UK History 1042 - 1859

UK History 1042 – 1859

1042-1066 – Coronation of King Edward the Confessor in 1042. Before assuming the throne Edward spent 24 years in exile in Normandy. Edwards death was on 5 January 1066. Harold was then crowned King at Westminster Abbey. (History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007)

14 October 1066 – The Anglo Saxons had controlled England since the 5^th century. After migrating there from Scandinavia or Germany. They were faced with a mass invasion of their lands by the Normans from northern France who intended to stay. The Normans had emerged as a regional power. (History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007)

1133-1215 – The Plantagenets were a noble family and rulers of England since 1133. John was born on Christmas eve 1166. The youngest of eight children of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II of England. Richard died 1199 and John was crowned king. (History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007)

1205 – Roger Priur. Curia Regis rolls of Suffolk during the reign of King John.

January 1215 – Nobles, Barons gathered at a secret meeting at Dunmow castle in Essex, the home of Lord Robert Fitzwalter Earls and Bishops. Ruler of the realm was King John. Heavy taxes and the magna carta. (History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007).

1337 – In Cornwall where our Pryor ancestors lived the Pryor name is mentioned in Cornwall as far back as 1337 when a Nicholas Prior is mentioned. Dutchy of Cornwall.

13th century – Before the Middle Ages people had only one name. It was only in the 13^th century that surnames began to be used in England. We call unmarried women spinsters because they earned their living by spinning wool. A major source of British wealth in the Middle Ages. (How to trace your family tree. Anness pub ltd ©2005).

1500-1700 – How to read local archives. FG Emmison. London Historical association 1967.

1538 – Henry VIII decreed that each of 11,000 UK parishes should keep registers of baptisms, marriages and burials of its inhabitants from 1538 onwards. Few survive before 1558 when they started being kept on sheepskin instead of paper and even fewer survive before the 1600’s. From 1598 annual copies were made and sent to local bishops. (Tracing your family history. Anthony Adolph ©2007).

1600-1900 – Three hundred years of embroidery. Pauline Johnson. Wakefield press 1986. ISBN 0-9492-6881-x

1700 – Smuggling a history 1700-1970 David Phillipson Rosemary Pugh 1973.

1700-1840 – Smuggling in Kent and Sussex. Mary Waugh ©1985.

1700-1850 – Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset. Geoffrey Morley ©1983.

1718-1761 – Our first known ancestor is Anthony Pryor, born about 1718 in the reign of George i. He married Avis Thomas in Wendron Cornwall on 19 October 1743. The village has one of the longest histories of tin mining of any district in Cornwall back to the 16^th century. He and Avis had at least nine children all born in Wendron. Finally Anthony was born in 1761, 17 years after his parents married.

1750’s – Smuggling in Devon and Cornwall. The Sicilly isles became dependent on smuggling for its economy. Smuggling was a Cornish activity and in Cornwall tin ore was mined. A famous family that operated out of Prussia cove near praa Sands in Cornwall was the Carter family. John Carter was head of the family. Another family mentioned was a devout Methodist preacher despite his interests in contraband material. The Carters of Prussia cove. (p32-33 Family history monthly June 2008 UK.)

7 February 1758 – Margery Waters married Richard Pryor in Crowan Con England.

19 October 1743 – Avis Thomas married Anthony Pryor in Wendron Con England.

1749 – Smuggling and smugglers in Sussex. The genuine history of the Gentlemen and Chichester.

1761-1787 – Anthony Pryor was baptised in Wendron 13 December 1761 in the second year of the reign of George III. When Anthony was 19 he married Margery (who also had the maiden name of Pryor), Wendron 29 January 1787.

1764 – Lloyds register of shipping London.

1787-1808 – On 11 November 1787 a son was born also called Anthony other children followed. On boxing day 1808 he married Margaret Cowls at Helston about 3 miles south of Wendron.

1 March 1801 – Mary Norris born in Richmond Sry Eng.

9 April 1804 – Frederick Sturmer born in Poplar NDX Eng.

26 December 1808 – Margaret Cowls married Anthony Pryor in Helston Con Eng.

1812 – Anthony Mangan boirn in CLA IRL.

1812 –1839 – One other child was born to Anthony and Margaret Cowls, William baptised at Helston 5 September 1812. In April 1838 at Kenwyn William married 24 year old Elizabeth Davey in Helston a gardener. William and Elizabeth had a son James John on 20 January 1839 in Helston.

5 September 1812 – William Pryor born Helston Cornwall Eng.,

1815 – English British naval history to 1815 a guide to literature. Eugene L Raser. Smuggling 1892 Neville Williams. Contraband cargoes 1959. History profession 1713-1775.

1815 – Emigration from Europe 1815-1930 D Baines London Macmillan 1991.

1815 – Emigration from Europe 1815-1914 C Erickson London Adam and Charles Black 1976.

1820 – From the mid 18^th Century Cornwall was an industrial powerhouse, the richest tin and copper mining region in the world. The rise and fall of the industries has shaped almost every corner of Cornish life. By the bronze age 2100BC to 750BC Western Europe depended on Cornwall for supplies of tin to make bronze. The metals then produced by tin streaming and from open cast mines. p40 By the 1820s there were more than 2,000 mines in operation making Cornwall the worlds leading mineral producer. The world copper crash in 1866 left the industry reeling and a decline of mining followed. Many Cornish left for mines in the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Reviving production of tin in 2010 with a rise in world metal process. Cornish ethnicity. (Cornwall Lesley Gillilan p37).

1823 – David Nicol born FIF Scotland.

11 March 1828 – Charles Watson born Lin Eng.

3 July 1828 – Frederick Sturmer married Mary Norris UK.

8 April 1829 – Frederick John Sturmer born Oxford OXF Eng.

1830-39 – First opium war between the UK and China began.

1831 – A cholera epidemic broke out in London UL (Timeline internet).

1833 – Deeds. Record land holding and transfer. A common form of deed dating from the 1100’s to 1833 are feet of fines. Final agreements land was transferred from one party to another. Written in triplicate on a sheet of sheep or goatskin divided three ways. Surviving copies are kept in the National Archives indexed in series 1/7233-44 and 1/7217-68. Many have been published by county record societies, local archives and libraries.

16 October 1834 – In London the houses of parliament caught fire and many historic documents were burned. (Timeline internet).

1836 – Nathan Rothschild son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild dies in London. His younger brother James took over the business. (Timeline internet).

28 April 1838 – William Pryor married Elizabeth Davey in Kenwyn Con Eng.

28 June 1838 – Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster abbey. (AP 6/28/98 timeline internet).

20 January 1839 – James John Pryor was born at Helston Cornwall Eng.

5 Februaryu1839 – Elizabeth Davey died Helston Cornwall Eng.

1841 – Anthony at Wendrow place Helston a fruiterer. In the 1841 census of Cornwall his wife Margaret had four children still living at home.

1 September 1845 – Catherine Jane Wasley born Gloucester GL Eng.

1847 – Britain passed the vagrancy act to combat begging, as the potato famine swept Ireland. (AP 11/25/08 timeline internet).

1848 – Elizabeth Strain was born Ireland.

1849 – Water borne cholera killed about 14,000 people in London. (timeline internet).

21 November 1849 – Isabella Smith Nicol was born Edinburgh MLN Scotland.

4 November 1851 – Edward William born Maldon Ess Eng.

1856 – The rise and progress of British opium smuggling the illegality. R Alexander.

1859 – The genealogy of the existing British peerage and baronage. Edmond Lodge.

1859 – Sarah Ann Chambers born New Basford Eng.