My cousin Joan sent me a copy of the 1871 census, and there was Joseph Broome b. 1811 living with his brother John. Now Joseph died in 1862 according to all the research I have done, so how is this possible. I looked at the census again to where his wife Alice was and the children, and she was down as a widow.
Curioser and curiouser says Alice (quote from Alice in Wonderland) - so what do I do. Luckily a medium friend of mine was online so I emailed and asked. I haven't got the full story yet, Joseph didn't fake his death, he did die in 1862, his wife was a widow, but why was his brother using his name on the census.
Watch this space, all will be revealed.
Monday 24 October 2011
Friday 7 October 2011
Lots more news
The family website is closer to 3,000 names as my cousin Joan and I are finding more people as we search through ancestry. I have also being doing some research on the Kay/Key family which is my late husband's mothers family. My sister in law sent me some info she had received from her cousin, and from this I looked back further into the family and have sent for their grandmother's birth certificate which should give me the name of her mother, as this is the only name missing from my research. With this I can go back further, and my daughter and her children, along with her cousins will have some of their history as well.
We have discovered that more Broome's and some Jones's emigrated to America at the end of the 19th Century, as I don't have ancestry worldwide I have had to rely on Joan to get the info for the site. But it has been interesting to see where they went and what they did.
More records from World War I have been found, including those of Great Grandfather Broome, which are now on the site and these too provide vital information on addresses etc.,
I found a family searching for Uriah Jones and discovered that they are descendants of Great Great Uncle Abel and Auntie Maggie Ann, which prompted me to contact Wigan Heritage Centre to find the newspaper cutting of their 60th Wedding Anniversary - it didn't provide me with the information I wanted, but it was a start. Still a lot to do on that family. Still a lot to do on the Ashton in Makerfield Jones's too, the 1911 Census didn't provide me with what I wanted to know and the only survivor of that family, Enid, hasn't a clue. I would like to do more about the Jones's and will continue to search.
The Broomes and Hollinheads just gets bigger and bigger with everyday, we are now back to 1672 on the Hollinhead side of the family and we are finding more out about the Smalley's, the Wainwrights and Whiteheads which could take us back even further.
This past month has been perhaps one of the busiest updating and researching. My cousin Joan has been invaluable in sending images and info from ancestry worldwide and I think I will update to that from ancestry UK, when the membership is due to be renewed.
That's it I think for now. The search is ongoing and I will report back anything new as and when it is available.
Linda
We have discovered that more Broome's and some Jones's emigrated to America at the end of the 19th Century, as I don't have ancestry worldwide I have had to rely on Joan to get the info for the site. But it has been interesting to see where they went and what they did.
More records from World War I have been found, including those of Great Grandfather Broome, which are now on the site and these too provide vital information on addresses etc.,
I found a family searching for Uriah Jones and discovered that they are descendants of Great Great Uncle Abel and Auntie Maggie Ann, which prompted me to contact Wigan Heritage Centre to find the newspaper cutting of their 60th Wedding Anniversary - it didn't provide me with the information I wanted, but it was a start. Still a lot to do on that family. Still a lot to do on the Ashton in Makerfield Jones's too, the 1911 Census didn't provide me with what I wanted to know and the only survivor of that family, Enid, hasn't a clue. I would like to do more about the Jones's and will continue to search.
The Broomes and Hollinheads just gets bigger and bigger with everyday, we are now back to 1672 on the Hollinhead side of the family and we are finding more out about the Smalley's, the Wainwrights and Whiteheads which could take us back even further.
This past month has been perhaps one of the busiest updating and researching. My cousin Joan has been invaluable in sending images and info from ancestry worldwide and I think I will update to that from ancestry UK, when the membership is due to be renewed.
That's it I think for now. The search is ongoing and I will report back anything new as and when it is available.
Linda
Monday 1 August 2011
Excited
It has been a very exciting week, my cousin's wife Joan Broome sent me some Parish records, and from that I have discovered several branches of the Hollinhead family I didn't know about, and from searching through the family tree section on Ancestry have discovered another living Broome descendant (different branch to ours but sharing the same ancestor) and am really excited to find Jones relatives, still living, with descendants in Ohio, USA. The family tree is so long now and we are now back to 1691.
This family tree business is so frustrating at times, you can find nothing for ages then suddenly you get a lot of information at once.
This family tree business is so frustrating at times, you can find nothing for ages then suddenly you get a lot of information at once.
Friday 20 May 2011
Research continues
Wow I hadn't realised it has been nearly three years since I wrote on this blog. The research into the family is ongoing and a lot of information has been added to the family website, more people involved in the research and we have found connections in South Africa, USA and Australia.
Since my last blog, my mum died, my daughter married and I have had another grandchild, so this adds extra research for the site, and I found my two half brothers, sons of my birth father, who also died, which is why I was able to contact them. A whole new family to add to an already large one of mine.
There really isn't anything of interest to those outside the family at the moment, just names and dates, but I will blog if anything of interest comes up.
Linda
Since my last blog, my mum died, my daughter married and I have had another grandchild, so this adds extra research for the site, and I found my two half brothers, sons of my birth father, who also died, which is why I was able to contact them. A whole new family to add to an already large one of mine.
There really isn't anything of interest to those outside the family at the moment, just names and dates, but I will blog if anything of interest comes up.
Linda
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