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Jarvis and Jervis

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Jarvis, Jervis, Gervis or similar families of North Staffordshire, North Shropshire, Cheshire and Lancashire

A Y-DNA test (for the male line carrying the surname) suggests a link between Louise's and Mark's families and the goal was (and is) to find a common ancestor (expected to be around 10 to 12 generations back). At present the two lines have been traced back to locations under 15 miles apart, it's looking promising.

• Mark is a descendant of John Jarvis who died at Nantwich, Cheshire, in 1680; he was a heelmaker; his widow Elizabeth emigrated with their two children to Pennsylvania; Mark's Family Nibbles blog covers his research and is richly illustrated - highly recommended; Mark also has a Family Nibbles channel on YouTube
• Louise is a descendant of a Jarvis family from the Staffordshire/Shropshire borders in the early 19th century and the research now takes her family back to the 17th century

In tracing Louise's Staffordshire/Shropshire ancestry many citations have been found. In order to make sense of this wealth of data, an attempt has been made to place each citation into a family group: in theory each family group should have a marriage of the parents, the births and/or baptisms of their children and burials/deaths of the parents; sometimes there are apprenticeship records, census returns, trade directory entries and newspaper articles.

Each family group has a (somewhat random) identifier such as M61 which is used in a master spreadsheet of citations; a chart showing the hierarchy; and a family tree on Ancestry compiled by Mark.

The reports that follow cover various angles:

• the stories of one or more family groups, sometimes covering their descendants too; or
• citations found in one source - probate, tithe, hearth tax records - that range across a number of family groups; or
• a family with another surname that is linked - by marriage usually - to Jarvis/Jervis
• studies of Jarvis from a particular place - do they all knit together as one family or did they just happen to end up living here?

There will be 30 or more reports and they can be freely downloaded.

There will be mistakes, omissions and certainly some loose ends in the reports; my apologies for anything that is awry. If you spot any mistakes, or have arrived at different conclusions, please get in touch, quoting the family group, and I will publish an update.

At the outset, publication of this research was not a priority and a more rigorous approach to quoting references could have been adopted. If anything does not make sense, just get in touch.

Louise and Mark, whose quest sparked this research, hope you find it useful!

The first set of reports looks at Louise's family, who lived in Maer and Mucklestone, north Staffordshire, and in particular at Maerway Lane, sometimes recorded as Marrow Lane!

The second set of reports covers another family named Jervis or Jarvis who lived at Winnington and Napeley Heath (modern name Napley), on the north side of Mucklestone. They are currently not linked to Louise's family.

Next reports using a specific source, starting with probate records for Jarvis / Jervis of Market Drayton, on the Shropshire and Staffordshire border.

Then reports of Cheshire and Lancashire families, starting with Obediah Seddon, a friend of Elizabeth Jervis in 1680...

Thomas Jervis, Louise's family, and children born 1798-1823, Mucklestone and Maer, Staffs

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The Jervis family of Winnington, parish of Mucklestone, Staffs, mid-1700s to late-1800s

Other sources researched

Cheshire and Lancashire connections

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Published February 2020; updated March 2021