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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: Legg family, St Peter Port, Guernsey
« on: Monday 30 March 20 17:14 BST (UK)  »
Could I ask where you accessed the marriage certificate, please?
Sorry to appear inept...

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: Legg family, St Peter Port, Guernsey
« on: Monday 30 March 20 16:59 BST (UK)  »
Thanks once again.
I don't have access to the 1848 marriage certificate, but the 1851 census shows John Legg as shoemaker - he's subsequently listed as bootmaker and cord wainer, so seems to be pretty consistent.
Strangely, he doesn't show in the 1841 Channel Island census.

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: Legg family, St Peter Port, Guernsey
« on: Monday 30 March 20 14:22 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your kind efforts, everyone.
I am currently using Ancestry UK, so have the later information, although the records for a John Levi Legg (with a daughter Mary Ann) muddy the waters.
However, he's definitely listed in other census documents as having been born in St Peter Port, and the surname is indeed common on the Channel Islands, so unless he falsified his entries I'm still hoping to find his parents on Guernsey.
The Devon connection: yes, he married Elizabeth Miffling at Exeter and in 1861 they were living in Southampton, with her recorded as having been born in 'Tattness, Devon' (Totnes).
So, back on the Guernsey trail...  :0)

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Legg family, St Peter Port, Guernsey
« on: Monday 30 March 20 12:09 BST (UK)  »
Like many of us, the lockdown has given me an opportunity to resume family research, after a break of several years - but a former 'end of the line' query still persists.

I'm trying to find any leads relating to the forebears of my 2nd great-grandfather John Legg - bootmaker, b. St Peter Port, Guernsey in 1828.

The period predates the search parameters of Free BMD, so I would welcome any help some kind individual might be able to offer. Many thanks!

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Heartfelt thanks to all of you who took the time to respond - genealogy certainly brings people together.

Thanks to you, I think I now have a better idea as to how to manage things.

RM :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Family Tree member data - linear or lateral?
« on: Monday 27 May 19 13:43 BST (UK)  »
Having got some way into my own family research, I found (not surprisingly) that the sheer volume of data can very quickly become unwieldy. I therefore have the most basic of questions to ask, if I may, please:

How do much information concerning non-linear family members do other users decide to include in their trees?

For example, if our antecedents had various siblings, do we then research/add further data relating to each of them and to their spouses? I can see the potential lead-value of recent generations, but obviously the further back you go, the more things fan out and sap your time and energy. I know that this might all sound pretty simplistic, but I'd welcome any thoughts on how others maintain some degree of focus for their research.

Thanks!

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Many thanks, Maureen!
Speedy work; I'm impressed. I have to admit that this was a development which I hadn't anticipated, so I'll check the relevant document(s). Obviously, if this does prove to by my great aunt then I'll have a new surname to track, hopefully with a subesquent move to Guernsey or perhaps Jersey.
My mother was quite categorical about her aunt visiting from the Channel Islands.
We'll see where the trail leads now.

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In tracking down some record of my great aunt I'm hoping to bring some half-remembered childhood memories back into focus, but I'll need some help, if anyone would be so kind. Bear with me, please, as I need to provide some context:
My great grandmother - Mary Ann Legg - was born on Guernsey (St Peter Port, according to UK census records) c1850 and married George Harris in 1869 in Bethnal Green, London.
They had five children (the youngest being my grandmother Rosina) but George appears to have been a poor father, with a taste for alcohol and being violent to his family after his wife died in childbirth in 1891. The second-youngest daughter was Mabel Elizabeth Harris, b.1885 in Hackney. It seems that my grandmother was left to care for her father after the rest of her siblings left home.
I have traced records for them, but as yet I have found no trace of Mabel after she appeared to have been at the Women's Refuge in Chatham, Kent (1901 UK Census entry). This was a pretty pretty dire establishment for women who had fallen on hard times (many having turned to prostitution), so Mabel would obviously have looked for a way out, to rebuild her life.
Now for the Guernsey connection: If she had been rejected by her family, it's possible that she would have turned to her mother's Channel Island roots - the Legg family. As a young child, on a couple of occasions I met a great aunt who was referred to as 'Aunt Nance', from Gurnsey (and said to have been diabetic). Since there was no Nancy recorded among the family members, I therefore assume that Nance must have been Mabel Elizabeth Harris.
Try as I might, via search options available to me (I'm based in France), including an Ancestry account, I cannot turn up anything to clarify things.
Sincere thanks, in advance, for any enlightenment which anyone might be able to offer.

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Devon / Re: John Legg, b Guernsey - marriage in Totnes (or Exeter)?
« on: Thursday 10 September 15 22:57 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for these rapid responses - I'll admit that the marriage listing threw me, but I think I now have a better grasp of how to interpret what I'm seeing (said the newbie..).

I've found a reference to her name at www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_people/exwickwoolworkers.php, but the timing is wrong (by then she would have been around 31 years of age), so I can only assume that this might be a niece. Forenames do seem run in families, or at least in mine!

The challenge now is to find her parent's names. Perhaps I'll find something by searching for the EM listed above, with the appropriate date of birth. One thing I have learnt is that family research involves quite a bit of lateral thinking.

RM

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