May 2006

28th: Despite a red herring of another researcher disagreeing with me as to Daniel's parents, he did indeed prove to be the son of Margaret HENDERSON, I didn't think of looking in Berwickshire for that Fifeshire chap, but thankfully an ADDISON researcher whose interest I've obviously piqued, did. Linda found a likely match for his brother Duncan which we've since proved, sister Ann died young. Archibald is proving elusive however. Anyone got an Archibald McGREGOR outwith Scotland beyond 1861? HENDERSON web chart updated, as were Rootsweb databases LornaHenderson and LornaPotential. These latter updates also include a few twigs on the Buenos Aires RUNCIMAN tree, but they are mostly to the living branches and wont show up much.

27th: Have been trying to find descendants of Duncan & Margaret (nee HENDERSON) McGREGOR. Think I might have found son Daniel (chr. Logie 1828) married to a Margaret ADDISON, but can't prove the connection yet as his dth cert is proving elusive ( if anyone else is looking for dths of a Daniel born around this time I have an assortment of the wrong certs to date to share!!). Tracing the couple thru 1861 up to 1891 was easy enough, finding them in 1901 looks like a non event for either, haven't yet plunged in trying to find any of their children in 1901 as there are too many options. Have loaded the McGREGOR/ADDISON family into my Rootsweb db LornaPotential in the hope of someone finding me (although it wont be indexed for a day or two, so you'll need to use the "jump to database" option to get to it).

25th: WOW: after all these years I now know what happened to a sibling of my 2greats granddad James HENDERSON. I've been contacted by the wife of a descendant of James' sister Margaret. Don't yet know how come they ended up in California, but with the data provided to date I've managed to find one son ( William Mc Gregor) in Ontario. And then Linda updated me with the perigrinations of a dtr between Dunfermline, Fife, Quebec c 1906, Kansas, Quebec then Long Beach, California between 1920 and 1930. Worldconnect database LornaHenderson updated.

23rd: With a bit of help from the webmaster of the Ballarat & District Genealogical Society found Robert McAdie's dth cert (indexed as Robt). Dtr Jessie predeceased him, so I checked her dth as well, which showed four BROTHERTON children, 3 of whom survived her death from tyhpoid at age 37. Still wondering if the Harold Henderson McADIE birth reg. in Ararat in 1874 to mother Jessie aged 22, informant grandmother Ann McADIE at the house of a Wm McADIE is this Jessie or not. Birthplace right (Melbourne), age wrong, 22 not 16, and who on earth is William? Robert's brother? I haven't spotted any obvious BDM events in Victoria to a William as yet.
And with this spurt of activity on the McADIE family, I decided to try, once again, to find the mysterious Joseph, brother of Margaret (mar. to William ROSIE), who was the informant for her death. Downloaded a copy of her dth cert to check the transcript I'd received. I read the informant as George, not the Joseph I'd been told, which could account for why I could find no sign of his existance anywhere else. One of two other snippets added to the McADIE information, and Freepages updated again, at long last.

22nd: Contact with a McADIE researcher via GenesReunited led me astray from concentrating on what to research in Devon. Spent the day fossicking around the descendants of George McADIE and Elizabeth ROSIE. Think I've found son Robert in Ararat, Victoria, Australia, having emigrated with wife Ann (shown as Nancy on ships passenger list) and son George (who was a 1 yr old grandchild with George and Elizabeth on 30 Mar 1851 in Hillhead, Wick, and a 1 yr old passenger with Robert and Nancy from Caithness on a boat that left London 24 Apr or Plymouth 2 May, for Adelaide. Can't, as yet, find Robert's dth cert to prove the relationship though.
Both Rootsweb databases have been updated, LornaPotential and LornaHenderson.
21st: Used up some remaining Scotland's People credits on extending the family of George RANKIN(E) and Isabella LAIDLAW up to the 1891 census, and in doing so, noticed on same page of 1901 census a family of James & Isabella WIGHT, who were also near George and Isabella in 1881. Bit much of a coincidence I thought given George's mother was Margaret WIGHT. Turns out James was the son of Robert WIGHT and Mabel MILLS, and Robert turned out to be a previously unknown son of James WIGHT and Cecilia LAING, yet another tenous link between the families. One day I'll connect them into my lot!.
20th: Helped a fellow FAIRBAIRN researcher unravel the family of James FAIRBAIRN and 1) Elizabeth LAIDLAW 2) Mary BRYDON (See GenForum FAIRBAIRN pages). Don't think it helped me connect them up to "my" James at all as yet.
19th: EGGINS updates, yes I'd found some 4th cousins, whom I hope to meet up with in August.
13th: Where has all my time gone these last weeks? Delighted to find that when I was searching for accommodation in Devon I happened on a farm cottage let by a couple that sound like they'll turn out be relations!! Sue EGGINS also put me in touch with a fellow researcher in Auckland. The family certainly seems to have several connections with places my KING and ROWE family lived, as well as marrying at least two of the descendants, cousins Mary Elizabeth and Emlin Sarah KING married brothers William Lillicrap & Thomas EGGINS.
6th: Finished reading "Portrait of an Architect" by Raglan Squire, haven't yet updated the family tree with any snippets gleaned from it though, been too busy.

