a way to part you from your money in an era where medical care was not free at the point of delivery is another matter!This video explores cures for coughs and colds, medical galvinism, the curious world of “man midwives” and why you should be aware of hidden messages in historical adverts, and an alternative interpretation for the purpose those highly mysterious “female pills”, which might still exist in another form today. (And it’s probably not the first one you’d think of, either.)To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO MAKE THIS VIDEOCensus records from www.thegenealogist.co.uk 1851 Census for 13 Theatre Street, Preston, Lancashire1861 Census for 13 Theatre Street, Preston, Lancashire1911 Census for Grassington, Whitefield, Lancashire1911 Census for Daleside, Whitefield, Bury, LancashireNewspaper extracts found using www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk [subscription needed to access these records]:Preston Chronicle, 19 January 1861, pg.8Northampton Mercury, 10 February 1787, pg. 1Belfast Chronicle, 12 November 1817, pg.1 (for an account of the death of Princess Charlotte)Chester Courant, 14 November 1787, pg.4Manchester Mercury, 20 June 1758, pg.3Manchester Mercury, 17 October 1786, pg.3Manchester Mercury, 17 February 1795, pg.2Stamford Mercury, 3 April 1735, pg. 3nationaltrust.org.uk/claremont-landscape-garden/features/the-death-of-princess-charlotte - An article on Sir Richard Croft and the death of Princess Charlottethornber.net/medicine/html/medgloss.html - A glossary of old medical terms (used to gather alternative names for tuberculosis)The equivalent values of historical sums of money was calculated using measuringworth.com
Demolishing Brick Walls In My Family Tree Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-10-14 | Researching ancestors who lived and died before 1837 isn’t always straightforward, but it can be done if you can find earlier records that provide information about a person’s immediate family members.In this video I investigate George Hurst, my 7xgreat-grandfather, whose died in 1772, leaving a neatly written will that offered some valuable information about his children, grandchildren and in-laws . . . but didn’t quite tell the full story!Using the will as a starting point, I explain how historical documents and property leases have provided invaluable evidence about the birth order of George’s children, why the family’s devotion to the Catholic faith explains the absence of any relevant baptism records and how you can use Anglican parish registers to trace non-Anglican ancestors.I then show how my initial assumption that George’s daughter Mary only had one husband led me to overlook some key evidence about her personal relationships, and how gathering information about a link between her siblings and a Catholic chapel in Liverpool inspired me to try some simple alternative research techniques that helped me to understand more about Mary’s experiences as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt and godmother.Also included in this video are some examples of historical resources that I used to try to fill in missing details about George’s children and in-laws, along with a few of my thoughts about why those strategies just led me to more brick walls in need of demolition . . . and why, even after intensive research, you can still be left with unanswered questions about your ancestors.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOThe following items are held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire:Will of George Hurst dated 14 March 1772 [reference DP 463/2/5]Indenture dated 9th March 1731 concerning a half share in a cottage at Town Green, Aughton [reference DP 463/2/2]Indenture dated 1 May 1742 concerning a half share in a Messuage or Cottage at Town Green, Aughton [reference DP 463/2/4]Acquittance dated 22 July 1745 [reference DDM 47/120]Bargain and sale of a moiety or messuage in Aughton dated 6 August 1772 [reference DP 463/2/6]Baptism registers for St. Anne’s RC Church, Ormskirk [microfilm DDX241/26]issuu.com/tcrs/docs/volume9 - “The Catholic Registers of Liverpool, now St. Mary Highfield Street, Liverpool, 1741-73”, Records Volume 9: Miscellanea 7; 1911; publisher - Catholic Records Societysites.rootsweb.com/~hibernia/churches/hig.htm - general historical information about St. Mary’s RC Church, Highfield Street, LiverpoolThe following parish register transcripts were sourced via the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks project, at www.lan-opc.org.uk :Burial registers for St. Michael’s Church, AughtonMarriage registers for St Thomas’ Church, LiverpoolBurial registers for St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Ormskirk
