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THE PLANT COAT OF ARMS HEREBY ILLUSTRATBD IS OFFICIALLY DOCUMENTED IN BURKE’S GENERAL ARMORY THE ORIGINAL DESCRU’TION OF THE ARMS (SHIELD) IS AS FOLLOWS
“AR A LABEL IN BEND AZ IN CHIEF A ROSE GU = WHEN TRANSLATED THE BLAZON ALSO DESCRIBES THE ORIGINAL COLORS OF THE PLANT ARMS AS
“SJLVE~ A BLUE LABEL PLACED DIAGONALLY Ih’ UE’PER THIRD A RED ROSE ” ABOVE THE SHlELD ANLl HELMET IS THE CREST WHICH IS DESCRIBED AS
“A RED STAG WALKfNG ”
CONTENTS - Journal No 25
Members of the Group
Members Interests
New Members
Members letters
From Greek herbals to Leek Plants by Dr John Plant
Listing of Wills - progress
Plants in !&mm USA 1624 - 1706 Bmgmphy extracts - by Andrew Plant Baptwm and Mamage Extracts
St Albans R C Church Macclesfield Pigots Commercial Directory of Cheslure 1834 GRO Regimental Birth IndIces 1761-1924 John Plant, monk of Woburn 1465 Enmue Plant - Bntam’s Sdk Queen 1934
DNA Progress Report by Dr John Plant
GRO Indextng Project - Progress report - by Phil Plant
Descendants of Early Plants m North America By Lmda Plant Wagoner
StaffordshIre Marriage Index 1500-1837 Jos to John
The 1881 Census for Worcester-Plant extracts
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1 Mtss Lmda Lowrey
4 ,Mr Calm w Plant
6 Mr Mtchael Plant
10 Mrs Pamela Plant
12 Mrs LOIS Webb
16 Mrs E C Reed
18 Mr Peter Johnson
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33 MISS Arleen Plant
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45 Mr Davrd Johnson
47 Mrs Stella Robson
51 Mr Gerald Plant
52 Dr John S Plant
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MEMBERS OF THE GROUP
222 Concessron St Apt 406 Hannlton, Gntarto L9A 1B1 Canada E-marl hnda lowrev@iIhwcn or&
14 West Road, &shops Stortford, Herts CM23 3QP E-mad colmw&xu~,utlworld corn
The Coach House, Monyash Road, Bakewell, Derbyshtre, DE45 1FG E-marl plant Inbakewell~btouenworld corn
London
28 St Pauls Terrace, Hoddiesden, Darwen, Lanes BB3 3NP
31 Walton Gardens, Codsall, Wolverhampton WV8 1AH
57 Helston Close, Brookvale, Runcorn WA7 6AA
Mr Anthony David Plant 53 Green Curve, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 1NS E-mad plantad53@nlworld corn
Mrs Shnley Hughes 14 Cuss Grove, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks SL9 9HG e E-mad &rlevhunhes@ca&free net
Mrs Cathenne Sproston Bntles Lodge, Chelford Road, Bntles, Nr Macclesfield, Cheshne
147 Moorland Road, Woodsmoor, Stockport Cheshne SK2 7DP
Mr Patrrck Pearson Vahublen, Bowl Cornet, Batttsford, Stowmarket, 0 Suffolk IP14 2LH
E-mail piattvc@cs corn
MIS Sian Plant 12 Dalmeny Road, New Bamet, Herts, EN5 1DE E-mad plant@&orldonlme.co uk
PO Box 433, Buddma Queensland, 4575, Austmha E-marl rosematv@deadrelos corn
MtIl Vrew, Great Whntmgton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE19 2HP
6 Bells Hollow, Red Street, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffs ST5 7AS
Computer Centre, Umverstty of Keele, Staffs ST5 SBG E-man J s plant@keele ac uk
change of address or e-mat1 address change of address or email address
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59 Mr Nigel Burroughs 38 Gnmshaw Road, Petctborough PEI 4ET * E-mad butroughs-mael-@cot corn
65 Ml D J Plant 45 Prngate Lane, Cheadle Huhnc, Cheadle, Cheshne SK8 7LT - e-mad dula&?edbramall co uk
69 Mr Amhew Plant 36 Second Street, Watlmg Bungalows, Leadgate, Co Durham
71 Mr G Brran Plant 54 Bean Leach Drove, Offerton, Stockport, Chcshue SK2 SHZ
74 Mrs Alice Doreen Mercer 11 Rtver Street, Mmnamurra, New South Wales, 2532,
75 Mr Michael John Plant
85 Mr John E Rausley
89 Mrs Dentse Weston Mrs Estelle Nobles
90 Mrs M R Lake
95 Mrs Linda S Wheeler
98 Deanne Rtchards e
104 Mrs LIZ Plant
I I 1 Mr Malt John Plant
113 MIS Heather Plant
114 Mrl0ll” ausxl hlgamc111s
115 MI s Pat Hemng
116 Miss Joan Plant
119 ms Florence Plant
Crown Hill House, Worcestet Road, Newnham Bridge, Tenbury Wells, Worcs WRl5 8JA E-mail wow plant@vahoo corn
18 Rosaty Ctescent, Highgate Hdl, Queensland, 4101 Ausbaha E-ma1 ~ohn ranslev~bmuond corn
73 Downside Close, Bladford Forum, Dorset DTl 1 7SD E-marl starchfftZXalk21 corn
1 G Western Avenue, Febxtowe, Suffolk IPI 1 9SB E-marl matlake@aol corn
2210 Larkspur Drive, Alpme, CA 91901, IJ S A E-mad momkat9&ox net
4 West Road, Capel, Western Austmba 6271 E-mad ar,evle5O6hnnus corn
12 Meadow Lane, Edenbndge, Kent TN8 6Hl
38 Faithful Streef Benalla, Vtctona 3672, Austraha
6 Peahnoss Street, Sunnybank II&, Queensland, 4109, Anstraha &mail [email protected]
Room 41, Resthaven, 336 Kensmgton Road, Leabrook, Adelaide, 5068, South Australia
8 Stamer Close, Crewe, Cheshne CWI IGP E-mail tigernanpat@aol com
12 Grentier Street, N Woolwtch, London El6 ZLP
PO 192, Nagamble, Vrctorra 3608, Austraha E-mad flonlant@mcmedta corn ou
(9 change of address or e-mad address
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12 1 Kathy Compagno 855 Bates Avenue, El Cemto, CA 94530, U S A E-mad kcomDaeno@Iilllotmad corn
122 Mrs Ehzabeth A Messer Bearsden, 9 Pmehurst Ave , Mudeford, Chnstchurch, Dolset, BH23 3NS E-ma%1 bearsden95@aol corn
123 Dr Andrew Thomas Plant The Spmney, Hdl Top, Beauheq Brockcnhmst, Ha&, SO42 7YR
124 Mr Alan Plant
127 EvJr Wdham T Plant
13 1 MIS Jean Walpole e
132 MISS Lmda Wdks *
138 Mrs Jean D Ray B
139 ms Judith Knkby
140 Ms J Bateman
I4 I Mr Malcolm Revel1 e
143 mss Freda Lawrence
145 M Graham Wmgfield 8
147 Mr John Ronald Plant
15 1 MISS Tessa Pdsbury
153 Mrs Frances Plant
1 Tern&u Tenace, Porthdl, Newcastle, Staffs ST5 8PN
298 Newhampton Road West, Wolverhampton, West MIdlands WV6 ORS
40 Frederrck Rd , Cheam, Sutrey, SMI ZHR E-mall hockev@bluevonder co.uk
4 1 Arnold St, Derby, DE22 3EW E-mad Lmda@&ndawlks fsnet co uk
124 Lyth H11l Road, Bayston H111, Sluopshne, SY3 OAT E-mall Jean@&vestwoodl24 f&serve co uk
53 Mcrsea Avenue, West Mersea, Colchester, Essex co5 8JL
52 George Fledenck Road, Sutton Coldlield, Wesl Midlands B73 6TP E-mail mniennvbateman@breathemail net
22 Melton Road, North Femby, East Yorkshire HUl4 3ET E-mad detads to follow - cancel previous addtess
‘Brades’ Lower Penkrtdge Road, Acton Trussell, Stafford ST1 7 ORJ E-ma1 freda lawrenceabtmternet corn
34 Hereford Road, Buxton, Derbyslme SK17 9CG E-mad Gmham@Winafieldsl freeserve co&
49 Bourke Avenue, Yattalunga, NSW 2251, Austraha EAnd ron@tac corn au
17 Hill House, 75 High Street, Saffion Walden, Essex CBlO 1AA
80 Buxton Cles, Sutton, Surrey, SM3 9TP E-mad fDlant@binfoot corn
0 change of address or e-mad address
158 Mrs Kerry-Ann Cooke
161 Antony CH Famath
162 Aloa Dereta
164 Evelyn M Pitts 0
165 Mrs Gtlltan Jenkms
166 Mrs Margaret Insley
147 Mrs M J Plant
168 Mr Phtltp Plant
169 Mrs Hazel M Morgan
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171 Mr Brad Scott a
174 Mrs Fay Btelewtez
2 Vernal Close, Abbeymead, Glos GL4 5FW E-mail- kacooke@tiscoli co uk
5 Laurence Grove, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton West Midlands, WV6 9QN E-mall. Antonv.Famathr’&btintemet corn
5463 NW Odom Ct , Port St Lute, F134986, USA E-mail [email protected]
525 Cimarron Pomt, Okotoks, Alberta, Canada TOL lT5 E-mad. ev.oitts@shaw ca
42 Edgemont Road, Weston Favell, Northampton, NN3 3PQ E-mad jenkinsX&uoanet.com
86 High Street, Broadford, 3658 Victoria, Au&alla E-mad. marsons@hotmail corn
204 Dunkety Road, London Sk9 4HP
33 The Dawneys, Crudwell, Wilts. SN16 9HE E-mail. Rplant@mail corn
The Woodlands, 7 Rose Avenue, Alvechurch, Nr Btrmingham B48 7PG E-mail: hmornan@lmerridew-media co.uk
5 Walhatch Close, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5GT E-mail Brad Scot@semantico corn
12 Florence St., Kippa-Rig 4021, Queensland, Australia E-mail [email protected]
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175 Mr Alan Richard Farthmg 141 Brian Road, Chadwell Heath, Essex RM6 5B7 E-mad alanftiin&binfoot.com
177 Mr Earl John Davis 27 Boucher Road, Leek, Staffs ST13 7JH E-mail: [email protected]
178 Mr Anthony W Brown 6A Normans Road, Shambrook, Beds MK44 IPR
179 ~rs DO”~ o~seter oreenbam 27 Pill Hill Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332 USA E-mail: [email protected]
181 Mr Jack Plant 35 Oakdene, Cottingham, East Yorkshtre HU16 5AS e E-mail jp~humbersldefree-onlineco uk
182 Linda Plant Wagoner 11 Millbrook Avenue, Dover, New Jersey 07801 USA E-mail. mvdewev@iuno corn
183 Mr Chris Plant 12 Whytechffe Pde, Woody Pomt, Queensland 4019 Austxaha E-m5111 chnsolantlO(iihotmiu1 corn
I85 Mr Wayne Titmus 37 Myrtle Sheet, CIaudelands, Hanulton, Noti Island. New Zealand E-mad wrt~tmus&ahoo corn
186 Mr Eli1 Lower 21 Katoomba Road, Beaumont, South Austraha 5066 Australia
187 Dr Ruth Young 11 Douglas St, Ramsbottom, Bury, EL0 9HP E-ma11 ruth@fsl dev man ac uk
lS9 Mrs Nanette Pafuux
190 MI Richard Sdhtto
Clos-Job, 1321 Amex-sur-orbe, Switzerland E-mad closloh@dplanet ch
6GO4 Sdver Sprmgs Crcs , Calgary, Alberta T3B 3R4. Canada E-mad SilhttoR~aetscaoe.net
19 1 Mrs Frances Reeve
193 Mr Raymond Plante
63 Allestree Laue, Derby, DE22 2HQ E-mad Martu@allestxe70 fieeserve co uk
RR3 52 Verulam DI, Fenelon Falls, Ontano, Canada, KOM IN0 E-nxul Ravlou ulante(Sisvmatxo ca
194 Mrs Ann Wilkmson 42 Hill Top Ave, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle. Cheshre SK8 7HY E-nxul a c.wilkmson@bbnternet corn
195 MI David Plant 169 Wulfruna Court, Dale Street, Grarseley, Wolverhampton, West Midlands WV3 OPE
196 MIS Janet Padrazolla 41 Ashley Drive, Borchatnwood, Her@ WD6 2JT
197 Mr Frank I Robmson 1432 S Quebec Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74112, USA E-mad. [email protected] corn
198 Mr Patnck Thomas Plant 23 The Knoll, Framhngham, Woodbndge, Suffolk, II?13 9DH
199 MIS Judltb Wdkmsou
200 MISS Sunone Plant
201 Mr Romue Plant
E-mad patulant@uffolkonLine net
17 Rowan Way, Wo~hugbam, Be&es, Suffolk, NR34 7ES E-ma11 scormo 2zero&rpm net
22 Taverners Drive, Stone, Staffs ST15 XQF
15 YorkStreet, Leek, Staffs ST13 6JE E-mall ron@unapsa corn
b 203 ME. Shirley Goodall 49 Reservoir Road, Shobnall, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, DE14 2BP E-ma& Shulev-poodall(&irgm net
ci, 204 Mrs Manon Szezesmak 1303 Lake Crest Drive, Alexandria, Mmnesota 56308-8525 USA E-ma11 chattenolr2000&ahoo corn
b 205 Mrs Chnshne Mdner Paddock Farm, Swythomley, Macclesfield, Cheshre. SKI 1 ORF
b 206 Mrs AnnPlant 1711 State Road, Warren, 0h10, USA 44481 E-mad rovsannaaol corn
b 207 Mr JohnPlant 17 St Margaret’s Close, Comngbam, HU16 5NG E-mad Plant@lant karoo co uk
MEMBERS INTERESTS
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MISS Imda Lowtey
4 Mr Cohn W Plant
6 Mr Michael Plant
10 MU Pamela Plant
12 MIS LOIS Webb
16 Ms C Reed
18 Mr Pete1 Johnson
20 Mr David Plant
29 Mrs Shdey Hughes
32 Mrs Catherine Sproston
33 Miss Adeen Plant
37 MI Patrick Pearson
38 Mrs Sian Plant
45 MT David Johnson
47 Mrs S Robson
51 Mr Gerald Plant
52 Dr John S Plant
59 Mr Nigel Burroughs
65 MrDJPlant
69 Mr Andrew Plant
71 Mr G Bnan Plant
e19c Macclesfield, Cheshue/ml9c Holhngwood - Darwcn LancsI
19~ North Staffordshlrel
Any penod South Staffs/North Worcs/
el9c Stockport Cheslurc/
e19c Macclesfield Cheshue/ml9c Holhngwood + Darwen Lanes/
L18c e19c North Staffo~dsIureI
Ll9c Manchester Lancsll9c Mid Cheshnc/
Pre 19c Clowne Derby/lS)c Doncastel Yorksl 19c Notts / 19c Cheltenhanl Glosl
L17c + 18~ Rowley Reg~s Worcsll9c Dudley Wo1cs/L19c Sydney Austlallal
Any Penod Cheshuel
17c 18~ 19c Stockport Chcslurel
Auy pcrxod Stockpott Cheslu~e/
e19c Denton Lancs/l9c Lelcested 2Oc Rounds Northants/
19~ KIdsgrove/
Geueral/
m19c Goostrcy Chesh4L.19~ e20c Salford Lancsl
19c Sheffield Yorks/el9c Clowne Derby&&
L18c 19~ Burslem + Longton Staffs/
Any penod Cheadle StafTs!
Ml& + M19c Little Bowden and Market Harborough/l 9c London
Any period Cheshrre,’
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85 Mr John E Ransley
89 Mrs Demse F Weston
90 Mrs M R Lake
95 Lmda Shields wheeler
98 Deume Rrchards
104 MIS LlZ Plant
111 Mr Malt John Plant
113 Mls Heathe Plant
114 Mr John Russel Ingamelhs
I15 Mrs Pat Hemng
116 mss Joan Plant
119 Mls Florence Plant
121 Kathy Compagno
122
123
124 Mr Alan Plant
127 Mr W11ham T Plant
131 Mrs Jean Walpole
132 h41ss Imda Walks
138 Mrs Jean Ray
139 Mrs J udlth Klrkby
140 Mrs J Bateman
141 Mr Malcohn Revel1
Mrs Ahcc D Mercer
MrMJPlant
Ehzabeth Messer
Dr Andrew Thomas Plant
19c Ltxest&L19c Notlmgharn/
c19c Shropslure/el9c Cheadle Huhne Cheshne/
18~ + 19~ Staffordshrre/
Any permd Fenton + Cheadle + Longton Staffs/
m 18~ Suffolk/
17c Stafford/any penod Connecticut USN
19c Eckmgton Derbyshue/Sheffield
17c + 1% + e19c Wolverhampton/
Any penod Slbsey Lmcsl
L19c Hackney Middlesex/
1 SC Lmcs/
e19c Ashley Staffs/L19c Wheelock Cheslme/
e19c BtlstoY
L19c Stafford&e/
19c West Bromwich i- Walsall, Staffs/ L18c + e19c Bllerlcy HdU e 18~ Old Swmford
L19c Cheadle Staffs/
18c + 19cNorthants09c Rutland/l9c Hants + Cambs/Ll9c + e2Oc Bedfordshire
General Staffordshire/
18~ + e19c North Staffordshuel
ml9c Wolverhampton Stafford&m-,/ L19c Cambenvell, Smley/
Any penod Potteries, Staffordshxe/
I9c Sheffield
Pre 1850 Macclesfield Chesl
Pre 1900 Staffordshne/Pre 1900 Worcestershnel
18 + 19c Burslem i- Longton + Stoke on Trent SklfW
1% + 19c Staffordshue/ 143. Miss Freda Lawrence
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145 Mr &ham Wmgfield
147 Mr John Ronald Plant
151 Miss Tessa Pdsbury
153 Mrs Frances Plant
158 MIS Keny-Ann Cook
161 Mr Antony CH Farnath
162 Aloa Deleta
164 Evelyn M Pllts
165 ivhs Gdhan Jenkms
166 Mm Margaret Insley
lG7 Mrs M J Plant
168 Mr Phlhp Plant
169 Mrs Hazel Morgan
171 MI Blad Scott
174 Mrs Fay Blelewez
175 h$r Alan Farthmg
177 Mr Earl John Daws
178 h4r Tony Brown
179 Mrs Donan Greenbautn
181 h4r Jack Plant
182 Lmda Wagoner
183 Mr Ctfns Plant
19c Lower + Higher Wludey + Llltle Leigh, Cheshire/
Pie 1900 Stoke on Tlent, Staff%!
