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The Common Room / Re: Sad about death certificate (tw: suicide)
« on: Today at 15:09 »
Pandy's Box will always be opened if you dig into your family history. I have an ancestor who took his own life in 1894, and I found this out 20 years ago but was not too fazed, it happened.

I found a direct ancestor was transported in 1791 for theft and was very pleased to find one sent to the other side of the world. He stole a hog, but I feel he had good intentions, he wanted to feed his family.

I have a few ancestors who were illegitimate, and a ancestor who had an illegitimate child before she married, as well as several ancestors siblings/cousins who had one or more baseborn children.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Odd Connacht Ireland result from Ancestry DNA
« on: Sunday 16 November 25 21:25 GMT (UK)  »
I would have wondered if there was an unknown NPE in the Mathry ancestry in the early 1800s or maybe 1700s, and it was an Irish sailor etc, but that is just supposition, and as others suggest, take these low percentages with a dollop of salt.

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The Common Room / Re: What happened to Phyllis Craker Tomkins after her husband died in 1941?
« on: Saturday 15 November 25 18:20 GMT (UK)  »
A Phyllis May Dickens died in the first quarter of 1983, in Birmingham. Vol 32, page 1548.  Born 25 Oct 1913.

These civil reg death indexes are searchable by DOB from 1969 onwards but the deaths only go up to 2007.


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The Common Room / Re: "Possible networks found" on Ancestry trees
« on: Friday 14 November 25 14:21 GMT (UK)  »
I tried the new feature and it does not appeal to me much either. Of course the more densely populated a place is, the less likely you are to have distant relations living near you. In my Suffolk villages in the 1800s I reckon most of the villages families were intermarried, distantly related over time.

I like to research family history much more than researching the social/general history of a place.

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Norfolk / Re: Mason Family from Great Yarmouth
« on: Wednesday 12 November 25 15:59 GMT (UK)  »
Yes I would think Sarah said she was a widow in 1851 to save face.

I did find a Henry Mason marrying in Halvergate, a few miles west of GY, on the 17th August 1808 to Elizabeth Clarke. Henry was said to be of Great Yarmouth. Witnesses to marriage were A Atkinson and Wm Everson. Wonder if he could be the Henry Mason, carpenter, who was of Plumstead and Woolwich later on? But as you say the surname could be coincidence as Mason is a common surname.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Who remembers the early days of Ancestry?
« on: Wednesday 12 November 25 15:55 GMT (UK)  »
I first took out a sub for Ancestry in January 2006, and have renewed it every year since. I did lurk on Ancestry before that.

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The Lighter Side / Re: What is your wildest coincidence?
« on: Tuesday 11 November 25 18:35 GMT (UK)  »
Oh yes I remember that queue. When I started learning more about the GRO birth records I was told 6 weeks was usually allowed to register a birth and that a birth could have taken place in the quarter following the birth.

One other coincidence I can mention is, my dad used to get a ferry from Plymouth to Lisbon sometimes, and his Essex mariner ancestor lost one of his sloops down there in 1812 near Plymouth. He returned to Leigh On Sea and had to get another boat and register it at Maldon.

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The Lighter Side / Re: What is your wildest coincidence?
« on: Tuesday 11 November 25 16:05 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Nick_Ips on Saturday 08 November 25 14:25 GMT (UK)
Quote from: coombs on Monday 27 October 25 18:01 GMT (UK)
I did love that old FRC.

Me too.  Also responsible for my family history 'wildest coincidence'.

Before it closed for good I spent as much time as I could there - often going after leaving work.  Normally I'd get the train to either Highbury & Islington or Essex Road, then the bus to Rosebery Avenue.

To maximise use of the time available I'd print lists of things I needed to do.  On this random occasion I was later than normal, and sitting on a number 38 bus.  I unusually got my notes out to check through what I was going to do so I'd have a head start as soon as I got to the FRC.

Then the woman sitting next to me on the bus apologises for reading my notes, but she couldn't help but see the slightly unusual family name of her partner written down several times.  Turns out her partner's family were originally from the small Norfolk village my ancestors were from, and I later discovered were in fact related.

I went there to check a 1933 birth entry of a distant relative many years ago, and it got me hooked on genealogy ever since. When i looked at the ledgers, I thought "Well where is the date of birth then?" and I was told I had to send off for the birth cert to get the DOB.

I then had a sneak look at the birth entry of a close friend and work colleague born in December 1944.

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Norfolk / Re: Mason Family from Great Yarmouth
« on: Tuesday 11 November 25 15:19 GMT (UK)  »
Hi I think the Sarah Mason, nee Harrison died in 1810 in GY, aged 59. That is Sarah Snr.

I notice your Sarah Mason was born in 1778 in Gt Yarmouth, baptised 23 Jan 1778, daughter of John and Sarah.

I did find a Sarah Mason in the 1851 census in GY a widow, aged 73, born in GY, living with granddaughter Caroline Mason. Sarah was a laundress. I did find a Sarah Mason buried in 1859 in Gt Yarmouth, aged 81, so born c1778.

I have found quite a few Sarah Mason's in GY in this time frame as well, so it will be a bit of a job trying to untangle them.




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