tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71405141137625548532024-03-13T17:41:21.035-07:00Exploring my family history - past and presentTips and stories on family history research in England and onlineDd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-75873520054618701752022-03-18T02:53:00.003-07:002022-03-18T02:53:50.524-07:00The family of Jonathan Gee, the canal-builderJonathan Gee was baptised in 8 May 1743 in the parish of Hyde, Cheshire, the son of Nathaniel Gee. An older boy named Jonathan had been baptised there on 11 May 1737 to the same couple, but he had died. (This boy by pure fluke is literally within touching distance of his brother on the same page of closely written baptisms.)The parish registers do not give the mother's name.There are several Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-86939226386747740832022-03-05T01:15:00.002-08:002022-03-05T01:22:27.851-08:00Second cousins of my grandparents: a window on times past and right now the presentNo question I have fond thoughts of my grandparents. They (mostly) lived in my era, and they also lived in the previous, fascinating, era of the early-mid twentieth century. They knew older people. All four grew up in towns. But even towns weren't that industrial back in the previous generation. Before long you are back in the countryside, which feels a healthier place to research, and definitelyDd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-11576183264098909232021-11-22T08:08:00.001-08:002021-11-22T08:08:10.704-08:00Welsh Research 2008-2021<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-84696409236062999092021-11-21T10:59:00.004-08:002021-11-21T10:59:37.165-08:00Crossing the Rubicon again and again in WalesI am in the middle of working out how long it could possibly take to identify Mrs Lloyd. The answer, at the minute, seems to be about 13 years. It was in 2008 that I began the journey and possibly another 13 years before that if we want to go back to the beginning. There would be a number of rivers to cross.I had just finished my lambing at a little village on the Welsh border west of Kington. I Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-75765367050488852652021-07-08T02:12:00.006-07:002021-07-08T02:12:49.583-07:00Relationships that survived: despite moves, name changes and time passing...In May 2019 I made a list of stories, snapshots and situations within the family that demonstrated the longevity of the nature of kin. In this day and age we may be in a tearing hurry to leave all that cousinhood behind, but ties remained then.Into this blog I will be adding in my 'shuttering down' theory. It's a little complex and has some sketches, so might be a separate entry. Meanwhile, for Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-76811344328785008132021-07-08T01:52:00.002-07:002021-07-08T01:56:13.731-07:00Did my grandparents know their second cousins?My father's father must have been aware of his second cousins, the Brodies of South Boston, New York. How so? Well I suspect he would not have been interested in the least, but when he visited Ireland in the 1950s, his cousin there (in the Garda) certainly had a notebook (which I saw at a distance) and in the address book were the Brodies. The weak link is we do not know for sure that the cousin Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-63256221296852484222021-07-08T01:17:00.006-07:002021-07-08T01:22:12.436-07:00Hereford to Manchester by Wills, Probate and Registers in 200 years, but not by TrainHereford to ManchesterHere is the journey back from Manchester to Hereford, we are going through the generations.(1) My great-grandmother Henrietta born 1875 Salford (grows up in Manchester) Lancashire(2) Ellen Bagshaw born 1846 Eyam Derbyshire(2) Millicent Bagshaw born 1826 Eyam Derbyshire(3) Hannah Gee born 1792 Chesterfield Derbyshire(4) Nathaniel Gee born 1768 West Bromwich Staffordshire(5) Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-83603481490825901062021-07-07T08:18:00.006-07:002021-07-07T08:55:11.473-07:00One-click wonder: who are you Mary Carroll born 1845 Ireland?I was dead excited when cousin Olaf popped up as a match to me, and later to The Tester. At last a clue on my Irish Carroll line. Mary Carroll, below, had died leaving lots of children to mourn her loss and some doggerel was written by her grieving, ancient, widower, a Classics teacher.I had asked my grandfather some extremely pertinent questions in the 1980s, which were not particularly well Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-81818508710401906612021-06-17T07:33:00.001-07:002021-06-17T07:33:08.951-07:00Time machine back to 1770As the Royal Colony of North Carolina draws to a close, this is what's