18~ 4 19~ Congleton, Cheshlrell8 + 19c Horton + Leek, Staffs/
19~ Leek Staffs/
L 19c West Bromw~chlBamsley, York&&
19c 20~ Black Counhy, West MIdlands/
Any Pellod pre 1860 Leek Staffs/ III 19~ Sheffield, Yorksl
L 19c Barrow-in-Furness, Laws/ m 19~ Cradley Heath, Staffs/
m 19c Wolverhampton + West Btomwc~ Staffs/
m 19c Huhne, Manchester, Lancsl L 19c -1-20~ Ausuaha (Vlctoiia)/
Any period Market Harbolough, Little Bowden, Great Bowden, Foxton, LeicsISulton St Edmund, Halbeach, Lmncs/ Bnghton Sussex/Have&dl, Suffolk/Battemea, London/
As for member 167 plus North Wlltshnzi
19~ Meerbrook, Gnndon, Staffs/Ashbourne, Derby/
e19c Peterborougltiml9c Wlultslure + Dcvow
e19c Lydd Kent/Lltde Bowden, Notts/m 19~ Holborn/ L 19~ Bethnal Green + Hackney/
Cheadle, Staffs/
19c Suffolk/
18~ + 19~ Dudley/Kmgswmford/Br!erley Hill/
19~ South Yorks/Norlh Derbyshe/
Any period USA/Tmnugrants fiotn UK to USA/
pm 1720 Leek/post 1720 Cbeadle Staffs/
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185 Mr Wayne Tmnus
186 Mr Brll Lowe
187 Dr Ruth Youug
189 Mrs Narrette Pafumi
190 h4r Rrchard S&to
191 hhs Fmuces Reeve
193 Mr Raymond Plaute
194 Mrs Ann Wll1uns011
195 Mr David Plant
a 196
197 Mr Frank Robinson
198 Mr Paurck ‘fbomas Plant
199 Mrs Judrth Wilkmson
200
201
202
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204 Mrs Marron Szezesnmk
205 Mrs Christme Mdner
206 Mrs Ann Plant
207 Mr John Plant
MIS Jauet Padtazolla
Miss SLtnone Plant
M Romue Plot
Mrs Audrey Hunt
Mrs Slmley Goodah
19~ Wolverhamptoa/Black Country/
19c BummghamI
North StatfsMorthautslShrop/
Any period Citeshue/
Pre L 1%~ Leek, Staffs/
17 + 18 + 19~ Cheadle, Staffs/
Any penod CsuadaJ
19~ Newport, Sbropshuel
Any penod West Mrdlaadsll8 + 19~ Dudley + Brewood Staffs/Any perrod South Atica
18 + 19~ Prddmgton, Oxford/l8 + 19~ Cmadon, Bucks/
19~ Eastport, Mame, USA/
19c SuffoW
18 + 19~ Dudley, Trpton, Halesowen, Rowley Regis, Bnerley Hdl, Langley, CradJey, West Bromwxh/
L18 + 19c Eccleshall, Stafford/
L19c Dudlcy South Staffs/
18 + 19c Stafford * Camrock, Stat%/
19~ Appleby Magua, Lercs/ 20~ Burton-on-Trent, Staffs/
19~ Dudlcy, WorcsI
19~ Stockport (Plants Aat Block Co)/
19c Staffs/
Lmcolnslure/
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Firstly let me wish everybody a Happy New Ihe Swnatt~ Plant and rts vat rants - Art& Year and best wishes for 2003 Perhaps all propared for The lianm’y &tory Monthly those ‘mlssmg ancestors wdi turn up this Magazm (note - this artrcle IS on the Web- YKlF Sl%t?)
Smce the last JO”Id we have five new members and let me weleeme them to the GTOUP There mterests are reviewed elsewhere m thts JOURld
One of the areas that has been of partmular help with the new members has been the early years of the GRO Index I have hsted all the brrths recorded between the years 1837 tv 1850 and have now commenced workmg on the marriages for the same permd Others are working on different periods (see The Co- ordmator, Phdlp Plant’s, report), but what we need now are mole volunteers As the mformatlon IS collated It wdl be made avadable to members of the Group through the Web-Site or, for those v&hout computers, by direct request to Phlhp (Member NQ. 168) or myself Progress on the project wdl be reported m each JOUd
Awtrahm Vttal Record5 Ittdeer 1788-1905 Western Australm Plants before 1750 m Wanvrckshrre, S&p, WOKS ~ and Stfls IGI records Plant nmrrmges extracted from the Frestbmy Pamh Recordr 1760-1870
If any member would like a pre-copy of the above mformatxon please contact me
Apart from the five new members, enqmnes about the Group have been received from at least tlmty other people So the potentml for new members IS stall there
Whdst talkmg about the GRQ m&x one should not forget that, for the period pre 1872, a number of bxths were not registered If the bnth that you are lookmg for appears to be mssmg, don’t @ve up - maybe It IS m the Pansh Registers or Bishops Transcripts Another avenue to mvestlgate IS the MI’s, a lot (wtamly as far as Cbeshlre is concerned) havmg been catalogued and Indexed At least this mformatmn may mdmate the year m which the ‘missmg’ ancestor was b;om The problem of mlssmg entrIes 1s not as prevalent in marriages - most people considered it a legal requirement for manages to be recorded -births not so much though
The last issue of the Family History Monthly mcluded an mterestmg art& r&we to patterns m ChrIstran names m the IS”’ and 19* centunes We all know the praotme of nammg a &Id after a brother or Sfster who had died m mfancy What I was not aware of was nam*ng patterns of other relatives and, as a matter af Interest and as a ylde only, it is worth consldenng the followmg
Child Relation named after
Fxst son Father’s father Second son Mother’s father Third son Father Fourth son Father’s eldest brother First dau Mother’s mother Second dau Father’s mother Tlurd dau Mother Fourth dau Mother’s eldest s.Lster
Due to space hrmtatlons It was not possible to mclude a number on Intended features m tlus ,ssue of the Journal and the following have had to be I& over for the next or subsquant ISSUeS
The pattern was of course often Ignored Chlldren are Just as hkely to have been named atIer favourite relatives and iixnds. or sametlmes after rxh aunts and uncles m the hope of a finanmal reward
The story of Thomas Plant - Sttmn Brewery - Netherton, Nr Dudley James Plan% of Long Ciwdon - Eshmt.vfron The A.vlesbury News 1842
I have Just checked some of ‘my’ fanuhes of the period and It doesn’t tie m with the above, so be caretid - mterestmg though
Included m this JOW‘ld IS a pxture of Emnue Plant with the caption that she was B&m’s
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Sdk Queen m 1934 Has anybody any mformatlon on Emmre - who was she? Who were her parents? Etc etc 1 he ptcmre was taken from a book on Macclesfield so she was probably from thts area
I am lookmg for more ‘human’ stones What about, artwles on your researches, your famdy trees, sources used, (mcludmg web sites) results, contacts made wth other members of the group etc This sort of mformatlon would be useful to other members and may offer a source of mformation that they have not used previously or knew nothmg about SOIIE
unusual sources can aometmIeS solve a long standmg nnpasse
However, we don’t want to make it too easy for people to obtam mformatlon wthout paymg and ~ommg the Group CWtW.l mformatlon on the Web Site, therefore, IS password protected The mod requested *tern on the S&e of the last 6 months IS DNA closely followed by me-umon sbdes I would have expected DNA to be the ‘top hit’ but the populanty of the re-unlon shdes 1s somewhat SUlQ”Sl*g
Fmally, thanks to all members who have contributed art&s and those who are partlclpatmg m the Wdl Listmg, GRO Indexmg and DNA projects, detatls of which are mcluded elsewhere m the ~oumal
The Web Sate contmues to grow and addltional mformdtlon has been added
Best regards
u) +&tt? -FL--k
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NEW MEMBERS
No. 201 Mr Ronnie Plant - Leek, Staffs
Ronme Jolned the Group Just as the last ~ouma1 was gomg to press and his researches up to that tune had been somewhat bmlted Howe.ver, wth the ;Ild of the Group he has progressed considerably and therefore 1~111 re-mtroduce him, as d were
Pnor to Joming the Group the only mformatlon known was that his grandfather, Mark Plant who came from Dudley Staffs, was born m 1892 and had two brothers, Joe and Charhe
In wew ofRonnIe’s connectton with South Staffs, the South Staffs Brigade was alerted and between us (The Bngade, Ronme hlmself and me) we have ‘pushed’ his famdy tirther back
It was a comparatweiy simple exewse to find the GRO Index for the buth of Mark m 1892 and m due course Ronme obtamed a copy of Mark’s buth certdicate from the O&e of Natmnal Statlstlcs, Southport This certtficate confirmed that Mark was the son of Joseph and Hamet Plant and born at Rowley Regis Hamet’s matden name was not clear but It looked bke Jakes
The next step was to by and find the mamage of Joseph Plant and Hamet Jakes? pre 1892 The 1881 Census dtd not Include any Josephs m Rowley Regis to tit the necessary crlterla Nor could a Hanlet Jakes of the right age be found So - let’s look at the GRO Index between 1881 and 1890 At first 1 thougl;t 1 had struck gold
The December 1881 Quarter contamed Hamet Jukes, regwtratlon drstnct - Dudley, Vol , 6c page 61 In the same quarter was Joseph Plant, same registration dlstrlct and volume number but page 47 Mxtake by the recording clerk? Pamcularly as there was no other mamages of Joseph Plant and Hamet Jukes m the GRO 1881 to 1890 or wth spellmg varlatmn of Jukes, I e , Jacques, Jakes or Juckes However the references to Joseph and Hamet drew a blank Hamet Jukes was not mamed to Joseph Plant on p61 or p47 -back to stage one
MeanwhIle The South Staffs Bngade had been at work and from the 1901 census found
Joseph Plant 37 coal mmor of Dudley Port, TIpton Wtfe Hamet 37 born Netherton, WOKS Son Charles 15 Iron worker bom Old Htll Staffs Son Joseph 13 Pipeworker born Old HIII Staffs Dau Sophta 11 born Old Hdl Staffs Son Mark 8 born Old Hdl Staffs Son BenJamm 6 born Netherton Worcs
Obwously Ronme’s ancestors
So now on to the 1881 Census to find Joseph age 17/18 Yes, located m Tlpton and showing
Mary Plant head wldow45 born West Bromwch JosephPlant son U 18 born West Bromwich Charles Plant son U 15 born West Bromwich JamesPlant son U 14 born West Bromwch
Now we have Joseph born 1X62/3
A study of the GRO gave a total of seven powblhtles
The buth certificate for second on the ltst, March 1863 quarter, reglstratlon dlstnct, Wolstanton, showed a Joseph Plant born December 1862 m Sneyd Green, Burslem to James and Mary Ann Plant wth James’s occupatton as a potter The only thing that womes me IS the discrepancy between the 1881 Census which says Joseph was born West Bromwch whereas, the afore mentioned cemticate says Joseph born Burslem Maybe the famdy moved south from Burslem to Tlpton, West Bromwch to find work m the ran works that were bemg developed m West Bromwch at that tone
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I would suggest that the next step would be the 1871 Census for Burslem and/or TIpton, West Bmmwlch to find Joseph, age 9, the son of James and Mary Ann Plant
I have mcluded tbts somewhat protracted account as an example of how the Group can help Its members
No. 202 - Mrs Audrey Hunt _ High Wycome, Bucks
Vta the Web Site and usmg the How to Jam page I recetved an apphcation to JO~ the Group Tom Audrey
Audrey 1s a comparatwe new comer to famdy hlstory Her great grandmother was Emmelme Plant baptised 1844 at Castle Church Stafford Emmelme’s father was Wdlmm Plant who was a fanner m 1844 and a pubhcan m 1869 Emmelme’s mother was Ann Plant (nee Wnght) hvmg m the Cannock area at the tune of Emmelme’s ba-th
The Group’s copy of the GRO Index of Plant births ldentltied Emmelmo’s brrth regrstratlon and also the mamage of Emmelme’s parents, Wdbam and Ann Wright
No. 203 -Mrs Shirley Goodall - Burton-on-Trent, Staffs
The Web Site was agam responsible for a new member when m August ShlrleyJomed the Group
She 1s descended from the Plant family of Leicester, notably Wllham Plant born 1836 m Appleby Magna
Wtlham was mamed in 1859 at Norton Juxta to Cathenne Wardle Although Catherme’s father 1s stated on the cemticate, Wdham 1s not-maybe he was tllegltunate Even though the certificate gwes Wdltam’s wife’s surname as Wardle, subsequent cemficates for the bnth of their chddren show her malden name as Hardle
The 1881 Census finds W~lham and Catherme, together with thetr chddren, John, Wdham and Henry, bvmg m Aosty, Wawckshlre Herbert was born in Lttteworth, Ashby de la Zouch m 1873
It 1s worth notmg at this stage that Appleby Magna IS 10 nules south west of Ashby de la Zouch, which would probably be the Regwtratlon Dlstnct for chddren born at Appleby Magna The Group’s copy of the GRO Index for Plant births 1837 to 1850 contams the following references to Ashby de la Zouch
1”qtr 1838 4*qtr 1838 In qtr 1840 “ ‘L “ “
L. “
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2”d qtr 1842 4” qtr 1x43 In qtr 1844 3ti qtr 1846 4” qtr 1846 1” qtr 1847 2* qtr 1x49 4* qtr 1849 “ “
Hannah MW Arthur Ebza MarY Mary Ann Sarah Wllllam Ehzabeth George George Sarah James Bernard Carolme Wdham
Voll5 p 16 Vol15 p 17 Vol XV p24 Vol xv p19 Vol XV p18 Vol XvplO VolxVp91 Vol XV p17 volxvp1x VolxVp17 Vol XV p78 VolxVp14 Vol XV ~680 VolxVp21 Voll5 p12 Voll5 p17
It would therefore appear that there were a number of Plant famthes tn the area and posstbly the above reference could contam siblings of Wdbam born 1836 and throw some hght on Wdbam’s father It has been suggested to Shuley that she should mvestlgate thts posslbdlty, inmally usmg the PR and our BT to tdentlfy any possible slblmgs and then obtainmg the appropriate certificate
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There are also a number of references to Burton-on-Trent rn the records By 1901 Wdliam was shown on the census age 65 lwmg in Burton-on-Trent and born at Appleby Magna
No. 204 -Mrs Marion Szezemiak - Alexandria, USA
In June of last year I received an e-mail from Manon requestmg informatIon on the Plant Famdy HIstory Group Her great great grandmother was Sarah Plant from Dudley, WOKS., and her famdy bved at Ecclesballl, Staffs.
Once agam the South Staffs Bngade were alerted and subsequently Manon confirmed that her great grandmother, Sarah Plant, was born 1846/7 eventually manymg Charles Rankm at St Thomas Church, Dudley. Sarah’s father’s name was James Plant mamed to Sarah (surname unknown)
Manon also panted out m our correspondence that her grandmother was always telling people that she. was descended from French Royalty This royalty connection 1s sometbmg that occurs qute regularly m the Plant family folklore - perhaps we. m different than most other famlies Dr John Plant, as you know, has examined these posslbdities in previous ~oumals
Wltb tbis additional information, the South Staffs Brigade really went to work. From their records Donan Greenbaum (member no. 179) was almost posltwe that Saab was the daughter of James Plant and Sarah Jewkins who married at Dudley on 28 February 1825 Sarah was baptised 22 March 1846 at St Thomas, Dudley and was Iwing m Dudley at the tone of the 1851 census. She was the ninth or ten chlldren and Donan found detads of all ten children
Note. The GRO Index for Sarah Ann’s brtb is in the Dudley Registmtlon D&K%, 1’ Qtr. 1846 Vol. XVIII, ~277
The patents of Sarah Arm were James Plant and his second wfe, Sarah Wardley Davies of Church Street, Dudley which IS where Manon grew up James Plant and Sarah Wardley Davies maned on 11 September 1843.
Accordmg to Manon, the family appears to have originated from the Old Swynford area She IS currently tmcmg a John Plantt (Jr.) and Margarett Shaw connection.
No. 205 -Mm Christine Milner- Macclesfield, Cheshire
Details ~111 appear m next journal
No. 206 - Mrs Ann PIant - Ohio, USA
D&ads will appear in II& JOWlId.
No. 207 -Mr 3dm Plant - Cottingham
Detals wdl appear m next journal.
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LETTERS
I have pxked up a few documents in Leek whmh may be of Interest
One IS a grocery receipt dated Ott 1912 to the late Mrs Plant ofNow Lane, Leek
I also have a letter on letter headed paper from GH Plant and Sons of Leek - PIal” and cardboard box manufacturers Estd 1873 and dated Jan 20th 1921 Thts 1s signed by Harry Plant, Arthur Plant and Axhlbald George Plant
Fmally I have an 1880 voters register for Leek I guess that this would not be lncluslve of too many people at the time as the stlpulatlon ’ voters as occupiers of lands or tenements of the rateable value of El2 or upwards’ 1s made
LIsted Plan& are
George Plant John Plant Smith Plant
TownshIp of Leek and Lowe
Kdn Lane, Leek occupatmn of workshop Market Place, Leek occupation of Pubhc House
Moss Rose Inn occupatmn of Beer House
TownshIp of Tlttesworth
Joseph Plant Easmg Moor Thomas Plant Easmg Farm Leek Thomas Plant Leek MoorsIde, Leek
occupatm” of land &budding occupation of land and budding occupation of land & burldrng
I Judge from the comments in the margl” that tbls register was used to canvas and Judge support for a PtiY
Agamst George and Snuth Plant 1s endorsed ‘d’ whmh may mea” died
From Kathy Conpqno - Member No I21
Slurley [Shwley Hughes, Member No 291 found a new site (or new part of a” old one) whereby the PRO wdls are Indexed and Images have bee” scanned and can be downloaded for a fee http ilwww pro-onhne p-p Donan [Dorran Greenbam, Member No 1791 explored the Plants and found four of Interest she has generously downloaded and shared the images, I’ve made notes of theu contents and we thought It would be useful for your files,nobce especmlly that of Wdham, roller and titter, the ronmaster of Dudley port Fisher/Plant firm, also a butcher, as It appearsr 1
These are not till transcnptlons, Just notes of sahent pomts,and do you know anythmg about the ancestry of Joseph Plant steel toy manufacturer at Wolverhampton??
WILLIAM PLANT of TIpton, roller and titter, pay debts and fineral, to my WIFE CATHERINE Plant ail my household firmtore, motley, securmes for money and all my personal properly, together with my butcher’s shop, slaughter house and premises situate in Dudley road 1” Tlpton now 1” occupation of Frank (7) smrth for the term of her [wlfe’s] natural hfe, after her decease household &mrture, butcher shop, slaughter house sold at pubbc auctlo” or private contract, to my granddaughter CATHBRINE FISHER dtr of David and Susannah Fisher g60 at her age 21, to my two grandsons JAMES AND WILLIAM FISHER sons of David and Sarah Fisher $40 each at their age 21, rest and residue of all my real and personal estate equally dlvlded amongst all my chddren, my daughter MARY PLANT, sons JOHN PLANT, WILLIAM PLANT, JOSEPH PLANT, GEORGE PLANT, RICHARD PLANT, and EDWIN PLANT, share and share ahke, wife Catherine executnx, so” I” law David Fisher and nephew John Powell executors, given 18 Apnl 1836, proved at London 31 October 1844 by WIDOW
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CATHERINE PLAN?, rehct DAVID FISHER [whhrch teifs NT that I)avrd Fishel was alwe for the I841 census alfhough we’ve never found hrm 1, and nephew JOHN POWELL,
JOSEPH PLANT of Brettell Lane Kmgswmford carpenter, to my son PETER PLANT of Rock Hdl ksw carpenter E30, household goods, money m the bank stock m trade to my wife, MARGARET PLANT, messuage or dwelhng house, garden adn premises situate at Broadfield ksw now m “ccupatl”” of Wilham MEESE, p,ece or parcel of land adJ”ml”g to garden above now m own occupation, and two messuage or dwelhng houses gardens and appurtenances at Broadfield now m occupation Of BenJmn COOPER and ----- ELWELL, and 3 messuages or dwelhng houses and gardens m the green lane ksw now m occupation of Wilbam COXEN or COZEN and Mary PROSSER or PROBER and Wdham HAINES, sub@ to several mortgages, all to my dear wife, MARGARET, dunng the term of her natural hfe, after her decease, first messuage at Broadfield to son PETER PLANT, heirs and assigns forever, others to my daughters SARAH WIFE OF JOHN BOLTEN of Brettell Lane wctualler, ANN WIFE OF JOHN PRICE of Wordesley ksw glassmaker, PHOEBE PLANT spmrter, said wfe = executnx, dated 28 November 1846, PROVED AT LONDON 31 May 1847 before Judge by oath of Margaret Plant, widow rehct and sole executnx, [Do~rai~‘s fifle dared fhrs wrllI841. but I see 1847, whrchfifs wrth 1846 srgnmng date]
EDWIN PLANT of Alblon Place Heath Mdl Blrmmgham, lamp and axle tree manufacturer, foneral and testamentary expenses. all household iixmture, chattels and effects and all my share and mterest of ---- m my partnership, stock m trade book debts and other partnershzp effects unto SUSANNAH LOUISA THOMPSON of Alblon Place spmster executnx, proved 23 November 1851 at London,
JOSEPH PLANT of Wolverhampton steel toy manufacturer, to my dew wife MARGARET PLANT all my real and personal estates and effects as my widow and unmamed, foneral contract and testamentary fees, after her death or mamage I gwe and bequeath my said trade of steel toy manufacture wth all the tools except the engme and Its apparatus and stock of goods belongmg to said trade unto my SONS WILLIAM PLANT and JOSEPH PLANT equally for thetr sole respectwe “se and benefit, my several messuages and dwelhng houses wth outbuddmgs and appurtenances m or near Steelhouse Lane m Wolverhampton upon trust to srud sons Wdham and Joseph, sell by auction or pnvate contract, ditto for household furnihlre and effects in my dwelhng house, messuage and heredltaments,
Except the portruts of myself and my wfe to said son JOSEPH PLANT,pay the rwdue thereof unto them the smd WILLIAM PLANT and JOSEPH PLANT and my three other chddren, STEPHEN PLANT, MARY the wfe of JOSEPH GARRATT, and SARAH the wife of JOHN FORD, WILLIAM PLANT of Wolverhampton aforesaid, steelworker, and whom I have reared shall take equally with the chdd or chddren of the said MARY GARRETT, all that my messuage wth the warehouse, work shops, yard, outbuddings, engme machinery and apparatus smmte m Pool Street Wolverhampton now m occupation of myself and two sons and residue of my real estate to my five chddren, sons WILLIAM and JOSEPH have option of contmumg as tenants and optlons to purchase shares, valuation by 2 buddmg surveyors, executrix wfe Margaret, and sons WILLIAM and JOSEPH PLANT, slgned 30 August 1848, proved at London 19 January 1850,
THANKS AGAIN TO DORIAN FOR ACQUIRING AND SHARING THESE I I II
From JrIdzfh Krrkby -- Member No 139
When watchmg the Channel Four Teletext programme, I’ve notlced a Plant m&ton, and thought you would be mterested to use. it
Thomas Leadbetter and his wfe Ann, nee PLANT, had a son Joseph, born m the Llchfield area in 1829, and he m torn had a son, Arthur, m 1860 (no note of the wife’s name) Both Joseph and Arthur worked for the Trent and Mersey Canal company The phone number of the person who submltted these detads to the TV sexwce (and wanted more mformatlon) gave no name or address, Just the phone 01283732575
Channel Four has a very useX (free) serwx runnmg on Teletext (pages 175 and 176), whmh 1s updated wth fresh mformatxon and enqmrles each Monday The mm 1s famdy hlstory research, and a maximum of 50 words IS requested, wdh no more than ode a month bemg submItted for conslderatlon - by postcard or fax or e-mad
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The postal address IS Box 297, London SW6 1XT The fax Number 1s 020 7386 5618
There could be a delay of SIX weeks or more after submwon
From Renafe Drabek - GrrNparzcrgmsse 2 7 2230 Ganserndor~ Amtrra E-marl renaie drab&&mn at
m note - In October I recewed the followmg message from Renate Drabek If any member has any mformatlon relatwe to her query please contact direct ]
“Dear Mr Plant,
Years ago I had a pen&end, called Gdhan Plant She hved m Leek, StaffordshIre and was born m 1951 Unforhmatelly I lost her adresr and today I found your HP by chance I had the Idea, that you perhaps know anythmg about her? I know, It‘s not your tessart m this HP, but I would be overjoyed to get her address1 Would you help me, please 7 You ~111 have recogmzed my Enghsh IS not the best anymore I am Austrian and have not spoken your language the last 30 years Thank you and best wshesl Renate Drabek
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Chapter 25
From Greek herbals to Leek Plants Novernlm 2002 One of a senes of Cbaptcrs by Dr 1oh11 S Plant. Keele Unnrvers~ty, England, ST5.5BG
FROM CELTS AND PLANTARDS TO PLANTAGENETS AND LEEK PLANTS’
E ally Plant-hke names may be related to sense found 1” Gteek herbals and to a subsequent “Merovtngtnn culture” Also Cclttc tradmons, asstmrlated tnto early Chrtsttan teacbtngs, may be traced through to late
medteval tnnes Such medteval constderattons, for the fortndttvc meantngs of Plant-lake names, seem at least as Importent as sense dern+ed from modern French and Enghsh meanmgs to the words Further clues for the name’s meanmg are becommg avatlable through DNA tesung Though tdeally the mtttal DNA evtdencc should be checked, by measurtng mom DNA markers. the evtdence already casts doubt on an Idea that Plartr ortgtnated as a wtdely spread occupattonal name Instead. the new evtdence supports snrvtvtng documentary ewdence that an early smgle-famdy Plant homeland WB\ near “Celtic” Wales Eatly documentary evtdence of
Plants elsewhere, however, suggests that the Plnnts were more than an rnrrnobrlc smgle famtly Further DNA test,“:: 1s televant, not least fat the nnportant French and Enghsh name Plantagenet A stttct conslderatton of
the medteval evtdcnce for the Plantagenet name ts tn&tdcd I” thts Chapter as well as later records for Plant tn tts evident Leek homeland
25.1 Diverse views on the meanings of Plant-like names
n dtscusstons of the prevtous Chapters, three mam strands can be tdenttfied tn unravelmg meanmgs for Plant-ltke names There IS (I) commonly supposed sense as a ‘gardener’, (2) more esotenc ‘soul tmplant’ sense relatmg to a ‘progeny’ or ‘chttd’ meantng of the Welsh or archatc Engltsh word plant, and (3) sense of mffuence from the htstoncally Important
names Plantard and Plantagenet Much of thts Chapter wtll be concerned wtth the ‘soul Implant sense “2” wtthm a posstble context of ‘lordly’ tnfluence from “3”. Ftrst, it ts to be noted however that the commonly supposed meanmg “1” doffers between England and France.
A translatton mto Engltsh of the Plant-ltke name entnes tn a French surname Dtcttonary ts gtven ds Table 25 1. Thts Dtcttonary cttes an impresstve ltst of btbltographtc authortttes on names* Much of what IS sdtd is epttomtsed by the sentence “Tlze enravm of names like Plantegenet, Plantegenest demonstrates especmlly that the favoured sense ts @m n planted place (e g planted with broom)’ rather than ‘one who plants (e g broom) ” Thus, Pidnterose becomes someone ‘from a place planted wtth roses’, rather than a ‘gardener’ as has been supposed by authonttes tn England This French emphases IS not surpnsmg gtven modem meamngs to the French wordplmr winch Include a
planted place (E g a bed of vegetables) but, apart from the modem Engbsh word planmtmz, thts does not carry over well mto Enghsh The French surname Dtctton&ry states that Plnrzre ts undoubtedly a corruptton of Plante’ meanmg (from a) plantatton of trees or vmes. There ts no mentmn of a more
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-__l_ __I_ eat III the Cantal and nelghhou~m:: d&parlements, Uw name IS one of several 5°F
names begrnnmg wth plan& pIante May ilgmty Esther one who plants corn or a place planted with wheat In the wme scheme of &as, one menuon\ the names Plantefeve (dCpartements 59, 62), Planwrose (76. 27). Plantevrgne. Pl<mtewgnes (07, 32, 47), Plnatevm (07, 84) The ex~s.lcnce of names hke Plantegenct, Plawgenes~ (SO, 52,55) demonstrares that one should lavour a place posscssmg lhe planl rather than a person who plants II In the same spmt, one finds surname? llke Plantecoste (15), Plantccote (16, 17), wth the senw. of a planted hlllslde, or still I” Normandy Plantefol (place where
oar ground “) Note a hamlet le Plantard at Ruaudm (72). or of so-called places
d, la DrBme and I’I=One finds the want=
Table 25 1 Plant-hke entnes m a French Surname Dlctmnacy as translated mto Enghsh (The numbers m brackets represent standard codes for French Dipartements )
esoteric sense, such as (one who IS) ‘planted wth soul’ (notably a cixld or hex), though It rmght be commented that tlus sense fits a medzval context of beliefs and there 1s also a well recogmsed surname Child There may have been a medwal sense to Plant that transcends the controversy wtuch arises wth &verged senses to modern French and Enghsh words
25.2 A Medieval Background to the Plant name
he meamng of the Plant name may be rather different from that which 1s generally sup- posed Early concepts of ‘planted spmts’ (Chapter 24) can be related back to sense m ihe ‘planted’ heahng powers of herbs This relates loosely to concepts of ‘Implanted soul’ and to Welsh borderlands sense of p/anr as a child or hex Middle Enghsh reference to planled
vntue, plnmed grace of noble hneage, and the plated Word the Lotd might allude to the vwms and vcrbwz qrs (kmg’b word) relatable to a noble Plantagenet Lord or to srdl earlier tradltrons datmg back, for example, to rhe 5th century conversmn of the Merovmguns to Chnctlanrty In a medreval Chnstldn context, the planted Word evtdently rel&es to the descended Holy Splrrt of God’s Tnmty Mlddle English reference to theplonte ofpees can be compared wrth the Prmcc ot Peace, as the Soo m God’s Trmlty / / i%re are al\o possible connecUx\ Io earher pagan behefs
2.5 2 A MEDIEVAL BACKGROUND TO THE PLANT NAMk
2.5.2.1 An ancient herbal tradition
w estem botany has tts ortgms m Greece, where two methods seem to have been used for the study of plants3 One, whrch may be called the theorettcal method, was maugurated by Arts-
totle (384-322~~) Accordmg to htm evety hvmg thmg has soul, whtch exerctscs sptntual control over all vttal functtons The other way was emptrtcal study of the practtcal purposes of plants and such knowledge found tts way mto the Corpus Htppoc/cltfcwn datmg from the 5th century BC An early herbal, whtch ts attnbuted to Theophratus (370.~S~BC), combmes both thts theorettcal and the emptncal approach
The healing, nutrtttve, augmentattve, and generattve powers of plants may he at the heart of medteval meamngs to Plant-lake names (Chapters 23 and 24) Stght should not be lost of the old
theorettcal approaches, mvolvmg the Lord’s tmplantmg of sptrttual hfe, when trytng to understand the ortgmal sense to these names Our vtston should not be clouded by modem theorettcal precepts, or by too much of a preoccupatton wtth gardemng Even the most garden-hke name Plantetose may have been related not to gardening or (from a) rose-garden so much as to an ‘tmplant(er) of spmts whtch form healmg powers, as tt should be borne m mmd that the heahng powers of the rose were beheved to be many It can be added that healmg powers had regal assoctattons for the Merovmgtans
25.2.2 A Merovingian backdrbp to such a name as Planteveleu
T he lute of Judah ts descrtbed at some length m the Btble as the Lotd’s chenshed plant or vme (Istah 5 7). Jesus later proclatmed ‘? am the ttue vme” (John 15 I) Thts has been clanned by
some to form the basts of a vme of descent of the Merovmgtan kmgs and then offsprmg, some of whom allegedly bore the name Planfard as has been pubhshed tn recent ttmes as a controverstal Razes genealogy Thts controverstal genealogy mcludes Bernard Planteveleu (Bemhardus Plantapt- 10s) though a more conventtonal genealogy for htm ts shown m Ftgure 25 1
We may constder a contentton that “Merovmgtan ttmes” may have been rn ~onze way relevant to the ongms of Plant-lake names Indeed, accordtng to the European ICI4 and other sources5 of lmnted reltabthty fat such early tnnes, the Plant-lake name Plantard descended from the Merovmgtan ktng Dagobert II (651-79) and Gtselle de Razes (653-76), God-daughter of Saint Wtlfred of York and grand-daughter of Tulca (d 642). kmg of the Vrstgoths
More stnctly, there appears (so far) to be no zmpcccable known hneage of descent from the Merovmgtans We can expect that there were many Merovmgtan descendants howevet, as the Merovmgtans Indulged a weakness for paramours that shocked the Church J.M.Wallace-Hadull surmtses that thts may represent an ancient usage of polygamy m a royal famtly whtch was a fatmly of such rank that tts blood could be netther ennobled or dtluted by any match Royal bastards were never at a dtscount because they were bastards The fortuna of the dynasty, though not the rnrs~n d’&re of Franktsh ktngship, rested m tts blood and’was shared by those who were of that blood
The 6th century hrstortan, btshop Gregory of Tours, beheved that evtl sptnts were exorctsed by the mvocatton of the Merovmgtan royal name and the vtrttts restdmg m tt He evtdently beheved contemporary reports of the fatthful that a woman wtth a stck son once approached the Merovmgtan kmg Guntrarnn of Bergundy (561-92) from behmd, removed a few frmges from hts royal robe, soaked them m water and gave the potton to her son to drink, wtth excellent results J M Wahace- HadnIl (1962)7 consrders that Guntramn was asstsred on the road to bemg ascribed mtraculous powers dnd grace of sancttty because he was beheved to be of the rtght race of kmgs The Cathohc
‘GOSKI Brcdm (1950) Agws Casrus A Mdd/e Gzghh Herbal. p 16 ‘lnrematmal Genealogml Index, http I/mm famlysearch argl ‘M Bagent, R Lagh, and H Lmcoln (1996) The Holy Hloodand he Holy Cm/. pps 261. 276 “I M Wallace-Hddnll (1962) T/w Lmrg-Hmcd KVISS and orhe> srrrdm m f,ankrslr Irrsmy. ,qx 203.4 ‘J M Wallace-Hadrdl (1962) Tire Lonq-Hmed Km~s and orher srrrdres II, Flaukrsh hrsrom, pps 99-100, 139, 180
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Flgule 25 1 A genealogy for Bernard Planteveleu, translated from a message from Phlhppe Fouchaux clung Etudes ro~rssrllormaase~, No 3-2, 1951
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25 2 A MEDIEVAL BACKGROUND TO THE PLANT NAME
btshop Gregory makes tt clear that the kmg’s word (verburn regls) could offer protectmn, m some Instance\. agdmst phystcal attack m the prevatlmg culture of ‘Justtce through famtly bloodfeud’, even as early as the ttmes of the Merovmgtan kmg Clovts 1(456-511)
A lordly sptrttual tradttton ts evtdent m the cult of Guntramn’s predecessor Stgtsmund, kmg of Bergundy, founder of Agaume, opponent of Artamsm, and curer of fevers Thts hst of vntnes, combmmg regal emmence wtth powers of spmtual cure, may represent a tradttmn that contmued on to early Plantagenet times, unttl drscredtted m the times of the 14th century ravages of the Black Death for example We may, for example, constder the name of Bernard Planteveleu (Planta-Prlus), the 9th century founder of a duchy of Aquttame, and note that Planta-Ptlus means Plant-Ham The sprtg of broom, which ts an accepted meanmg of the Plantagenet name, ts harry The healing power of broom can be related to tts hany charactensttcs, wtth the Middle Enghsh Agnrts Castus ascnbing broom the vertue of kmttmg together broken bones and sinews (Chapter 24) It may accordmgly be constdered that the Plantagenet name could have camed connotattons of noble healing powers m a tradmon from edrher ttmes
Concepts of the two substances of spmtual soul and matertal body were well established m early Chrtsttanny, even though thts had been entirely foreign to Judaism before the exile to Babylon The Incamatmn of God m the body of Chnst had become the Christtan orthodoxy m 451~~ Boethms (480-525~0), an acquaintance of the Artan Ostrogothtc kmg Theodonc the Great, had mamtamed that not only Christ but also vnhmus men could obtam the sptntual substance of divine goodness. Boethms was exposed to both pagan and early Chnsttan tradttmns m Italy The wrttmgs of Boethius were a maJot mfluence on the wrttmgs of the Engh\h scholastic Robert Grosseteste, an acquaintance of the Plantagenets The vtew of the 12th-13th century English scholasttc, Robert Grosseteste, was that humans had a smgle soul with vegetative, sensory, and mtellecttve opetattons
25.2.3 Celtic traditions and the uttering Green Man head
A ccordmg to Celttc traditton the soul was ‘mcamate’ m the head and souls went temporarily to the otherworld after death to awatt rebirth (cf regenerdtmn or reincamdtmn) Thus can be
compared wtth carved Green Man heads m 1 lth-15th century Churches and on tombs, spewmg vegetatmn from the mouth. This has been interpreted as Green Man heads uttenng the (planted) creahve Word We may constder the relevance to the formative Plant name of such a widespread medteval image, an tmage that seemingly portrays the vegetatrve soul Scholastc evrdence for the vegetattve soul has been described m some detatl m earlier Chapters It can be added that belief m the vegetative may have gone beyond the pervastve teachings of the Christtan schoolmen and may
be related back to earher pagan beliefs. Celts are, stnctly speakmg, the many people who speak Celtic languages In pre-Roman tnnes
then mfluence was wtdespread extending across most of modern Britain, Belgium, France, notthern Spam, wtth outposts as far to the east as Asia Mmor. Today the Celtic languages fall into two mam groups - Goedehc languages are Irish, Scats Gaehc, and Manx while the Brythomc or Cymnc languages are Welsh, Breton, and Comish. The old Gaehc word eland meanmg ‘famtly’ can be compared with the ‘Welsh’ or Jrcharc Enghsh* word plant meaning ‘child’ It ts posstblc that the mam mfluence on the Plant surname was a Celttc ‘soul Implant’ meanmg ‘chtld’ and, more generally, stmtlar tradmons may have mlluenced the meanmgs of other Plant-hke names throughout France, though most of the early Celtic evidence has been lost for mainland Europe9 From the 5th century onwards, tt was the monks m Ireland who took great care to write down the anctent Celttc
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bjshop Gregory makes It clear that the kmg’s word (w-bum regu) could offer protectton, m some instances, agdmst phystcal attack in the prevalhng culture of ‘Justice through famtly bloodfeud’, even as early as the tnnes of the Merovmgian kmg Cloves I (456-5 11)
A lordly spmhial tradttton ts evtdent in the cult of Guntramn’s predecessor Stgtsmund, kmg of Bergundy, founder of Agaume, opponent of Anamsm, and curer of fevers This hst of vnmes, combmmg regal emmence with powers of spnitual cure, may represent a tradltmn that contmued on to early Plantagenet ttmes, unttl dtscredited m the time\ of the 14th century ravages of the Black Death for example We may, for example, consider the name of Bematd Planteveleu (Planta-Pllus), the 9th century founder of a duchy of Aqmtame, and note that Planta-Ptlus means Plant-Hair. The sprig of broom, which is an accepted meaning of the Plantagenet name, IS hairy The healing power of broom can be related to tts hany charactensttcs, with the Middle Enghsh Agnus Castus ascrtbmg broom the vertue of knitting together broken bones and smews (Chapter 24). It may accordingly be constdered that the Plantagenet name could have camed connotations of noble healing powers m a ttadmon from earher tunes
Concepts of the two substances of spintual soul and material body were well estabhshed m early Chnstlamty, even though this had been entirely foreign to Judaism before the extle to Babylon. The Incarnation of God m the body of Chnst had become the Chrtsttan orthodoxy in 451nD. Boethms (480.525AD). an acquatntance of the Anan Ostrogothlc kmg Theodonc the Great, had maintained that not only Christ but also vntuous men could obtam the spmtual substance of drnne goodness. Boethms was exposed to both pagan and early Chnsttan tradmons m Italy The wiltmgs of Boethius were a maJor Influence on the wntmgs of the Enghsh scholastic Robert Grosseteste, an acquaintance of the Plantagenets The view of the 12th-13th century English scholasttc, Robert Glosseteste, was that humans had a single soul with vegetative, sensory, and mtellective opetations
252.3 Celtic traditions and the uttering Green Man head
A ccordmg to Celtic tradition the soul was ‘mcamate in the head and souls went temporanly to the otherworld after death to await rebnth (cf regeneration or remcarnation) This can be
compared with carved Green Man heads m 1 lth-15th century Churches and on tombs, spewing vegetation from the mouth This has been interpreted as Green Man heads uttermg the (planted) creative Word We may constder the relevance to the formative Plant name of such a widespread medleval tmage, an image that seemingly portrays the vegetatwe soul. Scholastic evidence for the vegetative soul has been described in some detatl m earlier Chapters It can be added that belief in the vegetative may have gone beyond the pervasive teachings of the Chnstian schoolmen and may be related back to earher pagan beliefs.
