Since starting my family history I have come accross two long lost members of our family.I posted my family tree on GenesReunited and was contacted by the grandaughter of my grandmothers brother.There was eleven of them around midhurst and mostly Singleton.
Since meeting we have discovered our great grandmother Henrietta had not died as we had been told, but had run off with the youngest child Hettie and Stephen Pannell Norrell to have five more children!!
We are lookind for decendents of the other nine,Alice,Albert,Arthur,Florence(Flora Kate),Bertha and Ada.Jessie Minnie married a Kirtland Barber,Bessie married Frederick Spong.Hettie Nellie may have adopted the name Norrell and we think Alice may have become Mrs Brown.
Would love to here from any relations and anyone with a similar story.
We found Henrietta on ancestry.co.uk by putting in all her detail (1901 Census) but omitting her surname, she came up as Henrietta Norrell and Hettie was at the same address as Hettie Norrell,Burnham,Bucks! Stephen Norrell had been born two miles from Singleton where Henrietta and husband James had lived most of their married life.
We assumed the name Cowdray comes from Cowdray Park, its more likely the family adopted the name rather than it being named after a distant relative, but that is another work in progress unless you can add to it?
Thank you for reading my first posting hope its not to boring.Perhaps you have a missing ancestor that you might find in the way we did,or if the name you have been searching has been transcribed wrongly this also works for that as thats how we found the1901 cowdrays.They had been wrongly transcribed comdray!