Finding Food In Clitheroe | 1790 to 1860 | Heritage Open Days 2021 Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-09-11 | It’s September 2021, and across England, all sorts of activities are taking place during the ten-day Heritage Open Days festival. This year’s theme - Edible England - prompted me to investigate the historical resources that have become familiar to me as a Lancashire-based family history researcher, in a quest to find out more about the food retailers who lived in my evidence of food retailers in my home town of Clitheroe between the Regency era and the mid-Victorian period.Alongside the more familiar census returns and parish registers, I attempt to demonstrate how any researcher can use less obvious sources of historical information (such as land tax assessments and trade directories) to find evidence of how people in one Lancashire town earned a living - and who they may have lived with - before the year 1841.The final part features a short case study about my attempt to piece together some details about the life and family of Eleanor Burnett, a confectioner who lived on Castle Street, Clitheroe in 1861.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOHistory, Directory and Gazeteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster: Volume 1, author - Edward Baines, publisher - Wm. Wales and Co., Advertiser Office, 68 Castle Street, Liverpool (1824), pp.608-616Universal British Directory, Volume II, printers - Champante and Whitrow, Jewry Street, Aldgate (1791), pp.660-6611802 Land Tax Assessments for Clitheroe [document reference QDL 1802/B/20, held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston]Sourced via www.lan-opc.org.uk :Parish registers for St. Mary Magdalene, ClitheroeHistory, Topography and Directory of Mid-Lancashire, compiler - Mannex and Co., printers - William Bailey and Henry Thomson, Preston (1854), pp.453-454Sourced via www.thegenealogist.co.uk:1841 census for Church Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for Church Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for 15 Queen Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1861 census for Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire
Pendle Witch Country | A Family Historians Thoughts Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-08-17 | Partly an investigation and partly a tour of the Pendle area, this mini talk is inspired by my attempts to research into the story of the famous Pendle Witch trials of 1612, which led me in many unexpected directions.Victorian impressions of the witches' story, the ancient names of Newchurch-in-Pendle, land management in the region and its potential to influence the local surnames that evolved between c.1400 and c.1600, and a more modern alternative explanation for the alleged "meeting of witches" which considers the religious changes that had been imposed on England in the century before the events of 1612 all feature in this short film, along with some on-location footage filmed at Roughlee and Newchurch-in-Pendle on 23 July 2021.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOhttp://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/318818/rec/1 - History, Topography and Directory of Mid Lancashire, publishers Mannex and Co., printers - William Bailey and Henry Thomson, Preston, 1854 (pp.421-422)[sourced via the University of Leicester’s Special Collections Online]'Townships: Goldshaw Booth', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 514-518. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp514-518 [accessed 20 July 2021].archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview - Lancashire Archives’ online catalogue, used to source a reference to the will of James Hargrave, yeoman, of Goldshaw Booth, 19 December 1546 (document reference WCW/Supra/C1/27a)sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/smallpox-and-story-vaccination - Smallpox and the Story of Vaccination, 25 April 2019 (uncredited author)archive.org/details/indextowillsinve02ches/page/n7/mode/2upAn Index to the Wills and Inventories now preserved in the Court of probate, at Chester From A.D. 1545 to 1620, editor - John Parsons Earwaker, publisher - The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents related to Lancashire and Cheshire, 1879'Townships: Reedley Hallows, Filly Close and New Laund Booth', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 489-492. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp489-492 [accessed 9 August 2021].http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Pendle/Newchurch-in-Pendle/stmary/index.html - parish registers for St. Mary’s Church, Newchurch-in-Pendle, transcribed as part of the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks projectnationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/james-i/law-for-recusants - a transcript of the Act for the Better Discovery and Repression of “Popish” Recusants, 27 May 1606 gutenberg.org/files/18253/18253-h/18253-h.htm - a transcript of “The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster”, Thomas Potts, 1613issuu.com/tcrs/docs/volume71 - Digitised edition of Records Vol.71: Recusants in the Exchequer Pipe Rolls 1581-1592 (Catholic Record Society, 1986)catholicherald.co.uk/alice-nutter-a-witch-or-a-secret-catholic - “Alice Nutter: a witch - or a secret Catholic?”, author - Dominic Selwood, Catholic Herald, 4 October 2018