Celts are, stnctly speaking, the many people who speak Celtz languages In pre-Roman times thetr nn?uence was widespread extending a~lobs most of modem Bntam, Belgium, France, northern Spam, with outposts as far to the east as Asia Mmor Today the Celttc languages fall mto two mam groups - Goedehc languages are insh, Scats Gaelic, and Manx while the Brythomc or Cymnc languages are Welsh, Breton, and Comtsh The old Gaelic word eland meamng ‘famtly’ can be compared wnh the ‘Welsh’ or archaic Enghsh* word planr meaning ‘&&I’ It 1s posstble that the main influence on the Plant surname was a C&c ‘soul Implant’ meanmg ‘child’ and, more generally, slmllar tradmons may have influenced the meanmgs of other Plant-hke names throughout France, though mobt of the early C&c evidence has been lost for mamland Europe9 From the 5th century onward?, It was the monks m Ireland who took great care to wtlte down the ancient Celtic
‘11, fact the Welsh word ,,lenQn means ‘child’ and [,la!,r IC the plural mcan,ng ‘chddren bit, 8” archax Enghsh, such as near Chester, pla,,r means a ‘young person’ or ‘heir’
‘The Remans gamed wcrory between 59 and 49BC over thr Celw tribes hwng m Gaul (France) but the Celts contmued to worship their own gods and goddesses untd the official ddqwn hy the Remans of the Chnshan falrh Even I” dlrtant Ireland, the mflw~ce 01 Chnstmmly WBF soon felt but there. convcnwn did no, mean the wholesale deQruc,x,n of the ce,t,c hemage
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saga. ctnd a small group of stones was recorded also m Wales’” ? he mag,c cauldron of Dagda, the great god of Irish mythology, wa\ a\\ocmted wth plenty
as well as wtth tebnth Thts may be compared wtth later Ideas of the nutrmve, augmentattve, and generatwe powers of the vegetattve soul
A relevant Celttc myth ts of Bran the Blessed, called Bendtgetdfrm tn Wales, a Brtttsh lung who managed to avotd war wtth the Irtsh kmg Matholwch by presentmg htm wtth a magtc cauldron, whtch could bnng men back to ltfe wtthout restormg thetr speech Despne the gtft, Bran’s sister was maltreated by her husband, Matholwch, and Bran satled to Ireland wtth a great army where evety Insh man was slaughtered and only seven of Bran’s army survtved, wtth Bran hnnself mortally wounded by a potson arrow. On hts deathbed, Bran told his followers to Ltn otf hts head whtch was sttll able to eat and talk on theJOUrney back and whtch, accordmg to later addtttons to the myth, was taken to London to ward off foretgn waders and was later used by Kmg Arthur for tts power.
Ewdence for Green Man heads ts wtdespread throughout Bntam, Europe, and the east (Ta- ble 25 2) A more elaborate exposmon of a tradttton for talkmg severed heads ts found in the tale of Str Gawnrn and r/m Green Kmght whtch ts dssocrated wrth the 14th century Plant homeland (Chapter 23)
25.2.4 A strict consideration for the important name Plantagenet
A ccordmg to a book by John Sletgh (1862) It, the name Plant 1s.qqued to be corr~cptedfiona P[nnmgenet This indtcates, at least, that there wds behef m the 19th centuty that Plantagenet
had mlluenced the sense of the Plant name Before that, one might speculate as to whether the name Plant formed m 13th century ttmes amongst auxtltaty duttes to the “Plantagenets” or whether, hke the Plantagenets, the Plants came to east Cheshtre from France An earher Chapter (Chapter 19) descrtbed proxtmtttes between the frst known English Plant-hke names and the Warrens (Planta- genets) though tt should be added that extant medteval evtdence IS scant for medteval usage of the Plantagenet name
There IS considerable mterest m possible descent from the “Plantagenets”‘* wtth many relatmg themselves to mtxed male and female hnes descendmg through the relattvely well documented peerage The Complete Peerage’3 (CP) ts a much esteemed secondaryi source for thts purpose and, though tts mam focus IS not the Plantagenet name, it ts worth nottng some pertment extracts from It
The Corn&m Peerage (Volume XI Appendtces) states on page 141, m an appendtx relating m part to Geoffrey, count of A~JOU (1113-1151) -
This tamous ntckname occurs as Plantegenest, m John of Marmoutler’s Preface to the “Gesta Consulurn Andegavorum”(Chronlques des Comtes d’AnJou, p 170). and as Plante Gen- es, I” Wace. Ronlan de Rou (ed Andrew), vol II, p 437, II 10300.02, 10305 The most bkely explanation of Its ongm seems to be the tradmonal one. that Geoffrey was accus;omed to wear a spng of broom (planta genuta) m his cap or helmet (Norgate, l&land wzder the Angevrn Kmgs, vol I, p 261) It IS curious that, although this 1s the reason gwen by Green, Htsr Englrsh People, vol 1, p 151, Mrs Green says that Geoffrey was so called “from his love of huntmg over heath and broom” (Henry II, p 6) This may be deduced from Wace (Lot CII )
‘E al centre Geffrel son frere, Que I’m clamonr Plante Genest,
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In Church and other carvmgs, there arc tour roam types of Green Man the fohate head I” which the face becomes leaves, the spewmg or uttermg head where leaves and fohnge emerge from the mouth, the ‘blood- sucker’ head where branches and leaves sprtng from the eyes and ears as well as the mouth. and Jack I” the Green whtch IS often sunply a head peermg out of a frame of fohage Roman columns of the 6th century AD show the Green Man as a fobate head, which seems to have been the dommant form unttl the appearance ot spewmg heads on tombs and carvmgs m 12th century Romanesque churches. The mmge of a Green Man spewmg fobage has been constdered to be represent the uttermg of the logos or creattve Word, posstbly lllustratmg the cycle of death and regeneration This can be compared wth Grosseteste’s 12th-13th century model of the soul, whtch mcluded the vegetatwe operations of the nutntwe, the augmentatwo, and the generatrve - these can be readily related to the mouth not only eatmg but also uttermg the (planted) Word of growth and regenetwon. There are also carved heads of cats spewmg fohage and, for Grosset&o and others, antmal souls also contamed vegetatwe operatmns Rosslyn Chapel, for example, was budt by W:lham Smcln~rm the 15th century and It has been assoaated wtb the medlevai order of the Kmghts Templars who, amongst other thmgs, were sard to worshtp the cat There are sad to be 103 unages of the Green Man m that Chapel and only one of Jesus More generally, slmllar mmges are. found wdely dtspersed throughout England, Weytern Europe, and the East Such carvmgs may be taken as clues about the m~portance of the vegetatwe soul and the planted Word before the Refonnatmn
Left carved wooden roof boss, Sampford Courtenay, Devon Rtght carved keystone m atch of Fountains Abbey, Nolth Yotkshxe
Table 25.2 Medleval Green Man heads (after Mike Hardmg (I 998) A L&e Book of The Green MCW)
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However, I, 17 more hkely that Geoffrey’s love 01 wood and forest was mserted for the purpose of r,me than “5 a” explanation of his mckname It was not untd some centuncs later thdt Plantagenet was supposed to be the surname 01 his family and was attrtbuted to hts descendants generally (ante, vol I, p 183, note “c”, Ban-on, I” Ancestor, no 5, pp 62-64)
The Complete Peerage I5 dwells on the assumptmn of the name Plantagenet by Richard duke of York stattng ‘He appears to have awmed thrs name about 1448’ Indeed, Volume I (wntten by Vtcary Gtbbs I” 1910) states on page 183 thdt ‘rhe 11c1112e [Plantdgenet], although o penorml emblem for the aforesnrd Geoffrey [of A~Jo”], was never borne by any of his descendants before Rtchard Plartragenet, Duke of York’ Thts use of the word ‘never’ contrasts wtth the usual adage that ‘absence of extant evtdence 1s not evtdence of absence’ -I” other words, we mtght comment that no-one can know that the Plantagenet name was newer used albett that the statement of ‘never’ fulfils argumenfum ad rgnorantum whereby we ,tre Ignorant that it was ever used We may note that the extant evtdence at least begs the questto” of how It was that a tradttto” for the Plantagenet “ame survived from the 12th to the mtd 15th century Volume XII6 (wntten by Geoffrey H White m 1949) constders descent from Rtchard duke of York statmg on p 402 that ‘Se [Margaret Plantagenet] %tras the last survwrng member of the great royal home of Arqoy now usually known as the Planm- @nets It ts hence often sumused that the first person to adopt (1 e who 1s known to have adopted) Plantagenet ILS a” expltctt surname was Rtchard of York, father of Edward IV and Rtchard III, and that thts surname dted out wtth the last such Plantagetlet, Rtchard’s grand-daughter, Margaret Poole Plantagenet, who was executed (vilely) at the orden of Hemy VIII on 27th May 1541
It needs to be added, however, that the Complete Peerage does not mentton a further notable ptece of evidence The Plantagenet name appears many tunes in the mdex to the Close Rolls and, though the entnes themselves do not generally mentton the name exphcttly, there IS a rare exceptton The Close Rolls I” fact show (Chapter 17) the PLAUNTEGENET name was tn use m 1266 (relg” of Hemy III) and this 1s around the ttmes of the first known evtdence for the Plant surname I” England Galfrtdo Plauntegenet, serJent at arms, Wodestock (the royal palace near Oxfotd) ts menttoned m connectton wtth garderobe duttes to the king. The Close Rolls mclnde regtstered coptes of Letters Close issued by the royal Court of Chancery and the 1266 entry menttonmg Galfrtdo Plauntegenet 1%
De robts dam - Mandatum est &card” de Ewell’ et Nlcholoa de Turn1 emptonbus garder- obe regts quad habere facmnt Hugom de Cave Theme de Dunclent, Waltero le Marschall’, (3 more names) , Galfndo Plauntegenet, (14 more names) servtenttbus “ostrts ad arma eqmtlbus, (21 more names) quatuor Janltorlbus et quatuor v@b”s p&bus I” munmone %~rns nostre Land’ commorantlbu?, robas, vtdehcet “mculque eorum ““am robam, hat vice de dono regts Teste rege spud Wodestok xx die Decembrls
This apparently relates to an mstmctton m the ktng’s “dme for Rtcardo de Ewell’ and Ntcholoa de Turn to carry a garderobe to vartous people, tncludmg Galfndo Plauntegenet, perhaps at a mtlttary campI
It 1s proper that thts pnmary evidence from the Close Rolls 1s constdered alongstde the com- me”tT for Plantagenet I” the Complete Peerage The Complete Peerage mtght otherwlse give the false Impressto” that the Plantagenet name was not bemg used m the 13th century, at the ttme of the
%P x11/2, p 905 ‘“CP XI, pp 319.402 (Wllh colrectlo”5 I” CP XIV) “The Warren earl of Surrey had fought for the kmg “t Lewes I” 1264 where the kmg was captured and the earl fled LO
France The earl returned to England 1” 1265 and freed the kmg BI the battle of Evesham It 1s largely on the bass of such q~~ulat~on that II might be rhought a ‘reasonable fabncat~o” thal the Plantagenet nnme was being osed hy lhc Warren aflirnry, BS mdlcated I” enttw of the ‘accordmgly fabncatcd’ CJCLDS Ancestral Fxle (as outhncd I” Chapter I’)) There IS no known dxect ewdence 10 cu,,port lhlr fabocatlo” lhowcvcr
zb
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firs1 known evtdence for the Plant name The prectte ndture of the relattonshtp of Galfrtdo Plaun- tegenet to the so-called “Royal House of Plantagenet”. or indeed the prectse nature of a connectton of Plauntegenct to the Plant name, ts not clear from tht\ prtmary evtdence however
25.2.5 Reaching back to medieval sense before the Renaissance
S mname meanmgs should be mundane, Mundane, that IS, to a medteval mtnd For Plant-hke names, we need to ‘unlearn’ many cenhmes of post-Renatssance sctence, lookmg for clues m
scholasttc wrtttngs, to try to reconstruct the behefs of such a person as the medteval herbarms or of one famthar wtth uttenng Green Man heads Despttc the mtellectual challenge of thts task, the atm ts to return to tdeas that were commonplace at the ttme. desptte perhaps the behefs taktng on a somewhat mcomprehenstble atr to us. Certamly there was nothmg new about beltef m the sptntual powers of herbs and such Ideas remanted Intact through the Mtddle Ages The De Natuns Renm of Alexander Nequam (1157-1217), for example, was a collectton of sptrttual mterpretattons of natural phenomena and, from such evtdence, tt seems that anagogtcal or sptrttual meanmgs were commonplace tn natural htstory. Heraldry also featured m the prevatlmg culture though, wtthout some further explanatton, we mtght questton why there was any Interest, per se, tn tdenttfymg a parttcular emblem (one of the many emblems of the ‘Plantagenets’) as the spectes planta genrsta It may have been b&f m the beahng powers of the sprtg of broom that gave a particular stgntficapce to the name of thts royal dynasty. Bemg healed ts one of the baste destderata of hfe, m any age, and though the emphasts has smce changed from the ‘sptntual’ to the ‘btochemtcal’, the noble heahng powers of the broom may explant an “early ptosatc” stgmficance to the Plantagenet name Stmtlarly, the most stgntficant sense of the name Planterose may have been an ‘Implam of spirttual love and healmg powers’ desprte the fact that ‘gardenmg’, whtch spt mgs to our modem tntnds, has smce become the most popular hobby m England.
From the Mtddle Ages onwards, a dtsttnctron was made between dtvme or natural magtc (some- ttmes called whtte magrc) and, on the other hand, petty sorcery, necromancy, and commanon A sptntual sense to Plant-ltke names falls mto the former category and tt can be regarded as accept- able m medreval Christtan ttmes Wtth the 15th century spread of Hermetic Wtsdom followmg the Renaissance, Johanan Alemanna wrote that the anctent Israehtes ‘were taught to be&e w the possrbdtty of cartsmg certain sprntual forces and emanatrons to descendfiom above by means of preparatm made by mm for thatpwpose, such as talwuans. garments, and certacn oblects whose purpose is to cawe the descent of certam spintunl power . ’ In other words, along with the passtve ‘planted Word’ of the Lord, it became more the norm to belteve that men themselves could acttvely mduce ‘planted sptrtts’ Ptco della Mtrandola (1463-94) of the Florentme Academy wrote ‘whatever seed each man cultwates will grow to matunty and bear m hm them own frutt’ addmg ‘so does the magus wed earth to heaven, that IS, he weds lower thrngs to the endowments and powers of htgher rhlngs’. The medteval sotcerer had been largely dn outcast from the Church’s near monopoly on leammg ‘* but, accordmg to Frances Yatest9, tt was Ptco who ‘jirst boldly formulated a new po- sttlon for European man ro conrrol hrs destmy by rcrence’ Paracelsus (1493.1541) drew on an old parallel between botany and alchemy when he wrote ‘As the physictan @uses herbal wtrtes Into the srck man, and so heals hu drsease, so the magm ufkes wtto mm the heavenly vrrtrrrs~ust as he has extracted them Thts seemmgly reflects a tradttton, apphcable to the name Planterose for example, of companng tmplanted heahng powers of plants, such as the rose, wtth an tmplanted spmt of heavenly love Wtth the Renatssance, tt seems to have become more the provmce of any magus to mvoke any sort of heavenly sptrtt, rather than Just the Cathohc pnest’s place to pentton the Lord for Hts planted Word By then, Plant-lake names were already well estabhshed - tt seems that thetr tmttal sense IS to be regarded mamly as ‘rmplants of the Lord’s creattve Word’, perhaps tn
‘*WI Bmgcnt and R Leigh (1997) TIE Ekxrra,,d lhe Slone A ~f,srory ofmqrc and Aldw,ry. pps 86-7, 127-9. 149. I66
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response to holy plamts by a prrest, rather than as spurts Invoked by ‘magtctans’ who came more to the fore with the onset of European man’s rtght to practtce ‘sctence’
252.6 Associable meanings for Plant-like names
A medteval Plant-hke traditton can be dated back at least to the 9th century Aqunaman ttmes of Bernard Planta-Prlus A traditton of Plant-like names seemmgly lmgered on mto modern trmes
m England wnh the Plant name m Prestbury pansh, m proxumty m east Cheshtre to the Warrens (who belonged to the so-called “Plantagenet” famrly)
