The Oldest entry and longest family line?

[cid]

HI B C Biker

Yes my Capewells were from Netherton.

My Garratt line goes back to the Curate, and my Woodhouse line starts here http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... use-Family

Are you connected to the Capewells too?

Cid

[blackcountrybiker]

Not related no, but I was good friends with a girl named Alison Capewell from Hockley Lane when I was at school in the 70s. A bit of trivia - She was dating the lead singer of a local Heavy Metal band at the time - Jameson Raid were the band.

[MarkCDodd]

Mmm...Rowley Regis Woodhouse on my Waterhouse/Murphy line.

Norfolk Woodhouse on my wifes Dent line.

[snoopysue]

You are a venerable lot!!
I'm only back to the mid 1700's!

[dudleytaylor]

Not related no, but I was good friends with a girl named Alison Capewell from Hockley Lane when I was at school in the 70s. A bit of trivia - She was dating the lead singer of a local Heavy Metal band at the time - Jameson Raid were the band.

Sorry to change the subject slightly. My husbands cousin Pete Green is the base player in Jameson Raid. Dt

[Northern Lass]

Hi Cid - Judging by your profile we may be related through the Willetts and Garratt's too. Are your Capewells from Netherton?

There's a lot of Black Country families that can be traced back to the Woodhouses of Wombourne, They owned land around Rowley Church as well as in Wombourne and their family has been recorded in quite a few books over the centuries. My link comes via Mary Woodhouse who married William Garratt, son of the Rev Thomas Garratt of St Giles Church in Rowley Regis. The Woodhouse family can be traced back to the Cocus and De Bosco family who were proprietors of the Wode House... and possibly even to the de Picquigny family of France who came to this country with William (The Conqueror). If the tenuous link between Guy de Picquigny and William Cocus could be proved, then the de Picquigny family can be traced back to the late 900s in Normandy, France! that's 30 generations!

There's a even more tenous link to Rollo (b 846) himself, the first Duke of Normandy and a real Viking warrior At this point I could even suggest a link between my Channel Island families and my Staffordshire families as the le Gallichan's and de Carteret's of Jersey also came to these shores with William and were also descendants of Rollo the Viking.

can you pop a new post on and we can try and add your woodhouse ones to the ones on Bcc and the Garratts
My Woodhouses link in to Robs

My Inetts link to Dennis and go way back 1300? but not on tree yet too busy sorting ruddy tree out to add my own

[mikleed]

Is that why it's called the WODEHOUSE in Wombourne ?........So when do the Helier family come into this ?....seems to be a Jersey connection there with that name.

Mike.

[Northern Lass]

William Garratt and Mary Woodhouse are my 6G grandparents. I didn't know he was a reverend (like his dad).

are these on Bcc?is this them
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =172066578

and if so how do they link then to here?

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... i=86977159

Which is the correct bapt then for Mary?
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =446094636

[Northern Lass]

I am about to enter all my Baker and they go back to the early 1600's.

So it will be my 10x Great Grandparents I will be posting onto BCC.

They are all in Bilton and Wolverhampton.

Who is the earliest Black Country resident we have on BCC?

Has anybody else got 10 generations on there?

This thread has got me thinking I have added some of the names where we connect on the Woodhouses here
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =378563271

it splits later on in the generations

can you let me know where you split off please on the Woodhouse line and I can make a note in notes
Let me know if you connect to the Woodhouses too pls
by which ancestor and where do they link in

cid does yours connect to this main line
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =684152744

[cid]

Hi NL

Yes my Woodhouses go back to them too.

Starts off here http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... use-Family with Elizabeth

then back up the male line.

cid

[Northern Lass]

Where it splits from the main group of us on the Connects to I will add a notes saying where the split is

eg ..

<b>note Cids line of Woodhouses splits here</b>

added note here as it is interesting to see where the line splits and which descendant is your line

any others please flag with me anyone.
I can add then your name and split

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =540506018

[cid]

Cheers,

[Northern Lass]

Ok added us in here
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =851566021

and put the split for Rob Kate Jan and Cid in notes here
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =668503529

Di and Richtea if you looking in where does your line split from woodhouses is it at John woodhouse b 1681? or another one

[dianel]

William Garratt and Mary Woodhouse are my 6G grandparents. I didn't know he was a reverend (like his dad).

are these on Bcc?is this them
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =172066578

and if so how do they link then to here?

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... i=86977159

Which is the correct bapt then for Mary?
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =446094636

Yes, that's them.

I thought this was the right Mary:
Staffordshire: Rowley Regis - Parish Registers, 1685-1771/2
 Burialls, 1655.
  Rowley Regis Parish Register.
   April.
County: Staffordshire
Country: England
23 Mar 1712 Mary, d. of John & Jane Woodhouse bap.

[blackcountrybiker]

Is that why it's called the WODEHOUSE in Wombourne ?........So when do the Helier family come into this ?....seems to be a Jersey connection there with that name.

Mike.

The name Woodhouse is derived from the Wodehouse. The family name first appears as "de la Wodehouse" ie "of the Wodehouse" and gets changed to Woodhouse as the centuries progress. The house in Wombourne is built on and named after the estate that was owned by the Cocus family. I think the Helier family came later as owners of the house. From what I can gather, there were pig farmers and metal workers on the original estate.

St Helier in Jersey and St Helier in France are both named after Saint Helier, a Belgian Hermit who was martyred in Jersey in the 6th Century. The name became a popular christian name (eg Helier de Carteret). It would be very romantic to find another Channel Island link to Staffordshire though.