I received a letter from my paternal grandfather, in relation to family history. He’s also keen and has lots of documentation, and as he is 98, is a wonderful first-hand source for information! With the letter came a copy of a family tree relating to the Nash family, and an explanation that they are related to the Watters side of things. Watters is his mother’s maiden name and, as per previous posts, you will note the aggravating lack of information we have for her. Yes, I could ask Grandad for more information, but part of me would like to discover . . . → Read More: Breaking Watters (ooh, nasty pun, sorry)
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I was left yesterday with a good deal of information about the Moore side of the family, but with a mystery: who was Sidney TS Musgrove? Was he the reason why Edwin’s middle name was Musgrove? As with my father’s side of the family, I considered the probability that Musgrove was a family connection and that therefore the most likely source of the name was Elsie Lena’s mother’s maiden name. So, logic hat firmly in place, I performed a search on ancestry for a marriage between Edwin Moore (Elsie Lena’s father) and Mary Catherine “Musgrove” – I knew from their . . . → Read More: Moore to Musgrove, London to Cheltenham I was trying to find out more information about Alexander Brand Inglis and his wife Jessie Ann. I found a Jessie A Inglis in the 1891 census as a widow, and then found an Alexander B Inglis who died a few years earlier, in 1886. It tied in so far but wasn’t enough evidence to prove that I was looking at the right ones. On the census Jessie A and most of her children were listed as being born in India (specifically Calcutta for the children) but daughter Ethel M was born in Edzell, Scotland. This was good news as . . . → Read More: The Full Story of that Waltzing Matilda Fact |
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