The Plant-hke name Plantard has been assoctated wtth 7th century France, albeit on the basrs of rather contenuous evtdence. More certainly, m a modem French Telephone Dtrectory20, there are occurrences of Plantard (425 entrtes), Plantade (334 entrees), and Plantadts (58 entries) In me- dteval Latm, Plantada ts a vartant of Plantata whtch means ‘a place planted (such as wtth vmes)’ while Plantatto means a ‘foundatton, erectton, or constructton (such as of a chutch)‘2’ In modem French, plantard means a squared trunk of a tree, whtch could be associated wtth early constructron If we cast the net more widely, we may note that Ardo was the last Vtstgothtc tuler (713-720) of Septemama (around SW France) - tt 1s said that Ardo IS an abbrevtatton of Ardablast, a Vtstgothc prince who returned from Armenia, and that Arta is common m Persian names meanmg ‘lustme, daughter of the Wtse Lord’. Accordmg to an old-Perstan Drcttonaty arta means nghteousness22 23 We can hence construct a meamng an ‘implanter of rtghteousness’ for Plant-Ard which rather re- sembles the evident meaning an ‘nnplantet of contrttton of sm’ for the 13th century Mtddle Engltsh name Plantefolte More patttculady, the name Plantard ts found mostly m Brittany In Bretot?, nrd means ‘art’ or ‘craft’ and meamngs of the verb plnntaii mclude ‘to Implant and so, m a medteval context, we can translate Plant-Ard as an ‘unplant(et) of dtvme skull’
Some other modern French names are listed m Figure 25 2 They Include Plante (817 entnes m a modem French Telephone Directory), Planty (105), Plantte (102), Planttveau (49) Plantavnt (17). Plantevtgne (16) --. they relate as much to plenty as to vegetable growth and, for example, as much to a God-ltke sptnt of wine as to the planted vme Many of these names, mcludmg the 13th century Bngltsh spellmgs Plante and Plente, cau accordingly be associated wnh ‘a planted spirit of nutrittve generosrty, abundant growth, and ferttle generauon” - this ts m keeping with Pseudo- Dronystan tradttton and wtth medteval models of the vegetattve soul (Chapter 24) Another modem surname ts Planta (60 entnes m France and 80 m Italy) In medteval Latin, planta can mean a newly planted vme, sole of foot, or the foundattons of a btuldmg The etymology of the Gaeltc word clann, meamng ‘descendants’ or ‘tribe’, can be associated wtth an ‘offshoot’ meanmg of the Latm word planta (cf newly planted ‘vme or ‘progeny’)26
The French surname Planterose (52 entries) ts found also m 13th century England In Agnus Castus the rose IS ascribed many healing powers and Planterose can have sense as an ‘rmplanter of rose sptnts or, for example, an ‘assuager of fever’ It can be added that the Merovmgtan kmg Guntramn transmitted sovereignty to his nephew by the symbol of the spear, a symbol sometunes as- soctated with Woden27 -with such a tradition, the Enghsh bye-name Plantefene might be thought to take on unphcattons of heredttary trausmtsston m tts senses of an ‘unplanter of happy spurts or a ‘spear tmplanter and thts may be related to sense of plant as ‘chtld’ or ‘heir’ Others have assocrated
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surname There are v~rmus lradmonal lmks along the Atlanl~ COPSE of Europe -- Car example, the conrrovers~ally n/legged progemtor of rhc Planlard famdy, Dagoberl II. IS said m hnvc been exiled to Slane III Ireland as a child before mowng LO Northumbna and rcturnmg to power ,n France
“J tvl Wallxe-HadnIl C 1962) IbId, p 201
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\Jumbers nt b N?Xlle Plantard (425)
Plantade (334) Plantadls (5X) Plank (817)
Planty (I 05)
Plank (102)
:kets below represer Regron Bretagne Pays de la Lox Bourgogne M&PyrCn&es Ll”lOUSl” Aqmtame
M&Pyr&&es Pottou-Cbarentes MIdI-PyrCntes M&Pyr&&s Langedoc-Rousslllon Aqutame -
It the numbers of entnes m a French Telephone Dxector Departments m Regton wth high numbers Marblhan (631, Ille-et-V&an (35) Lolre-Atlantlque (54), Mame-et-io,re (18) Sa6wet-LoIre (27), N&x (24) Haute-Garonne $39). Tarn-et-Garonne (37). Tar? (20) Corr&ze (18), Hante-Vznne (5) Pyi+.nBes-Atlanuqne (64), Glronde (41), Lot-et-Garonne (37), Landes (28) Haute-Garonnc (42), Gcrs (35), Hates-PyrinEes (23) Charente-Mantlme (9X V~enne (7), Charente (5) Tarn (13), Haufe-Garonne (7) Haute-Garonne (IO), Ar&ge (S), Gcrs (8) Aude (16) Lot-et-Garonne (10)
FIgwe 25 2 Modem Dtstrlbutlon of some Plant-like names throughout the Regtons of France
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Plantefene with ‘hay’, through the Latm wordfnerntrn Wtth a stmtlarpredtsposmon to adhere to an agrtcultural sense, Plantablat has been assoctated wtth ‘corn’ by compartson wtth the French word blatrer meamng corn chandler However, tf one constdets Instead the Latm word &rem mednmg a prater or babbler or blatherskate or blatterer, we glnnpse m Planteblat the uttermgs of a Xhaman’ and hence arrtve at a lmk to the well established meanmg of a ‘plant(er) of the creattve Word’
Further clanfcation for the early ortgms of Plant-hke names may artse wtth DNA testmg whtch mtght connect the Plant surname to specrfic other Plant-hke names So far, a characterr\ttc Y- Lme DNA stgnature fat Plant, applymg for example to the east Cheshue Plant homeland, has been related by DNA evtdence to the name spellmg Plantt whtch mtght be an abbrevtatton of the French surname Plantmet (12 entrres m a modem French Telephone Dtrectoty) or for example Planteblat or Plantar(tUt) or Plantagenet
25.3 Plants at Leek after the Dissolution of the Monasteries
he pansh of Leek *’ hes tn the Totmonslow Hundred of NE Staffordshtre, adjommg east Cheshrre, m England, as mdtcated m Ftgure 2.5 6(b) Htstory recordsz9 the exrstence of various Plants to thts partsh. In 1522, Martm Luther had produced aprmted German trans- latton of the Btble and. m 1525, Wtlltam Tyndale had added a printed Enghsh translatton,
thereby removmg the Cathohc pnests’ near monopoly on the mterpretatton of God’s planted Word Plantagenet fortunes appear to have suffered a dechne around the ttmes of Henry VIII’s ensumg Dtssolution of the Monastenes (1538) and vartous misfortunes also beset some of the Plants As already menttoned, Margaret Poole Plantagenet was executed by Hemy VIII m 1541. In 1539, there ts a record that fees and annumes had been pard to Lawrence Phmte before the Drssoltmon ot Dreu- lacress Abbey m Leek (Staffordshtre) In 1545, a Wtlltam Plant complamed about harassment on hts lands at Ke~.le~~ (Staffordshrre) Around 1565-7, Eltzabeth, Chrtstopher, and Thomas Plante were deforced (Chapter 18) from srgmficant properttes m Leek (Staffordshire) There are records m the IGI, from around those ttmes, for the parttcular spelhng Plantt (a posstble abbtevtatton) appear- ing widely in Oxfordshtre (1540), Lmcolnshtre (1565), Worcestershtre (1577), Cheshtre (1581). Leicestershire (1586, 1637). London (1661), and Staffordshrre (1682) It ts known for example that the Crown retatned Heaton Manor (Rgure 25 6(c)) after the Drssolutton of the Monastertes tmttl 1614, when rt was sold to a Wtlham Ttmmchffe ofBearda Farm and a Willtam Plant also of Heaton They sold tt m 1629
There are many records for 17th century Plants at Leek m the 1984 verston of the IG13’. These do not readtly connect to form extenstve Plant famtltes Even so, one can form a stnnmary of 17th century Plant records m the full pansh regtster for Leek whtch, unhke the IGI, mcludes bunal mformatton and some mdtcattons of whete m the parrsh Plants were restdmg Thts 1s shown as Ftg- ures 25 3 to 25 5 The mcomplete nature of the Plant records for Leek partsh mtght be a result of, for example, lost mformatton due to nonconformtty Protestant nonconformtty was wtdespread m the later 17th centmy, with Presbytertans and Quakers parttcularly numerous A Quaker meetmg house
“The gmndeur oC the scenery ,n Leek parsh caught the ,magmat,on of Richard Plot when he vwted the area in about 1680 He wrote enthuslastwdly ot the rocks of the d~stnct, ‘so,ne oJ-rlwn krrsrng rhe clmds wrrlr rheir ro,>~, md nmnri,g along rhe ~~~owz,~,,~o,~s rtdges fo, so,,w w&s rogerher In 1708 l-homas Londale, Inter wear of Leek, wwed Leektnlh ‘IO YEW some of our Moo,loo,lad nodders and found the Roaches ‘one of rhe nzost rommnck pros,,ec,s oJNm,re, Jo, beyoorrd Dr PIorr’s dmr,,,rro,, (V,ctona County Histories Staffordshire. Vol VII Leek and rhe Moorlands. (OUP 1996). p 78) ‘llle usual buddmg marenal from the 17th century onwards was stone Earlier bulldmgs had often been ot umber. and umber frammg was used for the mternal walls well mto the 18th century Brick, which became wdespread 111 Leek m the 18th century, made an o~cas,onal appearance ,n the mral area of the pansh but stone contmucd as the man m,,ter,.i throughout the 19th century
2YV~ctor~a County H~stone~ Sraitordshtre, Vol VII, IbId, pps 48, 115, 187, 19.1, 235 ‘“Wdham Plant of Keele complancd to the Star Chamber of Henry VIII on 3 May 1545 Keele lands wbscqoently
belonged to the Sneyd famdy and Wllham Planr’s comphant was that he WBS hamsed by armed men commanded by Wllham Sneyd of Bradwall Roots and Branches, Issue Number IX, p 55
3’lnkm~rtmnnl Gcnea,og,ca, index dxd
25 3 PLANTS AT LEEK AFTER THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES
Figure 25 3 Some 17th century Plants at Leek
was opened m Leek town m the late 1690s and tt appears to have been the largest m Staffordshtte m the early 18th centmy In 1723 EliJah Hall regtstered hts house in nearby Longnor as a meetmg place for Quakers. By 1731 a Quaker named James Plant was Longnor’s headborough.
The ancient ‘Quarters’ of Leek parish are shown m Ftgure 25 6(c) Each Quarter had its own overseer of the poor by the 1660s In the Quartet OF Leekfrtth, there are records of 17th century Plants at Blackshaw Moor and at Redearth Redearth Farm stall extsts at the end of a track to the north of the Leek-Macclesfield road which crosses the SW comer of Leekfrtth Quatter This stte was occupied by the ttmes of the early 16th century. By the later half of the 17th century there were two houses at Redearth of whtch only one sttrvtves Rebmlt m the 17th century, the survtvmg house has a thud storey wtth wtndows evtdently Inserted to provtde light for weavmg, tn 1666 the house was occupted by a weaver, John Plant. Ftgure 25 4 mcludes Plants of Red Earth m 1636, 1637, 1649, 1655/G, 1657, 1657/8, 1660, 1665, 1682, 1686, and 1688-93. Stlk working had become establtshed m Leek town by the 1670s. By 1711 the movement of populatton tnto the town of Leek from the Quartets of Leekfrith, Bradnop, and Endon had created a burden on the Leek and Lowe Quarter.
Blackshaw Moor ltes across either stde of the Leek-Buxton road which forms a stratght east- most boundary between Leekfrtth and Tittesworth Quarters (Ftgure 25.6(c)) Blackshaw Moor was mhabtted by the 1640s Rtchard Plant and hts famtly were described as of Blackshaw Moor m 1644, and the Plants may have settled there m the 16th century, three farms m Tttteswottb bemg held by three members of the Plant family m 1542
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CHAPTER 2.5 I-ROM GREEK HERBALS TO LEEK PLANTS
Ftgure 25 4 Leek Plants I 17th Century m Leekfnth Quarter (Plants stated to be of Leekfnth, Fryth, Hazlewood, Red Earth, Fould, Faker, Newgrange, md Bldcksbaw Moor)
25 3 PLANTS AT LEEK AFTER THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES
Flgure 25 5 Leek Plants II Other 17th Century Records
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(a) Staffordshm amongst the 1881 county boundarm of England md Wales
(c) The Quarters of Leek pansh
CHAPTER 25 FROM GREEK HERBALS 70 LEEK PLANTS
(b) Leek push at the north of the Totmonslow Hundred of NE Stafforshxe
Ih /‘,- TOTMONSLOW
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Flgure 25 6 Locatlon of Leek parch m Staffordshw, adJommg the county of Cheshire and sepd- rated by Alstonefield parlsh fro”: Derbyshre
LISTING OF WILLS
Work, organised by Phlhp Plant (member no. 168), IS progressing and Richard Sdlitto (member no. 190) has prowded a hst of Plant (and vacations) wills and admimstratmn m the Lichfield Record O&e calendar of Diocese of Llchfield records. They have extracted with their penmwon from the LDS films as follows
Ecclesiastical Consistow Courts
mcludmg those prowded by Aloa Dereta - member no. 162
One of the earlier journals contamed a hst of wills held at Chester Record Office. As there may be some overlap wth the Lichfield list prowded by Richard, the Chester hst wdl be re-checked.
Hopefolly, it should be possible (possibly m the next Journal) to prowde a composite list
095281 1494-1650 095282 1651-1725 095283 1726-1775 095284 1776-1820
covering L&field and Chester As the Llchtield list covers Staffordshire the h&lands of the Plant name ~111 have been covered. However, It will be necessary to supplement the hst with records from other
Various Peculiar Courts areas and Phlhp would appreciate any information relatwe to wdls held by members
095287 1494-1820
A list of Wdls and Admons covering the period 1821-1860 was included on pages 56 and 57 of Journal No. 16.
of the Group
Fmally, thanks are due to Phdip, Richard and Aloa for their work to date
Against each listing, the edltor of thus Journal has forwarded to Philip details of wluch wills the group has further mformatmn on,
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SNIPPETS
EARLY PLANTS IN AMERICA
Cantined on the Plant Family Genealogy Forum IS the following information relative to Plants in Vxgltua 1624-1706
The information IS taken from Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants (coded aa CP) and from Meyer, Adventures of Purse and Person, Virgmia 1607-1624 (coded as PP).
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Wdliam Plant IS hsted as dead on a 1624 muster-roll of Vugmia Colony sent to England following an Indian massacre He IP described as having come ‘over the water’ m 1624 PP.
Mathew Plant IS listed as a wtness of a Vwgnua land contract made in 1635. CP.
Land IS granted by headnght to an individual for havmg transported &chard Plant from England to Vlrguua Colony in 1638 (entrepreneurs were granted 50 acres of land for each person whose passage they paid - umnigmnts who came to Am&cd in this way typwally indentured themselves to serve for several years to repay the debt) CP.
New Kent CO VA Land IS granted by headnght to an individual for havmg transported Jonathan Plant and William Plant in 1687. CP.
Land IS granted by headright to an mdividual for bavmg transported John Plant in 1704. CP.
New Kent CO VA Land is granted by headnght to an indwldual for havmg transported Jonathan Plant and Elizabeth Plant in 1706 CP.
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I. Hennco CO VA land IS granted to an indwidcal for havmg transported John Plant and Ehzabeth Plant m 1715 CP.
Also: No PLANT was included on the list of persons ~cmmg the Jamestown colony before 1616
No PLANT was named on the 1704 list of Vxginia quit rents
In 1709 Elizabeth Plant married Charles Rxhardscn in New Kent CO VA. A list of their children appears m the 8-6-02 GenFomm postmg on RICHARDSON
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Submitted by Andrew Plant-men&=x no 69.
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY UPDATE 1968-90
PLANT Cyril Thomas Howe 1910-86 Baron Plant of Benden, trade ulllcn official born 27.8.1910 Leek, Staffs, only son and elder chdd of Sxlney manager of Co-cp shop and Rosina Edna Thomas Mamed Gladys Sampson 1931,2 scns 1 daughter. Made a Life Peer 1978
MODERN ENGLISH BIORGRAPHY (deaths between 1851-1900) Frederlck Boase 1969
1 PLANT James, son of Robert Fisher Plant of Leicester, born Lacester 1818, well-known bmloglst, died Leicester 8 11.1892. (see note 1)
2. PLANT John, brother of the preceding, born Leicester 6 10 1819, Curator of Museum and Library, Peel Park, Salford, 1849-92. (See note 3) Natcrahst and Geologist died Rhoseh8cr near Holyhead 18.1 1894.
3. PLANT Nathaniel brother of preceding born Lenxster 1832, curator of Lewester Philosophical and Literary Society for 5 years, spent 16 years exploring and mming m Braal Died London August 1875.
4. PLANT Thomas Livsey, son of George Herwood Plant, iron merchant, born Low Moor, Bradford, 1819, worked for WH Smith m Bmningham 1849-81. Meteorologist. Dzd 3 1 8 1883, found deat at New Street Station (See note 2)
WHO WAS WHO
VOL 1
PLANT Edmund Carter CB VD, Lt Co], born Banghurst House, Hants, 31.8.1842. Son of Wllham of Burghclew, Hants and Mary Carter Married Frances Colchester 1865. Died 3.9.1902, Bnstcl.
VOL 2
PLANT Morton F, son of the late HB Plant, Chairman of Southern Express Cc., V1c.e President, ChIcago and Lou~swlle Radway Co, etc. Died 5 11.1918
VOI, 4
PLANT Eric Clive Pegasus, Major General, CB DSO OBE, born 23 4 1890, son of Lt Ccl CF Plant at Brisbane, mtied 1918 Oona Hunter Brown, 2 sons Involved m 1’ and Znd World War, died 18 5 1950, Bay View, New South Wales
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PLANT George Frederick, CBE, born 10.11 1877, son of late FG Plant, JP of Romlley, Cheshire, marned 1904, Frances Rsher, 3 sons, 2 daughters Cw11 Servant, died 29.3.1954, London.