Tracing Catholic Ancestors In Lancashire | Four Pre-1800 Resources Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-08-03 | Have you ever tried to trace Catholic ancestors who were living in England before 1800? You’re not alone; in an effort to give you some inspiration, I’ve created this video to showcase some incredibly useful resources that I’ve discovered over the years.As an introduction, I’ll explain how and where to find existing Catholic church records, and why they might not always be available at county archives and record offices, before exploring some of the anti-Catholic laws passed during the reign of Elizabeth I and how these measures led to the creation of alternative records that can be used to trace pre-1700 Catholic ancestors.I begin with an investigation into how lists of Recusants in the Pipe Rolls (1581-1592) can tell us more about a person’s address, occupation and social status, and the kind of evidence that the authorities typically gathered against them in order to convict them for recusancy.Examples from the Protestation Returns for West Derby Hundred (1641) are used to demonstrate that the details gathered about seventeenth-century Catholics could vary, even within a small geographical area, and that they can offer enough information to let a researcher cross-reference the records with other resources to draw up a simple family tree.A similar list, Convicted Recusants in the Reign of Charles II (c.1667), is used to demonstrate that, by noting the occupations and parents or spouses of Catholic people, the authorities often created a prototype census for each town or village that also offers clues about each person’s place in society.Finally, the Returns of Papists (1767) for Ormskirk are shown to include unusual extra details that just weren’t included on nineteenth-century census records, before they are compared with surviving registers from both the town’s Catholic chapel and the Anglican parish church to piece together a potential family tree for labourer Henry Preston.To find out more about my work and what I do, please visit:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchfacebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearchRESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOhttp://freepages.rootsweb.com/~liverpoolindexes/genealogy/ford.html - records for Ford Cemetery, near Liverpoolhttp://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Bamber-Bridge/stmary/index.html - Baptism, marriage and death registers for St. Mary’s RC Church, Brownedgeissuu.com/tcrs/docs/volume71 - digitised edition of Recusants in the Exchequer Pipe Rolls: 1581-1592, Records Series Volume 71 (editor - Timothy J. McCann, publisher - Catholic Record Society, 1986)archive.org/details/miscellaneav05cathuoft - digitised edition of Convicted Recusants in the reign of Charles II, c.1667, sourced from Catholic Record Society: Miscellanea V (publisher - W.H. Smith and Son, 1909)oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095951707 - definition of a husbandmandictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/yeoman - definition of a yeomanReturns of Papists, 1767: Diocese of Chester; editor - E. S. Worrall (Catholic Record Society, Occasional Publications nos 1-2, 1980-1989) [held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire]http://www.lan-opc.org.uk - Marriage and burial registers for St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, OrmskirkBaptism, marriage and death registers for St. Anne’s RC Church, Ormskirk [microfilm reference DDX 241/26, held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire]All family tree diagrams were designed by Kate Hurst.
Painting Marwood Hill Gardens | A Video Diary Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-07-17 | July 2021. Glorious weather, libraries and archives are open to visitors again, and enough family history commissions to keep me busy for at least a month. With the world the way it is, waiting until next year to plan a summer holiday seems like a good idea, but there are other ways to travel!In June 2018, just as the heatwave began, I happened to visit Marwood Hill Gardens near Barnstaple, in North Devon. One of the things I remembered best about it was spending an entire day wandering round, sketching, taking photos, exploring unusual statues dotted here and admiring flowers of just about every colour you could imagine. Three years later, it occurred to me that - if a summer holiday wasn’t a realistic option for 2021 - I could at least travel back through my own memories and photos to create a lasting memento of that summer of 2018. And so it was that this video diary of a painting was created.This video hasn’t been sponsored in any way; it was simply something that I wanted to paint.ALL MUSIC IN THIS VIDEO WAS SOURCED FROM THE YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARYGymnopedie No. 3, Wahneta Meixell, November 2014Theme for a One-Handed Piano Concerto, Sir Cubworth, December 2018Waltz of the Flowers, Tchaikovsky, September 2013Butterflies In Love, Sir Cubworth, December 2018LINKS THAT YOU MIGHT FIND INTERESTINGArtwork by Kate Hurst website - katehurst.wixsite.com/artworkbykatehurstArtwork by Kate Hurst on Facebook - facebook.com/ArtworkbyKateHurstMarwood Hill Gardens website - marwoodhillgarden.co.ukMarwood Hill Gardens on Facebook - facebook.com/MarwoodHillGardens
