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By Roz, on April 24th, 2007% Yes, Gervase.
The (certified copy of the) marriage certificate for William Bird and Priscilla Coucher’s marriage, on June 2nd 1856 in St Pancras, lists the groom’s father as one Gervase Bird, Tailor.
Not what I was expecting, and it flatly contradicts 90% of the trees out there on the internet for the supposed genealogy of William (Some have him as son of George, taken from information on the IGI and assumed to be correct. It isn’t: that William Bird died one year later, see previous posts.).
Investigation shows that there have been just two Gervase Birds on record since 1837. . . . → Read More: William Bird, son of Gervase Bird
By Roz, on April 16th, 2007% My maternal grandfather recently produced some documents to help clarify and confirm some information about the Bird side of the family. We had no idea that he had these documents, but he produced birth certificates for his father (Ernest Alfred Bird), his step-grandmother (Lina Matheson); marriage certificates for his father Ernest to Elsie Lena Moore, and of his grandfather’s second marriage to Lina, as well as a Baptism certificate (never seen one of those before!) for Lina, and Alfred’s death certificate.
Bearing in mind my own mother didn’t know that her great grandfather had married twice (his first wife, Emma . . . → Read More: More Bird information
By Roz, on January 10th, 2007% My husband and I write this blog because we want to remember what we did, where we went, and who we spoke to, to get our family tree(s) in order.
From trawling such sites as rootsweb, genforum, ancestryaid etc, I know that there are a lot of people out there interested in genealogy and desperate to gather information on ancestors. So far we haven’t put a full tree on the site (come on John!) but we know that this blog is getting hits and being read by people possibly descended from the very people we are writing about. If you . . . → Read More: Contact Us!
By Roz, on December 13th, 2006% As a History graduate (only a Desmond though: I have no pretensions to rival Starkey) I was taught to differentiate between types or classes of evidence and quality thereof. When dealing with conflicting stories or facts it is helpful to understand the order of reliance or amount of trust you can or should place upon each item.
Primary evidence is, to me, irrefutable proof of an event, its nature, and hopefully timing. Although modern digital cameras and wizardry with graphics can produce “fake” reality by messing with pixels, in general it can be replied upon that “the camera never lies”. . . . → Read More: Handy Hint #2: A Census is not Primary evidence.
By Roz, on November 4th, 2006% Although John and I have successfully traced many branches of my family tree to the 1700s we are still at a loss to confirm many of the most basic details about the lives of two of my Great Grandmothers. The first is my Paternal Grandfather’s mother, one Ada Kathleen Watters. The other is my Paternal Grandmother’s mother, the elusive Daisy Douglas Crosbie Henderson.
If it weren’t for the fact that, in both cases, I have their marriage certificates to prove it, I would doubt their very existence.
Firstly, we have Ada Kathleen Watters. She was referred to as “Kathleen” by . . . → Read More: What is it about my Great Grandmothers?
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