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3) Birth 12 January 1865; Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Darlington a Greengrocer and Mary (formerly Kitchen) both of Sandbach, Cheshire.
4) Birth 24 April 1874 of Jessie Hannah Darlington, daughter of Henry, a Carpenter, and of Sarah Jane Lavinia, formerly Best, both of 23 College Street, Pancras, Camden Town, Middlesex.
5) Birth 15 July 1879 of Ralph Darlington Yates, son of William Valentine Yates, School Master, and of Maryann Yates, formerly Darlington, both of The Cottage, Bowness, Westmorland.
Internet Humour
Most of us who are on Internet seem to get on "lists" which ensures that a steady stream of e-mail arrives, much of it useless. But some of it, especially the Humour type, can enliven an otherwise dull day. The following I thought is particularly appropriate as we approach the end of 1999 and enter the Y2K moment of truth. Imagine the whole of your genealogical data base going up in smoke and you with no back up disc to reconstitute your hours of typing and all your sources lost in time.
"Translated from Latin scroll dated 2BC.
Dear Cassius:
Are you still working on the Y Zero K problem? This change from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left. I don't know how people will cope with working the wrong way around. Having been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking upwards. You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier and not left it to us to sort it all out at this last minute.
I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius hadn't done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar. He said he could see why Brutus turned nasty. We called in Consultus, but he simply said that counting downwards using minus BC won't work and as usual charged a fortune for doing nothing useful. Surely we will not have to throw out all our hardware and start again. Macrohard will make yet another fortune out of this I suppose.
The money lenders are paranoid of course! They have been told that all usury rates will invert and they will have to pay their clients to take out loans. Its an ill wind-----
As for myself, I just can't see the sand in the hour glass flowing upwards. We have heard that there are three wise men in the east who have been working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive until it's all over.
I have heard that there are plans to stable all horses at midnight at the turn of the year as there are fears that they will stop and try to run backwards, causing immense damage to chariots and possible loss of life.
Some say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition. Anyway, we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y Zero K problem.
I will send a parchment to you if anything further develops. If you have any ideas please let me know.
Plutonius."
And speaking of computers, Arthur Darlington #34 is the latest member on e-mail. He can be contacted at
[email protected]
THE DARLINGTON REGISTER
FALL 1999
Robert A. Darlington
1820 Merida Place
Victoria, B.C.,
CANADA V8N 5C9
<[email protected]>
Of the more northern counties of England, Yorkshire has always been one of the least represented by Darlington families. In 1881 there were less than 60 individuals there, many having been born in other counties. So I was pleased to get an inquiry from a Linda Shatford in Princes Risborough, Bucks., indicating her interest in ancestors from Richmond in the North Riding and going back to the late seventeenth century.
She was referred to me by someone who knows that I "manage" a Darlington Register. But her initial letter to me gave me little to research other than a place name. Please continue to refer people to me. I am truly glad to try to be of assistance. But when you do - please ask them to provide me with some names, dates, occupations, place names, or even better, a tree. That will save a lot of subsequent correspondence.
Linda and I have corresponded again and she has sent me a brief chart. It appears that she is researching the DARLINGTON name but that it was sometimes abbreviated to DARNTON. Linda has joined the Liverpool and SW Lancs FHS with Darlington as her prime name of interest.
This gives me an opportunity to comment on the important subject of "variants". A number of my fellow members of the GOONS consider "variants" to be quite important and list them. For some names like SMITH and SMYTH one might make a case for interest. I have from time to time noted areas where variants can be found such as DARLINTON or DARRINGTON. But I cannot seriously collect such names unless I have some proof that they resulted from a simple spelling mistake on a census return or other such document. Lacking that proof or a positive trace to an original DARLINGTON, I consider them to be unique names of possibly different origin.