Stories From The Churchyard | St. Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-06-15 | Every family history researcher knows that a gravestone is just the end of someone’s story, and a walk around an old churchyard can often reveal some fascinating details about the lives of people who once lived in a particular area.This video takes the parish church of St. Mary Madgalene, in my home town of Clitheroe, Lancashire, as a starting point to learn more about some of the people who were connected to the church in past centuries. By delving into some of the building’s famous (and infamous) associations, I’ll also explore a whole host of apparently unconnected subjects; if you can’t think of a reason why chemistry, witchcraft, murder, surgeons, Captain Cook, the Bishop of Rochester and George III could possibly be connected, you’ll find the answer in this very brief look at the history of a single church.Please excuse the background noise in some of the outdoor footage; the microphone on my camera is a bit more sensitive than I’d like it to be sometimes.RESOURCES USED TO RESEARCH THIS VIDEO'Townships: Clitheroe', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 360-372. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp360-372 [accessed 8 June 2021].Document concerning Giles Parker of Heyrokeforth in the Blundell of Ince Blundell muniments,12 November 1548 [document reference DDIN 12/8, held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston]History, Directory and Gazeteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster: Volume 1, author - Edward Baines, publisher - Wm. Wales and Co., Advertiser Office, 68 Castle Street, Liverpool (1824), pg.611wellcomecollection.org/works/jgh8a4w7/itemsDigitised edition of Metallographia (1671), author - John Webster, publisher - Walter Kettilby, Bishop’s Head, St. Paul’s Churchyard, LondonHistory, Topography and Directory of Mid-Lancashire, compiler - Mannex and Co., printers - William Bailey and Henry Thomson, Preston (1854), pg.445Sourced via www.lan-opc.org.uk :Parish registers for St. Mary Magdalene, ClitheroeMarriage registers for St. Bartholomew, Colnemorethannelson.com/officer/james-kingBiographical information about Captain James KingKentish Gazette, 22 April 1778Sourced via www.thegenealogist.co.uk : 1841 census for York Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire1851 census for 20 King Street, Blackburn, Lancashire1851 census for Harry Hayhurst Lane, Clitheroe, Lancashire
Exploring Sawley Abbey | Sawley, Lancashire Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-06-01 | A brief exploration into the history and remains of the ruined Sawley Abbey, in Lancashire. After all, what else would you do on a Bank Holiday weekend, when the weather is so glorious?With a bit of help from some online resources, I managed to work out where the kitchens, refectory, Abbey church, dormitories, and even the latrines once stood, interspersed with a few historical details about Sawley Abbey’s links to the Percy family, day-to-day events, and the fate of William Trafford, the last abbot.Please excuse the slightly imperfect sound quality in the outdoor scenes; my camera picks up even the slightest breeze!RESOURCES USED TO RESEARCH THIS VIDEOmaps.nls.uk/view/102344845 - 1847 map of Sawley and surrounding area, sourced from the National Library of Scotland’s Historical Maps websitemaps.nls.uk/view/100945928 - 1893 map of Sawley (including Great Dudland, Little Dudland and Dudland Hollins) sourced from the National Library of Scotland’s Historical Maps websiteyorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/assart - Yorkshire Historical Dictionary, used to identify the location of “Hilleclaia”epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/West+Riding+of+Yorkshire/Gisburn/532881e7b47fc40c810022ac-Ellenthorpe - Information about Ellenthorpe, from The University of Nottingham’s Survey of English Place Namesarchivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview - used to source a 1376 reference to John, the abbot of “Salley” [document reference DDTO/K/9/29]'The parish of Wigan: Introduction, church and charities', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 57-68. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp57-68 [accessed 31 May 2021] - Information relating to Robert of Cliderowe'Houses of Cistercian monks: Sawley', in A History of the County of York: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1974), pp. 156-158. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/vol3/pp156-158 [accessed 31 May 2021].measuringworth.com - used to calculate the modern-day value of Sawley Abbey
