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Topic: Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers (Read 10323 times)
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Zelley
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As a newcomer to RootsChat (what a great site, and so many helpful people) I thought I need a bit of practice, so here are my four GG'S: Frederick Thomas Brown. b: Winchester 1848 d: Winchester 1938, Draper. He worked for then owned the family Drapery business in Winchester High Street Frederick Charles Hansford. b: Beaminster, Dorset 1864 d: Winchester 1950, Post Master, ran a Post Office in Burgess Road southampton for over forty years. Albert Gard. b: Bristol 1871 d: Winchester 1942 Taylor. He supplied the school uniforms to Winchester College for many years. Charles Bennett Lloyd. b:Birmingham 1859 d Stoke Charity, nr Winchester 1924. Vicar. He was based in several parishes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, he had the foresight to document his family history. In summary, I think all four were quite respected gentlemen setting the standards for later generations, it was however discovered a few years ago that one of them (not saying which one) did father a child before marriage ! 
Good additions, and fathering a child before marriage is likely par for the course
in many family trees.
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Zelley, Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent, Devon
North Wales
The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations
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Ermintrude46
RootsChat Member
Posts: 233
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My lot are:
William Thomas Barton bn. 1861 in Rotherfield, East Sussex, father was an ag lab. As a young man, worked as an ostler in the local Railway Hotel, then moved to London as a domestic coachman. Married Jane Maria Sylvester in 1884 and had six children born in six different towns in southern England and Wales. Jane was a non-conformist, and her grandfather's home in Farlington, Hampshire was licenced as a non-conformist meeting house. William's line is the only one to have yielded a single "gentleman" and even he was probably exaggerating!
Charles Hinton bn. 1864 in Bentworth, Hampshire, father was a footman to a Rector who had moved to Hampshire from Worcestershire. As a young man, worked as a gardener to the Rector before moving to London as a domestic coachman. Married Mary Jane Chalker in 1894 and had ten children in fourteen years (only six survived infancy) before dying of fatty heart at the age of 44. His premature death split the family up with four of the children going into homes and two into service. Am (impatiently) awaiting detailed information from the Children's Society about the family situation after his death.
Richard Joshua Jones bn. 1860 in Poplar, Middlesex, father (and grandfather and great grandfather) was a shipwright. Shipbuilding in Deptford was dying so Richard became a painter and decorator, married 17 year old Charlotte Ann Rumble only just in time in 1884 and went on to have a further 13 children - all eight sons worked on the Docks. Had two thumbs on his right hand (as did two of his sons) and his grandmother pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the Old Bailey in 1836.
John Hindle bn. 1855 in Darlington, Durham, father a shoemaker. Worked as a brakesman in an iron foundary before moving to Erith, Kent to another iron foundary in about 1884. Married Eliza Mary Smith in 1880, the gothic silver locket she was given as a wedding present is my proudest possession. Had four children, three 'ooop north' and one in Kent.
Ermy
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Baldwin / Dixey / Rumble (Berkshire)
Burnsides / Corps / Harker / HINDLE / Longstaff / Martin / Page (Co. Durham)
Chalker / Glyde / Morris / Pitman / Stroud (Dorset)
BARTON / Heasman / Wheatley (East Sussex)
Baby / Silver / Silvester (Hampshire)
Cheeseman / JONES / Wood (Kent)
Chalker (Somerset)
Curtis / Davis / Stevens (Wiltshire)
Arcules / Carter / HINTON (Worcestershire)
~.~. main lines in CAPS .~.~
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Jellis
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 67
My Girls
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My great grandfathers are:
1/ Uknown father of Charles George Cookson - please report to me if you read this
2/ Charles Jackson born 1860 Northampton
3/ William Bird born 1857 Rugby Warks
4/ John William Knott born 1848 Hinderclay Suffolk
Number 1 means I can go no further with that line, unfortunately. 
