OK all you birth year scofflaws out there, it's no longer CUTE
nor FUNNY hiding your birth year from the Scatch.rd Family Trees. We currently
have 42 individuals for whom we have no dates. Take a look at the list below,
if you are on there or if you know birth years of others on there, please send
them over to me at scatch25@gmail.com.
Click on logos above to see the family connections.
After scouring North America since 2001, we have found that just two families
account for 99% of Scatch.rds who immigrated here from England, even though 57 varieties of the name are said to exist.
Both were originally penned, of course, in the 18th and 19th centuries when literate church clergy
in the West
Riding district of Yorkshire, England, wrote down the names of parish members for them during
christenings, marriages
and funerals, based on what they heard.
The two spellings (in order of frequency) are Scatchard and Scatcherd. Furthermore, none of us studying this were surprised to find them inter-changable over time. From one generation to the next ARDs moved to ERDs and/or vice-versa. But there can be no doubt that, if you go back far enough, it is all proven to be the same family. Click on the names at the top to jump to the Tree of your choice.
Tree members, please send over any additions or corrections AND any interesting facts about relative's lives. As you can see, we still have a lot of information missing.
Steve Scatchard
A tip of the genealogical cap goes out to the following Scatchards for immense help with this Tree:
Brother Jay, Arcadia, CA.
Cousin Eric, Pottstown, PA.
Cousin-across-the-pond, Bill, London, UK.
Cousin Jacquie Scatcherd, Ontario, Canada.
Researcher extraordinaire, Debbie Burr, Forest, Ontario, Canada.
Late distant cousin, Kitty Jarvis Blair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
French speaking Canadian cousin, Gabrielle Morse Scatcherd.