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Anyone living anywhere in the world, with an interest in the family name of KILBURN or one of its variants (see below) in the UK is welcome to join us.
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It isn't a terribly busy mailing list - maybe a couple of messages a day, or one digest every day or so. It’s a small, friendly list, supported by some very keen researchers from various parts of the UK and other countries, including Australia, South Africa and Canada.
Rootsweb.com and Ancestry.com support Message Boards for Surnames, there is another one for the KILBURN name, but this other one is used mostly by our American cousins, many of whom are descended from the 17th century Cambridgeshire emigrants or the later emigrants from the lead mines of North Yorkshire. Check it out here. All Rootsweb Mailing Lists are archived: you can look at old messages here.
Anyone researching in the UK will benefit enormously from the wonderful Genuki website. If you’re a newcomer to genealogy - or even if you’re not - you can learn a lot from two downloadable booklets on the Genuki site:
Roy Stockdill’s Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History. This is especially geared towards research in Yorkshire, but it is useful for all English research. Easy to read, too!
The other booklet is the A-Z of British Genealogical Research by Dr Ashton Emery This is another very comprehensive and easy to follow paper, with references to just about everything you might ever need to look up!
Two of our list members, Emma WRIGHT and Stephen KILBURN, have had opportunities to engage in research in York. Many medieval and early modern documents are to be found in the Biographical Data Base of the York Minster Library, the York Archaeological Trust, the Yorks Archaeological Society and York University. Thanks to Stephen and Emma and the staff at the institutions concerned, we have an excellent little database of early instances of the KILBURN name in and around the City of York for the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries.
The White Horse of Kilburn
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Situated in the old North Riding of Yorkshire, the quiet little village of Kilburn has a strong claim to being the source of the name, back in the twelfth century. Its famous landmark, the White Horse, was the brainchild of a local schoolmaster, John HODGSON. In 1857, Hodgson and his pupils cut the outline of a horse, more than 100 metres long, into an almost sheer hillside. Subsequent working bees by local men cut away the turf and faced the structure in local limestone. Nearby pathways lead to the village, to the crags of Roulston Scar and to the prehistoric Caston Dikes. Kiburn’s other main claim to fame, by the way, is the work of Robert "Mousey" THOMPSON (1876-1955), whose ecclesiastical woodwork is much admired. He adopted the mouse as his "signature" carving, hence his nickname. Examples of his work can be found in many churches throughout the country, including York and Dewsbury Minsters. |
Bylands Abbey, dating from the twelfth century, perhaps once employed many of our ancestors as clerics and craftsmen. It remains a noble building, despite having been in ruins since the Dissolution. It contains the largest collection of medieval floor tiles still in their original setting - the only comparable example is to be found in York Minster, where our ancestors were also to be found during the period of the current cathedral’s construction. |
Bylands Abbey
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York Minster
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York Minster has the distinction of being the largest medieval cathedral north of the Alps. There has been a church on the site ever since 627, when the first one was built by King Edwin of Northumbria. In the twelfth century, Archbishop Roger built a cathedral on the site, parts of which still survive in the Western Crypt of the edifice that replaced it, built between 1220 and 1472. Like Bylands Abbey, it is famous for its ancient tile work. |
Photos submitted by list members. If you have a photo to add to the collection, please scan it at not more than 100dpi with compression of not more than 20 and e-mail it to the List Administrator with a caption of not more than 50 words.
View transcriptions of memorial inscriptions and photos of gravestones from Dewsbury Minster, Dewsbury Municipal Cemetary and other burial grounds in the Dewsbury, Yorkshire area, collected by list members Emma Wright and John Haigh.
The UK-KILBURN List is administered by Stephen KILBURN. Stephen has a growing database of every known descendant branch of the name and the various spellings of it.
Apart from KILBURN - a spelling which represents the majority in the UK today - there have been, to date, eighteen other variations of the spelling found, although there may even be others: KILBORN; KILBORNE; KILLBORNE; KILBOURNE; KILBURNE; KILLBORN; KILLBORRNE; KILLBOURNE; KILLBOURN; KILLBURN; KILBUERN; KILBON; KILNBURN; CILBURN; KYLEBURNE; KYLBURN; KYLBOURN & KYLENBOURNE. This last one is the oldest one found.
Stephen would welcome hearing from you with any information that you can offer that he can add to his - your - database. If you too know that you are a KILBURN, by whatever spelling, descendant, together, you and Stephen, may be able to find how you are related to other known descendants.
You can contact Stephen by writing to him: Stephen Kilburn in North Yorkshire in the UK: [email protected]
Listadmin: [email protected].