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Weddings

Wedding of Let and Percy

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Family

Wedding of parents,

Peggy and Norman

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Deaths

A Tome inside Bath Abbey

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Places

Merchant Navy War Memorial

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History

Golden Hinde, London

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People

Olympic Torch carrier running through Sutton 2012

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Stories

Temple Bar Memorial

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Royalty

HRH Queen Elizabeth II in Epsom

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Occupations

Railway Permanent Way (Track) workers

at London Bridge remodelling

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Anniversaries

Golden Anniversary

Peter and Gloria 2009

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People

George Hawker

 

George Hawker married into the family with Selina Butler

Selina Butler was the daughter of George Butler and Sarah Pomeroy. Sarah was baptised on 26 November 1815 at Thornecombe. She married George Butler on 21 January 1836 when she was 20 years of age. George was 30.

Ancestry has a Parish Map of Dorset, which helps understand the interplay between locations. Beaminster Registration District includes the town and parish of Broadwinsor (Broadwindsor) together with the adjacent parishes of Stoke Abbott, Burstock, Pilsdon, Bettiscombe, Mosterton, South Perrott, Cheddington, Marshwood, Thorncombe, Netherbury, and of course, Beaminster. Some records about people in these areas refer to the registration district of Beamister and others to the Parish, and sometimes the town or hamlet. This is just a complication of locations and interpretations of records.

Edward Nash

Edward Nash late 1700 to early 1800

This is not a story about a single person but about many people called Edward Nash.

The objective is to try and get enough information to definitively resolve which one is my 3x Great Grandfather

Normally one could start with marriage or birth certificates. This time let us start with the last will and testament of Edward Nash Esquire of 6 George Street, Hanover Square, London. The will was written as he was going on a journey, which presumably he was concerned about. It was signed on 31st March 1817.  Edward Nash was evidently a wealthy man with two bequeaths of one thousand pounds, together with all the other property and effects. In 2019, the relative value of £1,000 0s 0d from 1817 ranges from £73,760.00 to £5,008,000.00 depending on method of calculation.

John James Brookman

 

John James Brookman

 

BIRTH Abt. 1807 or 1810 • Southampton, Hampshire, England
DEATH 12 December 1879 • Southampton, Hampshire, England

He is my 3rd Great Grandfather, according to my Ancestry Tree. He is also a common ancestor with two DNA matches.

via GIPHY

 

John James was baptised on 21 Oct 1810 at All Saints Church, Southampton, with his parents recorded as William Brookman and Sarah Brookman.

Trace the family with the ten year Census

The Census is a good place to start building up an image of a family. Over the decades you can see it expand and then contract as the children leave home. The groups of people and the additional information about them, such as occupation and place of birth can help identify families with greater confidence than by names and ages alone. This additional information can help with changes of spelling and of location, resolving reluctance. Sometimes place of birth appears to change, but it is often in the same area, just a different granularity. It is also helpful to remember that until the 1911 Census, it is all in the hand of the enumerator. What he heard, and what he wrote down, and some were more conciencipus than others. Particularly, with addresses. Some just the area, others each household with a specific address, sometime still identifiable today. Then there is the legibility of the writing and the transcribers skill. It is still a good place to start.

Leventhal Bros, Sydney

Leventhal Bros

Estate Agents of 114 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales

This is the story so far of Morris and Harold Leventhal. Russian Jews who migrated from Russia to America, and then to Australia. It is partly their story but also the story of my exploration of the records to get to here.

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