Origins
Around 1300, patrilinear surnames began to emerge in northern England. By 1500, most fathers passed on their names to their children and subsequent generations through…
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Died, very rich?
The Non-Conformist or Northowram Register, as it has become known, does not merely preserve the bare bones of baptisms, marriages and burials between 1644 and…
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Frequenter of Conventicles
Six months before the affray outside Kitchingman the merchant taylor’s house in York, yet another William Kitchingman was born in Kilburn in the North Riding.…
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My best hat
On Monday, 16 July 1635, Richard Kitchingman of Halifax made his will. It vividly conveys his close relationship with his kinsfolk, as well as a…
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Where Papists lodge?
Where Papists lodge? At eleven o’clock at night, a fight broke out on Petergate, one of York’s main thoroughfares. Two men of the City Watch…
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Four houses in Carlton Husthwaite
If you had walked through the village of Carlton Husthwaite in the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1690, you would have noticed four recently-built, substantial…
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Early Modern Kinship 