Apr 2006

25th: Finished reading "The Way to Wexford", George Baker's autobiography, which resulted in several SQUIRE family updates. Also received some updates re the family of Robert CAIRNS and Janet nee WIGHT which added a George SILVER into the tree and showed a move from the Borders to Forfar. Also found the 1920 marriage of the grdson James GILROY to a Lizzie Jane CLARK nee WARDEN in Montrose.
Ancestry have announced that the 1841 census is now available. Found Elizabeth ROWE nee CROSS where expected, living with dtr Mary BROOKING nee ROWE at Belliver farm. no wonder I couldn't find her in the index, she's indexed as a 20 yr old Elizabeth BOWE, not a 90 yr old ROWE
23rd: WorldConnect db updated. Includes some additions/updates to the family of Robert & Janet (nee WIGHT) CAIRNS whom I found in 1891. Darned if I can find them in 1871 however, England or Scotland. Expanded the family by addition of a grdson James GILROY (turned out to be son of Jane). And of course all updates since I last published the (dead) rellies.
20th: Some snippets on the family of Albert and Ada HARRIS found and updated (Venna = Ada Venna, Irene = Caroline Irene, and they married one after the other in 1923, not that I can find Irene's husband in the index under his supposed name).
16-19th: found by a descendant of Emma TOOP nee BIDGOOD (see Guestbook), who supplied a copy of a Toop booklet published 1984. Added some more descendants of Emma I had missed last time I worked on that area of the database. Even found a few more of them in the Canadian 1911 census with some very lateral thinking re surnames, eg Camble for Campbell.
5th: 1891 Liverpool dth cert of William THOMSON received, adds a cousin Peter Clarke to the THOMSON/WIGHT mix, yet to be identified.
4th: Dth cert of Elizabeth ROWE nee CROSS received and will be included on web next update. She must be somewhere in the 1841 census - possibly Belliver, Tamerton Folliot (it's coming onto Ancestry soon)? Looking at husband Joseph's family, I've realised that I had his brother Matthias' 1837 burial, just not made the connection by place and age.

Mar 2006

29th Chris' web pages shifted to her own web space - or will be when I get the file names right!
22nd: Doesn't time fly. Nearly a month since the last web pages update. Main additions of note are an unidentified DAWE photo from Marion and some rewriting of Anthony BROOKING's details after reading Peter's book "The Lure of New Lands", plus all the bits noted below since 25th Feb.
19th: Links page updated to include link to Chris' family tree (PARKHILL, TEMPLE, CAMERON, McKINNON, McLEAN - Tyree and Ireland, which I've put on the web for her after adding some details to the sum of her knowledge.)
14th: Some WIGHT/McLEAN descendants found in Par. of Barony in 1891, but where was Mum Helen with son Robert and t'other dtr?
4-6th: Changed dth date for James ROWE, s/o Joseph ROWE and Elizabeth CROSS to 1867 from 1852 - ta Jean. Also found I had him in 1861 after all, although indexed as a 23 yr old instead of the 83 you can make out on the images if you look closely. Living with niece Sarah DAVEY and her husband. Several ANDREWS family snippets added as a side effect of A. Grace's 90th birthday party which resulted in several cousins and aunts getting together - probably too modern to show up on my updated Rootsweb db LornaHenderson.
2nd: Found an interesting site on Plymouth Mills, don't think the George and Richard DAW(E) mentioned are ours.
1st: A few BMD lookups for the Lancashire BROOMFIELDs resulted in some likely birth years/quarters.

