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England / Looking for Selina Louisa Slade born 1865
« on: Wednesday 30 March 16 01:23 BST (UK)  »
My great great grandparents were George Slade, born in Walthamstow, Essex on 8 December 1841, and Selina Eliza Guy, born in Brighton, Sussex on 7 April 1835. They married in Brighton on 6 July 1863, and my great grandfather George William Slade was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 19 December 1863.

Then, according to the Canadian census of 1901, George and George William migrated to Upper Canada in 1866, and Selina followed them a year later. Then George and Selina had two more kids, and are buried in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

So far, so confusing.

Then, I turned up a birth record on FamilySearch for Selina Louisa Slade, daughter of George and Selina Eliza Slade, christened in Mayfield, Sussex on 5 March 1865. And then... silence.

To begin with, I can't be sure that it's even my George and Selina who were the parents. Apparently, you couldn't swing a cat in Southern England in the 19th century without hitting a guy named George Slade. Although I would think that both the first and middle names matching for the mother would have to narrow things down considerably.

But in any case, Selina Louisa does not appear on the 1871 Canada census, nor can I find a death record or a marriage record for her anywhere. I'm tempted to assume that she took sick, and that Selina stayed behind to take care of her as the Georges headed off to the colonies, but that's just supposition. I don't have any data.

So if anybody can tell me:
  • whether Selina Louisa Slade was my great great aunt, or just somebody with similarly-named parents, and/or
  • what happened to her
I would be grateful.

Greg

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Ship Aurora - Liverpool to New York - 1850s-60s
« on: Wednesday 11 November 15 23:03 GMT (UK)  »
Lately, I have taken to researching the ships on which my assorted ancestors made their various ways from the old world to the new, but I'm stumped on this one:

My great-great grandparents are on the passenger manifest for the ship Aurora, arriving in New York City from Liverpool on September 8th, 1856.

"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-16952-33701-40?cc=1849782 : accessed 11 November 2015), 166 - 22 Aug 1856-18 Sep 1856 > image 296 of 499; citing NARA microfilm publication M237 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

The trouble is that I haven't been able to find out hardly anything about the ship itself: not the full name (was it S.S. Aurora or R.M.S. Aurora or M.V. Aurora or I.N.G.T.T.Y.J.T.D.Y.C.[1] Aurora or what?) What was the shipping line? When and where was it built? What happened to it? I can't even make out the name of the Master on that sailing.

What I do know is that it was registered as 1,639 12/95 tons[2]. And I have been able to find arrivals in New York in 1856, 1858, and 1862. I have also found a fleet of Auroras which are not this ship.[3]

I've checked my usual sources for things maritime (TheShipsList, Clydebuilt, Norway Heritage, WreckSite, and Wikipedia), and come up dry. Are there any maritime historians out there with access to more complete sources?

Greg

[1] I'm Not Going To Tell You Just To Drive You Crazy
[2] Seriously? 95ths of a ton? What kind of a measurement is that?
[3] Apparently, "Aurora" is the ship name equivalent to "Smith" as a family name or "Richmond" as the name of a town or city: they're everywhere.

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The Common Room / Offbeat Genealogy Ideas: Opposing Sides
« on: Thursday 21 May 15 23:20 BST (UK)  »
I have dabbled in this stuff on an off for some time. My dad traced his family tree back to his great-grandfather, and out to all his second cousins and their descendants (and, since my grandfather had like 10 siblings, that makes for a lot of cousins).

I saw A.J. Jacobs’ TED talk about the World Family Tree, and am now in the process of getting all my dad’s notes into an online database.

But I keep on having these thoughts about the more offbeat aspects of genealogy. Like, has anybody done a study of how closely related people are who have been on opposite sides of conflicts? George V and Kaiser Wilhelm were pretty closely related, but what about, say, Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler? Or Eisenhower and Emperor Hirohito? Or Kennedy and Khrushchev? Or, for that matter, George Bush and Saddam Hussein?

Inquiring minds want to know...

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