The children of my 2xg great-uncle George Eades (1820-1904), George, David and Sophia were all born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England in the mid 19th century.
Continue readingIn 2014 I wrote about my possible 2xg great-uncle George Eades and his son David, but wasn’t sure if they were related to me. Now, thanks to autosomal DNA results, not only have I confirmed they are my relatives, but I have also discovered two further children of George who emigrated to the USA.
Continue readingPriscilla Bourne (or Bone) was my great-great-grandmother. She was difficult to find prior to her marriage for several reasons: the fact that Priscilla was illiterate means that her maiden name appears on official documents with various spellings, on her marriage certificate her given name is Druscilla rather than Priscilla, and calculating her precise year of birth was made difficult by inconsistencies in her age on census returns. The one fact she was sure about was that she was born in Bedworth, Warwickshire.
Walter’s Grave, 11 October 2017
Walter Shuttleworth was my great-uncle. He died on 11 October 1917 of wounds sustained during the Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres). Walter was only 19 years old when he died, and was survived by his mother, two brothers (who also served during the war) and three sisters. On 11 October 2017 my father, my sister and I visited his grave at Nine Elms British Cemetery near Poperinge, to remember him and the many others who died during the Great War. Continue reading
Hugh South was my great-great-great-great-grandfather. What do I know about him? Continue reading
Elizabeth Jenkins was my great-great-great-grandmother. In 1847 she married Henry Milner in Fazeley, Staffordshire. On their marriage certificate, Elizabeth’s father was shown as Joseph Jenkins and one of the witnesses was Thomas Jenkins Jenkins. It took me a long time to locate Elizabeth on the 1841 census, because I was searching for her as Elizabeth Jenkins. When I couldn’t find her that way, I went back to the old-fashioned way of searching the census, and looked at every page of the census for Fazeley. I couldn’t find Elizabeth Jenkins, but I did find an Elizabeth Bates approximately the right age, in the household of Joseph Bates on Mill Lane, which is where Elizabeth was living in 1851. Could this be my Elizabeth? I have done some research into this, and present here my findings.
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Both my parents have now received the results of Autosomal DNA tests taken with Family Tree DNA (called Family Finder). I have also uploaded their results to GEDmatch. The batch numbers on GEDmatch are T859221 for my father and T851709 for my mother. Continue reading
Here are some photos of a visit I made to Eades Meadow and Hanbury in Worcestershire in June 2014. See also my previous post Joseph Eades and a meadow in Worcestershire. Continue reading
From 1 January 1858 a divorce could be granted by the new Court for Divorce & Matrimonial Causes. In its first 10 months of existence there were 288 petitions, but only 37 divorces were granted. In the first ten years there were 1,279 dissolutions of marriage. Until 1937 men could obtain a divorce on the basis of adultery, but women had to additionally prove another offence, such as cruelty.
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Old maps can be very useful for family historians, helping to locate where ancestors lived. Ordnance Survey maps are probably the most familiar. Various editions/series have been published:
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