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!