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PLANT Sir Arnold, born 29 4 1898, 2* son of late Wdham C Planl, FL& mamed 1925, Edith Render, 2 sons Professor of Commerce at LSE 1930-65 Died 19 4 1978, London
DICTIONARY OF AMERICANBIOGRAPHY
PLANT Henry Bradley, 27 IO 1817-26 6 1899 Founder of Plant system of radroads and steamboats Born Bradford, Connecticut, son of Betsey Bradley and Anderson Plant, a farmer, descendant of John Plant, probably an em@rant from England who settled at Hartford, Cccnect~cut around 1639 Married Ellen Ehzabeth Blackstone, left more than $10 mdhon
AUSTRALLAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY
PLANT Edmund Hams Thornborough, 1844-1926 Mine owner and pchtlclan Born 10 I2 1844, Ncttmgham, 3ti son of Frederick Plant, a lace thread manufacturer and Marla Newell HIS father went bankrupt, BHT went to Amenca age I2 Arrived at Queensland m 1861 and did very well III the gold rush Mamed Ehzabeth Ester Hcdd and had 6 chddren
WKP - For fiuther mformatlon r&we to this famdy see Journals No 4 and I4
Note 1 Entry in 1881 Census 40 West Street, St Mary, Leicester
James Plant Head M 62 M Geclcg~cal Surveyorborn Leicester, England Mary Elizabeth Plant Wife M 55 F “ Leicester, England Eleanor Agnes Plant Niece U 28 F Private Governess “ Manchester Florence Mary Plant Niece U I9 F PnvateClerk ‘I Leicester, England Mary Tradsham Servant U 18 F DcmestlcServant “ CoalwIle, Lwester, England
Note 2 Entry in 1881 Census Park Hill, Kings Norton, Worcester
Thomas Lwesby Plant Head M 61 M Commission Agent born Bradford, York, England Jane Plant Wife M 61 F “ Bummgham, Warwick, England Joseph Plant Son U 24M “ Handsworth, Stafford, England Constance AnnDykes GrdNleceU 11 F Vlsitcr ” Hanly, Stafford, England Enuly Jane Wood Servant U 20 F General Servant “ Yardley, Worcester, England
Note 3 Entry in 1881 Census Museum, Peel Park, Salford, Lancashire
John Plant Head M 61 M Llbrarlan & Curator FGS (&C) born St Margarets, Lemester,
England Francis Carohne Plant Wife M 52 F “ Scuthwark, Surrey, England Cathenne Jones Servant U 21 F General Servant “ Llanfalr YnNewbroth, Anglesey,
Wales
PLANT BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE EXTRACTS St Albans R C Church-Macclesfield - Cheshire
Baotwms at St Albans R C Church (Formally St Mxhael Chapel), Macclesfield
Surname Forename Born Baptised Parents Malden Name God Parents
Plant Eh7a 23 Dee 1850 12 Jan IX.51 Thomas& MaryAnn Leaty Cathenne Rcblcscn
Plant Jcunnes 21 Feb 193.5 3 Mar 1935 Jcanrus & Carolus Manae Roberts
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Plant JoaNles Robert & G~~ldnus 25 Jan 1892 11 Jul 1342 Monac Ryle
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Groom Date Bnde
Plant Herbert 24 Sep 1966 Smith (Green) Cathennam
Plant Joannem Carolum 22 Sep 1962 Thomas Franoumm Veromcam
Plant Joannem Gulielmum25 Jun 1921 Roberts Marian
Brodenck Bernadum 27 Sep 1947 Plant Barbaram
EXTRACTS FROM PIGOTS COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY OF CHESHJRE 1834
SubmItted by Judltb Kirkby - member no 139
Hannah Plant Ltcensee of letters p h , figh Street, Con&ton Mary Plant Mdlmer, dressmaker, Mill Lane, Sutton John Plant Bnck and tile maker, Newton (near Mlddlewich) Samuel Plant Licensee of George and Dragon, p h , Holmes Chapel WIlltam Plant, Turner m wood and metal, Orchard Street, Stockport George Plant Bull’s Head, Wdmslow
Plant Extracts
Plant Albert E Plant Albert HC Plant Alfred Plant Alfred E Plant Ame Plant Anme Plant Amue RM Plant Arthur C Plant Catherme Plant Catberme Plant Charles Plant Clara L Plant Ehzabeth Plant Ehzabeth Plant Ebzabeth Plant Ehzabeth Plant Ebzabeth P&t Ethel M Plant Evelme Plant Florentla EM Plant Frank Plant Frederuzk W Plant Georgenm Plant Harold J Plant Isabella S Plant James M Plant Joanna
@®IMENTAL BIRTH INDICES 1761-1924
PIEKe Yea1
IpS.Wh 1880 Ipswwh 1906 Montreal, CE 1859 Wmdsor 1884 Eastney 1895 Eastoey 1895 Devonport 1891 Ipswch 1877 Rawall Pindee 1867 Rawall Pmdee 1867 Campore 1820 Hounslow 1890 Mow Gwalior 1865 MOGW 1865 Cairo 1893 GWdlOf 1865 CFUr0 1893 IlOUW.lOW 1893 Derby 1890 HOUIISIOW 1888
1884 JSdkenny 1887 Woolwxh 1839 AYE 1888 Quebec 1864 Quebec 1862 Colchester 1860
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Rft Bde 1071 85' 832 1l’L Dgns 117 7" 804 Ftil Bde 1071 85" 832 38* 1195 34d' 1081 SOti 1197 7ti 804 45ti 1042 7& 804 ASCC&T 653 45" 1042 RA 24 21* 1281
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Plant Joanna Plant Joannah Plant John Plant John Plant John W Plant John W Plant Juha R Plant Lihan M Plant Mary Plant Mary Plant Mary E Plant Mary E Plant Ralph J Plant Rose Plant Rose B Plant Samuel D Plant Samuel D Plant Sarah Plant Thomas Plant Victor J Plant Victona A Plant Wdham A Plant Wdham E Plant Wdltam G Plant Wdliam G Plant Wdham G Plant Wdham G Plant W&am H Plant Female
Colchester 1860 Colchester 1860 Dubhn 1900 Dublm 1900 Quebec, C E 1857 Quebec 1857 Quebec 1860 Dublm 1886 Quebec, C E 1861 Quebec 1861 Eastney 1892 Eastney 1892 Catro 1895 Aldershot 1883 Woolwwh 1885 Dublin 1898 Dublin 1898 Woolwmh 1841 Baredly 1862 Burma 1898 London 1875 H?unslow 1886 AYr 1886 AYE 1884 Duncannon Fort 184615 Eastney 1893 Eastney 1893 AYE 1878
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Ftfl Bde 1071 85” 832 RA 1499 RA 1435 17* 1006 17’h 150
150 ASCC&T 653 17” 1006 17” 150 RA 1499 RA 1435 SO*’ 1197 15”Huss 280 ASCC&T 653 RA 1499 RA 1435 RA 24 34s’ 1081 3ga’ 1195 7ti 804 7ti 804 21* 1281 21” 1281 RA RAl6 RA 1499 RA 1435 21” 1272 ASCC&T 653
JOHNPLANK MONK OF WOBURN 1465
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Source Vatican Library Title Lateran Regestn 2 Pad II dcxhu f 179
21 October 1465 St Peter’s, Rome
To John Plant, monk of Woburn, of the Cwterman order, in the diocese of Lmcoln
Dlspensatlon to recewe and retam for hfe any benefice with cure wont to be governed by secular clerks, even If It be a parish church or Its perpetual warage, or a chantry, a free chapel or an annual servme, and be of lay patronage, and be elective, of any value, and to resign It, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases
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DNA Testing Report - by Dr John S Plant, December 2002
Our Plant study ts now summanzed qmte prommentiy on the Oxford Ancestors’ web stte. There ts sttll a role for further Y-lme testmg
A summary of our Study on the web
In August 2002, I was asked by the CEO of the Oxford Ancestors DNA Testmg Laboratory for a contrtbtmon about ‘ThePlant Story’. Imttally, the only study that appeared m the ‘Real LIfeStones sectton of then web stte www. oxfordancestors. corn related to the Clough surname, though the Bdlman surname has smce been added My account was the second ‘Real Ltfe Story’ to appear there and It is reproduced below
The ‘Plant’ surname study Smce the mtd 20th century, It has been generally supposed that Plant ts a”multt-ortgm” occupa- ttonal name meanrng a “gatdener” [e.g PH Reaney (1976) A Dtcttonary of Bntish Surnames] We may hence have expected to find few, tf any, Y-hne matches amongst our mmal buccal swab samples. However, the Oxford Ancestors DNA results so far, for hvmg male Plants from various regions, suggest that the name descends mostly from a smgle family Results for 6 samples have been found to match (4 exactly and 2 wtthm a smgle mutatton), these are for 5 l dtfferent Plant branches that were known fmii documentary evidence to be unrelated for the pa\t 200 or 300 years and to be from dtfferent parts of England and the USA A 7th result was unrelated Thus the Y-lme results, so far, support the tdea of a largely single Plot famtly. A mam medieval homeland wds near Wales Thts favours a “soul-tmplant” meanmg to the Plant name which can be related to the “child” meaning of the Welsh word plant and the “famtly” meanmg of the old Gaehc word eland Other posslbihttes, however, should not be mled out Further afield there were other slmtlar names As already mdtcated, the documentary evidence suggests that the m&n 14th century homeland for Plant was east Cheshtre, near Wales, but one needs to add that there were also the 13th century name spellmgs Plente and Plante m SE England The spellmg Plante clusters m SW France neat where thete ts also Plantte, Planty, Planta, Plantard, Plantade, Plantadls, for example A controversial 1996 book clatms famlhal connecttons amongst Plant-ltke names m medteval France, such as between Plantard, Plantd, and Plantagenet [M.Batgent, R.Lelgh, and H Lmcoln (1996) The Holy Blood and the Holy Grad, pp’ 261, 276, 2801 We may look to the new DNA evtdence Our 6 matchmg Y-lme results mclude one for a Plant who IS satd to have descended from the name spelhng Plantt, whmh ts found m early a
records m England and more recently elsewhere (e g USA) If an abbrevlatlon with Its final “t” superscnpted, Plantt recalls the clatm of an 1862 book whtch states that the name Plant “IS supposed to be corrupted from Plantagenet” [John Sletgh (1862) A htstory of the Ancient Partsh of Leek, p 1491 Though such an anecdote need not be taken too sertousiy, tt ts relevant that there remams a wide variety of Plant-hke names to be DNA tested The posstbthty of findmg, or dlsprovmg, Y-hne connecttons between some offers a prospect of dlummating the ortgms and meanmgs of such names as Plant
Science in genealogy -the current state of the art of DNA testing
In Genealogy, we take care with our reasonmg as we try to bmld a wall of truth “1” wtth htstoncal records (e g berths, marrtages) as the brtcks (I e “2”) and theortes as the mortar (I e “3”) Thts relates to a so-called “3 world” phdosophy - there IS (I) the world out there as It really extsted, (2) the mformatton we have dbout that world, and (3) the theottes by whtch we attempt to reconsttuct the truth “1” from theevldence “2”. However. n nnght be that ourseemmgly reason‘tble theottes “3”’
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are ml\taken For example, It nnght be that there was really anothel Fred Plant for whom records have been lost (exlsted in truth “1” but mlssmg from the evtdence “2”) and so the supposed “only” Fred Pldnt of the nght age m the nght place at the nght trme may not really be the correct one Indeed the true father m a supposed Plant tree may not really have been a Plant at all With Scrence, there I< often the posslbrhty of addmg to our known mformatlon “2” with new dlscovenes, such as new re\ult\ from DNA testmg - new mformatlon “2” allows the theorlec “3” to be developed and our understandmg of the world as It really was (I e “1”) progresses
Though m&DNA can be obtained from ancient teeth, Y-SIR te5tmg reqmres good quahty nu- clear DNA’ For Y-hne testmg of the Plantagenets for example, we need to seek out their descen- dants The only lmes that the Y-hne DNA techmque can test are purely male-to-male hnes Male- to-male descendants of the Plantagenets have Included the bastald “ducal” Imes of the Cornwall famdy and of the Somerset (or Beaufort) family Also, the founder of the Royal House of Planta- genet. Geoffrey of AnJOu, had a bastard son Hamehn of whom John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (died 1347) was a lineal male descendant and he had m turn a bastard son Edward Warenne who fathered the Warren fannly of Cheshrre. There rs also said to be a Wailer ahas Warren family of the Buckmgham-Hertfordshire area, dated to around 1500, which 1s srud to be of hneal male descent from the Warrens (Plantagenets)
Though we need to test male-to-male lines, It 1s also mstructrve to consider all hnes of descent. These are nearly all mlxed male-and-female Imes (m other words, a particular lme might have had one or two male-to-male generatlons, then a man having a daughter, followed-by a couple of female-to-female generatlons for example) If there are sufficiently many (mmnly undocumented) lmes descended from a medreval indrvldual, almost everyone m a particular region may have a hrgh chance of bemg descended from that mdlvldual, one way or another through the many’ hnes of descent Thus the overall chance of bemg a descendant through undocumented lines might bejudged to be higher than the chance that any smgle documented hne 1s correct As well as uncertaumes about the patemlty events3 in a documented hne 4, there are often other uncertamtles It 1s hence sometunes chsputed whether pomtmg to a particular lme of descent, even one documented m such a respectable source as the Complete Peerage, slgmficantly alters the chances of bemg descended from a medleval character such as a Plantagenet If, for example, one’s ancestry IS close to the many descendmg hnes of the Warrens (Plantagenets) anyway
For thefar fewer purely male-to-male hnes, which are to be used fol Y-hne testmg, there 1s not as yet a parncularly complete or detmled database of DNA Y-STR results with winch to compare one’s own Y-hne results. One can not simply look up the male-lme famdy or branch one’s own haplotype matches (or, to be more precise for a female, not one’s own Y-hne haplotype but that of one’s father or brother) Instead, the current art of DNA testing 1s typlcally to consider weak
- ‘No adequate techmquc appears to be wadable as yet to, obtemmg, from exhumed medwat remains, nuclear DNA
of suffc~en~ quabty for Y-STR te~tmg ‘If one were to take one’s full pedigree chart of ancestors back over 30 generanons there would he 2**30 or, in other
words. around l,O74,GQO,ooO hne? back to one’s ancestors to conslde, Smce tb~ IS more lhan the number of people who were ahve, maoy of these ancestral hnes would have to have been through d&m cousms M&g backwards through ume the number of one’s ancestors doubles at every generatmn but, movmg forwards, the mathematics IS less wa~ghrtorward and Monte Cerlo computer smv~latmns become appropriate
‘People may worry about the posvbrhty that n so-called “fillse patermty went“ has occurred ,u a recent generanon (wie’s concealed mfidebty, an unrecorded adoptlou, fetidny treatment wth mistaken donor msemmalmn, mlsldentdi- cat,on of baby, etc ) I, IS accordmgly only efh,~al that the persondl detads of mdwrdual volunteers for B DNA Testmg programme \hould bc treated 8s confidenhal Max Ilkely, bowever, any “false patermty cvenr ’ discovered by DNA test- mg would have happened m some generarmn long ago and the testmg of very distant “agoate cowms” would be needed ,o try to asce,,am how far back a Y-lme dwxntuuuty occurred If should be added that Y-hne testmg does not consntute a tull pa,c,wy test for legal purposes-even so, the larger an mverted Genealogical TWX. the more hkely ,, ,c that DNA :estmg could reveal a false patermty event m 11 somewhere
‘A w,,p,e ecumate suggests there have been around 30 ge.ene,atlons since “Planta~eeoa ume? lbc hkctthood of a “talae patemy even, IS typ,cally placed a, around once every 50 generet~ons sod ?o, to, a 30 generauon hue of descent, assummg half of the descent event$ to be through B fem,de there ,s,W a (t-1/50 )**I5 pmhablhly or I,, other words a 74%. ~hmce. that a wpposed genealogxcal lmc IS correct
pomts or gaps m a smgle surname mvetted tree and to compare Y-hne haplotypes descended from etther stde of a gap to see how well they match Of course, this need not necessanly be ford smgle surname as tt could Instead be for vartous parts of an Inverted tree for the so-called “Plantagenets”, for example, who &d not restnct themselves to a smgle surname
Each of us has Just one purely male-to-male hne back from our father through our ancestors. The chance of bemg a purely male-hneal descendant of a particular medleval mdlvtdual 1s small Such an mdtvtdual may have had none or several male-to-male lmes m then mverted tree of descendants, such as stemmmg simply from two sons of a father or, for example, from the several male-to-male “ducal” lmes of descent from the “Plantagenets”. Computer slmulatlons suggest that once a set of hneal male descendants has become reasonably well estabhshed (such as m the case of several descendants wtth the same surname) It can be expected that even those purely male-hne descendants, not Just the mtxed male-and-female lines, ~11 probably contmue to thnve as the genera1 population has Increased Purely male-related descendants should have matchmg Y-hne DNA apart from slight mutations that have ansen m some branches down the centunes
It may become mcreasmgly the norm to regard any Inverted genealogical tree a~ “unconfirmed” unless hvmg offsprmg have been DNA tested and confirmed to match down male-to-male hnes5 m as many cases a possible for whtch tt 1s genealogically supposed that they should match.
Further progress with the Plant(e) Name project
Two Canadians, with the name spellmg Plante, have ordered thetr testmg ktts through me, at the dtscounted pnce I have arranged with Family Tree DNA (Umvetslty of Anzona). Both of theye volunteers are believed to be descended from a 1647 Plante immtgtant to Quebec, from LaRochelle m western France It ~11 be tnterestmg to see if their Y-lme DNA matches, one with the other, and, Indeed, whether they match with the Y-line DNA of the name spelhng Plant(t)
Plant FHG web Site Report - by or Johns Plant, December 2002
In August 2002, an mtroductory article on “Some Notable Plants” was added to the How to Jam page of the web site-this was provtded by Keith. Also a hst of “Past Members” was added to the Members’ Interests page. On the Jotrmal page, a password protected area was added contammg the full text of some arttcles that have appeared in back Issues of Roots nnd Branches - tt is planned to add to these m due course
In September 2002, some dlustrations of so-called “Green Man heads” were added to both the Name Orlgtns and Plant Soul pages
As previously mentioned, we have stattstlcs of only the requests commg through to Keele for the master files of the web pages Many of the requests go to local caches (Just as people go to a local hbrary for a book and not necessanly direct to the ongmatmg publtsher). On the basis of requests commg m for the Keele master files however, we can form a ‘Top 5 of requested items” and, for recent months, this has included Keah’s arhcle on “Notable Plants” for example, as mchcated below The following table includes the numbers of requests for the Keele master files
tI TOP JUII 204 DNA JUI 279 Chanter 19
334 Reunmn sbdes
No 2
188 Reumon sbdcs 240 DNA 132 Name Ongms 149 Name Cngms 287 DNA 230 Notable Plants
No 3
139 Chapter 13 206 Reunmn shdes 108 DNA I15 Chapter 13 236 Notable Plants 192 Chapter 13
No 4
139 Chqxer 19 170 Chapler I3 087 Journal contents 114 Reumon shde< 182 Name Ongm 175 Chapicr 23
No S
1 II Journal contenf~ 152 Journal contents 066 Members mterests 102 Chapter 19 I78 Chapter 13 132 Name Ongm
-. ‘A purely tern&-to-female lmc of decent can also be DNA rested. usmg ml-DNA albat wh not so much of an
md,v,dual siyature as arrscs for Y-STR lerls
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PS DNA TESTING
A smgle result has now been obtained for Plante, spec~tically for the volunteer PEIa This differs from the results for Plant(t) by 9 steps at 6 markers The participant PEla 1s hence almost certamly unrelated to the earlier volunteers m any tnne-scale of mterest to Family Hlstonans However, It IS stdl premature to conclude that the Plante f&mdy IS a separate famdy from the Plant famdy In particular, we do not yet know whether this smgle result for Plante 1s representatwe of most people m Canada and France called Plante
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GRO INDEXES PROJECT
Progress report by PhIlip Plant (member no 168)
The PrOJeCt to collect all the Plant CR0 indexes for births, deaths and mamages contmues. albelt slowly So far we have three volunteers Joy Plant, Keith Plant and Andrew Plant - many thanks to them for their valuable contnbutrons
So far we have about twenty years worth of data, but a long way stdl to goi When we have enough data collated, we wdl be lettmg you know the methods for accessmg It Hopefully thx will be on-lme, but mmally it ~111 probably be on a request look up basis
We are stdl seekmg volunteers Don’t worry If you can’t get to a records office, If you have access to a PC we can stdl use your help Some transcnbers prefer to work manually (hello MumI) and then the w,ltten bsts have to be transcribed into an Excel database If you could help with this, then please let me know
I his ,XOJeXt has the potential to become a very useful and versatde research tool for our genealogy With It we
should be able to find the answers to srmple questions, such as ‘Fmd all the Susan Plant’s mamed between 1881 and 1901’ Also, to more wmphcated research mto first name analysis or mfant death rates
so I appeal to you for your help to make thu PrOJ’ZCt a
S”CCeSS If enough people could help, wth even one of two years worth of data, then we could make tbls project a reahty so0111
Phd Plant
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED!!!
