Name Interests ....

[Mike Fry]

Having just joined the set of forums, it was suggested to me that I might post my surname interests for Norfolk. Upon investigation, I discover that this forum is best for coverage of the following places:-

Wiveton, Cley Next the Sea, Glandford, and, Salthouse

I suspect that further researches will probably take me in an easterly direction towards Sheringham and Cromer.


The main surnames that I have been researching are:-

PROUDFOOT DIX PLUMB

For the most part, my PROUDFOOTs seem to migrate in the second half of the 19th century, to London and the North-East of England. The London ones are important to me: my Great Grandmother (Emma PROUDFOOT b1851 Wiveton) is the link to the area.

To me DIXs are collaterals, but interesting seeing as they link in to the PROUDFOOTS. Of greater interest are the PLUMBs, since they are direct ancestors who, again, married into the PROUDFOOTs.

[Geoffers]

We've got a few records relating to North Norfolk on the free-access NTA web-site
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/c...uidesindex.asp
It includes a transcript of the 1891 census for Wiveton, recording
Jonathon PROUDFOOT, a 59 yr old gardener, bn St.Faiths and his wife
Elizabeth, a 51 yr old dressmaker bn Wiveston

At Wells there is a Maria PROUDFOOT aged 61, bn Stukey - she's the mother-in-law of Alfred BEGLEY, a fireman in the G.E.R (married to Frances). There are another 190 odd PROUDFOOT entries on the web-site, ncluding baptisms at Stukey.

There are also about 150 PLUMB entries, including 1891 census entries in Blakeney and Warham AS. It includes at Blakeney a widowed 76 yr old Elizabeth PLUMB, living on Wiveton charity, she was born in Themelthorpe.

There are a load of PLUMB baptisms in Warham AS

Click on 'parishes' and a parish name, you may see that we have a couple of photos of interest.

Cromer web-site:
http://www.
thisiscromer.co.uk/
Cley web-site:
http://www.
cley.org.uk/
Salthouse web-site:
http://www.
salthousehistory.co.uk/

Is the above any use? Can I help with owt else? Are you stuck with anything in particular?

Geoffers

[Mike Fry]

Thanks for the information. Perhaps I should have explained myself in a lot more detail than I have...

Please don't take this the wrong way. I have been tinkering around with my family tree for about 4 years or so, mainly using what has been available for free on the Internet and that I didn't have to shell out too much money for. Consequently, I think that I have exhausted (for now) the usual sites such as the Norfolk Transcription Archive (http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php), and Ancestry (I have most of the images that I think I need for the time being). At R120, certificates from the GRO are too pricey in South African terms for anything but direct line ancestors, so fishing expeditions are out.

So, I have now resorted to becoming a transcriber for FreeREG, and have been tickled pink to 'do' some of my more desirable parishes, as well as giving something back to the hobby. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I am not a newbie, and even though I live a great distance from the scene of the crime, I have accumulated a great deal of knowledge about my people and North Norfolk.

The widowed, Elizabeth PLUMB if the 1891 census in Blakeney (Blackney in some PRs) was in fact the the Elizabeth GASKIN who married James PLUMB in about 1840. James PLUMB being the elder brother of Anne PLUMB who married David PROUDFOOT in May 1836 at Wiveton. David and Ann are my Great Great Grandparents. From those two, I can go back one further generation, to Isaac PLUMB and Rosamund LYNN, on one side, and John PROUDFOOT and Catherine WOODS, on the other.

The note concerning PLUMB records at Blakeney (expected) and Warham AS (unexpected) are intriguing and will be investigated when I can drag myself away from transcribing other records. (Don't stop - it hurts!) I am beginning to suspect, that John PROUDFOOT hailed from Sheringham. There would seem to be some more early PROUDFOOTs in that area, according to the unreliable IGI. Of course, being an essentially Scottish name, it is perfectly possible for the Norfolk PROUDFOOTs to have migrated down the east coast from further north. After all, there seems to have been considerable trading between Norfolk and the North-East of England during the 18th and 19th centuries.

My original message was more in the way of an introduction than anything else. A way of opening up lines of communication with like-minded people who may be a great deal closer to the action than I am.

