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15/07/2010
Eagle-eyed or technically minded readers may have noticed that thehunthouse.net has become thehunthouse.com
Similarly, maps.thehunthouse.net has become maps.thehunthouse.com
Nothing has changed except the name
You should have been automatically redirected to the right place
but at some point in the future the dot net site may disappear completely
12/07/2010
Emily Rebecca TOMPKINS, married Thomas William DISBREY in 1910.
He was lost at sea when HMS Derwent was mined and sunk off Le Havre on 2nd May 1917.
Emily then married James Thomas WILLISON in 1920, losing another two children in infancy.
26/06/2010
Descendants of William Henry HUNT (b1881) and Blanche Elizabeth CATMORE (b1876)
Finally found in the 1911 census where both were misspelled in the index.
Three of their six children had died in infancy.
The last known child was Thomas James HUNT (b1915) who married Evelyn May WERE (b1918) in 1936.
23/06/2010
According to Issue 18783 of The London Gazette, dated 11th March 1831,
"At the Court-House, at Winchester, in and for the County of Southampton,
on the 2nd day of April 1831, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon precisely."
John Gregory COTTELL, late of West Cowes in the Isle of Wight, Hants,
Plumber, Glazier and Painter, would be sued for bankruptcy.
20/06/2010
In February 1871 Sarah TOMPKINS (b1849) gave birth to illegitimate Harry Stanbridge TOMPKINS in Clifton.
Three months later local Bricklayer Henry STANBRIDGE stepped up to the Altar and married her.
Therein must lie a tale.
Meanwhile her Uncle, William TOMPKINS (b1848), had moved to Leicester where he married Comfort TILLEY in 1872.
Comfort died a year later giving birth to their first child, James Ernest Conquest TOMPKINS.
William returned briefly to Clifton and married Sarah HARRIS in Henlow in 1874.
William's brother, Daniel TOMPKINS (b1834), moved from Clifton to Morton in Lincolnshire and married local girl Harriet WILDBORE
She died in 1869 and their son James returned to live with Grandparents, James Conquest and Rebecca TOMPKINS in Clifton.
Daniel then married Elizabeth THORNTON in Morton in 1873.
In 1881 they are living three doors away from Daniel's nephew, Charles LINCOLN (b1860) who is married to Maria THORNTON.
Widowed again, 67 year old Daniel married 27 year old Ada SIMPSON in 1901.
28/04/2010
I have added a
list and brief history of London Atlases
and a timeline to aid dating London Maps 1857 - 1965
to the London Miscellany section of my map site.
26/04/2010
I have been receiving some odd error messages from my webhost to the effect that
a few of the surname maps and the
surname links on this page are not working.
Some newer browsers seem to be less tolerant of cAPitaL letter errors
in links or spaces in filenames.
The problem is now solved unless you are trying to get here from a search engine
This will correct itself when their spiders next get here. If anyone finds a broken link please let me know.
19/03/2010
If you ever need to know the difference between an Urban District Council and a Rural District Council
or between a Metropolitan Borough and a Metropolitan Corporation - look no further.
Notes on the Administration of England and Wales will enlighten you.
Taken from the 1929 edition of a Philips' Atlas it contains a wealth of information
about the history and structure of the way that England and Wales are Governed and Administered.
12/01//2010
More new SURRIDGEs than you could shake a stick at,
taking the line back two more generations and forward via families in Eltham, Sydenham and Pimlico.
03/01//2010
John TOMPKINS born in Clifton, Beds in 1840, son of Thomas TOMPKINS and Frances LOCKLEY
(both parents had seen the inside of Bedford Gaol)
married Rebecca BARKER in 1864 and about 5 years later moved to Hendon, Middlesex.
amongst the first of many Cliftonians to migrate to North London in search of work.
One of his sons, Thomas, married Alice Bertha HUGHES in 1895. The rest of the HUGHES family then moved in.
