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Oh, how alone I feel in my search for my Sourbutts and Beddall ancestors!
On the surname interests page there's only little 'ol me. :'(
Anyone else feeling all alone?
Carol ;)
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Hi Carol,
Sorry I am not searching for the same family as you.
I would love to find somone else who was searching for my Smiths - now with such a common name you would think there would be ???
Matty
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Me too, Im the only one searching for Parvin
Joe
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Poor you,Matty. Must be like the proverbial needle in a haystack!
But at least now we know somebody out there cares. ;D
Carol
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Hello Carol,
Like Joe, I don't want you to feel alone, :(
Know how you feel though - nobody else searching for Families Giddey and Malyon - yet
margaret :)
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Thank you Matty Joe and Margaret.
Feeling a bit more fed up today but nothing to do with rootdigging. Have just come across a nasty traffic accident and being one of the first on the scene, stopped to help.
No details but I feel really quite shakey now. Must say though that after I called 999 the police were there within minutes- sometimes they're there when you need them.Didn't stay until ambulance arrived as was told 'You can go now' by police , but only hope it wasn't too long. Can't get the image of the poor car driver out of my head.
Carol :(
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Cheered up a bit :)- just noticed Joe's research areas!
I'm originally fron Huddersfield and my stepmother still lives at Rastrick!! Small world.
Carol
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Carol,
I am glad you are feeling better now. I must add that not only am I researching Smiths (on my own??) but McNutts and I am glad to say that I have the help of Galena in Canada and between us we have done well, also the pleasure of finding a long lost relative ;D ;D- it was she who put me in touch with rootschat a year ago.
Matty
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Hi Carol,
A similar thing happpend to me a few years ago we were driving on a quiet country road in Australia, (won't go into the details), but we were first on the scene also.
Two other cars stopped to help almost immediately - Two doctors and two registered nurses, out of a total of five people! I remember thinking that someone was looking after these people.
Carol - just being there and taking action was the important thing.
Matty - How wonderful to have found someone to share your research with plus the added bonus of finding rootschat. 8) I hope you find some Smith relatives too.
margaret :)
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Did actually find a distant relative a while ago. Not on Rootschat, sorry to say, but on a Family History Society site. Had a brief exchange with him, but he didn't seem very interested in helping each other out. A bit strange for an amateur genea.. I thought!! Just goes to show that the nicest people are on here. We all like to help each other. :)
Carol
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Yep I know just how you feel.
No one else I've ever found after the surname RAPKIN ( my grans mum).
I have a friend with Urling ancestors too.
At least if you find one you know they're yours,trouble is they are nearly always misspelt.Cos no one's ever heard if before.
Oh well could be worse- after my mates Urling lot,his mum was a BROWN ::)
ATB
Carol
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But aren't mis-spellings sometimes great? Someone found a SOURBEERS for me! Gave us both a giggle.
Carol
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Hiya Carol,
You may not be so alone :)
Have you googled "Sourbutts"?
How many of the rootsweb posts are yours? Or the Ancestry message boards?
That's how I find fellow researchers. It's worth emailing them and asking - y'just never know.
I've emailed a few people and often done well, obviously the older the post the less likely a reply. But you just never know ;D
Pam
;D
PS: It's a great name :o
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Hi Pam
Yes I did try that, quite a while ago. That was how I came across the chappy who wasn't very interested in the end. Have chased up a few on Genes Reunited , but most folk on there are only interested in recent history.it seems. Because I am the only child of a Sourbutts only child, any links are further back.
Thanks for the advice all the same- will have another go soon.Just at present trying to enjoy the nice weather and spend some time in the garden.Problem with this hobby is it's so addictive!I could happily spend all my waking hours researching.
Glad you like the name- It was the bane of my life before I married!!! ::)
Carol
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I have a friend who is researching SOWERBUTTS, and she's asked me to pass on her details :o)
[email removed to prevent misuse - please use the private message facility: moderator]
Best wishes
Claire
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Thanks Claire, you're a star! ;)
This site nver fails to turn up something good.Might not be the same line, but we're almost certainly related way back.With a name like that we're bound to be!!
Carol :) :)
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I'm also feeling like Billy No-mates with my Alcocks, Brasses, Chrystals, Etheringtons, Gants, Hillarys, Macfalls, Nipes and Surretts ... :)
Have made contact with people researching a lot of these lines on other boards, but just for the moment I'm the only one on the SIT looking for these families.
I'm sure this situation will change as news of Rootschat's friendliness and helpfulness continues to spread!
