Genealogy Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Quick Search

Single word search

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

ARGH!! 1841 Could someone pleeeease help me find m

Page 1 + 1 of 2

  1. «
  2. 1
  3. 2
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Unknown

Unknown Report 11 Jul 2006 07:32

If he was a fisherman in 1851 then maybe he was at sea in 1841. Annoying I know, I have a Norfolk great-great grandfather who is fishing in 1841, working away in 1851 (no idea where!) and then has the cheek to die in 1858. I am wondering if he was fishing or working away on the census, or whether he was a) in prison or b) shacked up with someone else! nell

The Ego

The Ego Report 11 Jul 2006 09:40

Ive just remembered FREECEN........it has had 100% coverage for 1841 for a long time-340,000 people recorded.....it too only came up with the 2 that we have on this thread.It is possible that just the father was away at sea and that the son went into fishing later when his father died or needed help.......joinery was a standard trade that would come in handy for boat repairs etc.

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 11 Jul 2006 12:31

Ah, well now - I briefly lived in Fish Street, St Ives. It is literally ten yards from the beach.Digy Sq backs onto Fish St. St Ives men often combined fishing with Joinery (boat building) ag labbing and building - anything to make a penny when the fish didnt come. The Noall's are a huge family in St Ives (sometimes misspelled as Knowle) and are certainly related to one another somewhere along the line. If I can help with anything, I have easy access to St Ives Archive Centre which is jam packed with stuff of a very local nature. OC

The Ego

The Ego Report 11 Jul 2006 12:44

Well there you go .....thats the icing on the cake....jobs a goodun.....thats yer man .....the one originally on British origins recorded as 15 and also on Freecen.....happy days.

Cornish

Cornish Report 11 Jul 2006 17:50

Many thanks everyone. That's the trouble with me Noalls you see, they were mostly fishermen and master mariners, which is a pain when you're trying to track them down. But you would think they could stay in just one day when the enumerator called! lol. Many thanks oc, have been to the Archive Centre a few times but I think they were getting fed up with the sight of me. Am going to try to get down there again soon (even if just to see their faces drop when I walk in :)) They are ever so helpful. And thanks Ego, the Simon you found seemed to be only on the 1841 so they obviously rounded his age up or down, and then got his age right on the rest. Many many thanks everyone for all your time and trouble. Bex