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Author: johnmaxwell60
Surnames: Chtistopherson,Crosthwaite,
Classification: queries
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Hello Joe.
I have both names in my lot and wonder if they are the right ones.
Thomas b 1811/12 married Miriam b 1821/22 in june 1859.
I have Thomas parents as Robert b 1761 and his second wife Agnes Kendall or Kirby.Two other children were Robert b 1806 d 1807 and Margaret b 1808.
Please contact me when you have time.
Regards
John
Australia
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Author: josephbrice
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Classification: queries
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Thomas is my ancestor. He married Miriam Crosthwaite in Lancashire. My relatives are sure that the Christopherson lineage led back to Denamark/ Norway but this is as far back as I can get. Is anyone able to help?
Another oddity is that my relatives also talk of this line being related to the late Lord Birkett....?
Happy Christmas.
Joe
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Surname: Crosthwaite
This name is of Northern English locational origin from any of the several places thus called, for example, Crosthwaite in Cumberland, Westmoreland and the North Riding of Yorkshire. The latter two were first recorded as Crosthwait in Early Charter Rolls, dated 1190 to 1201, and the former appeared as Crosthwayt in Episcopal Registers of Cumberland, dated 1233, and as Crosthweyt in the 1246 Fine Court Rolls of that county, other variations of the name are Crosswaite and Crossthwaite. The name, in all cases, derives form the Olde Scandinavian "kross" (Old English "cros"), a cross, plus the Scandinavian "thveit", a cleared meadow. The English dialectal term "thwaite" means a low meadow or cleared piece of land hence, "clearing by a cross". The surname was first recorded in the early half of the 14th Century, (see below). On December 19th 1590 Elizabeth Crosthwaite, an infant, was christened in Little Ouseburn, Yorkshire, and on December 8th 1647 Thomas Crosthwaite was christened in St. Michael Spurriergate, Yorkshire. One, Richard Crosthwaite of Kirkby Kendall, was entered in "The Lancashire Wills Records at Richmond". The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John de Crosthuaite, which was dated 1332, in the "Subsidy Rolls of Cumberland", during the reign of King Edward 111, known as "The Father of the Navy", 1327 - 1377. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling