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One Name Studies: N to S / Re: SENNETT
« on: Wednesday 15 December 10 21:01 GMT (UK) »
Thanks very much, Corinne, very helpful!
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One Name Studies: N to S / Re: SENNETT
« on: Monday 06 December 10 12:34 GMT (UK) »Lisa,
Can you send me a private message too? I'd love to keep in touch and fill out some more links between the increasing database entries I have for Sennetts.
Corinne
Sorry, Corinne missed this - glad you were persistent!!
Lisa
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Plain Jane
« on: Monday 24 August 09 17:32 BST (UK) »
Thankyou to all posters here for continuing to give me very useful hints about where to go next with this lass.
The 1861 Census & Free BMD does indeed show that there was a younger sister, and suggests that Jane herself died in 1864. The children seem to be living with an Uncle's family by 1871. Brief & Busy lives, eh?
Not yet coming up with any details on her marriages, but as Tati said, they could have married in Ireland.
Particular thanks to dobfarm for the hints. I have now tried all combinations of V, B and L - with Mc, Mac, etc, etc.
I'm very grateful for the use of your eyes & brains. Shall we call this topic closed now, as it's becoming more about Jane than about the handwriting!??
All the best, Lisa
The 1861 Census & Free BMD does indeed show that there was a younger sister, and suggests that Jane herself died in 1864. The children seem to be living with an Uncle's family by 1871. Brief & Busy lives, eh?
Not yet coming up with any details on her marriages, but as Tati said, they could have married in Ireland.
Particular thanks to dobfarm for the hints. I have now tried all combinations of V, B and L - with Mc, Mac, etc, etc.
I'm very grateful for the use of your eyes & brains. Shall we call this topic closed now, as it's becoming more about Jane than about the handwriting!??
All the best, Lisa
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Plain Jane
« on: Thursday 20 August 09 23:15 BST (UK) »
Dear All
What a great response!
I didn't think there would be any answers yet, and you've proved me wrong.
I have to admit I believe it looks like McVene, not McBene. Not a name I've heard before, and also not one which gets me a hit for her marriages on FreeBMD... yet!
You've been a great help, folks. Many Thanks!
Lisa
What a great response!
I didn't think there would be any answers yet, and you've proved me wrong.
I have to admit I believe it looks like McVene, not McBene. Not a name I've heard before, and also not one which gets me a hit for her marriages on FreeBMD... yet!
You've been a great help, folks. Many Thanks!
Lisa
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Plain Jane - Completed
« on: Thursday 20 August 09 18:23 BST (UK) »
Plain Jane would be so much easier?? 
I have just got a birth cert from 1858 for an ancestor in Co. Durham. His mother has quite a list of former names.
I'll paste in the image, but here is what I believe it to say:
Jane Sennett, late H (?) ope, formerly Mc**ene.
(father Sennett was a coal miner)
X the mark of Jane Sennett, mother, Tottenham {no really - that's what it's called}, Coundon.
I left in the extra bits as I think it can help, sometimes, to see exactly how that Registrar scrawled an "e", and so on. Obviously her maiden name is the tricky bit. McIrene...McLene???
I'm presuming that the section about her name is telling me that she was born a Mc**ene, then married a Hope, who died & then she married a Sennett.
Would appreciate any help here from folks more used to this style of handwriting than I.
Regards Lisa
I have just got a birth cert from 1858 for an ancestor in Co. Durham. His mother has quite a list of former names.
I'll paste in the image, but here is what I believe it to say:
Jane Sennett, late H (?) ope, formerly Mc**ene.
(father Sennett was a coal miner)
X the mark of Jane Sennett, mother, Tottenham {no really - that's what it's called}, Coundon.
I left in the extra bits as I think it can help, sometimes, to see exactly how that Registrar scrawled an "e", and so on. Obviously her maiden name is the tricky bit. McIrene...McLene???
I'm presuming that the section about her name is telling me that she was born a Mc**ene, then married a Hope, who died & then she married a Sennett.
Would appreciate any help here from folks more used to this style of handwriting than I.
Regards Lisa
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Perthshire / Re: Perth AK Bell Archives, newspaper - KEAY
« on: Wednesday 15 July 09 11:35 BST (UK) »
Thanks very much, Isabel!
I'd like to mention how much detail was available from this resource and it was full of drama too! I can thoroughly recommend looking for articles in the local press when you have a relative who dies in a mysterious way.
The articles which Isobel found also gave the names of 4 other young men involved in the Rowing Accident, so I'll give them here and maybe that will help someone else. PM me if you'd like to know more.
Rowing Accident on the Tay, Perth, Scotland, August 1895
4 men died, of ages 20-23.
James GALLOWAY, James KEAY, Charles McQUHAE and George FLEMING.
Also the young coxswain, Robert ALLAN, who survived.
All the best to kind listers everywhere,
Lisa
I'd like to mention how much detail was available from this resource and it was full of drama too! I can thoroughly recommend looking for articles in the local press when you have a relative who dies in a mysterious way.
The articles which Isobel found also gave the names of 4 other young men involved in the Rowing Accident, so I'll give them here and maybe that will help someone else. PM me if you'd like to know more.
Rowing Accident on the Tay, Perth, Scotland, August 1895
4 men died, of ages 20-23.
James GALLOWAY, James KEAY, Charles McQUHAE and George FLEMING.
Also the young coxswain, Robert ALLAN, who survived.
