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Kilkenny / Re: Edward Rainsford Esq Kilkenny Ireland 1700s
« on: Friday 23 March 12 18:48 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your graciousness regarding your search on the website. I appreciate your time and effort and any cost you incurred.

Just an fyi, Bridget's birth year according to the census was 1828.

I have searched LDS microfilm of a church in Castlecomer, I forget which one, and it had records way back. Unfortunately, the records for 1928 were partially destroyed and missing from the photos on the microfilm. Either water damage or general deterioration had destroyed part of the records for the year 1928. I did look through the whole film, just in case something might be there.  Just my luck that the year I wanted was badly damaged. However, there may be other church records than that one, and I shall make the suggested contacts.

Many thanks for your suggestions and your encouragement. Those Rainsfords sure do like to hide.

Bobbi L

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Worcestershire / Re: Bayliss Family
« on: Friday 23 March 12 01:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Kay and all....

I'm wondering if any of you have as relatives Alfred (Fred) Bayliss b. ~1860 in Worcester? I think his wife was Julia. My father was related to Julia somehow.

Fred's children were:
George b. ~1887
Nell b. ~1889 married Frank Scruby
Alfred b. ~1891
Annie (Nance) b. ~1893 married ? Jones
Maude b. ~1895 married Joseph Grant

Regards, Bobbi L

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Kilkenny / Re: Edward Rainsford Esq Kilkenny Ireland 1700s
« on: Friday 23 March 12 00:27 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, that is my post! I don't remember where, perhaps RootsWeb. Bridget is the "mystery woman" on my family tree so far. Her first child was born in Dublin, the rest in England.

I do not know any of her siblings, if any. I have gone through LDS microfilm and the recommended census replacement sources to no avail. I have not found her marriage to Joseph Thompson. I did find a baptism for Mary Elizabeth Thompson with the father as Joseph Thompson in 1850 in Dublin, which may be Joseph and Bridget's first child as the name is correct and the date possible.

There is also the possibility that Bridget was born in Dublin as on one England/Wales census in later years she states that she was born there in 1831. However, she was in her 60s at the time and I think the earlier data would have been the more accurate.  Also, a child may have given the later data.

I understand there were Rainsfords in the fishing tackle business in Dublin and wonder if Bridget could have been one of them as she worked for Allcock's Fishing Tackle Company, tying fishing flies at home in Redditch around 1871-1881.

As for the Irish websites, I can understand that organizations that provide Irish records need to charge for their services. But I have so little background information that, for me, it could get beyond my funds very quickly.

I'll surely keep the information on the marriages that you so kindly looked up and provided. Perhaps it's possible I will find her with one of the Rainsford women you shared. If you are out any funds in looking up the three marriages, I'd very much like to reimburse you.

Thank you for your kindness.

Regards,
Bobbi L



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Kilkenny / Re: Edward Rainsford Esq Kilkenny Ireland 1700s
« on: Thursday 22 March 12 20:37 GMT (UK)  »
Congratulations on finding out more about your Rainsford ancestor!  You have also given me some other places to look for my ancestor, Bridget Rainsford. On an England/Wales census, she said she was born in 1828 in Castlecomer, Kilkenny, but perhaps she was mistaken or misremembered....or was deliberately misleading the census taker!

So I will look for her in the other places that you mentioned that you found Rainsfords. She left Ireland before the beginning of civil registration, so I'm somewhat limited. But hope springs eternal.

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Canada / Re: ON Stone, Allcock, Sykes, Charlton
« on: Thursday 19 January 12 21:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hi JDC,

I do have a software program that I use. It is RootsMagic, and I like it a lot. Each program seems to have features that I'd like to have. Most of the differences seem to be in the Reports functions and what they do or do not produce.

I was thinking of spreadsheets for comparing data on people with the same name who are in the same area and close in age.

I haven't gotten around to it, yet, though.

I am definitely addicted to genealogy. There just doesn't seem enough time to explore all the surnames and resources that I'd like to.

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Worcestershire Completed Look up Requests / Re: Worcester History Centre look up please *COMPLETED*
« on: Thursday 19 January 12 20:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Phil,

Nice to hear from you. Thanks for continuing to offer suggestions. Google. Why didn't I think of that?
I'm looking for complicated things to try and haven't even tried Google. So I will do that for Polycarp.

I have spent time at the local FHC and looked on Find My Past, The Genealogist and Ancestry. Still trying to find more pieces to the puzzle and see how they fit. I believe that I have found the parents of Hubert Allcock to be John Allcock and Jane Harris Allcock, married in 1847. Hubert was born in 1849. A Hubert is on a census with them as a 22-year-old.

I am also trying to identify which John Thompson in Worcester/Redditch is mine. John is the brother-in-law of the Harold Stone whose burial location you were kind enough to find for me.

John is the son of Joseph Thompson and Bridget Rainsford Thompson. I have found very little about him as the name is so common in that area with many John Thompsons being around the same age.

I found Information on a Mt. Carmel Catholic Church, Redditch, baptism record in which Thompson was spelled Thomson and Bridget was spelled Bridgette with a maiden name of Rainsford. The birth date showed as 12 March 1856.

That would fit as John's older sister was born in 1850 (Dublin) and his younger sister was born in 1861 (Shrewsbury).

I've lost John as an adult and don't know if he married or to whom. I have a photo taken by my father in the late 1920s of an older gentleman labeled "Uncle Jack," so he lived to be an older age. So I'll keep looking.

Thanks again, for your help, Phil.

Bobbi


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Worcestershire Completed Look up Requests / Re: Worcester History Centre look up please *COMPLETED*
« on: Tuesday 10 January 12 18:34 GMT (UK)  »
Well, I'm a little choked up here, Phil, as I'm so thrilled to have this information. It is more than I was even hoping for. I hope that you were not greatly inconvenienced in locating this news of the final resting place of my grandfather.

All the immediate family had moved from Worcester to Canada and the U.S. by this time. My father last saw my grandfather in 1929.

This is a huge piece of my family history now in place, thanks to you.

Please accept my most heart-felt appreciation.

Bobbi

*COMPLETED*

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Canada / Re: ON Stone, Allcock, Sykes, Charlton
« on: Saturday 07 January 12 22:14 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for the link, RunKitty. I've tried emailing those I could. Some disconnects and some have not replied. Fingers crossed once again.

I have found a lead. A John Allcock on the 1871 census has a son Hubert b. 1849. John's wife was Jane Harris. I know this because her mother, Ann Harris, appeared with them on the census.

I went to FreeBMD and found each of them listed separately as being married in March 1847, two years before Hubert's birth, with the marriage registration in Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. If I can find the marriage record, it may show John's father.

I have Allcocks on the brain and am sorting them out as I fall asleep at night.


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Canada / Re: ON Stone, Allcock, Sykes, Charlton
« on: Saturday 07 January 12 22:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the encouragement, JDC. Fly-tied indeed. I'd settle for hog-tied. Then I could get them set where they belong.

What a long, strange trip it's been. I think I'll be forced to create a spreadsheet to keep them sorted.

No complaints. I'm delighted to have material to work with. I certainly have been busy. And as my Dad would say when he gave me a chore to do "This will keep you (meaning me) out of the pool hall." Since I didn't play pool, I never figured out why he said that. It might be that was something he heard as a youngster.

"tackle this well and get them all fly tied in no time" loved the pun :-)


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