Welcome to the ADSHEAD Gathering Prestbury 11th May 2013 Gordon +Z

Welcome to the ADSHEAD Gathering

Prestbury 11th May 2013

Gordon

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Very Satisfactory Attendance

• 55 Persons from 18 Trees

• Male ADSHEADs 22

• Females Married In 11

Married Out 10

Born 4

• 2nd Generation 5

• Other 3

Initial Points to Cover

• Background to Study of ADSHEADs

• Outline of Programme & Timetable

• A Few Admin Matters

• Introductions

- Who’s here – by each Family Group

Collecting Data

GOONS

ADSHEAD Records Collected

• Births,Baptisms - 8000

• Marriages - 6400

• Deaths, Burials, Wills, Memorials - 6500

• Census Records

• Voting Lists, Schools, Workhouses

• Companies, Patents, Apprentices

• Addresses

• References:- FONS, Newspapers, Web

Objectives

• Help Others to find their own Ancestors

ADSHEAD E-Mail Group

• Collaborative Effort

• Aim to assign Parents to every ADSHEAD

• Group into Descendent Trees

• Shared File Area

- Piece together by Place, Occ, Name, Mid

Other Aspects

• Migration & Shipping

• Famous ADSHEADs

Authors, Artists, Murderers

• Geographic Distribution – Mapping

• Origins of the Surname

• Variants & Deviants

• Roads, Farms, House, Hall, Park

Adshead Park RG8 9TA

Profile of Study

http://www.one-name.org/profiles/adshead.html

•I will send out list of Links

Programme & Timing

• Balance of Talk, Discussion

Interaction & Displays

• Do chip in or ask questions

• Help yourself to drinks

• 10min Comfort Breaks

• Group Photo on Patio (Rain?) Names

• Visit to Church

Minor Admin

• Corrections to Badges

• Family Groups – Some inconsistences

• Loos

• Internet, Phones and Power Connections

• Cash Bar at Lunch Time 13:00

Copies

• PCs and Lap-Tops for Memory Sticks

• Prints from PC Data

• Scanner & A4 Printer

• Copy Request List

Any Questions ?

Or Suggestions ?

Any Topics You would like to Cover ?

Videos

Message from George ADSHEAD in India

The ADSHEAD Question – Maura IRL

Introductions Prestbury 11th May 2013

Who’s Who

And a Little Background

Edward 1702 Stalybridge

• 1,2 Gordon & Judy

3 David

4 Sally

5 Tim

Edward ADSHEAD 1702-1800• Here resteth in hope ye Body

of Jane the Wife of Edward Addshead who dy'd Dec 25th 1738 in ye 34th Year of her Age. ======================= Few was my Days. short was my Race From Womb to Grave I walked apace I rest in Peace and free from Pain Till Jesus Christ raise me again ======================= Also Wm Addshead her Son who dy'd March 26th 1765 age 35 Years.Also the said Edward Adshead of Stayley-Bridge who departed this Life January 18th 1800 in the 98th Year of his Age ALSO James Adshead of Stalybridge who departed this Life October 19th 1839 in the 44th Year of his Age. ALSO Mary his Daughter who died November 21st 184? aged 17 Years. ALSO Sarah his WIDOW who Died March 23rd 1868 Aged 69 Years

ADSHEADs Staley Mill 1824

Gordon• James 1702 Data

• Stalybridge Items – Cotton Industry

• ADSHEAD Trees

• General ADSHEAD Items

• FONS References 1332-1958

• Prestbury & Macclesfield Items

• Cheshire & Local Items

• Manchester Items

John 1717 Manchester

Wallsall & Cannock ADSHEADs

•6 Mandy

7 Carol

8 Dennis

•9 Trevor

10,11 Doris & Ray

•53,54 David & Jean

Thomas 1811 Mobberley

• 12 Christine

13 Julie

John 1730 Manchester

• 14,15 Bernard & Vickie

Elisha 1822 Wilmslow

Possiby Elisha 1778 or Elisha 1757 ?

•16,17 Kenneth & Muriel

John 1781 N Etchells

• 18,19 Joan & Pamela

• 20,21,22 Peter, Carol & Sarah

• 23,24 Ian & Gwen

• 25,26 Jean, Ron

27 Harold

28,29,30 Ruth, Leonard & Jan

Timothy 1720 London

• 31,32 Judith & Enid

Joseph 1782 Wilmslow

• 33 Michael

William 1725 Wolverhampton

• 34 Scilla

Jeremiah 1724 Prestbury

[ex Jeremiah 1754]

•35,36 Robert & Vickie

•37,38 David & Judith

Robert Silverwood

Charles Luke ADSHEAD

ADSHEAD Hall in Tennersee

•Trees. Photos

•Book, Letters

•William Peter ADSHEAD of Belper DBS

Joseph 1835

• 39,40 Paul & Brendis

• 41 Sara

John 1720 Macclesfield

• 42 Philip & Philip jun

43,44 Helen & Helen jun

Percy 1886 Dukinfield

• 45 Neil

John 1798 Hazel Grove

• 46 Philip

William 1820 Wilmslow

• 47 John

48 James

James 1751 Altrincham

from CANADA

•49 John

50 Karen

Samuel 1788 Tutbury

• 51 Sally

Samuel 1826 Wilmslow

• 52 Janet

Problems with Trees

• Name – Earliest ancestor is most uncertain

• Mostly One-Name

• Cross Ref & Tick off on B M D Indexes

-> Index of all ADSHEADs

• Standards Bold/Colour/Dates/Wrap/Abreviations/ Addresses/Line Spacing/Versions/Notes

Famous ADSHEADs? (notable)

• SAM, Robin, Gwen, Laura

• Joseph, Stanley D, Mary

• Charles Luke, W Peter

• Willetts

• Kay - Jackie

St Patrick Poem? ADZE-HEADAcross the sea will come Adze-head,

crazed in the head,

his cloak with hole for the head,

his stick bent in the head.

He will chant impiety

from a table in the front of his house;

all his people will answer:

'Be it thus. Be it thus.'