1
Travelling People / Re: Samuel James and Emiy King
« on: Thursday 19 November 09 02:11 GMT (UK) »
If anything, maybe a father of your JJ. ours would have been born around 1825 or so, I imagine. We'll keep hoping!
Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Pages: [1]
2
Travelling People / Re: Samuel James and Emiy King
« on: Wednesday 18 November 09 22:06 GMT (UK) »
TYVM! I see a lot of James were from Wales around 1861 and 1871. Pimlico is a "nice" district in central London. Our Margaret was originally from the Poplar area (Tower Hamlets, near East India docks.) Her dad was a master sawyer. She went to work as a domestic for a family there and "got involved" with James James. Her employer paid the stay in the Lying -in Hospital in Lambeth. It seems she did not marry James, but had the baby, worked as a nurse then died of a fever. Her family took in the baby, raised her and she came to Canada in 1884 as nursemaid to a business family and later married an Englishman here. She was my maternal great-gran. She concocted a lovely story about her assassinated Spanish Diplomat daddy, etc. I guess in those days one did not admit to being illegitimate. Anyway we are quite excited to think we have Romany blood. Always did like travelling and camping!
It would be great to know more about the James family. Do you use Ancestry.com?
It would be great to know more about the James family. Do you use Ancestry.com?
3
Travelling People / Re: Samuel James and Emiy King
« on: Monday 16 November 09 22:29 GMT (UK) »
Just joined. My great-great grandfather was James James, and he "knew" in the Biblical sense as well as social, Margaret Crick, a 20 year-old servant in Pimlico, in early 1856. There was a child, Emily (Lambeth Lying-in Hospital Baptismal register) born in November, my great-grandmother.
Father was given as James James, ...no residence; and his Trade, Profession or Quality given as:"Traveller"
The couple never married.
now I would love to know more about my GG grandfather!
Does "Traveller" on a document of those years refer to a Gypsy Traveller? Has anyone info on a Traveller family called James?
Father was given as James James, ...no residence; and his Trade, Profession or Quality given as:"Traveller"
The couple never married.
now I would love to know more about my GG grandfather!
Does "Traveller" on a document of those years refer to a Gypsy Traveller? Has anyone info on a Traveller family called James?
Pages: [1]