[Geoffers]

I am beginning to suspect, that John PROUDFOOT hailed from Sheringham......Of course, being an essentially Scottish name, it is perfectly possible for the Norfolk PROUDFOOTs to have migrated down the east coast from further north.......My original message was more in the way of an introduction than anything else. A way of opening up lines of communication with like-minded people who may be a great deal closer to the action than I am.

Ah well, welcome anyway. As for migration down the coast, a lot of it took place, especially following the fishing fleet - and of course Sheringham, Cromer, etc are all fishing villages

Geoffers

[PTMoore]

The main surnames that I have been researching are:-

PROUDFOOT DIX PLUMB

For the most part, my PROUDFOOTs seem to migrate in the second half of the 19th century, to London and the North-East of England. The London ones are important to me: my Great Grandmother (Emma PROUDFOOT b1851 Wiveton) is the link to the area.

To me DIXs are collaterals, but interesting seeing as they link in to the PROUDFOOTS. Of greater interest are the PLUMBs, since they are direct ancestors who, again, married into the PROUDFOOTs.

Hi Mike,

I'm new to this Forum and to BG and I'm currently at work, with no access to my genealogy notes...

I wondered if, in your researches, you had come across any of the PLUMB family in the area of BATTLE in Sussex (or possibly HASTINGS or ST LEONARDS).

My wife's mothers family were PLUMB and long-established in that area, back to, I think, around 1840 (which is where our researches have currently faltered). Our 'oldest' relative so far is a PHILADELPHA PLUMB (possibly PHILADELPHIA PLUMB).

Anyway - just wondered if our Plumbs may have been related to yours, by any slim chance?!

Cheers,
Pete Moore

[Mike Fry]

Hi Peter,

Sorry to have to disappoint you, but I have no links to Sussex with my PLUMBs (that could have been better phrased). I think I have one or two links to the area via some of the more obscure branches of the tree, but they're not important to me. I do have a couple of current cousins and their families in Crawley, which I guess is part of Sussex, but they're from the FRY line.

Once again, apologies but no links.

[hexham]

Hi,

I've just started reearching the Proudfoot family as they are my Wife's maternal line, I have traced themback from her Mother, b North Shieldss but brought up in Clydebank Scotland
Grandfather b North Shield
Gt. Grandfather b Sheringham, Norfolk,

GG Grandfather b Salthouse Norfolk

Will be happy to share such information as we have.

Eddie

[Findem]

Hi PTMoore,

You've probably already found the Online Parish Clerks site for East and West Sussex but in case not here's the address:

http://www.sussex-opc.org/

I'm not sure if they have all you want but I do know they have transcriptions of Battle PRs, I found some of my wife's ancestors in those transcripts.

Regards.

[Mike Fry]

Hi,
I've just started reearching the Proudfoot family as they are my Wife's maternal line, I have traced themback from her Mother, b North Shieldss but brought up in Clydebank Scotland
Grandfather b North Shield
Gt. Grandfather b Sheringham, Norfolk,
GG Grandfather b Salthouse Norfolk

Will be happy to share such information as we have.
Eddie

Some dates and names would be useful before I can say whether there is any possibility of a connection. My Norfolk PROUDFOOT line goes back beyond the early 1800s and dies out in Norfolk around 1860. As I said, they went north to Northumberland and south to London. Give me a little more to work with, please.

[hexham]

Some dates and names would be useful before I can say whether there is any possibility of a connection. My Norfolk PROUDFOOT line goes back beyond the early 1800s and dies out in Norfolk around 1860. As I said, they went north to Northumberland and south to London. Give me a little more to work with, please.

Hannah Proudfoot b North Shields 1909 d Amble, Northumberland 1982

Archibald S Proudfoot b 1885 North Shields d Hunstanworth C.Durham 1940

John Proudfoot b 1846 SherringhamNorfolk d ? North Shields

Ann Proudfoot b 1828 unmarried Mother of above, subsequently m Thomas Trumpeter

Thomas Proudfoot b Salthouse Norfolk

John Proudfoot b Salthouse 1777 m Margaret Bungay

William Proudfoot b 1727

This line is still "work in progress"