Although the Day has been postponed to tomorrow Sunday 28 April, preparations were underway on Friday. Two areas have been marked out for the geophys team, one in Chris and Ruth’s orchard and one in the field at Nethergreen Farm. The geophys scanner cannot work in wet conditions so fingers crossed for a dry day tomorrow.
Friday also saw the removal of turf and loose stones from what will become the large excavation trench. With only an inch or so of top soil removed interesting stones were starting to be revealed which indicate an earlier construction. The trench is now ready for a full excavation.
Everyone is welcome to come along and have a go at the geophys survey and excavating the trench. There will be a few archaeological activities for children. Please bring along any interesting finds you may have from the village and also your knowledge about local water sources. We are hoping to start a major project on the importance of water to the village, this Archaeology Day is our first step towards this project.
Fiona H. History Society
My name is Margaret Kathryn Cook Reed. I have been researching my families’ history. I have discovered my grandfather’s family can be traced back to Parwich. The family name was Brownson. I found your parwich.org site while doing research. I enjoy reading about the fun family and community things that happen in Parwich. I hope all of you don’t mind that I do read about life there. By the way, I live in Oxford, NC. United States of America. It is my dream to one day bring my husband and son there to walk where my ancestors walked. If there is anyone that is uncomfortable or disagrees with me looking at the site please let me know and I will stop. Thank you, Kathryn Reed
Although there a no longer any Brownsons in the village, I was talking to various people today at the Archeology Day about the Brownson family here in Parwich, including a visiting Brownson who has done quite a lot of family history research.
We know a number of houses in the village where your family lived, included Parwich Hall which your family rented in the early 1800s (upto 1815). Do you know about the family claims to have come from Scotland to Derbyshire with Mary Queen of Scots? Unfortunately no one has been able to prove this link, though there was an auction of the estate of a Parwich Miss Brownson in the early twentieth century that included several important Jacobite relics.
Which Brownson from Parwich are you descended from? There were several different emigrations to America the first being to Connecticut in the early 1600s but at least one more recently in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
If you want to contact me directly, email parwich@hotmail.co.uk indicating it is for Peter Trewhitt then I can send you my personal email address.
We are delighted that you read our small community website and hope you will manage to come and visit on day. There are others with family connections to Parwich who live in different parts of the world who also keep on eye on what is happening here. If you put Brownson in the search bar on the right below contact details, you will find others who have contacted us about the Brownson family.