« Reply #16 on: Saturday 23 December 23 21:23 GMT (UK) »
I hardly find anything new these days. I keep looking, in the hope that more records will come online some day, but I'm fast arriving at the conclusion that I'm reaching the end of the line as far as going back in time is concerned. And my slightly more recent brick walls remain intact.
It wouldn't be fun if it was all easy, would it!
Bev
Never give up hope but I do agree in many cases, you wonder if you have reached the end of the road with some lines and exhausted all the available records. One example is my ancestor Elizabeth Newman who wed in London in 1774 to Samuel Auber. I would think that unless there is some miracle in the future, it is going to be impossible to trace her any further, her baptism and parentage. Too many candidates with such a common name, also the fact she may not have even been born in London. One 1753 baptism added by a distant cousin was discarded by me when I found an infant death giving the same parents and right address. One only real hope now for my Elizabeth is perhaps autosomal DNA testing may one day shed some light.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain