Hi again Pattie,
Not futile at all, all assistance is most welcome and I am sure that I speak
for everybody when I say this. Glad that you are getting pleasure finding
out about early English history in your own researches as to possible
founding of the family name.
One point however:- It is clear that the Cat*ley trees (researched or
otherwise) probably do not come from one single root as much as most of us
would like to be able to find evidence to confirm joining some of them
together.
You quote Catlay and this is correct for your/my pedigree which stems from
Stevan Catlay of Normanton m Elizabeth Jube in 1609 but please be aware that
there are many references to Catley in numerous other counties circa 1600
which demonstrates that there must be many other families well scattered
across the whole country at that time.
It would be an interesting thought if all at
rootsweb.com would be willing
to pool resources and see if we can collectively come up with a grand table
of Trees, ie to see if we can find a parallel lineage of trees and then
maybe find links between them?
I have the makings of seven Cattley Trees (including ours Patty) for
starters but have nothing on Catley.
It would rather depend on others who would be interested in working together
on a common theme. This idea might just be workable, given the overall
rareity of the root name as it is but I fancy that most Cat*ley researchers
are probably too involved still in doing their own pedigree research to be
in a position to consider widening their scope to a more common overall
cause.
However, with internet/e-mail access as it is these days anything is
possible I suppose.
Any comments please anybody?
----- Original Message -----
From: <Breezybray(a)aol.com>
To: <CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 5:24 PM
Subject: [CAT*LEY] Re: [CAT*LEY] Re: [CAT*LEY] Re: [CAT*LEY] Re: [CAT*LEY]
Re: [CAT*LEY] Monasticon : Gilbertines
Your probably all correct as to my futile search of the Cat*ley name.
I
find it interesting.
I am not a genealogist. That is hard work and one must like puzzles.
I just have many questions as to all the name changes from Catlay.
I enjoy reading what I find in my searches and did learn a bit about the
history of
your country the UK and things I did not know about Europe's
history these past few days. Much better than watching the history of
present.
Sincerely, Patty
I gather this means we are not of the Catti Tribesmen so I should not
follow that
path~ (big smiles)
In a message dated 3/21/2003 6:51:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
timjhcat(a)tiscali.co.uk writes:
> Patty,
> Whilst I admire your keenness which is grand, I think that you are
rather
> overstepping the mark by delving into place names in UK starting
with
"cat".
> You ask about Catsfield in Sussex. Yes OK but why not Catfield
in
Norfolk?
> There are over 44 places here that I know of that are prefixed
"Cat" and
> many carry the "wild cat" explanation as to origin.
>
> As I have said before on rootsweb, in early England there was still much
> forestation and wild cats a plenty and so there must have been thousands
of
> woods containing wild cats and thus nodoubt hundreds of
> seperate woods could
> well have become known as Catley.
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