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Morning :-)
Found this on:
http://www.archives.ca/02/02010602_e.html
Soldiers of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force
Born 12/07/1895 Woottin Bassett, Wiltshire, England.
His next of kin looks like Theo ? COCKSHOTT in Nanmino ? BC Canada
(Can't read that .. can someone have a look please ?)
He was 5ft. 6 3/4 inches tall and had a 38 inch chest !! :-)
Cheers Jane
Thanks Allen .. I'll pass it on to my other lists :-)
Cheers Jane
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen E. Humphries [mailto:allenh@gis.net]
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 4:46 PM
To: HAGUE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Fw: [NS-L] Obits on-line
I got 123 hits on HAIGH
-----Original Message-----
Date: Sunday, May 27, 2001 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: [NS-L] Obits on-line
>Here is another good site for obits.
>
>http://obits.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi
>
>I find it very useful.
Thanks Carole :-) posting to list.
Jane (catching up on emails)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan/Carole Cockshott [mailto:brycar@idx.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 10:25 AM
To: Jane Lachs
Subject: Francis Pickersgill Cockshott - Will
Dear Jane
The message the other day about Francis Pickersgill Cockshott reminded me
that I had copied down some entries from the National Probate Index that
related to him.
Attached are the entries in case they are of interest to the other person.
Cheerio
Carole in Sydney Australia
1879 Edward Cockshott formerley of Morecambe Co Lancashire late of Dunse
North britain died 7 September at Dunse proved at Principal registry 8 Oct
by Francis Pickersgill Cockshott 1 Cornwall villas Tufnell Park Middlesex
gentleman and brother. under 4,000 pounds.
1890 Jane Ann Cockshott wife of Francis Pickersgill Cockshott late of
Cornwall villa Carleton rd Tufnell Park Islington London died 7 June proved
7 Aug at principal Registry by Francis Pickersgill Cockshott Superintendent
of Great Northern Railway Co. 2,112 pounds 13 shillings & 8d
1896 Francis Pickersgill Cockshott late of 32 Carleton rd Tufnell Park
Middlesex died 7 Februart probate London 13 April to Alfred Ernest Cockshott
a member of lloyds & William Harding stock & share broker. 65,706 pounds 8
shillings & 5d
Thanks Alan .. I'll pass it on :-)
Cheers Jane
-----Original Message-----
From: J. A. Longbottom
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 8:38 AM
To: Jane Lachs
Subject: 2nd Bonus
Jane
1930 Polling District Stocksbridge AB.
30 entries for Charlesworth
Ada Viola Bank
Alice Ann Alpine Road
Amy Common Place
Arthur Spring Mill Terrace
Arthur Ernest Spring Hill Terrace (sic)
Clarence Spring Mill Terrace
Elsie Hunshelf Bank
Emily Well House
Ernest Common Place
Ernest Sykes Haywood Park
Frances Elizabeth Victoria Road
Friend Button Row
Hannah Morris Pothouse Lane
Irvine Alpine Road
James henry Common Piece
Jes... Pothouse Lane
John Sitwell Avenue
John William Common Piece
Joseph Common Piece
Leonard Pothouse lane
Lydia Haywood Park
Mary Hannah Spring Mill Terrace
Mary Pothouse lane
Olive Button Row
Olive Common Piece
Percy Viola Bank
Phillis Oaks Avenue
Ronald Oaks Avenue
Sarah Ann Button Row
Winifred Hunshelf Bank
Bolsterstone had
Harriet and Mary Charlesworth at Holly Bush
Bradfield had
Frank, Florence and Reuben Charlesworth at Rocher Flatt
Cumberworth had
Beardsell Charlesworth at Park Head and Emma and John at Lane Side
Thurlstone had
Samuel and Cicely Charlesworth at Hazlehead
In 1925 Skelmanthorpe District V had
Cockshaw - Ada, Ann and Tetlow at Kitchin Royd and
Cockshaw - MAry Ann at Wakefield Road.
Alan
Morning / evening all :-)
First the good news ... I found the folders I thought I'd lost after my
re-formatting back in the middle of March ...
The bad news is .. there are 100s of emails waiting to be answered ..
The good news is I've also retrieved emails going back to 1999 !
Bad news .. even more emails waiting to be answered !!
I'll catch up one day LOL
Cheers Jane
Searching those archives ..
http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/default.htm
When you have time don't just search for surnames where you expect to find
them.
Search for towns too ..
