How many years have you been searching for any one person?

[KathMc]

yn9man,

Maybe my guy and yours are hiding out together.  It doesn't help mine is William Davis. It can't be Mordecai Frumpelmeyer or something...although think of the spelling issues with that one. 

Kath

[yn9man]

I'll look for her with William or does he go by Bill ...  

My ggg grandmother was a Robertson so not that difficult a name but could be spelled with many variations.       

yn9man

[devongirl]

About 5 years (so I have a long way to go to catch you all up) on my GG Grandmother Harriet Barham born Islington, London 1827. But there is nothing in her maiden name, not even a marriage certificate, until she appears married on the 1851 census. 


Daisy   

[drewsankie]

15 years now i have searched for James Markie who was married in 1760 in Northampton, but i cant find where he was born or where he died. and i have a feeling he is not from the county of Northants. so i been trying all spellings
like markey / marke/ mackey/ mackie /
but i really dont have any clues to go on !
except his proffesion as a Chapman (Peddler)

I just call him my Itch ! becasue all i do is scratch my head wondering where he could be. i hope to solve this one in 2007 ! (LOL bet i dont )

Ian Markie

[sirius]

Have been read posts with interest

I having been looking for Peter Callison and his son Peter Fredrick, have son's marriage in 1842 in Tynemouth cannot find them in 1841 census . Found his wife and children in 1851, wife is a widow when remarried in 1857. Cannot find no death for ether Peter, also a Brother of the younger Peter, John was born in the cape of good hope South Africa around 1818 on the 1851 Census all were mariners.
Its so frustrating!

Sirius     

[johnnyboy]

Hi all: Depending upon how you would reckon the time, I've been looking for my Scottish great-grandfather, Robert Hendry, for either 33 years (when I first saw his death record in the offices of the Massachusetts Department of Vital Records. They used to let you mill about among the shelves where the records were actually stored) or 10 years (when I began searching first at  LDS Family History Centers and then online at the ScotsOrigin, now Scotlandspeople website).

If I were to divulge my real name and you were to scour the Internet for traces I've left, you'd only find messages seeking information on Robert Hendry. My first post on Rootschat in August '06 was about him, of course.

I am a shameless beggar. Here's the link if anyone wants to have a go:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,177604.msg852682.html#msg852682

I've found his grave in Massachusetts, and as recently as five years ago, the last I saw it, someone was still putting flowers on it on our Memorial Day (the last Monday on May). He died in 1916, but my great-grandmother lived until 1944. I suppose it was one of the grandchildren, my mother's cousins, who put the flowers there. But that generation is quickly departing for points unknown, so there is a danger that Robert Hendry may be lost to the ages...unless, of course, the nearly 40,000 Rootschatters put their heads together and save him and his forebears (as well as mine) from oblivion.

I must add that there has been compensation. Since coming to Rootschat, I've had the benefit of expanding my Yorkshire roots by three of four lines going back  to the mid-1700s in some cases. I used to think that my Italian American father had it wrong when he said that our English family originated in Lancashire, but my research--using info I've gleaned on RC has indeed taken my family to Wigan.

Thanks all for your help. Now get ye hence (or thence) to Scotland and find Robert Hendry!

John

[KathMc]

John,

Have you contacted the cemetery office to see if they know who is putting the flowers on or if they can watch and give your contact information. Maybe you can find a living relative with some more information. There's also Scotlandspeople, which might provide you with records. I posted my great-grandfather's name on the Scotland board, and within hours a wonderful Rootschater had gotten me his birth record, his family in the 1881 census, and his parents marriage record. It's worth a shot.

Kath

[yn9man]

John -

As Kath wrote you should contact the cemetery office (if you haven't already).

Maybe cemetery staff is placing the flowers there as part of a continuous care or maintenance agreement with the family.  If so, the agreement would have contact information on the family.

yn9man

[DebbieG]

24 years now for a baptism for John Payton sometime around 1715 - he married in Abingdon in 1740 and is given as 'of East Ilsley' - but there is no sign of Paytons in East Ilsley at this date it is soooo frustrating this is my 'main' line and I have been stuck at the marriage in 1740 all this time, while another line has taken me back to tudor times and before - anyone know any good mediums?