Feb 2006

28th: Welcomed Ellen DAWE into the family of Isaac and Amy (FOLLETT) DAWE as her birth cert confirms my suppositions. Wonder why she was always away from home on census nights?
27th: Rather belatedly entering/updating descendants of Francis Lang BROOKING into my db from info supplied by Peter and Jean some time ago. Also SINTON/WIGHT updates down tree from Peter Sinton WIGHT.
25th: Found by a descendant of Margaret WIGHT and James RANKINE, the first living rellie down that line (I'm sure there are others, just that I dont know of them).
24th: Anthony BROOKING's marriage to Honor DAWE: Considered opinion, BROOKING Society included, is that the cert is incorrect about his father being George. Son William Francis' birth cert shows his mother as Honor formerly DAWE and no other contradictory evidence has yet been found, I certainly couldn't find Honor in 1851 anywhere, or any George and Anthony combinations.

22nd: Rootsweb updated. William MASTERS rejected as possible husband for Jane DAWE dtr of Isaac.
Next WorldConnect update will disconnet the Anthony BROOKING/Honor DAWE marriage from the children of Anthony BROOKING and Mary ROWE as the one that married Honor DAWE (25 Dec 1841 Plymouth Charles) was the son of a carpenter George, not Anthony. (Honor was the dtr of a labourer John DAWE.)
Wills rcvd for Ellen BOLTON (nee TURNBULL) and her husband Frederick, which added a few TURNBULL snippets to the web here and there. Rev Robert TURNBULL's St John's College Cambridge biographical details rcvd, which included details of his baptism and showed his mother as Eleanor.
Several of the 22nd Feb "recent changes" on the web were merely sentence adjusting as I'd mucked up how some of my census sentences read.
21st: Ann ROWE nee KING's dth cert rcvd, and hubby Matthias will be included on the web next update.
Marr. cert of Margaret A WIGHT nee RICHARDSON to Jacob RAPP rcvd. His mother was a ZIPF and hers a PRESTON, not that this gets me any closer to proving a connection between this RICHARDSON family and my Borders one.
Few more snippets/twigs found on the USA MATTERS in Fargo, Cass Cty, Nth Dakota, including bringing them much closer to modern day - Spokane, Washington & Lodi, California. We appear to have a 6'3" ex basketballer in the family (he died in 2004).

19th: WorldConnect db updated, as were my Rootsweb and Paradise web pages
Main bits include (back to 6th): another son added to family of James SINTON and Dorothy Robson LOCKIE. Alexander RICHARDSON's supposed dtr Margaret shifted to just being that of his wife. A few dates added to descendants of Peter Sinton WIGHT and Jessie DAVIDSON. GILES family updates. Tidied up more of the METTERS/MATTERS families. Welcomed Henrietta DAWE to the family officially as her grandmother was indeed a Mary KING.
16/17/18th: MATTERS/METTERS baptsims Bickleigh mostly found, few new twigs, more accurate dates for existing, some wives' surnames added. A lot of the people whose events happened in Beer Ferrers, Bickleigh, Buckland, Walkhampton, Sampford Spinney have been updated (Ta Val). Convinced myself that William MATTERS with wife Mary, in Houghton Cty, Michigan was the brother of Isaac, son of Joseph METTERS and Mary CUDLIP of Beer Ferrers, as was the John, Sergeant of Police below. American family of William and Mary traced over Nth Dakota, Michigan, Washington.
14th: Grace, mother of Sarah CREBER who married Henry DAWE, turns out to be a Grace KING, d/o Walter KING, Yeoman, can't yet see any connection to the Hele and Walkhampton KING families, but it could be that her sister Sarah is the one who married Walter KING, right age, sort of right place. Jane DAW, who married John MATTERS, Sergeant of Police, found to be the d/o a Charles, farmer of Quethiock, with, as yet, no obvious connection to the other DAW(E) tribe.
13th: SPEAKMAN family updates (Thomas who married Ellen TURNBULL)
12th: Joseph WILLS finally found in all census records prior to his marriage to Julia Trimble BROOKING. Few more details on the twigs of the Rev Robert TURNBULL's tree, namely dtr Ellen's dth and will and husband Frederick Richard Thomas BOLTON's dth (teacher of West Kirby, Cheshire but dth reg. Church Stretton, Shropshire) and will found. Corrected typo on birth yr for Robert TURNBULL s/o James and Jane (GRAHAM)
11th: SINTON/LOCKIE tree detail expanded. Confirmed my suspicions about Alexander RICHARDSON giving his grandparents as his parents on his marriage cert - his dth cert clearly shows his mother as their dtr Isabella. Found a few more twigs on that part of the RICHARDSON tree. 10th: Census snippets brought some of the family of Isabella LAURENCE nee SINTON up 10 yrs to 1891, hubby James having died between 1881 and 1891.