Downham, Twiston and Martin Top | A Mini History Tour Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-05-20 | In the mood for some practical historical investigations, I set out in the car (armed only with my trusty sat-nav and a real map) to explore a few places in Lancashire that are within a short drive of my home town. Beginning at Downham with a very brief look around St. Leonard’s Churchyard, I moved onto Twiston, because I recalled hearing a family history society talk that mentioned a seventeenth-century Quaker burial ground, and - with a bit of persistence - I found it. Should you happen to find yourself in Twiston, you might like to note that the wall around the graveyard is higher than it looks!After that, I found my way to the Salem Congregational Chapel at Martin Top, which is still used for religious services and has some interesting architectural features.RESOURCES USED TO RESEARCH THIS VIDEO'Townships: Downham', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 552-558. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp552-558 [accessed 20 May 2021].maps.nls.uk/view/1023439041844 Ordnance Survey Map for Downham and surrounding area [digitised by the National Library of Scotland]quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/12/George-Fox - Biographical information about George Fox, his connections to Lancashire and his visions at Pendle Hill in 1652oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095821676 - A brief summary of the Five Mile Act (1665) and how it affected non-AnglicansCatalogue listing documents relating to the Marsden Montly Meeting of the Societ of Friend, including records of the Friends’ Burial Ground at Twiston, Clitheroe (c.1669-2004) [Held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire, reference number FRM/ACC9707]'Townships: Twiston', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 558-560. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp558-560 [accessed 20 May 2021].martintop.org.uk/content/history - Information about the Salem Congregational Chapel at Martin Top
Organic Research | From Catholics To Cotton Mills In Clitheroe Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-05-11 | A case study on how you can use information from one historical resource as a starting point to research different aspects of local and social history.Using the 1767 Return of Papists for Clitheroe, in Lancashire, I try to piece together some information about the working lives of local innkeepers William and Isabel Kay of Clitheroe, before exploring a case from from the 1790s where a couple of property auctions at other nearby pubs provided me with enough clues to explore the history of John Parker. It’s John Parker’s connection to Primrose Mill (one of the town’s first cotton mills) that allowed me to explore some of the history behind an area that has recently become the new Primrose Nature Reserve.All photos used are from my personal collection.RESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOmaps.nls.uk/view/102343904 Ordnance Survey Map of Clitheroe (surveyed 1844, published 1847)‘Returns of Papists, 1767: Diocese of Chester’, by E. S. Worrall (Catholic Record Society, Occasional Publications nos. 1-2, 1980-1989) [[held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire]Lease and release of a burgage in Market Street, called the King’s Head, 13/14 October 1785 [held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire, reference DDFR 1/143]Universal British Directory (1791); printers - Champante and Whitrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate, LondonCumberland Pacquet and Ware’s Whitehaven Advertiser, 22 November 1791Manchester Mercury, 26 December 1797London Gazette, 26 June 1798 (Issue 15036, pg. 599) [sourced from thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/15036/page/599]Manchester Mercury, 12 February 1799Certificate of William West’s fitness to be innkeeper of the White House [Horse?], Clitheroe, linking him to the Black Bull Inn, Castle Street, Clitheroe, 30 October 1824[held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire, reference QSB/1825/Jan/pt 5/5-6]measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/relativevalue.php - used to calculate the relative values of different sums of money
Primrose Nature Reserve | A Brief Walk Through History Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-04-26 | Over the Easter weekend in 2021, a new nature reserve opened in Clitheroe, Lancashire. As a keen photographer I went out on a nice day, intending to take a few photos, but having lived in the area for a while, I know that (in decades past) there was once a mill close to the new Primrose Nature Reserve.As you’ll see from this video, a host of new information boards have been set up, to explain more about the site and (more importantly to me, as a historian) the way it was originally developed during the Industrial Revolution. On second glance, I spotted a reference to a certain John Parker, who will be mentioned in a forthcoming video about what can happen when you research people and places organically, so this short film evolved into something of a “then and now” project.RESOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEOManchester Mercury, 26 December 1797London Gazette, 26 June 1798 (pg.599)Manchester Mercury, 12 February 1799
