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DD, I think they have been marked & signed off, and I think the dots are between the £....shillings....pence as in this one of James Birdd, Poulton in 1617 .
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Whatever else they did, it would seem they all had almost identical handwriting !
Did they deal in shillings and pence or groats back then ?
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Groats were a coin equal to fourpence, the accounts were pounds shillings and pence from the 8th century onwards (apart from the odd trades that used guineas).
1606 would be bang in the centre of the 100 year abstinence from minting groats.
I had no idea about the letter J being used in Roman Numerals .....
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The letter J originated as a swash letter I, used for the letter I at the end of Roman numerals when following another I, as in XXIIJ instead of XXIII for the Roman numeral representing 23
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Thank you. The message concerns descent of the Bird House in Poulton and was directed to Granny and/or Marty99Fred, who I can't PM but who seem to really know their source materials. I think the speculation from the latter was that the property passed from Robert Williamson to William Bird and Margaret/Margery Bird some time after 1665, then passed to their son Joseph on William's death in 1711. Do either have any actual sources that JOSEPH BIRD - who is connected to the Vyner lease of 25th November 1717 - was the child of William and Margaret?
There's a deceased Henry Bird who was mentioned in the property description, who is probably the Henry Bird “of Poulton†that married Mary Dunn, 6/24/1662 and is mentioned in a church collection @ Wallasey 23 Jul 1671 and as church warden of same on 10 Sep 1671, as well as valuer of the estate of Jane Litherland of Birkenhead Leys @ Poulton, 1675. He looks to be a brother of WILLIAM though I haven't come across any actual documentation that substantiates it, merely inference. Trying to separate these lines of descent has been problematic, so I'm wondering if they have any actual sources.
Can I ask where your line of descent begins and what the dates are. The reason I ask is because, throughout the UK there were many families by the name of Byrd/Bird/Brydd.. and many not connected. Don't want you to go on a wild goose chase . I have got quite a lot of the family tree in a box somewhere , so I could possibly help you if it's the correct line. Most of my records were taken from the Parish registers. It's so complicated with numerous William's, Henry's and others, I really need to know what or who you are stuck with.
The Bird family of Poulton/Wallasey were my father's direct ancestors.
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Well folks, I'm sorry to have to do this, but just about ready to throw a spanner in the works.
Bird's House... Williamsons Croft. William Bird passed on to William's son so we get William son Croft
The Great Rebuilding was between 1570 and 1640. which could in all honesty contribute to the date stone, being 1621, and the way the house looks as if it has been extended above the first level.
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Interesting that this should crop up now, I passed the house the other day and thought how tidy it was looking - pointing done, windows etc - am very glad it's being cared for. Good luck with the family tree - there are pitfalls aplenty in doing anything like that, as I've found out myself.
There was a thread showing the alterations that had been made for parking cars. I hope they haven't taken the beautiful fig tree down. That has as much to do with the house and it's previous occupants, as anything else.
Bird's being people of the church, a fig tree is a symbol of the 'the tree of knowledge' . Too late if it has gone, but I do hope it hasn't.
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I have always been surprised when my (small, tub grown) fig tree produces fruit, as it has for the last 3-4 years. Not many fruits, 8 this year, but interesting.
I always associate figs with growing in a hot climate because I used to see the trees growing by their thousands, literally, in South America. where green figs + cheese is a common snack. Most of "our" shop figs come from Turkey and are brown figs - still good with cheese.
We tend to forget that at this time of the year the climate in the far end of the MED is not amazingly different from UK ie can be cold. Pics refugee camps/ snow in Syria emphasise the issue.
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It is cold over there. I remember , after having a terrible trip up the Bosphorus when we thought our end had come, we arrived at Istanbul somewhere around the beginning of January ,and it was snowing, as in snowstorm ! Freezing too ! A few days later we sailed onto Izmir, where it was like summer, although not hot. Syria does get very cold and snow, from what I can gather. Look after your little fig tree. Olive trees are another from the same regions, and frost resilient. Symbolic of peace, hence 'holding out the olive branch' .
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I�ve had another look at Thomas Taylor�s Survey of Bidston Manor with regard to the date, and the main map showing all the manorial lands is clearly dated 1656. Several of the larger scale maps are dated 1665, whilst others, including the one of Poulton, are undated. I think the correct date is generally assumed to be 1665 because Lord Kingston, for whom the survey was supposedly carried out, didn�t purchase the Manor until 1662.
The survey volume also contains several pages of valuations, together with various amendments and marginal notes, added at later dates. Most of these appear to have been written by Robert Vyner MP (one memorandum begins with the words �I Robert Vyner...�), to whom the Manor passed following the death of Sir Robert Vyner in September 1688.
One page is headed �My Computation of the Value of the Severall [ie separate] Tenements if out of Lease allowing for Taxes which the Tenant pays & all other deductions made in 1719� to which has been added �& reviewed in 1736� in a distinctive shaky handwriting. The only entry for Poulton-cum-Seacombe is the name �Joseph Bird�, which has been subsequently crossed out and had �Hester Moor� written alongside it. The words �now Torbet Walter Kirkpatrick� have then been added underneath by the person with the shaky hand, presumably in 1736. [The word Torbet is uncertain; as I say the handwriting is very shaky and difficult to read, but that�s what it looks like.].
A further section is headed �Old Rents chief rents & Cottages� with �Old Rents reformed in 1762� inserted below. Here under Poulton the name �Joseph Bird� appears followed by �Walter Kirkpatrick�, written by old shaky hand, and �now Gordon� written in yet another hand.
Three more pages follow containing a similar �Computation of the Value of the Several Tenements...� this time made in 1762. Here under Poulton the only name is that of �Walter Kirkpatrick�.
I�m not exactly sure how to interpret all of this, but I�ll have a go. It looks as if at some point tenancy of the Vyner lands in Poulton passed from William Bird to Joseph Bird (possibly with other Birds in between). Then in about 1719 or shortly thereafter the tenancy passed to Hester Moor, possibly only briefly, before ending up with Walter Kirkpatrick, who was the tenant in 1736, when the Valuation was reviewed, and still there in 1762, when the second Valuation Schedule was drawn up. William Kirkpatrick was then followed as tenant by �Gordon�, possibly the James Gordon who appears in the Table of Reference in my earlier post with the maps. All this is pure conjecture, of course, but at least we have some more possible names of tenants for the property!
One interesting point is that the Bird family�s tenancy seems not to have lasted much longer than a couple of generations; I envisaged something more akin to 150 years or so, given the property�s usual name. It is possible therefore that the name Bird�s House is of fairly recent origin, possibly originating with the realisation that the initials WB on the lintel stood for �William Bird�. As I�ve mentioned the property is also simply known as the Old House, so it would be interesting to find out when the name Bird�s House/Tenement first came into common usage.
This quote is from page 14. if anyone might be interested to see other information on the same page.
Having been sifting through all my hand written notes about this family, which are in the main notes taken from the Parish records that were held in Earlston Library.
William Bird married Mary Williamson, daughter or Robert Williamson . They had a son, Joseph, baptised on 12th March 1647.
I have not any record for their marriage but it was obviously prior to march 1647.
That could well be when the tenancy transferred over. In 1665 Joseph, would have been of age (18) and was then in his name. J Bird could have been mistaken for T Bird. when we see some of the writings.
At the moment, I have no idea which William Bird it could have been. (so many of them )
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