Libraries

Well you learn something new every day!!!

I've been mainly an on line family tree researcher, being as my family comes from either Durham or Yorkshire I've been using Ancestry, Free BMD and a few other sites to put together the information I have at the moment. I've got to the point where I feel I've got pretty much all I can from there at the moment, until new stuff is added.

With a huge amount of thanks going to the Rootsweb London List I've now found out how to view loads of additional information online via my council website with my library card - which has until now been mostly neglected and gathering dust in my purse!! It's mainly old newspapers, but they seem to cover most of the country which is excellent!!! Not that I've found anything yet but I think the search facility is going to take some practicing LOL

Anyway if you're wanting to have a search through the old historic papers online check out the facilities your library offers and you, like me, might be able to stay safely on your butt in front of the pooter to view some!!

Thanks again to the Rootsweb London List!!

New Updated Surnames and Places!

Here’s my all new updated surname list with (where I could remember) the place they came from!!

 

I now have 121 surnames in my tree. This year the plan is to find some of my ancestors on the 1911 census and hopefully put a bit more information to the four main grandparent branches in my tree. I’ve not quite worked out how I’m going to do this yet as being t’other end of the country to Durham and Yorkshire I might either have to arrange a visit or find out how to (and what to) look at for things which may not be online!

 

Anyway, here goes the Surname Listing! Hope it looks OK as I’m posting this via email!

 

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Name	County	Place	County1	Place1
Agar	Yorkshire	Kingston Upon Hull
Alderson	Durham	Sunderland
Ansell
Ayre	Yorkshire
Babb
Bagnet
Bailey
Barney
Batchelor
Baxter
Bell	Durham	Sunderland
Benfield
Black	Durham	Sunderland
Blenkhorn	Durham	Sunderland
Booth
Borrer	Surrey	Croydon
Bowyer	Surrey	Chipstead/Croydon
Boyd	Surrey	Croydon	Sunderland	Durham
Brooks	Yorkshire	Sculcaotes
Brown
Burn
Burt
Butler
Caiger
Cairns	Durham	Sunderland
Clark
Cloughton	Durham	Sunderland
Cockburn
Cooper
Corp
Course
Coutts	Durham	Sunderland	Scotland	Aberdeenshire
Cowey
Creed
Davis
Dickinson
Ditchburn
Dixon	Yorkshire	Sculcaotes
Donaldson	Northumberland	Brownside
Douglass	Durham	Sunderland
Earle
Farquarson
Foster
Fowler	Durham	Sunderland
Grainge	Yorkshire	Sculcaotes
Greenwood
Hardy	Somerset
Hawthorn
Henderson	Durham	Sunderland
Hesketh	Durham	Sunderland
Hibbs
Hill
Hold	Durham	Sunderland
Hunt
Hunter
Jenkins	Somerset	Wells
Joan
Jordan
Kennedy	Scotland	Aberdeenshire
Kirby
Knowles
Langford
Leedham	Durham	Sunderland
Leighton
Ley
Lisle	Durham	Sunderland
Little
Littlewood
Luty	Durham	Sunderland
Mallory
Mark
McDermott	Durham	Sunderland
McDonnell	Yorkshire	Sculcaotes/Myton	Leeds
McKinnon
Metcalf
Mitchell
Moody
Moore
Morley
Mould
Murdy	Durham	Sunderland
Murrell	Durham	Sunderland	God Only Knows!
Nation
Newbert
Nicholson
Osgerby
Palfrey	Somerset
Park
Parker
Parkinson
Pedgrift	Yorkshire	Sculcoates
Peters	Durham	Sunderland
Pickup
Pocklington
Poole
Pullen
Quilkin	Durham	Sunderland
Ranger
Riach
Shield
Shimell
Smawfield
Snowden
Sparshott
Spencer
Stemp	Surrey	Cranleigh
Tanner
Taylor	Durham	Sunderland	Northumberland	Ellingham
Teal
Teal
Thompson
Thorp	London	Kensington
Turner
Turner
Watts
Weetman
Wilkins
Wilson
Woods
Wraith	Durham	Sunderland
Wright

 

 

 

1911 UK Census

How exciting!!!!! It's now available online although not all counties are there yet, and unfortunately the two I am wating for most are Durham and Yorkshire (East Ridings) and are not yet completed and released, so I'm checking on (what feels like) an hourly rate waiting for them to come online!!

It's quite expensive at the moment as it's on pay per view credits so I've tried to limit myself to the ones I really want to see!

In Yorkshire I'm waiting to see where my Grandad was in 1911, he would have been about 1, my great grandad in Sunderland should be there too and I am interested to find out where he was living as his mother had died in childbirth in 1906. I'm also interested to see where his father was, and whether he was still living with his children at then, as at some point after his wife died the childrens went to live with their grandparents.

I'm also looking to find my great grandma, also in Sunderland, I've had a real nightmare tracing her on the 1901, she's not to be found anywhere!!!

I've had some luck with the Boyd's in Croydon and have found great grandad Boyd with his step sister and her husband, also another step sister appears to have been visiting! Looks like Aunty Edie had just got married to Harry William Bailey (or maybe William Harry as he lists himself as Harry then signs the form WH Bailey) Anyway Gr Grandad Boyd was 18, and a shop assistant to a Tailor. Not sure where to go next with the Boyds as they are a bit of a mess around the late 1800's early 1900's.

Gr Grandad Boyd's father was Silas, who didn't appear with him on the 1901 census. Gr Grandad Boyd is there with his mother Elizabeth and two step sisters, who are listed as hers. Tracing the step sisters back on previous censuses there were two further brothers and the father Alfred was amrried to an Elizabeth, although I am really not sure that the two Elizabeths are the same - other than the fact Gr Grandad Boyd's birth certificate says his mother was a Bowyer, late Wilson (now Boyd) I can't find any of the marriages for them!! One to look over when I get a bit of time, it was one of the first branches added to my tree so maybe I need to go back thru and check it all out!

Anyway, mid month new years resoloution is to update the blog more!! Thanks to all who have visited, and for all the emails!