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Offline Geoff-E

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Re: James Short
« Reply #9 on: Friday 23 July 10 22:38 BST (UK) »
It's not for me to presume whether or not one James was the father of the other (although it would be my first line of enquiry).

I see Wiltshire Archives have Donhead registers http://www.wshc.eu/about-wshc/archives/306.html

If the SHORTs were mine, I think I would contact Wilts Archives to see if (or how) they could help.  There is an e-mail link on the left :)
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Re: James Short
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 07 August 10 12:10 BST (UK) »
I have the family tree on Ancestry about James and Charlotte Short and the connection to Lincoln is unproven but believed to be the parents.  We have tried all options to try to connect the James to Lincoln but no success.  He was a wanderer and not from Wiltshire on the census.  They left Uk in 1842 and had more children in NZ.  There are many descendents in Nz but no-one seems to know where James was born.  Charlotte was born in Wiltshire and we know her parents and grandparents.   I have checked and there are no James Shorts born in Wiltshire in 1808-1811.  We have different birth dates on different papers. 

We would love to be able to connect James to somehwere and my hope by putting it in Ancestry is that someone would be related somehow or following the tree in the UK and have some details.  We know a lot of his life in NZ and of his children and descendents if anyone is interested.
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Re: James Short
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 07 August 10 23:56 BST (UK) »
Hi I would really like an info you can supply, I have only just started research on the Short family. Lisa

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Re: James Short
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 08 August 10 01:31 BST (UK) »
Hi Lisa  Can you narrow it down to which child of James you are related to as they have many odescendents and it will make it easier.  I mainly only have information feom when they came to NZ.  There are a lot that went to Australia as well.  Information here is easier to get.   Information in the Uk is proving to be very difficult to get.  LS
James Heyworth Burnley Lancs; James Short B 1810 of Wiltshire; William Henry Clarence Townley 1800s of Bristol Gloucester and Pritchards of Gloucester 1800s.

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Re: James Short
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 08 August 10 05:04 BST (UK) »
Hi I descend from their son Ebenezer Short born Wellington New Zealand on the 1st August 1845, married Caroline Baker. I then descend down through Ernest Short and Jessie Ashworth then down through Walter Gilbert Short and Marie Hazel Moys. My grandmother is Gene Marie Short. Hope this helps. Lisa
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