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Family History Beginners Board / General opinion wanted
« on: Thursday 01 September 11 13:25 BST (UK)  »
I have a baptism in a small village in 1800 with the parents' names given (both the same surname as the child). I can later only find someone who COULD have been the mother....the only possibility for the father (same name) was married to someone else, & produced a good crop of children with her. I can't find any siblings for the child whose baptism I'm looking at. I've searched far & wide but can't find another couple who could have been his parents.

Soooo, this is one of those wonderfully vague questions. If this child was actually illegitimate & was the result of an affair the man married to someone else had , would it have been possible/acceptable for the mother to have adopted the father's surname & for her name in this form & his name to have benn registered as the parents (bearing in mind this was a small village & everyone would have known he was married to someone else) &, if there were circumstances of illegitimacy, are there any indications I could look for ?

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Leicestershire / Can anyone help me get further back, please ?
« on: Wednesday 16 March 11 15:12 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone help me with this please ? According to the census records, William Hudson was born in 1806 in Shepshed. By the time of the 1841 census, he was living in Ruddington, Notts.  (Class HO107 Piece 863 Book 11  D 6 Folio 21 Page 35 Line 7 .....place of birth given in 1851 census) I haven't been able to find his birth & was wondering if anyone could help me get further back . If anyone, can you please let me know how you found the information because I've got a subscription to Ancestry, but I'm new to it, so may not be using it properly. I think his son, Thomas (the next descendant I'm interested in) was a non conformist, if that helps find William

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Family History Beginners Board / Surnames as first child's middle name
« on: Wednesday 09 February 11 17:37 GMT (UK)  »
I know it was very common to use the wife's surname before marriage as the middle name of the first child. But, if she then remarried or started a family with another man, was it common for her to give the child by him a surname as a middle name.? .....&, if so, would she have considered her own name "used up" already & have taken the surname of a favourite relative /friend/benefactor ?

I know generalisations are dangerous but I was just wondering if anyone had come across this as something that happened reasonably often

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Nottingham Completed Lookup Requests / Death of Betsy Bradley....Nottm 1842 completed with thanks
« on: Tuesday 08 February 11 13:30 GMT (UK)  »
I'm using a Mac, so I can't use the discs issued by Nottm FHS. But if someone could check this death for me, please, & see if an age is given, it would help me to decide whether this is the person I'm looking for.

Betsy Bradley died December quarter 1842 in Nottingham.

Thank you very much

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Coud someone take another look, please ?
« on: Friday 04 February 11 12:57 GMT (UK)  »
I've found this baptism on Family Search

Elizabeth Bradley baptised on 20 Feb 1800 at Whitgift....parents Thomas & Jane Bradley.

Two or three people also have family trees for her on Ancestry, but there's no more information, other than that her father was born in 1757 & her mother was Jane Moody., born in 1767...no marriage or death (no deaths for the parents either).

I've tried to find out what happened to her myself, but I can't find a death or a marriage that matches (eg an Elizabeth Bradley to a Thomas Selby at Doncaster in 1824 or to a Joeseph Davis in Heanor, Derbys in 1824, or to a Mr Maynard in Mansfield, Notts, in 18259

All help gratefully received

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Family History Beginners Board / Metz in Germany ?
« on: Wednesday 02 February 11 16:51 GMT (UK)  »
Not sure where to post this. I've had an email from someone who thinks our families may be linked. But their family came to England from Metz in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. My ancestor (with the same surname) arrived at about the same time, but is listed on the census records as having been born in Germany. Would it be at all possible to be talking about the same geographical area ?

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Nottingham Completed Lookup Requests / Looking for Samuel & Elizabeth completed thank you
« on: Wednesday 26 January 11 19:41 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone help me get further back with this family, please ?

I've got a Samuel Elliott, baptised on 25 July 1825 at St Mary's, Nottingham. His parents are Samuel & Elizabeth Elliott.

I can't get any further. On the 1841 census, young Samuel seems to be living with the Merrin family on the same road (Bellar Gate). I think the Elliotts may have originally come from Somerset (don't know how far back) but I can't find a Samuel Elliott marrying an Elizabeth there at a date that would fit, either.

All help welcome.

Thank you very much

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Census and Resource Discussion / An Ancestry question for people who travel
« on: Monday 24 January 11 10:26 GMT (UK)  »
I travel between countries quite a lot. I've been told by someone in a similar position that you're only allowed to use 3 different computers a year. I can appreciate the reasoning...but does anyone know if this is true ?

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Nottingham Completed Lookup Requests / 1901 help needed, please Completed...thank you
« on: Friday 21 January 11 14:28 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone find a William Merrin on the 1901 census, please, born in Nottingham in 1900 ?

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