Paul
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nobody else searching for Families Giddey and Malyon - yet
margaret :)
Hi Margaret - I've got a Grace Malyon in my tree !!!! Married in Furneaux Pelham, Herts in 1770.
Just so you know you're not alone on this name! ;D
Helen
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Paul you are Billy lots of friends~ not Billy no mates~ we may not have found rellies on this site but I am sure every one of us has found lots of friends
:)Matty
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Hello there
I have Mockridge,Rapkin and Heapy that no one else is researching.
A friend of mine has Urling and Barleycorn ancestors.
Carol
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Hi,
I also seem to be alone in searching for my Betty, Buckland, Crinks and Skuse families, all from the Bristol and South Gloucestershire areas, except perhaps the Bucklands who was a hawker so may have travelled a lot.
Good luck to you all in your searches
Nashua
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Oh I know how you all feel it would be lovely if we could find some one else to help and share all our findings.
I did that before I joined rootschat, galena found me and we shared our findings of the McNutt family.
As for all the others????????? I never give up hope :)
Matty
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I'm on my own with
LICKFOLD (Sussex);
MONTAGUE (Bucks, Herts, Oxon);
NICHOLDS (Shipley, Sussex);
NORTHEAST (Sussex);
PEASLAND (Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire pre 1765);
PENDOCK (Any but mainly Gloucs);
PENDUCK (Any but mainly Gloucs area);
PINNELL (Oxon and Gloucs);
TEDBURY (Somerset)
and SKILLING (Bagshot, Surrey) and there's only two of us on the Grocotts!
I've got quite a long way with the Lickfolds, Penducks and Skillings but for the moment the rest are all dead ends - such is life!
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I've got a Grace Malyon in my tree !!!! Married in Furneaux Pelham, Herts in 1770.Just so you know you're not alone on this name! ;D
Hi Helen,
How wonderful! 8)
I have Sarah Malyon Born March 1792 Saint Giles Cripplegate London, her mother was Elizabeth. She married in 1815 Saint Saviour Southwark Surrey. This is all the information I have to date.
margaret :)
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Hi Margaret
Your're not going to believe this....I don't believe this ;D
got talking to a new member of the mother and toddler club I go to (probably the last one I'll go to as my youngest starts school in September) and her maiden name is......ta da...... MALYON !
How weird is that ! I nearly fell off my chair ! :o
Her family is from East London as far as she knows. My mission - to get her hooked on family history...... ;)
Helen
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HI all
So pleased I started this post! It's getting people together.
The friend that Claire put me in touch with has roots in the right place for us to be related. Hopefully this means we can now help each other and share info.THANKS CLAIRE!!
I no longer feel so alone.. ;D
Good luck to everyone else...There's someone out there just wondering where you are...
Carol :)
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Hi Margaret
Your're not going to believe this....I don't believe this ;D
got talking to a new member of the mother and toddler club I go to (probably the last one I'll go to as my youngest starts school in September) and her maiden name is......ta da...... MALYON !
How weird is that ! I nearly fell off my chair ! :o
Her family is from East London as far as she knows. My mission - to get her hooked on family history...... ;)
Helen
Go girl!
How amazing is that! - I'm completely blown away - wouldn't it be amazing if.............?
Keep me informed :D
margaret :)
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How amazing is that! - I'm completely blown away - wouldn't it be amazing if.............?
Keep me informed
what do you mean, keep me informed, what about us !!! We all want to know !!
Obviously a typo in the excitement !
Here's hoping .....
Bob
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How amazing is that! - I'm completely blown away - wouldn't it be amazing if.............?
Keep me informed
what do you mean, keep me informed, what about us !!! We all want to know !!
Obviously a typo in the excitement !Here's hoping .....
Bob
Hey Bob,
Thankyou :D
It's so amazing what happens when one posts on Rootschat ;)
LOL - of course the whole world will know loud and clear..............if..........eh Helen.....
margaret :)
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cAROL,
Your thread got me to thinking how many people had made contact through Rootschat.
Because the site is not primarily for bringing relatives together like some other well known sites (GR LC etc) it's hard to judge.
So to keep your hope alive I started a poll...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,73722.0.html
Looks good so far ;D
Pam
;D
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Hi Pam
Great idea to do a poll ! I'm sure many of us are delighted if our research leads us to find an unknown rellie... no matter how distantly related.
Keep up the good work. What would we do without Rootschat and it's fantastic moderators??
Carol ;)
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Carol,
I was so taken by the Sourbutts name I didn't read further.
Where are your BELLs from in DFS?
I have a Bell that went to Liverpool and you have Liverpool folks...
Could there be hope?
