Hello Sonia - Thank you for all the info - I will email Noreen shortly also looking to see if Noreen had a public tree on Ancestry - I had a bit of luck and found a tree by a chap who shares the same history but 'branches off' where our ancester - one of the Williams - upp'ed and left Mickley for Canada and his research matches what I have found and he had other items of interest which show he has done a lot of in-depth high quality research so must try to get in touch
We differed on one small point which I believe I am right on - but I had the advantage of a diary handed down through the family which helps me pinpoint some relationships i.e. cousins, uncles and aunts etc.
I have found some of the info you sent moving back from William C and Elizabeth Cryer but it is good to get is confirmed and make sure I am not barking up the wrong tree (I really don't mean to fling these punns about
) Elizabeth Cryer I should be able to research further as Grantham is not too far from where I live in Lincoln.
Tracing this thread back is quite wonderful - my family where/are in Kent. Traced back to my Grandad's birthplace in Darlington - to Mickley, Spofforth (a trip planned to Wakefield next month to check parish records) to Hampthswaite, Rothwell and eventually to the village of Calverley - where they lived for a long, long time. This excerise is to double check via sources all the bits I (and a new found cousin), gleaned from the internet to prove to tree. So far it is all checking out.
One thing I had not thought about and gave me to wonder if some of my very early information was correct - trying to agree where marriage dates did not make sense with birth dates and so forth - I was reading from a book I have of Calverley family charters/documents from very early on. It reminded me that once upon a time it was not unusual, to secure two families interests, for marriages to take place (sort of by proxy) between two young people while children, then for the younsters to remain under the protection of one or both families until their coming of age when the marriage would formally begin. So that is something That will answer a couple of my question marks when I get back to that stage and is a practice clearly not reservered for only the highest families in the land.
Whilst delivering a 'tree' print-out for my husband' s family in Essex. We had traced a line back to a village in Essex which we where driving near to - "lets take a look round" we said. Visited the prettiest church, got chatting to a really nice vicar - who said he had a register still in the church - just the one, early 1800s. Out came the register...1st page, year 1839, the second entry was Ed's ancester's marriage record, as far back as we had got with that line. Now we had their parents. The tree was out of date before we had even delivered it
but it was really exciting to make that original - never been seen - discovery.....just love this tree stuff.
I am waffling - often happens....thank you again.
Angela.
