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Northamptonshire / Goff's book on the Canfields of Harlestone
« on: Tuesday 23 August 11 13:04 BST (UK)  »
I am researching the Canfield family, and would be very interested in obtaining a copy of a booket written by the late John Goff called "We shall never say their names", which details the Harlestone branch of the family. Please contact me if you know were a copy may be obtained.

Many thanks

Tony Johnson
Ontario, Canada

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Northamptonshire / Re: Goodliffe family Wakerley
« on: Sunday 12 June 11 18:21 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Sandy.

Robert would have been 15 at the time. I think Kate was just born, and they had a mass baptism for the family!!

May I ask which Library you found these records?

Robert's birth cert. shows 'where born' as Wakerley, but no father's name. I think they were living with John Charity at the time, and feel sure that he was Robert's father.

Tony

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Northamptonshire / Re: Goodliffe family Wakerley
« on: Thursday 02 June 11 19:34 BST (UK)  »
I was able to visit Wakerley a couple of weeks ago, but found that none of the headstones in the churchyard were readable. :(
Time and weather has taken its toll.
I did get some wonderfull photos of the church itself. :)

Thanks again for eaveryones help.

Tony

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Devon / Re: Selena ANSTEY, b1855
« on: Friday 22 April 11 14:37 BST (UK)  »
Well done Ambly, I think you have cracked this one!

When Selena married Hiram Can(m)field in 1863 in Lincoln, Ont, the transcript was very  poor, and she was listed as "Helena Ausded", with father "William Ausded" and mother "Susan Henspore" . This has caused me great confusion, but now, the appearance of William and Susan in 1861 makes it all clear.
They must have travelled to Canada when she was very young.

So, I think I was right in thinking that James and Mary Anstey were not her parents. I now need to find out what happened to Willliam and Susan before 1871, when she is listed as living with James and Mary Anstey, and what was their relation to her.

This has also strengthened the link to Selena J born in Newton Abbott in 1855.

Thanks so much guys, this has been an enormous help, and will re-write part of the family tree.

Tony

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Devon / Re: Selena ANSTEY, b1855
« on: Friday 22 April 11 01:54 BST (UK)  »
Thanks guys. Yes, this is the correct Selena.

However, there is no direct connection between the birth in Devon and subsequent appearance in Canada.

Also, looking at ages and marriage dates, I don't think that Selena is the daughter of James and Mary(Doyle) as they married in Canada in 1863, five years after Selena was born in England! All of the current family trees which include her have James and Mary as parents.

I am trying to trace her ancestry in England, and might try a copy of the Birth Cert of Selena Jane next.

She eventually married Hiram Canfield, my great-grand father and died in Buffalo, NY.

Thanks

Tony

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Devon / Selena ANSTEY, b1855
« on: Thursday 21 April 11 12:34 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for information on Selena Anstey, b 1855 in believe in Newton Abbott and emigrated to Canada sometime before 1871. She may be connected to James Anstey (father or brother), who also went to Canada at the same time.

Many thanks

Tony

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Northamptonshire / Re: Stone Quarry pub Duston
« on: Friday 18 March 11 15:37 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for replies. Yes, it is now a post office, and we have been back to see it. This is an early photo of the Stone Quarry, with perhaps the Perkins family?

Anyone know when it stopped being a pub? It now seems that two branches of my wife's family owned it, The Perkins and the Wrights.

Tony

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Northamptonshire / Re: Goodliffe family Wakerley
« on: Tuesday 15 March 11 19:28 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks you guys, this is brilliant!!!

I don't suppose there is any away of tracing Robert's father? Or could we guess that it was John Charity, as he married Catherine soon after he was born?

Any idea what the convention was in those days?

Thanks again, everyone.

Tony

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Northamptonshire / Re: Goodliffe family Wakerley
« on: Monday 14 March 11 21:56 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Evie.

The plot thickens!!!

I now have Robert's birth certificate, which give his mother as "Catherine Goodliffe", but no father. The d.o.b. is 27 May, 1859 in Wakerley.

I can find no trace of either of them in 1861 census or even of Catherine in 1851? In fact, I cannot race a Catherine Goodliffe of the correct age anywhere.

It is odd that the Charity family have both a Catherine and a Robert of the correct age, or am I reading too much into this?

Seems to be the classic brickwall. I will be in the UK in May. Would there be any other records I might look for while I am there?

Tony

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