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| This is from THE MARTINDALES TO AMERICA from material collected by Winfred Martindale, Atty., West Milton, Ohio: "The earliest recorded history of Martindales is Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, Engl. How or why they went to Bristol is unknown. In 1642 Robert Yoeman and George Boutcher tried to surrender the town of Bristol to the King's army during a reformation against the king. Robert Yoeman was killed, leaving a widow and 3 children: Ann, Margaret and William. In 1647 George Fox began the preachings that later became the doctrine of the Quakers. Two of his followers were John & Edward Martindale. George Fox married Ann Yoeman & Edward married Margaret Yoeman. The widow Yeoman remarried to Thomas Speed who had shipping interests. In 1656 George Fox and John Martinale were placed in jail. When they were brought to court, there were no charges against John Martindale, but he refused to remove his hat in the presence of the magistrate, consequently he was fined forty pounds and remained in jail. (There were no laws agianst Quakers at this time...such laws passed in 1660.)....After...approx. a year....John was released, and fled to Holland in 1659. After Charles II was restored to the throne, Ann Yoeman Fox....was rewarded with land in the colonies. Edward Martindale was also a merchant and began trading with the colonies through Thomas Speed's ships....(Edward) took some land in the colonies for a debt....came to America and drowned in Boston Bay in 1671. Edward had two sons Isaac & Robert, who remained in England and continued the shipping interest. The laws of the day were that in the absence of a will, all land went ot the eldest son. The brothers had an agent at the southern tip of Maryland to act on their behalf. In 1705, Isaac sent power of attorney to their agent, John Washington, (George's father) for the purpose ofrecording the deed in accordance with the requirements of sigging some dirt, breaking a twig, and returning it to the land office. John Washington had come to the colonies in 1675 and was now 72 years old and too feeble for such a task. So in 1706, Isaac sent a new power of attorney to a new agent to follows the proper procedures. This deed is recorded in Maryland. John Martinale in Holland became a government official, and due to his reform beliefs was asked to leave. He left Holland with one slave and his personal belongings coming to the colonies in 1670. He came to St. Mary's, Md. On the boat was an Ann Tucker, no further records are of Ann, so John probably married her the same year. John had to serve two years in the local Militia for his passage to the New World. John Martindale had two sons, Samuel born about 1671 or 72 and John, born 1676. Son John went to Bucks Co., Penn. and is the John Martindale, Cordwainer of Philadelphia written of by Rev. Harry H. Martindale. John Martindale's estate was settled in 1693 being administered by his second wife's husband. The estate's accounting is in pounds of tobacco including a debt he owed a merchant in Plymouth. No heirs are mentioned. Son Samuel remained in Md. as a merchant. He could not be a Quaker because of his participation in the Talbot Co. Militia in a rebellion against Lord Baltimore. While serving as Ensign, he obtained 50 acres of land on the Choptank River from a Sargent. The procedure of transation of that day was, Samuel was obligated to turn over one year's crop to the Governor, and the Gov. would sell the Sargent virgin land. Church records in Md show his third daughter was baptized in the Established Whitemarsh Church with the other two entered later. His eldest of five sons, Henry received the 50 acres on his passing and the remaining family moved to Caroline Co. (Original Editor's note: presumably this is Caroline Co., Md) Samuel had 3 grandsons, William, Samuel and Daniel who served in the Rev. war. The last of their service in NC under Gen. Greene at the battle of Guilford Court House, NC." Guilford Court House is not far from Patrick Co., Va. John Martindale and Ann Tucker Martindale had the following children: 1. Samuel Martindale was born before circa 1690, the first event for which there is a recorded date. 2. John Martindale was born in ?MD 1676. He married Mary Bridgeman Martindale 1705 in Bucks Co., PA. Mary was born circa 1686." As I side note, I also have information that Mary Bridgeman was born on December 18, 1687 in Bucks County, PA. John Martindale was, of course, born August 24, 1676 and d. Mary 10, 1750 in Newton, Bucks County, PA. From: Steve Martindale <S.J.Martindale@durham.ac.uk> > To: tmartindale@esn.net > Subject: Family Tree > Date: Monday, March 09, 1998 3:36 PM > > Dear cousin Martindale, > My name is Steve Martindale, and I am a student at Durham University > in the north of England. It is my 21st birthday in a couple of weeks > time and on that weekend I am making a pilgrimage to Martindale. I don't > know if you knew that this place existed or not? Many hundreds of years > ago our family lived in a valley in the north of England and we were the > Martin's. When we started to move elsewhere in the country we took the > name Martindale, coming from dale(or valley) of the Martins.