Hi, I have been trying to get further back in my ancestry but currently I have hit a brick wall. Well, it's been a brick wall for some years actually.
I have traced my Mortimer line back to Edward Mortimer born 1777. I do not know where he was born or who his parents were. What I do know is that he married Miriam James in Avebury in 1798 and they had 8 children - George 1798, Anne 1809, Thomas 1809, John 1811, Mary 1814, Richard 1816, Charles 1821, and Edward 1824. They lived in Mildenhall (Minal) where Edward died in 1835.
At one point in my research, I believed that my Edward was the son of Joseph Mortimer and Frances Green of Trowbridge but after further research I discovered that wasn't the case as their Edward was in the Dragoon Guards, away abroad whilst the kids of my Edward were born but also their Edward died abroad in 1851. So that wrote that one off.
I then wondered if he was related to the Mortimers from Avebury. There are two families having children there at the time Edward was born and he would fit in nicely to those. All their children were baptised though so seems a bit odd that they wouldn't baptise Edward if he were one of theirs.
I could really use some pointers and assistance with this.