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Hi Zakeriras,
I’m not sure if you’re in the UK and searching UK ancestors but if so try The British Newspaper Archive.

You can narrow it down to years and areas.

I spent many hours in lockdown trawling through old papers looking up people and addresses.
It’s such a fascinating social history and brings life to the names and dates.

I found interesting facts through intimations, adverts for home help, letters to the editor and reports of a break in.
I also found a very sad report of my husbands great grandfather who had been missing for a week in the 1930s
In today’s terms I think he was having a mental health crisis having just lost his son in a motorbike accident and was found wandering near the site.

Obviously the more unusual the name the better but it may just give you the breakthrough you need.

Good luck !

Think it might say carter work as in delivering.

Have you looked at ship passenger lists of her coming to England. You would get her and husbands name.

Not sure if this fits the parameters for this Chat page. I have been doing some clearing and tidying in the study and came across this song from the School Hymnal of the Methodist Church. I can remember singing this in the infants school many years ago. It would be interesting to know if it is still sung, but probably now so far out of date. Perhaps rather too twee for today's children!

Radstockjeff
We used to say this as a prayer before dinner time (lunch) at primary school in the 1960s/70s, central Scotland. Goodness it brought back memories of no choice dinners eaten at long tables with the teachers walking up and down making sure every last bit was eaten before you were allowed to go out to play.

Thank you all for the Huguenot suggestions.
Maybe I should have been clearer.

My mother’s cousin had done some work re the Huguenot line many years ago, probably 60s or 70s.

They were silkweavers and had settled in Spitalfields, London. He apparently had samples of silk that had been handed down.

I took the research a bit further several years ago with help from a very knowledgeable Rootschatter who traced the line to the outskirts of Paris.

Re my mothers DNA test I meant I was a bit disappointed that due to the lack of testing in France (which I didn’t realise when we submitted the sample) the research that had been done was not confirmed by DNA as the other areas were or her ancestry.

Yes I was born, grew up and live in Scotland but my folks are from down south.


Thanks for all the replies.