Note: these came from a copy of the manuscript pages from PD Gathright's book that Morrell is working on... I copied these sections because I believe them to be important for the research for our English ancestors... and you will see when you read this that Minnie took a leap of faith based on something someone told her as a family story... their is always a grain of truth in every story so she was not far wrong.. but I do not subscribe to "this is the family" because so far It is not proven to me that certain stories are true. We May actually be on the wrong family but I will continue to work on this as long as I can in attempts to actually prove the family line.. but as records are scarce this May be difficult to do.. but I'll let you do your own... INTRODUCTION "This was written by Minnie Gathright Cook. She meant it as a sort of introduction to the history that follows which we can print in full. It is interesting to Gathrights and tells something of her work as an ancestor hunter." The original form of our family name which early English and Virginia records prove to have been "Garthwaite", but which has been spelled every conceivable way but the correct one as a rule, in extant official Virginia records through the intervening generations. "English" was not added to the regular school curriculum until after Shakespeare popularized the language. Until then English spelling, particularly of proper nouns, was a matter of Phonetics. Indeed, at times it seemed as though scribes aimed to show how many ways they could spell a person's name in a single document. "Raleigh", for instance, is rendered six ways in Sir Walter's Virginia patent. Even individuals at times, toyed with their own autographing. Witness the variety of ways the scholarly Sir Philip Sidney found to flourish his famous name. In the volume of his correspondence ("complete works of Sir Philip Sidney"), one will find the usual "Sidney", mostly, but also there are "Sydney", "Sidnei", etc. My paternal grandfather, John Gathright, was the first of his patronymic to settle in Kentucky, so far as we know. He passed away several years before I was born, but the eldest of the children of our family could recall affectionately, how he loved to tell them of the "folks back home". They were too young however, to retain very clearly all that they heard of the family. One thing they did remember was that "Gathright", as our branch of the family had written it for three or more generations, was not the original name. He told them what the correct name was then explained how, through official carelessness the spelling had degenerated through the years, in official records, usually unnoticed by the owners thereof, unless there was litigation over the matter recorded, which did not often happen. Surnames came into existence merely to identify a person or related persons, and if it was understood which person was referred to in a given record, what difference did it make how the name was spelled? So reasoned most recording clerks in the old days. I May not have had the courage to undertake the research had I known in advance of the wholesale losses of Virginia records, particularly of the Henrico County record books, and of Calvert County, Maryland, from whence our maternal grandmother haled. {this was Minnie's Line so doesn't apply to everyone} I was fortified, however, by a few family data written by my grandfather, for his eldest grandson, (Jesse Gathright, son of my Father's elder brother, John), early in September 1957, upon Jesse's departure for Charlottesville, for his senior year at the University. It was Jesse's intention, upon graduation the following June, to travel and among other things, "look up' all who were still alive, of the immediate relatives that our grandparents had left behind half a century and more before, for the wonderland of Kentucky. My first goal in preparation for a family history was to learn what the name was. To this end I went to Richmond near which my father's family had always been seated in this country. I remained there until I had read every extant record book of Henrico County up to 1800, Richmond being the County seat as well as Capital of the state. I had the good fortune to have as my companion upon this trip my beloved niece and namesake, Minnie Lee (later Mrs. W. Roy McCanne, now Mrs. Charles Wamzer of Rochester, New York and Florida). There were no such things in those days as Photostats or other phototype facsimiles, and the family is indebted to Minnie for assisting in the copying of faded old records. After trailing through a long line of all kind of variants of our name, I was eventually rewarded by finding in the 1704/5 Quit Rent Rolls (tax rolls) for Henrico County, the names of Aphraim and Samuel GARTHWAITE. I felt convinced at once that this must have been the name that grandfather had given to his grandchildren as the family name (unfortunately, only