Pam
;D
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Fancy that :o
Well here goes (fingers crossed)...
From Dumfries-Margeret Wright Bell b. 1834 m. Richard Bell b. 1839. Son was Charles Stuart Bell b.1868 Chorlton Lancs. m. Emily Ednell Fields ( b. 1873 Edinburgh) at Bolton. Later went to live in Liverpool. My grandmother , Ednell Bell b.1907 Liverpool. Can go back to 1770 if you want more...
Carol
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Hi All,
On my Mom's side, I have found 3 third cousins, 3 fourth cousins and one fifth cousin. Several of these contacts where made thanks to Rootschat.....BUT
On my Pa's side....I cannot find one person looking for the ALLDRIDGE family of Birmingham.
Come on....I know you are out there....
Seek me..and ye shall find!!!
Indi,
Baking her brains out in Southern California
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By the way,Pam. Margaret Wright Bell was her husband Richard's cousin!Both lines descended from John Bell b. 1770 Dumfries.
Carol
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Hello there
I have Mockridge,Rapkin and Heapy that no one else is researching.
A friend of mine has Urling and Barleycorn ancestors.
Carol
I was just thinking how lovely some of these unusual names are, and was reminded that John Barleycorn is one of nicknames given to whiskey by the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book - not that I`ve ever read it you understand - or needed to! (hic).
anon.
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Aaah Carol, you are a bit early for me there.
Thomas Bell from Dalton born ~ 1831 was a joiner who married my 3xg aunt Jane Scott of Annan. Even though they were both from DFS they married in Liverpool but returned to Annan. Jane had more kids but died young. I'm pretty sure Thomas returned to Liverpool and married a second time.
Thomas:
http://fallon.rootschat.net/308.html
That's all I have on him though :)
Pam
;D
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... John Barleycorn is one of nicknames given to whiskey by the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book ...
And a darn good Steeleye Span song to...
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... John Barleycorn is one of nicknames given to whiskey by the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book ...
And a darn good Steeleye Span song to...
LOL Pam,
Steeleye Span! Crikey - we are all having an exciting Saturday night in!
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Don't give up hope Pam. Dalton isn't far from Dumfries and my Richard's grandfather, John Bell (b. 1770) was a joiner.John had two wives, the first of which was Margaret Wright, which is were the Wright-Bell comes in and the second wife was Janet Geddes. Could your line perhaps be from his second wife?
Might be worth checking out, although I am aware that Bell is a very common Scottish name!!!
Carol
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Yes, how I wish!
Martins in London, Jenkins possibly in Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Smiths/Huband Smiths in Ireland...
Wherever they are, they are obviously not on Rootschat!!! ???
MarieC
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... John Barleycorn is one of nicknames given to whiskey by the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book ...
And a darn good Steeleye Span song to...
And a darn good Traffic album (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE5791ADF48A87E20D7863A54C1B57DFB0CFE50EE8B1826455BD0BC3F4DC30E79AF49FE959FEEAB21ED2AFAAE62A3450EDAD5EC56FCD92A393788EEAC643F2E3A7B&sql=10:5r62mpe39f7o) too ....
Released 1970 - must be showing my age too ;D
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Hi all,
I have found that Tunnage is a lonely name to be on too :(
Good luck with all your obscure ones!
Caz
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Hi Nashua my great grandmothers sister married John Matthew Skuse at Old Church St Pancras 16 June 1856. I don't know where he came from, on 1871 census his birthplace says NK which I presume means not known, maybe it was same place as your Skuse family best wishes jabawak
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Hi Jabawa,
Thanks for your reply. I have a Laurina Skuse born 1866 in Thornbury Gloucestershire. Her mother was Jane Skuse, father unknown. Jane was the daughter of Thomas Skuce from Malmesbury Wiltshire and Caroline?. Dont think there are any London connections, but will keep a note of your John Matthew Skuse just in case.
Good luck
Nashua
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I'm the only one looking for GILLBANKS , mind you, when I find one were sure to be related, it's not a very common name. Jim.
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Is there anyone out there looking for or have details on the following:
Agnes Weild - daughter of John Weild born 28/04/1795 in Dornock?
She married - 4th June 1814, Annan. Agnes Weild to William Blinkinship (maybe mis-transcribed, should be Blenkinsop, but other variations have been used). Does anyone have info on William or Agnes' parents or siblings?
Also looking for family of Wilhelmina Hope (she married the sone of William Blenkinsop - James)
I have her mothers name - Jane Scott born around 1786 - Roxburgh, Scotland. Her father was William Hope born around 1782 Hawick, Roxburgh, Scotland. Has oneone details on her parents or siblings?
