CARVER Ramblings

[Easby Carver]

Jan (Nick)

Re: Frederick Wm. Carver on the 1891 census at Hunslet.  I strongly suspect based on what you write, that his birthplace is Tydd Gote, Lincs.  If you check this place out, it is just a straight 3-4 miles from the Norfolk Walpoles and is right on the present county line.    Frederick Wm. would therefore be another 'Wrestlingworth-Walpole' Carver,  born about 1878.  His brother George Thomas, was two years older and was born in Walpole suggesting that my line of Carvers were in this area for at least three years in the late 1870s and for a probable maximum of five years.  They were in West Yorkshire for the 1881 census.

I was passing through Hertford during the week and dropped in on the Herts County Records Office (very plush).  There seems very little Carver activity in the north of the county, adjacent to Wrestlingworth/Dunton in Beds. and Arrington, Bassingbourn and Melbourn, Cambs.  The only person who grabbed my attention was:

SAMUEL CARVER (Wheelwright) who married MARY PRYOR at Hitchin St. Mary in 1759.

Cheers, Neil.

Neil.

[janan]

"SAMUEL CARVER (Wheelwright) who married MARY PRYOR at Hitchin St. Mary in 1759."

Now he's an interesting find - a Carver wheelwright earlier than George, Young and William. I've always assumed their father John must have been a wheelwright but haven't as yet been able to prove this. Worth exploring further.

Jan

[janan]

The IGI has 4 children of a Samuel and Mary baptised on the same day 25 Mar 1768 in Hitchin - Thomas  John Elizabeth and Mary. This could be our John  .

Jan

[Nick Carver]

Sadly, those people on the W Yorks surname interest board researching Carvers no longer have the e-mail address specified on the URL, so dead end for now I'm afraid.

[janan]

Sadly, those people on the W Yorks surname interest board researching Carvers no longer have the e-mail address specified on the URL, so dead end for now I'm afraid.

That is so irritating - I've contacted several people connected to various branches of my family only to have the email bouncing back.
Jan

[Easby Carver]

Hi again.  Seasons greetings.

Sorry, I have no new info, rather I am looking for assistance please.  My grandfather Samuel Carver (1887-5.7.1929), great-grandson of George Carver (1788-1872) died at 8 Darnborough Street, Leeds (now site of Yorkshire TV studios).  The Family Records Centre at Leeds is not the best I've ever been too and I've spent hours trying to locate where he was buried without success.   There was only one cremation site in Leeds at the time and he is not recorded there either. 

His mother, Emma Carver b. Sutton, Beds., 1854, died at the same address in the second quarter of 1928 and I can not find her either.  The staff at the Records Office say they can not trace them on the National Burial Register or on the Leeds sub-section.  I understand this register is by no means comprehensive but I have no access to one currently.

Anyone any ideas on where to go next?  I have always assumed that because both are 'missing'; died at the same location and at most just 14 months apart that wherever one of them is, the other will be.

Also if anyone has any advice on family tree software packages I'd be interested.  I bought the one I have now just to get me started and it is extremely limited in its tree-printing capabilities and I am now looking to upgrade.

Kind regards,

Neil.

[janan]

Hi Neil
Lovely to hear from you again
I don't have any new info on the Carvers either having been burrowing around in London and Canada - paternal grandfather's mother's side.

I'm not very up on tracing where ancestors are buried beyond those who appear on the NBI or local equivalents. A bit of googling threw up these sites which may help if you've not already found them

http://www.beckettstreetcemetery.org.uk/

http://yorkshireancestors.com/librarycontents.htm

http://www.familia.org.uk/services/england/leeds.html

You could also post a separate enquiry on the Yorkshire board - someone with local knowledge may be able to assist.

As for family tree software - my research is mostly flying about on various bits of paper I do use Brothers Keeper which I find fine but my standards are low.

Cheers and seasons greetings
Jan

[Nick Carver]

I found out about my grandfather's grave and also that of his in-laws by contacting Gateshead local council. They have a cemeteries officer who told me exactly where to find the grave. I went looking for my grandfather who died in 1938 and to find the in-laws was a bonus. Try this route - I have been less successful in other places, but you may be lucky.

[MaggieLou915]

My name is Margaret Dowd.  My father was John Eric Carver.  John's father was George Thomas Carver who married Ruth Elizabeth Schofield.  George Thomas Carver's parents were Samuel Carver and Emma Cox.  Thomas Carver's parents were Thomas Carver and Lydia Bird.

George Thomas Carver and his wife Ruth Elizabeth Schofield and their family moved to Canada, George came in 1910 and Ruth and her children moved to Canada about 1913.

George's brother Jonah Cox Carver also came to Canada.

Please contact me.

Margaret Dowd

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