I have been researchng the Tweed Surname for 8 years, Due to an inheritrance one Tweed took on the Surname Pyke. I have just discovered that this family emigrated to Australia and settled in Ballaratt ( Joseph Pyke Abt 1841 = Buglass ) and siblings in Tasmania.
I am looking for info on this familys descendents please.

- Clif ( London )

Joseph Pyke (b abt 1841 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, d 1910 Ballarat, father John Pyke, mother Annie Moore) m Annie Dorothy Buglass (b abt 1852 Sunderland, d 1910 Ballarat, father James, mother Ann Ord) in 1867, Victoria, Australia.

CHILDREN's births registered,
all born Ballarat, Victoria, Australia -

Ann, 1870
Thomas, 1871
Mary Jane, 1873
Emily Dorothea, 1874
Henry George, 1876, m Rachel Chalmers (b Ballarat) in 1900.
Children - Harry Baden Powell, b1900 Ballarat East
Arthur George, b1901 Ballarat East
Rachel Lillian, b1904 Ballarat East
Thomas Frederick, b1905 Ballarat East
Emily Dorothy, b1911 Ballarat East
Ida Isabel, b1913 Ballarat
(may be more children after this)
James Tweed, 1879
Richard Charles, 1881
William Edward, 1883
Frederick, 1885, m Annie Walker (b Ballarat West) in 1911.
Albert Ernest, 1887, died 1887 aged 3months
Arthur Tressileen, 1888, m Susan Hilda Cook in 1913.
Harold Percival, 1895, died 1895 aged 6weeks

Clif, there is a lot more, but let me know how much detail you want and on who - very time consuming chasing the whole family.

Thanks thats adding to the info I have gleaned and adds to my 7,000 + Tweed Tree.

- Clif

As part of my New Year's resolution I am going back over all my old pre-internet research. I noted your enquiry of March 2008 and wondered whether you received all the information you sought concerning the PYKE family. I have a fairly comprehensive tree, especially of the three sons of the Rev George PYKE (late of Wickhambrook, Suffolk) who came out to Tasmania. I notice you refer specifically to Joseph PYKE, who was my late mother-in-law's paternal grandfather. His father, John Tweed PYKE, came out to Tasmania in 1828 and applied for a grant of land. He returned to England to marry Ann MOORE at St Andrew's, Holborn, London on 5 September 1833. They returned to Tasmania on board the 'Lavinia' on 25 February 1834. Ann died 24 July 1844 in Launceston, leaving
four young children. The person who responded to your initial enquiry must be doing the same lines as I recognise all the names. Let me know if there is anything I can add.

Dear Debs, Am going through my old pre-internet family research and having a look at what's around now...lot's more than when I started! You are obviously doing the same lines I have heaps of info on. My late mother-in-law is descended from Henry George PYKE. A sister-in-law and I started to do all the tracing around 30 years ago and we laboriously put everything on individual data sheets (the only option then). I sent a reply to 'Clif', too. It's Arthur Tresillian/Tressillian PYKE and it must be a family name because his Aunt Annie (the first of Joseph and Ann's children, who married Alfred MASLEN) called her first child Alfred Tressilian.

Hello Lextux,
I don't have the Tweeds and Pykes in my tree/s. I just responded to the original query because I have a set of Victorian Indexes and could look them up. Those individual research sheets are still being meticulously filled in by lots of people. I've never used one - I found and downloaded the FamilySearch website's free PAF family tree software a couple of years ago and have always used that, backing up the tree to CD every six months or so.
Deb

My NY resolution to use any free resource for research other than pay £104 to Ancestry.UK - quite interesting what can be added via the IGI and freeBMD..I also have been getting lots of Wills at the national Archives at 20p per page ( bargain ! ) .

I have a small specific Tree on a website called Tribalpages, its called " Pyke Who Travelled The World But Atre Tweed By Ancestry"...the password is PykePyke.

Goggle Tribalpages, then 'search', then on left , 'search websites', then enter name and look out for my Tree in the list of results.

Let me know what you think and if there is anything to add ect.

- Clif ( London )

I inherited a 12 page Tweed Descendancy Chart from a bunch of Tweed researchers, Mary Jones, Mary Kent, Joyce Rhodes and Louise Bergstrom, who had been researching the Tweed Surname for 20 = 25 years before me. I started in 2000, this is my 9th year.
There is a Tweed Pedigree at the SOG about 1920 and before that a Suffolk Geneoligist ' Whitehead' had a go.

The earliest Tweed I have is ' Nicholas Tweeed Abt 1498, died 1561 Birch, Essex. Around the same time in that area of Essex I have seen references to a Twedy family..who go back to Scotland. Maybe thats the connection.but Twedy is one of the Twidd, Twydde, Twyde variations of the Tweed Surname I have seen.

- Clif ( London )

Clif,

I've done a draft tree for a friend whose Tweedie/Tweedy family are from Chatton, Alnwick, Glendale areas in Northumberland. I'll look at your tree to see if there might be any connection.

I heartily agree that family information should be freely shared without needing to grease palms. However, after years of grumbling about Ancestry's fees, I've just paid a year's membership. My family trees won't be going onto Ancestry. That would mean that only well-heeled folk would ever see them, and when I leave, I believe Ancestry gets to keep it.

If you want a few lookups or original census images, let me know.

Rootsweb offers free access, but everything put online here is archived (including these messages), so that incorrect information stays online forever without the chance to correct it later. That means there's an awful lot of wrong family information online.

Debs

This is the first item which raised my interest in Twedy

- Clif

Copy letter from William Holman to John Twede
Repository: Essex Record Office
Level: Category Antiquaries
Level: Fonds Holman MANUSCRIPTS
Level: Series Copy or Draft letters from William Holman to various correspondents
Level: Item Copy letter from William Holman to John Twede

Level:
Item
Reference Code D/Y 1/2/19
Dates of Creation 11 April 1712
Extent 1 letter
Title [Copy letter from William Holman to John Twede ]
Scope and Content Giving details of coat of arms and pedigree of TWEDEy/TWEDE family.
Date From 1712
Date To 1712