Trade and Industry Seminar Posted 27 February 2018 by Alan MoorhouseTrade and Industry Seminar The National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR6 0GL 09:30am for 10:00am on Saturday 12th May 2018 This seminar will focus on the history of various trades, especially in the Sunderland area, and the possible sources for employee information. We have arranged speakers on the subjects of glass manufacture, shipbuilding and coal. Twitter #GuildTrade Programme 09:30 – 10:00 Arrival: Registration and Coffee 10:00 – 10:10 Welcome to the Seminar – Rod Clayburn 10:10 – 11:10 Mining Durham’s Hidden Depths: update on the collection since 2015 – Gill Parkes, Durham County Records Office 11:10 – 11:20 Comfort Break 11:20 – 12:20 Shipbuilding collections at Tyne and Wear Archives – Carolyn Ball (Tyne and Wear Archives) 12:20- 13.15 Lunch Break 13:15 – 14.15 Glassmaking in Sunderland: a short history and a glassman’s tale – Peter Wood (a glass family descendant) 14:15 – 14:25 Comfort Break 14:25 – 15:25 What’s in a name? Street names of Sunderland – Stuart Miller, Street Names in Sunderland project manager 15:25 – 15:55 Tea Break 15:55 – 16:55 Industry on Film: the records of the North East Film Archive – Graham Relton, archive manager Yorkshire Film Archive and North East Film Archive 16.55 – 17.00 Close of Seminar Applications to attend are welcome from Guild members, family historians, genealogists, and members of the general public having an interest in the subject matter. The seminar cost including refreshments and buffet lunch is £20.00. The National Glass Centre is on the north bank of the River Wear at Monkwearmouth in Sunderland, a 15 minute walk from St Peter’s metro station (please contact us for help in finding a lift from this station) which is a journey time of 25 minutes from Newcastle. The E1 bus takes you from Sunderland City Centre to Roker Avenue which is only a few hundred metres distance from the main entrance. There is free parking at the venue. We would like to ensure that any delegate with a disability can participate fully in this event. Anyone with any special requirements should telephone the Guild Help Desk on 0800 011 2182 or email seminar-booking@guild-dev.org. An accommodation listing is available here. A number of delegates and members of the organising committee will be staying Friday night at the Premier Inn Sunderland City Centre and will meet for dinner at the onsite Thyme restaurant. Full joining instructions will be available here on or soon after the booking closing date. What delegates said particularly impressed them about the most recent Guild seminar at Abberley on 24th February 2018: Interesting talks but also plenty of breaks giving opportunity to talk to others Quality and appropriateness of speakers Speakers all great, subject matter experts What a gem of a speaker! And he was nice and helpful afterwards Subject matter opening new aspects of research Lots of new ideas for research Excellent lunch; Excellent refreshments Kept to time and at a good pace It ran to time!!! 1st seminar for me, so impressed All of it! Booking To book on this seminar, you can use our our online form¹ in any of three ways: Book online and pay online via PayPal or credit card; For Guild members, book online and pay by direct bank transfer through your bank, quoting the reference number on the form (this is the method which represents the least cost to the Guild); Fill in the booking form online, then print it and send it through the post with your cheque. Alternatively, you can download our booking form flyer, which can be printed, filled-in, and posted, with a cheque to: Alan Moorhouse, [Seminar Bookings], 8 Strachans Close, STROUD, Gloucestershire, GL5 3EB. Bookings close on 29th April 2018. All online bookings made by bank transfer or PayPal will receive a automatic system generated email confirmation and bookings made by cheque will be acknowledged upon receipt. All bookings will then be confirmed by email, with full joining instructions, on or shortly after the closing date; if you don’t then receive any of these emails please email to check that your booking has been received. Further information may be obtained by telephoning the Guild HelpDesk on 0800 011 2182, or by email from seminar-booking@guild-dev.org. ¹Please note, when booking on a seminar either by post or online, the Guild’s “Distance Selling” terms and conditions. Other events For details of other events organised by the Guild, go to the Events Calendar.
