Genealogy Chat

I know what you mean about names - I haven't lived in the UK for many years, and it was odd looking through the registers for Rothley and Quorn and finding the names of people I went to school with, like Antill, Noon, Oram and Iliffe. Oddly enough I went to school in Quorn without knowing I had ancestors from that area - I thought my English lot all came from Leicester and Lichfield until I started researching them.

Thanks for the offer of lookups but hubby's family so far are firmly in this neck of the woods! Apologies for getting your name wrong, by the way! It was interesting trawling the Hugglescote register because so many of the names are still around! The library microfiche is not a brilliant copy but is good enough except for the faded areas - well nearly 300 years what can we expect?! Will no doubt see you from time to time on the Leicester thread. Good hunting! (Waves hello to Mike) I was trying to help someone on Rootschat with a search in Whitwick for Neal(e) but couldn't find anything in time period at St John's - if you have time Mike, could you drop in and help out? (Hopefully more successfully!) See you both Jan

Ooh, thanks very much, Mike, I didn't think to come and ask you about Quorn on the Leicestershire thread. I may well bother you again with this lot :-) I think that Jugby must be a mistranscription - as you say, there don't seem to be any others, and an old-fashioned J and T look very similar. I don't suppose you have Quorn births on your various discs, do you? I'm currently looking at Parkinsons and Fletchers as well as Tugby. The online marriages and memorial inscriptions for Quorn have been quite helpful, but the only source I have for births so far is the IGI. These lines are the ancestors of Mary Screaton née Parkinson, who you may remember as the mother of the William North from Rothley that you spent ages helping me look for.

Greeting’s Again….. Jan & Mary O’ Italy. Extracts from Phillimores Early Marriages for Leicestershire. QUORN. Francis Mountney.~ Mary TUGBY. Both of this Parish. 30th. November. 1749. By Banns. RICHARD FLETCHER. ANN JUGBY. Both of this Parish. 25th. May. 1767. By Licence. James Fletcher. of Long Whatton. Elizabeth Wayne. of Quorn. 23rd. September. 1770. By Banns. Thomas Clarke.of Barrow Upon Soar. Elizabeth TUGBY.of Quorn. 15th. September. 1771. By Banns. No other JUGBY events found ……. So it could very well have been a miss translation. Hope this helps MIKE.

Thanks very much, Jan, that's very kind of you. I hope it didn't take up too much of your time - those registers sound like a nightmare. Before I go any further with this line I think I'll have to order the Quorn parish registers from my local LDS centre, to see if I can find out any more about Ann Tugby/Jugby - there's a transcription of the marriage registers online, but not the births, so it's always possible that she was born in the Quorn area but doesn't appear on the IGI. However, I've already got a pile of other films to work through before starting on Quorn. I've got Leicester St. Margaret's on loan at the moment if you want any look-ups doing (BTs 1604-1817, early years hard to read). I've been looking at the IGI to see where the Fletcher/Tugby line seems to lead to further back, and it seems to move towards Newtown Linford on one side and Peckleton on the other. Can't see anyone in the Whitwick area. The descendants of this lot mostly lived in Rothley. Thanks for your offer to look again at Easter - I'll let you know if I make any progress. Regards, Mary

By the way, the parish register at that time was used to record all baptisms, marriages and burials in one book. I have seen nice tidy registers with a separate page for each - not this one! The details are all mixed in together. Some marriage entries in the the late 1700s were written upside down, presumably to use up unmarked spaces! Jan

Maria I hope I’ve found what you were looking for, apart from the baptism in 1712 – the records from that era are very poor quality on the microfilm available and if John TUGBY or HEWART was there, I couldn’t see him. However…. TUGBY BAPTISMS AT HUGGLESCOTE Jane John and Jane Oct 26 1736 James John and Jane Dec 5 1738 John John and Jane Oct 30 ? 1740 Joseph John and Jane Jun 9 1742 Sarah John and Jane Oct 1 1745 Mary John and Jane Mar 18 1747 Ann John and Jane Dec 26 1751 HEWART/HOWART /HEWARD/ HOWARD BAPTISMS AT HUGGLESCOTE Thomas John and Mary Howard Nov 12 1714 John John and Hannah Howart Oct 1st? 1737 Elizabeth? John and Hanah Hewart ?Oct 30 1740 Richard William and Ruth Hewart Dec 3 1744 Thomas Humphrey and Ann Hewart Oct 9 1744 William Humphrey and Ann Hewart June 29 1746 Elizabeth Humphrey and Ann Hewart Nov ? 1747 Thomas Thomas and Mary Heward born Oct 29 1773 George Thomas and Mary Heward born Dec 2 1778 Samuel Thomas and Mary Heward born Apr 5 1782 POSSIBLE HEWART/HOWART /HEWARD/ HOWARD MARRIAGES AT HUGGLESCOTE Humphrey HEWARD = Mary HOLMES 13 Oct 1794 Joseph RIMBEL = Elizabeth HEWOOD 14 OCT 1799 Joseph MART= Mary HEWARD 12 Mar 1805 Given that there are also HEYWOOD/HAYWOOD families in the records, these could all be related – depending on how it was said and who wrote it down! I was looking for other names in Whitwick, a few miles away, and there were several marriages for TUGBYs in the early 1800s – could they be related? And finally – there is still a village on the eastern part of the county called TUGBY. If I plan to go at Easter, I’ll try and remember to contact you in case you have any other lookups needed.

If you have time, could you check another birth for me? I've found the following extracted birth on the IGI for what might be Ann Tugby's father John: JOHN TUGBY OR HEWARD, 27 JUL 1712 Hugglescote and Donnington I'm interested in the parents, which aren't listed on the IGI (I assume his mother was a Heward or a Tugby and not married to the father).

Hi Jan, thanks very much for the offer. According to the online transcription of the Quorn parish registers, Richard Fletcher & Ann Jugby were married by licence on 25 May 1768. I think Jugby is probably a mistranscription of Tugby, and I've found the following extracted birth on the IGI: Anne Tugby, Christening: 26 DEC 1751, Hugglescote and Donnington, parents John Tugby and Jane. However, according to the burial I've found for Ann Fletcher (Quorn, 1827), her birth was c 1741. As Ann and Richard were married by licence, the banns wouldn't have been read at Hugglescote, but could you perhaps check the birth register to see if there's any other Ann(e) Tugby birth registered at around the right time, and if you have time, check the marriage register to see if you find any Ann(e) Tugby marriages? If it looks like taking too long, just ignore the request :-) Thanks a lot, Mary

Give as much detail as possible, names, bmd dates etc and I'll see if I can find anything. Am going tomorrow (Tuesday) so don't delay! Jan