Genealogy

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I spent my weekend doing genealogy and I absolutely wore myself out. My side was aching from too much mouse-work: copying, pasting, and typing.

But I advanced one line of my tree by two generations!

I had George (1844-1900), who was my Grandad's Grandad, and I knew his father was a salt merchant called Thomas. Then I found the 1851 census for them and it gave me George's siblings and mother's name (Ann). His eldest sister, Elizabeth, was born in 1834 so I couldn't search for her exact birth year on the general registry office website as their records only go back to September 1834. But then I found this:



It's the Bishop's Transcript of her baptism and not only gives Elizabeth's birthdate, her parents' names and their general address, but also her maternal grandparents' names and even who was present at her birth. I had no hope of working out her maternal grandparents' names so to be given them was a real surprise. It also means I know the names of some of my direct ancestors who were born in 1785-ish which is just mindblowing.

I also found one of George's siblings (William) did really well for himself and he became a bank inspector. And one of his sons was a company director who left a fortune (almost a million quid - nearly $1.4m!) to his widow when he died in 1957.

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[thisbluespirit]

Oh, well done! That all sounds so cool. I hope you recover soon; it's sucks a lot to have to pay for these small pleasures and achievements so harshly. *hugs*

And those birth registers (are they from the BTs - they look like Non-conformist registers to me? But then again I know some northern churches took extra details - Dade Registers - and I don't know what those look like because my ancestors were generally soft southerners and didn't get them fancy extra details!)

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Thanks! I was really really pleased, despite the pain. *hugs*

It was a Wesleyan Methoodist church...in Leftwich in London. I know! Why would they go down there? Here, I reformatted it, so this might be bigger.



If not, follow the link, if you want.

Basically, all the details match: Her name; year of birth; place of birth; parents' names; dad's job; and mum's maiden name. It's got to be them but why a baby born in Cheshire was baptised in Leftwich has me puzzled... Unless Ann, the mother, was from there but then how did she and Thomas, the father, meet?

ETA: Scratch that. I'm sure when I googled it, I could only find one in London but it turns out there's a Leftwich in Cheshire. That makes more sense!

[thisbluespirit]

Haha, yes, Cheshire does. And I thought it looked like an NC record! XD They are so excellent and informative, which is really helpful, especially at that early point before registration and censuses.