Genealogy Chat

Wow, OC, triplets born when mother was 55! Well, I know the chances of multiple births go up as you get older, but ............? Mind you, good idea to name them all James. I mean to say, what were the chances of triplets all surviving. I suppose they could call them Jim, Jimmy and Jamie. Surely one of that lot must be yours? But how would you ever know which one? Tina

The endless search for my mysterious 2 x GGP turned up the following family. I have high hopes it's him.. James Holding 70 Margaret Holding 70 James Holding 15 James Holding 15 James Holding 15. Another wild goose chase found me a James Holding rightish sort of age, with a wife and Jane Holding - age NOT KNOWN. I screeeeeamed! OC

My husbands tree has an ancestor in 1871 John Clements HARTLEY as head of the house the lady living with him Eliza PENN a widow is recorded as COHABITATING!! Bet they were well pleased with that LOL

wonder 'what' colour? Name: Man of Colour Age: 30 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831 Relation: Lodger Gender: Male Where born: St Luke Civil parish: St Luke Ecclesiastical parish: Charterhouse St Thomas County/Island: Middlesex Country: England

On the 1851 census: 'Girl not named Davis'. That only leaves about 30 million possible names, then.

One of the addresses I've found says 'near the woods'!!!

Mary, I nearly LOL to someone on the other end of the phone when I read that one! I have a census of who I think is my rellie in an assylum. The inmates were referred to as their initials, in my case, JC (no, not THE JC!) I wonder why they refered to them by initials only? Surely it couldn't be because they wanted to protect them from prying rellies generations down?

* checks feverishly to see if I have that surname ... :-) * ................................................................................. Hello, cousin Bev ... :-) When searching a parish register, I came across a named person with ''a stranger'' next to his name. I thought - that's sad, did no one know him ? Joy

That reminds me of a similar one that I posted on another thread a while ago. I forget which census it was, but it said something like 'a man, a woman, a boy, a girl, slept in empty house overnight, gone in the morning'. Their rellies aren't going to be finding them in a hurry...

Bev, When I did a GR search of people with the same names as me, I searched each surname by place. The places people were born included a house a hospital a road somewhere in town I kid you not!

Well, I see this is why we can't find people. We should be looking under 'wife' or 'one child' instead of foolishly typing in names! I did find one the other day - 'adult male - refused to co-operate'. nell

1841 Census 107/1031/17 Folio 10 page 12 Hanger About His wife One child One child Very useful that!! lolol Bev x

this must be it!