Welcome, Guest. Please login or register for free.
Did you miss your activation email?
Friday 05 December 08 11:57 GMT (UK)
Welcome Home Help Shop Search Calendar Login Register
Search Images Online
 
  First Name(s)
Last Name
 
News: Ad: FULL Search right now, www.Ancestry.co.uk today - free for two weeks

+  RootsChat.Com
|-+  England (Counties as in 1851-1901)
| |-+  England - General
| | |-+  Durham
| | | |-+  Durham Lookup Requests (Moderator: sillgen)
| | | | |-+  I've lost my ggrandad
« previous next »
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: I've lost my ggrandad  (Read 178 times)
harleychrish
RootsChat Extra
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 52
I've lost my ggrandad
« on: Thursday 23 February 06 22:55 GMT (UK) »
I have my ggrandads wedding certificate 1898 henry lee age 24
married mary bell age 25 at reg office teesdale county of york and durham, I have searched ancestry.co.uk till I am cross eyed for them in the 1901 census, and no luck, I have found henry's family in 1891 with no problems, any help or suggestions would be appreciated, tried durham online as well, no luck. Cry
Logged
Ecneps
RootsChat Marquessate
********
Online Online

Posts: 9687
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:07 GMT (UK) »
Hi, Can you tell me his place of birth?  Also have you already checked www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk ? You don't need to pay just to do a person search and it may be better indexed than ancestry.com
Barbara
Logged
Census and bmd information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Norfolk - Ebbs Whiterod Zipfell
Lincs & Yorks - Sivills Predgen
Sweden - Jönsson Cronberg Andersson
Yorks - Spence Hide Hird
Durham - Dalkin Selby Renwick
Somerset - Keen Hitchins
liverpool annie
RootsChat Marquessate
********
Offline Offline

Posts: 12606


Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:13 GMT (UK) »


Hi harleychrish!

I'm wondering if he went to fight in the Boer War .... I found a MRS Henry Lee and a child Henry Lee aged 2
1901

Henry Lee ( image says Mrs !)    27 Boarder Nk, London
RG13/1655 Folio   13 Page   17

Annie  Smiley Smiley
Logged
Cooper : Muels : Howarth : Every : Price : King

Be who you are and say what you feel -  because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind ! Dr. Seuss

Erect no gravestone .... let the Rose every year bloom for his sake ! Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus, I:5

"Our fathers did not talk about psychology - they talked about a knowledge of Human Nature. But they had it, and we have not. They knew by instinct all that we have ignored by the help of information." Chesterton
harleychrish
RootsChat Extra
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 52
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:14 GMT (UK) »
Hi Barbara, thanks for quick reply,I have looked everywhere, that I can think of, his place of residence at time of marriage was lunedale, mary's was middleton, when I've looked on maps,all families form that area bishop auckland etc.

Chrissie
Logged
harleychrish
RootsChat Extra
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 52
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:20 GMT (UK) »
Hi Annie, thanks for reply, but we are all northerners, I think. My gran annie lee was born in 1907, so he was around, and her sister eva was born in 1900,

Chrissie
Logged
Laurina
RootsChat Aristocrat
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1039
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:23 GMT (UK) »
Information removed due to copyright violation. See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/copyright.php for more details

RootsChat must deal with any breach of copyright by its members.

For some time the team of Copyright Editors has been removing breaches of copyright and sending detailed personal messages to the member that had posted the information.  Due to the volume of posts and members this is now impractical.  Messages in breach will simply be deleted and this notice posted.  We apologise for any inconvenience caused but are sure you will appreciate the importance of this issue.
Logged
Census Transcriptions are Crown Copyright from National Archives
harleychrish
RootsChat Extra
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 52
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:33 GMT (UK) »
that sounds like them Laurina, where did you find the record?, I have looked everywhere thanks so much, they could have put harry instead of henry, my gran was born in coundon

Chrissie
Logged
Laurina
RootsChat Aristocrat
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1039
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:38 GMT (UK) »

The road was Collingwood S - there is a daughter there called Ever ~ could be the Eva you mentioned, a little older than you thought

Laurina Grin
Logged
Census Transcriptions are Crown Copyright from National Archives
Laurina
RootsChat Aristocrat
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1039
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:42 GMT (UK) »
Information removed due to copyright violation. See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/copyright.php for more details

RootsChat must deal with any breach of copyright by its members.

For some time the team of Copyright Editors has been removing breaches of copyright and sending detailed personal messages to the member that had posted the information.  Due to the volume of posts and members this is now impractical.  Messages in breach will simply be deleted and this notice posted.  We apologise for any inconvenience caused but are sure you will appreciate the importance of this issue.
Logged
Census Transcriptions are Crown Copyright from National Archives
harleychrish
RootsChat Extra
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 52
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:53 GMT (UK) »
if it's them, it looks like mary was expecting eva when they married, according to eva's wedding certificate she was 24yrs old, when she married in 1924, this is all so complicated, my grans story is mind boggling,with surname changes etc

Thanks Chrissie
Logged
harleychrish
RootsChat Extra
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 52
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:57 GMT (UK) »
Yes he was, I suppose I will have to think more about names and ages and not be so rigid, I bet you can tell I haven't been doing this very long  Roll Eyes

Chrissie
Logged
Laurina
RootsChat Aristocrat
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1039
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 23 February 06 23:58 GMT (UK) »
Maybe she was pregnant, hasty marriages were not uncommon. Eva's birth cert might be interesting as it's the same quarter as the parents marriage.

Do you recognise, the son Thomas Lee?

Laurina
Logged
Census Transcriptions are Crown Copyright from National Archives
Laurina
RootsChat Aristocrat
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1039
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #12 on: Friday 24 February 06 00:02 GMT (UK) »
Not at all, we all have to start somewhere. Often a fresh pair of eyes see things from a different angle. This site is always helpful. If you have an unusual names you have to think of lots of possible ways of spelling them ~ childrens names are sometimes shortened too.

Keep asking the questions, people here love a mystery to solve!

Laurina
Logged
Census Transcriptions are Crown Copyright from National Archives
harleychrish
RootsChat Extra
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 52
Re: I've lost my ggrandad
« Reply #13 on: Friday 24 February 06 00:06 GMT (UK) »
my mum only remembers her aunts, maggie eva and freda, I suppose thomas could have moved away or died. thank you so much laurina, maybe I will sleep tonight without it all going round and round, I will lookup harry( henry) tommorow

many thanks nite

Chrissie
Logged
Pages: [1] Print 
« previous next »


[Copyright] [Free RootsChat Webspace] [Your Surname Interests] [Shrink Link] [About Us] [Terms of Use]
All Census Lookups are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only
RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. Inline images in messages are the copyright of the respective linked sites.
RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT
0.211:22