Created by Julie Goucher, 2023

Our first web-Wednesday site is:

Tudor Revels

The site is part of the People Project 1485-1603 which sought to document the lives of forgotten individuals during the Tudor period in Southampton.

The website hoped to document at least 5,000 entries by the end of 2013. Currently there is just under 20,500 entries. The site was created with the assistance of funding of the Heritage fund. There is in addition to the database, a section around events, an about section, links, a glossary and bibliography. There is also a walking trail that can be explored.

The database can be searched by name, dates, nationality, occupation and parish. I did several quick searches:

1. Surname of BUTCHER – this search also produced results with the occupation of butcher. I was able to extract about forty two references with individuals using the Butcher surname. There is the possibility that one individual may appear twice in the database, and the additional issue that during this period surnames were not definitively used, or consistent. Each individual does bear source material and this can be extracted in more detail by viewing the bibliography.
2. Surname of ORLANDO – this produced nil results.
3. Nationality of Italian – this about 100 results of which the majority were seafarers or merchants.
4. Search of Guildford this produced two results, the first of which was an individual whose origins were from the Surrey town of Guildford.

There is one irritation, which is that once you have searched, found the results and then selected to look at one of those results, when you conclude your viewing and want to go back to the results, you need to search again.

There is relatively little material in this format relating to the Tudor period, and therefore this is certainly a welcomed addition. In terms of adding the individuals to my Butcher One-Name Study, I will do so with the source identified as the Tudor Revels and the source citation that has been given.