W.I.S.E. %Potta The Newsletter of W.I.S.E. Family History Society

Volume 3, No. 3 Jul-Aug-Sep 2002

NO Middle Names?? by: Elizabeth Brown

Difficulties in Welsh research may begin with names. Until the 1500's, surnames as we know them did not exist? That is, the same surname was not continued from generation to generation and middle names were not used. In England it was actually illegal to have more than two names — a first and a last name (royalty ex-cepted). First offenders could receive a severe whipping. Second offenders could receive a more severe punishment, like the loss of a thumb or ears. More stubborn offenders could even be hanged. There is a case on record of a man who obstinately used four names whenever he wrote his signature, even after receiving first and second offense punishments. For that, he was hanged.2

My curiosity about the prevalence of only two names led me to examine thelist of the signers of the Mayflower Compact (1620). There were NO middle names. And I spotted only five names for the signers of our Constitution (ratified by the minimum required number of nine states by June 1788) that used more than two names. What influence the English law forbidding more than two names had on Welsh names is not dear to me.

What is clear is the effect of the preponderant patronymic nam-ing system where a child was given a first (or Christian or given) name plus the father's first name for a surname. One can say that the surname changed with each generation. For example, from my family: Mary CHARLES, daughter of CHARLES Mark, married Richard THOMAS. In Wales she would not have been called Mary THOMAS or Mary MARK. Women kept their maiden names, so she was known as Mary CHARLF-C, daughter of Charles MARK and wife of Richard THOMAS. They came to America in 1795 with most, but not all of their children. Here, the surname THO-MAS became "settled."

Although most of the others joined them later, their oldest son, Evan„ never came to the U.S. and never had the surname THO-MAS. Recorded in the parish records as Evan, son of Richard Tho-mas and his wife Mary, he is in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940 as Evan PRITCHARD (from the patronymic name Evan ap Richard, the ap having been dropped but the p attached to Ritchard, a variant of Richard). He was buried as Ieuan (Welsh for Evan) Rhisiard (another variant of Richard).

The youngest son, John, my great great grandfather, is the only one I'm aware of in this family to have three names: John Richard THOMAS, the family having adopted THO-MAS in the U.S. as a surname. I see this name as a combination of the patronymic, John RICHARD, with the settled surname, THO-MAS. Another child of CHART PS Mark, Rich-ard CHARLES, also came to the U.S. and his surname, CHARLES, became the settled sur-name.

What does this tell us about researching Welsh families?

1. Search ALL names, first, last and any others. 2. Expect and search variant spellings. 3. Understand the patronymic naming system. 4. Expect to find more than one surname in use

today for descendants of the same ancestor.

(This is true, of course, whenever women marry and accept the surnames of their husbands.)

Betty Brown

1) Catherine Fliac, "Origins of Welsh Surnames," Welsh-American Society Newsletter, vol. #12.2, Winter 2002, pp. 10-11.

2) "Middle Name? Uh, oh ... it might be a hanging offense!" The Family Tree, October-November 1997, p. 3A (Taken from The Martin County Genealogical Society Newsletter)

IN THIS ISSUE: NO Middle Names? Front

President's message 20

Member Profile 20

W.I.S.E. Tips 21

Black Armbands and Crepe 21

Pictures of the David Webster Presentation 22

(article needed) 22

Member Interest Column NEW!! 23

New Books —Denver Public Library 24

Program Schedule/Events — Third Quarter 25 F.Y.T. - Upcoming Games & Festivals 26

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Front oar President As summer approaches there were two things that made me strongly consider

making a belated New Year's resolution. One was a statement in Volume 17, No. 4 of the Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society newsletter which reads: "If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it over?"

The second thing was a small fire in the townhouse complex in which I live. Al-though there was only smoke damage, it could have been a disaster. I, as many of you, have much family data that has been collected over the years stored in file cabi-nets, bookcases, photo albums, and notebooks, as well as my computer. I have cop-ied church, bible, state, county records, book pages and other records all on acid pa-per. I have photos that date back to 1849.

