Genealogy Chat

I am at my wit's end - don't know where to look next. Does anyone else have the solution to a family like mine? I have a great great grandfather named Gustav Adolph Krafft(also known as Augustus from another certificate) who married in 1856 in Colchester (of full age). He seems to have fathered a daughter in 1859 and his wife Ann was a widow in 1871.(Colchester census) No death for him! No birth either, but he could have been German. He was a widower at the time of his marriage - no first wife's death Also, in the 1881 Isle of Wight)census his wife (spelling now croft) had two daughters - Anne b c1857 and Agnes b 1859. I have all details and descendents of Agnes. Anne - never born, never married, never died! Wife Ann-b 1828? never remarried, never died! At Agnes's wedding witness was Margaret Ann Krafft - never born,never married,never died.....Margaret Ann Croft was living(aged 47) with her sister in 1901.(in Herne Hill, London SE) And you wonder why I am starting to believe in aliens!! Peter Auckland NZ

Hi Peter, Have you looked at www(.)familysearch(.)org remove brackets I.GI. Germany Gustav Adolph Krafft Birth 13 May 1838 Christening 21 May 1838 more details on there plus more possibilities

Thanks Christine - could be a faint hope, but he needs to be a widower of full age by Dec 25 1856! Also his father is not named, and I know he was Christian Freidrich (both birth and paptism give this GA's mother as Henriette Freidrike)....keeping looking! Peter

Hi Peter, Have you tried www(.)genforum.genealogy(.)com Go to Country - Germany and put on a request. My grandfather was Danish. I put a message on Denmark and got lots of help including translation.

Could Margaret Ann, (known as Ann?) be the daughter of Ann (senior) before her marriage to Gustav and her birth registered in her mother's maiden name? IF she was 47 in 1901 she would have been born before the 1856 marriage. Although she was known as CROFT because of this marriage, was her death registered in her birth name perhaps? If they were running a shop in Brading, Isle of Wight there must be records of them in directories or similar. There might be a clue there. Louise has offered to do lookups in the Record Office on the Island. They have a card index of names there. That might produce some information for you.

Thanks. How do I find Louise? Have thought of this - her maiden name was Ann Nurse, d of James. She already had one(presumably) illegitimate son, b Jan 1856, but no birth registered for a daughter. I never thought I would find such a disfunctional family!! Thanks anyway for the ideas Still looking Peter

Hi Peter, I don't know where the spaceship is now but it landed in Norfolk and took all my Ellis family with them. Gail

My Norfolk lot went with them too.

Hi Peter, To find Louise's thread type Isle of Wight in the search box on the Records Board and all threads concerning Isle of Wight will pop up including her one - then just type in a reply to her thread.

The spaceship was in the London area (either Greenwich or Shoreditch) sometime between 1871 and 1884.It took my gggrandparents my ggggrandfather my ggrandmother and her brother. Thankfully it sent my ggran back but seems to have kept the others!

Why what did your ggrand do to be sent back Gail

Hi Peter Just a thought, when I was a child we had near neighbours of that name, they were Swiss. Sorry no idea of the spelling of the name they had, but there name was Kraft. Best wishes Amanda

Gail, she must've got pregnant. To think, I looked to see if my ggrandfather had any naturalisation papers. I've always assumed he was French. Do you think he was an illegal alien?

Hi Janet, That spaceship could have gone anywhere? But it did not send my Ellis back? I wonder why they kept him. Gail

Gail, perhaps they wanted to do more experiments with him!

Just mentioned this thread to my other half. He's now threatening to cut off my internet connection and call for the men in white coats supposedly "for my own good" He understands nothing!!!!

Hi Janet, The mind boggles. I keep going back to him. one day it will all fit into place. Gail Peter, Very sorry for hijacking your thread. Feeling in a silly mood tonight. I don't know what came over me. Good luck with yor searching. Gail

Janet Sorry but you have the date wrong. The first space ship landed 'about' 1825, took my lot away, then dropped them back off in 1858 and disposed of their son but returned in 1860 and took my ggt grandparents back, and left their son to fend for himself, ahhhhhhh. He in turn got zapped up by the aliens for the 1871 census, bloody convienent it always happend on a census night! then POW! flop the son back on earth for the 1881 census, and guess what? Yeh he returned with a wife and daughter!!!!

Sorry went off on a bit of a tangent then, it's all those aliens in my lounge that put me off! :-)))

But you see, when they dropped him on the night of the 1881 census, they abducted my lot, returning my great Grandmother, complete with a "Husband" just in time for her to give birth. All falls in to place now, no wonder I can't find a marriage for them. Anyone know where I can obtain a marriage certificate from Alpha Centauri? Perhaps thats where my Aunt was born as well!