Dig Watch | Modbury: Meet the Champernownes
Added 2024-04-18 15:32:42 +0000 UTCIn another extra from our Modbury, Time Team's ancestry expert Dr Sophie Kay meets Devon historian Rosemary Griggs (aka Catherine Champernowne in the episode), to discuss the Champernown family tree.
Sophie and Rosemary explore the family's many connections to the Tudor elite, and the challenges associated with tracing one specific individual in a spaghetti of similar names.
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In a smaller way, I have had a problem sorting through people in my family tree, especially in the female line. How many Mary's, Elizabeth's, and Jane's can there be?
vul100
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Cheryl Kurucz
2024-04-21 04:41:39 +0000 UTCIt must be such a tangled ball of yarn puzzle to figure all this out. It's one of the reasons I think it's a good thing more documents are digitally availlable; you can learn basic info from them to see if they're what you need, before you even travel out to see them, for one. It also makes cross-referencing easier.
doobat
2024-04-20 08:55:32 +0000 UTCExcellent discussion. Another great example of the increased depth of detail that is possible with the new ways of sharing findings beyond the core episodes. Thank you. I hope this conversation might be issued on YouTube sometime in the future.
Janet Hay
2024-04-20 06:39:44 +0000 UTCLet's hear it for family history. No better way of getting personal with any time period. Naming patterns are the devil. People do make mistakes by not doing the math for dates (60 year old women do not have children) or checking locations. Ancestry, the online service, even added a mistake checker, for a fee of course. I have very common names in large families with much less status than the Champernownes, so there are even fewer markers to distinguish between them. Plus one terrific fabulist whose lies I have yet to untangle, but it's great fun trying.
Kate
2024-04-19 11:33:45 +0000 UTCAmazing!
Ross G. Kreamer
2024-04-18 21:21:04 +0000 UTCI was grateful to the parish clerks of Modbury who kept so many records about poor people in the parish chest. The neighbouring parish of Ermington was much less fruitful for the amateur genealogist twenty five years ago.
Muriel Tinsley
2024-04-18 20:23:44 +0000 UTCVery good discussion .... the repetition of first names in my family research is stupefying....anybody thought, "hey! let's have some varient names?"
Don Cook
2024-04-18 19:14:10 +0000 UTCI greatly enjoyed this discussion and hope to see more like this. Brilliant...
Steve Mikre
2024-04-18 16:42:40 +0000 UTCBrilliant.... More More More, as an amateur genealogist, who is frustrated with getting my family back before 1600, I understand the need for multiple sources, I also have a problem with lovers and "concubines", and whether offspring belongs to the lover or husband??!! If you did any family tree work, would it be possible to have it published somewhere?
Mike Darby
2024-04-18 15:59:37 +0000 UTCA great discussion, not least the bit about sorting out all the Henrys, Catherines, Philips etc, and who done what, when and where. This is why I keep mostly to the C19, where they left more footprints.
Linda OCarroll
2024-04-18 15:50:29 +0000 UTC