Alice's widowed father, Alfred HUGHES, married sister Emma TOMPKINS in 1898.
Emma was 14 years his junior and had been paralysed since childhood.
This did not stop her having several children, including one illegitimately, Emily Rebecca TOMPKINS,
who married Thomas William DISBREY, a Stoker on the River Class Destroyer HMS Welland, in 1910.
In the meantime brother Joseph TOMPKINS had married Alice's sister, Rosetta HUGHES, in 1906.
01/12//2009
The Holy Grail, 6,000
London Street name changes
made between 1857-1929
12/11/2009
All living at 20 Gillespie Road, Islington in 1901 were:-
Alfred DILLEY and his wife Sarah Jane neé GODFREY, brother John DILLEY, nephew Frederick GODFREY
and half brother George Henry DILLEY with his wife Ellen neé GODFREY, who is Sarah Jane's sister.
The girls parents were both GODFREYs and their maternal grandmother is the delightfully named Lucy RAINBOW.
11/11/2009
From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website
In Memory of
Private DANIEL DILLEY
9288, 2nd Bn., Northamptonshire Regiment
who died age 27
on 14 March 1915
Son of Fred and Ann E. Dilley, of Clifton, Beds.
Remembered with honour
I have not been able to find out what happened to his twin brother, Decimus DILLEY,
who was a soldier in 1911, stationed at Aldershot Barracks.
Their older brother, Albert, signed up in 1916. He was gassed in France and discharged as "unfit" with "50% capacity".
08/11/2009
On Christmas Day 1863, Elizabeth Rebecca Charlotte HUNT married James OLIVER at St. James, Shoreditch
35 other couples were also married in the Church that day.
Their granddaughter, Amelia Ethel OLIVER was baptised on 20th September 1896 at St. Jude, Bethnal Green
at the same time as her second cousin, Frederick John ISAACS, who died less than two years later.
Both are the great grandchildren of Jonathan HUNT and Mary Ann FISHER. Both families were living in Canrobert Street at the time.
03/11/2009
On Friday 12th November 1875 in Clifton, Bedfordshire, 66 children appear to have been Christened in the Village Church.
If anyone has an explanation for this outbreak of evangelicalism, I would be pleased to hear from them.
This discovery led me to find that Eliza WOOTTON (previously recorded as WOOTON) who married James DILLEY
is the sister of Jane WOOTTON who married Charles COPPERWAITE.
25/10/2009
I do not believe in conspiracy theories,
except of course that it cannot be coincidence that Grace Archer burned to death on 22 September 1955.
Just before findmypast announced that the 1911 Census would be available on subscription,
rather than ruinous pay-per-view,
Ancestry released the London records described below on 6th October.
So I had to have both.
All the 1911 records that I found in January and since are now included.
23/10/2009
Dozens of my ancestors from Clifton, Beds., were employed as "Straw Plaiters",
making 22 yard long plaits which were sewn into Hats in factories in Luton.
The straw was first split into uniform widths using Brass cutters.
I have several examples of these, found in local fields using metal detectors, presumably lost or discarded as broken.
In about 1840, John Austin of Tring, Hertfordshire, invented/manufactured a better splitter.
I have searched for years to find one, here it is.
At just over 4 inches tall it is not in perfect condition (the five cutter is missing) but then neither am I.
As you hold it in your hand your thumbnail gravitates automatically to the indent under a cutter
and it becomes very easy to imagine how it was used.
20/10/2009
Not strictly family tree, but I have found two fascinating street maps of Rome and Paris from about 1879.
These can be found here.
06/10/2009
In collaboration with the London Metropolitan Archive, Ancestry have digitised a huge quantity of London BMD records.
This is an amazing resource, very well indexed, giving access to original records going back much further than 1837.
It has enabled me to confirm many IGI Baptisms and Marriages as well as viewing original Marriage certificates post 1837.
