Few more Essex burials

[MacGrigor]

Hello,

Can anyone find anything on:

Sarah Thorogood, died 1912, Shalford
Charles Graves, died 1914, probably Great Bardfield

As well as:
Hannah Rebecca Graves, died 1928, Farnham District - this apparently covers parts of Surrey and Hampshire

Thanks,

Adam

[rosie99]

As well as:
Hannah Rebecca Graves, died 1928, Farnham District - this apparently covers parts of Surrey and Hampshire

I suggested on your earlier post you would probably need her death certificate

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=792368.msg6485217#msg6485217

[jonw65]

Sarah Thorogood
Buried 13 April 1912 at Shalford (St Andrew)
Age 82
Abode Shalford
Buried with husband
(FreeReg)

[MacGrigor]

Much appreciated!

[horse000]

Find A Grave has a Charles Graves buried 1914 [no further date details] St Mary the Virgin, Great Bardfield. Says b. 21 Jun 1845. Parents = James & Mary.

Geoff

[MacGrigor]

Thanks! I have the burial date but that gives his birthday as well.

[Pheno]

Hi your title says 'a few more essex burials' but when Geoff found a burial you said that you already had the date (although the entry he found supplied you with a birthdate).

At age 17 (according to your profile) with presumably, the online world at your fingertips, I just wonder why you are not using the available free online resources to find the answers to some of your numerous posts about burials, as are the individuals helping you.  Its the searching that intrigues most of us rather than just having results gifted to us.

Pheno

[MacGrigor]

I found out the date on a separate thread that I forgot I had started. And truth be told I forgot this one was even open. And I do plenty of searching.

[lizdb]

Yes we all forget things - but when people are giving of their time freely to look things up for you (as had been said many of the things are on freely available sites) it isn't good to "forget" you asked and find the answer elsewhere in the meantime, so their effort was fruitless and their time was wasted.

We all love helping each other on here, and when our own research is going through a slack time we enjoy engaging with others and helping with things they are stuck on. But that isn't a reason to take advantage of peoples good nature.

Family History is a never ending, often complex, time consuming hobby. Like any hobby it has a cost, and to do it properly and reliably you will need to pay for certificates/subscriptions/Wills/visits to Record Offices etc at various points over the years. Not everything is online, so relying solely on that will inevitably result at some stage in following the wrong person.

Looking beyond the obvious is a technique that is used many times in sorting out Families - and to do that often you need to go beyond just keying in one name and seeing what results pop up. Often looking through several pages of a Parish register will give a broader picture of what was going on in a family, and provide clues to solve a particular difficulty.

I see you have numerous ancestors in Essex, for example. So why not take out a subscription (put it on your birthday or Christmas list if money is an issue) to SEAX?  Then you can browse through all Essex parish registers at your leisure? This will enable you to piece together families much more accurately, than just asking for individual look ups of marriages/burials etc.  It also gives you the satisfaction of finding the info, not having it handed to you!

Yes - keep asking on Rootschat for odd items that evade you, or that you do not have access to that someone else might have.  But if you are intend to be a serious researcher, then you need to do serious research, not just a lot of asking others to do it for you!!!!!

Most of all - enjoy.  I think you are doing that already, and I don't want to spoil that. Just want to encourage you and offer some hints.