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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Investigating Chilean Ancestry
« on: Today at 13:30 »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-Judaism

I thought this example, while from Bolivia, sounded similar; families who identify as Catholic, but have Jewish ancestry and have preserved some of the Jewish practices.
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Several of the oldest Catholic families in Santa Cruz are of Jewish ancestry; some families still practice certain traditions of Judaism. As recently as the 1920s, several families preserved seven-branched candlesticks and served dishes cooked with kosher practices.[44] It is still customary among certain old families to light candles on Friday at sunset and to mourn the deaths of close relatives by sitting on the floor.[43] After almost five centuries, some of the descendants of these families acknowledge having some Jewish ancestry, but practice Catholicism.

Also be careful not to conflate not having found a record with it not existing.
Seeing your grandma's baptismal record is proof she was baptised.
Not having yet found baptismal records for her parents is not proof they were not.  It could be those records were damaged or destroyed, are not online, they came from a different town than you expected, etc.

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The Common Room / Re: Looking for a fresh pair of eyes
« on: Yesterday at 10:09 »
Usually the weak links start in the 1700s and similar.   Often the errors are in conflation of multiple people of similar names. A baptism existing for a William or Joseph Haddock does not mean it's the same man who was married half way across the country 25 years later.  But other records like wills can help.

I think the most obvious weak point will be around William Haddock (1688-1778), supposedly father in Essex (Joseph Haydocke married Priscilla Martin in London), but he born in Backbarrow in Cumbria, and then went to Wales to have his kids?   That's a lot of movement and not in an obvious way like between major port cities.

Now this couple do appear to have had a child William of a similar age, but this man died in 1725 and was probably didn't marry as his will leaves properly only to sisters/nephew.  Sure enough, it looks like this was linked on FS at some point but some collaberators have unlinked it due to the will evidence.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/memories/LHT3-LV6
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/collaborate/LHT3-LV6

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Australia / Re: The Archie Macdougall Mystery
« on: Yesterday at 06:06 »


https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/157001226?searchTerm=%22Archibald%20Macdougall%22
A possible, Archibald Macdougall said to be of Berkeley St in Glasgow, married Miss Bernica Eunice Aurisch, daughter of of the late B. R. R. Aurisch of Scone, and Mrs J Aurisch.

When Jane Aurisch died in 1935 Mrs A Mcdougall of Sydney is listed as one of her children
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/158993167?searchTerm=%22JANE%20Aurisch%22

And Bernica was still alive in 1939
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/135446850?searchTerm=%22Bernica%20Macdougall%22

She died in 1967 as Bernica Eileen McDougall.

I don't see any children to this couple.

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Australia / Re: Victorian death 1875
« on: Yesterday at 05:42 »
A John Campbell who died 14 Jul 1875 had an inquest.  52 years, Scotland.
https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/53707CC0-F1BB-11E9-AE98-23D8DA7A4A23?image=5
But I think this is probably death 10542 / 1875 so can also be ruled out. Location doesn't fit, either.


Going up in number based on sparrett's suggestion, 10474/1875 appears to be Michael Deakin who died 30 July (if my calculations are correct) and inquest was 2 August.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/150637881?searchTerm=%22Michael%20Deakin%22

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The Common Room / Re: Burial of prisoners in 18th century
« on: Yesterday at 05:18 »
I think it massively depends on what we're talking about in terms of what prison.
In a rural area where the "prison" was a room tacked onto the police station, they likely would have been buried at the local parish and recorded as such.

Larger prisons may have had their own burial grounds and a visiting chaplain.  That isn't to say there'd be no record but it may be seperate from the actual parish burials.

In terms of records, there were often coroners records for deaths in custody, example:
https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/Deaths_in_London_Prisons_1760-1869

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The Common Room / Re: 1881 Census Help - Lodger mystery!
« on: Monday 16 June 25 12:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

Do you know if their parents were both still living at this point and where/how employed?
If it was a private arrangement there may be no surviving paperwork.

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The Common Room / Re: Looking for Richard Mitchell and Annie Bourke
« on: Friday 13 June 25 13:16 BST (UK)  »
https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search?6
I don't see his birth on the indexes.

I presume the info on John's birth is from his marriage certificate?
Can you tell us all the info there including occupation for Richard and who the witnesses were?

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New Zealand / Re: Ruth WALKER 1855-1929
« on: Friday 13 June 25 11:12 BST (UK)  »
I think even without parents' names her marriage may still be useful for the witness names.

Also, her birthplace should be listed on the later birth certificates for her children.

Death registration is I think number 1929/1152
It appears it possibly was misindexed on the site as it only shows up when searching for 1928 :(

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London and Middlesex / Re: Suicide 1918, Mansford street, Bethnal Green
« on: Tuesday 10 June 25 13:04 BST (UK)  »
It is quite likely that neither had signficant enough of an estate behind to require probate.  The majority of people did not.

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