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After months of fighting my way through I have finally found g grandmas name ;D She is recorded in 1901 as Kate E Martin, in 1891 as Jane E Martin, had my grandad in 1902....maiden name Elizabeth Jane Stebbins. Married to g grandad....name Elizabeth Jane Stibbens. Finally found an Elizabeth Jane Stebbins and stuck with that, but no census records for her ??? Today I broke through that brick wall, her dads surname is Stebbing ::)
I no longer care if her name is Elizabeth, Jane or Kate, Stibbens, Stebbins or Stebbing. From now on I will just refer to her as g grandma and woe betide anyone that tries to stop me ;D
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Great news for you, just shows - never give up ;D ;D
might be hope for my elusive Priscilla yet !!
Jane :)
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Skymoo,
Quite happy for you that you successfully managed to find her along with her family in the census records!!
That is what makes the family history research fun and interesting!! :)
Congratulations to you for doing your research well-done!
Happy Easter,
Tees
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Well done skymoo,
I've been looking for my great grandfather for four years now. He's out there somewhere, but where and under what name.? He's on the 1881 and I have his marriage cert, but I'm blowed if I can find his birth or him on the 1861 or 1871.
You have given me hope ;D
Kind regards
Su
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Well done
It took me 7 years to find my ptl grandfather after that tracing everybody else was a breeze
Best of with the rest of your research
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Skymoo - Congrats on finding your g.grandma's real surname at last and her father.
Still looking for my paternal g.grandfather prior to my gran's birth in 1884. Like other missing people, he must have been somewhere, but where? I live in hope that when GRO finishing digitizing BMDs and give mothers' maiden names for all birth records, I'll find him.
Lizzie
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Congrats, and well done persevering. The answers are all hopefully out there, if we stick with it. ;D
Kath
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Skymoo 1 Brick Wall 0 ;D
Well done
Perseverance paid off!
............. and the next one is ..............?
Su ;)
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Skymoo congratulations
fantastic news, your perserverance has paid off
gives hope to us all, with ancestors out there playing hide and seek, just wish some of mine would shout "I'm here"
Jo ;D
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I feel guilty that I found all my gt gt grandparents comparatively easily and have recently found all the females maiden names, just short of a few deaths.
Good luck everyone
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No guilt necessary Mumsie. We all have our brickwalls at different places. Some of us get lucky on certain branches and struggle with others. I started researching one side and went back many generations quite quickly. I have another branch where I can't get past the gg grandparents. One is Irish and the other is from outerspace :o (or so it seems). And I have been working on them for 18 years, on and off. :'(
Kath
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Great news Skymoo ;D
I have more that a few dead ends. I go back to look at them every so often to see what I can find as every day new stuff is put on the internet and you never know I might get lucky one day ;D
Then there's my Irish lot...... :P Hmmmmmm....I try not to dwell on them too much :-\
mab