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The BBC have added an article on Poverty and the surveys done by Charles Booth in 19th Century East London.

Thought it might interest...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/business/05/breadlinebritain/html/default.stm

Hello, a recent discovery has led me to the Whitehead family of Haddenham... or should that be "families"?

My NEWMAN and MODEN ancestral families have both uncovered ancestral Whiteheads.

William Moden married Esther Whitehead (b.1783 d.1815) at Haddenham in the early 1800s (ive got the date somewhere) and Philip Newman married Elizabeth Whitehead married there a few years earlier and had at least one daughter - Rebecca Newman b.c.1804.

As yet, i have no information on the Whitehead family, so ANY information is more than welcome.

thanks,

I have been baffled for a while now as to the identity of my Gt Gt Gt Grandfather (James Martin b.1814 d.1868)'s First Wife. On 27th July 1850 The Countess' of Huntingdon's Chapel, Oxlode, he re-marries to widow Mary Crisp (ne้ Tingey) and they go on to have my Gt Gt Grandfather and a couple of other children.

...but can i find that first marriage? no!

The 1851 census happily shows James with his second wife in Little Downham but the information that i dont have is the 1841 census for the villages in the title of this topic. If James did father children with his first wife, then i would be surprised if they survived infancy as there are no obvious clues.. however, James was 35years old (as was Mary) when he married for the second time in 1850, so it is possible that had he married quite young, then his children with his first wife may have been in servant/domestic roles in other families.

If anyone has any useful information or guidance on tracking down this first wife then do please let me know.  I've had a look at burial registers and banns listings and there isnt really anything that jumps out at me.


http://www.familytreeuk.co.uk/Martin/JamesMartin1814.htm for more.

thanks

Hello

For some time i have been working around the lack of Wentworth marriage records being available at the Cambridge CRO... but i was wondering whether anyone has actually transcribed these or part of these.

I also wonder how much of an issue it would be TO transcribe them, making the records available through the CFHS for example on CD-ROM and give some of the profits back to Wentworth's church for the trouble

A significant number of my ancestral families lived and worked in Wentworth for generations... and passed through the church too. So i'm stumped with this tiny parish.

Marriage records hold so much useful information, more information on individuals than baptism or burial records and provides the researcher with maiden names and parents names too... I'm sure that the reason that the marriage register book has yet to surface is because of the tiny parish not actually performing many... or maybe there's another crafty reason??

Anyone have any ideas?

With the rise of websites containing "pay-to-view" or with free historical information and images, do you feel that people are more likely to use this method and accept this as the way to (re)discover history instead of looking at the original item?

It's all too easy to just surf a website, look at the items and then that's it.. but there is definitely merits in actually going and looking at the original item - be it a physical three-dimentional museum piece or an ancient book in the local records office.

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