Forum: General Family History Queries

Can anyone throw any light on ' 6 Zinzan st, Reading, Berkshire '. In the 1911 census, the head is 'Emily Alice Marshall, widow,' and her occupation is 'Missionary Rescue and Preventions'. I have a feeling that it may have been a sort of nursing home for 'Unmarried Mothers'. If this is the...

|wave|Hi can anyone help me please? my great grandfather was George Spencer born 1833 Clayton le Moors Lancs his father died in1833 also George before George Jnr was born. In 1851 he lived in Oswaldtwistle,in 1861 was in Manchester possibly married to Elizabeth Bland born 1836/37 Papplewick...

Hi Family lore has it that one of my great-uncles was involved with the above and this caused him to cut himself off from the family. Is there any lists of membership that I can research or is this not in the public domain? Thank you Viva71

I am researching my great great great great grandfather, John Hammond, born in Penshurst, Kent England abt. 1805. He had two children: Robert Hammond, born abt. 1848 and Emily Hammond born abt. 1838. John Hammond is listed as a Brewer and Brewer Retailer living in Hadlow, Kent England per the...

Hello, In an Ancestry Family Tree, I have found spouses Nathaniel Spilling (1772-1847) and Mary Ann Chambers (1809-1867). As I do not like to accept statements at face value, I searched FS and Pilot.FS, for their marriage, but found nothing. I have found the couple with their children in...

I just came across this curious report in the Witney Express, 2 January 1879: 'BURIED IN A GARDEN. -- Last week, at Ewelme, the body of Mr. Thomas Eyre, farmer, deceased, was interred in his brother's garden. The corpse was brought in a hearse from West Wood Farm, near Henley-on-Thames, to Mr....

My mother told me when I was younger that her grandfather had died as the result of a boxing match and that his opponent had also died from injuries, I forgot about this until a cousin mentioned it in a phone conversation 2 years back, but nothing to back it up. Today I have had first time...

Hi everyone well firstly i hope i have posted this in the right area. I am trying to get information on the Luton family my great uncle charles donagher was in ww1 and while in England he married Emily theodora Luton on the 4th sept 1917 at Radipole, her father was frederick charles luton and i...

Marriages Dec 1903 Farrer Thomas Cecil (Baron) Marylebone 1a 1191 Does the word baron in brackets denote a title? His father (Thomas H) was a secretary for the board of trade in 1871, his grandfather (Thomas) was a solicitor (on Thomas H's marriage certificate) and Thomas C's...

I have started to place just a few of the several hundred images of Heads stones I have online at Flckr. You can use these images for FREE providing they are for personal use and not commercial. I am about to lose space, so if you think one of the people might be yours – get there quick: ...

Does anyone go there on a regular basis and can spare about 30 mins to look something up for me? I could go there myself, and have been intending to, for about the last..............two years.:nopity: Basically I'm after a Coroners report into the death of a Fireman in the late 1890's. Silly...

I am coming across a lot of engineers in the family, seems to be the prefered occupation of Father to son for at least 3 generations, the latest being my 4x G grandfather brn c 1775, what would an engineer have done in the late 1770s.

Hoping this works as I am not very familiar with photo bucket, but if all goes well you should see a copy of my 3x G Grandparents marriage entry. Which I have finally found after 2 yrs searching! Now I can read most of it but the 2nd and 4th line the words that come before white-smith and spinster,...

Can someone please try and decipher the occupation given here for Martha Faulkner's father, Henshaw Faulkner. On another of his daughter's marriage certificates Henshaw's occupation is given as Labourer.

Emma Nora Barlow was born on the 22nd December 1885 to Horace & Emma Cecilia Darwin. She married James A N Barlow in June 1911 at Cambridge. Now, according to Ancestry there are 2 death records for an Emma Nora Barlow in 1989: Name: Emma Nora Barlow Birth Date: 22 Dec 1885 Death...

Hi, Does anyone know where I can get Quaker records from without going to Durham Records Office? Maybe there is a CD or a book that I can purchase? I'm interested in the Goundry family from Coundon and surrounding areas in Durham. Thanks, Lynn

Hi Im trying to find the birth for my 2 x Gt Grandad ARTHUR ROBERT MACK. I have looked on A.....ry and can only find a birth for a ARTHUR JOSEPH S MACK b 1873 Bethnal Green. On ARTHUR ROBERT MACK's daughters marriage certificate he is down as ARTHUR ROBERT MACK. Im wondering if it is possible he...