All the best to kind listers everywhere,
Lisa
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One Name Studies: N to S / Re: SENNETT
« on: Tuesday 07 July 09 14:31 BST (UK) »
"I am Sennett!"
Okay, so I have Sennett relatives who were Mining in Durham in the Willington/Tudhoe area. I have got back as far as James Sennett, who was born 1833 in Co. Wicklow, according to a Census entry later on. He married a Durham lass, and that's where it all started. A few of my Sennetts made their way to the Midlands around 1900. One married into Showbiz big time when he became the third husband of Tony Hancock's mother in 1960!
I'd be delighted to share info & see where they all fit together? By the way, I see Sinnett, Sinnott, Sennet, Sennett - they all seem interchangeable.
Regards,
Lisa
Okay, so I have Sennett relatives who were Mining in Durham in the Willington/Tudhoe area. I have got back as far as James Sennett, who was born 1833 in Co. Wicklow, according to a Census entry later on. He married a Durham lass, and that's where it all started. A few of my Sennetts made their way to the Midlands around 1900. One married into Showbiz big time when he became the third husband of Tony Hancock's mother in 1960!
I'd be delighted to share info & see where they all fit together? By the way, I see Sinnett, Sinnott, Sennet, Sennett - they all seem interchangeable.
Regards,
Lisa
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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Three sisters who emigrated from Scotland
« on: Monday 06 July 09 12:40 BST (UK) »
Apologies Cosmac & Lisaw, and anyone else affected.
Yes, it is my site, and when I look at that entry again in light of what I know now, I have to hold my hands up & wonder why I didn't write some of them into my post on this forum - simply asking if anyone could embellish that, or add any alternatives. It was certainly a mistake not to do so; I wrote in haste & now regret at leisure.
Long ago when I wrote up the 'clues' on my own site, I didn't think any of them were surely my ladies as some detail here or there didn't quite fit, and especially because I had been told that they all emigrated before the war. This seems now to be an over-simplification, to say the least.
Now that I have had more time to get experience - and especially since you folk have added more details - I can see perhaps they are my ladies, though of course I need to investigate further.
I can only tell you that I wanted to keep my post as short as I could - I know I do rather blather on; I didn't set out to deliberately annoy anyone. I also assumed that simply posting a link to my own site would be frowned upon (i.e. seen as touting for hits). I am new at this site, and seem to have rather jumped in at the deep end.
Thanks for being so polite in your reprimand & I'll think much more carefully to avoid this in future.
Let's call this thread closed for further assistance from kind listers - I think I must sign up for the Ancestry worldwide free trial, now that I know there are such detailed records held there.
All the best for your own researches, Lisa
Yes, it is my site, and when I look at that entry again in light of what I know now, I have to hold my hands up & wonder why I didn't write some of them into my post on this forum - simply asking if anyone could embellish that, or add any alternatives. It was certainly a mistake not to do so; I wrote in haste & now regret at leisure.
Long ago when I wrote up the 'clues' on my own site, I didn't think any of them were surely my ladies as some detail here or there didn't quite fit, and especially because I had been told that they all emigrated before the war. This seems now to be an over-simplification, to say the least.
Now that I have had more time to get experience - and especially since you folk have added more details - I can see perhaps they are my ladies, though of course I need to investigate further.
I can only tell you that I wanted to keep my post as short as I could - I know I do rather blather on; I didn't set out to deliberately annoy anyone. I also assumed that simply posting a link to my own site would be frowned upon (i.e. seen as touting for hits). I am new at this site, and seem to have rather jumped in at the deep end.
Thanks for being so polite in your reprimand & I'll think much more carefully to avoid this in future.
Let's call this thread closed for further assistance from kind listers - I think I must sign up for the Ancestry worldwide free trial, now that I know there are such detailed records held there.
All the best for your own researches, Lisa
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US Lookup Requests / Re: Three sisters who emigrated from Perthshire
« on: Monday 06 July 09 11:39 BST (UK) »
Thanks Shelley Esq,
Thanks to all listers for their assistance with these ladies (US & Canadian). You guys are coming up with so many details! It's amazing what records were kept, isn't it - wonder what folk will read about us in 100 yrs time!!
Anyway, those details you posted, shelleyesq, answer so many puzzles in one leap, I sure hope it's her. Interesting that she was a widow, it gives me a window to search for a death record to see if her husband was named James. Seems a pretty common name, when I search on a free online index! I've noticed on the US Resources forum that there are a few links I need to go see for better details in the Washington area. Need to go study the local geography first, cos I haven't a clue except for what I glean from watching CSI!
Thanks also to LisaW, Snowolf and Cosmac for their time & help in this very positive kick-start to the international side of my tree.
Cheers, Lisa
Thanks to all listers for their assistance with these ladies (US & Canadian). You guys are coming up with so many details! It's amazing what records were kept, isn't it - wonder what folk will read about us in 100 yrs time!!
Anyway, those details you posted, shelleyesq, answer so many puzzles in one leap, I sure hope it's her. Interesting that she was a widow, it gives me a window to search for a death record to see if her husband was named James. Seems a pretty common name, when I search on a free online index! I've noticed on the US Resources forum that there are a few links I need to go see for better details in the Washington area. Need to go study the local geography first, cos I haven't a clue except for what I glean from watching CSI!
Thanks also to LisaW, Snowolf and Cosmac for their time & help in this very positive kick-start to the international side of my tree.
Cheers, Lisa
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