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Hi,

I'm looking to find a connection to the Tyrrell family of Castlethorpe.

I have a Charles Panter marrying an Elizabeth Swannell on Feb 25th 1762.

They had 20 children, including 5 with a middle name of Tyrrell.

This would seem to imply a connection to the Tyrrell family in an earlier generation, which would be pretty amazing as the family has some famous connections, including a granddaughter of Sir Walter Raleigh buried at Castlethorpe.

But I can't see that connection.

The Tyrell family tree can be pieced together as they crop up in various books, but they seem to fade away around the same time my tree kicks off.

I have an idea that the connection may exist from Joseph Swannell. He was the father of Elizabeth Swannell, and described in his will as a gentleman of Stony Stratford, a stones throw from Castlethorpe.

I've yet to find his birth. He married his wife Mary Chatum in London on June 3 1730, where he was described as "of Newport Pagnell", and where I believe I see a first son born in 1731 - the rest of the children were born in Castlethorpe.

I wonder if his mother was a Tyrell?

Has anyone else being researching any of these folk?

Many thanks,

John

Hi,

I'm working on a great great grand uncle by the name of James Crombie Hunter, who looks to have been the proprietor of the Theatre Royal in Middlesbrough. A number of online sources put 1866 as the date the Theatre Royal started business, but I have found newspaper references to him in 1861 as the proprietor of the Theatre Royal in Middlesbrough. Does anyone have any definitive information as to when the theatre opened?

Regards

John

Hi,

I've obtained a couple of very intriguing Attestation records for a great grandfather of mine, a Charles Joseph Gosling, born 1889 in North Shields.

Seems he was up to something a bit odd.

On January 8th 1908, he joined the 5th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers.

3 months later, he joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, in Winchester.

On the Rifle Corps attestation, there is the following statement.

"Tried by D.C.M (which I take to be District Court Martial) for after having been discharged with disgrace from a part of his majesties forces, enlisting in the regular forces without declaring the criminal (word uncertain) of his discharge and sentenced to 84 days G.H.L (general hard labour?) and to be discharged with ignominy from his majesties service."

So clearly, he had been kicked out of the Northumberland Fusiliers for something, then went to Winchester, joined the Rifles, but then his past caught up with him.

I've corresponded with the Fusiliers museum, and wouldn't you know it, but there is a gap in the records, so they don't have any court martial records from then. I assume one would have taken place.

I've also tracked down the Rifles records to Hampshire record office, but they don't have court martial records.

They've suggested National Archives, but by the looks of things, there is a gap in the records there as well.

Would anyone know if any records might survive somewhere that would tell me what Charles was up to?

Regards

John

Hi,

I've got for the first time out many thousands of names in my tree a Canadian connection, a great grand uncle on my wife's side.

So the story starts with Samuel William James (1870-1956), born Leicester, died Winnipeg

He, his Wife, Sarah Ann (Walker) and daughter Edith May James, arrived in Winnipeg in 1910, where they settled.

I have a nice newspaper story I found on his retirement, which talks about his birth in Leicester, his work at Wolverton Rail Works in Buckinghamshire, and then his work in Canada.

I've also just received a copy of his will which gives me the married name of his daughter (she was an only child) and her husband's full name, Richard Catherall McLellan.

There are a few records, marriage, death of Edith in Kelowna popping up on ancestry.co.uk, but nothing for any children of Edith and Richard, I'm assuming because it looks like birth records in Canada are restricted by a 100 year rule.

So I'm not sure where to go next, or if indeed there's much scope left to try and find any children of Edith and Richard.

Might anyone be able to point me, as a newbie to Canadian records, on where to go next?

Regards

John