This website contains a lot of material about Eastrington, the East Yorkshire village where I was born and where my ancestors, the Nurse family, have lived for over 300 years. As a local historian, I have been researching the village and surrounding area, including Howden, for many years and have gathered a lot of information of interest to both family and local historians.
Please feel free to e-mail me with any queries about the Howdenshire area - I'm happy to share what information I have already gathered and will also undertake research and take photos for a reasonable charge if I haven't any information in my files that may be of help.
I hope to publish a history of Eastrington within the next year, and have already written three books about the nearby town of Goole, co-written a history of Howden and edited two books on Gilberdyke.
Postcard showing Eastrington village green with St. Michael's Church in the background, from 1930s.
The website is constantly expanding and so far most of the information on it refers to Eastrington, including a transcription of the 1901 census, 1851 census and 1891 census for Eastrington, a list of Eastrington men who served in the First World War, old school pictures and information, a section on well-known Eastrington families, a brief history of St Michael's church and a picture gallery
The Nurse family page contains information about my ancestors, the Nurse family of Eastrington. So far I have traced the family back to the late 17th century, and there is a summary of the family tree on this site (please contact me for more details).
Information about Howden (the Howden 1914 street directory , Howden 1841 census transcription and a history of Howden Market Place) and Goole (a history of Boothferry Road, a transcript of a Goole 1828 census, and a description of Goole in 1810) is also available.
Please visit the published books page for details of books about the area which are available.
The site also contains a gallery of old photographs of Goole, Howden and the surrounding villages. There is an additional 'mystery gallery' of unidentified local people and events. Many of them appeared in the Goole Times but I do not know when and in most cases I do not know who the people are or where the photograph was taken. A few are taken from glass negatives and are probably of villages in the Goole and Howden area but most were taken at events around Goole, Howden, Snaith and the surrounding villages. There are old photos of bonny baby competitions from Hook Gala, of school trips leaving Goole railway station, of old folks' parties, Goole nurses, golden weddings and many others dating from the 1950s onwards. Any help in identifying people/places is much appreciated!
Line drawing of the 'Eight-and-Forty' house at Wallingfen, late 19th century