Pride and Prejudice: A Family Historian’s Perspective | Carriages and The Darcy Family Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-04-20 | In the final part of my series on Pride and Prejudice, I look at the economics and practicalities of keeping a carriage and horses in the Regency period, and how we could relate that to car ownership today, with a focus on what Pride and Prejudice reveals about the difficulties that the Bennets would have had as a “one carriage” family, when the novel clearly states that four of their five daughters would be legally old enough to hold driving licences in modern Britain, and what a fleeting description of one of Darcy’s own vehicles tells us about just how wealthy he was.The later half of the video uses clues from the novel to construct two family tree charts for Darcy, covering both his maternal and paternal ancestry, with a few observations on why various characters in Pride and Prejudice hold the titles that they do, and what inspired Darcy’s parents to give their son the forename Fitzwilliam. Chapter references are taken from my own copies of Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC miniseries tie-in editions).RESOURCES USED TO CREATE THIS VIDEOfamilysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Taxation_1700s_to_1900s_(National_Institute)#Armorial_Bearings_Tax_1793-1882Information about the Armorial Bearings Taxgov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables - UK Government’s official tax rates for vehicles, as of April 2021debretts.com/expertise/essential-guide-to-the-peerage/courtesy-titles/#:~:text=The%20younger%20sons%20of%20an,before%20their%20forename%20and%20surname - information about the titles that can be held by the children of Earls and other noble ranks of the English peerage systemIf you'd like to know more about my day-to-day work, feel free to visit my website:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchFacebook page - facebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearch
Exhibition In The Lounge | 6 April 2021 Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-04-06 | Back in summer 2020, just as the lockdown was lifting in the UK, I decided to create a mini exhibition in the form of a video. What I didn't expect was that, nine months later, we'd be living under various restrictions again. At this particular moment in time, it's even getting quite hard to buy canvas to work on . . . but luckily, I've got a few paintings sitting around at home that I didn't include in my virtual exhibition last June.So here are six more; although this isn't technically a family history themed video, because I'm into researching ancestors, I do tend to take my camera out with me whenever I can get to places that I've got a family connection to. Art and family history are about to collide!
Painting Coniston Water | A Video Diary Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-03-29 | Besides family history research, my other great love is art, and I particularly like working with acrylic paints. My previous work has been based on a variety of sources - sometimes I take inspiration from my own photographs, occasionally I will find images online or in magazines and make up a composite scene, and at other times I’ll get a request from someone who has already found a source photo that catches their eye. Coniston Water (my second painting of 2021) falls into the third category.This video diary documents the creation of one painting, from the preliminary work to draw out a grid to sketch out the elements of the scene, through to the finished piece. As the section between 02:16 and 03:04 shows, the process wasn’t entirely straightforward . . . the colours of the finished sky were far more muted than the sky in my source picture, but sometimes that’s just how paintings turn out!The materials used for Coniston Water (2021) all came from my own supply of drawing pencils, acrylic paints, brushes and colour detailers collected over several years. The canvas board (measuring 16in by 12in) was ordered especially for this commission.MUSIC FEATURED IN THIS VIDEO DIARYAll pieces were sourced from the YouTube Audio Library: Circus Waltz - Silent Film Light, Kevin MacLeod, 2015Sonatina No 2 in F Major Rondo, Joel Cummins, 2020 (used under the terms of the YouTube Audio Library licence)
Pride and Prejudice: A Family Historian’s Perspective | Social Rank and The Darcy Archives Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-03-25 | In the fourth part of my series on Pride and Prejudice, I decided to focus on exactly what Jane Austen’s 1813 novel tells us about the character Fitzwilliam Darcy, his social status, the servants he employed, his responsibilities as a landowner and a member of the Anglican church, and some of the features of his family’s ancestral home, the fictitious Pemberley House, in Derbyshire.I’ll also draw on the clues supplied in the novel, the information revealed by George Wickham and Darcy himself, and my own experience of using probate records for family history research, to try to outline some of the possible directions that were included in the last will and testament of Mr. Darcy senior, including the arrangements made for his daughter Georgiana (who was only a child when he died).This video has been largely based on information found in the text of the novel itself.RESOURCES USED TO CREATE THIS VIDEOeater.com/2016/6/3/11847788/careme-chef-biography-history - some information about Marie-Antoine Carême (1784-1833) Codicil to the Will of James Worsley, Cotton Spinner and Manufacturer of Lowton, 11 October 1834 [transcription in my personal collection, from an original document held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire]If you'd like to know more about my day-to-day work, feel free to visit my website:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchFacebook page - facebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearch
