Genealogy Chat

Thought the Charles Dance programme was fascinating. To discover your father was so much older than you thought and had an earlier family was quite a shock.

The South African family had a treasure trove of family history - I would love to discover something like this to flesh out my mother's family tree. Possibility of some info from a cousin's daughter.

Have a death certificate and a death registration that I had hoped referred to my relatives - not so. would be happy to send to anyone interested in them. Can you suggest what would be the best way to 'advertise' them.

The WDYTYA magazine site has a forum and I think they still have unwanted certificate file

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/unwanted-certificates.html

It was like that for me - to discover a half sister at the age of 40 one sunday morning - it was a big shock - now apparently she has found some lost Aunts & cousins on our fathers side as well as a disabled older Brother. As well as one of the Aunts having a sort of family tree file with family photos.

All i have to do now is pluck up the courage to meet up with them all. I want to take my husband with me & she wants me to go on my own - that's why i have left it a while. I just don't want to be on my own with a load of strangers in a strange place.

i should be braver but I'm not, and hubby and i share everything including the family history - we even seem to be sharing a tree way down the list the two families bump into one another. Way way back so nothing dodgy until the 16 or 1500's.

Based on the first two subjects WDYTYA looks to be an improvement on some of the past programmes..

Craig Revel Horwood's family was fascinating and astonishing on both lines.

nice to see a few of us still keep the occasional eye on here.


It's a lot cooler here today ...... first really cool day for over a month! Hot weather will return tomorrow. Still have the wildfires, plus new ones starting, and about 20,000 people still on evacuation out of their homes and many thousands more on alert.

I also see bad fires in southern Europe, and in California.


Life's is going on as usual here ..... hard to believe we'll celebrate our 50th in a couple of weeks :-0

We've booked a train trip to and back from Quebec City to celebrate ....... but not going until late October when we hopefully will see autumn colours, and most tourists will have gone so it will quieter :-D

Decided to attempt further fleshing out of the direct line.

My great grandfather Arthur Nicholls, married to Emmeline, had 3 children -Arthur, Harry and Maud.

I am descended from Harry - my first two names are Arthur Harry (third name William is from my mother's family)

I have found baptismal records for Harry and Maud, but cannot find anything for Arthur. They were baptised together several years after birth.

Arthur was born April 2 1878 in Islington, London. He became the 'Black Sheep' of the family - his parents did not attend his wedding, he separated from his wife and children and had a child with his housekeeper and finally died in an asylum.

Any suggestions on how to find his baptism. As a first child I cannot believe he was not baptised. I find it surprising that he was not baptised at the same ceremony as his brother and sister.

Thanks in advance

Two questions ...........

First .......... when were Arthur and Emmeline married? Is there any chance that Arthur could have been born before their marriage, and thus to be found under a different surname?


Second .......... were both Arthur and Emmeline from London? Is there any chance that Arthur was taken to "home" church to be baptised???

Sylvia

They married in September 1876

When checking for baptisms I checked for all England.

Emmeline was born in Clerkenwell, Middx and Arthur Senior was born in Sudbury, Suffolk.

A mystery why a first born was not christened. Both Arthur and his wife were from families who had their children christened/baptised.

Arthur

Is this him, baptised the month after his siblings??

from ancestry

London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906

Name: Arthur Nicholls
Record Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 11 Mar 1887
Father's name: Arthur Nicholls
Mother's name: Emmeline Nicholls
Parish or Poor Law Union: St Matthew
Borough: Enfield
Register Type: Parish Registers

from image:-
Born 2 April 1878
Address:- Lincoln Rd
Father occupation:- Instrument maker



I found it by entering .........

surname:- nic*
Any Event:- 1887 +/- 10 years
Mother name:- Emm*
Father name:- Art*

Sylvia

Thank you so much - you are a true expert. I must remember your technique "Less can mean more" - I have some still to find.

Puzzle why the first born was the last to be baptised. We will never know.

Arthur

Glad I could help x

Let me wish you Happy anniversary now as you will be on your travels.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

Thank you, Tabitha!

Actually we will be here, though I might not be online .......... our daughter and grandson are coming out in 2 weeks to be with us for THE day.

We decided to delay our trip by a couple of months ............ it'll be quieter, and hopefully there will be lots of fall colour. Although we just might get the beginnings of winter!

My best wishes too

Thank you, Arthur x

Sylvia - so envious - would love to see the fall colour on the east coast. Always wanted to do New England in the Fall.

Loved Colorado in the fall - such an amazing place - we rarely have the fall colour over here now. From my history days at school - always wanted to see Quebec and the Heights of Abraham - the General Wolfe story always stayed in my mind. Funny enough Squerry's court played a role in General Wolfe's story as well as my OH's ancestors.

