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Northumberland Lookup Requests / Re: Atkins Family in or near Bellingham late 1800s
« on: Sunday 03 April 16 22:26 BST (UK)  »
I am back!   Still puzzled by the Surnames used for this Atkins or Robson family.  I am hoping there is someone who is connected to them and perhaps has solved the puzzle and has some explanation for the odd registrations. www.freeBMD has some but they don't always match www.findmypast, for instance!
I have looked for Atkin(s)-Robson marriages but no luck there. So who was Ann, wife of James Atkins??  There was once an Ann Booth Robson but I can't fit her into the Atkins group. And there is an Ann Green, who might be the one.
I feel there is a story here but all I really want is to confirm the BMD.
I am winding up my Tree research and just need to tidy up some loose ends.
Janice

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Northumberland Lookup Requests / Re: Atkins Family in or near Bellingham late 1800s
« on: Saturday 02 April 16 22:42 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks to those who replied so promptly!  No wonder I was having trouble finding BMDs! If, as I suspect, the Atkins connect to another part of my family, it seems to be a family trait - using more than one surname and exchanging them at will! And a lot to do with which side of the marriage date the children appeared!

This is, of course, half the charm of Genealogy - you never know when the next surprise will pop up!

Thanks again - I will see where this information leads me. I may be back with you if I get stuck again!

Janice



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Northumberland Lookup Requests / Atkins Family in or near Bellingham late 1800s
« on: Friday 01 April 16 22:58 BST (UK)  »
Looking to attach basic BMD records to James Atkins (abt 1831 Morpeth or Mitford); wife Ann or Annie (abt 1835 Allendale).       Marriage place & date ?                 Children:
Edward (abt 1864) John (1866) Isabella (abt 1868) William (abt 1870) Ann or Annie (abt 1873) and James (abt 1875).
They lived at Broomhope Cottage and several initially worked at the Gun Proving Grounds.
This is a distant branch of our Tree - but I like to get the records as accurate as possible! This family has proved to be difficult to pin down.  Hopefully, with help, I will connect these people with Ann Isabel (or Annie Isabella) Atkins, daughter of the above Edward Atkins, who eventually lived in Manitoba, Canada from the early 1920s on.
Hopefully, Janice

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Rutland Lookup Requests / Re: Baptism - Clay
« on: Monday 21 March 16 19:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Dave,
We have been in touch before - on this subject. The connection is through Gladys Constance Mawby Langdon, daughter of Charles Hugh Langdon and Emma Susan Mawby.  Gladys married Frederick Allen White who was my grandmother's (Lilias Deborah White) brother.
Frederick and Gladys White had three sons, Reginald, Eric and Keith (known as "Peter"). Reginald died early in a dockyard accident, Eric was sent to Canada as a "Home Child", after his father died and Mum had a new baby and couldn't cope; Eric had two children, a son who died within a day of birth, and a daughter, Linda, who lives in British Columbia and I visit her every Christmas, as I escape from a Prairie Winter!
Peter lived in England and had two children, a boy and a girl.
Could you e-mail me direct at  janjones@mts,net   and give me the marriages and dates which
relate to Ann Casterton/Fairchild/Clay - and her daughter Ann. I am still confused!
I do have the Mawbys - back to a Thomas and Ann ( nee ?) Mawby and their son, Robert, who married Mary Adcock.
Cheers, Jan

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Rutland Lookup Requests / Re: Baptism - Clay
« on: Monday 21 March 16 02:01 GMT (UK)  »
A long time after you (Dave) and others sorted out the Mawby/Clay connection.   I am trying to tie these folks with "our" Joseph Mawby who married Elizabeth Popple and had eleven children. This "Chat" has filled in a lot for me!  I was really confused about the dates surrounding the two Ann Clays, mother and daughter.
I am not very good at using RootsChat, so I am not sure who will see this!
Anyway - Thanks for the help!
Janice

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Glamorganshire / Re: Quinnell and Charles
« on: Friday 29 May 15 01:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi Marie,
It is many years later than your posting regarding William Quinnell and his parents, George and Hannah.  I am sort of related ;) as Hannah married an ancestor of mine, after George died. She was then Hannah Watkins.  I just wonder if you got further with your search?
I won't go into details here - just glad to have found William and his descendants.  Hannah is hard to research (I am still looking for her birth-place and date) - all I know is that she was Hannah Charles and married George Quinnel in Bristol in 1815. George was Broker and Hannah's father, Robert Charles, was a Veterinarian.  They lived in Swansea, where George died in September, 1841,and their daughter Eliza died in January 1842, Hannah married Thomas Watkins, a widower, in December 1841. Thomas was my Great-great-great-Grandfather.
Regards,   Janice

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Wales Resources / Old but New Subject (Watkins)
« on: Sunday 24 May 15 02:31 BST (UK)  »
Is Lyndon still around?   He was my contact for the Watkins family (mostly Printers) in Swansea, Cardiff and Bristol.
We have "lost" an ancestor! John Watkins was born in December 1852. Married Margaret Hopkin(s) in 1869. Nine Watkins children: Thomas; Walter John; David Rhys; Howel James; Samuel; Mary; Lewis; Elizabeth and Howel. (The first Howel and Samuel died in 1883).
John was a widower by the time of the 1891 Census and was living with six of his children, in the home of his Mother-in-Law, Elizabeth (Jones) Hopkins and her son and daughter. Then we "lose" him (and several other family members) when we look at the 1901 Census. He reappears in 1911 as a Boarder in the home of Robert and Emma Turner - don't think they are related.
Can anyone find him in 1901 and see where he was and what he was doing?
Thanks.   Janice

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Glamorganshire / Re: David Davies 1840 Treboeth
« on: Thursday 21 May 15 05:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Osprey,
David Davies, age 1 year, appears on the 1841 Census, in the household of David and Sarah (nee Thomas) Jones, in Treboeth, Llangyfelach.  He is with the family again in 1851, age 11, and is described as "Grandson". Then he disappears.   I am assuming that either one of the daughters married a Davies (if so who was she?) and produced this child which was then raised by his grandparents OR one of the daughters had this child out of wedlock but registered him under his father's surname, again having him raised in his grandparents home.
That's all I know of David Davies and hope someone might know where he fits into the Jones family.
Janice

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Glamorganshire / David Davies 1840 Treboeth
« on: Monday 18 May 15 23:40 BST (UK)  »
David Davies, born 1840, appears as the grandson of David and Sarah (Thomas) Jones on the 1841 and 1851 Census records of Treboeth, Llangyfelach.   I am trying to find his parents - assuming a happy marriage of Jones and Davies shortly before 1840!!     
Yes, I know there are dozens of them in the time-frame and I am drowning in Joneses and Davies!!
I think the only way to solve this will be if someone has actually done this research and/or has some positive, handed-down family tree!
David Jones, the Grandfather, was a Tailor, born in Bettws, Carmarthen.
Answers and suggestions will be much appreciated!
Janice

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