When you enter the west gate of St Oswald’s churchyard, the first headstone remembers a small FOX and his mother. John and Maisie Crimlisk began their Survey here and tagged the grave A/1. The East Yorkshire Family History Society started their more recent transcription effort at the other end of the west wall, by the car park entrance. Their Number One is the Crimlisks’ A/28, the grave of Jane Margaret Scrivener.
I decided a couple of days ago that I should get serious with the uploading of my headstone photographs to FamilySearch (as Memories). I have over 200 of them. It is tempting to flit about in an “as and when” kind of way, but I thought I ’d try to be disciplined. Starting with Jane Margaret.
I expected her “story” would be quite simple; marrying in 1867, having two children and dying in 1871. It hasn’t turned out this way.
Jane married surgeon Charles Waters SCRIVENER. His mother was Anna CALAUM, Thomas SCRIVENER’s second wife. Her first child with Thomas, I think, was Henry Thomas and he married Jane’s widowed mother, Elizabeth Sweet née WHINFIELD. In 1861, 19-year-old Jane was living with her mother (41) and step-father (29), in Newcastle upon Tyne.
A year after Jane’s death her step-father’s brother, Charles the Surgeon, married Mary Ann Woodall. I failed to find the marriage record today but in 1881 Mary Ann’s unmarried sister, 62-year-old June CALAM, was staying with the Scriveners at 3, Rutland Street, Filey. Further investigation revealed that Calam should be CALAUM. Ring a bell?
I was pleased to find some Newcastle SWEETs on FST and in reasonably good order, but the Bridlington SCRIVENERs are a mass (or mess) of duplicate PIDs that will take some sorting. They constitute an interesting challenge, though, and I hope to set them straight before moving on to Grave Number Two. (This is going to take forever – and none of us have got forever.)
Looking at Filey REDUX 