I have a friend, a retired naval officer, whose surname is DZIOBA. He is of Ukrainian descent. He claims a relationship to the ex Mayor of my home town of Winnipeg whose name was JUBA. For immigrants to Canada such changes were common. The immigration official wrote down what he thought the immigrant said was his name. Thus the Chinese immigrant whose name was Sam Ting became Ole Olson when he answered the question, "What is your name" when he followed the Swede who had preceded him in the line up.
In the last Newsletter I mentioned Sanford Darlington and gave his e-mail address. He will be #69 in the Register.
He traces through those descendants of Abraham who went west to Iowa, Arizona and Utah. His great grandfather was Henry Darlington #684 in Gilbert Cope, and his 2x great grandfather was Thomas #205 in that book. He lists Thomas' brother Brinton as dying in 1827 whereas that famous man actually died in 1872. I would that someone had documented my Liverpool Darlington family in the same detail as those many in the USA who need only get that book to discover 2755 ancestors before the turn of the century!
Those of you who find yourself distantly related to Sanford can write to him at 1630 Rose Garden Lane, Loganville, Georgia, 30052.
CORRESPONDENCE AND QUERIES
In the last Newsletter I noted that Mike Simpson from Great Glen, Leicester had sought a possible connection for his wife's ancestor, Catherine Darlington who married John Boffey at Acton by Nantwich in 1822. I referred Mike to Bryan Hesselgrave (#50) whose tree supported the supposition that Catherine was the daughter of John Darlington and Mary Burrows who married in Malpas, Cheshire in 1796.
Mike and Bryan have now confirmed the relationship so Mike's wife has gained four generations back through two Abrahams and two Johns, all in Cheshire.
In case anyone else is interested in this family, there were six known siblings to Catherine. They are;
Phoebe 1797 (m=Rider), John 1799, Elizabeth 1803 (m=Lewis), Richard 1805, Abraham 1808, Mary Ann 1811 and Sarah 1813. They were all born in Acton by Nantwich. (The Gilbert Cope book does not include John and Sarah).
Ruth Hosford #22 who lives in my Victoria neighborhood has passed my Newsletters on to a cousin in Ontario. In turn she received part of the Gilbert Cope book which enabled her to revise her tree extensively. It also connects her to the families of Bryan Hesselgrave and Mike Simpson.
In the Cope book, under the heading "The Burland Branch" there is quite a complete coverage back to some of the earliest Darlington families in Whitegate. If any of the English members do not have the Cope book and want some photocopies of the relevant sections, they need only ask and I shall deliver.
I have added Mike Simpson to the list of those in the Register as #68.
It was a pleasure to get an e-mail from #42 who until now was known as Carey L. Hollars but has married and is now Carey Anderson. Her address is P.O. Box 573, Weare, New Hampshire, USA 03281-0573. Her e-mail address is <[email protected]>. Carey's grandmother counted Brinton Darlington as her great grandfather and Carey has much info on Brinton who also figures largely as number 202 in the Gilbert Cope book on the descendants of Abraham Darlington and Elizabeth Hillborn.
Bill Blackburn #63 in Mt. Shasta, California sent me an excerpt from rootsweb which showed the commencement exercises for the Darlington Seminary for Young Ladies, 1894 in West Chester, PA.
Miss Alice E. Darlington was the valedictorian and also played a piano solo in the performance part of the evening. Seats for this gala were .25 cents or .35 cents for the reserved section.
Using the Cope book it was easy for me to find this talented young miss. She is listed under her father, #642 on page 224. She was born on 3 January 1878 the daughter of Richard Darlington and Elizabeth F. Alexander of Falsington, Bucks. County.
That book also tells us that her father, a Harvard graduate, established the Darlington Seminary which was still going strong in 1900. At the 1894 graduation a number of the girls were musical; others gave recitations and readings. Among the essays presented were "Paring Apples" ( a real barn burner), "Woman's Rights" (never out of vogue) and "Queer People" the latter clearly showing the growth and development of the English language. Thank you Bill for this pleasant bit of life in the upper middle class of those bygone days.
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