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
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