Pride and Prejudice | A Family Historians Perspective | Literacy Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-03-17 | Jane Austen had four novels published during her lifetime (with three more being released posthumously), and some items from her “Juvenalia” date back to 1787, when she was eleven or twelve years old. It goes without saying that she could read and write, but what does her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice reveal about the levels of literacy amongst its characters? And can I use those clues to learn more about the value that they placed on education?I delve into clues about which university Mr. Collins might have attended, why a passing description of his father might explain why the clergyman had a “book room” rather than a library at Hunsford Parsonage and a major change that would have impacted record-keeping in his parish not long after the end of the novel.I’ll investigate whether Mrs. Bennet was right to criticise the wording of the newspaper announcement about Lydia’s wedding (and why a well-worded notice in the births, marriage and deaths column can be invaluable to a family historian researching ancestors who lived in the British Isles before 1837).Also under discussion is Darcy’s own description of his library at Pemberley (and what it might imply about its contents, its evolution after his marriage, and the Darcy family’s level of education as far back as Shakespeare’s time), and exactly what benefit Lydia herself might have found in paying attention to Fordyce’s Sermons . . . SOME RESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOfamilyhistoryfederation.com/_resources/wiki/everyone-has-roots-5-parish-registers.pdf - Everyone Has Roots (No 5. - Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records); PDF file written by Ian Waller for the Family History Federation in 2019 archive.org/details/sermonstoyoungwo00ford/page/n3/mode/2up - a digitised copy ofSermons to Young Women (1766)Manchester Mercury, 28th May 1799Will of George Hurst of Ormskirk, dated 14 March 1772Will of Joseph Hurst (leather cutter) of Ormskirk, dated 7 January 1818 [both transcriptions in my personal collection, from an original document held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire]If you'd like to know more about my day-to-day work, feel free to visit my website:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchFacebook page - facebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearch
Pride and Prejudice | A Family Historians Perspective | Marriage and Dowries Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-03-09 | Baptisms, marriages and burials are the building blocks of any pre-1837 family history research, and one comment that is often made about the novels written by Jane Austen is that they all end in marriage. This led me to wonder - does the depiction of the weddings in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice match up with known information about the laws and customs that applied to real-life weddings in England and Wales during the Regency era? And can we use the clues in the novel to infer anything about how the characters and their families might have prepared for married life?In this video, I consider why Mrs. Bennet may have wanted to get a special licence for her daughter Elizabeth’s wedding (and why she didn’t actually need one). I’ll investigate why Mr. Bennet should have invested his wife’s dowry and what sort of difference a long-term investment might have made to the money he could have given to his daughters for their own marriage settlements (with a few calculations using Regency interest rates), what conditions Mr. Gardiner’s legal advisor might have written into Lydia’s marriage settlement and what we can deduce about Lydia and Wickham’s wedding.As an experiment, I also attempt to recreate the parish register entry that might have been written up, had Lydia and Wickham existed in real life, with some deductions about who signed their names as witnesses in that register.SOME RESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOA definition of a Special Marriage licence as it is used today:yourchurchwedding.org/article/special-licencesAn overview of Lord Hardwicke’s 1754 Marriage Act:gretnagreen.com/lord-hardwicke-1754-marriage-act-a746Information about interest rates between 1788 and 1812:measuringworth.com/datasets/interestratesLancaster Gazette, 18 August 1804The imaginary marriage register entry for Lydia and Wickham shown in this video was created by me (based on images of contemporary parish registers).If you'd like to know more about my day-to-day work, feel free to visit my website:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchFacebook page - facebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearch
