Tag: FAMILY HISTORY
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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 the male line. According to dictionaries of English surnames, the name Kitchingman had occupational origins: a person working in a kitchen. More specifically, it has been suggested that it is…
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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 considerable level of detail about his sartorial tastes. 1 Richard’s first concern was the £100 he had invested with his brother in law, Edmund Hinde, “by him used in trading…
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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 houses. Clockwise from top left: ‘Old Hall’; ‘Manor House’; ‘Sunny Bank’; ‘Carlton House’. The houses were not named until the nineteenth century. What we now call the ‘Manor House’ belonged…
Early Modern Kinship 