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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Thomas Nickless b1815 HELP!
« on: Tuesday 28 February 12 17:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Annette

It does make the whole thing over complicated !

charly

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Warwickshire Lookup Requests / Re: Phoebe Lavinia Guest Birmingham
« on: Tuesday 28 February 12 16:56 GMT (UK)  »
Many Thanks!

Its such a small world isnt it! I havent used ancestry for ages im only looking into my tree again as im using a 2 week trial on another site, so ill see if i can work out how to send a pm on here, That will help that side of the tree,

Yes it seems strange to us about marrying cousins as odd, but its to keep money in the family etc,( maybe for love you never know! )
 Ive found with the guests/nickless's its all very confusing ! there is another site ive been using familysearch.org that i found on a thread that helped me track down alot of folks who lived in smaller villages but when it came to everyone moving to Birmingham had no joy with it, as it was all parish based.

good luck with it all and stay in touch and let me know how your search goes! 

Charly x

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Warwickshire Lookup Requests / Re: Phoebe Lavinia Guest Birmingham
« on: Monday 27 February 12 14:52 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Debbie!

Did you see my tree on Ancestry?

Minnie and Frederick Nickless are my Great Grandparents, They adopted my grandad Donald Nickless when he was around 15 - i think, my grandad passed away over 10 years ago so all the information i do have is stuff my grandma can remember, which isnt very much.  My grandma tells me that Minnie was actually my grandads birth aunt, but we have no idea who his real mother is/was .  He was in contact with them at some point but he lost contact with his 'birth family' a long time ago. 

On Ancestry, Ive had contact with a cousin (i dont know how many times removed etc -you know what this tree hunting is like)  who is also a decendant of Minnie and Frederick (grandchild i think) and he has far more information than I do, he may be able to give you more information with regards to the Guest side - all the photos on ancestry are from his tree that crossed over to mine, if you go onto my ancestry you should find him :P

Ive got to admit I havent researched much of the Guest line, but I did see that a Guest married a Guest - apparently it was common practice for cousins to marry each other in that time,

and yes any information you have would also help me! Thanks

Good Luck with your search!

charly

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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Thomas Nickless b1815 HELP!
« on: Thursday 23 February 12 12:22 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Annette - i will look into that!

with regards to the surname difference, you may be able to help me with a query ...  my maiden name was nickless, so i can see how nickless can easily be confused as nicholas and other ways of spelling it, it was always happening to me, but to go from Nicholas to Nickless that wud just be unusual, wouldn't it?  its not exactly a common surname ?

or am I over thinking it?

Charly

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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Thomas Nickless b1815 HELP!
« on: Thursday 23 February 12 12:17 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much for the quick reply!

im not sure if bridgnorth is an error, its not that far away from birmingham, but I came came across a record suggesting bridgnorth as a birthplace for a thomas nickless and extrensively searched the records on the off chance, but didnt find anything so just assumed it was wrong - i will have another look with the different spelling.

thanks for the info! :) It will help massively!

charly

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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Thomas Nickless b1815 HELP!
« on: Thursday 23 February 12 11:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi -

im looking for suggestions on how i could find further information about Thomas Nickless born 1815, on the census's that I have located him on it states that he was born in Bromsgrove/Worcs but then on the earlier census results there are only 2 Thomas Nickless' of which Im not sure that either are my relation.

I know that Thomas married Jane Chandler (b.1822)  in 1841

Im stumped. If anyone has any tips on how to find them would be appreciated!

Charly

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Warwickshire Lookup Requests / Re: Phoebe Lavinia Guest Birmingham
« on: Thursday 23 February 12 11:10 GMT (UK)  »
I dont know of how much use this is, but i stumbled across this thread whilest looking for a different Nickless,

In my tree I have a Phoebe Lavina Guest born oct/nov/dec 1889 daughter of Alfred Guest and Rachael Evans.  She is the sister of Minnie Guest who married Frederick Nickless (who are my great grandparents)

that is where the Guest-Nickless tie comes from

Charly

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