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Hello
My name is David Thursfield. I live in London. Origanlly from Yoxall in Staffordshire. Grandparents from Sutton Coldfield, although I believe they originated from the Sputh West, Plymouth / Devon region.
Look forward to catching up on the family name. |
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| Hello, I'm new on this forum. I've just started trying to do some more research on my family tree and would like some help. I'd like to find out more about my great grandmother, Kate Thursfield who was born in about 1880 in the Staffordshire/ Worcestershire area. She married a John Westwood who was born in about 1856 in the same area. They had at least 2 sons: Charles and Samuel (born 1st June 1907 in West Bromwich). Sam Westwood was my grandad. I think Kate Thursfield's father was Charles Thursfield (born in Wednesbury)but don't know who her mother was. Does anyone know any information that will help me to find out more. Thank you. |
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Hi Penni,
Thanks for the information and the link, really interesting. Since I posted the request I've had a message from Pat Gould (nee Thursfield) who has a huge amount of information about my ancestors, to say that I'm not related to Ethel Annie. I feel somewhat disappointed! |
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Hi Andy
My Great Grand mother was Ether Annie Thursfield and my family have the original copies of the Yakusu book but you can read it from the link below.
http://www.archive.org/stream/yakusuveryhearto00smit#page/n7/mode/2up.
Ethel and Herbert had 3 sons Sidney (who died at a young age) Eric and Robert Christopher who was my Grandfather they also had a daughter Mary.
Eric also became a missionary but never married. We have family photo's of them as missionaries out in China if you want any more info let me know. The Church in Audlem Cheshire has a memorial to the Thursfields on it's wall and lists a lot of the family going back a few generations. I have also got a lot of the family tree and census information all the way back to 1871 with their address'.
Let me know if I can give you any thing else. |
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| Hi Dave, yes I've read it, that's when it occurred to me that my quails are likely to have come from Ethel. I'd love to know more about her and her husband. |
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I've been interested to read about Ethel Annie Thursfield who was a missionary in Congo and China.
I have a beautiful small Chinese ceramic sculpture of two quails on a rock which has passed through my family over the years. I first saw it as a child at my grandfather's (George Raymond Thursfield). The story behind it was that it was brought back from China by a member of the family who had lived there as a missionary. Could it have been passed down from Ethel Annie Thursfield? I can't imagine that there were many missionaries to China by the name of Thursfield.
If anyone has any more information about Annie, her husband the Reverend Herbert Sutton Smith and the book he wrote (Yakusa The very heart of Africa), I'd be very interested. |
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| I have a Thomas Thursfield who was the son of Francis Thursfield of Kingstone, Staffordshire. Francis had sons who lived in London. |
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Hi Dave
Really looking forward to your Mum's piece about Thomas Thursfield cavalier. For a guess that dates him between 1642-1651.
Pat |
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Hello there!
I am descended from Hannah Thursfield who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1771. All of the Thursfields in Northumberland and Durham in the early 1800s are descended from her father John T and his wife Eleanor Rowintree.
In the new database on Ancestry which deals with Penal Records, there is a Louisa Thursfield who was born in Sunderland, convicted twice in two years in Warwick (1823 and 1824), had her death sentence commuted, and was sent to Australia in 1825.
I can't find any sign of Louisa's baptism at all. If anyone has additional information on her I'd be very grateful
Cheers
JoS |
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Hi Pat, here are some photographs from the Newchapel area, I took them a couple of years ago when I first had the idea of putting together this website. As you can see the name survives in the area in some small way. There was also a little corner shop opposite the School until just a few years ago called The Thursfield Stores. 
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In the Domesday Book Thursfield is Turuoldesfeld (National Archives spelling) It is part of Wolstanton parish in Staffordshire & is now called Newchapel
According to Domesday Book WOLSTANTON [WLSTANETONE] Earl Algar held it. Earl Algar was the son of Leofric an Anglo-Saxon Earl (died at Kings Bromley, Staffordshire) & Countess Godiva (Latinised spelling) Her brother was Turold or Thorold (spellings differ)
Over the years the spelling changed. As a surname it is recorded with different spellings in parish records but settles down mostly (there are a few exceptions) to the spelling Thursfield when civil registration is introduced although there are records on 1841 & 1851 census returns of the name being spelt Trusfield etc.
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I have boxes of research about all the Thursfield family which was collected mostly by my brother Geoff Thursfield.
Always willing to help.
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