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Allan


people didn't HAVE to change their name by deed poll

I'm not sure what the regulations are these days, but .................


It was quite sufficient just to change your name, and start using the new one ..... so long as you were not doing it with "criminal intent"


Many people would put a little notice in the "Personals" column of a newspaper, saying something like "As of March 1 1910, Joe Bloggs will be known as Jack Smith. Jack Smith will accept no responsibility for debts incurred by Joe Bloggs"


I can remember seeing notices like that in my local paper in Lancashire up until 1967, which is when I left the UK


Some people would get a solicitor or lawyer to produce a legal document.


Others just began living with the new name.



But it wasn't necessary to go through deed poll.





sylvia

That is the amazing thing about family history Allan The more answers you find the more questions are unanswered.
You seem to be well and truly hooked but you will not find all the answers at once. I hope we have given you soon good tips to make furthur progress yourself and you can always come back if you are stuck.You have a very interesting family and most of us with generations of ag labs are jealous.Will you be putting your tree on Ancestry too?

SylviaInCanada - "Jack Smith will accept no responsibility for debts incurred by Joe Bloggs"

:))

I might try that myself sometime! Go back to my father's old name of Schmidt.

... and when the Debt Collector comes knocking at my door, I'll politely tell him that ... "Oh what a shame! He skipped out a few days ago and doesn't live here any more. Sorry I can't be of any help. Have a Nice Day - and don't take any wooden nickels will you... "

Sylvia - there's no point in my doing a Family Tree search if I'm not going to be thorough about it.

Where the real effort comes into it - (for me) - is the capturing and downloading of records and images... and then arranging these to fit onto A4 paper... and giving each page a title and their historical date... and then printing them in duplicate and storing them in files under the various family names of my family tree.

It's quite exhausting work. But it's a one-off, and so I don't mind. And I'm very keen for my niece to have a full account of her family tree before I fall off the perch.

She asked me about our family tree, and all I could give her were a few very pathetic notes - half of which have turned out to be either incorrect in their details, or with huge omissions.

Allan

I quite agree that there is no point in doing a tree if you are not going to be thorough, and accurate.


I was just trying to warn you that it might not be possible to find information because people just didn't do all the things that we now would have loved them to do ............... like keeping records!



or leaving a letter telling us why they skipped town!!




sylvia

I won't be tracing my family tree any further back than about 5 generations.

Any further back than that and it becomes just a fairly meaningless catalogue of names that are too distant for me to really care about.

And besides, any further research beyond that limit and it becomes a matter of doing penance for one's sins. Just too exhausting.

Allan

Hi LadyKira

We are relatives of Herbert children's nanny Polina Sklarova who left with Herbert's children from Japan in 1922. She most likely arrived to Victoria on the same ship Empress of Russia together with Nenette. Could you please find a similar arrival record for her? I would appreciate your help.

I'm finding it very hard to believe there's no obituary or mention of any kind of the death of Elias Herbert Peacock and his wife Odellia in 'The Great Kanto' earthquake in Japan in September of 1923.

There has to be a placard somewhere that commemorates this event.

Allan