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Nottinghamshire / Re:Boots and Hills
« on: Sunday 25 April 04 15:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi Louise,

I don’t know of any Boots from Quorndon Leics, but I do know of Boots from Quarndon, Derby. Any chance that the names are mixed up?

Roy

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Nottinghamshire / Re:Boots and Hills
« on: Sunday 25 April 04 15:34 BST (UK)  »
Dear Tony,

It seems pretty certain from what you say that your great grandfather is the elusive Alfred, he of the 1841 census. According to my calculations, that makes us 3rd cousins. Not bad considering this is the first time either of us has used this website, I think!

Rose Ann had a daughter called Paulina (my grandmother) – a cousin to Alfred’s daughter Paulina (your grandmother?). How many Paulina cousins have there ever been, I wonder? I also had an uncle called Paulinus, so this is clearly a name to conjure with in this family. I do have evidence of John Boot being the surveyor for the Clifton colliery – and for many others in the Notts & Derby coalfield.  My Paulina’s husband William Hill was born in Alfreton and the little I know of his antecedents indicates his was a Notts/Derby family.

I have a good deal of information I can send you, best done directly I think. Can you email me at Moderator comment - email address removed to avoid spamming - please contact using a personal message

Cousinly greetings!

Roy



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Nottinghamshire / Re:Boots and Hills
« on: Saturday 24 April 04 17:41 BST (UK)  »
Boots and Hills,

The John and Ann Boot you refer to are my great great grandparents (via Rose Ann Boot). I haven’t researched this family exhaustively, but the only reference I have seen to Rose Ann’s brother Alfred is in the 1841 census, so I have assumed that he died young. If so, he can’t be your Alfred. On the other hand, his christening his son Eleazar may be significant – John Boot’s father was Eleazar.

One avenue of attack would be to search for Alfred’s death between 1841 and 1851 – parish records of Skegby and Huthwaite, or 1837online.com.

Have you looked at huthwaite-online.net? This has an article on this Boot family and remarks on the disappearance of Alfred. It mentions the unreadable A….. D… in the 1851 census and wonders whether this was Alfred. In fact this was Andrew David who appears, for example, in the 1881 census.

None of the other names you mention register with me.

There are, as you say, other Alfred Boots about. There are also plenty of Hills – Rose Ann married William Hill. Sorry to be so negative! Good hunting!


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