This is specifically for my genealogy FB Friends, who have drawn my attention to a campaign to get the names of mothers as well as fathers put on marriage certificates which, of course, I support. Experienced family historians will know that many parish registers before 1837 didnt even give the mothers name for baptisms, only the fathers, since mothers were not thought by many clerics to be important. However, at risk of being told off for teaching my granny to suck eggs (!) there may be beginners and newcomers to family history who are not familiar with Dade parish registers, so heres a quick teach-in, with apologies for the length of this post but it needs spelling out. This is the basic entry at the FamilySearch website for my great-grandfather who was born in 1806 at Easingwold, a lovely little market town some 15 miles north of York. Name: Robt. Stockdill Gender: Male Christening Date: 24 Jul 1806 Christening Place: EASINGWOLD,YORK,ENGLAND Birth Date: 22 Jul 1806 Fathers Name: Robt. Stockdill Mothers Name: Mary Yellow Indexing Project (Batch) Number: P00753-1 System Origin: England-ODM GS Film number: 844556 Not exactly a vast amount of detail there, though at least it gives the mothers full name and the birth date as well as the baptismal date. But now see below the sort of detail found in what were famous in Yorkshire (and some other surrounding counties) as DADE Registers, named after the Rev. William Dade (1740–1790) a far-sighted Yorkshire clergyman who introduced a method of record-keeping which involved substantially greater detail than that usually found in parish registers. For example, in the under-mentioned entries it will be seen that baptismal entries include, as well as full names of the parents, with the wife’s maiden name given, names, places of residence and occupations of the two grandfathers also. This valuable additional detail: a) takes one back another generation and also to another parish, where relevant; and b) enables one to confirm absolutely that all the children born to a particular couple are, in fact, of the same family and not belonging to another family of an identical, or similar, name. Note: all entries are reproduced virtually as they appear in the transcribed printed registers, with abbreviations and occasional variations in spelling, except that where it reads “as before” in square brackets this indicates where, for convenience, I have summarised information that is repeated. Baptisms 1791 – John (s. of) Thos Whitelock of E. cordwr. s. of Jane Whitelock of Little Ouzeburn (& of) Eliz. d. of Lancelot Yellow of Sutton under Whitsuncliffe, labr. (b. & bp.) 23 June. 1792 – John (s. of) Robt Stockdale of E. taylor, s. of Geo. S. of Husthwaite, labr, (& of) Mary, d. of Launcelot Yellow, of Sutton under Whitsuncliffe, labr. (b.) 24 June (bp) 29 June. 1794 – Mary Ann (d. of) Robt Stockdale of E. taylor [as before] b. 24 June, bp. 25 Sept. 1797 – Jane (dr. of) Robt Stockdale of E. taylor [as before] b. 16 June, bp. 16 July. 1800 – Tho. (s. of) Wm Hodgson of E. labr. son of Wm. Hodgson of Little Ouseburn, labr. (& of) Ann (d. of) Lancelot Yellow of Sutton under Whitsuncliffe (b.) 20 Apr (bp.) 6 July. 1800 – Geo. (s. of) Robt Stockdil of E. taylor [as before] b. 29 June bp. 20 Dec. 1803 – Geo. (s. of) Robt Stockdill of E. taylor [as before] b. 20 Mar. bp. 3 July. 1806 – Robt. (s. of) Robt Stockdill of E. taylor [as before] b. 22, bp. 24 July. It will be seen that Robert Stockdale/Stockdill and Mary Yellow, my gt-gt-grandparents, baptised six children between 1792 and 1806, the last one being also Robert, my gt-grandfather. One son, the first George, died young. There are also two other baptisms of grandchildren of Lancelot Yellow (my favourite ancestor purely because of his name) by other daughters of his. Wouldnt it be wonderful if we could have continued this kind of system up to the present day but, sadly, Dade Registers ran only from about the middle 1770s and mostly ended from 1812 when new forms were introduced under George Roses Act that actually gave less information than the Dade Registers. Dade-type marriage registers were far, far rarer but they do exist and I will post a Dade marriage entry later.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:55:36 +0000
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