CathayB's 3rd Scavenger Hunt..Everyone Welcome To Join In.

[tatee]

    It's my first hunt and first post!  I have only just found them on the 1881 and have been searching for hours.! I think I will just spectate.  Good luck everybody.

[cathayb]

wow and unrelated to this i have been looking for some baker bits so theres two helps for me.
i really want to know how the birds connect to my taylors coopers and mills.we are seeing some mills i wonder about the others?

[cathayb]

your very welcome tatee.always good to see new folk on here.fraid my ancestory membership has just run out and i dont want to renew untill after christmas but these are really good researchers we have here and they love the roms so will really go for it.debs is my american cousin and shes a real star.

to the rest of you i have a fair few lees in my tree so lets hope we start to connect to my kent lines soon.cant really see it yet but i know we do.am i missing something?

[Spidermonkey]

Hi Tatee,

Welcome to rootschat, and well done for finding them on the 1881 census.  Don't be discouraged - sometimes it is just a lucky guess that finds the missing people.

[cathayb]

re the lee s in that cenucus did albert have a son called albert?cause i have albert lee born 1880 but dont know where?
and i got a walter lee born 1879 in farnham surrey.he married alice mary winkett?maybe nothing to do with it but thought i would mention as its my family line.

[jamajo]

 Is this family anything to do with the others  

        1891  RG12 / 1405 / 124 / 15

Fred Bird head age 23 b Romford, Essex, occ traveller
Caroline wife age 32 b Needham, Norfolk
William son age 1 b Thorpe, Essex
Robert son age 3 months b Chelmsford, Essex

Address Caravan, Tenpenny Hill, Thorrington, Essex

    There are others in caravans but not name Cathay has mentioned

         Sue

[cathayb]

just a reminder how the birds tie in and i want the connection if possible a bit learer.

I have just contacted a direct rellie of Jabez and Emily's first born Athalia b 1903
and although they dont know a great deal between us we may find out a lot more.
I have been given a lot of info by one of the great great great grandaughters of Sarah and jeremiah of which I am sifting through.
Athelia's  (b 1903) grandson who is from another well documented gypsy family called Bird.
But looking at his website it may well be another Bird group of families.
Watch this space.
Samuel Cooper who married Annie Shephard in Hadlow his father was also called Samuel. b abt 1857. 
At first I thought he may have been the son of Robert Cooper and Silvia Williams born in 1856 but on tracing it back he looks as tough he is related to matthias Cooper of Queen Victoria fame. I am convinced he is connected to my Samuel b 1794. But how I am still working out.

 this will put the cat among the pidgeons.. read it carefully to see bird.this is where we need the connections and now your into the real hunt.you didnt think i would make it that easy did you??

[cathayb]

can we have the other family names in the last bird cencus jamjo?i may recognise something.

[jamajo]

  Cathay here are other families in caravans 

 Ruth Coleman, wid, age 40 and family, David and Charlotte Print and family and Walter and

 Alice Witney. They are down as travellers

      Sue