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Thanks for that reminder about the online memorial books - useful tip.

A few months ago I noticed an error on a tree – not a close relative of mine, but I thought I would point it out to the tree owner.

The owner had uploaded a lovely photograph of their ancestor’s house, together with a map and an arrow showing its location.

I live in the area and suspected it was incorrect and so I checked the relevant Census document.

Their ancestor lived about a mile away from that location, in a street with a very similar name. When I want to be sure about addresses I scroll forwards and backwards in the Census to check the enumerator’s route, and so I know I was correct.

I messaged them to explain. They did acknowledge the message and said they would look into it.
They still have the incorrect address, photo and map in place.

It’s their loss I suppose – they don’t live in the area, and I was going to offer to take a photo of the correct property for them, had they shown any real interest. (Or maybe I'm being unkind and they just have other priorities in their life!)

However, because Ancestry users love photos so much, many people have copied, perhaps assuming that anyone who has gone to the trouble of uploading a photo and creating a map is bound to be correct.

So these days, if I spot something I’m pretty sure about I just add a polite note to the tree – then others might spot the note and think twice about copying the tree's information without checking it first.

I’d love to be able to confirm the burial places of two ancestors who died in Bures St Mary, Suffolk.

If anyone has access to the appropriate records I’d be really grateful.

The people concerned are:

Harriet Elizabeth Eves, died 4 May 1873, age 62, wife of John Eves, Farm Labourer.

John Eves, died 11 October 1885, age 75. Farm Labourer.

I understand that a cemetery opened in Bures St Mary in 1872, so perhaps they were buried there… or if not, in the churchyard?

Many thanks.

Sandrafamilytree

Do you have details of his birth, 1911 & 1921 census and 1939 war register?

SS

Might as well post,

1911

Michael   McGee   Head   Single   Male   30   1881   Labourer rilbit heater   Jarrow County D
Margaret   Holland   Housekeeper   Married   Female   29   1882   House keeper   Walker C Northumberland
William   Holland   Son   -   Male   1   1910   -   Northumberland Newcastle on Tyne
Connelis   Holland   Son   -   Male   3   1908   -   North Shields
Noel   McGee   Brother   Widower   Male   43   1868   -   Portglas

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MCGEE, CORNELIUS       mmn LIVINGSTONE 
GRO Reference: 1908  J Quarter in TYNEMOUTH  Volume 10B  Page 269

HOLLAND, WILLIAM  GEORGE     LIVINGSTONE 
GRO Reference: 1910  J Quarter in NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE  Volume 10B  Page 51



2 Sons & Daughter appears in 1921 census

HOLLAND, ETHEL       LIVINGSTON 
GRO Reference: 1913  D Quarter in GATESHEAD  Volume 10A  Page 2053

HOLLAND, MICHAEL  MCGEE     mmn LIVINGSTONE 
GRO Reference: 1918  J Quarter in TYNEMOUTH  Volume 10B  Page 425

MCGEE, WILLIAM       LIVINGSTONE 
GRO Reference: 1920  S Quarter in TYNEMOUTH  Volume 10B  Page 512

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1939----46 Silkey's Lane, Tynemouth, Tynemouth C.B., Northumberland, England


Micheal and Margaret did eventually marry.

Marriages Mar 1930   

HOLLAND    Margaret    McGee    Tynemouth    10b   385    
McGee    Michael    Holland    Tynemouth    10b   385   

Many thanks for taking the trouble to compile and post all that information for me!

Funnily enough I had just been looking at the 1911 Census to flesh out the family a bit – having had my curiosity raised when I wanted to know what had happened to Cornelius.

It was odd her children had the surname Holland and yet Cornelius's birth was registered as McGee and he was baptised as such, but I guess they were just one of the many couples living a man and wife and varying the names that appeared in documents. As you point out, they married much later.

Thanks again.