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What Country is your main research centred on ?
| England and Wales |
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   743 (56.2%) |
| Ireland |
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220 (16.7%) |
| Scotland |
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210 (15.9%) |
| Emmigrants |
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91 (6.9%) |
| Immigrants |
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57 (4.3%) |
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Topic: What Country is your research ? (Read 28866 times)
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Darcy
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Searching for little needles in big haystacks
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Hi Chris 
even though my lot moved around a lot there wasn't too much adventure attached to it 
They still had the same occupation, mostly Ag Lab. of course, until the Lancashire lot on the 1901 census. This revealed my 13 year old great aunt as a 'cotton spinner' and great grandfather as an 'Iron Furnace Man"
The most exciting person was great grandmother who stayed home to attend the 'beer house' - not to mention 6 other children!
Cheers
Aaron,
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Fisher, Pitts, Lucas, Emmit, Keal, Bennett, Maddock, Jackson, Pidd, Lincolnshire Bullock, Read, White, Gloucestershire. Shepherd, Foyle, Crowter, Green, Wiltshire Strickland, Fisher, Butterworth, Brown, Northhamptonshire Shepherd, Bullock, Waterhouse, Lancashire Fisher, Goodwin, Rutland Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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celia
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W.C.O.A
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Thank you Chris that worked, I think maybe i tried befor i signed up because there was no reply button.Anyway all sorted
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bean
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James Davies of Moor Court
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Mine all appera to be in Herefordshire, Breconshire, Radnorshire and Anglsey - but may have started out in Cornwall. Seem to have been a wealthy bunch - landowners and solicitors with the odd vicar thrown in, although one pair of ancestors seem to have sued the vicar of Kington!!
Bean
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Banks - Kent, Herefordshire, Breconshire, Radnorshire & Anglesey.
Davies - Herefordshire, Breconshire, & Lincolnshire.
Wicks - Norwich, Norfolk.
Twomey - Ireland and Leeds, Yorkshire.
West - Leeds
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Berlin-Bob
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by My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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On my father's side: London, England going back three generations, then Germany and Wisbech (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk or Lincoln, depending where the boundaries were, in that particular year !).
On my mother's side: Austria, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Lithuania, Galicia, etc. etc.
On my Wife's father's side. Dorset, moving to Lancashire (1870)
On my wife's mother's side: The Hessies (the first daughter was always called Hessie) from Scotland to Ireland to Scotland, with the youngest generation in Berlin ! (don't need to look hard to find her ... she finds me -- "Daddy, can I ... " )
p.s. she drew my "mug shot" !
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Lisa
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A Life Long Passion
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My countries include (so far) Australia England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, New Caledonia (but I have buckleys of finding anything there unless anyone has any leads - its a french colony).
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Norfolk England: Barlow (convict to Australia), Star Winter, Herres, Houghton, Ivory, Gorbiel
Fife Scotland: Stark, Hereford: Stanton (Convict), Shrewsbury: Simmons/ens?? (Convict)
London: Lipman (London Jew - Assisted Immigrant to Australia),
Lancashire (I think)(Immigrated to Australia): Timmens, Starr
Ireland: Twohig (Immigrated to Australia)
Norway: Klausen Jørgensen, and so on and so forth,(not sure if its relevant here)
New Caledonia: Bousseaux (if anyone knows how to find this one)..
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Hi Everyone,
Ive been researching my family for the lastfew years.
Mostly Lancashire and Essex and a few inSomerset.
I've also done a considerable ammount of military research as it seems most of my family were in the forces at one time or another.
This is a really good site and Im pleased that i found it
So many great people doing things for others and for free
just as it should be.
all the best Mojo
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Goorikidz
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Lismore - Between the mountains and the sea
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My research is Warwickshire, Worcester, Essex, Cumberland, Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Wales, Ireland (that is hopeless), New Caledonia, France. Between hubby and me we have someone who came from nearly every county in England.
Lisa re your New Caledonia - yes it is difficult, I wrote to the embassy over there in 1995, and this year I received a reply, giving me the name of the only other person researching the same name. It turned out to be my sister, and she had written in 1997. So there is always something, sometime.
Janette
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Rayner: Essex;
Candler: Essex;
Higgerson, Middlesex;
Childs - Hampshire & IOW
Poole: Llanymynech Wales, Sussex, Shropshire, Warwickshire
Coles: Worcestershire, & Newport Wales
Rainbow: Worcestershire
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Heidi
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I always thought we were 200% cockney - East End - which was where I grew up, before I started on the research a couple of years ago. What did I find. Some were Huguenots which I have traced to 1750 up to now. Some from Norfolk and the rest seem to come from East Sussex/Kent, but all moved to the Bethnal Green/Shoreditch area eventually, probably looking for work. The East Sussex/Kent (Ticehurst/Etchingham/Burwash and a bit of Sissinghurst/Cranbrook) all seem to be Farm Labourers. That all changed in East London and all seemed to become Gas Stokers and Bricklayers.
The future generations will have to start looking for their roots in Switzerland
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Relf - Kent & East Sussex, Lay - Deptford, Baldock - Ticehurst, Camroux - Huguenot/Shoreditch, Parker - Norfolk, Pankhurst - Ticehurst/Etchingham/Burwash, Desveaux - Huguenot/Shoreditch, Sloper, Quinton - East London, Taylor - Bethnal Green, London, Gurr - Cranbrook, Balkshall - Ardingley, Sussex,
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Kazza
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Looking into Holes
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Most of my family came to Wales from Devon in the late C19th. Interestingly I also have a Norwegian and an Australian thrown into the mix to liven things up. And make me tear my hair out. 
Kazza.
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 Surname interests: Clementsten, Hobson, Hole, Marden, O'Clements, Pitten, Sharland, Vickery (Vicary), Williams. Area Interests: Cardiff, Bampton, Bideford, Crediton, Wollaston, Somerset, Tidenham, Norway, Australia to Bristol. |
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Lloydy
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On both my mother'sand father's side most of my research is centred round the county of Montgomeryshire (now Powys), Wales. Quite a boring tree as all my mother's ancestors were from the Newtown area and my father's were from Llanidloes, although one set of GGGG Grandparents originated from Ysutumen, Cardiganshire - but still Wales
I do have a few exceptions though - two GG Uncles emigrated to New Zealand, and another to the USA. Makes it a bit more interesting 
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Ashton, Beaton/Betton, Bennett, Breese/Breeze, Crisp, Chandler, Challenor/Challinor, Crisp, Davies, Hudson, James, Jarman, Jenkins, Jones, Lewis, Mills, Owen, Owens, Richards, Simon, Turner, Gethin & Trow - My Welsh ancestors from Montgomeryshire.
Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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