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By Roz, on February 12th, 2010%  My great grandfather Ernest Alfred Bird was born on 26 July 1888 in Lambeth, London, and died on 23 October 1944 in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
He was the youngest son of Alfred Bird and Emma Sharp and lived in the London borough of Lambeth. On 6 November 1915 he married my great grandmother Elsie Lena Moore at St John the Divine in Kennington. According to the marriage certificate the marriage was witnessed by Ernest’s brother Arthur and also by one of his sisters, Hilda. Elsie’s witness was . . . → Read More: Ernest Alfred Bird (1888-1944)
By John, on February 9th, 2007% As mentioned in Roz’s ramble last week images of the Old Parish Registers for Scotland are now viewable online through Scotland’s People. It’s helped a bit while following the only Scottish line of my ancestors. Beforehand the OPRs were always searchable and you could get a decent transcript of some of the information on them, such as birth date and parents’ names in the case of births, but to see the images can add so much more. It used to cost £10 a pop to have a copy of the image posted to you but now you can donwload . . . → Read More: Old Parish Register Images in Scotland
By Roz, on February 1st, 2007% It’s been a while – two weeks is a long time in genealogy.
Firstly – Psychology 101.
When I first set up my family tree on www.ancestry.co.uk I created it as a “Private Tree”. At some point later, it got accidentally saved as a “Public Tree” and therefore available to the whole world to view. Not a problem in itself, apart from the fact that some annoying “feature” of the tree is that you cannot tell it specifically who is alive and therefore who should be marked as “Living” – the tree displayed all my grandfathers’ details despite the . . . → Read More: Ramble…
By Roz, on January 15th, 2007% William Bird, my great great great grandfather, was a tailor born in Marylebone, London, in 1829 or thereabouts. In June 1856 he married Priscilla Coucher, in St Pancras’s Old Church. After the birth of four children (that I know of) he died in Q3 1882, aged “54″ according to the death register.
The William Bird who married Priscilla Coucher has around five or six user-submitted entries in the Family Tree section of www.ancestry.co.uk giving his birth year as 1835, and parents sometimes named as George Bird and Elizabeth Mary Cosham. And this is where it doesn’t quite add up. If . . . → Read More: William Bird: Tailor
By John, on December 12th, 2006% People in those olden days didn’t often know how to read or write. At least, in my family most birth certificates were given the ‘X’ factor by the proud father. This made it tricky when the registrar (or census-taker) had to take your details down. With a bit of luck they would have heard your name before and knew how it was spelt. However, if you happened to be Irish and freshly escaped from the potato famine to Scotland or England, they may have deliberately misspelled your name knowing you couldn’t tell.
This probably accounts for the number of variations . . . → Read More: Sound it Like Devin
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