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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Patricia Ann Eades
« on: Sunday 28 July 13 10:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Rosie99, Hi Garstonite,

Thanks for your replies, and I apologise for not thinking clearly about the status of possible relatives.
 :-[ :-[ :-[

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Family History Beginners Board / Patricia Ann Eades
« on: Sunday 28 July 13 10:02 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
Been a while since I posted/answered on Roots Chat, but a potential "newcomer" has appeared in our family tree.
Patricia Ann Eades was born on the 6th May 1952 in Bedwellty, Monmouthshire. This is a small village south of and close to Ebbw Vale. Her mothers maiden name was DAVIES.
Patricia died, a spinster, on the 24th March 2013, in LISS, Hampshire, which is north of Portsmouth, and that is all the information I have.
Can anyone find her mother and father for me, and any siblings?
Listed as a spinster so should not be any marriages or children.
Appreciate all that you guys do, and thanking you in advance.  8)

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Galway / Re: Rorke family from Clontuskert, Galway
« on: Tuesday 19 July 11 11:11 BST (UK)  »
Unfortunately I think you will find that April's site has been shut down.
I corresponded with her for a couple of months back in 2005, and pointed out one or two anomalies she had on the site compared to my research. I must confess she didn't seem too keen to correct these and then about a year or so ago I found the site had disappeared, along with her email address.

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Galway / Re: Rorke family from Clontuskert, Galway
« on: Tuesday 19 July 11 06:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
Not sure where the information on the vessel came from, but most probably from a web site "A Rorke Family Research Project" founded by an American school teacher April Blakeley. I started researching my wife's family in 2005 and found some interesting information on April's site. I have subsequently identified a lot more information, and have been to the ancestral home in County Galway, Eireland.
I have published this, amongst my own family research on our website.
http://ateades.tripod.com/
Unfortunately the majority of the information is concerned with James Rorke, one of five sons of James and Julia. These were, in no particular order, James, Michael, Benjamin, Thomas and John.
Michael, James, and Thomas emigrated to South Africa in 1823, as single persons. Benjamin arrived some time later with his wife, and John stayed in Eireland and took over the farm his parents rented from the Earl of Clancarty.
Have a look at the site and if there is more information you require, I will try and answer your queries.

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Worcestershire / Re: Griffin/Phipps Enigma
« on: Sunday 10 July 11 08:47 BST (UK)  »
Regarding Sarah's marriage to William Taylor. Hulme is in fact in SOUTH MANCHESTER. This would tie up with the registration/birth of Myra Taylor in Chorlton.
Chorlton was a district of South Manchester up to 1925 before it was fully incorporated into South Manchester.

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Worcestershire / Re: Griffin/Phipps Enigma
« on: Sunday 10 July 11 08:31 BST (UK)  »
:(
I believe you are right,Heywood, when you say we will probably never know. I guess I was being a little naive, but hopeful that maybe someone else descended from Christiana and Henry had asked the same questions, and had found an answer.
Or anyone else for that matter who had a similar problem within their families at that time, and had some experience of what the problem may have been.

I do believe your last two posts have identified the marriage of Sarah Griffin to William Taylor, and the workplace of the young Louisa and Thomas. It would seem from the information you have posted that Sarah Elizabeth Johnson (nee Griffin) could indeed be a relative, and is helping out her "family" with work for the two young ones, as it would appear she did with Sarah before.


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Worcestershire / Re: Griffin/Phipps Enigma
« on: Saturday 09 July 11 15:52 BST (UK)  »
This is where it starts to get confusing.

Without reference to parents we really have no idea who the Sarah Griffin - domestic servant aged 11 in Oldbury is.
Find it strange that if she is the daughter of Henry and Christina that she would be working - far from home - at the age of 11 when her siblings, John, Edward (Edwin) and Phoebe are still at school, aged 13, 10 and 14 respectively?

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Worcestershire / Re: Griffin/Phipps Enigma
« on: Saturday 09 July 11 14:58 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Heywood.
That fills out quite a bit of the family information I was missing.

The grand daughter?
I am assuming that she took the father's name.
I also assume that as Louisa is the only Griffin child missing (of child bearing age), that she could be the mother.

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Worcestershire / Re: Griffin/Phipps Enigma
« on: Saturday 09 July 11 13:39 BST (UK)  »
Hi Heywood,

Thank you for your very quick reply.

I live overseas so I personally don't have the census information, but have collected the information       from previous posts, from myself and other people.
Thank you for the details of the other children of Christina and Henry. You have confirmed two points: One is that it would appear that the other sons did not marry either - and I find that very unusual. ???
The second being the strange name changes of Christina.
I take your point that they did stay in the same place for a very long time, giving the indication that there was nothing to "hide" but that does not explain the eccentricity, neither does it explain why the children did not marry - even when it would appear that William fathered seven children with the same woman - Harriet Pardoe.

My reason for putting together this posting is that it is extremely unusual for six sons, all of marriageable ages NOT to have married, and I am searching for the reason - although my particular interest is in William.
By the way - how do I access the 1881 census document?

As to my family - my direct ancestor in this story is Harriet Pardoe. I am a grandson of her daughter Louisa, but have been searching for Louisa's father for over two years, without success until recently, when we managed to put together some very strong circumstantial evidence that pointed to William Griffin.


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