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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Help! Grellier - Huguenots in Jersey
« on: Saturday 24 September 11 13:15 BST (UK)  »
Having re-read the will of Gabriel Grellier as referred to in my original posting I can see that the widow of Paul Grellier is in fact 'Janne' and not 'Aimee' as I first though.

'Thank you' in advance  to anyone willing to check these for me!

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Help! Grellier - Huguenots in Jersey
« on: Thursday 22 September 11 23:24 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the information jerseylily. I have seen the information on the later Grelliers, but it is those from the 18th century that I am interested in.

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Help! Grellier - Huguenots in Jersey
« on: Thursday 22 September 11 14:57 BST (UK)  »
I am researching a family surnamed 'Grellier' who were Huguenots from Montcoutant in France.

There are references to a branch of this family living in Jersey in the early to mid 18th century and I'm wondering if they may be a missing link.

My assumption is that they lived in St Helier, though I am not certain of this. I would be very grateful if anyone would be willing to check for the following people in the christening records for that place:

1. Perine Grellier b c1725? daughter of James Grellier (she was married in London 1745)
2. Henry Grellier b c1730 (died London 1819 age 89)
3. Peter Paul Grellier b c1732 son of ?? (died in London 1804 age 72)
4. Jane Grellier b c1733 ?? sister of Peter Paul
5. Mary Grellier b c1735 sister of Peter Paul (died in London 1816 age 81)

- The will of Gabriel Grellier of London (dated 1740) mentions relatives James Grellier and Aimee widow of Paul Grellier both resident in Jersey.

If the records are indexed and there are not too many entries could I ask if a complete list be provided -assuming there are Grelliers in St Helier of course!

Any help in this matter is deeply appreciated.

John

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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Bristol look up request
« on: Saturday 09 April 11 13:13 BST (UK)  »
I wonder if someone would be kind enough to help me?

I am searching in Bristol for Thomas Sweet born 1760-1775. I have found one on the IGI, but I'm not sure it's the right one and it is my understanding that the IGI for Bristol is defective anyway. Can anyone check the CD for me to see if there are any more Thomas'?

I would also like to find the marriage of Samuel Sweet to Martha circa 1818 in the Bristol area if possible.

My very grateful thanks in advance.

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Ireland Resources / Re: IFHF Online Genealogy Database
« on: Saturday 26 February 11 14:46 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Aghadowey, that may well be so, but the majority of people in Ireland are, and were Roman Catholic, and the baptismal records that the Roman Catholic church kept are as detailed as I have described, and do include both parents names, the mother's maiden surname and the names of Godparents.

I have researched in a number of Roman Catholic parishes, including ones in the northern counties and this has always been my experience.

The provision of a subscription service by the IFHF would be, in my view of benefit to all those interested in the research of Irish people and of all denominations, and for the reasons I have outlined in my previous message.




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Ireland Resources / Re: IFHF Online Genealogy Database
« on: Saturday 26 February 11 01:21 GMT (UK)  »
Well I would beg to differ on that score!

 If you have checked out the free 'Irish Genealogy' website which covers mostly parts of Dublin, Kerry and parts of southern Cork, a quick examination of the baptismal records reveals that they often contain a wealth of information including both parents forenames, the mother's maiden surname and the names of both Godparents! All potentially useful information.

The option to search using even a mother's first name would in any event be far better than the present situation with IFHF which does not allow any more than a search for father's name for a family and then only for a countywide search. If you try to search by parish they move the goalposts again requiring a first name for a particular individual.

The central problem with the pay-per-view system is that it necessitates restricting the sorts of ways in which the information contained in a database can be accessed.

Computers and the internet have shown on many occasions that there exists a enormous potential to search in a variety of ingenious ways, and in ways that would not be possible without them, and this in turn makes discovering ancestors possible when it would not have been possible before.

Please support my call to press the IFHF to change their current backwards looking policy and offer a subscription service which could open up Irish genealogy!





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Ireland Resources / Re: IFHF Online Genealogy Database
« on: Saturday 19 February 11 21:12 GMT (UK)  »
I'm afraid that this site fills me with a great deal of bitterness and disappointment. Records of my ancestors are there but the site is too expensive to use! They charge E5 for every record you want to look at and make it as difficult as they can for users to obtain any useful information from it without paying.

It's not rocket science to make it possible to search by both parent's names for example. My numerous Irish ancestors crossed over to mainland Britain over 100 years ago and settled in Scotland. As anyone who has researched in Scotland knows a lot of information can be obtained for their civil records. I know the names of Irish couples who are my ancestors but the folks at rootsireland (despite making great play of the fact that they are apparently a not-for-profit organisation), seem to be too afraid of losing revenue to make it easy for me to find them!

I'm not a millionaire, and frankly, to do genealogy properly on the rootsireland website you have to be very comfortably well off indeed!

I have e-mailed them to protest about their extortion and have asked them to provide a subscription service. It hasn't hurt Ancestry's revenues so it surely won't hurt theirs!

I call on all persons with an interest in Irish genealogy to do the same!

John

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Suffolk Completed Lookup Requests / Re: long melford
« on: Monday 24 January 11 16:29 GMT (UK)  »
Just to say a big 'thank you' to all who have replied to my request and especially to Anne who was kind enough to look up the marriage for me, and thank you also for the additional information.

To Suzard: The quarters for marriages (unlike births and deaths) are precise - a marriage for the December quarter will take place between 1st October - and no earlier  - and 31st December - and no later. I did a study of this in registers in London and there were no exceptions to this.

 If you do find evidence that I am wrong about this then please let me know!

John

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Suffolk Completed Lookup Requests / long melford
« on: Friday 21 January 11 15:07 GMT (UK)  »
I would like to request a lookup of a marriage occurring at Long Melford sometime between 1st october 1852 and 31st december 1852 between Benjamin Mitchell and Hannah Lymix/Lynix? I am particularly interested in the name of Hannah's father.

Many thanks in advance.

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