Always a bit spooky when you get that sort of coincidence especially as I didn't know him in my school years.

Have a wonderful day and enjoy your time with the family - the little grandson must be quite big now, forgotten how old he is now.

Managed to do some refreshing of my tree whilst watching the World athletics.

Decided to pursue the Bonney line and may have got back to my 9 x Gt Grandfather Robert Andrews.

I have been making use of other Family trees on Ancestry. These can contain surprises, both positive and negative.

I am amazed when people have trees where a child is born to parents under 10, where parents marry aged below 10, but I found on tree that is astonishing.

Robert Andrews is shown born 1590.

First marriage 1584 !!! in Norwich, England
Second marriage 1591 !! in Ipswich, Massachusetts
Third marriage 596 in Massachusetts
Fourth marriage 1608 Dorset, England
Fifth marriage 1611 Suffolk England
Sixth Marriage 1615 Norfolk England
Seventh marriage 1616 Ipswich Massachusetts

All marriages had Elizabeth Franklin as the spouse

Eight marriage 1619 Gloucestershire Spouse Sarah Connant

Ninth marriage 1620 England
Tenth marriage 1620 Massachusetts
Spouse Elizabeth Franklin

I have chosen not to contact the owner of this tree.

I have contacted another tree owner as he appears to have Elizabeth Franklin as both the mother and wife of Robert Andrews. The date of birth for Elizabeth varies from 1560 to 1592 across the many trees. Awaiting with interest the reply..

I rather hope that Robert Andrews who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1835, is my ancestor. I have now read a lot about the Andrews family and they were well known in England and in Suffolk.

Not sure how I could set about validating my tree. The link to a robert Andres is though a son John Andrews who married a Grace Boulton in 1835. Their daughter married Christopher Bonney in 1694 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England - she was 34, he was 20.

I think I need to go back to the first Bonney in my tree, Ann Bonney who married my 3 x Gt grandfather.and check everything going back in time.

Just have to find the time !!

Oh my goodness Arthur -

There are certainly some weird things on Ancestry trees - i tend to take with a pinch of salt - sometimes it can point you in the right direction for locating the family.

I too have found a few strange things - once found my grandfather married to some strange person with another family in a nearby town. My grandfather didn't have a common name either - I think the person with the tree just latched on to the first person they found.
I tried to contact them but got told very quickly and not politely to go away - they were not going to change it .

Didn't know you had a Pirate in your family
Anne Bonny - famous lady pirate

http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/anne-bonny/

Not aware my 3 x Gt Grandmother was a pirate.

I found something surprising on a Census. Unfortunately did not record the person as not on my direct line. The head of a household aged 34 was described as a PENSIONER. Cannot even start to think what this could mean.

Hi

Ancestry trees can be wild and wonderful.

I found my great aunt, b. 1875 Lancashire, married Nov 13 1902 Lancashire, sailed from Liverpool Nov 23 1902, then living in Newark, NJ for the rest of her life, had been acquired by someone as one of the parents of children born around 1830-1840

Her married name and her husband's name was the same as the people he wanted, who had also been born and married in Lancashire and then emigrated to Newark, NJ .................... but almost 100 years earlier!!!

I was lucky ............. he removed my aunt and uncle from his tree after I contacted him and pointed out the discrepancy.


I'm still waiting to discover if anyone has me on their tree as the daughter of my brother who was "married" to my mother despite him being only 10 and her 35 by a second cousin who made a stupid mistake and then refused point blank to reply to me. He even set up a One Name Study AND made a CD to circulate to members of the family who attended a "reunion" that he organised ................ but without notifying any of my side of the family!



We are really enjoying our time with my daughter and grandson ................ he's 7 now, Tabitha, and getting to the interesting stage!

They and OH have gone to the Aquarium today ........... we've taken him in previous years while daughter went to see friends and he really wanted to go back. I did a little bit too much over the weekend plus we've had a weather change, so I stayed home.

We went to a local steak house on Saturday for our anniversary dinner with them ........... it isn't cheap, but the steaks and prime ribs are excellent. Little one loves steak, they had a kids menu with a 170 gm (ca 6½ oz) sirloin steak, fries, drink, and ice cream for $16 (ca £7 or 8), and he ate it all! I had a 7 oz filet mignon which was only a little bit bigger than his sirloin!

They go back home tomorrow. We'll see them again at Christmas, when we will once again go over there.

I found a curiosity when 'dabbling' with my tree.

My 2 x Gt Grandfather Peter's brother. Henry Nicholls, married twice.

He married Eliza Lucock in Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1840 In 1850 they had a daughter, Elizabeth.

On the 1851 Census she is referred to as Elizabeth Lucock NOT Nicholls.

Can you think why this might be.

Thanks

Arthur