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I would ask my Mother-in-Law's mother, Amy Spencer, where she disappeared to after giving up her baby daughter shortly after her birth in 1912. It is the last great mystery in my family tree that I don't think I will be able to solve. Bob

Well thanks to this thread, I relooked at my gg grandmother and I've finally decided that it must have been her on that 1911 census (because the years of marriage matched up) and her husband must have been at sea. Maybe one day I may find out when she and her husband died.

I'll have to have a think, there's so many questions, three doesn't seem quite long enough.

Dare I ask :-0
What IS your theory Hayley?




P.S. I agree, that one by Prickly Holls was on the Drama channel the other afternoon :-D

My great great paternal grandfather born and baptised in 1807 in Horsham Sussex as Francis Edward Elwood son of Matthew and Jane Elwood who then disappeared off the face of the earth. Died 1888 and your probate states you were Francis Edward Elwood Mitchell.

1. What happened to your parents and where did they come from. Did you have any brothers or sisters.

2.You married in 1831 as Edward Mitchell and you were known as Ted. Who were the Mitchell's that brought you up and from what age did you live with them.

3. You're stopping me going back another generation and I should have been born an Elwood not a Mitchell so any small clue would be good please.

Hi,

Thanks for your contributions, I never realised there were so many brick walls. Maybe when we die we will have access to a time machine and we will be able to look back and find all the answers !!!

John

I would ask my great aunt Sarah

1) Did you actually marry that man you claimed to be the widow of in 1882? And if so where and when?

2) How did you manage to avoid appearing on any census records throughout your life?

3) Was your third marriage the shortest ever?

:-S :-S :-S

Of course I could answer all of these with my own theory ..........aprt from PH which was totally from a Catherine Cookson novel ..*scoffs* :-D

My GG Grandmother Ann Bellett born 1809

Where did your husband John Taylor come from?
What were his parents' names?
Who fathered the three children you had starting from a year after his death until you married the neighbour?

My Grandfather, Clifford

1) Where were you prior to 1904?

2) Were you really the black sheep of a wealthy and/or titled family who left home and changed your name (as I have discovered my Aunt. his daughter, claimed)?

3) Whose are those sketch books which I am now custodian of?

To OH's 2xg.father George Warren - were you an asthmatic all of your life and is that why you moved so often in spite of being a Master Cordwainer?

Robert Spence b.1801-1870 Linlithgow (Master Tanner) - where is your wife Jacobina Calder buried prio to 1870.

Your son Alexander Spence b. 1826 d. 1880 Dublin - where is wife Jane Lawson b. 1832 buried?

To my great grandfather Jeremiah Connell..or maybe O' Connell,born in Tipperary in ,I believe 1831,but some of my 2nd cousins say 1835.

We're you born in Fethard or Cashel?....confusing information,and I have been told that Tipperary is the hardest county in Ireland to research.

Was your father called Edward as you have on marriage certificate,or John as given to me by the Heritage centre in Tipperary town I visited a few years ago?

In your army career,it seems you served some time in India ,and later Australia, and according to one of my cousins who had a researcher do a search,it seems you possibly had a family there before you met my great grandmother when you were stationed at Raglan Barracks at Devonport near Plymouth.
This could be possible as you were approximately 20 years older than her.
I go back to 1650 with her side,but you have been my big brick wall?

Wish the Irish side wasn't so hard to crack! :-S

To My Gt Gt Gt Grandfather William born 1794 (baseborn son of Mary Voakes in Froyle Hampshire). OK I get that, Mary was your mother. Mary Voakes married William Webster (B1775) in June 1795 and from then you were called William Webster. Your occupation was first a coachman like William senior and then with your wife you both worked for Elizabeth Langford who had houses in London and Brighton.

1. Was William Webster your father?

2. your daughter Ann Webster was born in 1830 and baptized at Highgate chapel London. her baptism certificate gives her parents as William and Elizabeth Webster. What was Elizabeth's maiden name and were you as I suspect married in London? I know according to the 1851 she was born in Bow Middlesex.

3. I have a letter written to Elizabeth in 1832 (who confusingly she calls Ann) in London from Elizabeth Langford in Brighton saying that you, William (who she calls Webster) are seriously ill and she must take the coach to visit you. After that there is no more trace of you and in 1841 Elizabeth is working as ladies maid in London and in the 1851 she is a ladies maid in the home of Elizabeth Langford's daughter. I can't find your death. Did you die in Brighton or in London?

Thanks for that Ann, his son my grandfather was b1863.
Have tried several variants of the name over the years
but still a brick wall.
Appreciate your time.

Emma :-)

for Golden Girl

?????????????

Name: Alexander Nerley
Gender: Male
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 23 Sep 1875
Event Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Father's Name: Alex Nerley
Mother's Name: Martha
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C59743-1
System Origin: Pennsylvania-ODM
GS Film number: 1289317

I would ask my grandmother - AGAIN - but hope that in spectral form, she may answer with the CORRECT person, not someone whom she wishes it was:
1)Who was my dad's dad - and was he also dad's sister's dad?
2) Who funded you when you were bringing up dad and his sister?
3) Why did claim you were Cmdr Nicholas's widow when he was killed, when you knew perfectly well he was already married with 5 children? He was a long-standing friend of your parents FGS, with children your own age!!!

Oh - and a sneaky #4 - just WHY??????????????????

DetEcTive

Having had enough trouble with my Lithuanians being classed as Russian Poles on several documents, I can sympathise with your plight.....this article may interest you while possibly also shedding light on your ancestors' nationality discrepancies....maybe.......

http://www.estonica.org/en/History/1710-1850_The_Baltic_Landesstaat/Population:_ethnic_and_social_structure/

".....Nor did rural Estonians think of themselves as a nation: they rather considered themselves peasants whose identity was largely influenced by regional loyalty. The name they often used while referring to themselves — ‘country people‘ — also seemed to be a sign of social self-determination.

Climbing the social ladder in a society with a fixed class system was possible only for the very few. For an Estonian, this automatically meant Germanisation and the loss of ethnic identity perhaps even within one generation. Such a process of individuals revising their ethnic adherence, which had begun in the Middle Ages and continued until the early 20th century, is a highly characteristic feature of Estonian history."

:-D :-D :-D

Prickles .........

M. :-D

laffin so much I had a coughing fit

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

My GG Grandmother Polyantha appears as a servant to a very well to do family in the 1881 census.

She has her illegitimate son Teddy aged 4 with her and a son Barty aged 4 months.

Polyantha dies in 1891 and son's Teddy and Barty are still living with the well to do family.......one of the son's of that family is a Barrister called Teddy and a Solicitor called Barty.

I would like to ask......

Who is the Father of Teddy?

Who is the Father of Barty?

And where did the £20, 000 come from that you left in your will.





Edit: I just made that up to make Hayley feel well Jell. ;-) :-D :-D :-D