My 3x great grandmother's sister, Sarah Mills married Alfred Taylor on 4 November 1847. Alfred Taylor was of full age, widower, coal dealer, residence New John Street West, father William Taylor, grocer. I had been able to follow Sarah on the census records from 1861 to 1901 (refer my previous post about Sarah), and had… Continue reading Alfred Taylor – coal dealer and silversmith
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Finding Sarah Taylor (nee Mills) on the 1871 and 1891 censuses
I was recently researching the siblings of my 3x great grandmother, Catherine Mills, and was working on her sister Sarah. Sarah had married Alfred Taylor in 1847, and by 1861 she was a widow. The surname Taylor is a fairly common one, (as are most surnames that are occupational surnames), which is one of the… Continue reading Finding Sarah Taylor (nee Mills) on the 1871 and 1891 censuses
Latest research – Jane Gill
I have been working through the siblings of my 2x great grandparents, and I was working on John Gill, the brother of my 2x great grandmother Mary Gill. His probate files were on Ancestry, so I was quickly reading through the pages, as I was downloading the images, and saw the mention of Thomas Williams… Continue reading Latest research – Jane Gill
Henry Edward Russell
As part of my genealogy do-over, I have been researching my ancestors and their siblings, and mainly using Ancestry, so that I can do as much research as possible before my subscription expires at the end of July. In researching my 3x great uncle John William Russell, I found his death notice I already had… Continue reading Henry Edward Russell
Sarah Eliza Prout
Ancestry recently released the Church of England parish registers from Jersey, Channel Islands. My 2x great grandfather’s sister went to the Channel Islands, so I have been searching the parish registers, as well as checking the census records, for her family. I have already set up 3 posts about the family: The Prout family of… Continue reading Sarah Eliza Prout
Fanny Prout
The census records had shown that Thomas Prout and Elizabeth Clement Whimpey had a daughter Fanny, born about 1863. I hadn’t found her baptism when I found the baptisms for the rest of the family, so I tried searching for a Fanny, born in 1863, in St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. Her entry had been… Continue reading Fanny Prout
Mary Jane Prout
Mary had appeared with her parents on the 1851 and 1861 censuses, but not on the 1871 census. She could have possibly married or died, but there was no marriage or death found in the Jersey records. I therefore decided to search for any records for a Mary Jane Prout, born about 1848 at St… Continue reading Mary Jane Prout
The Clements family
Back in 1979, my dad was sent a family group sheet by relatives in the US that showed Elizabeth Clements was christened 28 January 1792 at Frome, and was the daughter of Thomas Clements and Joan Ames. Elizabeth married William Whimpey in 1817, so this baptism seemed likely. Then, around 2007, I was browsing the… Continue reading The Clements family
The Prout family of St Helier
One of my 2x great grandfather’s sisters went to live at St Helier after her marriage. I had followed the family through the census records, but I hadn’t yet found the baptism, burial and marriage records for the family. So, when last week Ancestry announced on their blog the release of the collections for Jersey,… Continue reading The Prout family of St Helier
Elizabeth Slawson – an update
On 21st December 2016 I wrote the post Latest research – Elizabeth Slawson. I had found a possible marriage for Elizabeth, and sent for the marriage certificate, to see who her father was listed as. Today, I received the certificate. Elizabeth Slawson, age 21, spinster, servant, married Thomas Hensman Knibbs on 7 April 1863. Her father… Continue reading Elizabeth Slawson – an update