At my age I do not have time to recapture this information in order to pass the family history to my grandchildren.

How is the best way to safeguard my paper files and photos?

One way is to transfer as much of the paper file to acid-free paper. I carry my own acid-free paper to the Federal Center and courthouses. I only use acid-free paper through my printer. I also have started re-copying on acid-free paper at a local copy machine.

This summer I plan to start to convert as much of my files as I think is worth sav-ing to electronic files. I don't think this will be too complicated. Time consuming - yes.

I will use a scanner on flat files where possible. This includes photos. For that ma-terial which is too large or for any reason not suitable for my flat bed scanner, I will use my photocopying table. This is a platform with 2 lights for illumination and an arm to attach a digital camera. The output from the scanner and camera will be stored in the computer for any adjustments.

When satisfied, I plan to transfer the data to a CD, inosrlikely a ReWritable CD which can be modified as I proceed through this process. I understand CD-RW blanks are designed to be updated for as much as 1000 times. These blanks are for short term storage. CD-Recordable (CD-R) are for longer storage and can be added to, however, the data that has been entered cannot be modified.

Today's CD's are not designed to last for a 100 years. There will be other storage mediums in the future which will last much longer. Our challenge today is to pre-serve the information we have collected in a storage medium that is available today.

W.I.S.E. Family History Society

Dedicated to research in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Interest in emigration and immigration of these people as well as heraldry and family studies.

Officers & Board Members Newsletter Staff

President. John Mossman Editor Gordon Gray <ggray01@aolcom>

Sharon Macdonald Country Editors: Vice-President/programs.. Wales Elizabeth Brown

Secretary .Zoe von Ende Lappin Ireland ..Terence Quirke, C.G. Scotland Paul Kilburn

Treasurer... ....... . ....... Tommie Brett Kadotani England Donna J. Porter

Directors .Elizabeth Brown Terence Quirke, CG.

Membership Services .. George Fosdick

S 45 • This will make it easier to store the infor-mation in a safety deposit box at the bank. There is an excellent article on this subject entitled, "Digital Age," found on page 90 of the January/February 2002 issue of Everton's " Family History" magazine.

Even though the above exercise may be time-consuming, I believe those of you who have grandchildren, or like me, who have great grandchildren, will find this exercise most rewarding.

Until next time,

john Mossman

Member Profile: Tommie Brett Kadotani

By Betty Brown, Director, W.I.S.E.

Our new Treasurer, Tommie Kadotani, is a native of Long Island, born in Glen Cove. She lived in Michigan and Iowa before coming to Colorado in 1968. She was married in Golden in 1969. A gradu-ate of Romeo (MI) High School, Drake University (IA) and the University of Colorado, she has had experience as a consultant in the health care industry and as a stockbroker.

Now with James Wheeler & Co., she was the first woman in Dean Witter's in Colorado in 1978. Yet this busy woman, mother to three stepdaughters and grandmother of two children, also found time to do volunteer work at the Colo-rado Historical Society. She is Registrar of her Colorado chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the Revolution (DAR) and is a member of the Daughters of Founders and Patriots. She has six Mayflower ancestors.

Tommie enjoys serendipity and suc-cess like connecting the writer of a series of postcards to the diaries of her great grandmother.

The principal surnames she's research-ing include: BRETT, WRAY, PARR, AT-KINSON, RAINFORD, ELWELL, BEEBE, FARNSWORTH, BROMSON and MOMEY.

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Black Armbands and Crepe by James K. Jeffrey

For those who suffer ermine fever this has been a bad year indeed. First we lose the Princess Margaret Rose, but as the dears at church reminded me she was a party girl and besides it was Lent and that offered enough pain and soul searching. Lent had ended and Easter Tide brought the death of the last Empress of India, Her Imperial Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Some may scratch their heads and ask why she did not take the honorific Dowager Queen. There are two answers, one she was very young in her early fifties and two, Her Majesty, Queen Mary, Dowager Queen was still alive and would be for a few years more. Yes, we have all seen the passing of an era with the Death of the "Queen Mum." May we all enjoy our gin and tonics for decades to come.

