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What Country is your main research centred on ?

England and Wales
1831 (49.8%)
Ireland
758 (20.6%)
Scotland
694 (18.9%)
Emmigrants
245 (6.7%)
Immigrants
152 (4.1%)

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Offline kob3203

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #333 on: Sunday 08 November 09 05:09 GMT (UK) »
A while ago I naïvely did a search for "William Williams" births on FreeBMD, anywhere in England and Wales, any time. I was gobsmacked - There was only one match!!! I kid you not!

Dec 1855 Births William Williams District:Haverford West Volume:11a Page:585

Then I noticed my error...

Surname:William
First name(s):Williams

Be honest - anybody here who hasn't made that mistake? :-[
Pete

(I checked the original scan - William is definitely in the surname column)
Most roots researched back to the early/mid 1800s. Years noted as 'pre' refer to my direct ancestors, although I'm interested in any relatives:
Mitchelstown, Co.Cork: CORBETT (pre1935), SWEENEY  (pre1935), CUSACK? (pre1894), KEYS? (pre1894)
Mallow, Co.Cork: BROWNE (1895-1935)
Caher, Co.Tipp: BROWNE (pre1895), PURTELL(pre1895)
Cashel, Co.Tipp: FANNING (pre1886)
Llanelly, Carms: GRIFFITHS (pre1934), REYNOLDS (pre1901), WILLIAMS (pre1934)
Ton Pentre, Glams: LEWIS (pre1901)

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #334 on: Sunday 08 November 09 11:41 GMT (UK) »
Oh I had joy like that! >:(
A fairly uncommon name, Denchfield.
Traced the Denchfield family through the ages, chasing them all round North Marston Bucks, which seems to have been their patch, most of them called John, most married to gals called Elizabeth or Mary...then the line daughters out, and the son has Denchfield as a first name....
You can guess after putting it in surname, how many times Denchfield went there first and I couldn't find Baker Denchfield...then realised it should be Denchfield Baker... ;D
Sometimes we are our own worst enemies..... ::)
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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What Country is your research ?
« Reply #335 on: Monday 09 November 09 20:34 GMT (UK) »
Hi
I come from Scotland and have only been doing this for 3 weeks but so far I have found out a lot!
when I started at first I was roped into doing searches and paying out money then only to find it was the wrong people but I am learning  more.
my major problem is , I am in Iceland.
have got myself so involved I am going to go there for Christmas to try and find out what I am unable to do online.
the other problem is ancesters come from Northern Ireland , Carrickfergus and Carncastle respectively and am finding it very difficult to search online for them.
I realy think I need to go there one day but it wont be for a while meanwhile I will just need to use the expertise of sites like this to give me ideas!
so far I have been helped
Everyday is a school day !!!!

McCrory/McCrorie Orr and McCafferty , Northern Ireland
Orr, Adair, McCafferty,McCrorie and McCrory, Millar,Strachan, Lewis,Linn, Arnott, Scott,Kerr,McKinnon , Jeffrey or Jaffrey,Lambie, Findlay and Meechan Ayrshire Scotland.

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #336 on: Monday 09 November 09 23:36 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: elinga on Monday 09 November 09 20:34 GMT (UK)
Hi
I come from Scotland and have only been doing this for 3 weeks but so far I have found out a lot!
when I started at first I was roped into doing searches and paying out money then only to find it was the wrong people but I am learning  more.
my major problem is , I am in Iceland.
have got myself so involved I am going to go there for Christmas to try and find out what I am unable to do online.
the other problem is ancesters come from Northern Ireland , Carrickfergus and Carncastle respectively and am finding it very difficult to search online for them.
I realy think I need to go there one day but it wont be for a while meanwhile I will just need to use the expertise of sites like this to give me ideas!
so far I have been helped

Hi elinga,

Welcome to Rootschat, I hope that you have many happy hours on this site with the terrific crowd of lovely people that belong to it!

It shouldn't really matter where you are in the world, the internet is international, and almost everything can be found on line these days!

