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London and Middlesex / memorial inscriptions St Anns in Limehouse
« on: Wednesday 06 July 22 11:57 BST (UK)  »
Hello!
I don't suppose anyone might know if there are any records of memorial inscriptions at Limehouse St anns. I've looked for them (or referrence to them) on:
metropolitan archieves website
east london family history website
find a grave
deseased online
billion graves
the church (st anns)  website
and on the guide to burials in london topic on this website.

I am looking for Alexander lighterness who was buried in 1829 - I think he may have had a gravestone.

thanks,
Kate

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Berwickshire / MIs in eyemouth
« on: Saturday 02 July 22 16:49 BST (UK)  »
Hello - Am trying to trace the Lighterness family from Eyemouth at the mo

I have found reference to this book/ publication:
Pre 1855 Memorial Inscriptions of Berwickshire by David Cargill.

Looks good as the Lighterness family I am looking at are mainly 1700s in this area - does anyone know how I can access this publication?
thanks!
Kate

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Armed Forces / Lieutenant lighterness
« on: Saturday 02 July 22 16:33 BST (UK)  »
Hello!
I have been doing some research on Alexander Lighterness  - Lieutenant in the royal navy - around the early 1800s (TNA gives his date of senority as 1798). I've also googled and found he was at the naval battle of camperdown on the Adament where is listed as Master's Mate. I've searched the TNA and googled, is there anyother researches to research him and his career? I am wandering how he became a Lieutenant, given that I can't see hes from a wealthy family....
(apart from the birth marraiges and deaths info that is!)
Many thanks,
Kate

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Devon / Where was "outbounds" in Devonport (plymouth dock)
« on: Saturday 02 July 22 16:19 BST (UK)  »
Hello!
I have been spending some happy hours researching my husband's 4x G grandfather who was a lieutenant in the Navy and stationed at Plymouth for some years. In 1812  - on www.olddevonport.uk its lists him as being a resident in "outbounds" :
" Lieutenant Lighterness, Royal Navy, was listed as a resident of Outbounds in 1812.  [1812]"

I can not find where this was, any suggestions? or any pointers to any good old maps to check, the ones I've checked on old maps online haven't givem me any clues...
thanks!
Kate

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Canada / Deaths in new brunswick
« on: Saturday 16 October 21 11:35 BST (UK)  »
Hello!
I have recently found evidence that our Craig family great x4 grandfather, Walter Craig might have emigrated to Canada  - New Brunswick, which explains the mystery of why the family disappear after 1861 from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.  ???
I have found a likely candidate on the 1871Canada Census in Charlotte, New Brunswick. They are down as Creig not Craig, but Walter, Mary and sons John W and William are all there and the right ages. Further more, theres a DNA match who is descended from John W in Canada so this fits.

Can't find Walter, Marys or Williams death (or marriage). I think John W. marries a Mary Wood.
Wandering if anyone knows abit more about Canadian research than I do, I've had a look a ancestry search for possible deaths for Walter but can't see it.
Would be lovely to finish off Walter's story or even know where he is buried.

Thanks for reading!


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Armed Forces / Help on what would govren which regiment you went into ...
« on: Thursday 18 February 21 10:45 GMT (UK)  »
Hello!
I am not very experienced in military history - I am wandering if anyone has any knowledge of why people might join a certain regiment and also is there any documentation on where these regiments were based? We are talking mid 1800s here...

I have one of the relatives - Walter Craig, in the 43rd Regiment in the 1850s/ 60s.
Looking this up, it was the Monmouthshire Regiment of Foot at the time  - and I intriged to know why he would have been in this regiment as geographically it does not make sense - he was born in northumberland, and then pops up as a private in the 43rd in Kent at his marriage in 1856 in Chatham, Kent and (his new wife lives no where near this), and then I have him in India on the military 1861 census (which fits with the history of where the regiment was on Wiki)

Does anyone have any ideas??
thanks!

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Cheshire / Jordans in cheshire
« on: Saturday 13 February 21 19:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hello - I have been researching the Jordans of Knutsford (who moved to Manchester in the early 1800s) for some time now, I am stuck on William Jordan (1753) plumber and glazier of knutsford, and i think its gona take a lot of dynamite to move this brick wall!  ???
However me and mum have unearthed some really lovely info about him over the years and I feel quite connected with him and his wife Ann Vernon!
I have looked at umpteen Jordans all around the county and also Lancashire - and I would be interested to exchange notes if anyone else out there is also on a mini Jordan one name project!
Tar very much.  :D
Kate

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Northumberland / Craigs in North Northumberland / Durham
« on: Sunday 07 February 21 22:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hello!
I am researching the Craig family branch of our tree and I have got to Walter William Craig born 1830 in Horncliffe (then Durham, now Northumberland).
He moves south (for most of his life) but I am struggling to track down any of his family from the north...
I have found his baptism in 1830, Spittal - and this parents were named Walter and Elizabeth Craig  - but I can't find a marriage and I can't find any other children to this couple...

Does this ring a bell for anyone?
thanks for reading,
Kate

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Confusing shared matches on Ancestry
« on: Saturday 06 February 21 23:09 GMT (UK)  »
Has anyone else noticed that some shared matches on ancestry are not recipricated?

I have a 4th cousin of my husbands, who we are fairly sure on how they are related (call her cousin A for the sake of augument) and when I look at her shared matches with my husband it comes up with one other match who I don't know with a private tree.
However I found another match - probably another 4th cousin via a different sibling but in the same brance (cousin B lets say) - and when I click on her shared matches, theres Cousin A and afew others.
However cousin B does not come up as a shared match when I am looking at cousin A.....
WHY would this be?
I am pretty sure these two above are 3rd cousins to each other so it would make sense if they were shared matches to each other...
Confused! Any ideas...

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