From the Vault

I have several online storage areas back years ago there were no usbs or anything of the likes. Yet I have had my server for many years and it was all to interesting to look over some of the correspondences from friends as well I would store many things.

There other day I needed to speak with a representative with my server and low and behold I forgot that I had five storage places and one of which is with regards to my ancestors. It was amazing as I just opened some of them up and my it literally amazed me what I have in there. My grandfather was Norwegian and he had two brothers. All three brothers which would include my grandfather came to Canada and then one brother went to New Zealand and the other went to Australia. When I opened up some of this - it was all so interesting.

I literally traced my roots back within my distant relative which resides in Australia and I have just skimmed the surface as these where a very different time within or on the internet. I believe most of you know my name. Yet I do and have gone by this alias since 2004. Yeah that must have been the time as it's when I started to blog and as most for each they decide what nicknames they wish to go by but I picked this Initiative Stain...However my name is John G. Stain.......

It was amazing to say the least of these people from which I had met and I am not sure if this will work but this is apart of my own ancestral work that I and a very distant relative from Australia did some years ago. He was brilliant and old than myself. His name is Nigel and he is some professor in Australia. He was able to go so far back that there was a picture which I had which I sent to him and back then he was amazed that the very same picture was in the dining room of his Aunts.

Let me see if I can load this on here as I have no quams which sharing it with friends. My heritage that of Norwegian, Hungarian and Italian. When I saw this it was truly too neat.

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"Dear Jack,

                 This may be a little lengthy.   At last a little time to write.  I'll outline a little of my own line.

Our Stanger line is pronounced Stanger as in anger whereas yours is obviously Stainger and I presume descending from Stanger (pronounced Stainger) from Orkney.

My earliest ancestor was Humphrey Stanger 1658 - 1710. He had 9 children.  He was married and lived at Barrowden, Rutland, England, birthplace unknown ( not baptized at Barrowden but possibly Harringworth Northants, the neighbouring village).  Although no baptism record was found, the name Humphrey Stanger appears on a few occasions there.

His son John 1686 - ? He had 11 children. John was born at Barrowden married in Northants and lived at Barrowden.

His son Humphrey 1719 - ?   He had 4 children.  Humphrey was born at Barrowden , married and lived at Liddington Rutland.

His son Oliver  1760 - 1843.  He had 7 children.  Oliver was born at Liddington Rutland , married and died at Gretton Northants, the nieghbouring village.  

His son William 1794 -1878.  William had 8 children.  He was born married and died at Gretton Northants.

His son John  1825 - 1893.   John  had 9 children. He was born married and died at Gretton Northants.

His son Samuel Charles 1853 - 1917. Samuel had  8 children.  He was born at Harringworth , married and lived at Braunston Rutland and died at Worksop Nottinghamshire

His son William 1877-1977 my grandfather born and married at Braunston Rutland died at Little casterton Rutland.   He had 7 children.

His son Edmund Atton Stanger my father 1906 - 1978 had 5 children.  He was born at Braunston Rutland, married at Market Harborough, Leicestershire and died at Leicester

His son Kenneth James Stanger 1938 -   born Market Harborough Leicestershire unmarried.

Now my earliest ancestor Humphrey I believe came from Harringworth Northamptonshire.  There was a Humphrey among others mentioned in records and Court proceedings in 1620 aged 50 ( so born 1570) see attachment. After studying Stangers for a few years I am no closer to knowing for sure, where they came from, but have a general idea.

I believe they originated in Norway.  I believe the Orkney Stangers and maybe the ones from Cumbria ( and also from Ireland to Cumbria) all came direct from Viking settlement from Norway.Other UK  Stangers in the Midlands (Leics Northants Rutland Lincs) were all fairly settled in these areas when church records began in the 1500's.  These I believe originally came from Norway, and settled for some time in Denmark before the Great Danish Invasion into Eastern England.  The Danes came into The Wash on the East Coast which was swampy , pushed up the main rivers, Ouse, Welland, and Nene and settled the first farmlands they found.  All my descendants were on the banks of the River Welland which forms the boundary between Rutland and Northamptonshire.

Now some of the Harringworth Stangers became quite famous, founding Baptist communities, some settling in The Fenland of Lincolnshire and others in Kent, from where they went to the States and Australia.

The town Stanger in Natal, South Africa was named after William 1811-1854 explorer and surveyor general for S. A.      He also named a South African cycad   Stangeria.

(This I have known of and there is a book on William who was my grandfathers' brother for some reason the people within South Africa decided to name a town after William - as well my grandfather decided to insert an "i" in the surname where his two brothers stayed with the name STANGER).

Apart from this, there are some Stanger in Yorkshire who definitely came from Germany.   These may have entered the UK in the time of Eliz 1st whose German husband Albert brought in German miners and tradesmen.  The Stangers from Germany I believe were from northern parts and most possibly relations of the Danish ones, across the border,  who all came from Norway originally. I now enclose a few emails and other writings you may find interesting.  Feel free to use any of the information I supply.   You may be able to add or divulge on some of it."

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I am not sure how many have done their ancestry but there was a time where I did and what came back in return was all too interesting. But the words above were part and parcel of the exchange of emails from this side of the pond and Australia.

 

 

Attachment: BARROWDEN RUTLAND.pdf