Each week on Randy Seaver’s Genea-musings blog he has a post for Saturday night Genealogy fun. Because of the time difference, I have called my series Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun. This week’s mission was: 1) The Family History Hound listed 20 Questions about your Ancestor, and I'm going to use some of them in the next few months.… Continue reading Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun – Which Ancestor Do You Admire the Most?
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
Over the last few weeks, I have been researching the children of Elizabeth Skempton, to determine whether there were more grandchildren than I had in my family tree. Last week, I focused on Elizabeth’s 7th child, Priscilla Slawson, which just left Elizabeth’s youngest two children, Joseph Slawson, and Thomas Burgess Slawson. Thomas died when he was… Continue reading Joseph Slawson
In the last couple of weeks, I have been researching the children of Elizabeth Skempton, to determine whether there were more grandchildren than I had in my family tree. Last week, I focused on Elizabeth’s 6th child, Mary Ann Slawson, so this week, my research will be on the 7th child, Priscilla Slawson. Priscilla was… Continue reading Latest research – Priscilla Slawson
In the last couple of weeks, I have been researching the children of Elizabeth Skempton, to determine whether there were more grandchildren than I had in my family tree. Last week, I focused on Elizabeth’s 5th child, Elizabeth Slawson, so this week, my research will be on the 6th child, Mary Ann Slawson. The information… Continue reading Latest research – Mary Ann Slawson
In last week’s post, I shared the information I already had for the first three children of Elizabeth Skempton, and also the additional research I did for the fourth child, George Slawson, to determine how many children he had. This week, I will be looking at Elizabeth’s 5th child, Elizabeth Slawson. Elizabeth was christened 20… Continue reading Latest research – Elizabeth Slawson
Back on 20 November 2016, I did a post Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun – How Many Children/Grandchildren in Your Matrilineal Line? In this post, I identified two ancestors where I needed to do more research to determine if there were more grandchildren than I had in my tree. Over the past few weeks, I have… Continue reading Latest research – the children of Elizabeth Skempton
The first ancestor in my tree with this surname was Ann Slawson. My ancestral line is: 1 Lois Whimpey 2 Ivon Walter Whimpey (1923-2009) 3 Edith Jean Marr (1922-1990) 6 Wilfred Palmer Marr (1892-1955) 7 Edith Meriden Docwra (1904-1948) 14 Harry Docwra (1866-1934) 15 Emily Alice Oliver (1877-1925) 30 George Oliver (1846-1930) 31 Elizabeth Ann Ball… Continue reading Surname Saturday – Slawson
For this week’s Trove Tuesday, I decided to use a family I haven’t written much about, so I decided to do the surname from my direct maternal line, Slawson, and to search for articles about David Slawson. David Slawson was born 19 February 1839 at Kingston upon Thames, Surrey England. He was the son of… Continue reading Trove Tuesday – David Slawson
Amy Johnson Crow introduced the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge on her No Story Too Small blog in 2014. This year she continued the challenge, but also added a weekly theme. This week, the theme is “School Days”: Many kids have returned to school by this time. What do you know about your ancestors’ school days?… Continue reading 52 Ancestors #35 Leslie Godfrey Slawson
