George Pemberton, seller of silk, 1709

Classified Ad found in the ancient newspapers here: http://www.gale.cengage.com

FOR SALE BY THE CANDLE

On Thursday the 27th Instant, will be Sold at Bat-son's Coffee-house in Cornhill, at 3 a clock in the Afternoon, Sundry sorts of Raw and Thrown silk. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale. By Geo. Pemberton.

Daily Courant, London, England, Monday, January 24, 1709, Issue 2261.

So here is a George Pemberton dealing in exotic commodities that reminds me of green olives.

For sale by candle, or more often, sale by inch of candle, refers to an auction practice begun in the late 15th century wherein the last bid placed before a candle went out (normally by burning to completion) was the winning bid.

Captaine Pemberton Imprisoned, 1643

In the following newspaper:

Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer (London, England), May 23, 1643 - May 30, 1643; Issue 21

[http://www.gale.cengage.com/NLW/ then click on Gale News Vault, search for Pemberton in the "Entire Document"]

we read the following:

A Catalogue of the names of the Commanders and Officers taken Prisoners, are as followeth:

General Goring.

Sir Tho: Bland, Lieutenant Colonel to Sir George Wentworth.

...

Captaine Wildbore.

Captaine Rudstone.

Captaine Pemberton.

Captaine Croft.

...

Serjeant Major Carnaby, and Captain Nutall left wounded in Wakefield, upon their engagements to bee true prisoners.

[There follows a list of Lieutenants and then Ensigns, and then a thousand words about battles which I quote in part so as to identify the engagement; the record thereof beginning thus]

My Lord Fairfax dated at Leeds 23 May; hath this passage, the partie of horse and foote appeared before Wakefield [a place] about foure a clock on Sanday morning, where they found their enemies (who had Intelligence of their designe) readie to receive them; there was in the Towne Generall Goring, Serjeant Major General Mackworth, the Lord Goring, with many other principall Commanders and eminent persons, with about seven Troops of horse, and six Regiments containing 3000. foot, the Towne well fortified with works, and foure peeces of Ordnance, yet our men, both Commanders and Common soldiers, went on with undanted Courages, and notwithstanding Vallies of small and great shott from the Enemies, Charged up to their works, which they entered, seised upon their Ordnance, and turned them upon themselves, and prusued the enemies so close, as they beate quite out of the Towne the most part of the horse, and a great number of the foote, and made all the rest prisoners, and with them took foure peece of Ordnance, and all the Ammunition in the Towne, and a great number of Armes, and amongst the Prisoners, Generall Goring himselfe, with divers other Commanders and common Souldiers, in all about 1500 men and 27 Colours of foote, three Cornetts of horse, of wich I send a more particular list enclosed, the more exact and particular relation of this service, as it is testifies to me under the hands of the Principall Commanders employed in that designe, I doe rather account it a Miracle, then a Victory, and the Glory and praise to bee ascribed to God that wroght it, in which I hope I derogate nothing from the merits of the Commanders and Souldiers, who every one in his place and duty, shewed as much Courage and resolution as could bee expected from men: When the Towne was thus taken, they found their number and strength too weake to keep it, and their prisoners, so they left the place, and marcht away with their booty.

What I don't know is whether this Captaine is a land or sea captain. I presume land.

Tantalizing Connection between Graham's and my line

I finished extracting all the data from the Cheshire Parish Register Project here (http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb/) and then in searching through the data with Stapley as a keyword found this:

Sarah Pemberton

Christened: 21 Mar 1746 at Wybunbury, Cheshire, England

Residence: Stapley Cross

Father: Joseph Pemberton

This Christening is a century later than that of Sarah Middleton of Nantwich, who married my George Pemberton the first. What is tantalizing is:

the Sarah Pemberton name is right for a descendant of Sarah Middleton and George Pemberton,

the Stapley Cross connection,

Graham's father and grandfather's name of George,

and the father of this Sarah Pemberton is Joseph - the same as Graham's oldest Pemberton given name.

George Victor Pemberton DNA is in my line!!

Graham Pemberton, founder of pembertonfamily.net, submitted a DNA sample of his father George Victor Pemberton and the results show that line to be very close to mine. In fact there are now four samples in the Pemberton DNA Project that all support the deduction of a DNA profile for George Pemberton, ca 1685, in Cheshire, England. Graham's research is not back that far yet and this discovery should prove to be a help in tracing that line.

A Middleton & No Pembertons in Tithing Maps of Nantwich

Searched the tithing maps (http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/) for any Pembertons and Middletons near Nantwich. Found only William Middleton, who occupied a croft (plot 81) owned by William Foster and John Minshull in the township of Alvaston. William's use was mowing. It was recorded as 1 rood and 8 perches. A rood is an acre and 8 perches is 132 feet so am not certain what that means. The shape of the parcel is a fat teardrop.