This interesting article was found in the:
Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service: Bedfordshire: Poor Law
Union Records
AMPTHILL UNION
VARIOUS RECORDS
SETTLEMENT RECORDS: Removal orders and examinations - to parishes in the
Union
FILE [no title] - ref. PUAV 41/65 - date: Jan - April 1903
|_ Scope and Content [extract] ... Clementina Williamson, 50.
Sculcoates Union workhouse, counties of Kingston upon Hull and York to
Ridgmont. Settlement based upon husband's birthplace; Richard Perry
Williamson born at Ridgmont 30 June 1849; no subsequent settlement. Resided
with parents at Ridgmont 8-9yrs. Lived in London 1857-1877, but no other
information. About 1877 in Sheffield and worked in district until 3½yrs ago;
longest time he stayed in one place was 2yrs in a beerhouse. Worked at
Laycock Bros. but they gave him an indifferent character; he would go off
for weeks at a time. Married to wife at Sheffield Register Office, 9 March
1896, but deserted her in less than a yr. She went into Sheffield workhouse
and the Guardians prosecuted him, obtaining maintenance 7s 6d per wk. He
paid 5 wks.; then absconded and not heard of since. Wife left Sheffield;
went to Hull entered Sculcoates workhouse 12 Aug 1901 where now is. (ro, sp;
L re. attempts to obtain costs from relatives) [11 items] ...
or
Salford: Easter 1798
FILE - Ashton under Lyne to Wortley, West Riding, co. York. Order of
removal of Esther Wadsworth, widow, and William her child - ref.
QSP/2402/50 - date: 1798 11 Jan
Cheers Jane
www.janelachs.de
DFTT
What a great site .. thank you .. just found time to have a look around it.
Found ca. 30 mentions of COCKSHOTT/COCKSHOT/COCKSHUT/COCKSHUTTs already !
They were a load of criminals !!
Preston, Michaelmas, 1676.
FILE - Hapton -- Roger Cockshut, tailor, confesses on death-bed that he
took a woman to Ireland and deserted her, at behest of Thomas Storie,
husbandman. - ref. QSP/455/2 - date: c1676
http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/default.htm
Have to go through the other spelling variations now ! and found another !!
Robert Cockshaw (otherwise Cockson) of Pocklington labourer :- assault on
William Hewett at Pocklington.
Cheers Jane
-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy & Peter [mailto:PETER.NANCY.MCLAUGHLIN@xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:20 AM
To: YORKSGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: A2A....Access to Archives
Hi Listers!
Just HAVE to share with you all, this new (well, new to me anyway!) site
which gives absolutely loads of information. The URL is
http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/mainform.asp
As an example, below are shown the names recorded in the Oaths of
Allegiance, 14 Sep 1723, Quarter Sessions of York, and held in the York
City Archive Department.......
Thank-you very much Pat .. found him in my database now .and on 1881 census
CDs, he was born in Addingham, Yorkshire ..
Railway Ancestors: A Guide to the Staff Records of the Railway Companies of
England and Wales 1822-1947 by David T. Hawkings. Published by Alan Sutton
Publishing Limited, Phoenix Mill, Far Thrupp, Strood, Gloucestershire,
England. 1995. xviii, 509 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, index.
Hardback. £25.
ISBN: 0750908831
Sutton Publishing, Limited
08/01/1996
384 pages
Cheers Jane
-----Original Message-----
From: Pam Smith [mailto:pammike@modemss.brisnet.org.au]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:39 AM
To: Jane Lachs
Subject: Francis Pickersgilll COCKSHOTT
Dear Jane, Here is the Yorkshire Post article. Regards, Pam SMITH.
FRANCIS PICKERSGILL COCKSHOTT
From Railway Ancestors by David T. Hawkings.
RAIL 1150/1 Great Northern Railway.
Article in Yorkshire Post 8 February 1896.
DEATH OF MR. FRANCIS COCKSHOTT
A large circle of the railway travelling public will regret the death of Mr.
Francis P. Cockshott, the ex-superintendent of the Great Northern Railway
Company, and one of the pioneers of our modern railway organization.
Although Mr. Cockshott was 70 years of age, and retired from the active
duties of railway life with the close of last year, his death was sudden and
entirely unexpected. The deceased gentleman had appered in almost robust
health since leaving King's Cross, and in company with two of his daughters
spent Thursday evening at the house of a friend. He reached his home at
Tufnell Park at about midnight, when he appeared in the best of health and
spirits. After removing his coat and hat in the hall he went into the
breakfast room, and a few minutes later, while talking with some of his
family, suddenly became unwell. Medical aid was immediately summoned, but
within about quarter of an hour of his arrival home Mr. Cockshott was dead,
and the doctor attributed his decease to an attack of syncope. Mr.
