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help! Has anyone any idea how i can find out where ancient ancestors where actually living.
E.G. St Columb is a town and a large parish not far from the coast-and in 1550 - 1620 was a long time ago.
How can I discover - preferably on line- where these families actually lived . Small farms abound,  there are villages with manor house- these were gentry- landed folk,  but I cant find where they actually lived.
 this is an example-  Collaton in Newton Ferrers Devon. It is now a farm but once was a 'manor'. It is a definite place and was once the home of a family of Pomeroys. Their descendants married into St Columb gentry  families BUT where did they live!??

I found this intriguing report.

JOHN WATTS – KIDNAPPING MAIDENS

 The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Published Quartely by The Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va. Volume VI - No. 1  July 1898, p. 230

Title of Article:  Kidnapping Maidens, to be Sold in Virginia, 1618
(Abstract, from English Pub. Record Office, by W. N. Sainsbury.)

Inclosure.
1618, Nov. 13.

 Examinations of Francis Prewe, of Ottery, Thomas Crocker, William Mitchell and JOHN WATTS, taken before Sire Edward Hext of Somerton on the 16th and 31st of October 1618.  In reference to the proceedings of Owen Evans in endeavoring to press Maidens to be sent to the Bermudas and Virginia -- that same bred such terror as above forty young women fled out of the parish of Ottery and were not yet to be found : That he threatened Prewe should answer his conduct in another place, if he failed, that Thomas Crocker should be hanged in the morning if he failed to press him some maidens, that Michell compounded with Evans for ten shillings to be free : and that Evans gave JOHN WATTS four shillings to press him four maidens and bring them to him at Sherborne Co., Dorset, and twelve pence to one Jacob Crystel to press Evans his [Cryste's] daughter.

I am trying to find a marriage in California after 1889 and before 1900
 Edgar Pomeroy born in UK Woolston near Liverpool April 1868 to Martha or Matlin L  French born in CA Nov 1874.
He migrated to USA 1889,  was married by the time of the 1900 census, I have that entry.

It would be useful to find Edgar in the 1930 census. I have an address 55 Estus Ave, San Francisco.
 Living with Lottie Pomeroy . This may be a second marriage,  before 1930 and after about 1916 to a Charlotte or a Lottie. OR she could be his daughter born 1894 in California.

 I also want to confirm the marriage of his brother Campbell Pomeroy  to Leana Moffat Hanger possibly around 1900-1904.

 I wonder if there is a census return for this family in 1890 , They migrated in 1889, they appear in CA in 1900 .
Elizabeth their mother, Edgar, Campbell and Martha (Mattie)wife of Edgar

Any advance would be great!
Thanks
Foxy

I am trying to find 2 marriages.
1- Virginia Pomeroy born 1905 in USA who married Percy McGuire before 1927

 2- Edgar Pomeroy b 1868 in UK, went to US in1889 ended up in CA  where he lived in Oakland SF. He married there to Martha French around 1900 and she died in 1916.

In 1930 he came to England. He is in the passenger list of the ship Hamburg, returning to New York, accompanied by Lottie.  She was b 13 Nov 1894, CA,  so somewhat younger than him so she might be a daughter??

Foxy.