Brick Walls

[JDGen]

Hi All,

There is a Brick Wall thread here:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,38634.0.html

You need to post a link to a thread elsewhere on rootschat with the details of the brick wall so that the replies don't appear on the brick wall thread as it would get too big.

Jean

[Taidquest]

hi mariec,
                I have seen your request before for someone to look for a gravestone in mount jerome.its a rather large cemetery and a lot of the old stones could be unreadable and also to look for a grave you would need some idea of the section it is likely to be in or you could be there forever!
have you thought of contacting the office in mount jerome if you have at least a year of death?other things to consider is the fact that there may not be a gravestone at all especially if the grave was not 'bought out' at the time.
I do visit family graves there and have looked through some photos I took there recently in the old sections but don't see the name you are looking for.
if at some stage you manage to get at least the plot number I will try to find it and take a photo for you.
                                         regards.anne

[Cybermouse]

Not to put a dampener on our desires to break down our brick walls but I sometimes think not all walls are meant to be broken down. For example, all those war service records destroyed in WW1 after the British War Office was bombed is my particular brick wall that nothing will penetrate as the docs are lost forever. Or all the books and official documents burnt in Nuremburg, Germany that would of been invaluable to people of Jewish descent. And how about our own ancestors who may have destroyed letters or docs to protect themselves or others. Queen Victoria's daughter destroyed all her letters after she died at her request. There are probably many others that have been lost in history too. 
Makes you want to cry!
Bron

[MarieC]

have you thought of contacting the office in mount jerome if you have at least a year of death?other things to consider is the fact that there may not be a gravestone at all especially if the grave was not 'bought out' at the time.
I do visit family graves there and have looked through some photos I took there recently in the old sections but don't see the name you are looking for.
if at some stage you manage to get at least the plot number I will try to find it and take a photo for you.
                                         regards.anne

Hi Anne

Thank you so much for your offer!

The trouble is (and I have just done a second Google search to make sure I didn't miss it the first time) that there doesn't appear to be a website or an email address for Mt Jerome cemetery.  It is what I looked for first.

However, I have now discovered that the good old LDS have filmed burial records at Mt Jerome, so I can order in the relevant film to my local LDS and hope that it has the required information.

If it does, I will pm you with the plot information.  It may take a little while to order and read this film.

I really appreciate your help with this!

Regards,

MarieC

[muddinmom]

I can't find William Trotter of Scotland's mother and father. Or his wife Caroline Dill's mother and father. He was born about 1699 or 1700 in Scotland. And his wife was born about 1703 in Slinford, Sussex, England. They married their in 1724 had a son named James Trotter Sr. their the next year and then moved to Brunswick County, Virginia( in the United States). Once in the U.S. they had 2 more kids named Phillip Trotter and Nancy Trotter.

[MarieC]

muddinmom,

Welcome to Rootschat! 

Have you popped a post about this on the Scottish boards?  If not, do try.  Somebody may be able to help you there.

MarieC

[muddinmom]

Yes and I've gotten no replys.

[MarieC]

Oh dear - that's a shame, muddinmom.  Unusual for Rootschat - usually there are people trying to help!

I'll try to make some suggestions - not sure if you've already done any of this but you will tell me if you have!

I'm not researching in Scotland, because most of my lot have been researched and written up, but I believe scotlandspeople is a very good website.  Have you bought credits and searched there?  From memory I think you make a relatively small outlay on credits, perhaps five pounds' worth, which would probably allow you to search comprehensively for your Scottish folk.

As for your Sussex folk - have you posted on the Sussex board here?  Have you searched the IGI for them (and the Scottish ones)?  As you know where Caroline Dill was born, you should be able to identify the parish her family belonged to.  If the LDS has filmed the parish registers of that parish, you could order in to your local LDS Family History Centre, for a very moderate price:
1.  A film of baptisms covering the year 1703, which should give you her parents' names if you find her baptism;
2.  A film of marriages covering the years around 1703.  If you find her parents' marriage, it will give you her mother's maiden name, which you are unlikely to get from Caroline's baptism record.

Then you can try to push backwards from there.

MarieC

[Gadget]

I'll take a look now 

Gadget