Roll of Burgesses help needed

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:10 am

Hi Muriel,

It wasn't a problem! I appreciate your interest!

I'm going to have to wait until first thing tomorrow morning to download the pdf file though. My dial-up is very slow this time of day.

I did find some more entries from the database on Ancestry which I missed the first time around including the marriage of William and Margaret and the registering of two apprentices. Also, a number of entries for a John Clerihue who might be William's brother and John's family.

Interesting lot of information. It's probably a good thing that I can't actually sit down with these registers or someone might find me living an out of the way corner of the building where they are kept!

Carol

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:33 am

Hello Carol,

You probably have this but just in case.

There’s a Vair and wigs and Clirhue’s on this page.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/clerihew/messages/4.html

This time Clirehugh’s with wigs and Vairs.
http://www.susandoreydesigns.com/geneal ... index.html

There’s a fair bit of stuff for Vair Clirehugh in Google Books. Also try this as a Google search vair clirehugh site:http://www.archive.org

Hope there’s something new there,
Alan

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:55 pm

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the links that you posted! The family tree excerpts allowed me to find homes for 5 or 6 mystery Clerihews whom I'd found and noted earlier on but was never able to attach to any one family. Now I know that most of them were Vair's cousins, mainly his uncle John's kids and grandkids.

Vair himself seems to have been quite the character. He was involved in a messy bankruptcy of someone else in 1831 and must have left for the USA shortly after since I found him and his family on the 1840 US census! He apparently was trying to patent a cure for baldness at one point and even showed up in some amature opera business!

What I haven't found yet is what I really need and that his who his father's people were. The family tree link seems to start in 1794 with William's marriage to Margaret. I haven't read all of that information yet, but I'm guessing that the earliest records they could find were probably the ones shown in the Roll of Burgesses records.

William must have come from somewhere and from what I've found on the Clerihews and their 19 variations of spelling is that they originated in an area north and west of Aberdeen between Alford and Inverurie. I'd like to know which family William belonged too. There are several possiblilities, but too many Williams!

It's also interesting that SP has Vair as Vare Clerihugh on his marriage OPR and William as Clerohugh on his OPR. There is also a Cleryhugh that came up on that same search!

Ancestry had 8 different spellings of Clerihugh in the US between 1840 and 1920! Glad three of them were named Vair or I might never have found their records!

Carol

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:30 am

Hello Carol,

Your name variations are truly amazing. Out of all of my lot their imagination has only extended to leaving the last letter off one of their names. My Welsh people were switching surnames each generation, as was the norm, but that’s so far back that it hasn’t had much impact on me so far.

A search in the New York Times Archive for Clirehugh brings up some stuff including a Wig advert in the 1850s. The articles before about 1922 are free to view. I can access later material. http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srchst=p

All the best,
Alan

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:32 pm

Hi Alan,

Thanks for that!

It's the early stuff that I'm really interested in rather than Vair's antics!

If you have time when you are looking at newspapers, would you look for a James Clerihue, Captain Lieutenant of Artillery on the Bengal Establishment who died in Edinburgh Apr 21, 1792?

The Commissariot Record of Edinburgh, 1701-1800 List of Burials has him as the only son of John Clerihue, sometime vintner. I haven't found a birth record for him anywhere.

John Clerihue, vintner dies in Edinburgh Apr. 14, 1769.

Then there is a mystery entry giving a burial for John Clerihue sometime vintner Mar. 27, 1794.

Carol

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:31 pm

Hi Alan,

"Your name variations are truly amazing. Out of all of my lot their imagination has only extended to leaving the last letter off one of their names. My Welsh people were switching surnames each generation, as was the norm, but that’s so far back that it hasn’t had much impact on me so far."

Scotsfind also has a registrar or two who seem to have "More is wonderful!" for a creedo. They put every vowel they could in this version: Clearihuie!

Somewhere on there I also found: Clerihewe, Clariehew, Clerichue

This is still a whole lot easier than trying to sort out Smiths though!

Carol

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:08 pm

Hi Carol

This is still a whole lot easier than trying to sort out Smiths though!

Tell me about it.....

<sigh>

Best wishes
Lesley