There are a lot of helpful people on the Irish parts of this site.  They will help you I am sure!  You can even use a mobile to access the net these days, so no worries! 

You will be fine!  Take it slowly and be thorough, those ancestors are not going anywhere!

Happy hunting

Rabbit B  ;D
Conning/London
Wareham/Winchester
Hart/Cambridgeshire
Burns/Byrne/Liverpool and Ireland
Nibbs/London
Brealey/Staffordshire
Melbourn/Melbourne/Cambridgeshire
Hoyle/Liverpool
Relf/Sussex

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #337 on: Sunday 29 November 09 20:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi
On my side of the family it seems to be mostly North London - and my dad family from Limerick in Ireland but my husbands is Norfolk Suffolk and Essex.

There is a rumour(don't you just love those) that the Horne branch orginally came from Germany and changed their name from Von Horne to Horne I will look into that one day

Middlesex   Burnett  Clark   Potter    Cleary    Avery    Moore Howard Jode Keating
Norfolk    Rudd    Twite    Hudson    Chapman Moore Spink Adams
Suffolk    Horne    Cadge    Sutton    King    Adams
Essex    Cable    Wright                         Cumberland  Forbes
Somerset Clarke (pre 1800)                  Cambridgeshire Muncey Parcell
Devon  Flashman                                   Limerick    Hannigan
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #338 on: Sunday 06 December 09 10:51 GMT (UK) »
I'm from Australia, and obviously all my ancestors came from overseas - Ireland, Scotland, England & Canada (prior to that England)

Judy
Glos:  Burgess, Evans
Renf:  Laughlan, Grieve (Lanchline/Laughland/Lachlan) (Greive/Grive)
Drumachose, Derry: Laughlan, Stewart
S/Set:Westlake, Puddy, Dunstone
Worc: Cook, Heaven
Hants: Cook, Puddy
Cty Clare, Limerick: Gleeson, Tierney
Canada:  Goring
UK: Gorringe, Lloyd (Loy)

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #339 on: Sunday 06 December 09 11:02 GMT (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat Joody,

I am sure that you will enjoy the threads on this site.  Everyone is most helpful.

Rabbit B  :)
Conning/London
Wareham/Winchester
Hart/Cambridgeshire
Burns/Byrne/Liverpool and Ireland
Nibbs/London
Brealey/Staffordshire
Melbourn/Melbourne/Cambridgeshire
Hoyle/Liverpool
Relf/Sussex

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Re: What Country is your research ?
« Reply #340 on: Tuesday 08 December 09 20:52 GMT (UK) »
How do you cast a vote ?

99.9% Scottish, although I have a maternal GGGrandmother born in Gibraltar & her daughter my GGrandmother born in Donegal, Ireland.

A fellow Rootschatter has very kindly agreed to research Gibraltar birth/marriage in New Year. Will her father turn out to be a Scottish Soldier like her husband ?

Brown, Easson, Baird, Wilkie, Winton, Minto, Devine, Hill, Porter, Bruce, Halket, Martin, Watson, Devine, Galloway, Fernie, Abercrombie, Skirving, Hunter, Aitken, McNair, Wishart, Tyrie, Smith, Fairweather, McLean, De Palma, Hastings, Russell, Christie, McDead, Gartshore, Chalmers, Fyall, Anderson

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What Country is your research ?
« Reply #341 on: Friday 11 December 09 06:46 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the welcome RabbitB - still finding my way around, but I will participate soon.    :)

Judy
Glos:  Burgess, Evans
Renf:  Laughlan, Grieve (Lanchline/Laughland/Lachlan) (Greive/Grive)
Drumachose, Derry: Laughlan, Stewart
S/Set:Westlake, Puddy, Dunstone
Worc: Cook, Heaven
Hants: Cook, Puddy
Cty Clare, Limerick: Gleeson, Tierney
Canada:  Goring
UK: Gorringe, Lloyd (Loy)
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