by word of mouth); for all the variants I had found in the Virginia records, were obviously, phonetic spellings of Garthwaite - a name that is not only euphonious, but is of special significance, "garth" being old Saxon for garden; and "waite" is an enclosure. In other words, it is obvious that the name originated with some one whose enclosed garden was so impressive as to serve as a means of identifying him and his family - the kind of thing from which a majority of family names were derived - the outstanding thing or kind of thing that was a part of the founder's daily life - such as carter, tailor (Taylor), wheelright, pastor, gardner, butler, steward, etc., the list is almost endless. I then engaged the services of a well - known New York genealogist to try to trace the name "across the water" as the saying goes. He, in turn, passed my commission to an English genealogist of considerable renown. In time, I received a three generation pedigree of a Reverend Miles Garthwaite, Rector of Fulbec, Linconshire, whose eldest son was named Ephraim. This was forwarded to me by the New York expert who had acted as my agent, and who extolled the result as an 'unusually fine example of original research well documented by the researcher". Later, thanks to that invaluable English publication familiarly known as "Marshall's Guide", (to be found in all leading American libraries), I found a number of authoritative English works at Newberry Library, Library of Congress and others, including "Lincolnshire Pedigrees", by Cannon A. R. Maddison of Lincoln, England, and published by the famous Harliean Society whose imprint is almost a guarantee of reliability - as it is in the Garthwaite pedigree of the Reverend Miles of Fulbeck. What had been sent to me was simply a literal copy of this printed pedigree (except for an important comma which the copyist had overlooked). However, I did not mind the little fraud which had been imposed upon me since it gave me a copy in full of said pedigree which is documented in details except for the wholesale destruction of church records during the Civil War and Commonwealth in England (1642-1660) inasmuch as the rather unusual given names of Miles and Ephraim appeared in every generation of the family in Virginia, from our immigrant ancestor of about 1665 down to my grandfather's time, it seemed to be indubitable that we descended from the Reverend Miles and his eldest son, Ephraim, of Lincolnshire, especially as I have failed to find whose names in any other branch of the Garthwaite family either in England or America during the twenty - odd years I devoted largely to this search' neither have I run across those names in any other branch of the family, in my other researches through American and English records up to the present time. Satisfied that I had established the connection between the Virginia and the Linconshire families, I was anxious to go further and trace to that original "enclosed garden" or Garthwaite. I was fortunate in chancing upon the address of the Reverend R. E. Cole of Lincoln. As Fulbeck is but ten miles distant from that city, I wrote to Mr. Cole, asking if he could tell me if the old church at Fulbeck was still in existence and if it were likely that I might find any church records there. I explained that I was interested in the Reverend Miles Garthwaite, who as a Rector there, died early in January 1616/7. A very prompt and courteous reply from Mr. Cole assured me that the old church was still at Fulbeck, "A well known place between Lincoln and Grantham", that "the Hall" had long been the residence of the Fane family: that "the parish registers were very irregularly kept between 1640 and 1660 when so many of the clergy (of the Established or Episcopalian Church) were ejected from their livings by the Parliament". (More of which further on). I had also asked Mr. Cole's advise about employing the services of the "Company of parish Clerks", whose advertisement I had seen in English publications. His reply was, "I do not thing you would get anything from them". In addition to his kindly letter to me, the Reverend Mr. Cole forwarded my letter in inquiry to Colonel W.V.R. Fane, who was head of the junior branch of the Fanes, Earls of Westmoreland; and as such, was the possessor of Fulbeck Hall. Like so many of the English "Country gentlemen", Colonel Fane was something of an antiquary, using his spare time in research of his county's history and ancient families. This gracious gentleman wrote to me shortly after, having looked up the Garthwaite records in the County in the interm. He felt a special interest: for at the time of the Reverend Miles' incumbency as Rector of the parish, both the Church and the parsonage were within the park grounds of the Hall, which was then Crown property. The estate was acquired by the first Earl of Westmoreland (of the Fane creation, to use heraldic terms), in 