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Messages - MaryThorn

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Northumberland / Re: Does anyone know if craclyn is okay?
« on: Sunday 15 November 20 09:41 GMT (UK)  »
I'm friends with her on Facebook and she posts daily on Facebook Ancestry page.

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Northumberland / Re: Any Blyth Hudson families?
« on: Monday 26 August 19 13:48 BST (UK)  »
Haven't as yet ordered the birth certificate, this is my next move.

There's a lot of Blyth folk on here so i hoped someone knew of the Hudsons and could answer how this child came to live with the Dixons. 

Not sure if the abandoned baby is ĺinked to this person or is an easy way to explain an illegitimate child further down the generation.

There may be a Hudson link further down through the relatives, Barbara Dixon (who 'adopted' the child) had a Great Nephew with the middle name Hudson.

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Northumberland / Any Blyth Hudson families?
« on: Sunday 25 August 19 16:20 BST (UK)  »
I 'm a little perplexed with a 'Hudson' connection to my Blyth ancestors.

In the 1871 census there is an 'Emma Maria Hudson' aged 1 classed as a lodger living with my 3 x Great Grandparents in Ridley Street Blyth.  By the 1881 census she is classed as 'adopted daughter'.  In both census returns her birthplace is given as Lysden Farm, Blyth.

In the GRO  records there is no surname given for the mother so I assume her mother was a Hudson.  After the 1881 census I can find no more records for Emma Maria Hudson (or searching under Dixon which was the name of my 3 x greatgrandparents)

I'm intruiged by this girl, as to who she was and who were her family.  There is a family story of my Great Grandmother (Granddaughter to my 3 x Great Grandparents) finding an abandoned baby In some offices she was  cleaning and the child being adopted into the family.  However I've never found any evidence of a child being adopted into this generation. However my Great Grandmothers mother was living with her parents as a 12 year old when the child is first listed as living with the family.  I'm wondering if it could be this generation where the 'abandoned ' baby was adopted by the family.  This seems more probable especially as my 2 x Great Grandmother went on to name my Great Grandmother Emma the first Emma in the family.

If anyone has any Hudson connections to Blyth are they able to shed any light on who Emma Maria Hudson was?

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Northumberland / Re: Blyth Scandinavian records
« on: Tuesday 18 June 19 10:21 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Ian.  I have been going through the Norwegian records link that Lynda posted, which also has a handy option for English version.  There doesn't seem to be many Basbergs but I'm not sure how complete these records are.

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Northumberland / Re: Blyth Scandinavian records
« on: Tuesday 18 June 19 08:05 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your research Ian.  I'm still at a loss really, with 'Charles' being listed as both his name and his father's name I can't really link if the Charles are actually the Soren Olaus and his father listed in the Norwegian records.  It would have been great if somewhere it was listed that he was known as Charles. 

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Northumberland / Re: Blyth Scandinavian records
« on: Monday 17 June 19 09:12 BST (UK)  »
Finally the marriage certificate arrived.  It hasn't helped me though.  Charles Basberg's father is listed as Charles Basberg (Deceased)  Master Mariner on the marriage certificate.  I haven't been able to find any Charles Basbergs in Norwegian records, but also I imagine Charles would be Claus in Norwegian so still perplexed.

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Northumberland / Re: Blyth Scandinavian records
« on: Monday 20 May 19 23:48 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks Ian

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Northumberland / Re: Blyth Scandinavian records
« on: Sunday 19 May 19 20:46 BST (UK)  »
Lynda as always you come up trumps.  I hadn't thought of Family search after worldwide searches on Ancestry and Findmypast only showed up the British marriage and death records.

It's going to be a long wait for the marriage certificate to come, estimated despatch date was 11th June. I think I'll tentatively put these names in my tree for the time being so I have something to work from.

Even though I have no direct link to this Norweigan link this has excited me as my 2nd cousin has never known about this side of his family for complicated reasons.  Last year I was able to give him his great grandfather name and various newspaper reports into his death and other information about our shared great grandmother and his own grandmother.  If this proves to be correct then I'll be able to give him information about his Norweigan ancestors and I know he will love this.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Help to find a Cunningham ancestor.
« on: Sunday 19 May 19 17:15 BST (UK)  »
Update - Brickwall knocked down

Just came across this old post of mine and thought I'd post an update.  It took another 2 1/2 years but I finally got to the bottom of the mystery and proved my suspicions to be correct.

I decided to look back at the other Cunningham family living in the same small village as my great grandparents.  The family that had a William Cunningham who was a blacksmith but was too young to be my great grandmother's father.  On looking at them again I realised that they had a 'son ' listed as living with them called Robert Watson Cunningham.  This seemed like another remarkable coincidence as my great grandfather was named Watson Oliver Thornton, the Watson and Oliver coming from great grandparents surnames.

Based on a hunch that all these coincidences must amount to something I checked the GRO records and only a Robert Cunningham matched, no mother's name given meaning he was illegitimate, strange for a couple who by this stage had been married for years.  I then hunted out a baptism record for Robert Watson Cunningham and there clear as day was a father listed as Watson Oliver Thornton!

The rest fell into place, realising that Robert Watson was actually the Cunninghams grandson it became clear that my great grandmother referred to her stepfather as her father on her marriage details.  I then checked the GRO records for the other Cunningham children and the mothers maiden name was listed as Jones.  This led me to a Scottish birth registered for my great grandmother as Janet Jones, illegitmate. Baptismal records and date of birth matched to the 1939 census.  Tracing back her mother's line led me to the family names of Easton and Campbell.  Now DNA has finally proved my brick wall has crumbled.

Sorry for the long winded post just was excited to be able to update.

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