June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Lesanne]

    O.K. going straight in here. Horsham just up the A 24 from Worthing ( Broadwater).
           Now, I know Something was said about Worthing, 'cause I live near here
       and it's stuck.
                          So who posted info 'bout Worthing.    Lesanne.

[liverpool annie]

Lesanne

What are you talking about ? weren't you supposed to be WORKING at that wedding LOL you just make me laugh so much...Thanks!!

Annie

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Just can't get away from the Gilkisons - too intriguing I'm afraid.  Just for background info.:
Fairly certain that Uncle George Robertson's wife Mary Walker nee Gilkison is a niece of the William and John mentioned below.  Elora is in Canada.
"Elora's name came from a more exotic and convoluted source. Captain (retired) William Gilkison founded the settlement in 1832. He was a cousin of John Galt whose namesake has since been changed to Cambridge. Gilkison's brother, also John, was also a captain. He had a ship called "The Ellora" which was named for the seventh and eighth century cave temples and sculptures at Ellora, 273 kilometres northeast of Bombay. William Gilkison named the village after his brother's ship."
In addition to that:
"It is believed that Robert  (1791) Gilkison's brother William Gilkison (1777) was best friend to John Galt, and is mentioned in the book titled "The GALTS", a Canadian Odyssey, (part 1 and Part 2) by H B Timothy (1977), as being buried in an unmarked grave close to the tombstone of the great  Mohawk  indian Chief Joseph Brant ."
promise I'll get back to Robertson's now

[wellie]

I do not know how you lot do it.
I've got a headache just reading it all. never mind trying to do research.
(Not that I'm any good at it)
well done one and all
Wellie

[Boongie Pam]

I'm going to get even more grumbly than Burrow now!

Annie,  I think you are right there are definitely 2 families and with the rapid fire myriad of posts I can't seperate them easily in my head.

Could we calm down a tad and just try and divide all the Robertson (+ var) into the different families.

Obviously this is supposed to just be a bit of fun so certs is pushing the envelope a bit but they are necerssary for certainty in research.  I reckon we can do without them if we use the census more effectively.

I think we need to work the 2 families out first before posting anymore "maybes".  For example are the Molisons related to our Mary M or the other one?

If no one agrees then I'll retire gracefully punchdrunk with this challenge.

Just to cap my crumbliness a few posts will be of interest to the copyright mods if we aren't careful but references and proper transcriptions (inc ages & proffesions) should still be done.

Would it be easier to split the thread into the different families?  That may actually be impossible while so many posts are hitting it.

Pam
 

[Paul E]

Hi Pam (and everyone else)

I'm worried that in coming up with the original Challenge idea I have created a monster!

Obviously there are a few things we need to remember:

- The person 'hosting' the Challenge is, like all of us, working on their own tree too, and its a bit onerous to expect regular summaries given the wealth of detail we have pulled up in this case

- We can't expect Rootschat to host a whole lot of threads for one challenge (although I can see the attraction!)

- Lets not get grumbly - this has been and is a whole load of fun and, speaking personally, I've learnt a lot from watching how others have dug out details from places I would never have thought of looking - its been like a live tutorial at times!

- We could desperately do with an outsider who could adjudicate on the information we've pulled together to date.  I'm stunned that given the number of non-Rootschatters who have been approached, up to now no one has joined us to say 'This person is in my tree'.     Wonder if this thread is a bit intimidating given its length?

Maybe finding the elusive outsider is now the priority?

cheers

Paul

[Paul E]

I've found someone with Charlotte King b1833 Barbados in their tree on GenesReunited.  Hope its not another Rootschatter who, like me, has piggybacked on GR to try to keep track of this thread by storing the Robeertson et al data there!  Hope they'll be tempted to join us.

cheers

Paul

[liverpool annie]

Please Sir .....

Can I ask a question? How do you do that ? PM me if you can't say...

Annie

PS Wish it was MY Charlotte Maria King 

[liverpool annie]

See we all learn on these challenges!!

I've just edited my postings .... so I don't get into trouble with copywrite

Annie