I was very sad to learn that my cousin Abel Broome died in August from cancer, I had last spoken to him in April and he promised he would be back online to chat, he never did come back online and I had phoned his mobile a couple of times.
I was on facebook and noticed someone called Eve Allen, she had asked to be a friend and I just thought it was to play one of the games, but decided to have a look at her profile, on the profile was a photo of my lovely auntie sally, so I thought she must be related, and she was, she is Abel's daughter, so I got to know her and her sister janet. So more to do on the family website.
Linda
Thursday 26 December 2013
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Lancashire leads the way me lads
Lancashire leads the way
Whatever they do in London, we DID IT YESTERDAY
Whatever they do tomorrow WE'RE DOING IT TODAY
Lancashire, Lancashire, Lancashire leads the way.
Yay
My cousin in Texas, Jim Broome's response Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
You can take the lad from Lancashire, but you can't take Lancashire from the lad.
It is such a long time since I posted, though haven't been idle in my research into our fascinating family.
I was on the newton-le-willows.com website and noticed a posting which took my eye, a familiar name Abel Jones, same birthdate and address as my Abel Jones, so I probed further and got in touch with the poster. Lo and behold a whole branch of my ancestry was revealed and filled a huge gap in the tree. It completely changed the format of the line, now going back even further, making the number of names on the tree now to over 5,000, but the joy and thrill of finding all this out was well worth the soreness of the wrists and fingers. Took me five days to type it all in and check it and correspond with my distant cousin.
Whilst pursuing this line, another email reached me from someone who was a distant relative of the Bowler family (a branch of the Broome's) and he was keen to lay a few myths to rest. I think I was a means to an end as I put him in touch with the remaining Bowler's and have now been abandoned. Though I did get the information he provided onto my site asap another four days of typing and checking.
But, wow, what news received recently and has made my brother Martin and I very excited indeed. I have spoken before of the three cousins who were killed in World War 1 - John Peters, Peter Edwards and Walter J Stokes, all were born in Earlestown. Well a local historian has been researching World War 1 and he provided me with a photo of John Peters. He was unable to help with the others, but I contacted Leigh Library and Warrington Library to ask if they could help. Wigan Heritage Centre are providing me with two newspaper articles about Peter Edwards and Warrington with Walter Stokes. I am so excited. It seems that one other of the Edwards boys was killed too, so when the article arrives I can add him to our roll of honour and fill in the details.
This latest revelation has caused me to get together all the names of our known distant relatives who were killed and back to Wigan Heritage Centre to see if they can find anything. The couple of bob it costs to get this information is well worth it.
No doubt I will be back soon with the new information. Linda
And here is John Peters, cousin of my granddad, killed in World War 1.
I was on the newton-le-willows.com website and noticed a posting which took my eye, a familiar name Abel Jones, same birthdate and address as my Abel Jones, so I probed further and got in touch with the poster. Lo and behold a whole branch of my ancestry was revealed and filled a huge gap in the tree. It completely changed the format of the line, now going back even further, making the number of names on the tree now to over 5,000, but the joy and thrill of finding all this out was well worth the soreness of the wrists and fingers. Took me five days to type it all in and check it and correspond with my distant cousin.
Whilst pursuing this line, another email reached me from someone who was a distant relative of the Bowler family (a branch of the Broome's) and he was keen to lay a few myths to rest. I think I was a means to an end as I put him in touch with the remaining Bowler's and have now been abandoned. Though I did get the information he provided onto my site asap another four days of typing and checking.
But, wow, what news received recently and has made my brother Martin and I very excited indeed. I have spoken before of the three cousins who were killed in World War 1 - John Peters, Peter Edwards and Walter J Stokes, all were born in Earlestown. Well a local historian has been researching World War 1 and he provided me with a photo of John Peters. He was unable to help with the others, but I contacted Leigh Library and Warrington Library to ask if they could help. Wigan Heritage Centre are providing me with two newspaper articles about Peter Edwards and Warrington with Walter Stokes. I am so excited. It seems that one other of the Edwards boys was killed too, so when the article arrives I can add him to our roll of honour and fill in the details.
This latest revelation has caused me to get together all the names of our known distant relatives who were killed and back to Wigan Heritage Centre to see if they can find anything. The couple of bob it costs to get this information is well worth it.
No doubt I will be back soon with the new information. Linda
And here is John Peters, cousin of my granddad, killed in World War 1.
Monday 18 February 2013
I have found out just this last weekend a whole branch of the Jones family which I didn't know existed. Ann Jones, b. 1856 in Earlestown Lancashire seems to disappear from 1861 census, never to be seen again, I did find a death in 1863 for an Ann Jones and presumed it could have been her.
Quite by chance on the Newton le Willows website I saw an article by a man called Keith Bowen about his great grandmother Ann Jones, daughter of Abel Jones 1819 and from checking what he wrote and the information I had, put two and two together and found what I was looking for.
It's very frustrating on ancestry when people make private the information about living persons, but there are ways around it.
So now I know Ann Jones didn't die in 1865, she in fact married James Gorrie from Edinburgh, lived in Wigan and died in 1907.
Now I need to know if Abel Jones, as quoted by Keith Bowen, did teach music at the local approved school, even if only part time and this will be the icing on the cake.
Searching continues
Quite by chance on the Newton le Willows website I saw an article by a man called Keith Bowen about his great grandmother Ann Jones, daughter of Abel Jones 1819 and from checking what he wrote and the information I had, put two and two together and found what I was looking for.
It's very frustrating on ancestry when people make private the information about living persons, but there are ways around it.
So now I know Ann Jones didn't die in 1865, she in fact married James Gorrie from Edinburgh, lived in Wigan and died in 1907.
Now I need to know if Abel Jones, as quoted by Keith Bowen, did teach music at the local approved school, even if only part time and this will be the icing on the cake.
Searching continues
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