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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Ayashi on Monday 07 January 08 15:02 GMT (UK)
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There's one side of my family tree where I have been insanely lucky. I'm descended from a man called Roger Barkache (or Trewartha... or Andrewartha... depending on what his fancy was at the time...) and when I googled "Trewartha", I found an entire family tree on the internet for the Trewartha family, including my ancestors! Anyhoo, all that lot were in Cornwall, and they branched off to Australia and America. I was in correspondance with a couple who are in charge of the site and I live over the other side of the country from all this in a very small and boring town. It was only after I found them in the family tree that I found out... of all the places in the world, this couple actually got married in the church next to my house! What are the chances of that?? :D
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Wow Ayashi how lucky is that finding your tree! Sometimes the saying is true - the world is a small place
Never been luck enough to find someone who is researching my lines and already done the work - think the job has fell to me lol
Did manage to find one tree relating to my cousins side of the family that goes back to the 1500's - that was in Cornwall too
Welcome to Rootschat too!
Willow x
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The outer twigs of my tree have an Elias ANDREWARTHA (born Gwythian, Cornwall) who moved to the Isle of Man, whose daughter settled in Cumberland.
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I believe there were a few in my family born in Gwithian. The website is http://www.miketree.co.uk/trewartha/surnlist.htm They won't be interested in non-Trewartha lines, I'm afraid (I'm not on there because she married into a different family) but I would be interested if there is a match! Go to Roger Trewartha/Barkache/Androwartha and his grandson Philip, I'm told, is the "Proto-Andrewartha". If Elias is his name, I don't recognise it on the tree. If you have parents for him, they might be on there somewhere.
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Ayashi
I too happened across one of my Paternal lines by googling
surname,unusual first name and placename and found a
website whos tree included by Paternal Grandafather.
My lines were correct but they had obviously done more
research on other branches that I had not looked at.
Emailed the website owner and managed to get a
copy of a photograph of my Great Grandmother when she
was younger than the only one I had.
I shared the information on my line and a few other lines
which they did not seem to have at the time.
I think what I enjoyed the most was finding out that
someone else was researching the same family and their
research and mine was almost identical with no help from
each other.
Jinks
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I found the family tree of part of my mothers side just by googling (Richardsons). A very extensive and comprehensive one at that! I contacted the compiler who was a remote cousin. I was able to give her the names and a sketchy tree of part of the tree which she would not have found as my bit was not legitemised and Smiths!!! How I love the internet!
But, Ayashi, to find someone who got married next door is real spooky! One wonders how many of us pass our cousins in the street!
:)
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It's just a pity I haven't had as much luck googling "Jones" ;D
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Ah, but but my ggg grandfather was a real bastard! I mean a REAL bastard was born a Smith! So I sympathise. ::) ::)
Should have been a Richardson!! His mother married the Father eventually but of course James Smith could not have his fathers name! Thank goodness we have a family bible and some sketchy attempts by predecessors of a family tree. :)
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Thanks, you just made me laugh!
It so happens that Trewartha is common in Cornwall, Uglow is apparently common in Cornwall, and Jones is common in Wales. It's not that fun to find out you are as common as muck, rofl
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I googled my family name and found a forum that a first cousin in France and a second cousin in USA had posted on. I realised from the questions they had asked each other I was definitely related to them.
Both their e-mail addresses were there so I contacted them and between us we have pieced together a lot of family history. Each of us had photos that were of interest to the others and it has been fun sharing.
Definitely worth googling your family name.
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I believe there were a few in my family born in Gwithian. The website is http://www.miketree.co.uk/trewartha/surnlist.htm They won't be interested in non-Trewartha lines, I'm afraid (I'm not on there because she married into a different family) but I would be interested if there is a match! Go to Roger Trewartha/Barkache/Androwartha and his grandson Philip, I'm told, is the "Proto-Andrewartha". If Elias is his name, I don't recognise it on the tree. If you have parents for him, they might be on there somewhere.
I am descended from Elias Andrewartha through his daughter Martha who lived in Hensingham in Cumberland. I'd be interested in any information about why Elias left Gwithian (I suspect it was due to lack of work in the dwindling Cornish mining industry) and whether anyone has any more information about Elias' ancestors? (the miketree link no longer works)
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Hi
I still have some information from that original site. Do you know who Elias' parents were? I'm afraid I wouldn't know anything on a personal level.
-Edit: If your Elias is the one ch. 1814 to John and Salomi, those parents do appear on that tree although only two children were attached and it looks like the later ones omitted.
According to the original source (not my research)
Parents:
John ANDREWARTHA ch 08 Mar 1772 Gwithian died or buried 23 Nov 1831 Redruth
Salomi or Sarah HAMMILL ch 22 Sep 1776 Gwinear buried 04 Jun 1859 Redruth
The lineage as given (with dates, but it will take me a while and it's 1am!)
Grandparents - Philip ANDREWARTHA and Alice AMBROSE
Great Grandparents - Philip ANDREWARTHA and Elinor MICHELL
2 x Great Grandparents - Philip ANDREWARTHA and Mary COCK
3 x Great Grandparents - John TREWARTHA and Mary CARTHEW
4 x Great Grandparents - Philip TREWARTHA and Agnes COCKE
5 x Great Grandfather - Roger TREWARTHA / BARKACHE / ANDREWARTHA
I should say that Roger was contested by a different cousin of mine (giving Philip's father instead as John) and with both parties being stubborn people I opted not to take sides. I can't confirm any of this research at all especially I am descended from Philip's supposed brother, William, although I can say that DNA has confirmed my line back to Robert TREWARTHA and Tamsin JACK, who (if correct) are Roger/John/Whoever's great grandson/dau in law.
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Researching a new family line, a friend found for me a pew seating plan for the family in question in the churchwarden records of Lyme Regis.
Sitting on the empty places in the pew are members of the Pyne family of Lyme Regis.
My family name (Pyme/Pine), and there probably is a distant connection.
What are the chances of that?
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My best find came from googling an unusual middle name with the surname Taylor. Up came a family prayer book, listing the then unknown death dates of my 2g grandparents in Norfolk and even some death dates for family here in Australia :-)