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Whitehaven (Preston Quarter) Cemetery

"Some gravestone inscriptions from Whitehaven Cemetery. These are transcribed from photos, so
not guaranteed accurate!:"

Includes 341 dense pages of gravestone inscriptions and more ..

http://www.longtown19.co.uk/index_htm_files/Whitehaven%20Cemetery%20Website.pdf

Thank you for your message Jon! Yes, I would love any information you have about this family. I've actually made a speculative tree about a James Dobbins born in Whitehaven c 1784 in Whitehaven who is the possible son of a James and Sarah Dobbins. I suspected these people were potentially related to my Dobbins in some way.

Can you send me a PM? Looking forward to hearing form you!

In the past I have paid Lancashire Archives to send me a copy of early wills for my Whitehaven ancestors but I'm pretty sure that I ended up finding them for free in the end - but I can't remember where! Does anyone have an idea?

Whitehaven is in the Deanery of Copeland.

As an example, I am looking for the will of Kitty Pinder, who died on 6 Dec 1842 and whose will appears to have been proved on 22 Feb 1843.

Thanks for any tips.

Don't give up Romilly, just take a break, you never know what might turn up.

I don't doubt Blaine Bettinger's credentials and would like to read his book but a lot of the research he references also relates to matches of 5cM, even 2cM, not to the 6cM and 7cM matches that will be deleted at ancestry.

I accept many of these 6-7cM matches are "noise" but from what he says, perhaps as much as 50% of them are genuine matches, that's many tens of thousands of my matches that will be deleted, to my detriment. At the moment, I can choose to ignore the many irrelevant matches and cherry pick the interesting ones. Soon the interesting ones will not be accessible.

I also don't accept that matches of 6-7cM are extremely distant matches. I have 9 known matches of 6-7cM and my mother has 14, that I can attribute to precise ancestors - mostly my 3 x or 4 x grandparents. Many of these small matches had family trees that overlapped with mine in a clear way. No ambiguity.

I think ancestry could have made this change more intelligently. Clearly people who have already attributed many tiny matches are using them. Brand new customers with tiny trees clearly don't need to have all those mini matches constantly searched through. I feel robbed.