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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Jennis/Gennis family
« on: Thursday 13 June 13 22:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi Edrubava,   Will get back to you soon - trying to absorb all new info and see where I need to go from here. My gr gr grandmother was Elizabeth Jennis (1832) so is your relative her brother William?  It is a small world. Although living in Australia I will always be a Londoner having had 4 generations of my family live in the East End but is a great thrill to find I have a distant relative here in Australia. After reading so much about the living conditions in London in the 19th century I consider it a miracle our ancestors survived at all! Best Wishes DKA

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Jennis/Gennis family
« on: Thursday 13 June 13 22:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi Valda,  Thank-you for the advice, will make time to absorb all the info on the site - when all fails then read the instructions ......  Would there be any way of tracing the Jennis/Gennis family in Ireland or is there really to little to go on?  Thank you

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Jennis/Gennis family
« on: Tuesday 11 June 13 23:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi Edrubava,  Great thrill to hear form you. I too am in Australia!  Love to hear from you - I am still trying to work out how to use this site. Not quite sure how to view personal messages!   Thanks for the info on William Senior - I am certainly on a steep learning curve!  Have some more info but Have to fly now. Best wishes DKA

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Jennis/Gennis family
« on: Tuesday 11 June 13 06:02 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I am very new to searching my family history. I don't know whether this helps but here goes. I am related to William and Jane Jennis through their oldest daughter Elizabeth (Betsy) born 1832 in Ireland. She married a Dutch mariner in 1857 whose name was Pieter Abrams (I have found it spelled about 4 different ways. But on their daughter's Elizabeth's marriage in 1889 (to my great grandfather) on the certificate it was spelled Abramsz.   Now I will get back to the point - on the 1891 census for Elizabeth Abrams nee Jennis she states she was born in Dublin. She also has a William Jennis living with her (shoemaker) born in Dublin too with a rough age of 60. Could this be her brother who was born around 1835?  Could William and Jane originally come from Dublin.  Queenstown (where they said they were from) was a large port from which the Irish escaped in their hundreds of thousands? So perhaps they lived there for a while before the could get a ship out. Just a thought!

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