The World Wide Pemberton Family website is Ready

Member registration has been working for several weeks, payment of membership dues has been working for a couple weeks, the content is ready for prime time (I think) and we will begin our membership drive soon. Meanwhile, if you are interested in the Pemberton lineages (and DNA has proven there are several) then you will want to join now before dues go up. Join here.

The First Pemberton?

There is a mention of a very early Pemberton on the website for The Hissem-Montague Family here: http://balder.prohosting.com/shissem/Hissem_Villiers.html

Pembertons move south into Shropshire (south of Marbury)

The Encyclopedia of heraldry: or General armory of England, Scotland, and ... by John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke lists the following interesting comment:

(Pemberton (Millichope, co. Salop; descended from a family seated at Pemberton, co. Lancaster, some of whom removed at an early period into Shropshire. The present representative is the Rev. Bobert Norgrave Pemberton, of Millichope Hall, whose great uncle, Edward Pemberton, esq. was high sheriff of Shropshire in 1754)

Pemberton's from Middleton, St. George Parish, Durham Co

The Encyclopedia of heraldry: or General armory of England, Scotland, and ... by John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke lists the following interesting comment:

Pemberton (Aislaby, co. Durham, A.D. 1595; derived from John Pemberton of Stanhope, living in 1400. The last male heir, William Pemberton, of Middleton St. George, esq. d. num. in 1801, when the representation of the family devolved on his cousin George Allen, of Blackwell Grange, esq. M.P. grandson of James Allen, of Blackwell Grange, esq. by Elizabeth his wife, dau. of William Pemberton, esq. who was great-grandson of John Pemberton, of Aislaby, esq. by Isabel Grey, his wife, granddau. of Sir Ralph Grey, of Chillingham, knt. The present representative of the Pemberton family is William Allan, of Blackwell Grange, esq.)

A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, 1848, states in regard to Middleton (St. George):

"MIDDLETON (St. George), a parish, in the union of Darlington, S. W. division of Stockton ward, S. division of the county of Durham, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Darlington; containing 433 inhabitants. This parish, which is bounded on the south by the river Tees, comprises about 3100 acres, and includes the village of Middleton-One-Row and the hamlet of Oak-Tree; the surface is undulated, the soil clay. ..." This is about 80 miles north of Middleton, Manchester Co.

Diary of Samuel Pepys and Green Olives

Reviewing old emails about the Pemberton's gatepost sign, I saw a reference to Samuel Pepys [say peeps] a Londoner of renown who kept an extensive diary from 1660 to 1669. Today, Wikipedia says, "Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II." The diary is being published a bit at a time. A search today found a reference to a Pemberton that should have been spelled Pembleton - a dance instructor.

King Charles II married a girl from Portugal

And what do they grow there if it isn't olives - "While olives are green and commodities rough, this is ..."

First Pemberton DNA Sample Submitted

Today I sent the first DNA sample (mine) to Family Tree DNA. Meanwhile, my brother informs me that he submitted a sample years ago to the Sorenson DNA lab so it will be fun to see how closely we match. We are all hoping that many others will join in the DNA data base for the Pemberton surname. The Family Tree DNA project for Pemberton is here.

Will of Sarah Pemberton 1696

... And my body I commit to the Earth to be decently buryed by my late dear husband Sir Matthias Pemberton ... We presume the preposition "by" means "beside" not "through the instrumentality of".

Will of John Pemberton, 1648

Proved in London, 18 February 1651 No connection visible there.

The Pickax Dream

In my dream (see post of March 26th), the pickax was buried up to the handle collar (the handle lying horizontal on the soil), sharp end down in a recently tilled farm field. It occurs to me that the field may represent Pemberton's hough, and that John Pemberton, blacksmith, of Thornton Hough, may have come into owership of George Pemberton's hough - thus the pick is in the hough. More likely, the pick is in Thornton Hough. The signature mark on the little bit of paper attached to the top end of the pick, must be that of someone linking this John to one of my George's.

I have completed the transcription of the Will of John Pemberton, Blacksmith, of Thornton Hough, 1664, proved 1669 and John gives his wife's name as Margery and his children as John, Robert, William, and Elline. John blacksmith must have been born between 1605 and 1635.

There is a family showing up in the baptisms in St Oswald, Chester, Cheshire of interest here. George Pemberton is the father of these children: George 1640, John 1642, Hester 1643, and Elizabeth 1644. Its about 12 crow miles from Chester to Thorton Hough, which is on the Wirral. Was this son John named after the blacksmith, an uncle maybe? I have to work this a bit. Maybe the father of George the first was a John?

The only record I have found of a Sarah Middleton, who married George Pemberton I, is in Nantwich, 1661, so this George baptised in 1640 would almost have to be George Pemberton the zeroeth, and his father George Pemberton the -1th (if they are indeed in the same lineage).