Whilst Googling

Yvonne · Whilst Googling

Just Googled my name this morning and up I pop Laughing

Has anyone come across these two Source lists before.

http://charon.it.brighton.ac.uk/mas/tree/tree/smith/src0.html

http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/~mas/tree/tree/lonsdale/src1.html

I cannot find where they actually come from. Perhaps someone with a better knowledge of computers can work it out.

SeaCopRimmer

They look like 'personal' family trees which have been posted on the internet; the first was generated by Michael Smith, but I can't get the second one to revert to the 'main page'.

admin

On the first one right at the bottom it said - back to main page

I clicked and got this - http://charon.it.brighton.ac.uk/mas/tree/tree/smith/acc.html

Not sure it helps but the author is Mike Smith
Sadly I can't find an email address to contact him

I am guessing he has used Oxy-Gen to put his family history on the net. Shame he's not explained more. Like where he got the information from or how to contact him.

BrianG

Jane

Isn't it fascinating what you find on Google though Laughing

ray green

I spotted the following in the documents:-
chr 1781 March 4 Hugh s. of Hugh & Betty Howard of High park
This is the earliest reference to High Park that I have seen. I am not aware of any buildings in the district dating back to the 1700s. Green Mansions dates from 1936!

Jane

Makes you wonder where the information did come from doesn't it?

Its like when someone says they can trace their family back to...well Adam & Eve maybe. Bet they have no documents to prove it Shocked

Yvonne

Have had a look on Rootsweb but cannot find any people with trees that seem the same as the aboved name.

PS, is there a problem with the message service. Twice now, and especially today I have had no email to say that there was a reply on the forum. Have checked that I have ticked to be notified and my email deleted boxes and nothing is there. I don't have an automatic spam filter so they can't be there either, and just checked my blocked senders list and nmfhs is not there Question

Yvonne

admin

It must be a glitch - I can't actually change anything like that.

Maybe if you un-tick, re-tick and then submit your profile again it might do something

Sorry I can't help further Sad

BrianG

ray green

You can always rely on Brian to come up with the goods. I see that Hugh Howard ( the first known High Parker) married an Ellen Rimmer born Cop End N.M. Anyone know where Cop End is/was?

baxtersp

I've come across Cope End a few times on the Census, I think it was in Blowick.

Dotty · Makes sense

As there is a Meols Cop today then it makes sense that there was a cop (or is it cope) once upon a time. I think that would be a small clump of trees or does someone else have more info...

Dotty

PS

I do think the internet is a fascinating place.

baxtersp

I don't know if there's any connection but there is a cop in Banks, not a wood but the original sea defences. It doesn't show up on modern maps, but on old maps it's down as Goose Dub Cop (by Goose Dub House on Charnleys Lane) and Boltons Cop (at the end of Georges Lane).

I've had a look on the old maps on MARIO at the Lancashire County Council website and I've found Cop End on an old map. Here's a picture, there's ttwo maps on it, a modern one underlying the old one so you can see where Cop End would be in modern terms. It does seem to be in (or near) Blowick as I thought.

SeaCopRimmer

A cop or kop is the Scandinavian word for bank - my grandad lived at 2 Sea Cop which was built by the side of the 3rd sea bank along the Marshside waterline (what is now Fylde Road); his original address was 2 Sea Cop, Dock Lane, Marshside. Bankfield Lane is the site of the first sea bank to be built round here Smile

Dotty · Doh...

I realise that I am getting mixed up with a COPSE...

Dotty Crying or Very sad

SeaCopRimmer

As long as you dn't get mixed up with a 'corpse' you'll be okay Laughing

mother

Did you know that........

In 1900 there was a battle in the South African township of Natal, which led to the appalling loss of life especially amongst many Liverpudlians, the battle came to be known as the battle of "Spion Kop"were inadvertidly Liverpool got the name of the most famous stand terrace in English football "The Kop"

Could Kop be the Dutch version of the Scandinavian Cop?

Dotty · Well I never!

Thanks mother for that interesting snippet. I didn't know that...

Dotty

Whilst Googling

Makes sense

Doh...

Well I never!