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How long have you been researching your family tree?

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Re: How long have you been researching your family tree?
« Reply #27 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 09:46 BST (UK) »
Hi all,

This addiction has had me hooked for 23 years!!!

I have traced all the arrivals into Australia of my ancestors and all but one of my husband's ancestors.

Found a couple of convicts on the way. But one arrival still eludes me.

THOMAS HENRY EMMS c1826 aged 7!!!!!!! I feel sure that he is the son of JAMES EMMS of the the 39th Regiment of Foot, born in Dublin in 1819 which is when this regiment was posted there. It then travelled out on several ships accompanying convicts during 1825 and 1826.  Sadly no childrens names listed in the sources I have acces to here in Australia. I have lots or sources mention James Emms and his wife and children, including a letter of  his but no names at all.

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Robyn in Australia
The following families and their Australian decendents:
Abbott, Barnard, Clarke, Inward, Lanfear, Rutter,Spencer:Middlesex
Greenaway:Cornwall
Edney, Godwin/Goodwin, Gullett:Hampshire;
Gullett:Devon
Emms:39th Regiment of Foot 1810-1832
Gordon:Scotland
Arnold, Morton:Ireland
Davies:Wales
Olcorn:Cumberland
Osborne:Staffordshire
Harrington:Kent
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Gross: Tullau Wurtmemburg Germany

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Re: How long have you been researching your family tree?
« Reply #28 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 09:53 BST (UK) »
35 years. So I remember the old days going through the legers in the BMD office off the Strand trying to find births, marriages and deaths. It took ages.  :-\

I started because my father had just died, and I hadn't a clue who his parents were - I knew they had died when he was young, but that was all. He had lost touch with his siblings, so no help there.

Eventually I traced my grandparents and his siblings, and I am now in touch with some of my cousins.

meles
Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk<br />Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk<br />Harrison: London; Pollock<br />Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx<br />Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk<br />Rogers: London; Bartlett: London<br />Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants<br />Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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Re: How long have you been researching your family tree?
« Reply #29 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 11:13 BST (UK) »
I'm a mere babe compared to others here - about eight years.  I only have to do three grandparent lines, as a similarly addicted cousin has well and truly accounted for my maternal grandmother's line!!  ;D

Though I grumble about brick walls, I really am very fortunate with the progress I've made.  All my lines are back to at least the late eighteenth century, including Irish ones - some, some centuries earlier!!   ;D ;D ;D

(But we're never satisfied, are we?   ;D )

MarieC
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Martins in London and Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Hartleys in London, Lichfield and Brighton, Hubands and Smiths in Ireland, Bentleys in London and Yorkshire, Denhams in Somerset, Scoles in London, Meyers in London, Cooks in Northumberland

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Re: How long have you been researching your family tree?
« Reply #30 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 11:19 BST (UK) »
You are so right Marie,

I have one line back to the very early 1600s, with a highly probable birth in the late 1500s. I am so frustrated at coming to a dead end on that one, though I know it is very unlikely that I will ever find out any more.

And I keep thinking about what life must have been like for them and what was going on of major historical importance.

What we need is time travel.

Jen
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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: How long have you been researching your family tree?
« Reply #31 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 11:52 BST (UK) »
Quote from: genjen on Tuesday 15 July 08 11:19 BST (UK)

What we need is time travel.

Jen

 ;D ;D ;D  You are spot on, Jen!

And if you ever find a Tardis or similar, do let me know.  I want to borrow it when you've finished!  Apart from seeing how they lived, I have a few questions I want to ask of a recalcitrant ancestor or two!   >:( >:(

MarieC
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Martins in London and Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Hartleys in London, Lichfield and Brighton, Hubands and Smiths in Ireland, Bentleys in London and Yorkshire, Denhams in Somerset, Scoles in London, Meyers in London, Cooks in Northumberland

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Re: How long have you been researching your family tree?
« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 11:59 BST (UK) »
Things like  "who was your dad?" or "why did you steal all those shirts"

Yeah, me too.
All Census Look Ups Are Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: How long have you been researching your family tree?
« Reply #33 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 12:06 BST (UK) »
Or, in two cases of mine, "Where the heck did you b....... well disappear to?  I've searched for you high and low and you just weren't anywhere!  >:( "
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Martins in London and Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Hartleys in London, Lichfield and Brighton, Hubands and Smiths in Ireland, Bentleys in London and Yorkshire, Denhams in Somerset, Scoles in London, Meyers in London, Cooks in Northumberland

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Re: How long have you been researching your family tree?
« Reply #34 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 12:19 BST (UK) »
" Go on then, great-grandfather John Smith, give me some help here, were you born in 1856 or 1862 - or any of the options in between? And was it in Sunderland or Middlesbrough? And why did your mates call you Matt and was your dad called William or John?"

My nos.1-4 questions.

Jen
All Census Look Ups Are Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: How long have you been researching your family tree?
« Reply #35 on: Tuesday 15 July 08 20:53 BST (UK) »
my mother started way back when... after she passed away i decided to finish it for her ...finish? there's a laugh.  ;)her paternal line was quite easy ( gloucester landowners and well documented) i often wonder where the wealth went.  :P
now i am on my side, my wife's side etc etc. hope one of my son's will complete it one day
watson,smith,(cambridge)cadle,(gloucester)hutton,utton, phenix,(norfolk)tarleton,paterson,sommerville,stephenson ( lanarkshire) ,walker, lewis, mordecai,sparks,(glamorgan),bolitho. (cornwall)
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