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Not quite a beginner but already an addict...
« on: Sunday 09 November 14 21:45 GMT (UK) »
Have recently been involved in tracing family in North Yorkshire and Suffolk following the news that my late Father had a brother that nobody alive knew about..in fact I found two. This led me onto tracing connections with other 'supposed' cousins, which all turned out to be factual although a generation earlier than thought.
Following this work I turned my time to Maternal lines....Way back in 1967 a professional carried out an exercise on part of my family tree and this was returned to later by one of the family who managed to get back to mid-1500's in one specific region.

I have wondered why only the men are mentioned in depth until I started trying to match spouses and found that very few of the ladies are mentioned anywhere...and the proverbial brick walls are everywhere!........so even National Archives are not much use,so far...

Hope to be sharing with you all soon...

geoff
Fletcher Family (Suffolk & North East UK).
Baxter Family (Yorkshire & Teesside).
Horsley Family (North East England)
Corr Family (Co.Tyrone & North East England)
Mcbeth Family,(Strabane area & Teesside)
Power Family, (North East England)

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Re: Not quite a beginner but already an addict...
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 09 November 14 22:31 GMT (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat, :)
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Squire/Thomas/Williams/Bowen/Lewis/Davies/Jones/Rees/Morgan/Lloyd - Glamorgan
Lewis/Davies - Breckonshire
Davies/Roderick - Myddfai Carms
Thackwell/Thomas - Hereford/Monmouthshire
Shoemac/Squire/Keirle/Small - Somerset
Berry/Baggot/Lee/Clayton - Lancs
Yelland/Bray/Trethewey - Cornwall
Baggot/Hurley/Keaveny/Shiel/Flynn - Ireland

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Re: Not quite a beginner but already an addict...
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 09 November 14 22:50 GMT (UK) »
Yes I was logged in.....as a new member

Geoff :
Fletcher Family (Suffolk & North East UK).
Baxter Family (Yorkshire & Teesside).
Horsley Family (North East England)
Corr Family (Co.Tyrone & North East England)
Mcbeth Family,(Strabane area & Teesside)
Power Family, (North East England)

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Re: Not quite a beginner but already an addict...
« Reply #3 on: Monday 10 November 14 15:02 GMT (UK) »
Welcome, Geoff,
It is/was a fact that church records usually only showed the father of a baptised child in the 1500's. This carried on, in decreasing amounts, into the 1700's. The only way to find out the wife is by looking at the marriage register.

Best of luck

AJ


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« Reply #4 on: Monday 10 November 14 16:00 GMT (UK) »
Probably right, believe that is the way the original tree started but the subsequent compiler lives in Devon so don't think she visited the area..I am much nearer in North East....

Have spent a year trying to trace parents of Great Grandfather who lived locally in mid 1800's, another tree,without success....ordered a Birth Certificate which arrived today and found ,like many, no Father named...believe Mother had worked in 'Big House', so probably 'fell' there. As Mothers name was 'as born' she belonged to a very local family who are likely still around here, anyway that one piece of knowledge led to census checking and in an hour already two generations further on! Brick wall, for now, demolished!   

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Fletcher Family (Suffolk & North East UK).
Baxter Family (Yorkshire & Teesside).
Horsley Family (North East England)
Corr Family (Co.Tyrone & North East England)
Mcbeth Family,(Strabane area & Teesside)
Power Family, (North East England)

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Re: Not quite a beginner but already an addict...
« Reply #5 on: Monday 10 November 14 17:16 GMT (UK) »
And rest assured, if you do get stuck, there'll be the perfect person ready and willing, somewhere on here to help you out. There are some incredibly knowledgeable helpful and willing people on here. Welcome, the addiction will only deepen.
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)