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My apologies for the delay in replying. I got myself a new PC about three weeks ago and it took me forever to set the damn thing up. I've spent the past few days catching up on emails, and I've now got here! Thanks for your comments again. Sadly, I agree with you that the Sean Glynn monograph...

Thanks very much for your reply. Cardinham is only about 80 miles west of where I currently live and once lockdown is fully over, I intend to spend a weekend there to see if I can find any more. I also intend going to Moone to see if I can find anything about James Glynn, although that will be...

I have Irish ancestors on my father's side called Glynn. According to a monograph written by Sean Glynn, dated 28 May 2004, "The GLYNN families of Moone and Narraghmore [trace their history back to] James Glynn (1722-1795) who came to Ireland from Cornwall in the mid-18th century...". 've not...

Hi Geoff Thanks for that thought. I'll try that and post if I find anything. Martyn

Hi Gibbo I hadn't thought of that approach, but thanks to your idea I did a search on Ancestry and found a candidate. Emma Jemima Michie, born Lambeth in about 1826, married Henry Alexander Luetchford 18 May 1844. In 1861 she was living with her husband and family in Newington, London, which is...

Hi Geoff Thanks for clarifying that. I have access to the other records via Ancestry - I just hadn't searched far enough! Martyn

Hi Geoff Thanks for this: I've got this record, but I'm curious about what you said about W Williams, as I can't find his name on any other marriage records on the same page. However, as you can see, a bigger problem is Emma Jemima - what on earth is that surname? She had worse handwriting...

Thanks, Barbara. I think you are correct, although the record with Mary is the original Parish register, while that with Sarah (the second wife) is the Bishop's transcript. Maybe someone pointed the error out? Dunno! Anyway, I won't worry about it too much - it will make yet another sidenote...

I've come across a strange issue with someone on my wife's family tree. I have found two separate baptism records this person, Anthony Bassall, both for the same date - 14 June 1807 - and both from the Church of St Philip & Jacob, Bristol. In each case, Anthony is shown as being "1yr & 11...

My immediate background is resolutely working class - farm labourers, factory workers, railway workers etc - and as a result, most branches die out in the 18th century simply because their lives weren't documented other than through the occasional or long-lost parish record of a baptism...

Thanks for the encouragement, Gibbo. No occupation for Eleanor, although that is not really surprising in mid-19th century England. I will keep plugging away, but for the moment I am concentrating on her husband's antecedents. But I shall return!

Hi Steve Apologies for the delay in replying. 1. I am assuming that 'Eliza' is Eleanor and that she decided to use the name Eleanor when she got married (possibly because her husband William had a sister called Eliza). More straw-clutching. On the other hand, I have found Eliza's baptism...

Hi Steve The father's name on the marriage record is James; she married William Bessell. Since posting my question, I have turned up a census record for 1851 showing a James Collins, a widower, with a daughter called Eliza (8 years old so close-ish to my target). They are living in St Georges...

I'm following a branch of my wife's family history as part of my family tree project and have come across a problem with her great-great-grandmother, who (on her wedding record) is called Eleanor Susannah Collins. On subsequent records (eg, census and her children's birth records), she is also...

Where have you created your family tree? If you've used one of the commercial family-history sites (eg, Ancestry and FindMyPast), their family tree application will link your ancestors together for you. If you are creating a tree using a downloaded template, I guess it is more complicated -...

Thanks again, Elwyn. I'm trying to find out if any of my (surviving) cousins have any information which might help, but I'm not hopeful. His older sister came to England some time in the 1930s and he may have come with her or followed her but I suspect you may be correct: I have him in the 1939...

Thanks Elwyn. The problem I have found is that the only Irish records I can find for my father is the Irish census of 1911. I believe that there was also a Census in 1926, the results of which were cleared for publication a few years ago, but this still hasn't happened. He may be in that (he'd...

Hi Steve Thanks for the reply. Yes, he had children, of whom I am one, but not before the 1939 Register - at least, not as far as I am aware. He married in 1940 but he and all of his siblings have long-since died. Thanks again Martyn

Hi Steve: Found this on the 1939 Register: Lived at 8 Rhine Street, Bradford John C Parker, DOB 13 Feb 1892, Corporation Watchman Catherine Parker, DOB 23 Oct 1891 William Parker, DOB 24 Jan 1918, Railway Engine Coal Man John Parker, DOB 11 Jan 1935 I did a search on Find My Past and John C...

Hello: I suspect that there is no real answer to this, but I am trying to trace when my father, born in Co Wicklow (Ireland) came to live in England. He was born in 1910 and apparently came over in the 1930s: he was certainly living in Leicestershire in 1939 as he is on the 1939 Register. Does...