I've drawn a blank..hoping someone might have information..
Thanks for reading this
Caroline
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My G grandma was a Beddall but she was from Netherton Worcestershire Sue
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Hi Sue
Possibly part of the same family because I think I've now got mine back to Wolverhampton on the 1901. Joseph Beddal flour miller age 24 born Wolv. Staffs. Good chance this was my g.grandfather as flour millers named Beddall weren't 10 a penny!
Any link? Do hope so....it's been a lonely search so far! :'(
Cheers
Carol
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Thank you Matty Joe and Margaret.
Feeling a bit more fed up today but nothing to do with rootdigging. Have just come across a nasty traffic accident and being one of the first on the scene, stopped to help.
No details but I feel really quite shakey now. Must say though that after I called 999 the police were there within minutes- sometimes they're there when you need them.Didn't stay until ambulance arrived as was told 'You can go now' by police , but only hope it wasn't too long. Can't get the image of the poor car driver out of my head.
Carol :(
Carol did you give first aid? If I remember rightly from my training, they tell you you may feel upset afterwards and I think they said you can get help or counselling if necessary. Maybe you could call your local Red Cross branch?
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Hi LIzzy
Yes I did briefly have to give first aid, but the police took over the job when they arrived. Seems such a long time ago now and I'm pleased to say that I did feel better the next day. Thanks for your concern and advice.
Since then I've been involved in an accident myself.Nowhere near as horrific as what I came across, but it took a while to get over, even though it was the other driver at fault, you still lose confidence in your own ability as a driver!The physical stuff heals if you're lucky, but the emotional scars stay with you.....
Carol
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I've got to start lessons soon. If THAT doesn't scare you, nothing will. 8)
Instructor: "Mind that car!"
MrsLizzy: "What car?!"
Instructor: "The one you just nearly hit!!!"
:-[
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I'm sure you're nowhere near as bad as you make out! ;D but just in case, do let us know when your lessons are.........only kidding!!
Good luck.I'm sure you'll enjoy the freedom. Couldn't manage without my car. The buses are rubbish where I live.It would take me forever to get to work in the mornings.
Carol
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I start work in Cambridge tomorrow. I'll get back to Haverhill after the last bus is gone and as I am NOT shelling out hard earned wonga for a taxi, I will WALK the last mile back to my village! >:( And yes it was a nightmare getting home from Cambridge on Friday - I was getting quite sarcastic in that bus station!
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My husband's gt aunt married a BEDDALL but this family lived in Bedford and some still live there now.
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Oh, how alone I feel in my search for my Sourbutts and Beddall ancestors!
Carol ;)
hello Carol--i have a one Beddall---Joseph b abt 1831 in Staffordshire 2nd husband of Mary Smart my Gt Grandaunt. Mary was born in Bedfordshire. poli
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Hello Carol
There was Bill Sourbutts who used to be on Gradeners Question Time, I think he was from Lancaster.
My problem names are Heise (German) and Cruice (somewhere in Ireland and then Liverpool).
Michael
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I wish someone else would have details on my ancestor George Coombs, born about 1790. Married Sarah unknown about 1810 and had 4 children in London inbetween 1812 and 1828. George was a coachman and died in 1831 in London, Sarah remarried in 1834 and died in Feb 1851.
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Hi Margaret, I have Malyon family in my tree, Louisa Jane Malyon born 1836 in Clerkenwell London UK and died 26/8/1900. She was married to John Waldram on 7/8/1860
Her Daughter Louisa May Waldram is my great grandmother and she immigrated to Perth WA approx 1912. Not sure if we have a connection or not. I think Louisa Jane's parents were James Malyon and Rachel Evans.
All the Best
Patti in Vic Aus.
Hello Carol,
Like Joe, I don't want you to feel alone, :(
Know how you feel though - nobody else searching for Families Giddey and Malyon - yet
margaret :)
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Hi Patti, Welcome to Rootschat,
I'm not sure whether we have a connection or not either. My 3x great grandmother was Sarah Malyon, born c1787. I haven't been able to find a birth/baptism/parents/siblings for her. She married Charles James Hart Tuck b1789, Woodford Essex at St Saviour Southwark, Surrey England in 1815. The witnesses to the marriage were William Malyon and Mary Frost. My 2x great grandmother, Emily Malyon Tuck was born 1816 in Tottenham Middlesex and died 1888 in Christchurch New Zealand.
Margaret :)
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Sorry, drawn a blank here, no connection I can readily identify. Thanks for response Regards PattiG :)
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Never mind. I wish you all the best with your research. Margaret :)