1662; and it was entailed by him upon the younger branch, none of which was told to me by the Colonel but the 1910 editions of Burke's "peerage" and his "Landed Gentry", give the entire detailed history of the family, as I learned before I answered the Colonel's letter, all of our large libraries being in possession of those works. This was merely by way of learning all I could about the life of our earliest definitely identified English ancestor. The Colonel not only sent me copies of the few extant records regarding the families of Reverend Miles and his eldest son, Reverend Ephraim, who became curate at Barkston, Linconshire, and later was Rector there; but he also added to the information mentioned by Mr. Cole as to the lack of parish registers, and gave me invaluable general information regarding English system of county records: "that transcripts of the parish registers of baptisms, burials and marriages were annually sent to the Bishop's registry and kept there. Unfortunately the Fulbeck transcripts were wanting between 1640 and 1660. By 1633 Ephraim was living at Barkston and it is thought he May have been Curate. Barkston transcripts are missing from 1642 to 1662". While Colonel Fane's letter was a most delightful surprise as Mr. Cole had not mentioned having forwarded it, the letter was also a tremendous disappointment in its categorical announcement of the missing parish registers or transcripts there of, for the very period that the few extant Virginia records point to definitely at the time of the birth of our immigrant ancestor. In other words, since the Calvinists forbade services by Episcopal Ministers, there were no parish registers to transmit during that period of Calvinist control, 1642-1660. RECORDS OF MINNIE GATHRIGHT COOK These are some of the records prepared by Minnie Gathright Cook for her parents. The first was chosen from her records she wrote in 1910, the second section was chosen from her records of 1952. There are some duplications but some interesting Gathright history. These records were copied just as she wrote them with a span of forty years between. She spent not only months, but years in her research, and all Gathrights who are interested in the name, where it came from and what it means, owe her a debt of gratitude for her untiring efforts. I could not print her entire works as they are too voluminous but I tried to select some of the most interesting for Gathrights in general: Ancestry of Owen and Elizabeth Austin Gathright: 9 In 1910, when my niece, Virginia Lee Boyce (now Mrs. Richard Roberts) and I were guests of Colonel and Mrs. Fane, our host, Colonel Fane was second in line of succession to the Earldom, only the Earl himself (a first cousin), and the Earl's infant son, being between the Colonel and the title. (Other children were born to the Earl later). We did not learn of these things from any member of the Fane family but from Burke's Peerages and Burke's Landed Gentry. The 1910 editions of these works give a detailed history of that family. Some years ago, the Church was given outright to the parish. The boundary wall of the park was straightened to cut off the extension upon which the venerable house of warship stands in its original walled churchyard and burial ground. A house in the village now does duty as parsonage. All that is left of the old parsonage within the park, are the foundations which are serving as the boundary of the tennis court of the Hall. No one seems to know why the name of St. Nicholas. It certainly is not because Nicholas was patron saint of Czarist Russia; and hardly because of "St. Nick' is the traditional saint of children. The Reverend Miles Garthwaite served as Rector from 1598 until January 4, 1616-17, the date of his death, he having been appointed to that living by queen Elizabeth. He was buried in the chancel of the church. A flat tombstone bearing a memorial inscription erected by his widow, was destroyed by fanatics during the Civil War in England. Be that as it May, with regard to the name, ancient St. Nicholas tells its own story architecturally, having been constructed during three different periods. The original church or chapel, is now the rear portion, with three pointed gothic windows on either side, and a rich altar window in the end wall. A few centuries later, the middle part was added, with its elevated roof and cloistered sides; and finally, the handsome bell tower with its mullioned windows. While the stately exterior of this English county church has withstood the ravages of centuries and a Civil War, the interior has not been so fortunate, as witness the disappearance of the tombstone of the Reverend Miles Garthwaite. In his will, he requested that he be buried in the chancel of the church. His wish was granted. This we know because of another high minded country gentleman of more than 300 years ago, "Gervase Holles, Master of Arts, and member of