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I use FamilySearch. I love the fact that it's one big tree that anyone can contribute to. As long as you have correct and clear evidence for your family members in the tree (not just from FamilySearch), then I find the branches I'm involved with, stay intact, and continue to be built on.

For me, I don't want my research to be lost in a drawer (figuratively speaking), if I one day decide to not continue my family research.

I also keep an offline version (Ancestral Quest) that links to the FamilySearch section of the tree specified.... as a backup just in case. I understand Ancestral Quest can be used with Ancestry too.

There's a free basic Ancestral Quest version and the paid version at around $35 USD one-time payment.

Although for me, I spend as much time writing about life events on particular family members (or a complete family) in MS Word based on the evidence I find. It can give a more complete picture of those moments in history that family tree builders don't capture. Unless of course, they are attached to the tree.

A friend of the Norton family and an attorney at Ramsgate called John Fagg leaves a piece of land with Messuages, Outhouses, etc. (called Robsack) to a Sarah Norton in his Will in 1795.

This same piece of land had been previously owned by two generations of the Norton family before being sold to John Fagg in 1792, which was discussed in this post here:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=856511.0

I'm wondering if John Fagg could possibly list Sarah Norton in his Will referring to her maiden name Norton instead of her married name.

Sarah Norton (of the Norton family) marries Henry Hodgman in 1767 in Ramsgate before moving to Chatham circa 1771, for around 20 years. After Sarah's husband dies in 1791 in Chatham, Sarah moves back to Ramsgate in 1792 with most of her children.

The Sarah Norton I'm referring to, and her 3 siblings originally inherited the piece of land called Robsack from their grandfather in 1765, before her brother John Norton sells it to John Fagg in 1792.

Note: John Fagg was appointed Sarah's guardian by her grandfather in his Will in 1765.  As Sarah's grandfather outlived both her parents.

Would John Fagg be able to list Sarah Norton using her maiden name in his Will in 1795. or would he have to use her married name (if was married)?


 

I was wondering if there were Monumental Inscriptions from St John the Baptist churchyard, in Margate?

St Lawrence in Ramsgate is here:
https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/research/monumental-inscriptions/ramsgate

St Peter in Broadstairs are available from the Kent Family History Society

Monuments, inside St John the Baptist Church in Margate, are here (link below), but doesn't include any historical inscriptions from the churchyard:
http://www.speel.me.uk/sculptplaces/margatestjohn.htm

Thanks, Carol, BumbleB, horselydown86 & JenB

Much appreciated

The last letter being an 's' makes sense now to be alias...

Thanks for the clarification Bookbox