The ether can be a bit quiet for those of us who have ancestors from this quiet corner of England. So here's our chance to get talking to each other.

Ok so here are my Hull and East Yorskhire surnames - well some of them anyway.
Abey, Merrikin, Sawney, Thompson, Boughen, Winn, Coates, Shaw, Ellis,Crake,Sharp, Stephenson, Terry, Broderick, Petty, Leonard, Martin, Foxton, Rains, Witty. Some of these names like Abey orignated elsewhere - Lincolnshire mostly, but if anyone else has any of then, lets start a thread!
Liz

Hi, I have an interest in the JOHNSON family, which originated in Holme on Spalding Moor. Anyone else have an interest ?

My Hull and East Yorkshire interests are HAMSON(from Northamptonshire,)JOHNSON.(from Holme on Spalding Moor) PEACH,(from Dorset and Somerset) PARKINSON,(from Goodmanham) WILKINSON(Hull and East Yorkshire)

I'm interested in MAKIN and JENKINS surnames in Hull and East Yorkshire. Would love to make contact with descendants of Tom MAKIN b Pollington about 1846 - in Hull from 1871 and Thomas Collins JENKINS born about 1833 Ramsgate, Kent but in Hull by 1851.

I've just arrived back from a week in York at Yorksgen 2009. Tired but happy and with 30+ pages of parish register entries to input into my system. Very tired but very happy. Congrats on this new list.

My One Name Study (Duncalf and variants) has a large East Yorkshire connection in the 16th to 18th centuries. The earliest connection is with Urian Duncalf who lived at Otteringham and died there in 1598. His second wife was one of the Hildyard family and his executor had a bit of trouble with Sir Christopher over the will.

Second connection is with John Duncalf of Patrington who married Margaret Hall, the vicar's daughter in 1607. There is a plaque on the church wall commemorating John and his family with the Duncalf coat of arms on it.

John's descendants, a couple of Humphreys, Samuel and Edward moved to Hull and were aldermen. Samuel was the town clerk at one stage. One of the Humphreys has a memorial stone in the porch of Holy Trinity church. I have a photograph courtesy of Victor Markham's daughter.

I've been through the registers and lots of other interesting sources, including Dugdale, but if anyone comes across anything relating to this family I would be very pleased to hear of it.

My daughter? I didn't know I had one! You of course mean my niece

Victor

So sorry! It was a jolly good picture.

Hi everone, Im trying to find my maternal grandmothers family, Charles Henry Cawkwell, from Hull. If anyone can give me any info i would be grateful

My interests in Hull focus on the WAUD family. The earliest connection is the marriage in 1793 of John WAUD and Rachel BURGAN at Holy Trinity Church. Later generations remained in Hull though several - James Bergan Waud, James Arthur Waud and Thomas Henry Waud - came to Australia in 1883. Origins of the Wauds before this mention in Hull are as yet uncertain.

Another family branch lived in various places in the Holderness area. The VERNON family moved with the railways from Inverness, Scotland to Beswick (1848), Hedon (1854), Preston Gates (1856) and finally Ottringham (circa 1870). The parents died in Ottringham and descendants lived at Thorngumbald, Sunk Island, and other nearby villages. Associated surnames include CLOSE, TENNISON, CHADWICK, DUNN and JOHNSON.

Would welcome contact with anyone who has an interest in these families or who can assist with the origins of the Waud family.

I don't know a lot about my East Riding connection. My Dad, his father and mother and many generations on his Dad's side are from the West Riding, but I found my Mum has an East Riding connection!
My 3greats-grandmother was Ann SKINN b. 26 Aug 1811in Swanland, she married 3greats-grandfather William HADLEY who was from Staffordshire, they married in 1835 in Staffordshire. Ann's father is Robert and mother Ann - but I don't have a marriage for them. There are two other children I know of; Mary b. 1817 in North Ferriby, and William baptised in 1820 in Swanland. I know a little about William SKINN's children, but very little of the SKINN family other than that. Any bells ringing?

My father's family are E Yorks born and bred.
Surname interests in the area are PEDDIE, SHARP(E), W(H)ISKER, OXTOBY, SIMPSON.

Hi listers.... I'm interested in JOSEPH LAWRENCE - the 1881 census shows him and his youngest daughter Emily Gertrude as being in the Alanby Road poorhouse. I live in NZ so it's nigh on improssible for me to obtain any records easily so if anyone is abkle to do any lookups in local newspapers for me to help me locate any details, I'd be very grateful... I'm guessing that he would have died / been buried in the area but as yet haven't been able to lcoate any death details but if anyone is out and about and spots any headstone relating to any Lawrences, I'd be very interested to try and follow up.....

Cheers! Lynda, Christchurchm NZ

Hi Lynda
There's the death of a Joseph Lawrence recorded on Freebmd aged 50 in Hull June quarter 1886 vol 9d page 144. Coud be yours?
Liz

Janet
George Wright doesn't appear on the Brian Langley's database 'Lost Trawlermen of Hull', There is a George Wright but he was 24 when he perished in 1919.
Lynn

Hi there, My paternal ancestor in Hull was my great grandfather, William Gage, sometimes spelt Geadge, b. 1826. He moved to Hull with his family from Little Ellingham, Norfolk, via Seaton, Yorks., in 1851. He remained in Hull at various locations with his family until he died in 1898. I have not been able to find his burial place nor that of his wife Maria, nee Hall(s) b. 1831, d. 1913. William at the time of his death lived in Sculcoates as also did his wife on her death.

My rellies were a William Stephenson (born 1814 at Doncaster) who married Mary Scott at Cottingham East Yorkshire in 1838 .. and after 6 children .. all baptised at Cottingham .. they came to Ontario Canada in 1854.