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CarolBurns
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I'm still looking !
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Hi Willow
I just put a message about the family wherever I could find a message board to take it and just left it there and went off to do something else on another branch of the family. Eventually I got messages regarding the ones I had left and managed to link the person to our tree.
I have had a break from searching for a while so that when I do start looking again my mind is fresh
Just managed to find some more family by leaving messages and being patient (hard for me to do when it comes down to searching lol) Found my Mum's half cousins - 1 in Canada and 2 here in UK. From thier info I started searching again for my Mum Grandmother. I not only found her death but I found the grave number as well so we can go to the grave on our next visit to Anglesey. The "5 star " find to do with that family though was the birth and death at 14 months old of my Mum's Uncle who she didn't even know about.
So patience is definitely a virtue in this game
Good Luck
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Thomas, Williams,Owen (s),Griffith (s), Jones - Anglesey
Burns, Wallace - Northumberland, Ireland, Scotland
Horsburgh, Sandilands, Blackhall, Rankine, Rankin, Hilson, Nielson - Scotland
Turnbull, Mills, Burgoyne, Burgon - Northumberland,
Davidson - Scotland, India, Burma
Lopez - India, Burma
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RBC
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Jackie Saunders, Bedford c1920, Mystery Boy.
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Yesterday I was lucky. I had given uplooking for my great grandparents on the 1891 census. I had just typed a message for RootsChat. I thought I should have one more search. I put in both the Christian names, William and Jemima, I knew the ages from previous records. The surname is Watts but it came up as Walts, fantastic.
Today I decided to search again for the 1901 census, I went through the same procedure, no luck. I then searched for the christain name of the youngest child, there it was again the same error WALTS!! Nobody could have known that my Ggrandmothers name was Jemima that was transcribed as Janes.
Please can anyone tell me the occupation of Margaret and Jessie? Fancy ... Maker?
Thank you.
RBC.
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Cullen (Kent, London, Hove) Head, Watts, Rawlins, Medlock, Cooper, Hillyer (Bedfordshire) Bissell (Warwickshire)
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RBC
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Jackie Saunders, Bedford c1920, Mystery Boy.
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Thank you very much Little Nell. I will be more careful next time I post an image. I discovered the system won't let you preview an image so once you click open ...........
Is it possible to delete an image? Is it a simple matter to resize once it is posted? (*)
Does anyone know what a Fancy Jet Maker was?
Thanks again.
RBC
(*) Moderator Comment:
Topic: Deleting or resizing images - Help !!!
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,304072.0.html
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Cullen (Kent, London, Hove) Head, Watts, Rawlins, Medlock, Cooper, Hillyer (Bedfordshire) Bissell (Warwickshire)
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Trees
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Jet is a stone found I think in Whitby very popular with mourning weeds in Victorian days and as embellishments to "The little black dress" for formal wear
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Comosus
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Even if you cannot get further back, there's always the chance that a new relative will become interested, who may have photos, or various other belongings of ancestors.
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Leeds - HOLMES (also at Boston Spa, Thorp Arch), SCHOLEY/SCOREY/SCHORAH (also at Stanley, Wakefield), TURVEY (also at Birmingham), WARD, WHITE, WOODHEAD (also at Halton, Whitkirk, Templenewsam). Dewbury - CRAWSHAW, GLEDHILL, SPEIGHT Great Horton - RAMSDEN, SHACKLETON, WOOLER Woolsthorpe by Belvoir - SMITH Barrowby and South Stoke, Lincolnshire - PARKER Derby and Newhall - STREET Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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RBC
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Jackie Saunders, Bedford c1920, Mystery Boy.
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Thank you very much for your interest Trees and digital. My ancestors came from Bedfordshire. I will post a message on the Bedfordshire board and see if I can find out where their supplies came from.
Most of the female members of my family, from that area, were lace makers or straw plaitters.
RBC
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charlotteCH
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Maybe they are around in a pub but the question is which one!
From my experience, never mentally write "closed" on a search.. I'd almost done that with Thomas Hargreaves- rotten luck to be chasing such common name in WRY in 1800... but SKS suddenly emailed me out of the blue to say he'd noticed the name in a WRY Poor Law file he'd been seaching & remembered from way back I'd been checking out that name . He made a brief note of the people named in the Removal Order , and bingo. I've another lead on Thomas.
So my Mother's day gift is a search of the files at Calderdale Archives...
So don't call it quits... maybe move to the back burner but plod on, to mix metaphors.
charlotte
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HARGREAVES, HANSON, BAILEY, BURTON, HEWITT, JAGGER, LOCKWOOD, UTTLEY, MIDGLEY, RUDD, TAYLOR, HOLDEN, SHAW Halifax / Sowerby/ Southowram 18C+
GILL, Accrington, Blackburn, West Derby, Lancs, migrated USA 1891 to RI: GILL in SC: HOTCHKISS in RI: PELOQUIN in RI
HUMPHRIES, HILLIER, ALLEN, LYDBURY Nunney/Frome 18-19C
HUMPHRIES, BIGFORD, JOYCE, HEWITT, ROBINSON, McMULLEN, SUFFEL, CARNEY, MARRON, COMPTON, FREEMAN Ont. Canada 1830+
82nd Regt of Foot 1808-1825
1st WRY Militia 1780-1808
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