Finding out that you've made a mistake

[jbml]

Dorcas, daughter of Joseph and Martha born in 1712 in Monk Soham, Suffolk. I believe they connect to the Cackamole family of Dickeburgh/Garboldisham

Now, admit it ... the effort you have invested in your research has all been worthwhile, just for these names alone, has it not??

[coombs]

Dorcas, daughter of Joseph and Martha born in 1712 in Monk Soham, Suffolk. I believe they connect to the Cackamole family of Dickeburgh/Garboldisham

Now, admit it ... the effort you have invested in your research has all been worthwhile, just for these names alone, has it not??

Yes very much so. Dorcas born 1712 had a namesake born 1652 so they probably are related. Pity people with the name Smith did not use Dorcas more often, or even Cornelius Smith.

[Caw1]

How wonderful to have such colourful names!
I very much envy those whose families seemed to stay in a local area for generations so that visiting churchyards, villages can bring back some life into those now departed. So far I've not been that lucky!

One side of my family BANGERTER is a lovely one to research though (in the UK) as typing in just the surname brings up the whole family who are related to my gt. g'father and his brother. I have been very fortunate to find quite a few living cousins and extended family and we have corresponded and helped move along up and down the line.

Now my GUY family I've hit a block with the whereabouts to my 2xgt g'father Henry Guy. I have him married in 1825 to Sarah Sophia Dunn and on downwards through to current family BUT I can't quite determine who his parents were. I think I've found them and have worked the family through with siblings but so far no definite confirmation.

Now my Harris or Harriss( apparently correct as g. G'ma always made of saying with 2 'R's and 2 'S's) I've had a few wrong turns with them as they suddenly added this extra S!! It doesn't help when all the children's names from all the different families were the same. I often wonder if a child got lost somewhere and turned up at the home of Fred Harris(S) anyone would notice as they had one with the same name!! Sorry that being quite flippant.

I love all this detective work but sometimes it drives you to distraction and you almost feel 'well I'll add that person in because I've exhausted everything else and you never know he could be right'....

Just going back to Henry Guy for the moment his wife was Sarah Sophia Dunn and they were both born around 1800-1805. Now her father was Joseph Dunn  a draper mother called Elizabeth Dimery. I've found a John Guy who seems to have had a connection with the drapery trade and just wondered if that could be a link?
Can't find any details for an Elizabeth Dimery outside Gloucestershire and all the rest of Guys and Dunn's are London based. So really stuck now and not sure where to go! If anyone has any bright ideas please feel free to suggest.

It's all too easy to get carried away and add a line that isn't right and that seem more interesting.
 Caroline

[coombs]

One big mistake I made was when I ordered the birth cert of George Musgrave in 1856. I got the cert and got Robert and Jane as parents instead of Thomas and Ann, correct birthplace. I thought he was really the son of Robert and Jane and was adopted by his uncle Thomas. Then I found 2 George Musgrave's baptised in 1856 in Evenwood, son son of Thomas and one son of Robert and Robert's son died in January 1860 aged 3. One registered, one wasn't one died, one didn't.