There are some Churches missing, for example St. Anne, Soho and St. James, Westminster are poorly represented
but, fortunately, I have not found a single anomaly, only confirmation and extra detail.
I have not yet had any success with the Death records but overall, it is wonderful.
The information I have found is too numerous to list here but I have updated each individual record to include it.
13/06/2009
Marriage of Fanny Charlotte BURCH & John Ernest BOWLES in 1919
which proves the BURCH/BATCHELER connection beyond doubt.
Both the Church they were married in and the house they were living in fell victim to WW2 bombs.
06/05/2009
More descendants of John CROUCH (1764) & Mary VIDLER (1766)
The success of my London Street Map has encouraged me to reproduce a World Atlas from 1898
There is also now a copy of "Disappearing London" from 1927, an interesting and idiosyncratic look at 12 lost views.
(This link was broken for a short while - now fixed)
18/01/2009
1911 Census
I have found the following families so far,
but have not had time to incorporate this onto the site yet.
If you would like further information please drop me an email.
Arthur William & Louisa Emily HUNT, West Ham
Even though I have original certificates and many coincidences, I had a scintilla of doubt about Louisa.
She gave several wrong answers on her Marriage certificate. These doubts have now disappeared.
Frederick & Annie HUNT, West Ham
Arthur NICHOLLS (Nephew) still living with the family. I still don't know who he is.
Update - October 2009 - he is the son of John NICHOLLS & Emma SAMUELS, Annie's sister.
Edward & Frances HUNT, Bethnal Green
Jemima HUNT, West Ham
Thomas & Elizabeth HUNT, Poplar
William & Hannah CROUCH, Staplecross
Thomas William & Caroline CROUCH, King's Lynn
Fanny Charlotte BURCH, Chiswick
Ellen COPPERWAITE, Clifton
Edgar Lawrence DEXTER, Southwark
James & Ann GAYWOOD, Catford
Alsey GAYWOOD, St. Pancras
George & Priscilla HENLEY, Chiswick
Thomas & Doris May PARRIS, Acton
William & Mary ROBINSON, Hackmey
Bertram Thomas & Annie SLATER, Battersea
Thomas James & Louisa SLATER, Clapham
Jane Matilda SMITH, Chiswick
Alfred & Emily SURRIDGE, Pimlico
Frederick & Annie SURRIDGE, Belgrave
Thomas & Edith TAYLOR, Poplar
Arthur & Emma TOMPKINS, East Finchley
Ernest & (H)elen YOUNG, Chiswick
12/11/2008
My Map has been awarded "Specific Data CD of the Year"
by Your Family Tree Magazine and kindly reviewed by others.
09/10/2008
I have, at last, found a list of many of the
London Street name changes
which the L.C.C. made between about 1935 - 1940.
26/09/2008
A heap more GODFREYs and, perhaps, the birth of Rebecca RUSSELL in 1743,
which I will include as soon as time permits.
17/07/2008
I have scanned a Street Map of London from c1922,
which is available at maps.thehunthouse.com
Also on the site is a charming
Map and Guide to Epping Forest from about 1910
and a Street Map of Cambridge from c1912
08/06/2008
Charles Dade FISHER Christening & Parents found.
Wrong IGI submitted information removed.
30/05/2008
A completely new look and better XHTML compliance.
All external links now open in a separate window.
The Surname Maps section has been re-written.
Some links that were broken are mended.
The structure of the tables has been simplified.
02/03/2008
Rory Gallagher (02/03/1948 -14/06/1995) would have been 60 today.
No relation, just my all time favourite guitarist and live performer.
01/03/2008
To accommodate a larger site and make it load faster I have rearranged the file structure.
This should make no practical difference
unless you have pages book-marked. Sorry, they will have moved.
12/1/2008
Edward HUNT born 1795 in Broome,
died of Gout in the Kings' Head Tavern, Islington, where he was the licensee.
The Guildhall Library Print Room has a contemporary drawing clearly showing his name above the door.
