My interest in my family history started when I was about 10 years old when my mother & father took me for a day out to the Ripon area. I was taken aback to see a headstone at St John’s, Sharow with my name on it! My father informed me that it was my great-great […]
Burials
So who won the Enos challenge?
Some 10 years or so ago I set a challenge to readers of this site to find the ancestry of Enos Smithson born 1778 in Langthorpe. At the time I’d had a number of discussions with Bill Smithson of Killinghall who had been most helpful with his own research but we couldn’t find where Enos […]
The Enos Challenge
I am aware that a number of people may have drawn a blank in finding the parents of Enos Smithson of Langthorpe (born 1779). So, here’s the challenge – has anyone successfully connected Enos to his parents? Here’s what we know of Enos: Census data shows him to be born about 1779 in Langthorpe. 1841 […]