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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Augustine Brown
« on: Friday 11 December 20 14:37 GMT (UK)  »
Could someone please point me in a direction where I might find the parents of Augustine Brown. He was born about1762 in London. At the time of his death he resided in the parish of Aldgate and was buried at Christchurch. His wife was Ann Sidney who he married in 1789.
Many thanks mdb

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Leicestershire / William North of Twyford
« on: Saturday 31 March 18 14:43 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for information on a William North of Twyford Leicestershire. I believe he was born in 1766 and married an Ann Whitehead in 1791. They had a son Charles in about 1809. Apart from the marriage in Leicestershire Parish Records I can find no other trace of him. The birth date comes from Family Search but they don’t give a source.
Thanks mdb

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Lincolnshire Lookup Requests / John Palin
« on: Monday 06 March 17 10:57 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for the parents of John Palin b.1758 in Welbourn and christened at St. chad's church. I believe his father was Thomas but have various ideas for his mother including Ann and Mary. The spelling of Paling does vary and can be Paling or Pailing.
Thank you to anyone who can help me with this.
mdb

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Perthshire / Is William Brooks really William North?
« on: Saturday 28 January 17 15:52 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for information on a William Brooks who was a sergeant instructor in the army in Perthshire having previously fought in India and in the Crimea. According to his discharge papers he was born in Nottingham in 1835 and joined up in 1853. A family story is that he was born William north and after a family quarrel took his wife's surname. There is no record of a William North after the 1851 census that I can find so the story could be true unless anyone knows different!
mdb

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / DNA percentages
« on: Friday 01 January 16 16:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I've just received my dna results and I'm not sure what to read into the percentages. I'm 33% European Jewish but don't know what that means in terms of number of relatives. I know my paternal great grandparents were Jewish but would that be enough for 33% or would it be likely that there were other Jewish relations?
Would appreciate some thoughts on this.
Thanks mdb

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Nottinghamshire Lookup Requests / Mary Dixon Hoyes
« on: Thursday 09 October 14 11:29 BST (UK)  »
Not sure how this works but please, please would anyone be able to look up the marriage of George Pailing and Mary Dixon Hoyes which took place on 15th Sep 1819 at North  in the Notts extracted parish records for me. I am trying to trace the father of Mary with no luck so far. Any other info on the marriage would be useful too.
George Pailing is more usually recorded as Palin but I do think that the Pailing George is my ancestor.

Many thanks mdb

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London and Middlesex / Brown cousins of Bethnal Green
« on: Saturday 12 January 13 14:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I am searching for any descendants of these children of Augustine(Gustin) Brown b.1854 
and Rosetta Lee b.1856
Gustin Brown b.1876
John Brown b.1881
Thomas Brown b.1883
William Brown b.1889
Charles Frederick Brown b.1900
Edward Brown b.1901
All were born in Bethnal Green.
Their younger sister Emily b.1992 was my grandmother and so far I have not been able to trace any of these siblings. There is an older sister Rosetta b. 1878 who I do have records for.
Thanks mdb

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Lincolnshire / benjamin bocock
« on: Sunday 01 April 12 17:11 BST (UK)  »
I am  looking for information about benjamin bocock born about 1800 probably in Kirton in Lindsay. In the 1841 census his address was Glandford Brigg Union workhouse with his son John Tranfield. He died there in 1842. I think his wife was Martha and his father a William Bocock but have no firm evidence to support either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks mdb

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Dorset / The Edgar Talbot mystery
« on: Friday 03 February 12 16:21 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to solve the mystery of my g.g. grandfather Edgar Talbot, a ship's carpenter. He married a Hannah Lee in 1875 in London. His father was recorded as Joseph a builder. On the 1891 and 1881 censuses he is listed as being born in 1843 in Weymouth, Dorset. He was living in Bethnal Green as a shipwright.
When trying to search back further I can only find an Edgar Abraham Lee who was born in Weymouth around 1833. A marriage cert to a Sarah Jane Chick gives his occ as ship's carpenter and his father as Joseph a joiner. This Edgar can be traced back to the 1841 census and a christening record. I also have evidence of him being at sea in 1868.
At first I wondered if they were the same person and he remarried either after the death or divorce of Sarah but I can't find evidence to support this and then took 10 years off his age!! Also my Edgar's death cert gives his age as 54 in 1900.
Can anyone help to unravel this PLEASE!!!!
Thanks mdb

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