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DESCENDANTS OF EARLY PLANT OF NORTA AMERICA
Journal No 22 and prewous journals mcluded mfolmatlon on descendants of John Plant in, (1678- 1752) and Hannah Whedon (1678-1754) and a farmly lrne of Plants of Branford, Connecticut was estabhshed as shown opposite
A number of Plants shown on the famdy tree were burled m Old Branford cemetery and Lmda Plant Wagoner (Member No 182) hds spent a considerable amount of time photoyaphmg the various headstones
For postenty the photographs have been reproduced below Thanks are due to Lmda m making this record The numbers shown agamst the headstones refer to the numbew on the famdy chart
The mformatwn contained on these headstones has added to the family chart
It appears that the Plants boned in Old Branford cemetery all descended from Bea~aolla Plant (173% 1808) who was a son ofJohn Plant Jn , and Hannah Whedon who lived in Branford in the late 171h and the first half of the 18s’ century The most promment member of the famdy was Henry Bradley Plant (1819-1898), a radway pioneer who had Plant City, FlorIda named after hnn and, I believe, budt Tampa Bay Hotel
In memory of .John Plant who Ihi Febuary ltih 1752 zn his 74” year
Ibmpa Bay Hold Buzlt by Hmy Bmdley Plml
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2 In memory of BenJamlfl Plant
Who died Aug 11 1808 age 76 years
Lorane Plant Who dtcd 1789
Polly Plant D1e.d Aprd 20 1800
Agelyr 6mo
Mary Plant Dwd Ott 1 1825
Age 17 years daughter Of
Samuel & Sarah Plant
7 Ehas Plant Died
Mar 21 1862 Age 89
9 AlbcrtE Plant
Nov 6 1841 Dec21 1914
5 Inmemoryof Anderson Plant
Eliza Ann Dau of Anderson and Betsy Plant dted Nov 6 1821
17mo 7days
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3 Samuel Plant Born Apr 3 1772
Died July 29 1862 Age 90 years
4 In memory of Sarah Plant
Wtfe of Samuel Plant
Who dwd 25 Aug 1841 age 67 years
; Inmemory Ruhamah Plant
wife of Ehas Plant Who died
Mr 24 1842 Age 66 years
G Samuel Orm
* Plant
Born Jan 24 1815
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Died July I 1892
Mary Ann Blackstone
His wife Born Ott 13 1818
Died April 11 1900
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Andason W-Born Mar 21 13 George W
Plant BOlTI
Mar 12 1834 Died
NW 8 1910 e
Eltza E N Lane HIS wfe
Born Nov 16 1832
Died Mar 17 1895
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18 Lowsa B Plant
Wlfez of J B Evans
Feb 14 1832 Aug 20 1914
19 James B Evans Sept 12 1837 Dee 7 1825
(note Husband of Lousa B Plant
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20 ln memory of Jane
Wdham B Plant Mary dau of daughter of Ehas Ruhamah Ebas and Plant who dted Ruhamah Plant
Eeb 2 1834 dted Age 32 years Nov6 1815
Age 7 yrs
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&de 4 John Plant Monument John Lane Plant
Born July 26 1858 Died March 29 1940
Mary Loutsa Btshop His wife
BornMar 30 1860 Died Nov 14 1937
This stone IS standmg to the left of the large Henry Et Plant Monument
24 Henry Bradley Plant
October 27 18 19 June 23 1898
His wfe Ellen Blackstone Plant
February 28 1862 HIS son
George Henry Plant 1845
June 17 1846
23 Henry Bradley Plant
stone
Henry Bradley Monument
25 Ellen E Blackstone
Wtfe of Henry B Plant
Dted February 28 1862
George Henry Plant Dted
June 17 1846 17mo4days
son of Henry Bradley Plant
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In addition to the above there were a number of stones III old Branford cemetery for the Plant name Probably the same famdy - for the sake of prospenty the wordmg IS as follows
Ray UpsonPlant Feb 26 1891 -July 11 1966 Mddrcd Hotchkms lus wrfe Jan 22 1890 -0ct 20 1985 (probably descended from Albert E Plant and Betty Upson) Ray Upson plant JN 1918 - 1975 his wfe Ann MacCready 1919.1996 (probably son of Ray upson Plant and Mddred Hotchkms) Mddred Ehzabeth Plant daughter of James Stuart and h4ddred He&x Plant 1925-1956 Edward H Plant Ott 10 1920 -Mar 16 1966 LydiaPLant &d Feb 16 1864 age 78 (possibly the second wife of Ehas Plant marrted 1843 no cluldren)
Thanks are due to Lmda for the above informatlon We now have a very detaded record for the Plant famdy of Connectut, one of the earhest (If not the carhest) Plant settlers m Amerxa
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WORCXSTERSkUJXE PLANTS 1881
Wnrcester~lwe I$ hounded hy Warwickshire, Herefordshwe, Staffordshire and Shropshire In 1881 ,tq chief commodmes were corn, hop& wool, cl&, cheese, cider. perry and very fine salt Manufactunng oryoltety, mm, &a was cawed OUL and a liw twlwo~k of-canals bad been cotrsliucied
The 1881 Census contams 44 Plant famdxs and 211 Plant names. an average of4 S per family
Owr 72% of Plants lived in tbe NE of the counfy, an area adJommg the boundary wth Staffordshwe (I e, Dudiey wnh 65, Oidbuy wth 23, Cradley wth 21, Halesowen wth 43) and part of the Black countly
The main occupations ale Coalmmmg, Ironworkers wth the occss~onal farmworkers, servants and Lmdc wolkw Typxal Black Counl~y occupations
1881 Bntlsh Census
GW~III~IJ Stone House census PITCH Mathon, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341622 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2582 Folio 41 Page 3
Mm Age Sex Swthpface Wtlliam H. PLANT M 44 M Spetchley, Worcester, England
Mel Head occ Farm Labourer
Elrzabeth PLANT M 40 F Castle Froome Rel Wrfe
Charlotte PLANT U 16 F Mathon, Worcester, England Rel f%Ur
Elrzabeth PLANT 10 F Mathon. Worcester, England R~I Daur
occ Scholar Ann PLANT 9 F Mathon, Worcester, England
Rel Daur occ Scholar
Rrchard PLANT 7 M Mathon, Worcester, England Rel Son occ Scholar
Wrlltam PLANT 5 M Mathon, Worcester, England Rel Son oa;: Scholar
Thomas PLANT 3 M Mathon, Worcester, England Rel’ Son
Dwetrrng 44 Hales Owen St census PIW Oldbury, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fdm 1341660 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pete 2637 Fob 107 Page 21
Mm Age sex authptace Joseph Smith PLANT M 33 M Oldbury, Worcester, England
Rel Head occ Ratlway Wagon Smith & Stamper
Sarah PLANT M 29 F Long Buckley, Northampton, England Rd. Wife
Emily PLANT U 11 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Daur 000. Scholar
Annie PLANT U 9 F Oldbury, Worcester, England R~I. Daur on: Scholar
Sarah PLANT U 6 F Oldbury, Worcester, England R~I Daur occ Scholar
Mary Ann PLANT U 3 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Daur occ Scholar
Joseph PLANT U 1 M Oldbury, Worcester, England Rd. 3Ofl
Dwelling: 19 Green St census Place Oldbury, Worcester, England
Sourw FHL Film 1341680 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pete 2638 Folio 119 Page 35
Mafr Age sex Suul#ace James PLANT M 50 M Dudley Port, Worcester, England
1881 British Census
R~I Head occ Lab In Tar Wks (M Chemwt) Mary PLANT M 47 F Oldbury
Ret Wlfe Emma PLANT M 22 F Oldbury
~4 Dau Benjamm PLANT u 19 M Oldbury
Rel Son occ Warehouseman Mary A PLANT 14 F Oldbuiy
Rel Dau occ s
Arthur PLANT 6 M Oldbury Rel Son 0% s
Dwiltng. 89 Tat Bank Rd cwsus place Oldbury, Worcester, England
e Source FHL Fdm 1341681 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2839 Fob 51 Page 10
Mm Age Sex Bkthplace George PLANT M 25 M Oldbury, Worcester, England
Mel Head occ Chemical Labourer
Ellza PLANT M 22 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Wife occ Chemical Labourer Wife
Thomas PLANT 2 M Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Son
Dwelling 11 Bath Row msus PIECE Oldbury, Worcester, England
Source. FHL Film 1341881 PRO Ref RGI 1 owe 2840 Folto 15 Page 23
Mm Age Sex Brtiplace Joseph PLANT M 31 M Oldbury, Worcester, England
~4. Head occ Coal Mmer
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Phoebe PLANT M 31 F Bromley Rel Wlfe
Joseph PLANT 8 M Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Son OGO Scho!ar
Clara PLANT 3 F Oldbury, Worcester, England R~I Daur
Elijah PLANT 9 m M Oldbuty, Worcester, England Rel Son
Dweiitng~ Dmgie St census PIEM Oldbury, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341681 PRO Ref RGI 1 PEE 2840 Foho 21 Page 35
Maw Age Sex BIrthplace William TIMMINGS M 29 M Oldbury, Worcester, England
Mel’ Head occ: Edge Tool Hardmer & Temperer
Herrat TlfvlMlNGS M 30 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Wife
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1881 British Census
Mary Ann TIMMINGS U 9 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Daur occ Scholar
Wrllram TIMMINGS 7 M Oldbury, Worcester, England Ret SOn occ Scholar
George TIMMINGS 5 M Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Son occ Scholar
John J TIMMINGS 2 M Cannock, Stafford, England Rel Son
Florry TIMMINGS 9 d F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Daur
Ekza PLANT U 22 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel SW 0~0’ General Servant
Edward TIMMINGS U 14 M Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Nephew ooc Labourer Steel Works
Dweulng No 3 Whyley St census ~laoe Oldbury, Worcester, England
Source. FHL Film 1341681 PRO Ref RGI 1 ~rece 2841 Fh 88 Page 46
Man Age sex Buthplace Robert JONES M 38 M Oldbury, Worcester, England
Mel Head OCC: Miner(C)
Ekzabeth JONES M 35 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Wife
Prophemra JONES U 11 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Mel’ Daur
Harnett JONES 9 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Mel’ Daur
Elizabeth JONES 7 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel &3Ur
Emrly JONES 2 F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel. Daur
Eliza JONES 9 m F Oldbury, Worcester, England Rel Daur
David PLANT U 28 M Oldbury, Worcester, England R~I Lodger Handicap Deaf & Dumb occ. Pamter
swerving Salop St 28 Court No 5 Census Place Dudley, Worcester, England
Sourw FHL Film 1341689 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2875 Folio 28 Page 10
Mm Age sex s4lnplace Josh. ROUND M 49 M Dudley, Worcester, England
Mel Head occ Coal Mmer
Mary A ROUND M 50 F Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Wife
Lursa (7) ROUND F Elizth ROUND U 22 F Dudley, Worcester, England
Rel Daur occ’ Brickmaker
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1881 British Census
George ROUND U 18 M Dudley, Worcester, England ~4 Son OCC Coalmmer
Anme ROUND U 15 F Dudley, Worcester, England R~I Daur occ Bnckmaker
Eksha ROUND U 4 M Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Son
James BROWN U 23 M Dudley, Worcester, England R~I Boarder occ Glud 7 Burner (Coke)
Mary PLANT U 23 F Dudley, Worcester, England Mel Boarder occ Narler
twmg Kmg St No 17 C~IISUS PIECE Dudley, Worcester, England
Sowce FHL Film 1341690 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2876 Fob 92 Page 3
e Elizth. HAWKEN Man M
R~I Lodger (Head) occ Dress Maker
Wtlliam HAWKEN R~I Lodger
Rachel HAWKEN U R~I Lodger ou: General Servant
Ephram PLANT M RCA Lodger 0~: Colker
Phebe PLANT M R~I Lodger
Willtam ASHFORD U R~I Lodger 0~72 Porter
William BYRAM U R~I Lodger
Thomas CORPUS U Mel Lodger OCO. Drover
Thos CAMPBELL M R~I Lodger occ Japanner
Thos TAYLOR U R~I Lodger occ Labourer
Chas JERVIS U R& Lodger OCC’ Brewer
Edwd. HERBERT U Mel’ Lodger
OCC Brewer
Age sex 37 F
3m M
14 F
29 M Blackheath, Worcester, England
37 F
38 M
58 M
30 M
33 M West Bmmwtch
27 M
20 M
40 M
Blriilplace Dudley, Worcester, England
Dudley, Worcester, England
Dudley, Worcester, England
Gornal Wood, Worcester, England
Birmingham, Warwick, England
Tipton, Stafford, England
Dudley, Worcester, England
Wales
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
Leek, Stafford, England
~~dsng. 5 George St cem plaoe: Dudley, Worcester, England
Sowe FHL Film 1341690 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pea, 2877 Foho 15 Page 24
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1881 British Census
Mm Age Sex Stiplace Daniel PLANT M 29 M Dudley, Worcester, England
Rel Head occ Miner (Coal)
Ekzer PLANT M 29 F Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Wife
James PLANT 7 M Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Son occ Scholar
Henrietta PLANT 4 F Dudley, Worcester, England
Daniel PLANT Rel Daur
Rel Son 1 M Dudley, Worcester, England
hvdlmg 15 George St CHISUS place’ Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341691) PRO Ref RGI 1 Pete 2877 Foho I7 Page 27
Mm Age Sex Sirihplace William PLANT M 26 M Dudley, Worcester, England
Rel Head occ Miner Coal
Maria PLANT M 24 F Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Wife OCO: Nailer
James PLANT 2 M Dudley, Worcester, England Rel SOI7
Elizabeth PLANT 8 m F Dudley, Worcester, England R.?I Daur
Elizabeth SHORT W 69 F Bnstol Mel’ Mother In Law
Willlam SHORT U 28 M Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Brother In Law
OCC. Mmer Coal
owelkng IQ Dunn St census place Dudley, Worcester, England
Source: FHLFilm 1341690 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2877 Folm 33 Page 9
Man Age Sex Shplace Ann PLANT W 41 F Dudley, Worcester, England
Mel. Head Elizabeth ROCHELL 21 F Haywood, Stafford, England
Rel Relation occ Servant (General)
Thomas ROCHELL 1 m M Dudley, Worcester, England Rel’ Relation
Steven PLANT U 18 M Newport, Shropshjre, England Rel: son occ Shoemaker
Edwin PLANT U 17 M Newport, Shropshire, England Rel Son 000 Shoemaker
Harry PLANT 12 M Wolverhampton, Stafford, England Rel’ Son occ Scholar
Charles PLANT 10 M Dudley, Worcester, England Rel: Son
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1881 British Census
on: Scholar Arthur PLANT 8 M Dudley, Worcester, England
Rel SOfl occ Scholar
Emma PLANT 5 F Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Daug
occ Scholar Albert PLANT 3 M Dudley, Worcester, England
Rel Son
Dwelling 1 Court 7A House Church St C~~SLIS place Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341890 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2877 Fob 41 Page 25
Mm Age Sex BIrthplace Daniel PLANT M 56 M Dudley, Worcester, England
Mel Head occ iron Moulder
Charles MADLEY M 42 M Cotsall, Shropshire. England Rel Lodger OCC Sawyer
Sarah MADLEY M 37 F Tipton, Stafford, England Rel Lodger
Isaac LAW M 71 M Tipton, Stafford, England R~I Lodger OCC Coal Mmer
Elizabeth LAW M 67 F TIpton, Stafford, England ~4 Lodger
hvehg 18 - 4 Ct Tower St Cemu~ PIRC~ Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341690 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2879 Fob 90 Page 33
Mm Age Sex Bkthplace Pamela PLANT M 32 F
R.?I Head ooc Coal Miners Wife
Ekabeth PLANT 5 F
Dudley, Worcester, England
a Rel Daur Thomas PLANT 3 M
Rd. Son Richard PLANT 3m M
Rel Son
Dudley, Worcester, England
Dudley, Worcester, England
Dudley, Worcester, England
Dwdbng 11 George St C~IBUS grace’ Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHLFilm 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2880 Falw 56 Page 2
Mm Age sex BIrthplace Thomas PLANT M 59 M Tipton, Stafford, England
R~I Head OOC. Shoeing Smith
Mary PLANT M 55 F Dudley, Worcester, England Rel’ Wife occ’ Tailoress
Thomas PLANT M 21 M Dudley, Worcester, England Rd. Son 0~ Iron Miner
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1881 British Census
Jemrma PLANT M 20 F Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Daughter In Law occ Tarloress
John PLANT u 16 M Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Son occ Grocers AssIstant
Dwelrrng Back Of No 58 St John St cemus place Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 2880 Folro 127 Page 28
Mm Age sex Buthplace Benlamin PLANT M 50 M Dudley, Worcester, England
REI Head occ Coal Mrner
Harnet PLANT M 44 F West Bromwrch, Stafford, England Rel Wife
Emma PLANT u 19 F Krngswrnford, Stafford, England R~I Daur
Harnet PLANT 16 F Brrerley Hill, Stafford, England Bei Daur
George Hy PLANT 9 M Bnerley HIII, Stafford, England Rel Son occ Scholar
Alice PLANT 8 F Bnerley HIII, Stafford, England Rel Daur 0~0 Scholar
BenJamm F PLANT 1 M Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Son
DV&I~ 25 Hill Street census place Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fdm 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 ~rece 2881 Fob 5 Page 3
Ephraim PLANT MaIt
M Age Sex B~~place 46 M Netherton, Worcester, England
R~I Head occ Engine Tender Prt
Rose Hannah PLANT M Rel: Wife
Joseph PLANT U Rel Son occ. Prt Engine Tender
Caroline PLANT U R~I Daur oa: Machrnrst
Amelia Eliza PLANT u R~I Daur
occ Scholar Thomas Ephrarm PLANT
Rel Son 0.x Scholar
Samuel PLANT Rel. Son
00~ Scholar Laura PLANT
R~I Daur ocv Scholar
44 F Springfield, Stafford, England
21 M Netherton, Worcester, England
16 F Springfield, Stafford, England
14 F Spnngfleld, Stafford, England
9 M Spnngfreld, Stafford, England
7 M Springfield, Stafford, England
5 F Kates Hill, Worcester, England
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1881 British Census
owelhng 12 High St census PITCH Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2881 FOIIO 36 Page 17
Marr Age Sex B~rihplace Thomas PLANT M 37 M Brierley HIII, Stafford, England
Rel Head occ Brewer
Sarah PLANT M 36 F Stourbndge, Worcester, England Rel Wife
Ellsabeth PLANT 11 F Bnerley Htll, Stafford, England Rel Daur occ Scholar
Sarah PLANT 9 F Bnerley HIII, Stafford, England occ Scholar
Edith PLANT 7 F Bnerley HIII, Stafford, England occ Scholar
Mary WHITNEY 23 F Chelmarsh, Shropshire, England occ Servt Domestlc
cwehg North St No 23 Court census place Dudley, Worcester, England
Source. FHL Fdm 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2882 Folio 19 Page 31
Mm Age Sex E~rthplace Oudly PLANT M 29 M Netherton, Worcester, England
Rel Head occ. Coal Miner
Mary A PLANT M 29 F Netherton, Worcester, England Rd Wife occ Wjfe
Elizabeth PLANT 4 F Netherton, Worcester, England Rel Daur
Cathnne PLANT 5 m F Netherton, Worcester, England Rel Daur
Dwewlng No 40 Chaple St census place Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fdm 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2882 Faho 23 Page 39
Mm Age sex Bllthplsce Elzabeth WHILE W 52 F Birchill, Stafford, England
RBI Head occ Annuitant
John WHILE U 17 M Netherton, Worcester, England Rel Son Occ Brewer Man
Janet WHILE U 13 F Netherton, Worcester, England Rel Daur
Elzabeth WHILE 11 F Netherton, Worcester, England Mel Daur
ow School Clara WHILE 7 F Birmingham
Rel Daur occ school
Joseph PLANT U 56 M Blrchlll, Stafford, England Rd. Brother
1881 British Census
OM: Boatman Out Of Employ
Dwelltng No 16 Washmgton St censw place Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 ~tece 2882 Fob 29 Page 51
Mm Age Sex Sufhplace Isaiah PLANT M 50 M Old Hill, Stafford, England
Mel Head occ Coal Mmer
Elzabth PLANT M 51 F Old HIII, Stafford, England Rel Wife
occ wife lslah PLANT U 19 M Netherton, Worcester, England
Rel Son occ Forge Man (I)
John PLANT U 14 M Netherton, Worcester, England Rel Son occ School
Esther PLANT 11 F Netherton, Worcester, England Rel Daur
occ School e
Dwelling 22 Halesowen Rd cenws place Dudley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pleoe 2882 Foko 99 Page 4
Mm Age Sex Bmthplace Alfred J. PLANT M 28 M Newport, Shropshire, England
R& Head occ Boot Maker
Francis E PLANT M 24 F Derby, England Rd. Wife
Elizabeth E G PLANT U 4 F Dudley, Worcester, England ~4. Daur occ Scholar
Alfred H L PLANT U 2 M Dudley, Worcester, England Rel Son OCR: Infant
Sarah J L R PLANT U 1 F Dudley, Worcester, England R@I Dau
OCC Infant Hannah GOODMAN U 15 F WoodsIde, Worcester, England
Rei. Servant occ General Servant
Dw&g. Bloomfield St census place Hawn, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341691 PRO Ref RGII Piece 2833 Folm 14 Page 21
Mafr Age Sex E!rthplace Thomas PLANT W 58 M Halesowen, Worcester, England
Rel Head OCO’ Nail Forger
WIlllam FIELDING U Rel Grandson
13 M Halesowen, Worcestef, England
occ Nail Forger
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Census Place Hawn, Worcester, England Source’ FHL Film 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pete 2883 FOIIO 22 Page 37
Marr Age Sex Birthplace Simeon PLANT M 41 M Halesowen, Worcester, England
Rel Head occ Striker Tube Works
Miriam PLANT M 48 F Ascot, Oxford, England Rel Wrfe
Dwelling Oat Mrll Row census place Cakemore, Worcester, England
Souroe FHL Fdm 1341691 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pme 2883 Folm 47 Page 1%
Micheal BASTABLE Marr Age Sex But!~~Iace M
R& Head 0~ General Labourer
Sarah BASTABLE M Rel wife occ Nail Maker
Harnat PLANT M Rel Daur OOO’ Narl Maker
Wtliiam BASTABLE U Rel Son occ General Labourer
Sarah BASTABLE Mel Daur occ Works In Bnckyard
David BASTABLE Rel SOn
occ Scholar Cathenne BASTABLE
Mel Daur occ Scholar
50 M Causeway Green, Worcester, England
46 F Oldbury, Worcester, England
27 F Top Bank, Worcester, England
18 M Old HIII, Stafford, England
18 F Old HIII, Stafford, England
12 M Rowley, Stafford, England
7 F Rowley, Stafford, England
Dwelling, Park Lane camus P&X. Cradley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Ftlm 1341692 PRO Ref RGI ‘I Piece 2884 Folro 28 Page 1
Mm Age Sex Sath@ce Sarah PLANT W 43 F Tenbury, Worcester, England
Rel Head OCC. Office Keeper
Rosannah HAYES u 10 F Halesowen. Worcester, England Rd. Vrsrtor 0.x Scholar
chmnq 11 Parade census P!UC~ Cradley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fdm 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pk?ce 2884 Folio 50 Page 7
Man Age sex Skthplaca Samugl PLANT M 36 M Rowley, Stafford, England
~4: Head occ: Commission Agent
Mary PLANT M 32 F Cradley, Worcester, England
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Rd. Wife Ellza PLANT 8 F Cradley, Worcester, England
Ref Daur occ Scholar
George PLANT 6 M Cradley, Worcester, England Rel Son
occ Scholar Lucy F PLANT 2 F Cradley, Worcester, England
Rel: Daur WIlllam PLANT 1 M Cradley, Worcester, England
Rd. SOn
ihe!hg 30 High St census Place Gradley, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2884 Folio 86 Page 29
Warwick PLANT
AlIce A PLANT
Wllilam PLANT
Elizabeth PLANT
Ah? PLANT
Ellen PLANT
Jane PLANT
John SMITH
~4. Head occ. Fish Monger
ml. Wife
Rel: SOn
Rev Daur 0~ Scholar
Mel: Daur OCC. Scholar
Rel Daur occ Scholar
Rel Daur
Rel Serv occ‘ Hawker
Mall Age sex Emplace M 26 M Oldbury, Worcester, England
M 26 F Netherton, Worcester, England
8 M Rowley, Worcester, England
6 F Rowley, Worcester, England
4 F Rowley, Worcester, England
3 F Rowley, Worcester, England
1 F Cradley, Worcester, England
U 18 M Birmmgham, Warwick, England
census Place Gradley, Worcester, England Same FHL Film 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2884 Foho 87 Page 31
h&w Age sex allnlplace Benjamin PLANT M 33 M Cradley, Worcester, England
Rd. Head OCC. Bolter Down In Mill
True A PLANT M 33 F Cradley, Worcester, England Rel Wife
Thomas PLANT U 13 M Cradley, Worcester, England Rd SOn occ’ Blower For Chain
Joseph PLANT 7 M Cradley, Worcester, Engfand Rd. Son
00~. Scholar Elizabeth PLANT 5 F Cradley, Worcester, England
Rel Daur 0.x: Scholar
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Allce PLANT
Anme PLANT ~e.1 Daur
Rel Daur
3 F Cradley, Worcester, England
3 m F Cradley, Worcester, England
bwerrlng Long Lane Census Place The Hrll, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fdm 1341692 PRO Raf RGII P!ece 2884 Fcha 142 Page 24
Reuben PLANT Rel
OCO Eltzabeth PLANT
Rel Andrew PLANT
Rel OCC
Jesse PLANT Rel
ON. Arthur PLANT
R& OCC
Frederick PLANT Rel
OCO Eltza PLANT
Rel OCC
Thomas PLANT R&
Head
Man Age Sex t%rtfiplace M 40 M Rowley Regis, Stafford, England
Laborer At Coal Colliery M 35 F West Bromwrch, Stafford, England
Wrfe
Son 14 M Rowley Regis, Stafford, England
Laborer At Colkery
Son Scholar
12 M Rowley Regis, Stafford, England
Son Scholar
9 M Rowley Regis, Stafford, England
Son Scholar
7 M Rowley Regis, Stafford, England
Daur Scholar
4 F Rowley Regis, Stafford, England
Son 2 M Halesowen, Worcester, England
OW.SN~W The Furnace census place The HIII, Worcester, England
Source FHL Frlm 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2885 Folro 6 Page 4
Marr Age Sex Brrthplace Thomas PLANT M 23 M Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England
R~I Head OCC. Gas Fitter Maker
Sarah A PLANT M 23 F Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England Rel Wife OCC. Button Factory
Mary Jane PLANT IO m F Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England Rel DaUr
Dwelling The Furnace cemus~~ace. The Hill, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fdm 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2885 Folto 6 Page 4
Philemon PLANT Rel
002 Elrza PLANT
Rel OM.
