The Marsh family tree Welcome If you have any comments, suggestions or questions (or better still, some new information!) please send me an email Many thanks, John Squier. To jump to an explanation of the codes used for people and sources of information, click here     For a snapshot of a generation - where four families were on the 6th June 1841, click here     Direct Ancestors family trees (in four parts) with links to the detailed family trees for each branch Part 1 - Marsh, Carter, Mules, Vernon, Brown and others of Devon What's new (since the last version) ...      Extra details of Devon families from parish registers online      Making their mark - copies of signatures in the person pages. Direct ancestors family tree Family names, with links to the detailed family tree pages, and likely name derivations (names without a link are included with the name above) Name, with link to detailed tree Likely derivation Places Dates Marsh Local - 'at the marsh' Devon, Chester 1676-1867, 1830-1882 Penrose Local, villages in Cornwall and Wales Devon 1629-1647 Ilbery Unknown Devon 1629 Gabrielle Baptismal 'son of Gabriel' Devon 1709 Carter Occupational - 'the carter' Devon 1637-1733 Vernim (variant of Vernon - see below) Devon 1602-1709 Yealland Local, parish of Warton, Lancashire Devon 1640-1687 Radford Local, by the red ford Devon 1642 Shopton Unknown Devon 1652 Fuen/Fring Unknown Devon 1644-1681 Mules Local from Meulles near Orbec, Lisieux. Baldwin de Moels had estates in Devon filling eleven columns of Domesday Devon 1737-1762 Avery Derived from Norman french form of Alberich or Alfred Devon 1737 Vernon A locality in Eure, East Normandy Devon 1763-1797 Brown Nickname (6th most common surname of England and Wales) Devon 1763-1792 Hele Local - 'at the hele' (variant of hill) Devon 1722-1763 Part 2 - Cahill, Brock, Chope, Linegar, Whyte, Freeman, Tydd and Frend of Ireland What's new (since the last version) ...       New information on the Brock, Linegar and Smyth families of Dublin and County Longford in the 1600s from Irish Virtual Treasury and other sources online. Direct ancestors family tree Family names, with links to the detailed family tree pages, and likely name derivations (names without a link are included with the name above) Name, with link to detailed tree Likely derivation Places Dates Cahill Son of Cathall, from cat (battle) + valos (powerfull) Dublin, Ireland 1773-1861 Brock 1. Nickname 'the brock' ie. badger, 2. Local - 'at the brook', 3. Dutch, Van der Brocke Longford, Ireland 1670-1800 Whately Localities in various counties, all 'wheat-lea' Ireland? c.1700? Aungier From Angers, Maine et Loire, France. A Huguenot family in Dublin from the mid 17C, when an important family of the same name settled in County Longford. (Given name for children of the Brock family of Longford) Longford, Ireland 1600s? Chope Baptismal 'son of Job' Ireland 1698-1741 Cashell Local, a town in County Tipperary, Ireland Ireland 1687-1731 Linegar 1. Dweller by the flax field (OE lin = flax + oecer = cultivated) 2. localities in Lancs/Cambs/Kent Ireland 1677-1721 Smith Occupational - metalworker or blacksmith Dublin, Ireland 1703 Whyte Nickname - 'the white' ie. of fair complexion Dubin and London 1686-1843 Athenry A town in County Galway, Ireland. (Given name of Samuel Whyte's son) Ireland Freeman Nickname or status - freeborn man (not a serf) Ireland 1744-1812 White (See above) Ireland 1747-1774 Tydd Local, villages in Cambs and Lincs, or Dutch Vander Tijd Ireland 1702-1738 Rogers Baptismal, from Germanic personal name Ireland 1715-1741 Frend Nickname - companionable person. Also relative/kinsman Ireland 1654-1749 Padfield Local, near Glossop in Derbyshire Ireland 1681-1718 Part 3 - Taverner, Richards and Sweeting of London and Somerset What's new (since the last version) ...      Extra details of London families from parish registers online      New information on the Sweeting family in Somerset      Making their mark - copies of signatures in the person pages. Direct ancestors family tree Family names, with links to the detailed family tree pages, and likely name derivations (names without a link are included with the name above) Name, with link to detailed tree Likely derivation Places Dates Taverner Occupational - keeper of the tavern London 1703-1778 Richards Baptismal 'son of Richard' London 1686-1771 Bean Nickname - bene, ME 'pleasant genial and kindly' or OE bean grower or seller; nickname 'of small value' London? late 1600s? Sweeting OE (Anglo Saxon) - son of Sweet(a) Somerset, London 1641-1672, 1682-1725 Nicholls Baptismal 'son of Nicholas' London 1690 Part 4 - Wilcock of Manchester, and Carter, Scott, Clapham, Jowsey, Heslop, Ffawcett and Calvert of North Yorkshire and County Durham What's new (since the last version) ...      