going on in Outlander."By late 1770, the Ridge had more than thirty families inhabiting the land under Jamie's sponsorship."But what's going on in my family back in Britain?1771/2: J. Gee and his wife leave Wolverhampton for the far north of Derbyshire to commence work on the Norwood Tunnel.1770. Broad Joe Padfield in SomersetDd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-23243570925940101862021-06-15T10:14:00.001-07:002021-06-15T10:19:57.287-07:00 Favourite Corner #3 Almesforde Somerset: 1730sIt was Christmas 1995 and I had taken the train up to Taunton, done my customary jog past this lovely cottage (I picked the 2009 picture from StreetView before all the officeblocks went up):... and then to the former site of the Somerset Record Office where I ruffled through DD/FF/7 concerning my yawnworthy Speed ancestors of Ansford. At the time they had not been fully catalogued and amidst the Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-52008113945524440632021-06-15T10:10:00.002-07:002021-06-15T10:10:10.482-07:00Upwardly mobileThis needs no explanation as we progress through each generation:1) Ned Dick, haulier, Ansford, Somerset, baptised 1735 the poor relation2) George Dyke, apprentice to a tailor, Milborne Port, born 1779, perhaps the only son3) Charles Dyke, tailor and draper, Lyme Regis, born about 1811 (baptised age three)4) Charles W. P. Dyke, tutored in Chardstock by an Oxford graduate, later had a military Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-76419041020000229012021-06-13T07:51:00.007-07:002021-06-13T08:09:44.204-07:00Favourite Corner #2 Northcountry: 1830sIn this series we are looking at favourite corners from within the family tree. I think it is nice to focus on a particular group who lived in a definable place and time. So here is this 'time-shot'.If you have your reading glasses with you, you may be able to detect some of the stories within. The majority of these were resurrected and resuscitated in 2008 after a considerable period of time hadDd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-72468033612544932462021-06-13T06:50:00.001-07:002021-06-13T08:10:45.017-07:00Favourite corner #1 Somerset: 1830s 40s 50sThe trouble with family history is you have everybody's story in your computer, so which ones can you pull out? This family group is a snapshot in a period of time, a time-shot if you will. The very last events depicted, George the dentist in hot pursuit of the princess Aimee Crocker, did not occur until around 1908, but I could hardly resist including it.The majority of the rest of the events weDd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-17994146808598020572021-05-29T04:25:00.003-07:002021-06-13T08:11:52.457-07:00From Bollington to Macclesfield in 25 years: a Cheshire journey in family historyVery many moons ago I knew I had to get to Bollington. But which one? I
decided it was the one just outside Macclesfield, a settlement of cotton
spinners and weavers.Back in 1992, I must have written to my
great aunt (born 1903), and her (subsequent) executor sent me a
handwritten transcription of a Will, still in the family, dated at the
testator's death bed, December 1856.This Will of my Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-42452184897292544072021-04-30T06:57:00.001-07:002021-04-30T07:21:57.911-07:00DNA: 1845 surprise. Found: one lion I just got notification that Elizabeth O'Neal's April blog party is on DNA and Genetic Genealogy. Today is the last day of April, so I'm getting my skates on, and serving up an appetiser for the party. Here we go: My family tree hasn't changed that much in recent years, but in February it put in a polite but firm request to change permanently and irrevocably. The big old "gap" in the Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-36627870471536611522021-04-17T07:30:00.001-07:002021-04-22T03:20:05.053-07:00Midlands ancestry and GEDmatch (UK) I've been trying to make sense of SNPs and centiMorgans, segments, chromosomes and phasing. Reading about eastern Polynesian endogamy has been helpful with some real life examples of how genetic material may be inherited. What Are The Odds from DNApainter is proving fairly straightforward, though is limited (it says) when each result shares an average of <40cM with the tester: 90cM is Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-57699361863184540262021-04-16T03:39:00.004-07:002021-06-13T08:12:33.409-07:00Where did you go, baby Evans?This wee laddy was born on 8 September, 1851, in central Merthyr Tydfil. His father was a pattern maker in the ironworks. I was really very lucky to find this certificate. My thanks to the staff at the Register Office for locating it. When he was three months old he and his