Cockshott's active railway career extended to the long period of 55 years,
and may, indeed, be said to be an epitome of English railway history. As a
schoolboy he often rode on the footplate of "No. 1´of the Stockton and
Darlington. He was on board the first ship that ever entered Middlesborough
Docks. While yet in his teens he became private secretary to Mr. Edward
Pease, M.P., treasurer of the Stockton and Darlington and Great North of
England Railways, and in that capacity often attended meetings between Mr.
Pease and George Stephenson. Those were days when the English railway
seemed a puny infant, and Edward Pease smiled incredulously at the
prediction concerning the future of the locomotive; but the old Quaker was
captured by the adroit Stephenson, who said: "I think, sir, I have some
knowledge of craniology, and from what I see of your head I feel sure that
if you fairly buckle to this railway you are the man to successfully carry
it through." Mr. Pease did buckle to, and did carry it through, and on this
railway Mr. Cockshott began his training. It was reckoned a big thing then
that "in some parts the speed was frequently twelve miles an hour." Last
August, in the railway race to the North, under Mr. Cockshott's
superintendence the Great Northern train ran from King's Cross to Grantham,
105 miles in 1061/2 minutes. If he recalled the conversations he overheard
in his boyish days on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, he must have
marvelled at the strides which railways had made in his own experience.
From Darlington Mr. Cockshott went, after a short training in the
engineering shops of the Stockton Railway at Shildon, to Scotland as goods
manager for (sic) and later on became superintendent of the Edinburgh and
Northern, afterwards known as the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee, whose trains
from Leith were hauled up by a stationary engine through the Scotland Street
tunnel---now abandoned to mushroom growing--- into the then new Waverley
Station in Edinburgh. Leaving this company, whose financial position made
it questionable whether the officers' salaries were certain to be paid, in
1851, he went to the South Devon, where the atmospheric system had only
recently been abandoned. In 1858 he took charge of the Cornwall Railway
also, and it was here he was associated with the famous Brunel, who designed
the great bridge with its 19 spans across the Tamar at Saltash, and also the
celebrated Cornish viaducts. It fell to Mr. Cockshott to conduct Brunel,
lying on his back on a carriage truck, to see for the first and last time
his great Saltash Bridge completed. There too, the intervention of a
director, who urged him not to work himself to death, dragged him from the
foot-plate of an engine which half-an-hour later ran off the line on a
viaduct near St. Germans and buried itself and its crew in the mud of the
Tamar. In 1865 Mr. Cockshott went to King's Cross as superintendent of the
Great Northern Railway Company, long known as one of the most progressive as
well as one of the largest of English companies, and in his 30 years' work
there he worthily upheld its high traditions. When he entered the service
of the Great Northern Company he found the best trains---reserved, of
course, for first and second-class passengers---taking 10 1/2,
11 ½ and 16 hours to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen respectively. But it
was not only in the "race to the North" that Mr. Cockshott kept abreast with
the times. He inaugurated a system of fast expresses between Manchester and
King's Cross, which up to a short time ago were the fastest ordinary daily
trains in the world, and in the organization of the traffic to and from
Doncaster at race meetings he achieved some notable reforms. Alluding to
this point, in his book on "Our Railways," Mr. John
Pendleton says:
"There is always an enormous crowd at the St. Leger; and Mr. Francis
Cockshott, the superintendent of the Great Northern, has sent me a special
traffic sheet showing how they get the mass of people on their way home
again. The winner's shout of delight and the loser's curse of despair are
scarcely expressed before the exodus begins. On the St. Leger Day in 1892
40 trains left the up platform at Doncaster during the afternoon and night.
These were chiefly fast ordinary or special express trains, and included the
private special excursion train engaged by the Duke of Portland to convey
his house party down to Worksop, for Welbeck. No fewer than 43 ordinary and
special expresses quitted the down platform. Then the excursion trains were
many...
no fewer than 173 trains altogether, many inconveniently and humorously
crowded with human life, some of the compartments revealing such an amazing
variety of struggling people and crushed hats that quietly disposed
passengers preferred to seek refuge in the guard's van."
The Great Northern, under Mr. Cockshott's superintendence, also largely
developed the traffic for milk between the provinces and London, and their
competition for the coal traffic of the Midlands is familiar to all. Mr.
Cockshott brought to bear upon his office work a ripe experience and an
ability to grasp intricate detail which was conspicuous to all who were
brought in contact with him, and he was courteous and considerate in his
personal dealings both with the company's customers and their servants.
When he retired it was with the general good wishes of a large circle of
friends, who hoped that he might have long enjoyed his well-earned rest, and
his sudden death will be the subject of widespread regret.
Thanks Susan :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: rreddy(a)att.net [mailto:rreddy@att.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:23 AM
To: Eric Youle ; Waugh Family ); jane(a)janelachs.de
Subject: Heeley, Sheffield, 1903
If anyone has Mike Greatorex, Leonie Fretwells
& Anne Newman's addresses, can you please send them
the info.
If there is an attached file with this letter,
please do not open, just delete unread .... I just
cleaned my computer of the Happy 99 virus again,
I should be okay, but it's better to be safe.
Susan Reddy.
> Hello,
>
> I posted this info. to Yorksgen a few days ago, but some
> of you may not have seen it - the info. is from the back
> of the ordnance survey map of 1903 for Heeley.
>
> Here are a few names of people living in Heeley,
> Sheffield c1903, who certain members are researching -
>
> For Eric Youle
> 95 Richards Rd, Matthew YOULE, insurance agent.
>
> For Mike Greatorex
> 141 Richards Rd, Miss Sarah GREATOREX, dress maker.
>
> For Ann of Wigglesworth fame
> 61 Meersbrook Park Rd, Thomas Holden WIGGLESWORTH,
> lino type operator.
>
> For Delyth Waugh
> Not sure of street name, ? Oak Street,
> No. 42, Miss Emma SWINSCOE, householder.
>
> FAWCETT/COCKSHUTT
> Raleigh Rd, Cat Lane, John FAWCETT, farmer,(Cockshutts
> Farm).
>
> For Leonie Fretwell
> Meersbrook Park Rd, North-East side,
> No. 35, Thomas E. FRETWELL, clerk.
>
> -----------
>
> Susan Reddy.
Evening Mel,
thanks :-)
Interesting this one .. matches
Job Cockshott KAYLEY
Sex: M
Event(s):
Christening: 29 May 1836
Long Preston, Yorkshire, England
Parents:
Father: Ferrand KAYLEY
Mother: Mary
Can't see a Ferrand Kayley's baptisim anywhere ..
I wonder if he changed his name after marriage !?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From the IGI I also have a small family .. Batch nr. C006253
Job COCKSHOTT , wife Sophia
two children, christened in Rotherhithe, London
1814 Ann Mary COCKSHOTT
1816 Job Farrand COCKSHOTT
I also have the first name Farrand in Gargrave starting 1700.
Cheers Jane
See my NEWBIE guide here www.janelachs.de
-----Original Message-----
From: Mel Towler [mailto:meltow@honey23.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 6:45 PM
To: YORKSGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: COCKSHOTT - for Jane
Jane,
I had the chance of a wander around St Mary's at Long Preston, near Settle,
NRY, and for whatever reasons, this surname sticks in my mind. I'm not sure
how the names fit together, but I thought you would be interested, and you
can work that out.........
"In memory of Job Cockshott, son of Farrand and Mary KAYLEY of Hellifield
who died January 17th 1865 aged 28 years"
Do you think he belongs to you? I don't think this location is where you
normally find your SURNAME.
Mel Towler, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
enquiries(a)headstones.tv
Headstones in Yorkshire http://www.headstones.tv
Dedicated to searching for Monumental Inscriptions for your family
National Burial Index - due April 2001
Steve,
Looks good .. working well.
I'm forwarding it to my surname lists :-)
Thanks .. nice site
Cheers Jane
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Garton [mailto:stevejgarton@lineone.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:44 PM
To: YORKSGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Pigots 1834 Commercial Directory
Hi,
I have now added a search facility to my site, its located at the bottom of
the home page.
Type in one of your surnames, hit the search button, and the search engine
will bring up a list of all the pages where that surname is mentioned, with
links to the pages so that you can go straight to them.
I have tested the search facility and it seems to respond very quickly, I
would be interested to hear how it responds for the listers.
Cheers,
Steve Garton
Researching:
DUFFIN - Nafferton & Hull
HENNING - Hull
GARTON - Cranford
EADY - Burton Latimer
Click on http://website.lineone.net/~stevejgarton
for my family tree & transcriptions of Pigot's 1834 Commercial Directory.
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