Parliament; Royalist Colonel of Foot (infantry) and above all a learned and judicious antiquari to whom we are indebted for the following notes on our Linconshire Churches as they were before the Great Rebellion, was born at Great Grimsby, 9 March 1606/7." So reads the opening paragraph of our friend, Reverend Mr. Cole, as Editor of the published volume of the Holles Church Notes, Quoting a contemporary of Holles. They said Mr. Holles, a man of large means, spent his spare time jotting down memorial inscriptions in Linconshire churches and making other church notes, from 1634 to 1642 when the civil war (Great Rebellion) broke loose in England. Just before my niece and I went to Lincoln in 1910, leading residents of the city and county of Lincoln had founded a society, to be called the Lincoln Record Society, its purpose, publishing Lincoln records. I was pleased to accept the invitation to join. Their first publication was the Holles Lincolnshire church notes (issued in 1911). On page 281 of which is a copy of the quaint inscription which reads, together with Holles' note; "on a flat gravestone: - Enclosed here Miles Garthwaites corps doe rest; His spirit heaven hath forever blest. He loing pastor like Christ's sheep susteyned with sacred write Soules food by Christ ordeyned. All pastors preach Gods worde, all people heare, that you may rest with Christ our Savious deare obit 4to die Januarii, Anno Dni 1616, Aetatis Suae 40 Persuit Helena Garthwaite". When I received my cop of that work, it gave me something of a thrill that after the epitaph of my earliest known paternal ancestor had lain buried as it were, in the British Museum as "Harleian Manuscript No. 6829", it had been my privilege after three centuries to have even in so small a degree, a part in bringing it to light. But the highlight of all of my research, was holding in my own hands, that precious Parish Register of Fulbeck Church, the yellowed pages bearing Reverend Miles Garthwaite's own clear hand, the entries of all the marriages, baptisms and deaths at which he had officiated, from 1598 to his death, January, 1616/17. The English have the reputation of being very reserved. They are reserved as compared with the exuberant Latins and many Americans. But with the individual Britisher, it is less an aloofness than it is an innate sense of fitness of things in minding his own business - you minding yours. But once that outer shell of seeming reserve has been penetrated through a warrantable channel of one kind or another, there are no more cordial or warmhearted people in the world. I have had the good fortune to find this to be true in my historical researches as well as in my Lincolnshire experience. (I have also learned from experience that there are exceptions in this respect as in all others, of which, later on). With regard to that delightful and handsome couple, Colonel and Mrs. Fane of Fulbeck Hall, there was something of a common cause aside from the Colonel's hobby of antiquity in general; for to them, my inquiries were like a voice from their own past - from residents on the place before the ancient estate became the seat of the Fane family. Indeed, my correspondence with the Colonel, and especially our visit there in 1910, seemed to have stimulated the interest of the family in general in their own past. At the time of said visit, October 1910, as always with the English when "in residence" at a "country place' (of which Colonel Fane had several and all by inheritance, according to Burke) Colonel and Mrs. Fane were entertaining a house party. Their house guests included the elderly Marchioness of Butte, a relative and next to whom I sat at table. She raised a laugh when, apropos of nothing, she suddenly turned to me and asked, "How long have we been at Fulbeck?" Mrs. Fane was one of the most beautiful women I ever saw a matchless complexion, typical English nut-brown hair, bluest of blue eyes and as charming as she was lovely to look at. Her distinguished husband matched her in looks and general fineness. He was a veteran of the Boer War. In World War I, which was to follow in a few years, he was in command in Ireland, "to hold in check the unpatriotic Irish", his wife wrote. Their oldest sons were also in that war, one of them as a prisoner in Germany for several devastating years. These two boys were at school when I was there on my first and only visit. (There were repeated visits by Virginia, her daughter Virginia, and Minnie Lee with her husband, Roy McCanne, to hospitable Fulbeck Hall, later on). I got to meet their third son, a lad of ten years who was under a tutor at home; and their unbelievably lovely little daughter of six. Through the succeeding years, as opportunity offered, I continued my search of the ramifications of allied lines which are shown in this book as far as I have been able to trace them. Also through correspondence and in published works in both