6th: WorldConnect db updated, as were my Rootsweb pages (I fiddled with quite a few of my sentences, so not all of the apparent changes are actual data updates). Found John DAVIDSON on the Canadian 1911 census - still can't find his Mum Jessie nee McIntyre, although I did find her dth cert, as well as that of John's wife Edith. Can't yet hit the right search condidtions for Walter, Amy and family in 1911, nor Robert, nor an awful lot of others who are supposedly alive and kicking in Canada in 1911.
Also added some details to descendants of the Nathaniel DAW(E) who emig. to Canada, although if I've found Nathaniel with wife Charlotte in 1901 they've suddenly found the elixir of youth and taken 10 yrs off their ages. Can't read his occupation so am unsure it's really them.
Ta Jean for 1871 for one of the missing BROOKING family, Wales indeed! Still 2 to find, Julia and Alfred.
5th: Finally found Henry DAVEY son of Henry DAVEY and Sarah Peek ROWE in 1891 (St James Westminster as Hy Chas), and possibly in 1881 in barracks in Kent, although I suspect this latter is Harry Cecil, not Henry Charles, both born Exeter, around the same time. Tidied/checked/changed family of Julia Trimble BROOKING and Joseph WILLS. Tried finding Julia and her missing siblings in 1871, to no avail. Added COTTON descendants to Hannah BROOKING, Albert's dtr.

3rd: Henrietta DAWE, cousin of the KING family at Hele Barton - how? Twigs added to family of Joseph Francis HUTCHINGS and Georgina HARRIS (his late wife's niece!! ta for that lead Pat), ditto for Joseph ROWE and Elizabeth BLAKE, including figuring out how come Sarah THOMSON was Elizabeth's niece - from the BLAKE side, not the ROWEs (ta for the GenUKI Plympton St Mary 1841 lead Val). You'll notice a George DAW, miller, in there, and a William and Grace ROWE with a son Joseph, neither family I've fitted in to any of my others as yet. WC not yet updated, but web charts etc have been, as has LornaPotential, my db of those likely to connect, or whom I've researched but not yet been able to make the link.

1st: Continued checking and updating the KING tree. Highlights to date include final confirmation (thanks to Val and the Walkhampton OPC) that I'd found a new KING branch in Margaret KING, married to a William Snell GILES, Margaret being Ann's niece via her brother Walter. Also finding that EGGINS brothers married KING cousins, and yet another link to the TOOP family. The earlier connection was via Joan Smith DAWE's dtr Emma BIDGOOD who married Sampson TOOP and emigrated to Canada. Sampson had a brother Richard Atwell TOOP, whose son Robert John Newcombe married Sarah Ann KING, grddtr of Walter and Sarah KING, Walter being brother to the Ann/Elizabeth KING who married Matthias ROWE. With me? WorldConnect updated, check it out here.

