Pennance Family History
Image of the
parish register entry for the wedding of Thomas Pennance to Hannah Cleaver on
11th February 1812.
1800:
Volta produces 1st electric battery
1804:
Napoleon voted emperor
1806-22:
Wars of South American Independence
1811:
Luddites attack mechanization
1814
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
1815:
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1830:
1st passenger railway
1833:
Factory Act bans employment of children under 9
1833:
Slavery abolished in British colonies
If you’re a 9th
generation Pennance this is your Great Great Great Great Great Great
Grandfather. Remove a Great for
each generation back.
Image of the
Eccleshall parish register entry for the Baptism of Thomas Pennance, son of
John and Margaret Pennance in 1789.
Also recently
unearthed is the Eccleshall Parish Register entry for the baptism of the above
Thomas in 1789. Here it is in
rather a poor smudgy hand so that it is not easy to make out the surname. I’ve taken the liberty of marking the
entry with a red dot.
If in doubt,
import the image into your graphics software and enlarge it.
I am indebted to
Staffordshire Family Historian Miss Sylvia Peers who regularly visits Stafford
Record Office and who made copies of these documents at my request. Sylvia also kindly had a look for the
marriage of John and Margaret, both in Eccleshall and in one or two of the
surrounding parishes, alas to no avail.
It still might be there somewhere but of course it is also entirely
possible that they married elsewhere and moved to Eccleshall after the
marriage. If that is true, we are
in the territory of inspired guesswork, which, sadly, may not be enough.
In order to
settle that matter I am tempted to order a complete extraction of the Pennance
surname from the marriage index for the county. Don’t know what that will cost but no harm in asking eh
what!