Yet More Surprises!!

13 01 09
The past 7 days have been full of surprises in the Family Tree research! I have found my GGrandfather's brother John (b1845 Ireland) who emigrated to New York. This from the message boards for Kennedy/Owen on Ancestry. I cannot yet find a way to contact Marcus Owen in US, so can't build on the information at all as I don't have the worldwide version of Ancestry. Have posted on the message boards for him to contact me. Here's hoping! Yesterday I tried to glean more information on John as I have from the Rotherham burials a Rotherham address as place of death. Did he return to England alone, or did Gertrude accompany him? The poster on the message board was quite firm in his belief that they both went to America, and the eldest daughter Hannah married an American and settled there.

I'm just reeling from another shock - whilst opening my emails this afternoon I find that the 1911 census is now officialy on line for most of the counties. Yorkshire is one of them! Just had to rush and check something out - where was Michael Kennedy in 1911? I had to buy 60 credits for almost £7 then, to check where he was, I had to pay 10 credits. This told me that he was an inmate. To see details, I had to spend another 30 credits and found that he was in the workhouse, possibly the infirmary. This didn't help a great deal, as it was left open to opinion.

A bigger shock was to follow hot on the heels of that one - on the same page with Michael was his brother John, obviously back from America. Will have to dig deep on this one, as John was recorded as 'widowed' and Michael recorded as 'married'. Transcript errors perhaps?