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Issue #32

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I apologise if I seem to be obsessed with DNA testing but I attended a seminar on the subject and recent advances in the technique convince me of its usefulness in genealogy. Those able to receive BBC Television may like to be reminded of a series of programes entitled “Who do you think you are” which started on BBC 2 on 12 October. This deals with the family research of a number of well known people and at the end discusses the methods used.

Lost and Found
If anyone has lost track of a Thomas Shardlow born Kingston on Soar, Nottinghamshire 1799, parents William and Mary nee North , he has turned up! I received an E-mail from Karen Mulvey in Australia asking about him, it appears that in 1818 he was convicted of cattle stealing and transported to Australia for a term of 7 years. In 1823 he was given permission to marry Lucy Randall, he dropped the “R” from his name and, after being released in 1825, lived a blameless and well respected life. This is testified by the following extract from the Nepean Times, 8 August 1884.

Death of one of our oldest Residents.
We have this week to record the death of one of the pioneers of this district. Mr.Thomas Shadlow,
who had been a resident of the district for upwards of sixty years, joined the great majority last
week at the ripe old age of 84. Mr. Shadlow built the first house in the town of Penrith and while in
his prime occupied a leading position in society. For a number of years he has resided at his farm at
Eagle Vale, but of late years his intellect was somewhat affected and he took no part in the doings
of the district. His family long since grown up, married and settled, are numerous. His widow,
who by-the-by is a native of the Colony, still lives and is in good health. She has eve been a good
old soul, a loving wife. a kind mother and a most obliging neighbour; she has now passed the
three score and ten.”

I have not yet been able to positively connect Thomas’s father with another Shardlow family but I am reasonably sure he was from the family in Aston on Trent and later Shardlow village.

Fatal Accident
This will be old news to members of the Nottinghamshire Family History Society but I include it for those who are not. The July journal of that Society carried two articles about a tramcar accident in Nottingham on Boxing Day 1916 in which a Miss. Kitty Stocks, aged 15, received fatal injuries. Kitty, the daughter of Kate Marguerite Stocks, nee’ Shardlow, was crossing the road accompanied by her uncle Henry Claude Shardlow when she was struck by a runaway tram. Kate and Henry Claude, who seemed to be usually known by his second name, were the children of George and Mary A. Shardlow, ref. RG11, Piece 3358, Folio 87 in the 1881 British Census.

The Name
I have written recently about the object of our study appearing, for no obvious reason, as one of a persons given names. Another example has been sent to me, George Shardelow Riches, born 1874, Heckingham, Norfolk. Apparently his father wished to perpetuate the name of his good friend George Sharedlow. Now I am wondering if something like this could be the explanation for the name Thomas Shardalow Sweet reported in SHARDS #24.

Federation of Family History Societies Conference
Although I have mentioned this in the last two newsletters only one SHARDS researcher besides myself attended, this was Myra Kestner who is descended from George Shardlow (1743- 1811). George’s daughter Jane(1783- 1865) married George Gilbert part of whose Memoirs appeared in SHARDS #27. These memoirs mentioned George Shardlow selling his house and having one built of wood with four wheels, Myra has sent me a snap of the site where this stood.

As the conference was held at Loughborough University, only a few miles from where the Shardlow name originated and almost in the centre of the biggest concentration of that name, I was surprised not to have found someone connected with the name even if not actively researching it. I posted a note on the notice board in the conference hall and mentioned the name as often as possible in conversation but made no other contacts.

National Burial Index for England & Wales Second Edition
This useful research tool on 4 Cds and, while by no means a complete list, does contain over 13 million records giving the date of burial, Forenames, Age & where buried. These are divided into four periods 1538-1760, 1761-1825, 1826-1860 & 1861-2003. Disappointingly the earliest Shardlow is in 1730 but there are Shardelow entries in 1674 &1675, in total there are 131 Shardlows, 8 Shardelow and only 4 Shardalow. These are now being added to records already held.

A link with the past
Cliff Shardalow, while on a visit to Norfolk, looked up some of the places associated with the name and has sent me this photograph. The farm in Fen Lane in village of Old Buckenham is part of what was once a large estate known as SHARDELOWES. W.A. Copinger in Vol.3 of his book “The Manors of Suffolk” refers to it as having been in the hands of the Shardelowe family in the time of King Henry III (1216-1272). The different spelling is probably accounted for by it being occupied in 1881 by a James Shardalow and his family, I believe there is another farm in the area which is known as SHARDELOWS.

 

 

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