Jan 2006

30th: Found a site with transcripts of Ontario marriages on it, including Joseph George ROWE's marriage to Maggie KAVANA(U)GH, as a barber, in 1900. Then Joseph George vanished again. Likely match in Niagara, New York Cty, USA 1920 and 1930 but with now Marie J not Maggie, although other details match. Likely dths on SSDI for both Joseph George and son Joseph K. Added quite a few twigs details to the KING relations of the Ann/Elizabeth who married Matthias ROWE (prompted by the King middle name being carried down Joseph's line to present day relations still living in Hamilton ONT). One new twig was a poor chap called William Lillicrap EGGINS who married Emlin Sarah KING another brought in a line of WOTTONs via a marriage for Elizabeth KING to William James WOTTON.

29th: WorldConnect updated, in addition to those changes mentioned below since the last WC update: family of James SINTON (son of Robert SINTON and Jane PARK) has had some twigs added, dates confirmed etc; the Tasmanian DAW(E) branch likewise has had some places added from a cd on Tasmanian Families that I found in the National Library (NZ); and I've become thoroughly confused about a clutch of Alexander RICHARDSONs from the Borders c 1880, one of whom seems convinced his grdparents were his parents. If I've identified him correctly he's a link between my WIGHT/RICHARDSON families and my SINTONs (the only one I've found to date other than my great grandmother Helen SINTON)
Val pointed me to ancestry's free access to the images of the English BMD index, which added a few birth and marriage dates to the BIDGOOD family of Joan Smith DAWE. The Ontario births 1869 to 1907 added some details to the family of Joseph ROWE, son of Joseph King ROWE and Thirza DAWE, as did the 1911 Canadian census and a ROWE message board posting on Rootsweb by Peter, grdson of William Garfield ROWE.
Web pages and charts also updated to include the above and Joseph King ROWE and some of his immediate family.

27th: DAWE family updates following arrival of dth certs for Joan Smith BIDGOOD and Sarah Smith WALTERS and birth cert of Abraham Bidgood TURNER (see Joan's page in particular). Also updated SINCLAIR twigs with info re John SINCLAIR, Lord Lieutenant for Caithness 1963 to 1975, cousin of Ryan's grandfather William STRATTON (ta Bobby). WorldConnect not yet updated.

25th: Few more twigs on the GEORGESON/SMITH tree after a SMITH lead from Kris D. GEORGESON Desc. chart now included on web.

24th: WorldConnect db LornaHenderson updated with more bits under Fred HARRISON and Ellen Maria BISHOP (ta Ken) and assorted GRAY families (confirmed my suspicion that Ann and Janet/Jean McLEOD who married GRAY brothers, were indeed sisters); GRAY descendants charts have been updated, not just the family of Thomas SINCLAIR and Johan GRAY (ta Robert for the lead re Jane STRATTON nee SINCLAIR, and Ryan for access to his GenesReunited db).

21st: Descendants of Robert BISHOP and Elizabeth ANDREWS traced thru USA 1900-1930 census records. Couldn't find all known ones, removed some suspect descendants (children of Harold BISHOP and what looks like his non-existant wife Ivy, a PIDDINGTON who turned out to be a CHAPPELL). and added a few more here and there. Also some updates from the 1911 Canadian Census. Some corrections and updates for Alice Louise COOK / RAVEY / GOLLINS and descendants. WorldConnect updated, and John ANDREWS/Rebekah WINES descendant chart

19th: WorldConnect & GenCircles updated - mainly to incorporate descendants of Isaac and Elizabeth MATTERS' American descendants.