17/12/2007
CONQUEST Surname Map added
5/12/2007
More descendants of John BEATTY & Jemima KEMP
15/11/2007
A heap more DILLEYs & some COPPERWAITEs
following a prompt from Australia
31/10/2007
TOMPKINS / CONQUEST / BALLS / KITELY/
further details found in Clifton Parish Register
Edward HUNT (1816) m Ellen DEVINE (1806)
she died on 9/3/1851, he was no longer at the address on census night
26/10/2007
Jane HUNT (1852) m William ISAAC(S) (1851)
After 1881 I had been following the wrong family - info removed
Son, William Edward, staying with Grandmother in 1891
24/10/2007
Descendants of William BATCHELER & Hannah CURD
Hannah's sister, Ann, married a Mr GIBSON
a middle name that often crops up with no known origin
13/10/2007
DREWITT family mapped
descendants of Amelia GREEN (1836 - 1906)
Mary CROUCH married Edmund POLHILL in 1853
She is the daughter of Oliver CROUCH not, as I had supposed, some other branch
02/10/2007
A short "outage" was caused by a change of server at my web host
some emails sent to thehunthouse over the last 3 days may have been lost in the ether
if I did not reply, please re-send
Someone searched yesterday for Sophie DILLEY using Google - page now working!
01/10/2007
Descendants of William BATCHELER (1774 - 1849)
30/09/2007
Edward HUNT B c1816 Broome - First marriage to Ellen DEVINE and 1841 Census
James Jonathan HUNT found in 1881 in Essex County Lunatic Asylum, where he died 5 years later
14/09/2007
In 1877 Arthur TOMPKINS and some DILLEYs had a brush with the Law
click here for brief details.
14/07/2007
Navigation for Surname Maps improved
Java script removed and you can now easily jump between 1881 and 1998
29/05/2007
Nearly recovered, email working and Vista thrown away, back to XP.
Hi to Amanda. Templer Surname Map added.
Andy, will be back to you shortly.
29/04/2007
Yet another virus, caught whilst downloading music, caused total ruination of the computer.
Do not let your children use Limewire.
I have saved everything at the cost of a whole new machine,
but it will take a little while to get back to speed.
10/04/2007
Happy 5th Birthday to thehunthouse.com
14/03/2007
Arthur & Emma TOMPKINS, from Clifton, moved to Finchley.
Prompted by a new 2nd cousin, once removed, I have found their Death certificates
and more TOMPKINS in Finchley in 1901.
12/02/2007
I have taken (and passed) an Open University course :- "Start Writing Your Family Tree" (A173)
I expected it to be about writing but it was mostly about
understanding and interpreting primary & secondary historical sources.
12 weeks of very hard work but very rewarding and highly recommended.
Thank you Gill.
29/10/2006
A visit to East Sussex Record Office in Lewes
has produced many confirmations and some new information
about CROUCHs, POLLYs, and BATCHELERs.
22/10/2006
Clifton, Beds.
More GODFREYs & ENDERSBYs
I had confused two Nelly TOMPKINS
One married James CAWDELL/CAULDWELL in 1838,
she was also known as Elinor and Ellen.
The other married Gilbert WOOLARD in 1832 and died in 1845.
01/10/2006
Lots of WOLSTENHOLMEs
Descendants of Ann Priscilla's brother, John Curtis
Leading eventually to Kenneth HUME, the first husband of Shirley BASSEY
23/09/2006
New section added Surname Maps
a map for each surname showing distribution in 1881 and 1998
20/09/2006
I have obtained a photocopy of a letter written on 4th October 1831
by John BATCHELER to his Wife, Elizabeth
Copyright prevents it's reproduction here, but it ends :-
"I remain, My Dear Betsey, your truly affectionate, and faithful Husband, John Batcheler"
and is a beautiful and moving document.
Please email me if you would like further details.
