The Family History Group

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

8th January

For our first meeting of the New Year, we had four round the table with two others contributing from home.
Ana has had an exciting, and interesting, time applying for information involving the origins of her name from a Dutch museum. She had to translate their enquiry form into English! We await the results with interests.
Dora (from home) was working on her father’s cousins who emigrated to New Zealand in the 1920s. One of these was on the Scottish 1921 Census, yet married in NZ in 1921 also, so that narrows her search time span a bit.
Mary has been doing admin work transcribing a list of people who lived in Ashby in 1918 as part of her work of the history of the town.
Linda (from home) also worked on the 1921 Census (which is generally giving a great deal of useful information) Her findings have confirmed the provenance of a family heirloom from the early 20th century; and the fact her grandfather worked in the same company as his father.
Eileen has been gleaning much from the 1921 Census about her parents and Grandparents. Including one hilarious mistranscription that had her grandmother with a 20-year-old son aged 27!
John D continued working on his own biography, and the evidence of his father’s very first school as an Assistant Master in 1921. This led to his first headship in Wakefield in 1924, where he met John’s mother. But the mystery off how they met remains.

We meet again on Wednesday 12th February