This week, I was delighted to find a death record for my Gt Grandfather, Michael KENNEDY. I had been searching for this piece of information for the past 4 years. Every channel of information had been checked, including a cd of Rotherham burials. I had trundled round graveyards in the Rotherham area, even a couple in Ireland in case he had returned there to live. A couple of days ago I returned to my research to check all my information out again. When I returned to the cd I found him. Plus a lot of other Kennedy people, all of which need fitting into the jigsaw!
The thing that really threw me was my Grandfather's marriage certificate. G/father was Michael's youngest child. The marriage took place in 1910, and Michael was named as deceased. Not surprisingly, I hadn't looked after that date. When the 1911 census is out I shall have pleasure in locating Michael again, but in the meantime the big question is:
WHY DID MY G/FATHER STATE THAT HIS FATHER WAS DEAD WHEN HE MARRIED?
HAD THERE BEEN A FALLING-OUT?
Michael incidently had died in 1926 in a Rotherham hospital.
Friday 18 July 2008
Friday 11 July 2008
Done it Again!!
Done it again ..... I went in search of my Gx3 Gran's maiden name, and once more fell into the habit of complying with what someone else had said.
George Jackson born 1786 in Horkstow, Lincolnshire married Sarah Mankell in 1810 in Saxby All Saints. This piece of information was given to me by a very generous gent a couple of years ago free of charge just to get me started. It came with a problem, though. The surname of Sarah was mistranscribed, and my job ever since has been to seek the right one.
I have done all the right things, I think. I took out an Ancestry subscription which I used to find much of the information in my tree, except for this particular piece. Or more truthfully, I found 3 ladies who could all have been she. Initially I chose my first guess which was Mansell. Then someone from a Rootsweb list contradicted that, so I searched for another and came up with Hewson. Although the name sounded dodgy, the rest of it seemed to fit. Alas, it was challenged again! And I changed it again. In the end I reverted back to my first choice, but I had wasted umpteen hours in between and got nowhere!
George Jackson born 1786 in Horkstow, Lincolnshire married Sarah Mankell in 1810 in Saxby All Saints. This piece of information was given to me by a very generous gent a couple of years ago free of charge just to get me started. It came with a problem, though. The surname of Sarah was mistranscribed, and my job ever since has been to seek the right one.
I have done all the right things, I think. I took out an Ancestry subscription which I used to find much of the information in my tree, except for this particular piece. Or more truthfully, I found 3 ladies who could all have been she. Initially I chose my first guess which was Mansell. Then someone from a Rootsweb list contradicted that, so I searched for another and came up with Hewson. Although the name sounded dodgy, the rest of it seemed to fit. Alas, it was challenged again! And I changed it again. In the end I reverted back to my first choice, but I had wasted umpteen hours in between and got nowhere!
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