This week we have seen the passing of yet another. His Grace, the Duke of Norfolk died on June 24th. Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard succeeded to England's oldest dukedom in 1975. The dukes of Norfolk are referred to as the premier (non-royal) dukes. They are of the highest rank of peers because their title is the oldest, having been created in 1483 by King Richard III for John Howard, his loyal supporter in the Wars of the Roses. The Howards have been one of Eng-land's most prominent families for 500 years. They main-tained their Roman Catholic faith despite King Henry VIII's break with the Church of Rome in the 16th century and in the face of anti-Roman Catholic laws that did not begin easing until the late 18th century.

What is of interest to genealogists is that the Duke of Nor-folk is the earl marshal of England. He is one of the Great Offi-cers of State, who are senior members of the royal household. The earl marshal, whose position now is largely ceremonial, is responsible for state ceremonies such as a coronation. The earl marshal also heads the College of Arms, which is the au-thority in England and Wales on genealogy and heraldry. His elder son, Edward Earl of Arundel, as the 18th Duke of Nor-folk, succeeds

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English Origin News

Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills Index 1750-1800.

Dear Listers,

Origins.net (www.origins.net), in association with the Society of Genealogists, are pleased to announce that the PCC Wills Index is now available for searching on English Origins (www. englishorigins.com)

About the Index data:

Wills have been proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) since 1383 and are now preserved in the Public Record Office, London. The index created by the Society of Genealo-gists and now available on English Origins covers wills proved in the period 1750-1800 (inclusive).

Each index record has the Forename and Surname of the testa-tor, the Place (usually the English county) where they resided, and the Month and Year when probate was granted.

Where the place of residence was not England, the country may be given (most commonly Scotland or Ireland), or `Foreign Parts' - which may be any place outside the British Isles.

This index, containing 208,000 entries created from the type-written index, includes a hard copy service allowing users to order extracts online.

For more information about the data contained in this index, please go to: <http://www.englishorigins.con/help/pccwills-details.aspx>

Previous Downloads now available on English Origins

Users of English Origins are now able to take advantage of the Previous Downloads facility on Eorigins. This enables users to view records they have already downloaded in a 48 hour ses-sion and, if required, order hard copies of source documents, outside of their user session. Simply log into the site using your chosen Username and password at any time, and click on 'View Previous Downloads' which will bring up a list of all records that have been viewed. By entering in a valid credit card number, copies costing €10 (€8 for SoG members) can be ordered for certain datasets. Visit <http://www. englishorigins.com/help/Aboutaspx#extractorders> for more information.

Further information about any of the materials found on Ori-gins.net can be found at <www.origins.net> or by contacting pr@origins.net

VOLUME 3, NO. 3 W.I.S.E. 9P6aglf PAGE 22

Photos from DAvib Webster's presentation to Wi.S.E. Motibmi 13 Mal, 2002

David Webster

On Monday, 13 May, David Web-ster gave a seminar on Scottish Ge-nealogy and Research.

After graduating with a first class honors B.Sc. In chemical engineering from the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow, David Webster worked in England and Sweden before returning to Scotland and catching the genealogy bug.

Through his substantial business experience over a period of more than 20 years, David is well experienced in giving presentations to all sorts of audiences.

David a

In addition to his professional career, David has developed a substantial reputation over the past 12 years as a professional genealogical re-searcher in Scottish records, as well as related records in terms of Scottish emigrants not only to North America and Australia and New Zealand, but also England, Ireland, and Europe.

The presentation was very informative to all who attended.

