Genealogy Chat

hi again - had to put children to bed, only just come back online! had another thought in tracking your William. Tried to look at the historical directories site run by university of Leicester, but unfortunately the earliest one for Herts there is 1855 - though it may be a help for later generations if you know his son's/son-in-law's trades. then I went to familyhistoryonline.net which holds a lot of parish records (transcripts) collated from family history societies around the country. Looked for a William Carter in Herts who died before 1851. There were 45! But only One in Great Amwell. details below. age could give you smaller time frame to look for his birth in neighbouring parishes? Name William CARTER Date 30 Jan 1831 Aged 49 Place Great Amwell Description St John the Baptist Denomination Anglican County code HRT good luck Lesley

LOL fuzzy! I always say that to myself about rellies that die between census years!!

Thanks Christine, my parents still live down that way will have to get them to go have a look for me!

Just found her on the 1851 census, as grandma living with the Varneys, no sign of william, inconsiderate sod must have died! why do they have a habit of doing that!!!

You welcome, so know how you feel!!

thank you dear 0) will be glad to get past this lol

Sorry you said that in the initial posting, getting carried away here!! I will write it all down and look when I have more time, will let you know if I find them xx

mary was born 1774 in drayton parslow bucks

Hi, maths not my best subject!! That could be the couple mary would have been about 17 and william 27 when they married. do you know when Mary was born?

Hey dont give up, trawl through the 1841 census and see if you can find a william carter married to a mary born in great amwell. He must have been born about 1780ish you reckon?? I did find one couple in Hertfordshire a william 1781 mary 1791 and a jas carter 1826, but of course this could not be the couple, far to young to have married in 1808 even with the ages being rounded up or down by as much as five years in the 1841. Good Luck, if it makes you feel any better you are so not alone, I have more brick walls than the nearby housing estate at the moment!!!

Hehe great!! finding him with a name like carter is going to be next to impossible lol. I would love to just pick a william and run with it but in my heart ill know its not right so i cant but i have just 1 generation on this tree...such a shame to have it end so suddenly Thanks for the hlep fuzzy ;)

Just had a thought and you wont like this, but one of my lot married in Lambeth all the children were born in Lambeth, but he was born in Staffordshire, only stumbled upon him in the 1841 due to an unusual name!

ill have to double check as my notes are illegible now ive altered it so many times, i dont believe i found him there at all

Thanks tho fuzzy, unfortunately carter is a tad too common, there are at least 15 of them any one of which may be the one im after ;9(

Have you got him on the 1841 census?

Hi there, found the marriage between william carter and mary, found a baptism of a william carter in 1775 in cheshunt hertford. there are unfortunately quite a few william carters, shame the IGI didn't have a ancestral file giving spouse and parents...we can but dream! Fuzzy xx

Thanks fuzzy!

Ok, will see if i can find anything in those areas x

Great amwell and little amwell are in hertfordshire, areas around it are hoddesdon, ware and hertford 0)

Thanks Lesley been banging my head on that brick wall for a while now!