03903
Head
Mm A#e Sex Bhthplace rwl 44 M Halesowen, Worcester, England
Laborer In Iron Works M 43 F Halesowen, Worcester, England
Wife Narler
1881 British Census
Dwmg The Furnace census mace The HIII, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 2885 Follo 6 Page 4
Mm Hankins Josephus PLANT M
R~I Head occ Nail Forger
Mary Ann PLANT M Rel Wife occ Narl Forger
Alfred PLANT U Rel son occ Gas Frtter Maker
Joseph PLANT U Rel Son
occ- Gas Fitter Striker Sarah Ann PLANT U
REI Daur OCC. Narl Forger
Lucy PLANT Mel Daur
occ Scholar Phrlemon PLANT
Rel Son OCC. Scholar
Charlotte CROSS U Ret DSUr occ Servant
Ekzabeth CROSS U ~4: Daur
Age Sex Mhplace 46 M Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England
46 F Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England
22 M Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England
19 M Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England
17 F Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England
14 F Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England
9 M Furnace Halesowen, Worcester, England
19 F Halesowen, Worcester, England
16 F Halesowen, Worcester, England
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occ Employed At Gun Barrel Works Wrllram CROSS 14 M Halesowen, Worcester, England
Rel. Son occ Horse Driver
Dweltins. Lewrss Lane Cottage census place The Htll, Worcester, England
Scuroe FHL Film 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 2885 Folto 8 Page 9 s Man Age Sex S&place
SItas PLANT M 51 M Gosty Hill Rowley Regis, Stafford, England ~4. Head ooo Forge Blacksmrth
Myra PLANT M 48 F Gosty HIII Rowley Regrs, Stafford, England Rel Wrfe
occ House Duties Davrd PLANT U 23 M Gosty Hill Rowtey Regis, Stafford, England
Rel Son ocv Striker For Blacksmith
Silas PLANT 4 M Cherry Orchard Oldhrll, Stafford, England R~I. Grandson
lseachor HARRIS W 69 M Gosty HIII Rowley Regis, Stafford, England Rel’ Boarder occ Formerly A Nailer
Dwsmg. Coombs Lane Cottage Q3/3311)3 C+~pyn&t~l999byhtel~R~,ho [email protected] Psgc 13
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census place. The Hrll, Worcester, England Source FHL Film 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2885 F&o 9 Page 11
Marr Age Sex authplace Thomas PLANT IJ 52 M Gosty Hill Rowley Regis, Stafford, England
%I Head occ Nailer (Brewer)
Dweltrng Coombs Wood Cottage Census Place The Hill, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fdm <341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 2885 Foho 12 Page 17
Marr Age Sex alrthplsce David PLANT M 44 M Furnace Hill Halesowen, Worcester, England
Rel Head oco Coal Mmer
Emma PLANT M 40 F Gosty Hill Rowley, Stafford, England Rel Wife occ Nail Maker
Hannah PLANT U 19 F Gosty Hill Rowley, Stafford, England Rer Daur OCC: Nail Maker
Mary Ann PLANT U 16 F Gosty Hill Rowley, Stafford, England R~I Daur
OCC: Nail Maker Rebecca PLANT 14 F Gosty Hill Rowley, Stafford, England
Rel: Daur OCC, Narl Maker
Matilda PLANT 10 F Gosty Hill Rowley, Stafford, England ~4. Daur OCC: Scholar
George PLANT 8 M Coombs Lane Hill Halesowen, Worcester, England Rel: Son OCC: Scholar
Ann PLANT 5 F Coombs Lane HIII Halesowen, Worcester, England ~81. Daur
Deborah PLANT 4 F Coombs Lane HIII Halesowen, Worcester, England R~I: Daur
Owetring Coombs Wood Cottage census place The Hill, Worcester, England
Source FWL Film 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2885 Folro 12 Page 17
Mm Age sex B#thplace William PLANT M 55 M Gosty Hill Rowley Regis, Stafford, England
Rd. Head ou; Gas Work Laborer
Ruth PLANT M 52 F Gosty Hill Rowley Regis, Stafford, England Rel Wrfe
occ Narl Maker Joseph PLANT U 32 M Gosty HIII Rowley Regrs, Stafford, England
Rd. Son occ’ Nail Maker
Wflkam PLANT U 22 M Gosty Hill Rowley Regis, Stafford, England Ret Son 0~ Blacksmith Striker
Reuben PLANT 19 M Gosty Hill Rowley Regis, Stafford, England Ret. Son
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Ruth PLANT occ Tube Screw.%
Rel Daur occ Narl fvlaker
Polly PLANT Rel Daur occ Scholar
George OLIVER R~I Lodger occ Coal Mtner
Mary Ann OLIVER R~I Lodger
occ Narl Maker Edward OLIVER
R~I Lodger occ Sch
Wtlltam OLIVER Ret Lodger occ Sch
16 F Gosty HIII Rowley Regrs, Stafford, England
7 F Gosty Hrll Rowley Regrs, Stafford, England
M 27 M Coombs Lane Hrll Halesowen, Worcester, England
M 25 F Gostyhrll Rowley Regrs, Stafford, England
6 M Gostyhtll Rowley Regts, Stafford, England
5 M Blackheath Rowley Regis, Stafford, England
cweltmg lsltngton census place Halesowen, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fdm I%1692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 2885 Folio 48 Page 18
Marr Age Sex Bwthplace Benjamin PLANT M 62 M Halesowen, Worcester, England
~81. Head 000 Mustclan
Betsy PLANT M 64 F Halesowen, Worcester, England Rel’ Wife occ Nail Forger
Dwellrng~ 95 Ekrmtngham St census place Stourbndge, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 2886 Folro 49 Page 19
William HILL Rel OCO
Susan HILL Rel
George HIGGINS Rel OCO
Amy HIGGINS Rel
Wtlkam PLANT Rel
OCC Mary PLANT
RI3 Thomas ABERNETHY
Rel OCC.
Samuel HANCON Rel
OCC
Head
Man Age Sex Bnthplace M 56 M Stourbridge, Worcester, England
Horse Nail Maker & Lodatna House Keeoer M
Wfe M
Lodger General Labourer
M Lodger
M Lodger Farm Labourer
M Lodger
U Lodger
%7- F
48M
Stoutbridge, Worcester, England
Halesowen, Worcester, England
30 F Ledbuty, Hereford, England
24 M Brierly Hill, Stafford, England
22 F Dudley, Worcester, England
45 M Ireland
Marine Store Collector U 65 M
Lodger Farm Labourer
Enwile, Stafford, England
*
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1881 British Census
Sarah CANE W 57 F Ireland Rd
Ou: Hannah DAVIES
Rel OCC
Robert CAWLEY Rel
OCC Emmanual HODGKIS
Rel OCC
Wtlliem SMITH Rel
OCG Pat O’DONNELL
Rel OCC
Larrey MOLE Rd.
OCO John DROVER
RC?l’ OCC
Lodger Hawker
W 70 F Stourbndge, Worcester, England Lodger Charwoman
U 30 M Halesowen, Worcester, England Lodger Coal Heaver
U 40 M Knowle, Warwick, England Lodger Marine Store Collector
U 50 M Hereford, Hereford, England Lodger General Labourer
U 47 M Ireland Lodger Farm Labourer
U 61 M Ireland Lodger Manne Store Collr
U 60 M Dudley, Worcester, England Lodger Drover Of Cattle
owetang 15 New Street CansUs place Stourbndge, Worcester, England
Source. FHL Film 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Place 2887 Fcho 98 Page 4
Man Age Sex BIrthplace Noah PLANT M 66 M So&ridge, Worcester, England
Rel’ Head occ’ Cordwtner
Mary PLANT M 63 F Scotland Rel Wife
thvebng Orchard Lane census place Lye, Worcester, England
Sours FHLFilm 1341692 PRO Ret RGll Place 2888 Folio 87 Page 17
William PLANT Man Age Sex M 32 M
~ttl Head occ Iron Plate Worker
Mary PLANT M 29 F Rel Wife occ Iron Plate Workers Wtfe
George PLANT 11 M Rel Son oco Scholar
William PLANT 9M Rel: Son OOC: Scholar
Annie PLANT 5 F Rel’ Daughter occ Scholar
Precstler PLANT 3 F Rd Daughter
BWthplaCe Birmingham, Warwick, England
Btrmrngham, Warwick, England
Brrmtngham, Warwtck, England
Btrmtngham, Warwtck, England
Lye, Worcester, England
Lye, Worcester, England
1881 British Census
Samuel PLANT 8 m M Lye, Worcester, England Rel .%l
Dwelhng Bottle Lane census PIWZ Lye, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fhlm 1341692 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2888 Foho 132 Page 40
John PLANT R.4
OCC Catherine PLANT
ROI OCC
Florence PLANT RF2l
Marr Age Sex Suthplace M 24 M Brettle Lane
Head Engineer
M 23 F Bnerly HIII Wife Engmeer Wife
1 F Elnerly HIII Dau
Dwelfing Cemetary St Baldwms Green census PIW Lye, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341693 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pece 2889 Folm 74 Page 37
Marr Age Sex Sirthplace Edward PLANT M 33 M Aston Birm.
fw: Head occ Holloware Stamper Wrought Iron
Jane PLANT M 32 F Holloway Head Aston Birm Rd. Wife
occ’ Holloware Stamper Wrought Iron Wife Ada PLANT 11 F Teknell Port Berm
Rel Daur occ Scholar
Francls E PLANT 10 M Tecknell Birmmgham Rel SOn occ Scholar
George H PLANT 7 M Lye, Worcester, England Rel Son occ Scholar
Stephen PLANT 5 M Lye, Worcester, England Rd Son oco Scholar
Vernon PLANT Rel’ SOn
1 M Lye, Worcester, England e
GW~IJI~~ Eloughtan St census~lace Worcester St John Bedwardme, Worcester, England
Source’ FHL Film 1341698 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pmce 2913 Fob 76 Page 48
Man Age Sex B~rhplace Thomas ROPER M 63 M Nether-ton, Stafford, England
Ret Head occ Coal Agent
Anne ROPER M 61 F Netherton, Stafford, England Ret Wife
Eliza PLANT W 71 F Netherton, Stafford, England Rel ViSItOr
GwaKw The Tythmg East Bnttania Square St Oswalds Lodge Census P&Y WhIstones, Worcester, England
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Source FHL Fdm 1341698 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2915 FoIla 20 Page 31
Man Age Sex bfhplace Alfred J. CALDICOT M 39 M Worcester, England
R~I Head occ Musical Composer Bachelor Of MUSIC Cambndge
Mana T CALDICOT M 36 F Wmchester, Hampshire, England Rel wife
Hrlda K CALDICOT 7 m F Clames, Worcester, England Mel Daur
Fanny E PLANT U 25 F Wolverhampton, Stafford, England Rel 6efV occ General Servant
Ekzabeth S WEDGE U 23 F Ludlow, Shropshire, England Rel Sefv occ General Servant
Mary MATHISON U 35 F Brrmmgham, Warwtck. England Rel Serv oco General Servant
~welbing 16 Charles St Court 7 census ~!ace Worcester Blockhouse, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341699 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2917 Foho 34 Page 12
Man Age Sex S~rlt~plaplace James PLANT W 69 M Worcester, England
Mel Head OCG Glover
Mary Ann PLANT u 30 F Battersea, Surrey, England Rel Daur occ Needle Fitter (Glover)
uwelllns 19 Mrll St Or Bank cemus place Evesham All Sts, Worcester, England
Source FHL Frlm 1341701 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 2925 FOIIO 14 Page 20
Man Age Sex BirU~place Thomas PLANT M 41 M Eccleshall, Stafford, England
Rel Head
c OCC. Plumber & Painter
Emma PLANT M 26 F Drottwmh, Worcester, England Rel. Wife
Wrlkam PLANT 5 M Evesham, Worcester, England Rer Son
Dwenrng Downnp census ~iace Broadway, Worcester, England
Source FHL Fdm 1341701 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2927 Folio 36 Page 20
Mm Age Sex S~tiplace Robert PLANT U 52 M Willersey, Gloucester, England
Rel Head occ Farmer About 50 Acres
Charlotte PLANT U 49 F Willersey, Gloucester, England Rei Sister OCC. Housekeeper
John N. BEARD U 21 M Broadway, Worcester, England Rel’ SefVt OC-Y Farm Servant Indoor
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James DORRELL U 14 M Stanton, Gloucester, England Rel Sarvt
occ Plough Boy
Dwelling Rambow HIII censm place Clames, Worcester, England
source FHL F,I~ 1341702 PRO ~ef RGI 1 prece 2932 porro 127 page 99
Marr Age sex Birthplace Betty PLANT W 88 F Leyland, York, England
Mel Head Jane BOWEN U 63 F Hallow, Worcester, England
Rel SW occ D Servt
Lrnre CLEMENTS U 19 F Pershore, Worcester, England Rel Ser
occ D Servt
nweitrng Woodbme Cottage Rednall Lane census place. Kmgs Norton, Worcester, England
Source FHL Frlm 1341705 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 2945 Folro 141 Page 15
Mm Age Sex Brrthplace Rosa COMRIE M 32 F Kidsgrove, Stafford, England
Rel: Head Duncan G COMRIE 3 M Kmgs Norton, Worcester, England
Rel Son Marnan E COMRIE 1 F Kings Norton, Worcester, England
~ei Daur Mary PLANT U 30 F Krdsgrove, Stafford, England
Rel Vrsitor Willlam H KEEL U 20 M Brrmmgham
Rol Vrsitor
bwenrng Blenheim Road Femie Dale census place Kings Norton, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341705 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 2948 Folro 102 Page 40
hlarr Age sex mhplace Thomas W. PLANT M 32 M Bham, Warwick, England
R~I Head OOO’ East India & General Merchant
Annte M PLANT M 30 F Chelsea, Mrddlesex, England Rel Wlfe
Ernest A S PLANT 6 M Kings Norton, Worcester, England Rel Son occ Scholar
Harold W D PLANT 3 M Kings Norton, Worcester, England Rel Son
Irene A M PLANT 12 m F Kings Norton, Worcester, England R~I Daur
Ann E GRIMLEY U 18 F Bham, Warwick, England Ret Sew OCO. General Serv
Dwenmg: Park Hill cents Place. i<mgs Norton, Worcester, England
1881 British Census
Source FHL Fdm 1341705 PRO Ref RGI 1 hece 2947 Foho 76 Page 30
Mar Age Sex Ehthplace Thomas Livesby PLANT
Rel HSSCi M 61 M Bradford, York, England
occ Commission Agent Jane PLANT M 61 F Birmingham, Warwick, England
Rel Wife Joseph PLANT u 24 M Handsworth, Stafford, England
Rel Son occ Son Of Above
Constance Ann DYKES U 11 F Hanley, Stafford, England Rel Grand Niece occ VIsitor
Emily Jane WOOD U 20 F Yardley, Worcester, England Rel SSN occ General Servant
Lwellrng 332 Moseley Rd
c census place Kings Norton, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341706 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 2949 Foko 42 Page 9
Mm Age Sex S~rthplace W.E. PLANT M 27 M Handsworth, Stafford, England
Rel Head occ Corn & Seed Factor
MaryM PLANT M 26 F Birmm, Warwlck, England Rel Wife
Thomas L PLANT 2 M Kings Norton, Worcester, England Rel SOn
Norman H. PLANT 11 m M Kmgs Norton, Worcester, England Rel son
Catherine CULLY U 16 F Birmm, Warwick, England Rel SSN occ Domestrc Serv
DwelOng 32 Wenman St cenws PI~C-Z Kings Norton, Worcester, England
Source FHL Film 1341706 PRO Ref RGI 1 Ptece 2950 Folio 92 Page 10
John PLANT
Sarah PLANT
Sarah PLANT
ROI. OOC
ROI OCQ
ROI. OCC
Head
Mm Age sex BIrthplace M 56 M Yamtield, Stafford, England
Fancy Draper M 54 F Atherstone, Warwick, England
Wife Fancy Draper AssIstant
U 25 F Stone, Stafford, England Daur Fancy Draper Assistant
t%ve~nr Church Road “Rmg of Bells” cow %ce Yardley, Worcester, England .~
Source FHL Film 1341735 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 3083 Folio 62 Page 7
Benjamin SPITTLE Rel. Head
Man. Age Sex Birthprace M 55 M Woodgreen, Stafford, England
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Emma SPITTLE M 49 F Wednesbury, Stafford, England Rel Wlfa
Florence Annie SPITTLE 16 F Handsworth, Stafford, England ~4 Daur
Beatnce Barkes SPlmLE 13 F Handsworth, Stafford, England Ret Daur occ Scholar
Emily BRERETON 2 F Berm, Warwick, England Rel Grand daur
William PLANT 23 M Sheffield, York, England fw Unm occ General Servant (Dom)
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