18th: Freepages updated: Val sent me a copy of a page (among others) of the Beer Ferris 1841 census with Mary DAWE on it (one of at least 2 possibilities for the dtr of Isaac Smith and Betsy (METTERS) DAWE). At the bottom of the rhs of the page was a 10 yr old Isaac MATTERS, whom I believe to be the son of Joseph and Mary MATTERS/METTERS. Joseph is the brother of the above Betsy, and Isaac had been the subject of correspondence with Janice of Kansas back in 2001 - inconclusive as to whether or not the Isaac, father of her gt gramdmother Jane was one and the same Isaac, even though the English one had disappeared from England after the 1851 census, and the Michigan one appeared in the 1870 USA census, and no others. Today I found the dth entry for Isaac MATTERS of Portage, Michigan which showed his parents as Joseph and Mary MATTERS of England, QED.
Also found a possibility for Margaret Ann WIGHT nee RICHARDSON in the 1920 census as a Margaret RAPP. Found a matching marriage of a Margaret A WIGHT to a Jacob RAPP, and finally proved it by finding Jacob and Margaret in the Cleveland Necrology File. WorldConnect db not yet updated with these, nor the few other small additions from assorted census and BMD records (one will be the correction to where John Courtis SKEWES married Ann, dtr of Thirza DAWE and Joseph King ROWE. (I'd been advised they married nr Windsor, but the marriage was registered East Stonehouse). Another will be to NOT kill off Donald Bain STEWART in 1905 as he was the informant for his father's dth in 1929.

17th: WorldConnect db & Rootsweb freepages updated: some of the changes include: found Charles & Betsy (GALE) MARTYN and children in a few more census records (in one they were living next to a Thomas METTERS with Lewtrenchard and Thrushelton connections, which made me think of the family of Jane METTERS who married Jacob BIDGOOD, son of Joan Smith DAWE - can't spot any immediate connection as yet; Also found out more about the fate of Betsy DAWE's dtr Sarah CREBER beyond 1861 - what an international lot. Included the immediate family of Emma BIDGOOD and Sampson TOOP in WorldConnect, but not all of the descendants (from Andrew's WC db) yet.

15th: I've now worked thru as much of the census data available for the Abraham and Joan Smith (DAWE) BIDGOOD lines in both England and the States that I can find, and have also checked all I can against FreeBMD, and some against the BC indexes and WWI USA Draft cards. (Interested to find that one of the sons married a Jane METTERS). Worldconnect has now been reloaded. Haven't yet included data from the TOOP tree on WorldConnect that Val found (last updated 2003). (Emma BIDGOOD married a Sampson TOOP and emigrated to NY then Canada, her father Abraham followed and a couple of brothers, one of whom has to be Isaac, but the emigration dates for the other two who ended up in the States don't match Emma's)

14th: Updated DAWE descendant charts. Also included Joan Smith DAWE or TURNER or BIDGOOD on the web, and updated sister Sarah's husband's details (thanks Wendy). Wont update WorldConnect db until have finished hunting out the rest of the descendants and checking them off against FreeBMD and Ancestry census data, just felt I needed to get the corrections out there.

Val pointed me in the (change of) direction for Joan Smith DAWE, another dtr of Isaac and Sarah (SMITH) DAWE. Previous info had Joan as marrying Abraham TURNER 1834, and no further info could be found. Val suggested she was acutally the Joan showing in 1851 at Newton with Abraham BIDGOOD. I sure hope she is as I've done a heap of chasing on that name since finding that. Val also pointed out a rather confusing birth reg. on FreeBMD for their son Abraham, indexed as TURNER, Abraham Bidgood. My WorldConnect db LornaHenderson has been updated with findings to date.

Jill contacted me to say I had her 2*greats in my tree (Alice Louisa COOK and John George RAVEY). Alice is the grddtr of Isaac Smith DAWE and Betsy METTERS/MATTERS via their dtr Mary. Updates in progress, incomplete as yet.

Found what looks like Sarah , dtr of Isaac and Sarah (SMITH) DAWE in the 1851 census. ID clinched for me by finding her with her sister Betsy CREBER in 1861, even though she only shows as a "Visitor".

In the Kelso Rosebank Cem. MIs (from the BFHS), I found a few more twigs on the SINTON descendants of Robert SINTON and Jane PARK, namely what happened to son James of James SINTON and Margaret RUTHERFORD. Worldconnect updated.

1844 marr. cert for John TURNBULL and Isabella MARTIN arrived, finally proving that Rose's John in London with son Robert and dtr Ellen really was the "missing" (well, unaccounted for) son of Robert TURNBULL and Eleanor SCOTT. SInce Rose originally made contact back in 2003 I'd "felt" that this family would turn out to be connected, particularly after I also finally proved that the family rumour re "a cousin" in London Sir Robert TURNBULL wasn't an unfounded rumour, but fact.  

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