Twisleton genealogy
Genealogical research is a
very popular use of the internet. You do it because deep down you want to know
something about how and where you belong.
I do it because I am a
Twisleton. This is easier than being a Brown or a Smith when it comes to
trawling through the volumes at the Family Record Centre. The name is an
advantage here. Its frequent misspellings are a balancing debit. With an E mail
address like john@twisleton.co.uk you can be sure you
will miss out on electronic mail since no two people copy Twisleton the same.
Genealogy is a science of
names and dates. It is a veritable jig saw puzzle with so many pieces missing
you wonder at people’s persistence. Since the puzzle has you yourself and
those dear to you as the pieces you do persist.
Many names tell a story about
the way the land lies. Twisleton is such a name. The
word means a settlement (old English: ‘tun’) on
either a fork in a river (‘twisla’) or a boundary
(Scandinavian: ‘twistle’).
There is no settlement
surviving called Twisleton but a quick browse of the name on the internet
demonstrates its association to this day with so-called Twisleton Scars. These
are part of the descent towards Ingleton from Whernside, the highest of the
Settle & District Community News October 2006
Seeing the world as a
Twisleton
Family Tree Magazine June 2007
Your
Family Tree Magazine August 2007
The Twisletons
of Craven and elsewhere
North Craven Heritage Trust 2008
The
Twisletons of North Craven
Lecture
given in Long Preston
The Twisletons of Broughton Castle
Review of Ranulph Fiennes Mad Dogs and Englishmen 2009
Review of Dick Twisleton’s The Descendants of Ella &
Harry Twisleton 2009
Mad Dogs and
Englishmen by Ranulph Fiennes
John Fiennes Twisleton on Ranulph
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes’ 2009 autobiography
Poems in the
Craven Dialect by Tom Twisleton
Review of the
combined edition of the Twisleton poets spanning nearly a century occasioned by
the compilation of poems from Tom (1845-1917), Henry Lea
(1847-1905) and Henry Lea junior (1879-1946)
The Twisleton's of Settle - on the move
Article in Settle and District Community News August
2011