England and America, I have sought any stray bits that might throw light upon the gap in English church records for the period of the civil war and Commonwealth in England (1640-1660); and upon the earliest Quaker emigration to Virginia, particularly to Henrico County, Virginia, the center of Quakerism in that colony. Henrico County records are entirely missing prior to 1677, and only on record book goes back that far - the "Orphan's Court". It is in this volume we first meet Samuel and Ephraim Garthwaite (Garthwrite &c) and their father. Due to the loss of records in both England and Virginia for the period of our immigrant ancestor's birth, boyhood and emigration to America, nothing whatever is known of his early life nor of how he happened to turn Quaker. Quaker records also seem to have suffered loss in the beginning, although they are remarkably revealing as far as they are extant. Elsewhere, especially in New England those deeply religious people were given an unsavory name; but in Virginia they were of the best. Not once in the official records do we find any charge of misdemeanor on the part of a Garthright (or Gathright &c), or any of their allied families (Woodsons &c). Aside from being barred from holding public office, the Quakers of Virginia were highly respected. Although Canon Maddison said in his Linconshire Pedigrees that the Garthwaites were "admittedly of the ancient family of Richmond and Yorkshire", he did not undertake to trace them over the borderline of the county he had been assigned to. Neither did I attempt to delve further into the history of that "ancient" family as I had too little to work from, especially in the immense county of York which compares in size with the small counties of England about as Texas does with Rhode Island. No one has ever done for the families of that county what Canon Madison did for the county of Lincoln unless it has been since I had to give up search for family data because of the pressure of historical research. Below are the few scattering York and other Garthwaite items I ran into in looking through works of a general nature, that may be of help to any one else who may feel the urge I did - to probe as far back as possible: Burke's Landed Gentry (vol. 2, p. 135, Supplement) confirms Cannon Maddison as to York having been the original seat of the Garthwaite family by stating: "the Reverend Miles Garthwaite, rector of Fulbec co. Lincoln, descended from a family originally from York, died in 1616, he leaving besides other children a son Ephraim. Reverend Ephraim married Dorothy, widow of Thomas Bunworth Esq. And daughter of Ashton Esq. By his wife, Elizabeth, sister of Sir Henry D'Isney. By this lady Mr. Garthwaite had besides other sons and daughters, Nathaniel. (See Howard's Miscellanea Genealogica and Heraldica, Vol. II, Second Series Page 111.)" GARTHWAITE HALL Yorkshire Notes and Queries and Folklore; "Garthwaite Hall, former residence of the Yorkshire family is a fine relic of early seventeenth century architecture. Here the notorious Eugene Aram, who was born at Ramsgill (two miles farther in the valley), baptised and married at Middlesmore Church, taught school". (All that about a common murderer hanged for his crime - and not a word about the Garthwaite family who built the hall. M.G.C.) History of the County of York, by Thomas Allen, Published December, 1828, book VI, pp. 185-186: "at Gowthwaite Hall, now a farmhouse, was born 1731 William Craven, D.D. Here Eugene Aram born at Ramsgill in the township of Stonebeck, 1704, convicted at York in 1759 for murder of Daniel Clark, had a school". MISCELLANEOUS GARTHWAITE DATA these notes are arranged chronologically regardless of locality. Each item contains all of the information relative thereto that was given in print usually without any reference to its original source. For the most part, they were contributed by persons seeking through "notes and Queries" and like publications, information about the person or persons named - just as such queries are constantly being sent to historical and genealogical organs of today: 1 - "John Garthwaite B.A. on 7 September 1479, appointed Rector of Upminster; exchanged that living for that of Shenley Bucks. (Co Buckingham) on 11 January, 1482; died 1584". (Note by M.G.C.: this is the earliest record I found of the name. Unfortunately, the record of the county he was from is not mentioned, probably because unknown to the person who contributed it.) 2 - "Giles Garthwaite (Gawthwithe, Garthwicke) of Richmond, pleb. Trinity College, Oxford, metric. Entry under date of 12 December, 1572 age 16 years; B.A. 29 February 1575/76, as Garthwright; vicar of Highington, co Durham, 1594. See Foster's Index Eccl". (Note M.G.C.: I was unable to locate a copy of Foster's index. The item as given here was taken from the Alumni Oxonieness, the published record of Oxford graduates. This is the only instance I found where either church or college records garbled the name of Garthwaite.) 