Gggrandfather Found after 15years

[coombs]

Well done Ringrose. The more that come online, the greater the chance of smashing down brickwalls. I can understand being careful by discarding a candidate due to surprising info that makes you sceptical, but then finding out from other info it is the right one after all.

[Jill Eaton]

Congratulations!

Just goes to show that we shouldn't give up looking.

I've recently discovered the death certificate for a great uncle. He only died in 1992 in Kent, England. I thought he had emigrated to America! I hadn't even been aware that siblings of the grandmother who died long before I was born were still living at such a late date. Wish I'd met him.

[Finley 1]

We must keep on and this just shows it..  Well done

xin

[Sloe Gin]

I won't repeat it here, but for those interested here is how I eventually tracked down a great-great aunt who had been something of a "wild child". 

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=426900.msg5873025;topicseen#msg5873025

Among the things illustrated here:
People don't always tell the truth on census forms.
People who say they are married may not be.
Marriages sometimes take place a lot later than you expect.

[iluleah]

Among the things illustrated here:
People don't always tell the truth on census forms.
People who say they are married may not be.
Marriages sometimes take place a lot later than you expect.

  You are correct.
I looked for my great grandparents marriage for years, then when the 1911 was open to research it stated married 23yrs! But where I could never find out, it was only when I was researching one of their children's marriage I happened to see they got married a few weeks later AND after the 1911 census AND later found it was just one week after his first wifes death ( who I thought had died some 25  years earlier)

[gazania]

Wonderful news - congratulations!

I recently made a huge breakthrough.  The key was a tiny obit in an obscure OZ country newspaper that had just been indexed.

My greatgrandfather and his family migrated to Brisbane, OZ, during the 1880s.  All we knew about him was that he was born in Cork, with a very common surname.  We believe any surviving family papers had been burnt on the orders of the coroner on the sudden death in the 1930s of his eldest daughter.  Family story said that he had a brother, name unknown, who was a scripture reader in Liverpool.  Using the censuses of Liverpool, I built up a profile of a likely brother, called William.

My g great grand father also died suddenly while talking to his landlord and this was reported in several newspapers, saying he was originally from Cork.  Then an obscure country newspaper reported he was born in Glanmire, Co Cork.  There he was with the baptism of three sisters and that led to the baptism of another brother, Thomas, in Tipperary.  This Thomas must have been the witness on G grandfather's second marriage in Kent.  (He moved around alot )  I still have not found the bapt of William, the likely brother living in Liverpool.

But then I found a detailed newspaper report of a wedding in Kent of a son of Thomas, where the cousins from Liverpool attended and they were from the family of said William, the scripture reader.  So all these little pieces of the jigsaw are falling into place.  I have been in touch with relatives, There are descendants in Perth, WA and Canada.

So please, never give up. Gazania

[coombs]

Shows how much of a life line those witnesses to weddings can be.