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Messages - Janice Jones

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How can I be sure - Thomas Vick
« on: Monday 18 August 14 07:35 BST (UK)  »
On his marriage certificate he was down as a traveller and on Vesta's birth certificate as a commission agent, and on a census I think a sewing machine agent.  maybe he was a travelling salesman of one kind or another so no not a shop fitter

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How can I be sure - Thomas Vick
« on: Sunday 17 August 14 23:28 BST (UK)  »
I now have a wider grasp of the Thomas Snr generation but I'd still like to know how I can be sure the record of the death of Thomas Vick (jnr) is correct?

many thanks

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How can I be sure - Thomas Vick
« on: Sunday 17 August 14 21:56 BST (UK)  »
pass the vinegar rag - it looks like I'm related to half of Gloucestershire!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How can I be sure - Thomas Vick
« on: Sunday 17 August 14 19:34 BST (UK)  »
Sorry to be thick - where do Samuel & Eliza come into it?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How can I be sure - Thomas Vick
« on: Sunday 17 August 14 19:01 BST (UK)  »
That is a coincidence and this last post drew me back to look at your earlier post again, which I hadn't read to the end before - don't know how I missed it.

Need to sort out in my head where this leaves me - and Messrs Thomas Vick!

Thanks

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How can I be sure - Thomas Vick
« on: Sunday 17 August 14 12:19 BST (UK)  »
Could Thomas, born about 1861 and married to Elizabeth,  have died in the Workhouse?

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1559/31362_190215-01341/90809?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

The age is 10 years out and his youngest child would have been 3 years old

I can't find any other record of  this Thomas's death

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How can I be sure - Thomas Vick
« on: Sunday 17 August 14 10:43 BST (UK)  »
Sorry I don't know if Mabel had a middle name - Dad remembers his Aunt Mabel vaguely, and that she  was a bit younger than Aunt Ethel, but can't recall a middle name at all.

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Family History Beginners Board / How can I be sure - Thomas Vick
« on: Sunday 17 August 14 09:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi, i hope you can help a novice please.

I've started looking along my Dad's Mum's line of the family.

I have a photocopy of her birth certificate (Vesta Vick) so I know her parents names (Thomas and Elizabeth) and Dad remembers the names of some Aunts etc so I know I've found the right people on the 1911 Census but by then Elizabeth was a widow now 43 - her 2 eldest children were Ethel 22 and Thomas 21.

I have a photocopy of Thomas and Elizabeth's marriage certificate in Middlesex, April 1988 when he was 27 which states his father was also called Thomas Vick and was a Tailor.

The 1891 Census, in London, shows Thomas Vick age 30 was born in Cheltenham plus wife Elizabeth, 23, daughter Ethel 2 and son Thomas 1 all born in London.  So that looks pretty promising.

The only Thomas Vick born around 1860 in Cheltenham I can find was born to a Thomas Vick (who was born in Malmesbury) and Ann (formerly Oakley, & with 2 sons by a previous marriage) and is on the 1861 Census with them as a 1 year old with a sister Ellen aged 3.
By 1871 Ann Vick with one son of previous marriage, daughter Ellen & son Thomas of the right age is down as the Head and a widow.

I cannot find a death registered for Thomas Vick in the appropriate timescale.

There is a Thomas Vick of the right age and born in Malmesbury as a boarder with Selina Pike in Trowbridge - the handwriting is difficult but looks like both classed as unmarried.
The 1881 Census shows Selina Pike married to a Thomas Vick apparently born in Trowbridge and 1 year younger than I'd have expected.

Is this the right Thomas Vick - how can I be fairly sure?
Has he been a naughty boy?

Are there other avenues I can check, for this line and the other lines of the family, so that I can be sure I have the right people, or can you never be really sure?


My head hurts trying to work this out!!


Any help or advice offered is welcome

Many thanks

Jan

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: William Griffiths
« on: Saturday 09 August 14 16:01 BST (UK)  »
Yes they are in the Occupation, industry & employer/worker columns

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