3 - Thomas Garthwaite, co York, died May 1, 1614, leaving a son, Phillip, then aged thirty who seems to have been father to Richard, M.A., admitted to St. John's college, Cambridge April 30, 1640, aged 18. Was B.A. 1643; M.S. 1647; Master of St. Mary's Hospital 1671. Master of Grammer School 1675 to 1691. Author of a "Censure of Lily's Grammar", published London, 1684". 4 - Reverend Miles Garthwaite Rector of Fulbeck Church, 1598, appears to be next in point of time. See further. 5 - Reverend Thomas Garthwaite, B.A. of St. John's college, Cambridge, 1601; M.A. Oxford, 14 July 1612; Vicar of Copdoc, Suffolk, 1617; at Fulbeck, 1621. (Note, M.G.C.; Canon Maddison thought he might have been brother to Reverend Miles, he secured the marriage license for the marriage of Rev. Miles' widow to Gregory Heron). 6 - a Thomas Garthwaite was made a B.A. at Christ's College 1697, Cambridge. 7 - Thomas Garthwaite matriculated at Lincoln college, Oxford, 28 January 1619/20 aged 16, described as "as a son of a clergiman of Lincolnshire". (Notes, M.G.C.; Cannon Maddison calls him son of the Reverend Miles of Fulbeck.) 8 - Timothy Garthwaite, son of Reverend Miles of Fulbeck, became a publisher and bookseller in London. Was baptized 11 January, 1606. 9 - Ephraim Garthwaite, born 18 May 1600, eldest son of Reverend Miles of Fulbeck (he should have been given here as no. 7) B.A. of Oxford 8 Feb. 1620; M.A. 25 June 1623; of Fulbeck until 1632 then of Barkstone, 1641 presented to that living by Sir Henry D'Isney, uncle to his second wife. Ejected from said living, 1642 by the Calvinists. 10 - Henry Garthwaite, in 1634 was rector at Kirby Bane having been presented to that living by the King, Charles I. In 1640 he was author of "Mountessapon the Angelicall Harmonies". He used a seal with "A mastiff proper". (Note, M.G.C.; - this is the crest of the coat of arms of the Garthwaite family of Linconshire. In heraldry, "proper" means in natural colors. This Henry May have been the son of Rev. Thomas Garthwaite who was Rector of Fulbeck after the death of Rev. Miles). 11 - Jeremiah Garthwaite co York, admitted to Benet's college, removed to Jesus college, Cambridge, 1634; B.A. 1636. A Jeremiah Garthwaite, minister at Carnaby's co York May be the same. 12 - Thomas Garthwaite of "harmston, yeoman", (A yeoman is a small farmer) on September 8, 1639, was granted license to marry Helen Harbet of Colby, widow, Surety, Edward Garthwaite of St. Swithin, Blackney, yeoman. 13 - Thomas Garthwaite, gent. A Lincolnshire Parlimentarian, in the Civil war, indicted for high treason at Grantham, 1634. 14 - John Garthwaite, Prebendery of York, 11 December 1660; of Southwell, 27 September 1665; Rector of Rothbury 1673; drowned 1678. 15 - Thomas Garthwaite (Act. Book of 1654, York), Administration granted to sonne Joseph, Elizabeth Garthwaite, relic having renounced. Fo. 623;630. 16 - Thomas Garthwaite of Harncastle, Gent. Aged 24, and Ruth Pinchbeck of same, aged 21, were granted license to marry. "Their fathers being dead, their mothers consent", September 18, 1668; Surety William Wood, clk. (Lincolnshire Marriage Licenses). 17 - William Garthwaite, 1669, Furrier of Beverly, father of John Garthwaite of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1669, who May be the same John Garthwaite, instituted vicar of Bonby, co Lincoln, July 19, 1681. 18 - Jeremiah Garthwaite, co Lincoln, admitted to Jesus college, Cambridge, 25 March 1708; B.A. 1711. 19 - in a list of burials in Jamaica are the following Thomas Garthwaite of Jamaica, died May 1, 1752, aged 42 Eleanor Garthwaite, his widow, died November 29, 1754, aged 40 Phillip Garthwaite, of Jamaica, died October 1, 1758, aged 23. 20 - the History of Elizabeth, New Jersey, gives a detailed account of an extensive family of that place, descendants of a William Garthwaite, born in England, 1677; came to America "as early as 1703, some say as early as 1695". Earliest record of him in New Jersey is 1706. In St. John's churchyard (Episcopalian) at Elizabeth, his tombstone reads: 'Here lyeth the body of William Garthwait who departed this life December the 11th Anno Domini 1738 and in the sixty-first year of his age' GARTHWAITE VARIANTS IN ENGLAND Some of the 16 Variants of "Garthwaite" in English records and publications. Rev. John Garthwaite:; B.A. : on 7 Sep. 1479, he was appointed Rector of Upminister; exchanged that living for Shenley, Bucks on 11 January, 1482 where he died in 1484. This is the earliest record of the name I was able to find in any publication, it was taken from the church record which gave nothing more than this. It is also the only record of the name during the fifteenth century hence the name must have originated with either said John or his father, probably the latter, the father having established a noteworthy garden by which he and his children