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By John, on March 15th, 2007% My family has a lot of Daniel Doyles in it. It’s a tradition, or an old charter, or something. Each of them is fascinating in his own way but I choose one in particular to talk about here as he was famous in his time and still remembered today by a certain green side of Glasgow.
First, how is he related to me? My brother is Daniel Doyle, our father is Daniel Doyle, his father was Daniel Doyle, his father was Daniel Doyle, his father was Edward Doyle (how did that happen?), his father was Daniel . . . → Read More: Dan Doyle: The Life and Death of a Wild Rover
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 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 4th, 2006% OK, so shortest “enigma” ever…
Jessie Anne Inglis’s family, found at 21 Heriot Row in Edinburgh 1851, consists of the following:
Louisa M Inglis, Head, 35, Annuitant wife of officer HEIC, East India, Bengal Presidency Louisa H Inglis, daughter, 14, Scholar at home, East India, Bengal Presidency Emily I (or J) Inglis, daughter, 13, ditto, East India, Bengal Presidency Robert L* Inglis, son, 12, Scholar, East India, Bengal Presidency William D Inglis, son, 8, Scholar, England. Frances M Inglis, daughter, 5, Scholar at home, East India, Bengal Presidency Jessy A Inglis, daughter, 2, – , East India, Bengal Presidency
Plus . . . → Read More: What’s In A Name? Most of your family’s names, usually…
By Roz, on December 3rd, 2006% For a while we’ve been trying to find out more about Jessie Ann Inglis. She married Alexander Brand Inglis, but hailed from a completely different branch of Inglises (phew!). Until a few days ago all we knew about her was that she was born in India, around 1849, and married Alexander in India in 1868.
Then we realised that www.ancestry.co.uk had made transcriptions of two more Scottish censuses available – 1851 and 1861. We had already looked on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk but had had no luck in locating Jessie anywhere in Scotland. Trying again on www.ancestry.co.uk and using their new . . . → Read More: Jessie Ann Inglis
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