Re: VEVERS Wm YKS ENG 1700s
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Re: VEVERS Wm YKS ENG 1700s
3/22/00
Ok I got to Leeds library. In the local studies section in the town hall there's a book on the history of Barwick in Elmet which features a fair bit on the Vevers family. There's also a book on Records of the Parish of Whitkirk which is very helpful.
There were 3 main branches who lived at Scholes, Potterton, and Morwick. The Scholes branch seems to have been the head branch, but this all died out when Richard inherited and died in 1766 with no children. The Hall got sold on to a Mr Gray, as did Morwick. In the latter case father Steven who also died in 1766 had sons who never married.
The Potterton branch sold out in 1732 to Robert Fretwell and established itself in Hereford. I have found a quite detailed family pedigree of much of this including the Hereford branch up until the end of the 19th century. It even gives a coat of arms.
As to the Hull conection I wish it was as explicit. All I can find is a mention in the records of manorial tenants for the manor of Barwick in Elmet in 1678.
Under Scholes this lists William Vevers, Richard V, Ralph V, William V's heirs and Richard V of Kingston on Hull.
In the section on Potterton, Richard, who was a tanner, sold out to Robert Fretwell, and this latter gentleman was also a tanner and a trader who had boats and carts and travelled between Tadcaster and Hull carrying timber, leather, hides, bark and the utensils of the tannery business. Maybe Richard also had similar connections.
There's still a lot of work to sort the pedigree out and I will eventually publish it. Honest.
I still can't connect my line in to any of this, but it's uncanny that I actually lived in Whitkirk as a kid - I sang in the church choir, but never knew anything about my family history, yet I've now found that one of the key members was married there.
Andy Vevers
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