TIDBITS- NUGGETS- ITEMS- AND EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION
When you research, you almost always come accross pieces of information that, as a piece, probably doesn't help you much in the tracing of ancestors. Because we don't give it much credence, we tend to pass it by with little thought that it SHOULD BE COPIED, WITH IT'S SOURCE, bearing in mind that it may support other sources and Records pertaining to somecertain ancestor in the future. At home I have several on the Tillinghasts but this week I almost ran over another of those 'tidbits' that I'm talking about.
This one pertains to the Record Keeping and certification Dates of the Street Parish Church in Sussex County, England.
Source:'The Phillmore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers'.
Edited by Cecil Humphrey-Smith
Published by the Genealogical Publishing Co.,
Baltimmore,Maryl.1984
Page 34 & 33 have maps of Sussex Co., but what is of interest is that page 34 has the Parishes of Sussex identified in outlines, and showing the year that that Parish was required to start Record-keeping of Births / Marriages- / and Deaths of it's members.
While STREET is usually spelt both ways, [Street & Streat],
it started Record keeping in 1561, Ardingly in 1558, Plumpton 1558, etc.
The map printing is very small and does not copy well when blown up to 150 %. but it's adequate for Reading Street Parish.
Another 'item' I have on the Tillinghasts is a Record of when Daniel Tillinghast, [son of Joseph, the grand-son of Pardon], and those in the House were innoculated against small-pox. I haven't found use for it yet but then---you never know---
Another is the TEXT entitled; 'PATERNAL ANCESTRY OF PARDON TILLINGHAST' by Theresa Snow Hill, given by Mr. Rueben L. Hill to the LDS in Oct.22, 1951. I got my copy in May/ 1994.
This thing is so loaded with early Tillinghasts that I have never had the time to sort out who they all are. It also has many members of the Pardon family in it. For example; Alice Pardon's grandfather, John Pardon, who says in his WILL that he is to be buried in the Churchyard at Street. Says he was a 'yeoman', what-ever that is. He had a daughter, Alice, but not the one who married John Tillinghast in 1597. That's his gr-daughter.
And lots of other stuff that may need a mind better than mine to sort out.
So keep the things you find for a later date and also record where you found it so that it might be traced.
ELTON
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Re: TIDBITS- NUGGETS- ITEMS- AND EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION
Kent Watkins 7/24/03