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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help searching for the Shadwell family.
« on: Thursday 29 August 13 18:13 BST (UK)  »
Oh no it's fine. My Grandmother lives halfway across the country (me in Alabama her in California) and she doesn't even know my Dad is interested in her family. I think it's because she is so tight lipped about them that he wants to know. He is starting to get curious to where he comes from.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help searching for the Shadwell family.
« on: Thursday 29 August 13 17:05 BST (UK)  »
I know nothing of Sarah's family and thanks to everyone here I know a lot about Charles'. My Grandmother doesn't really remember anything about her Grandfather nor does she talk about his family. It seems as though sometime either after my Grandmother was born or a little before it something happened to cause Ellen to become estranged from the rest of the family and Grandma is being very tight lipped about what.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help searching for the Shadwell family.
« on: Thursday 29 August 13 14:55 BST (UK)  »
Thank you that helps me out a ton. I am grateful to everyone on this site for the help they have provided you don't know how much.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help searching for the Shadwell family.
« on: Thursday 29 August 13 14:07 BST (UK)  »
After talking to my Dad he remembered an Aunt Bessie who was Grandma's mother's sister that came to visit my Grandmother when he was a boy sometime in the mid 50s. I cannot find anything out about Charles dying anywhere. Also the two records I have from Ellen and Edward list Ellen's mother Helen but also as Sarah. And it does make sense in a round about way for her to have two different pobs. There is a record on another site of Helen/Sarah's father being a Military man so he may have been stationed in Alderney and if that is the case when they came to North America they may have decided to list her pob as Alderney instead of Ireland. Because at that time the Irish in both Canada and the States weren't treated the best.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help searching for the Shadwell family.
« on: Wednesday 28 August 13 19:59 BST (UK)  »
That is intriguing as well. I knew my Grandmother had some connection to Ireland but i had just assumed that that came from Ellen's Husband Edward Hanify. And I know there is a connection to Surrey somewhere through Charles because I found a letter written from one of my grandmother's relatives in Surrey related to Charles thanking her for her visit to them when she was in her late teens.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help searching for the Shadwell family.
« on: Wednesday 28 August 13 19:29 BST (UK)  »
Sadly I don't although Ellen had to have married Edward Hanify sometime before 1917 because that is the year my Grandmother was born. And Ellen and Edward were married by the time she came along.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help searching for the Shadwell family.
« on: Wednesday 28 August 13 18:46 BST (UK)  »
Ahh okay. I was curious. So Charles and his family were from the town originally. That makes sense. I always assumed that Charles's family was always from Surrey and then moved to Hampshire before moving to Canada. Now it seems Charles was from Devizes and then moved to Hampshire and then Canada and then sometime after his children were married moved back to Surrey.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help searching for the Shadwell family.
« on: Wednesday 28 August 13 18:18 BST (UK)  »
I was thinking it wasn't him although everything else does seem to match up. If the one that Ladyhawk posted is my Great-Great Grandfather then he must have returned to England sometime after Cecilia and Ellen got married. And then remarried himself. It makes me wonder what happened to Sarah. And if that is his father it means he died a year before Charles moved Sarah and the kids to Canada. Now I am curious what the term "Devizes" means. And to why Charles' wife's name keeps changing. First it is Sarah then on one post I saw elsewhere on this site it is listed as Emma and now it appears to be Helen. This is getting rather intriguing to me. It's kinda like an archaeological dig to find out the truth.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help searching for the Shadwell family.
« on: Wednesday 28 August 13 18:00 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Trish. That is a big help. :)

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