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what year have you got back to

before 1500s
7 (11.1%)
1500-1600
11 (17.5%)
1601- 1700
23 (36.5%)
1701- 1800
18 (28.6%)
1801 - 1900
4 (6.3%)
1901 - 2000
0 (0%)

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Offline Brian & Berni

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what year have you got back to
« on: Sunday 24 September 06 11:53 BST (UK) »
1670 last time I checked not my work my uncles

Mine only goes back to 1786
Thompson, Jones, Robinson, Jackson, Reed, Edington, Watson, Chisholm, Murrey, Hall, Boggin-Northumberland.<br />Crass, Johnson, Watson-Durham<br />Bigley-Kent<br />Edington-Scotland<br />Jennings-Ireland

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Re: what year have you got back to
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 24 September 06 11:55 BST (UK) »
I have a couple of lines that go back into the 1400s but not my work.  The one that I have looked at myself going back furthest goes back into the 1500s.  Had great fun reading the parish registers of that time, the comments were priceless!!

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Searching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website ....

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Re: what year have you got back to
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 24 September 06 12:02 BST (UK) »
1599 on OH's side....................jane helped  ;D
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Re: what year have you got back to
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 24 September 06 12:21 BST (UK) »


I clicked 1700s and voted, and then realised one of my Cornish lines goes back to 1600.  DUH   ::)

BD
BURROW, BICKHAM, EVANS, SULLEY, STONE - Devon
STEPHENS, MALLET, ADAMS - Cornwall
HANCOCK , BUSSON - Somerset
MCCALLUM, MCDIARMID, MCNEILL - Argyle, Scotland
WALLS, SUTHERLAND, SIMPSON - Orkney, Scotland
FAIRBAIRN - Fife, Scotland
THOMPSON - Aberdeen, Scotland

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Re: what year have you got back to
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 24 September 06 12:21 BST (UK) »
I have one line back to about 1605. Not my work but I was able to provide the researcher with what happened to my line and it's been fun to work with him on it. I also have one line to the late 1500s. I actually did a lot of research to get back there and when I actually found my 9X great- grandfather, I also found another family member doing research and he had a lot more research to share with me about each of the generations.

Kath
Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: what year have you got back to
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 24 September 06 12:26 BST (UK) »
Quote from: kerryb on Sunday 24 September 06 11:55 BST (UK)
Had great fun reading the parish registers of that time, the comments were priceless!!

I love those. I have one where the parish wrote for an illegitmate birth, "Mother unwilling to marry the father, who is Protestant and worthless." At first I thought it was just the way it was written and the couldn't possibly mean what it says, and then I realized, no they probably mean exactly that.

Kath
Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: what year have you got back to
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 24 September 06 12:27 BST (UK) »
My earliest known rellie died in 1622 - got his will but still looking for his marriage and birth!

Some of those early registers are priceless - especially the ways they describe children who had the misfortune to be born to unwed mothers.   :o

Old wills can make for interesting reading too - mine refers to a "natural child"!   :-X

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Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA

Offline Simon G.

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Re: what year have you got back to
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 24 September 06 13:00 BST (UK) »
1270ish, I think...it's nice being a descendants of the Filmers. :P
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Golding, Twyman, Kennard, Wales (Kent).
Berks, Challinor (Staffordshire).
Wakely. (Glam & Monmouth).

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Re: what year have you got back to
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 24 September 06 13:49 BST (UK) »
Hubby's side (thanks to a 3rd cousin) goes back to 1478
My side (with my own work) only goes back to 1750's or so

Quite a few cousins have become interested in family history since I started and so we don't end up repeating the original work, they have searched for the spouses of common rellies and got back to 1600's and early 1700's.
I cannot seem to get much further back than that regardless of what I do
Must be  missing something

Carol
Thomas, Williams,Owen (s),Griffith (s), Jones - Anglesey<br />Burns, Wallace - Northumberland, Ireland, Scotland<br />Horsburgh, Sandilands, Blackhall, Rankine, Rankin, Hilson, Nielson - Scotland <br />Turnbull, Mills, Burgoyne, Burgon - Northumberland, <br />Davidson - Scotland, India, Burma<br /> Lopez - India, Burma<br/>
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