President, 'John Mown

Paul Houston and David

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Member 'Mom% Column

This is the premier of our Member Interests Column. W.I.S.E. Words will be printing a listing of our members' interests, as it relates to their heritage and the geographic areas where they are doing research. They have been ex-tracted from the information provided by our membership on their membership renewal forms. The information presented in this column will be presented in segments, so you will want to save it for future reference.

Terry Quirke has compiled these data and if any member would like to submit information to be included, please send it to him at <T2quirke@aol.com> or Terry Quirke, 2310 Juniper Court, Golden, CO 80401-8087. Information can also be dropped off at Denver Public Library, c/o James Jeffrey or Janice Prater.

WISE Society REGISTER OF MEMBERS' INTERESTS

By Membership Number

As of 10 December 2001

MBR # MEMBER'S NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP/POSTAL PHONE # E-MAIL ADDRESS 1 C. W. Keighin Lakewood Colorado 80232-6430 2 Theda Kells Hoyt Arvada Colorado 80004-4620 3 Lura Williams Denver Colorado 80220-5505 4 Barbara Salazar Highlands

Ranch Colorado 80129-5432 5 John C. Palmer Colo Spgs Colorado 80906-5308 6 Marg Ann Barton Golden Colorado 80401-1367 7 Melvin Spencer Klein Littleton Colorado 80125-9257 8 Mary Macpherson Wilson Denver Colorado 80224-1811 9 Margaret A. Ringhofer Denver Colorado 80219-5053 10 George E./Jane L. Fosdick Englewood Colorado 80112-6522 11 Esther B. Jurgens Denver Colorado 80218-2440 12 Janet S. Chilson Aurora Colorado 80047-0848 13 James J. Cavanaugh Boulder Colorado 80305-5652 14 Bob Barnes Lakewood Colorado 80215-1404 15 Zoe Lappin Denver Colorado 80220-2559 16 Don Roberts Greenwood

Village Colorado 80111-5208 17 Charleen D. Roberts Greenwood

Village Colorado 80111-5208 18 Ruth/Terence Quirke Golden Colorado 80401-8087

MEMBERS' INTERESTS by SURNAME

Town/City County Memb Town/City County Memb Surname Other/Name Period Townland Shire Country ID Surname Other/Name Period Townland Shire Country ID

ADAMS George W. ENG 15v DALRYMPLE James 1700+ Edinburgh MLN SCT 6 ALSOP 1820-50 DBY ENG 10 DALRYMPLE James 1700+ AYR SCT 10 BAKER Elizabeth 1838-50 Eben ENG 13 DOYLE Mary 1800+ IRL 13 BAKER Adam 1800+ ENG 15, DURKAN Margaret BALDWIN Richard 1500-50 BKM ENG 4 Irene 1830-50 Ballina MAY IRL 6 BARTON George 1858-80 DON IRL 4 EAMES Millicent 1615 St. George BEATON-- Glenelg INV SCT 1 Fordington DOR ENG 2 BECKET Sarah 1800+ ANT IRL 14 FOSDICK Stephen 1583-1620 Great BLACK Archibald pre-1813 S. Knapdale SCT 13 Wenham SFK ENG 14 BOYLAND Joseph 1830-90 Bath DEV ENG 7 FOWLE Margaret BRIGGS Henrie 1597 London ESS ENG 2 Bayle 1587 Nayland SFK ENG 14 BRODIGAN -- LOU IRL If ,: GARNER Jean 1830-50 WIC IRL 5 BROWN John 1800 SCT 9 GARNER Jane 1830-50 WIC IRL 5 BURVILLE William 1780-1850 St. Clement KEN ENG 4 GILES Elizabeth 1752+ IRL 5 CAPPES Joane c. 1569 Norwich NFK ENG 14 GRACE Francis W. 1916+ London LND ENG 18 CARTER Aaron pre-1800 Southwark KEN ENG 18 GRACE Grace 1916+ London LND ENG 18 CATION William 1800+ Kinross KRS SCT 6 GRACE Rhoda 1871+ Brighton SSX ENG 18 CATION William 1800+ Kinross LKS SCT 6 GRACE Frederick W.1895+ Southampton HAM ENG 18 CATION William 1800+ Kinross FIF SCT 7 GRACE Frederick W 1895+ Rolvenden KEN ENG 18 CAVANAUGH 1800+ WEX IRL 4 GRACE Ethel 1875+ Tenterden KEN ENG 18 CHAPMAN Rebecca 1881+ Preston SSX ENG 18 HANRAHAN Ennis CLA IRL 16 CHURCH Richard 1608 London MDX ENG 4 HARVEY Daniel 1800-1870 Westbury COEY -- DOW IRL 3, on Severn GLS ENG COPELAND Samuel 1776+ WEX IRL 7 HAWLEY Edward pre-1840 IRL 5 CORNELL Sarah 1650-90 HEF ENG 4 HAWLEY John Henry COWLEY Mary Ann 1820-50 Peel 10M 3 pre-1840 IRL 5 CUMMINS pre-1800 SCT 8