family unit all took to sea from Liverpool to New Orleans. Quite a route. They were Mormons: the first in the family toDd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-15169784745500531202021-02-27T02:33:00.010-08:002022-05-15T04:31:47.843-07:00How did we find the babyfather of my forebear (born 1846)?Just how did we do that?Recently, after centuries of silence, we heard from beyond the grave, from the bio-father of my Grandma's grandma, Ellen Bagshaw (1846-1901). Ellen has been dead a long time and was a tough cookie. There was some kind of encounter nine months prior to her birth, most likely off the market place in a town like Buxton in early Spring after a cold winter. The protagonists Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-66481620570507058022021-02-08T06:32:00.000-08:002021-02-08T06:32:27.615-08:00Hillbilly Elegy
Having just read Hillbilly Elegy, by J. D. Vance, I was
heartened to see that my Middletown, Ohio, cousin, Lily was connected through
the arteries to the same people, Vance writes on. Lily’s daughter married a man
from Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky where ‘a women ain’t fully dressed
without her gun’. I’m proud of that connection. Times ahead would prove tough
and forty years down the Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-32705365444169570122021-02-03T08:33:00.004-08:002021-02-03T08:33:54.296-08:00The Charwoman at the PoorhouseJenny Jory was born 1789 the 'baseborn' child of Jane Jory (then 25). I had thought that Jane was my forebear, but it turns out mine is two years younger and from Truro, 5 miles away.The problem seems to have been the London Road just a ten minute walk away. All her children were born out of wedlock, and it seems by different fathers.James 1808 (dies age 11)Lissey Brown Jory 1813, father John Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-73949671809972452702021-02-01T10:09:00.000-08:002021-02-02T01:38:37.634-08:00Four Gone: A Disappearing ActI have several people on the family tree for whom there exists just a birth or baptismal record, and nothing else. Yet the most puzzling disappearants, are a group of four. Outside of wartime, you don't expect to lose sight of a whole group: there ought to be a trace somewhere. The cast of four are:1) Edward Pascoe, who signed his name Pasco. Occupation unknown, son of a butcher. Age unknown. AllDd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-73659276365736021772021-01-30T03:20:00.000-08:002021-01-30T03:20:09.149-08:00It's a NoMary Ann Trewartha born 1805 in Redruth, left a widow at 22, and infant son dying shortly thereafter, where does she go. For awhile the lure of Mary Davey (nee Trewartha), who died in 1891 in Long Gully, Victoria, appealed. She was alleged to be 85. Although she marries as Mary Andrawurtha, her children all have the mother's maiden name of Trewartha. Curiously though this Mary never uses the 'AnnDd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-7183826005737839222021-01-22T11:11:00.001-08:002021-01-22T11:11:55.462-08:00We are AbroadHugh Hunter, the reliable mine carpenter in Redruth, had four sons: William, Hugh junior, John and Jabez. All four went aboard, but the manner of our knowing this differs. No shipping records. (Hugh is granted an interview in a biography of Richard Trevithick who was about his age, but whom he outlived four decades, still working.)William (1805) - the will of his father-in-law Thomas Trevithick Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-83813906096128050982021-01-22T05:12:00.005-08:002021-01-22T06:13:45.366-08:00A break in 1925: no descendants of Queen Victoria born1925 is remarkable in the twentieth century as not a single one of the descendants of Queen Victoria (and of her husband Albert, the Prince Consort) appear to have been born in that year. In consequence, there is a gap of twenty months following the birth of the younger Lascelles son in 1924, until the birth of his cousin, HM the Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth of York) in 1926. The Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7140514113762554853.post-40266518504645015272021-01-21T02:40:00.004-08:002021-01-25T01:27:27.287-08:00Great-grandmothers who outlived their tribeSometimes the generations die in the wrong order. I give some historic examples from the family, below (the last one is a mediaeval Royal example). All of these had other family who did survive them.1) Catherine Baragwanath born 1701 married age 23 to Martin Trewhella I.her son Martin Trewhella II, died 1774.her grandson Martin Trewhella III died 1789her greatgrandson William Trewhella died Dd Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011075528260586110noreply@blogger.com0