You’ve arrived on day 4, the final day, of a Family History Quiz. If you want to participate in earlier rounds, stop reading now, or you will find the answers to rounds 3 & 4 below. Just go to round 1 and return here when you’ve done those questions.

Here are the final quiz rounds

Round 5 Researching Women

1. When was the married women’s property act passed?
2. Which women were given the vote by the UK legislation of 1918?
3. What was the minimum legal age for the marriage of girls, with parental consent, in England and Wales in 1928?
4. In what decade did Marie Stopes open her first birth control clinic?
5. In what decade did The Sex Discrimination Act remove restrictions on women’s financial rights, making it illegal for employers, banks, financial institutions and landlords to discriminate against women.

Round 6 What do these abbreviations stand for?

1. b.o.t.p
2. GRO
3. PRONI
4. d.s.p.
5. FWK

Now for the answers to rounds 3 & 4. All the answers to round 4 come from my Discovering more about your Agricultural Labouring Ancestors online course, There’s a chance to brush up on your ag. lab. knowledge in the New Year. You can sign up here.

Round 3 Old Occupations

What did the following do?

1. Pindar – looked after the pound
2. Fletcher – one who put feathers on the ends of arrows
3. Chapman – a merchant
4. Cordwainer – shoemaker – originally one who used leather from Cordoba
5. Badger – an itinerant seller of foodstuffs

 Round 4 Agricultural Labourers

1. What was the name of the mythical person who was associated with a series of protests in the 1830s, that were directed at the introduction of threshing machines? These riots were predominantly conducted in East Anglia and the South East of England. Captain Swing
2. What is the name of the series of county by county books, published by the Board of Agriculture between 1790 and 1820, that provide background information for those with rural ancestors? The General View of Agriculture
3. What laws were repealed in 1846, reinstating a free market for grain in Britain? The Corn Laws
4. Where can you consult the National Farm Survey for England and Wales? National Archives Kew
5. Which English and Welsh census was the first to list the acreages of farms and the number of employees? 1851

Answers to rounds 5 & 6 coming up tomorrow.

You’ve arrived on day 3 of a Family History Quiz. If you want to participate in earlier rounds, stop reading now, or you will find the answers to round 2 below. Just go to round 1 and return here when you’ve done those questions.

Round 3 Old Occupations

What did the following do?

1. Pindar
2. Fletcher
3. Chapman
4. Cordwainer
5. Badger

Round 4 Agricultural Labourers

1. What was the name of the mythical person who was associated with a series of protests in the 1830s, that were directed at the introduction of threshing machines? These riots were predominantly conducted in East Anglia and the South East of England.
2. What is the name of the series of county by county books, published by the Board of Agriculture between 1790 and 1820, that provide background information for those with rural ancestors?
3. What laws were repealed in 1846, reinstating a free market for grain in Britain?
4. Where can you consult the National Farm Survey for England and Wales?
5. Which English and Welsh census was the first to list the acreages of farms and the number of employees?

Now for the answers to yesterday’s round 2. Incidentally, all the round 2 questions were taken from my stage 2 family history course, which Devon Family History Society are running online in the New Year. If you think you need to brush up on your knowledge, head to the website as there are a three places left.

Round 2 answers

1. What is a Glebe Terrier? Maps and descriptions of church-owned land—mostly C17th & C18th. Tenants often named and those owning neighbouring land may be referred to.
2. In what century were the Protestation Returns and the Heath Tax created. Seventeenth century (half marks if you put 1600s).
3. What kind of records will you find in class WO97 at the National Archives? Service Records of Soldiers discharged to a pension.
4. Which data providing platform gives access to the 1910 Valuation Office Records (Lloyd George’s Domesday)? The Genealogist.
5. Name 3 ways in which you could gain settlement, according to the 1662 Act. Birth; Marriage (for women) – kept when widowed; · Renting property worth £10 p.a. or more; Completing an apprenticeship in the parish; Working for a year under a settled master; Paying parish or poor rates; Serving as a parish official.
6. What is a nuncupative will? An oral will made in presence of 4 witnesses – could be used until 1838. From 1677 had to be written up by someone and signed by testator unless physically incapable. Should begin ‘Memorandum Quod..…’
7. Name four groups of people who were not able to make wills, under the terms of the 1540 Statute of Wills. Child (under marriageable age), lunatic, heretic, apostate, slave, prisoner, married woman (until Married Woman’s Property Act of 1882) unless she had been given property of her own under terms of a marriage settlement, or unless she had permission of her husband.
8. On which Repository’s website will you find the Manorial Documents’ Register. The National Archives as part of the Discovery Catalogue.
9. Define a journeyman. Half a mark for someone who has completed an apprenticeship. Another half mark if you said they worked by the day (from the French journee – daytime). They may have travelled about but no marks for ‘being on a journey’.
10. What is a sojourner? Someone who is not settled in the parish. Half a mark for ‘not a permanent resident’ although they may been there for decades and just not done anything to become settled in the parish (see question 5).

