Advice re medieval and early modern Quatremaine family resea

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Vicki Perry

Advice re medieval and early modern Quatremaine family resea

Legg inn av Vicki Perry » 23 nov 2005 14:05:02

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on general skills to use
when researching medieval genealogy.

At the moment I’m towards the beginning of parish registers in my research,
although I’m having a bit of trouble linking together the first few
generations that are in the registers. I know if we’re in the parish
register period then it’s not strictly medieval, but a lot of the other
sources will be similar to the medieval period so I thought you might be the
best people to help me! (And I'm also hoping to get to before the registers
fairly soon).

I have abstracts of a lot of wills of the family that I’m researching (the
Quatremains of Chalgrove) and it is easy enough to put together a family
tree for the people in one will and then another. However, it is then
difficult to link together people from different wills (eg is John the son
in one will the same person as John the father in a later one). The families
all seemed to give the children the same names, so it is hard to decide if 2
references are to the same person, even if they would seem to have a father
or brothers of the same name.

There is a family tree that I’ve found in a book on the family from around
1100-1500. The parish registers begin in 1538 and my earliest ancestor is
around 100 years later (although as I know he is one of 3 people, as soon as
I’ve worked out which one I could take it back further). Does anyone have
any advice on the best way for me to proceed? As soon as I try to draw the
family tree from the evidence in wills I end up with question marks
everywhere when I’m trying to establish who is who. The family were in the
area from around 1100 and there are references in them in wills, parish
registers and deeds, it's just hard trying to make sense of the records.

Thanks
Vicki

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