Posts Tagged ‘parish registers’
March was a good month
March was a good month for extending the family tree. I managed to find four older siblings for my great great great grandfather George George. George, son of George George, a baker, and Mary, was born in 1813 and baptised the following the year. There is a candidate marriage between a George George and Mary Fage in 1805, leaving a gap of eight years before the first known child was born. The indexed London baptisms at Ancestry begin in 1813 and browse-able images of registers for Stepney are limited.
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People: David Draper (c.1787-1867), George George, George George (1813-1843), Jane Catling (c.1782-1850), Mary Fage, Mary George (1810- ), Sophia George (1806- ), Susannah George (1812- ), William George (1808- )
Places: All Saint's Edmonton, Enfield, Middlesex, Old Church St Pancras, Ratcliff, St Dunstan's Stepney
A wife for Joseph Coles?
Joseph Coles got married between his hospitalisation in 1817 and the presentation to the Somersetshire Society of a report into his conduct as an apprentice in March 1819 (Somersetshire Society, 1819, March 15) that said:
… subsequent to the time when he was in the hospital for the cure of the Venereal disease he had been in the habit of staying out all hours of the night sometimes all night and frequently whole days – that he had formed a connection with and had ultimately married their discharged Servant maid …
People: Joseph Coles (c.1798-1869), Sarah Gillet (c.1794–1837)
Places: Lambeth, St Mary Lambeth, Surrey
September 8th, 2009
TRURO — Today was spent in the Cornwall Record Office browsing through microfiche after microfiche of parish registers looking for elusive ancestors. A good place to be because the weather was lousy—a grey, misty, wet day. The weather forecast looks better for the next week though; some sun is expected.
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