Well, I was looking for a site...please pardon the term...for bastards...well,
its rude but when one is looking for enlightenment on how the census takers
might have used initials or how they may have written it up on census records,
one has to use the language of the day and they used that term quite generously
in those days. There was no such thing as political correctness. I found a very
peculiar entry and I thought perhaps my relative had been born on the wrong side
of the blanket and was trying to figure out what the term meant so was trying to
look up the term. Anyway, my detective took me to this site. It did not answer
my question and the site is really not relevant to my ancestors being in
Wirksworth and Derbyshire. However, being the history buff I am and lover of all
trivia, I did find many interesting things to read on the site. Very interesting
things about free and voluntary gift to King Charles 11 and they have lists of
donors
and this dates back to 1600's. What is interesting is how many people have
contributed lists to this site. It really shows what a group of people can do
privately and without alot of money/non-profit. I was quite impressed. It was
also worth looking at because it gives you some ideas of other places to look
for leads. They have leads of police gazette records of sheep thieves. They have
assessment rolls of the people who had to pay the very unpopular hearth tax
which was an area I never thought of looking. There is lists of bastards and
aliases. Unpopular surnames. I could go on and on. BTW, the bastard terminology
is what they use because that was the Court of Bastardy Cases for their district
so I am only using the actual language of the day and mean no offence to anyone.
I, myself make no moral judgements about this sort of thing and in fact my
grandmother had her first child out of wedlock and I am having one heck of a
time finding him thanks to all
the secrecy and taboo of illegimacy of children in those days.

Here is link for those who might be searching for ancestors in that area or may
just want to take a look to get some ideas of other areas to search or just
curious like me.

http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/frontpag.htm


Renee

hope all you moms out there have a wonderful Mothers Day this weekend!



Researching Carvell,Collins,Crisp,Greenwood,Cuzner,Mee,Pickford,Raison
http://members.shaw.ca/meecuzner/index.html
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/cuzners_in_their_genes_/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/genealogywhoMEE/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/COLLINSrootsSearch/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Carvell_Genealogy_Surname_Data_Share/


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