Bedsole History from 1673 With Documentation - NCGenWeb

Ireland, from as far back as I could find information up to about 1800, the period I was most interested in,
one needs to know at least the following: The exact names of passenger(s) as listed on ships records,
keeping in mind that Scribes at the time wrote and spelled the names the best they could guess from what
was said, because people in general could neither read nor write, much less spell. Names of the ships they
sailed on (many ships had the same name), the owner(s) of the ships, the country of the ships registry. Do
you have any idea how long that alone would take and how much you would spend, finding that out, if you
could find it at all?. You also need to know the date of departure, port of departure, passengers destinations
and where they actually ended up, ports of arrival, name of arriving ship, dates of arrival and etc. As if all that
were not bad enough, prior to 1900, Germany had thousands upon thousands of its citizens who supposedly
shipped directly to the United States, and others via England. So shipping records in Germany may show
their destination to be England. Then you have to go to England, and hope you can find all the above
shipping information from there to the U.S. Naturally, thousands of those you would be interested in, stayed
in England, thousands more changed their minds in England, and went back to Germany, and more of them
changed their minds altogether and went to countries other than the U.S. or England, then back to Germany,
having left from Germany and/or from England on different ships with various names, from various ports, on
various dates and with various people accompanying them. In other words, they could have gone from
Germany to any country on earth, under any name, on any ship. Who knows. On top of all that, in England
and out of necessity, passengers were held in “Holding Pens”, until they had enough to completely load a
ship, before they were allowed to board one. That usually meant they were held for several weeks, or they
got fed up and boarded any ship to anywhere, just to get out of that Pen. Based on all I know about it, my
conclusion is this; If you already possess all that shipping information, you don't need to go over there to find
it out. But if you do decide to, therein are another million research problems, requiring thousands upon
hundreds of thousands of dollars and who knows how many years, to research. Another overseas research
problem is this; Several ships sunk enroute, drowning some or all aboard, many became disabled and put
into the nearest port, where passengers were left to fend for themselves, and I have included an article of a
court case regarding that fact. So be forewarned if you want to go overseas and trace our ancestors, take a
ton of money and be prepared for several YEARS of research. As for our own National Archives, for the
Bedsoles, even for immigration records, there is nothing in the way of ship passenger lists prior to about
1880-90, which was very surprising. Knowing all that now does it mean you should bow down and be forever
grateful to me ? ....YOU BET !!.
Latest Information On The Name(s)
Our cousin Charles Bedsole, the lawyer in Dallas, Texas came upon some interesting information and
forwarded it to me. It was regarding a Khristoph or Christoph Besold or Besold, (In his last name, the Z is
pronounced as an S in German and the D is silent. Making him a “Bessow”, or Bedsole, since in Betzold the
D is also silent), 9/22/1577-9/15/1638, who was a famous German Legal scholar and who became a
Professor Of Law at Lubingen University in Germany. He served as legal advisor to the Emperor of Austria
and the Duke of Wurttemberg. Bezold was also one of the founders of the Rosicrucian movement, although
late in life he converted to Catholicism. He was described as extremely learned in Arabic, Hebrew, and
Islamic culture. Besold's library was acquired by Salzburg University in 1648 and became the cornerstone of
the university's library. Besold's Thesaurus Practicus is a mammoth work, covering both Roman law and
German law. It was first published in Tubingen in 1629, and by the time of the last edition (Regensburg,
1740), it had gone through eight editions. My purpose in telling you all this is because it takes no great leap
to go from Betzold to Bessow to Besold to Bedsole as a surname. Is Bedsole related to Besold ? That
answer is many times more likely to be “Yes” than it is to be “No”. I have found there is a whole different
online world with the Besold spelling, as with Bedsole. There is also another surname world online under
Betzold, if anyone is inclined to research those spellings. My thanks again, to Charles for that information.