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New Book Bibliography Denver Public Library

By: James K. Jeffrey

Western History and Genealogy

The Denver Post headlines read that fourteen DPL staff members were to lose their jobs. This has hap-pened and I want to explain how this came about. No one in the Western History and Genealogy Depart-ment lost their jobs or were shuffled around to other positions. You may remember that last year the State of Colorado and the City and County of Denver had budget windfalls and the State gave generous tax re-funds. In the mean time the economy has taken a beat-ing. Gov. Bill Owens presented his budget to the state legislature who in turn porked it up and returned it to him with no time for negotiations on budget items. The governor was forced to make very difficult choices and unfortunately funding for libraries was cut.

The State budget cuts of nearly $2.3 million have eliminated the Colorado Resource Center funding which formerly supported the Denver Public Library's service to Colorado residents who live outside Denver. Colorado Resource Center funds allowed DPL to lend large numbers of books to other Colorado libraries and to provide walk-in and telephone reference services to all Colorado residents. In addition, DPL staff have previously provided expert reference assistance to li-braries throughout the state via State-supported tele-phone, fax and e-mail services. DPL's service changes will take effect July 1. This is all on top of the man-dated budget reduction from the City and County of Denver of $1 million for the remainder of 2002 and the 2003 city budget cycle.

What does this mean for you? Everyone is still wel-come and expected to use the resources of the Denver Public Library. If you request ILL materials through your home county library from the DPL expect lag times in receiving those items. You may use your statewide library card and check out material from the DPL. You may continue to borrow film from Salt Lake through Inter Library Loan. You are encouraged to use Prospector to place book material on hold and have it delivered directly to your local public library. Please remember that genealogy and local history materials from our reference collections do not circulate through ILL or Prospector. To many of our users this budget/ service reduction will appear seamless, that is how it should be. We are committed to you, the customer, of

the Denver Public Library and encourage you to visit and explore our services and resources.

Genealogy Gleanings

There have been few significant new books processed this past month or so in regards to the British Isles so I want to tell you about another resource. Many of you are aware that the Denver Public Library has subscriptions to many electronic resources. One of these is Ancestry. We have upgraded to AncestryPlus which is exclusive to li-braries. AncestryPlus has no advertising banners and ad-ditional resources. We have included the census and Brit-ish Isles/International components of this service for you. As always you may access this service through any of the DPL branches as well as at the Central Library. I have had some exciting finds in Cambridgeshire and the Orkneys. Ancestry is mounting parish records from throughout the British Isles for you to explore. Another component of An-cestryPlus are the Immigration and Passenger Lists Index. This includes what you and I call the Filby books. P. Wil-liam Filby and Mary Keysor Meyer created the Immigration and Passenger Lists Index while at the Maryland Historical Society. Ii is an attempt to create one index for all known published ships passenger lists and naturalization records. For over twenty years there have regularly appeared sup-plements to that first three-volume set. It has been consid-ered by many punitive to place someone in front of the Filby Indexes and say go at it. It takes hours pouring through them. Through AncestryPlus you can search in a matter of moments. I highly recommend this tool in a search for your British Isles immigrant.

