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I'd like to add Florence who has a 'middle life' but no beginning or end.......

First seen in 1891 in Glamorgan,Wales and shown as Florence SHERRETT,b. Ullingswick, Herefordshire, c.1882 ..daughter of Edward and Catherine ..(should be SKERRETT )

Edward and Catherine married in 1885. Catherine was nee. VAUGHAN.
If Florence was b. in Ullingswick, the registration district is Bromyard.

In 1901 Florence is single in Montgomeryshire.... Then what?

Gwyn

Joyce, yes I am confused.

i think these rellies realy tried to confuse us,i have Elizabeth Bassindale married in 1890 to German Salior Frederick Bottcher ,she got married in Walton on the hill Lancaster,her father was Robert Bassindale,but then she married again as first hubby died
Elizabeth Bassindale Bottcher married John Frederick jones from Liverpool the married in 26 june 1899 in Manhattan NeW York but her dad was William
now i sent for birth cert of Ada Bassindale and her father was Robert only the date of birth was 1865 and she was born 1869
confusing or what

So many 'lost' ancestors so little time!


I guess if you want people to help find them we need to ahve more details.

Ann
Glos

Julie Ann - we do have a Pearl Street in Splott, in Cardiff but there is no Peel Street in Cardiff. I have the 1970 edition of Kelly's Directory of Cardiff if that's any help to you

Ann X

Susan have pm you
her father was John and she married Samuel mellor in 1893,walton on the hill ,Lancaster

Phantom4 when do you think that Jack Fardoe may have been born?

Unfortunately he is not a Fardoe that I have come accross.

What is her age and Father's first name Dutch?

and who did she marry?


Susan
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As Susan said, the Rootsweb message boards are very helpful if you haven't already tried them.
Not only can you concentrate on one County if you need to, but you can also go to just about any Country which, for people with foreign folk in their tree, is a Godsend.
It's certainly helped me!

K

I've got several missing rellies - Thomas and Martha Clarke both born in 1840's in Ireland, appear on a couple of the Scottish census and then disappear. My favourite bugbear is Joseph Adler and his supposed first wife Sarah - Joseph was born in Prussia and first appears in UK around 1855ish then living with Sarah but no marriage. I have Sarah's death cert and a couple of their childrens birth certs but I'm blowed if I can find out who Sarah was. I did post about her a long time ago on here. There are also several others who drive me up the wall on a regular basis and I seem to find myself going over the same ground again and again and again.......

maybe they changed spelling slightly dutch

i was browsing last night for my greatgran in hiding, and discovered a street simular name same area to her birth place, she born in pearl street cardiff and another lady same name lived in peel street dont know if it reall or spelling mistake

just thought would pop on to have alook and thought i.d ,my g,mothermother is nowere to be found people of records have looked everywere for her,now her name is not common so you would think she would be found no ,i have her marriage cert ,death cert,all the childrends births but no birth,shes on the 1901 census as coming from manchester but its not so,i have her on marriage 1893,but before that nothing ,her name Ada Mary Bassindale and thats abig breck wall if ever there was one
Dutchx

Better look at the transcribed from s Africa threads - you never know!!!


thanks for the suggestions Susan.

Some other thoughts.....

Has anyone tried asking for help on rootsweb.com mailing lists?....just subscribe to the County/Parish/place you are researching. They are very helpful people on them and a mine of information.

Re: Census......On the main page of each census year there is a list of those towns/villages that were either missing or illegible......This may be one of the reason's that no matter how you search, your anscestor will never be found......

Back to missing ancestors.......It seems that one of mine never died..... Daniel Lawson.....he would be well over 150 by now :-))


Another, John Scott was allegedly born in Gateshead. 1861/1864......have you seen how many of them there are?......on my 4th 'wrong' one so far........I leave it for a few months before ordering another.......many of mine are catholic so their baptisms are not published on the IGI


Susan
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Anne well done for tracing her!

Paul thank you for your suggestions and welcome back from 'holiday'.

I am hoping people are checking back, especially Richard as there is a suggestion re his Fardoes.


Maybe we should all abandon our own lost souls and see if we can find somebody elses on here. Well. those who have given enough details.

Ann
Glos
Ann
Glos

My two x great grandmother vanished with one of her sons while they were living in Kent, she had run off with the family lodger to Hull, taken his name as a common law wife, changed the son's name as well, had another daughter, her other two daughters were still in Kent boarding at a small school.I only traced her on the 1871 census through her christian name, date and place of birth.By the time of the 1881 census she had bigamously remarried in her maiden name to someone else entirely and returned to kent with the son but no sign of the daughter born in Hull.
The son had now reverted back to her first husband's surname.Although he kept the lodger's name as his middle name The lodger was still in Hull and was now married, with another family .I descend from her first son who had left home before 1871.Her first husband was still very much alive with a common law wife when she remarried.
On the 1841 census while she was still single the family name had been entered incorrectly as well, so she was a difficult lady to keep tabs on.

Plus...If born during a year when a census was taken...( i believe they are taken in the month of March?) And born after the month the census was taken. Theres a good chance the person will not appear in the census taken that year.

Ive had this in my family...expect to see them in a particular census but dont.

Again just a thought

Could it be they traveled alot on ships?
So out of the country alot of the time and so may have not been in UK during the census period...but returned for following censuses.
Sailing to distant lands took alot of time in those days...so you could be away for months or even years! depending on the work you did on ships.


Just a thought!

my grand mother keeps vanishing
no not her ghost
got her in 1901 with family in kent
then 1914 in Edinburgh having my dad
then 1926 in Westbury Wiltshire getting married to an army major
after that she seemed to stay in Devon at his family home
but what or why she was in Edinburgh for dont
know
or why she was in wiltshire
on dads bc says she was a mental nurse so perhaps she travelled about doing that
am now trying to see if there were any nursing records of her
she liked to move about I think

Richard, there are a number of Fardoe's in the Kinnerley/Knockin/Knockin Heath, Shropshire areas. I don't recall seeing any headstones in the yard at Knockin Heath chapel yard, but you could try there. also the one at Dovaston (just down the road from Kinnerley), St Mary's in Knockin and the church of the same name in Knockin. There is also St Peter's in Melverley. As far as I know, the Fardoe's still live in the general area. I have a Jack Fardoe in my tree, though no date of birth.

None of those places are more than a few miles from Oswestry.