General Chat

Oh forgot to mention my sister and i have spent numerous days from time to time in Proni offices they can be quite addictive lol but no joy!

Hi Patricia...not saying this has happened in your case but my Great Grandmother's marriage cert was a mixup.....it had the name of her Husband's brother by the mistake of some-one at the time.....brother was still unmarried ten years later when she was living with her husband......tis a pain when they use middle names too...even my Father used his middle name on all certs except birth cert......

.Do you know the names of any siblings, so that you can trace and find the info through them?

n

Just a message of thanks to Ann for her tireless help.

xxxxxx

Shelli you are welcome and I will reply to your PM soon.

One thing about asking for help on here is that I find it re-concentrates our own minds on the problem so we start looking again ourselves. We haven't found them yet Shelli, hopefully we will eventually.

Ann
glos

Well anything is possible Susan!!

My dads side of family is very elusive it seems there's got to be a mix up somewhere huh!



I paid to go on that Emeraldancestors link you gave me and found a host of my mums relatives on it.. now although i have these in my tree i now have definate dates of birth deaths and marriages and have my great grannys maiden name and her parents also!

I just cant believe it and it was £10 well spent and i have rest of month to look!

My dads family sadly werent in it but there were some similiarites but now enough for a definate link!


Im on enough wild goose chases haha


Your are a wee gem Susan and everyone else helping with Lookups its all so appreciated and my fone hasnt stopped since lol Thankyou!



Oh and how are you related to the Morrow or Coulter clan???????????

Patricia that is great news about the site. Susan is such a mine of information.

Ann
Glos

She is indeed Ann and all is appreciated very much!

Having to look in more than one European archive can tell you that there are more than a few British people who settle permenantly in other European countries.

Terry *from the heart*. I wish I could find mine who went to France then!!!! And didn't return! And the birth of his son in France, who joined the RM and we can't find his attestation.

Ann
Glos

nudge for anyone else who requires help

N

Ben, sorry I missed your last post re Holborn and your ancestors who were in a workhouse. I think they would have been sent to the workhouse in the parish in which The adults were born.

ann
Glos

Hi Ann

The father was born in Kemsing Kent and mother in Cuckfield Sussex. Would they have been sent all the way back there then?

They were in Holborn in 1881 census, so they would have been allowed to return once they left would they?

Ben

I don't know how far they would be sent back Ben, maybe Susan might if she comes on here later. I imagine that, once they left the workhouse they would be able to return to where they wanted to go.

But, as you say, maybe he got work and didn't go to the workhouse.

Ann

Well in 1881 theye were just round the corner from their 1878 address. The head was a watchman while two of his daughters were tailoresses.

The poor relief document says that Thomas was a Labourer when they applied for poor relief.

Maybe they decided to live on the wages of the daughters. They wouldn't have become tailoresses over night so maybe he was trying it on when he applied for poor relief. Don't think you are ever likely to know Ben.

Thomas said he was 68 when he was really 65 in 1878. He was born in May 1813 so 65 in Dec 1878 not 68.

Would maybe if I emailed the document to someone would thet help at all as I have it on my computer? I wonder if someone else could decipher it a bit more.

Susan may know more.

I have a James Asbury...most definitely James (he's born James, marries as James and dies as James) yet on one of the censuses they call him Thomas. I decided it was just a numpty enumerator and to trust my instinct...there was no Thomas in the family.

Oh, and also, I've known people who were listed with just their initial and surname...pain in the neck when you're searching their full name. Don't know why it was done, one was in London and another was the policeman & his family at a police station in wiltshire.