This past month two people stand out for their gifts: Ann Lisa Pearson has generously donated about 10 years worth of Cumbria Family History Society quarterlies and Jean Armstrong has generously donated 26 volumes of East Yorkshire Family History Society Monumental In-scriptions. Jean called last fall before she went off to the homelands and ask if we had these and if not could she bring them back for the Library. Our holdings continue to grow through the kindness and generosity of donations of materials and money to purchase British Isles materials for the Genealogy Collection. It is through the support of peo-ple like you that our resources to continue to expand. There are so many generous people in W.I.S.E. who have given from their book and magazine collections over the past few years. Terry and Ruth Quirke both cleaned out their magazines, along with Donna J. Porter, and many others. I will dig through my files so that we can have an accurate accounting of all those from W.LS.E. who have given from the heart so that others can benefit from their example. I can only imagine what the DPL Genealogy Col-lection will be through such continued support!

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W.I.S.E. Program Schedule Sharon Macdonald, Program Chairperson

Events- Third Quarter 2002

July and August—No regular W.I.S.E meetings at Denver Public Library.

Saturday & Sunday 13 & 14 July

IRISH FESTIVAL 797 S. Wadsworth Blvd. (Ohio & Wadsworth) 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Admission: $10 at festival

children 12 and under free Free parking (no dogs or coolers allowed) The program:

Three stages of Musical entertainment Michael Martin Murphey — Lecture

on Sunday morning The Cowboy Celtics, The Prodigals Donncha Lynch Bank, Colcannon,

the 3 Chancers The Indulgers, Lalla Rookh, Conley & Company Two days of Irish demonstrations

The St. Andrew Society will be providing a tent, Den-ver Public Library the books, and W.I.S.E. the volun-teers. Benefits for volunteers include free admission. To volunteer please contact Ann Lisa Pearson <alpearson@aol.com> (303-770-7164 or James Jeffrey <jjeffrey@denver.lib.co.us> (720-865-1821.

Saturday & Sunday 10 & 11 August

COLORADO SCOTTISH FESTIVAL AND HIGHLAND GAMES Highland Heritage Park 9651 S. Quebec Street Highlands Ranch, CO (2 miles south of C0470) 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Festival Features Massed Pipes & Drums (noon both days British Dogs Exhibition Celtic Music

Irish Step Dancing Genealogy Tent Vendors Scottish Clans Scottish Athletics Highland Dancing Scottish-style Food and Drink Haggis Tasting Children's games Parade of Clans (noon both days)

Friday & Saturday 27 & 28 September

The Colorado Genealogical Society host for the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies presents:

"Treasured Trends in Genealogy"

Hilton Hotel, Denver Tech South Greenwood Village, Colorado

Featuring:

Patricia Law Hatcher, CG, FASG

Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS, CGL

Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FUGA, FNGS, FASG

Eric Bittner, Archivist, NARA

Birdie Monk Holsclaw, FUGA

James K. Jeffrey, Collection Specialist Denver Public Library

Janice Prater, Education/Program Assistant Denver Public Library

For additional information on this event please e-mail

Mary Roach

<donroach@juno.com>

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for Your 1ifort4iA-tioti

Upcoming Games and Festivals

13-14 July

10-11 August

Irish Festival Lakewood, CO (Wadsworth, south of Alameda)

Colorado Scottish Festival Highland Games Highlands Ranch, CO

W.I.S.E. will have a booth at the above listed events

6- 8 September Longs Peak Scottish Festival Fair Grounds Estes Park, CO

W.I.S.E. Wales, Ireland, Scotland, & England Family History Society P. 0. Box 48226 Denver, Colorado 80204-8226