(I don't > mean to sound patronising if you knew all of this). Anyway I recently > discovered this place on the map. It is a tiny place now up in the > hills, with only one road in and about 100 people living there. > Apparently all the Martindales from England pilgrimage there once a year > (I don't know when). Anyway, I'm going there for my 21st, and was > planing to make a flag of some description to plant on top of the hill > and was wondering if in your research you had found any coat of arms for > the family. I've tried looking on the web, but have not yet found > anything, and all the Martindale home pages I have discovered have been > from Americans. I don't know how common the name is over your side of > the pond but it is pretty rare here. I don't know if the name has > evolved independantly in America or whether the name was taken over by > some of my ancestors from the valley. It would be nice to think that it > was. I've got a couple of references for heraldry and genealogy books in > our library so I'm going to give that a go, but if you do know of a coat > of arms for the family name could you posibly let me know how I might > get hold of it.Thanks a lot for your time. Yours sincerely, > > Steve Martindale > > S.J.Martindale@durham.ac.uk Martindale is a very small village in the Cumbrian Mountains on the shores of the Ullswater Reservoir. It is on the southern shore of the reservoir, in a valley to the west of Loadpot Hill (Height 671 metres), and 10 miles south west of Penrith which is the largest town in the area and which should show on your maps. The road to Martindale goes from Penrith, and is the only road that goes there. If you find the Ullswater reservoir on the map, and imagine a straight line going from its very northern end to the very southern end, Martindale is 4 miles from its northern end on the piece of land where the reservoir changes direction to the west prior to turning south. There are 3 people researching Martindales listed on the Cumbria County GENUKI Surnames list: MARTINDALE, Langwathyby 1700's-1800's (Glenys Rasmussen) glenys@wco.com MARTINDELL, Cumbria -1684 (Donna Endicott) donna@wazoo.com MARTINDALE, Ulthwaite Mill 1800s Donna Fraser* defraser@qb.island.net There is a lovely picture of Ullswater Lake at http://www.cumbria1st.com/mlw/ullswa.htm There is a history of the area at: http://www.cumbria1st.com/History/index.htm Martindale is also listed as one of the parishes of Westmoreland/Cumbria at the GENUKI site: http://midas.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/WES/ The Cumbrian Family History Society is at: http://midas.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/WES/cumbFHS/ "Westmorland, county in N. of England; bounded NW. and N. by Cumberland, NE. by Durham, E. by Yorkshire, and S. and SW. by Lancashire and Morecambe Bay; greatest length, N. and S., 32 miles;. greatest breadth, E. and W., 40 miles; area, 500,906 acres, population 64,191. Westmorland presents continuous succession of mountain, moor, and fell, intersected by deep winding vales, traversed by numerous streams. The principal of these are the Eden, Lowther, Lune, and Kent, the last forming the broad estuary which terminates in Morecambe Bay. The mountains consist of various ridges belonging to the Pennine and Cumbrian chains. Helvellyn, on the Cumberland border, rises to a height of 3115 ft. The western part of the county is within the Lake District, and contains Hawes Water, Grasmere, Rydal Water, and Ullswater on the Cumberland border, and Windermere on the Lancashire border. The climate is moist. The arable land is mostly confined to the valleys, where the soil usually consists of a dry gravelly loam, well adapted for turnips, but the greater part of the county is natural pasture. A few tracts of woodland remain of the forests which formerly clothed all the hills. The mineral productions include graphite, marble, roofing slate, and some coal, lead, and copper. The only manufactures of any consequence are the coarse woollens of Kendal. The county has good communications by railway." | ||||||||||
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