became identified and which the son made a matter of record upon entering college acquiring the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Said Rev. John could not have been the father of the following but probably was the grandfather to the next earliest name: Giles Garthwaite (Gawthithe, Garethwicke) of Richmond prebend, Trinity College, Oxford, matriculated under date of 12th December, 1572, age 16 years; B.A. 29 February 1575/76, as Garthwright; vicar of Highington, co Durham, 1594. This from 'Alumni Oxonieness' (could "Giles" be a misprint for "Miles". Said "Giles" having been the father of our Rev. Miles of Lincolnshire who "was admittedly of the ancient family of Richmond and York", per 'Lincolnshire Pedigrees', by Canon Maddison? M.G.C. This is the only instance where I found the name of Garthwaite, garbled in either University or church records.) These data were compiled for the Pamunkey Woman's club of Virginia by Minnie G. Cook from her notes on Garthwaite - Gathright genealogy of Lincolnshire, England, and Henrico county, Virginia; 1 - Reverend Miles Garthwwaite, M.A., "admittedly of the ancient family of Richmond and Yorkshire; born 1576; Rector of Fulbeck, co Lincoln, presented to that living by Queen Elizabeth, 3rd April, 1598." So reads the opening of the account of the Garthwaite family in 'Lincolnshire Pedigrees', compiled and edited by Canon A.R. Maddison, F.S.A., Vol. 2, page 388. Published in 1903 by the Harleian Society of London. The Rev. Miles married at Hackney, co Middlesex, 13 May, 1599, Helen (Ellen, Eleanor &c), "daughter and in her issue, co-heir of Walter Audley of Grantham". The memorial stone tablet erected by his "widow, Eleanor", per his epitaph, gives the date of his death as January 4, 1616/17. He was buried in the chancel of the church. His will named wife, "Ellen" as sole executrix, mentioned all of the living children and bequeathed a legacy to the poor. According to his will and the parish register, Rev. Miles and Ellen had issue: Ephraim, Samuel, Thomas, Benjamin, who died 1609, Timothy, Anna, Edward, Eleaser and Elizabeth, twins. 2 - Reverend Ephraim Garthwaite, M.A., called eldest son in his father's will, baptized at Fulbeck 18 May 1600, per parish register. He matriculated at Brakenose College, Oxford, 28 Jan. 1619/20, aged 18, described as "Filius Cleric" co Lincoln; B.A. 11 February, 1620/21; M.A. 25 June 1623. On January 29 1623/24, a marriage license was granted to Ephraim Garthwaite of Fulbeck, M.A. and Ann Dixon, Spinster, of Rowston; and per the Rowston parish register, they were married the same day. Ann and Ephraim had two children who died young and it May have been for this reason that neither of Ann's children were mentioned later. By Perry Daniel Gathright) EARLY RECORDS We have Gathright records back to the Aston family in 1200 A.D. but the record of the Gathright family, as it interests us, started with the Reverend Miles Gathright or Garthwaite, as it was spelled in England. We are told this name meant "an enclosed garden'' in Welch, or "a keeper of an enclosed court". Reverend Miles Garthwaite was pastor of Fulbeck Church at Grantham, Lincolnshire, England {actually it was St. John's Church, Fulbeck, Lincolnshire, England} Minnie Gathright Cook and her niece, Jimmie Lee Wanzer of Rochester, New York {I believe that was Minnie Lee McCanne}, saw the church where he presided as minister for years. It was of the "Church of England" and a beautiful church building. I saw a picture of it, {there is one on the website to download} the Normans started building the church in the year 400 A.D. Miles Garthwaite is buried under the chancel of the church, and a plaque marks his resting place. {Actually the stone is gone.. there is a plaque listing the misters of the church however} Part of the old Roman Wall was on his estate. These ladies were entertained by the then owner, Colonel William Vere Reve King Fane. He showed them records left by Miles Garthwaite which were written on sheepskin and in Latin. I have corresponded with Mrs. Wanzer and had a four hour conversation with her Aunt Minnie. I have lots of detailed information in my files which is too voluminous to publish. Reverend Miles Garthwaite's two sons came to America and landed at Jamestown in 1623 {there is NO record of this and none found until 1650's, However the Woodson's were here in 1623}. Their names were Samuel and Ephraim. We found records where they married and had issue, and our lineage of the Garthwaits, Garthwrights, Garthrights or Gathrights {also some Gatherights} comes from these men. The name was not changed suddenly but by misspelling over a period of years before there were any typewriters to make names clear and legible. One of these boys was pastor of the church of England, her in America {again NO PROOF}. The records are not clear on this. {I stop here as the rest is not really relevant to the Garthwaites}