The following is a short summary of each of the names I am researching. Some I know a great deal about and others very little. There is nothing worse than having to plough your way through research that is of no interest so I have kept it to the very minimum.
My hope is that if you see something that could possibly be of use to you then you will e-mail me.
I do have a great many books etc. on the counties of Norfolk,Suffolk,Cambridge and Ireland..with Ireland is not so much knowing where the records are as how much it will cost you to get hold of them. Irish research can be costly and heartbreaking but not impossible.
My prize possessions are seven Kelly's Directories and one White's. At one time I offered to look things up for people but nowadays it is all on the Internet to find for yourself. Family History is so much easier nowadays.
Names I am researching:
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My hope is that if you see something that could possibly be of use to you then you will e-mail me.
I do have a great many books etc. on the counties of Norfolk,Suffolk,Cambridge and Ireland..with Ireland is not so much knowing where the records are as how much it will cost you to get hold of them. Irish research can be costly and heartbreaking but not impossible.
My prize possessions are seven Kelly's Directories and one White's. At one time I offered to look things up for people but nowadays it is all on the Internet to find for yourself. Family History is so much easier nowadays.
Names I am researching:
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ALLEN
- Mainly farmers in the Hemsby Area from about 1850's. The line stems from a liason between John Craske Webb and Mary Allen in 1833
- Labourers in the Stokesby area pre 1850 and also in Great Yarmouth
- Claxton pre 1837.Farmers in the Hemsby and Ormesby St.Michael area
- Great Yarmouth pre 1800. Family of Twine spinners for three generations at least
- Gressenhall pre 1837.Labourers<
- Agricultural Labourers and gardeners from Coston,Southburgh,Mattishall and Welborne.
- Blacksmiths and Agricultural labourers/Primitive Methodists from the East Dereham area.
- Willingham & Ringsfield area, James was a wheelwright.
- Lowestoft pre 1800. Mainly farmers.Somewhere along the line there is a connection with HOWARDS in America,Churchville,New York. Try as I have I cannot link them. I would very much like to discover my American cousins - they are out there somewhere!
- South Elmham pre 1785.Shoemakers,ships caulker,labourers.They have some very strange forenames:Jochabed(female)Barzillai(male).Have not found these names in any book..perhaps they are telling me something??
- BINGE Family page..meet the "cousins".
- Dry Drayton pre 1700.Blacksmiths and farmers..reasonably wealthy.
- Melbourne pre 1800.Frederick a policeman in Melbourne and then a porter in one of the universities.
- Impington pre 1700.Land and property owners in, also in the Histon areas. Have some interesting Wills .
- Dry Drayton pre 1800.Mostly labourers.Susan Hannah,housekeeper, married her employer HOBSON and took a step up. There is a branch of Hobson-Frohocks still in Cambridgeshire.
- This family had a great deal of land and property and have been well documented to pre 1600 in Histon.It is very probable that Thomas Hobson of "Hobson's Choice" fame was a cousin but not proven. Also Cottenham,Cambridge and Impington.There is a One Name Study of this name:Fred Hobson,34,Sycamore Road,Ecclesfield, Sheffield,S30 3YW,England.
- RAPER
- Cambridgeshire pre 1837.Little known
- MILLS.Gravesend pre 1837 little known
- SMITH
- Altrincham pre 1800.Gardeners,Builder,Post Office Worker.
- Millington pre 1800.Bakers..became famous for funeral cakes,mentioned in a book "Bygone Altrincham". Wesleyan.
- ALDERSON
- Grinton pre 1650.Mainly a family of Gamekeepers.Well documented through the Alderson Family History Society,Secretary,Mr.G.C.Alderson,12,Masham Road,Harrogate,North Yorkshire,HG2 8QF.
FRASER- Boleskine,Inverness pre 1800.Shepherds,innkeepers at Inverfarigaig.Anyone with Highland ancestors should join theHighland Family History Society
- YOUNG
- Knockbain,The Black Isle,Ross & Cromarty pre 1800.Innkeepers Foyers Hotel,Boleskine.
- Sligo /Leitrim pre 1850.Mainly gamekeepers in the big houses around Sligo.
DODD- Sligo/Roscommon/Mayo/Leitrim area pre 1850.Patrick was a police sergeant in Sligo, his father was a plumber in 1850( that's what it said on the marriage certificate!) The family were protestant.
Useful link is Leitrim/Roscommon Genealogy - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HOWARD/HOWELL- Churchville,New York early 1900's. On October 2nd 1917,Charles W.Howard aged 82 died after falling from an apple tree(what was he doing up there at his age??) His son,George C.Howard,Counsellor at Law,111,Broadway,New York, wrote to my Great x 3 grandfather,William Howell, and addressed him as "My dear Uncle.." I have explored every avenue to find this relationship..without success. I have American cousins out there..BUT I CAN'T FIND THEM!!!
- Guess what!! I solved the mystery. Emma Louise Howell went to America with some of the the Howard family when she was very young. First child of William Howell but not discovered until recently. Baptised as Louise Emma Howel!! She was hard to find. (March 2014, only took 25 years!
- This site has been very very useful:
- http://www.findagrave.com/
- RAPER
If you are a member of ancestry.co.uk you will find all my family tree there. Including solving the mystery of the Howard/Howell letter