Additional North Yorkshire families from parish registers online      Making their mark - copies of signatures in the person pages. Direct ancestors family tree Family names, with links to the detailed family tree pages, and likely name derivations (names without a link are included with the name above) Name, with link to detailed tree Likely derivation Places Dates Carter (see Part 1 above) North Yorks 1703-1859 Taylor Occupational - the tailor North Yorks 1622-1710 Stockson Unknown North Yorks 1622 Scott Local - 'the Scot' North Yorks 1652-1730 Clapham Locality (Beds, Surrey, Sussex, Yorks, etc). From clop (lump, hillock) + ham (homestead) North Yorks 1575-1687 Hunt Occupational, who hunted livestock for a living North Yorks 1623 Storie Nickname, Old Norse 'big' or 'large' North Yorks 1573 Nicholson Baptismal 'son of Nicholas' North Yorks 1765 Jowsey / Jewsey / Juicy Baptismal 'son of Josse' County Durham, North Yorks 1732-1755, 1769-1795 Walker Occupational - 'the walker' or fuller of cloth (from his stamping on or pressing it) County Durham 1732 Heslop Local (Derbyshire) North Yorks 1657-1776 Ffawcett Local - of Forcett, Yorks (the house by the ford) North Yorks 1592-1696 Lightfoot Nickname - fast runner North Yorks 1654 Holme Local - lived on an island North Yorks 1620 Calvert Occupational - 'the calf herd' County Durham 1787-1840 Note: In England and Wales, 90% of people share just 83 different surnames, the remaining 10% share 147,000 different surnames! (Source - 1991 census). Explanation of Codes People Because so many people in a family tree have the same name, it is useful to give each of them a unique number. Direct Ancestors Direct ancestors are coded with a number like this - 3/5 - the first part is a generation number (number of generations back from myself) - the second part is a person number within that generation. So 3/2 is my father’s father’s mother - a great-grandmother. 3/5 is my mother’s father’s father, a great-grandfather. And so on. See the Ancestors family trees above. Obviously there are more people in each generation back - eight great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents .... etc. Note that my other two grandparents, 2/1 and 2/2 and their ancestors, are on my Squier family tree, to see it click here     Other relatives Other relatives are coded according to their nearest direct ancestor. Each direct ancestor's children are coded with a suffix of A, B, C, etc. Then each of their children are coded with a further suffix of A, B, C, etc. So for example, - if a great-grandfather John Smith had three children, Mary, John and James, and the son John Smith had three children, John, Mary and Frederick - during their lifetimes the various John Smiths would have been called ‘John the younger’ and ‘John the elder’, but now that would be confusing, especially over three, four or five generations - so if John Smith was ancestor 3/5, his children would be Mary 3/5A, John 3/5B and James 3/5C - the son John Smith’s children would be John 3/5BA, Mary 3/5BB and Frederick 3/5BC, and so on. Sources of Information It is useful to record where you found each piece of information on the family tree, in case you need to see it again, and also to avoid looking at it again by mistake if you don’t need to. My sources of information are coded with a letter and a number: - the letter or letters indicate the place where the information is, such as a record office or library - the number indicates the type of document, such as a parish register, will or tax return. The exception is letter ‘A’ which means information from relatives or other individuals, and then the number indicates which relative. To see the full list of sources I have used, click here         (use your browser 'Back' button to return) and there is also a link to it from the top of each of the Person Detail pages. Back to top of page