Hello,
This will be a bit long winded, sorry, feel free to throw any questions at me, to try and explain where I am coming from;
I started using a `Compo`-laptop for the first time last Jan; in order to begin family searches-made many mistakes but learning all the time_hooked now. Still cannot upload , copy and paste etc.. I shall overcome these shortcomings this year. No printer-not ever.
Currently posted on the Tech pages here and learning a great deal, before I purchase anything this month. Really pleased with the help pages here on rootschat. So, I write out everything by hand, don`t mind, but time consuming. My next job, after this post, is to copy out all of this board, so that I can analyze it all and post my answers and next questions.
I have only had to search in England, until now. I am an Arnold descendant.
Edwin (Edward ) Arnold married Elizabeth Merchant 17 May 1899 Chatham Kent.
Previously she was married to Robert Welsh 20 Feb 1882_Derby
In 1891 Liz was living with Thomas Brown.-Chatham, Kent
The 1911c she is living with Frederick Oliver. Chatham Kent
Elizabeth Merchant uses many aliases herself.
The children, date range, 1879_1904 when Arthur Thomas Arnold(Thomas) was born. He was sent to live with Charity Brown in Derby.
The children are actually Brown, Arnold and Welsh surnames. But the Barnados letter states thier aliases as the above and Smith, Mcarthy-adding to the difficulty of tracing them.
This same letter stated that there was a James Welsh_no further details for him at all.
Places of abode range vastly, many of which cannot be matched with the childrens place of birth that Liz stated for them,.
Searching for this family is fairly new to me. I have gleaned the odd detail from peoples trees where I can, there was one contact made on Ancestry, which was not very useful ---- due to an individual, being sought, a distant marraige into the family and no further data available by the contact.
Another lady whom I have had contact with, had the details of the Barnados letter, but has had the same problems as me. This is not a 3rd party search.
A lot of clarification and new information is from all of you terrific volunteers here. Amazing!!
Sandra found the marraige, and birth details for Hazel and JJs Tweetybird site came up with fruitful data for Keziah and Edward, plus the names of the ships that they would have sailed on.
And I ,not being a bystander here, chased up the data for the ships and photos_didn`t see one for the Carthagian. Put all of the info gathered here on my tree and was able to glean a bit more on Ancestry. Not a Worldwide member so I cannot `see` all the data.
Cosmac came up with the Marraige and Keziahs arrival in Canada.
Vbain has provided me with some useful links, which I have followed up.
The Army Records are from this board and Jjs Canadian Resources threads.
All the info here has been very fresh and reinvigorating, after 2 solid months of obssesive highs and lows, truly cannot thank you all enough.
And Polar Bear_stunning work, had to pick myself up off the floor.
JJ I shall follow up on the link of Elijahs war Injury.
All data collected has been from this sites pointers and links. Thankyou.
Stunning work.
