|
Pages: 1 [2]
|
 |
|
Author
|
Topic: Dead ends? (Read 598 times)
|
|
|
regross
RootsChat Member
 Offline
Posts: 178
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.natio
|
Any one keen to try Davis/Davies in Wales???
Robyn in Australia
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Abbott, Clarke, Inward, Lanfear, Rutter,Spencer, Middlesex;
Greenaway,Cornwall;
Edney, Godwin/Goodwin, Gullett, Hampshire;
Gullett, Devon:
Emms, Dublin?;
Gordon, Scotland;
Arnold, Morton, Ireland;
Davies,Wales;
Olcorn, Cumberland;
Osborne Staffordshire;
Harrington, Kent
|
|
|
|
|
ambers
RootsChat Veteran
Offline
Posts: 585
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
|
Oh lol, I have Evans/ Davies and Jones in Wales, but have got them all back to 1841 on the census...not a chance of getting certificates though 
Richard Eddy 1871 in Cornwall is my Brickwall, too many of them going abroad to work at the same time.
Maybe one day he will turn up 
Ambers
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
GLAMORGAN: Evans. Davies. Eddy. Bradnum.
PEMBROKE: Bradnum. Summers
CARMARTHENSHIRE: Davies. Jones
NORFOLK/SUFFOLK: Bradnum. Helsdon. Cork. Whiskins. Fairhead.Catchpole.
DEVON: Mallett. Acford, Kidston. Short. Lover. Dampier, Johns, Edwards,Telford. Sparrow
SOMERSET: Masey
CORNWALL: Eddy. Thomas. Maddern. Harvey. Noy.Reynolds,Batten, Curtis. Tregenza,Trebilcock
Warwickshire: Mountney
|
|
|
MarieC
RootsChat Marquessate
Offline
Posts: 3058
In Queensland, Oz
|
Try Martins in London - particularly women called Mary Martin. There are zillions of them!!
MarieC
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Martins in London and Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Hartleys in London, Lichfield and Brighton, Hubands and Smiths in Ireland, Bentleys in London and Yorkshire, Denhams in Somerset, Scoles in London, Meyers in London, Cooks in Northumberland
|
|
|
stonechat
RootsChat Aristocrat
Offline
Posts: 1082
|
Chitty is the commonest name in Godalming
I now have three different Chiity branches, only able to trace one
Bob
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Douglas, Varnden, Joy(i)ce Surrey, Clarke Northants/Hunts, Pullen Worcs/Herefords, Holmes Birmingham/USA/Canada/Australia, Jackson Cheshire/Yorkshire, Lomas Cheshire, Lee Yorkshire, Cocks Lancashire, Leah Cheshire, Cook Yorkshire, Catlow Lancashire
|
|
|
Gadget
RootsChat Marquessate
 Online
Posts: 16618
|
One of my main lines stops around 1820 - I've tried getting further back for years - deepest North Wales - Roberts 
A couple of years back I was given my great grandfather's 1900 Diary to photograph. There was an entry:
9.Oct, 1900. Aunt Jane died Sunday night half past eleven oclock
This was a Wednesday so she died on 6th October - Dec quarter 1900, then
Problem is Jane who? Was it his father's sister, sister-in-law, mother's sister, sister in law, step mother's sister, sister in law, etc. or his wife's side? I can't find a suitable Jane I've used the surnames that I knew of and checked the local area and areas where I'd found that there were relatives.
He didn't record going to the funeral and he only heard on the Wednesday which suggests it was not in the local area.
I still haven't solved this and short of sending for every cert for a Jane who died in Dec q 1900, I'll not find out and she could be the link that I need 
Gadget
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
MarieC
RootsChat Marquessate
Offline
Posts: 3058
In Queensland, Oz
|
Oh Gadget, how annoying is that? It must niggle at you constantly. I know that you would have exhausted every angle, with no glimmer of light! As you say - she could be the key, and there is no way of finding her!
I really know how you feel, as I am stopped on my Catholic line by the inability to find Catholic registers further back. These two people, a married couple, inconveniently died too early, he before 1841, she before 1851, so the censuses are no help at all. No idea where they came from. It could have been Ireland, even, for all I know!
On behalf of all of us suffering these frustrations - GRRRR!!!!!
I feel better now! 
MarieC
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Martins in London and Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Hartleys in London, Lichfield and Brighton, Hubands and Smiths in Ireland, Bentleys in London and Yorkshire, Denhams in Somerset, Scoles in London, Meyers in London, Cooks in Northumberland
|
|
|
Gadget
RootsChat Marquessate
Online
Posts: 16618
|
Thanks for sympathy, Marie 
After putting that message up, I started getting all the relevant files out and I've decide to put aside a few hours today going through them all and checking that all the i's are dotted, etc. Sometimes this does work - wish me luck!
In the early years of my FH research, I used to find that putting a line aside and getting on with another one for a while and then going back often worked.
See if it happens again
Gadget
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
MarieC
RootsChat Marquessate
Offline
Posts: 3058
In Queensland, Oz
|
That's very frustrating, Willow! I have two that didn't seem to die, too - maybe they are all together somewhere in one mega-old age home!!!
Good luck, Gadget - hope it works for you! I've tried that technique of leaving things for awhile too, but it hasn't worked with my really intractable brick walls!
MarieC
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Martins in London and Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Hartleys in London, Lichfield and Brighton, Hubands and Smiths in Ireland, Bentleys in London and Yorkshire, Denhams in Somerset, Scoles in London, Meyers in London, Cooks in Northumberland
|
|
|
|
Pages: 1 [2]
|
|
|
|
|
I do not have any Smiths or Jones but Brown & Kelly!