The Family History Group

Leader:  John Dogherty - familyhistory@ashbyu3a.co.uk - phone 01530 411148

14th January

For our first meeting of the year, we had five around the table and one report from elsewhere.
Linda, as you do, tried to see if there was anything in some Hints on Ancestry and another tree, but failed in her mission. Worth a try! She also had a look at the One Name Website for her maiden name, but no luck there, either.
Eileen is working to flesh out the data on her known ancestors, having traced her Tree as far back as it will go.
JD is still working on his Family Story, today concentrating on the Cholera and Scarlet Fever epidemics of the mid Nineteenth Century in Northumberland and Durham. These tie in with some of the deaths in his family then. He is also trying to see if he can pinpoint with the 1851 Census on old maps of Durham the exact house or tenement his Great Grandfather grew up in. Not as easy as it seems!
Elizabeth was working from home, and on the trail of her 3x great grandparents, whom she has identified in some Parish Records in 1829. There look also to be signs of them in the 1841 Census, which if true is very good news.
Jan had a mildly frustrating time chasing after a male relative and a female relative who seem to appear and then disappear!
Shirley is working steadily on her documents
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We meet again on February 11th