Pride and Prejudice | A Family Historian’s Perspective | Part One Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-03-01 | Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice has been one of my favourite books for more than twenty years. It goes without saying that the entire plot and the characters that we know so well today are totally fictitious, but suppose they weren’t?A recent chance to read Pride and Prejudice again led me to notice many things that I’d overlooked (or failed to understand) as an eleven-year-old but which make a lot more sense to me as an adult who is familiar with the various records available to family historians.I invite you to explore this slightly unusual take on a classic novel, in which I offer my ideas about when the novel is set, why Charles Bingley rented Netherfield at Michaelmas, and why there is reason to think that his sister Caroline Bingley and Louisa Hurst had a little more in common with Mr. Gardiner than they liked to admit.SOME RESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEOCalendars for 1799 and 1800:timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1799&;country=20timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1800&country=9Calendars for 1805, 1806, 1811 and 1812:http://luirig.altervista.org/calendar/index.php?year=1805http://luirig.altervista.org/calendar/index.php?year=1806http://luirig.altervista.org/calendar/index.php?year=1811http://luirig.altervista.org/calendar/index.php?year=1812Information about Michaelmas:historic-uk.com/CultureUK/MichaelmasInformation about interest rates in the UK between 1800 and 1811:measuringworth.com/datasets/interestrates/result.phpAll family tree diagrams in this video were created by me.If you'd like to know more about my day-to-day work, feel free to visit my website:katehurst.wixsite.com/kate-hurst-researchFacebook page - facebook.com/KateHurstFamilyHistoryResearch
Painting Scarisbrick Hall | A Video Diary Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-02-02 | A video diary of a piece of my artwork, inspired by a New Year’s resolution and an unexpected commission for a painting. Besides family history research, my other great love is art and although current circumstances didn’t allow me to get my own source photograph of Scarisbrick Hall, in Scarisbrick, near Ormskirk, Lancashire, I was able to find a couple of images online that inspired my chosen interpretation of the building.This short film is my attempt to capture my method of creating a painting, from the first sketch to the final touches, but I couldn’t resist throwing in a few details about the building’s past, too. (I won’t pretend that it’s anything other than a potted history of Scarisbrick Hall; others have studied it in far greater detail than I have!)The history segment can be found between 7.46 and 11.06. If you watch closely, you might even spot my little “helper”, too . . .Music from the YouTube Studio Library“Butterflies in Love” by Sir Cubworth, 2018“English Country Garden” by Aaron Kenny, 2018“Baroque Coffee House” by Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions, 2014
Snowy Clitheroe | 2 January 2021 Kate Hurst Family History Research 2021-01-02 | A very short compilation of my photos of the southern side of Clitheroe, in Lancashire, taken on a snowy Saturday.Featured in the video are Pendleton Brook, Pendle Hill, Whalley Road, distance shots of Clitheroe Castle, Primrose Road, the footpath leading towards Pendleton Brook and Henthorn, and a very short video clip of the developing Primrose Lodge Blue and Greenway Project.
Christmas With Jane Austen | How Our Regency Ancestors Celebrated | Part Four Kate Hurst Family History Research 2020-12-22 | In the last part of my series on Christmas as Jane Austen might have known it, I’ve decided to concentrate on the Regency interpretation of one element of the original Christmas story - the giving and receiving of gifts. Using newspaper archives, contemporary adverts, and a little detour into literature of the time (including books aimed at children and adults). Perhaps our modern Yuletide customs aren’t so different to the ones our ancestors practiced more than two centuries ago? RESOURCESindependent.co.uk/life-style/christmas-tree-queen-charlotte-history-prince-albert-charles-dickens-a8694626.html“Why Queen Charlotte really deserves the credit for bringing the Christmas tree to Britain”; Joe Summerlad, Independent, 21 December 2018Ipswich Journal, 28 December 1765Newcastle Journal, 28 December 1765Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 23 December 1805Morning Chronicle, Friday 30 December 1808archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-PN970_H37_E54_1808_003376406-1948/mode/2up“The fishes grand gala : a companion to The "peacock at home," &c. &c. : Part I”, Mrs. Mary Cockle, 1808 (publisher - C. Chapple, Pall Mall, London)