28/08/2006
Ancestors & new descendants of John Russell BATCHELER
15/07/2006
DEXTER family mapped
New page added Cause of Death
09/07/2006
Family of George Henry BATCHELER mapped
another son of John William Gibson BATCHELER
02/07/2006
Charles LINCOLN & Jonathan GODFREY (from Clifton)
moved to Nottingham,
some became Coal Miners at the Hucknall Torkard Mine (home of Lord Byron)
in touch with each other and the TOMPKINS who moved to Derby
Two brothers of Louisa Emily COTTELL moved to Australia in the 1840's
18/06/2006
WYATT/WILTON M cert
3 x Alsey GAYWOOD families mapped
HENLY new family from James (B 1835)
26/05/2006
GREEN / HEY Certs & Census updates
BROWNING Sisters - WHEELER, WRATTEN & JOHNSON families
Many thanks to Charlie - ALLINGHAM to follow
15/05/2006
A power cut damaged the database, some peculiar duplicates have appeared,
I think this problem is now resolved.
1841 Census addresses for almost every family
GAYWOOD Family - More children found in Workhouse in 1851
Visit to Clifton - Gravestones photographed
TOMPKINS / DILLEY / ENDERSBY / PATERNOSTER certs
Ewhurst - YORK / CRAMP / POLHILL certs
Chudleigh - HENLEY / WINGET certs
Walthamstow - PERRY / TURNER certs
Chelsea - CARTER / GREEN / HEY certs
22/04/2006
Lots of MEPPEMs
Lots of DILLEYs & TOMPKINS'
Frances (Fanny) DILLEY nee LOCKLEY found in Bedford County Gaol in 1871
10/04/2006
COTTELL & GRAY Census addresses
Elizabeth HUGHESDON nee SKINNER D cert 1843
William HUGHESDON D cert 1860
Isabella WOLSTENHOLME nee CURTIS D cert 1859
William & Sarah SLATER D certs 1900
Sarah Ann SLATER B cert 1864 & Census addresses 1871-1901
William Thomas SLATER B cert 1847
& M cert to Mary Ann SLATER 1876
30/03/2006
Ann Priscilla PARKER nee WOLSTENHOLME D cert 1881
William Gibson BATCHELER & Louisa Emily COTTELL M cert 1851
Emily Alice BEATTY B cert 1873
Jemima BEATTY B cert 1850
Alsey GAYWOOD B cert 1843
Mary Ann DILLEY nee HILLS D cert 1886
John DILLEY D cert 1892
William BURCH D cert 1857
15/03/2006
Lots of HUGHESDONs
Alice HUNT M William APPLEYARD 1891
09/03/2006
G'day Rod Hagen & Family
08/03/2006
At the 4th attempt, the last male CROUCH has produced a male CROUCH
Congratulations to Nick & Jane
Welcome to Jack Arthur
04/03/2006
Parents of William COPPERWAITE
Lydia PLATER nee BURCH D cert 1901
Various SLATER census addresses
previously wrongly indexed as SLATES/STATER/SLADER
28/02/2006
Ann SURRIDGE nee TAYLOR D cert 1883
Mary Ann SURRIDGE M cert to James BRIGHT 1854
BRIGHT census addresses 1851-1901
Charles PLATER D cert 1884
James Jonathan HUNT D cert 1886
Henry HUNT B cert 1840
Henry HUNT D cert 1842
Ernest Wingett HENLEY B cert 1876
Ernest Winget HENLEY D cert 1878
William HENLEY D cert 1892
Descendants of Mary Ann CROUCH, Daughter of William CROUCH
& Lucy BARROW, who emigrated to Australia
on 27/11/1838
24/02/2006
Sarah POWLEY D cert 1866
Sarah Jane HENLEY B cert 1841
William SURRIDGE D cert 1856
Ann SWANTON B cert 1839
Caroline SWANTON B cert 1843
Eliza SWANTON nee COLLINS D cert 1845
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