Durham Family history help?

Question

I've been trying to research my husband's family history. I have ordered the certificates of those that I can trace and have received them today. I am abit stumped at the moment with his grandfather because his name is so common.

In the certificate, they got married at St. Paul's in Deaf Hill *** Langdale on January 1923.

The info on the grandfather is as follows:

name: William Groves
age: 30
status: widower
occupation: fitter
father's name: William Groves (deceased)
occupation: joiner

I want to add this parents and former wife on the list but I don't know how to go about it. There are just too many William Groves on the list.

I will appreciate any help on the matter. Thanks in advance.

werd

Answer 1

Hey Werd,

Her is a St Pauls web site that has some of the keywords you mentioned. There is a chat room, contact link, guestbook, forum and more on local websites. Also some notice boards. Perhaps this will help you find your william groves.

A few things would have helped in the research such as the country, and what list is William on? Is Durham a surname or a town?

Answer 2

Durham
This name, with variant spelling Durram, is of English locational origin from the city thus called in the
North East of England. Recorded variously as Dunholm circa 1000, as Dunhelme in "Historia Anglorum", dated
1122, and as Donelme in the 1191, Fine Court Rolls of that city. The name derives from the Old English "dun",
a hill, plus the Old Scandinavian "holm(r)", (Northern Medieval "holm"), an island or piece of raised land
partly surrounded by streams. The surname first appears on record in the mid 12th Century, (see below). One,
William de Durham, witness, appears in the 1236, "Fine Court Rolls of Essex", and a Robertus de Durham was one
of twelve Scots knights appointed to settle the laws of the marches in 1249, "Scottish Acts of Parliament".

Walter Durham of Dumfriesshire rendered homage to Edward 1 in 1296, and Lawrence Durham was recorded in the
1400, London Assize Court Rolls. Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calerwood Durham (1763-1845), wounded at
Trafalgar, 1805, became G.C.B. and admiral, 1830. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to
be that of
Osbert de Dunelm, which was dated
1163, in the "The Pipe Rolls of London", during the reign of
King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189.

Answer 3

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