Janet
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julianb
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1440
Portrait of the genealogist as a young man
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1/ Uknown father of Charles George Cookson - please report to me if you read this
LOL. I know the feeling well.
I gave my great grandparents Frank and Annie Baker a very good talking to for not getting married, when I visited their grave earlier this year. While I know something of Annie's forebears (well her mother at least), Frank has left me with a very big headache - he was one of two of that name born in 1857 in the Nottingham area who became carpenters, but which one? 
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Essex - Carter, Danns, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrell, Surry, Theobald Hunts - Danns Kent - Luetchford Nottinghamshire - Baker Suffolk - Rose Surrey - Baker, Bedel, Bransden, Carter, Coleman, Gibbs, Luetchford, Quinton Sussex - Gibbs, Langridge Wiltshire - Brice, Rumble Rootschatters fh websites - http://www.rootschat.com/links/04lg/ Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
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MarieC
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Posts: 3303
In Queensland, Oz
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Just found this thread and it's fascinating, but I don't understand this I can only locate three because my grandfather didn't exist until his marriage in 1907 therefore no gt.grandad!
Did he just beam in from outer space or was he given a completely new identity for some reason?? Linda
Linda,
You must be one of those lucky few people who don't have ancestors who seemed not to be born, or not to die!! 
Many of us have people who seemed to appear on this earth as an adult. Me, I have one who was apparently beamed up - he just disappeared, and I can't find a death or any trace of him!  
MarieC
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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
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perth tiger
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Posts: 698
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Just found this thread and it's fascinating, but I don't understand this I can only locate three because my grandfather didn't exist until his marriage in 1907 therefore no gt.grandad!
Did he just beam in from outer space or was he given a completely new identity for some reason?? Linda
i think she means that there is no evidence of her grandfather before his name appears on his marriage cert.
i have a gggran who is nowhere to be found before she marries my gggrandad
perth 
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davey hodgson holliday nelson oxberry ruddock sidebottom yorkshire Census information is Crown copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk included on your posts. |
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wendy47
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1543
My Wonderful & Funny Father
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I have found mine and they are fairly normal 
William Samuel Sturge b 1867 Ledbury a quarryman
Walter Green Veal b 1869 b Brislington Somerset son of a yeoman farmer - moved to Wales at as he ran away from home after shooting his father's neighbour's bull and didn't wait for the beating. worked as a collier and a railway platelayer before joining up in WW1 aged nearly 40. Lived until 1954.
James Nash b 1867 Ladywood Birmingham a Greengrocer who travelled up & down between Birmingham & London dragging his long suffering mistress cum wife and young family with him on a cart.
Arthur Carlson b 1868 in Stepney, with a Swedish father, who worked as a railway clerk & died of meningitis aged 29 just after his dau was born.
One of my husband's paternal G Grandfathers was b in 1818.
Wendy
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VEAL, PRICE, STURGE, BELLET, DREW, TAYLOR Som/Glos
COTTERELL, NAPPER, NASH, FLEETWOOD, HANDLEY, COLLINS Hereford
NASH, TYLER Warks, Kent
CROWE, REYNOLDS, BEARMAN Suflk/Essx/Middx
Abraham CARLSON/CHARLSON Sweden/E Ldn
COX Wilts
STILES, DORTON Middx, Surrey
"Fisher" HALLUM London? HANSTEY, MARSHALL Northumberland
ELDRIDGE, ALDRIDGE, STILES, DORTON Ldn RAGLESS, NYE Sussex
FEGAN, LOUGHLIN Down
CLAYTON SWEENY Cork
PROBABLE IMPOSSIBILITIES ARE TO BE PREFERRED TO IMPROBABLE POSSIBILITIES - ARISTOTLE
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Della Crow
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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My great grandfathers were –
James Alphonse Raggio (Jack) – mostly a sailor
Frederick Vaughan – a farmer
Henry Rockwell Green – a farmer and logger
William Clark – a farmer
They all lived on the US Gulf Coast - from Alabama to Texas.
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