Where in the World is your Surname From? Posted 30 January 2018 by Julie GoucherIn recent years, the Guild has worked hard to increase the registration of surnames whose origins begin outside of the British Isles. We are delighted to announce that we now have 100 of these surnames registered. When our list started 5 years ago there were just 28 surnames. These surnames and their country of origin are listed in the Members’ Wiki, but also appear at the end of this post in case you cannot spot them all in the image below. Image made by Wordcloud.com Alviani – Italy Bacharach – Germany Baldacchino – Malta or Italy Balla – Hungary Barralet – France Bazzoni – Italy Bernstein – Germany Bertschinger – Switzerland Beauvais (and Beavois Beaves, Beevis, Bevisas variants of Beavis) – France Bonnette – France Bodnar (with variants Bednarz, Bodnarchuk, Bodnarczuk, Bodnarenko, Bodnaruk) Bouteloup – France Boutilier – France Briese – Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Brobbel – Netherlands Bullwinkle – Germany Cannarella – Italy Carbaugh – Germany Chapkofski – Lithuania Constantine – from the Cotentin peninsula Cordani – Italy Crosser – German (in the USA, although some there are Scots) Cuono – Italy Danchin – France De Hungerford – France De Mamiel – France De Maillet – France Didymus – Greece (and variants Dedamess, Diddams, Didemus, Didimouse, Didimus) (also some in Germany & USA) Dohoo – France/Germany Dominicus – Netherlands DuBose – France Ducate – Belgium, France Edes – Hungary Engers – Germany/Netherlands/Norway Ferdinando (with variants Ferdinand, Fernandes, Fernandez, Ferdi and Ferdy) – Spain Festa – Italy Fritz – Germany Fron – Poland Glaentzer – Germany Grandi – Italy Hellfritzsch – Germany Hochreiter – Austria/Germany Hosaflook – Netherlands Izod – France Kipp – France (De Kype), the Netherlands (Kip) and Germany (Kipp) Kester/Kuster – Germany Kleinhans – Germany Komonchak – Slovakia? Koonce, Koontz – Germany Laccohee – Wallonia, Belgium Lafranchi – Swiss/Italian Lambert – France & UK Leru/Leroux – France Los – Poland Lupfer – Switzerland Machula – Eastern Europe Macon – France Marafie – Kuwait and the Arabian peninsula Neugarten – Jewish Norstedt – Scandinavia Orlando – Italy Palcic – Slovenia Panchaud – Switzerland Pepler/Peplow – Germany/England Philippides – Greece Pikholz – East Galicia formerly Austria now Western Ukraine Plantinga – Netherlands Pocobello – Italy Probasco/Probatski – Poland Pruyn – Netherlands Ranger – France/Germany/Switzerland (also Britain) Rasco – Dalmatia/Netherlands/Spain Rata/Ratat – France Renger – Netherlands Riemenschneider – Germany Robles – Spain Rocker – Germany Ruby – Eastern Europe Santee – multiple countries in Western Europe/Scandinavia? Seyffert – Germany Simpfendorfer – Germany Snoeren – Netherlands Spathaky (Spathakis) – Greece Speidel – Germany Steiert – Germany Stermenszky (with variants Sterman, Stermenski, Stermensky, Stermenzsky) – Hungary Stymiest – Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia Tentoni – Italy Utischill – Germany Vandervord – Netherlands Vidaurri – Spain Villot – France Weissleder – Germany Werdesheim – Galicia, Eastern Europe Willing – England, but also Germany and Netherlands Woertman – Germany/Netherlands Zanzig – Germany Zealand – Netherlands Zdziebko – Poland If you are a Guild Member and your study’s surname is missing from this list OR if you would be interested in registering your non-British origin study with the Guild, then please do get in touch.
Publication of One-Name Study of Mammatt, Meymott and Memmott Surnames Posted 19 January 2018 by Julie GoucherA history of the names Mammatt Memmott and Meymot which have one source in the 1200’s and covering everyone who has had the name. Containing 337 pages, with many pictures and a full index of all names covered, both the study names and others. Full of human stories of all descriptions, as well as facts; an interesting look into the lives of those who lived in many different eras in England as well as the USA and Australia. One branch were Morman converts and became pioneers as they headed for Utah, others were entrepreneurs and many worked in the Sheffield cutlery industry. The author says “I am indebted to my cousins who wrote 12 of the 44 chapters and transcribed many wills.” Please connect with the author, June Bird via the Book Facebook Page or via the study profile page if you are interested in obtaining a copy of the book or are researching the surnames.
The Joy of Surnames – Recording Available Posted 17 January 2018 by Tessa Keough Yesterday, Debbie Kennett presented on the Joy of Surnames – the second in our ten-part webinar series on the 7 Pillars approach to a one-name study. This webinar series, hosted by the Guild’s Marketing Action Team, is free and open to the public. If you were unable to attend the webinar “live,” the recording is available here at the Guild Website for all to watch for the next seven days. After that, the Joy of Surnames and all future recordings in this series will go behind the member paywall as a member’s only benefit. Do take the opportunity to learn more about the history and origin of surnames, resources to use with your own surname research, and the a bit about how Debbie uses different tools and resources with her own one-name study by watching the recording of her presentation – just use the link The Joy of Surnames.