Thank you so much for joining the forum to reconnect our families once again after all these years. It was very moving to see the familiar and...
A lovely lady, so kind and thoughtful, taken away much too soon. My thoughts are with her husband and daughter. Goodbye, dear friend. ():-)xxx
I've made quite a mess of my life. Genealogy is one of the few things left that I have confidence I can do - my rock in a very choppy sea. When...
If only I was that well-liked, Lizzy. Sadly, to judge from the number of people who have liked your post, it looks like I do not have a very big...
Thank you dear @Mealymoo for your lovely words. They are sooooo much appreciated. ():-)
Hello Wendy, still night-time here but I was woken up by a Windows update so thought I'd see what was happening on Top Dog. I'm not trying to say...
I fear this may be the same John Richmond who had married Jane Griffin. From censuses John & Jane had considerably more than four children but...
Thanks for checking that marriage, Chimp. :) I am pretty sure now that the William Griffin who married Jane Brown (if he is the one who was a...
I think I see Joshua & Jane in Oxford in 1871, again shown as husband and wife. I can't see a marriage for them . . . but maybe that's not...
As Wendy is or should be tucked up in bed by now I have been answering my own questions.;) I've found the marriage now, so know that this...
I'm not certain John's middle initial is a W. Could it be an H? Some of the enumerator's H's look quite normal but the ones in 'Head' in each...
It looks like Jane had remarried by 1871. 15 year old William Griffin, ship brokers clerk, born Plumstead, Kent, was in Camberwell (80...
Hello James and welcome to the forum :) Thank you for joining in with the Wilmot discussion. I never did get round to posting details from...
On FMP, once you've found a 1911 household schedule of interest, it looks like you should be able to access the corresponding summary book by...
From the 1911 census summary books on Ancestry there are three enumeration districts covering Knighton Civil Parish, with total population 936 +...
I think you might be confusing the 19th Century British Newspapers database (which you can access free from home with an Oxfordshire library...
Yes - in the British Newspaper Archive (a subscription site - but you can use it free in Witney library if you register). The same content is...
The original (in the Northampton Mercury of 19 February 1859) clearly says 'not the slightest attempt to get up a sensation ; not even a handbill...
How recent is recent? Had he got back to Canada in time for the 1891 census? The only Joseph Jones I could find in Manitoba in 1891 was in...
Hello jetta and welcome to the forum :) In case you don't have this one already, here's another Jones-the-butcher with Virden connections, from...
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