You’ve arrived on day 2 of a Family History Quiz. If you want to participate in round 1, stop reading now, or you will find the answers! Just go to round 1 and return here when you’ve done those questions.

Here are today’s questions, perhaps a little harder than yesterday’s.

Round 2

1. What is a Glebe Terrier?
2. In what century were the Protestation Returns and the Heath Tax created.
3. What kind of records will you find in class WO97 at the National Archives?
4. Which data providing platform gives access to the 1910 Valuation Office Records (Lloyd George’s Domesday)?
5. Name 3 ways in which you could gain settlement, according to the 1662 Act.
6. What is a nuncupative will?
7. Name four groups of people who were not able to make wills, under the terms of the 1540 Statute of Wills.
8. On which Repository’s website will you find the Manorial Documents’ Register
9. Define a journeyman.
10. What is a sojourner?

LOOK OUT ANSWERS TO ROUND ONE BELOW

Round One

1. Which of the two English/Welsh censuses, that are open for public view, were taken in June? 1841 and 1921.
2. Which English/Welsh census provides information about how long a couple have been married? 1911.
3. Jane and Jack share one set of great-grandparents but no grandparents. How are Jane and Jack related to each other? Second cousins.
4. At what repository are the wills that were proved in the Prerogative Court of York held? The Borthwick Institute.
5. What does a time in the ‘where & when born’ column of an English or Welsh birth certificate usually indicate? A multiple birth.
6. From what date were printed marriage registers, containing standard information, introduced in England and Wales. 1754.. I will accept 1753, as that is when the act was passed.
7. What, in a genealogical context, is meant by the Commonwealth Gap? The hiatus in parish registers from 1653-1660 under Oliver Cromwell.
8. Jane Brown was baptised on 2 February 1751, her brother William was baptised on 8 September 1752, both events took place in London. What is wrong with that statement? Neither of those dates existed due to the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
9. Surnames derive from one of main four roots. What are they? Patronymics (from the father’s christian name), occupational surnames, locative surnames and surnames taken from personal characteristics or physical appearance.
10. When was the Poor Law Amendment Act passed? 1834

Who doesn’t love a quiz at Christmas time? I’ve already done dismally badly at two I’ve attended but it is the taking part that counts. Annually, most of my family participate in Gordon Gray’s charity Christmas Puzzle, even the grandchildren join in now, although I don’t think I’ve ever got it all right. Do give it a go if you like something cryptic. Other quizzes come and go. In an effort to find a quiz where I would get the answers right (I hope!), I’ve created my own.

This is just for a bit of fun. No prizes and definitely no arguing with the quizmistress. There will be forty points up for grabs over the next few days, all based on British (largely English/Welsh family history. Entirely up to you if you look answers up or not. Personally, I think it is good to see how you can do without resorting to search engines first but your quiz, do what is fun for you. Round 2 and the he answers to round 1 tomorrow.

Round One

1. Which of the two English/Welsh censuses, that are open for public view, were taken in June?
2. Which English/Welsh census provides information about how long a couple have been married?
3. Jane and Jack share a set of great-grandparents but do not share grandparents. How are Jane and Jack related to each other?
4. At what repository are the wills that were proved in the Prerogative Court of York held?
5. What does a time in the ‘where & when born’ column of an English or Welsh birth certificate usually indicate?
6. From what date were printed marriage registers, containing standard information, introduced in England and Wales.
7. What, in a genealogical context, is meant by the Commonwealth Gap?
8. “Jane Brown was baptised on 2 February 1751, her brother William was baptised on 8 September 1752, both events took place in London.” What is wrong with that statement?
9. Surnames derive from one of main four roots. What are they?
10. When was the Poor Law Amendment Act passed?

Have fun.