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March was a good month

Russell — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:46:32 +0000

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.

Docklands Ancestors provides a search-able database of baptisms for parishes in the Docklands area; a search of St Dunstan’s parish resulted in four children born to a baker named George George and and his wife Mary, beginning in 1806.

March 22, 1807, Sophia, daughter of George George, baker, and his wife Mary, of Rat[clif]f. Born August 6, 1806.
March 12, 1809, William, son of George George, baker, and his wife Mary, of Ratcliff. Born November 30, 1808.
May 26, 1811, Mary, daughter of George George, baker, and his wife Mary, of Rat[clif]f. Born November 30, 1810.
September 27, 1812, Susannah, daughter of George George, baker, and his wife Mary, of Ratcliff. Born August 31, 1812.

It is probable that these children are the elder siblings of my 3 × great grandfather born to George George and Mary Fage.

A long-standing brick-wall has been Jane Draper, my great great great grandmother and wife to Edward Sanders. Census records indicate that she was born circa 1811 variously in Edmonton and Enfield, Middlesex. While browsing the the baptism register images available for All Saint’s Edmonton, Enfield, Mum found Jane’s baptism in the register for 1810. She was baptised at home in Fore Street on December 16, 1810, the daughter of David Draper, shoemaker, and Jane. The register also records her birth as being on November 17, 1810.

From there it was relatively straight forward to find a probable match for the marriage of Jane’s parents in the IGI. An extracted record has David Draper marrying Jane Catling on 31 December 1809 at Old Church, St Pancras, Middlesex.

Surnames: Catling, Draper, Fage, George
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?

Russell — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:51:54 +0000

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 …

The only suitable candidate that I’ve found for Joseph’s marriage was conducted by banns on October 27, 1818 between Joseph Coles, bachelor, and Sarah Gillit, spinster, in the parish of St Mary Lambeth, Surrey (St Mary Lambeth, 1818). The officiating minister was Arthur Gibson, curate, in the presence of James Longman Gawler and John Seager.

1. Somersetshire Society (1819, March 15). Meeting of the Committee, Albion House. Minute Book of the Somersetshire Society, 1811-1819, 236.
Somerset Record Office: DD\SMS/2/1
2. St Mary Lambeth (1818). Register of Marriages, entry 453.
London Metropolitan Archives: P85/MRY1/399

Surnames: Coles, Gillet
People: Joseph Coles (c.1798-1869), Sarah Gillet (c.1794–1837)
Places: Lambeth, St Mary Lambeth, Surrey

September 8th, 2009

Russell — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:32:21 +0000

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.

Most online genealogy sources seem to concentrate on providing access to baptisms and marriages. Burials are often overlooked, so I lthought I’d start by looking through the burial registers of a few parishes and and managed to transcribe quite a few entries. The handwriting of the various rectors, vicars and curates could be difficult to decipher at times. I really appreciated those who wrote with a firm, legible hand. Some were just diabolical to read, especially those who wrote so lightly that it hardly looked like there was an entry at all. Then there are those at the other extreme who penned so thickly that individual letters merged into one another and disappeared into a blob of ink. With limited time I just had to move on and hope the person didn’t belong in my tree.

Tomorrow I’ll start looking at some wills (all available on microfiche) as I’ve identified a few using the Cornwall Record Office’s online catalogue that will hopefully prove to be enlightening.