FRIENDS OF SOMERSET ARCHIVES A Friends group has recently been established, with the inaugural meeting being held on 2 November 2004. The Friends welcome new ...
Just joined, so thanks for having me. I'm from Canada, and have links back to the Hill family of Bridgwater, admittedly though, they are almost a century old...
Hello and welcome to the group Have you looked for William and Maria in all Somerset in 1851 or just Bridgwater? I recently bought the 1851 census discs. If...
Thank you for the welcome and the offer so quickly! A bit of clarification first: the research has been done primarily by my brother who doesn't have a...
Hi and welcome to the group! I have set up a link for passenger lists that may be of some help to you - some of your guys may be listed here? some of my family...
hi everyone, I'm new to the group. My name is Lynda and I live in Melbourne, Australia. I have always known my family came from Somerset because I knew my ...
I also desc from Willaim PALMER from Long Sutton bapt 1776 died 1864. He married twice, 1st to Elizabeth PERRY 1801 at Long Sutton and 2nd to Ann GILLETT at...
I just wanted to say that I have been transcribing parts of the 1861 of Somerset for freecen mainly around the Somerton area, pieces 1628, 1629, 1631 and will...
Welcome to the group Lynda. I hope you manage to get through that brick wall. Sometimes the information truns up in the strangest places. I think people did...
Thank you I will check out the link. Frustrating thing is my father burned a bunch of old family papers and photos which he considered old junk. Now we...
I am trying to work out just who was the father of my 'base born' (hate that term!) great grandfather. He was born at the Shepton Mallett workhouse in 1846 and...
I know exactly what you mean Kitch, my grandfather always had a post card of the ship he came to Australia on and also still had his ticket but when he died my...
thanks for the welcome Sue. I heard about 10% of the 1861 census is missing/lost/destroyed but don't know how true that is. It doesn't surprise me that some of...
It seems to me that illegitimacy was more common than you'd think in the 19th century! My 2x great grandmother was one of 6 illegitimate children...her mother ...
Hello Kitch I had a look through my 1851 census.............hundreds of Hills! I found one William Hill in Wells Workhouse who was the right sort of age to be...
Remember the singing 60's? That was the 1860's NOT the 1960's. Jim ... It seems to me that illegitimacy was more common than you'd think in the 19th century! ...
Thank you for the info. As for other children of William and Maria, nothing, sorry. The only other info. I have on them is William was born about 1810 in...
Tricky these elusive relatives! They pop up in the most unlikely places sometimes. I've just found an Edward CULLIFORD, while browsing online this afternoon, ...
I know what you mean about the name Hill. I tried the search engine routine to see what happened and the bulk of the results are for place names like "Oak...
I hunted for ages to find the father of one of my Edward Cullifords! Eventually I discovered my Edward had a brother called Thomas and I got a copy of Thomas's...
Try this: go to Google.com and put the name of the person you are searching for in quotes. I also suggest typing the county, uk, and genealogy in the search...
Or do an advanced google search, you tell it what words to leave out of the search. I did this and managed to find an old photo of my 3x great grandmothers...
Thanks, I will try it. You never know what might turn up. For a prolific breeding family they sure keep a low profile. What I find funny is that my gr....
My mother always repeated family lore that we were descended from Lord Willoughby D'Eresby when I was a child. Although not my primary motivation, I have been...
Hi, I've just recently joined this group, so hope I'm going about posting in the right way!! I'm looking for help in researching my Singleton ancestors that...
Welcome to the group Anna! The best way to post your names is in capital letters so that they stand out, and we have a database that you can add your 'lot'...
Hi All I have been updating the Club Website pages(seems like forever!) and they are now published again. We have some good online links and information to...
Thanks Maggie I'll have a good look at that later. If anyone finds a family called BRIDLE (husband George, mother Jane and children Anna Maria, Jane Elizabeth...
Hi folks I received the record from Gloucester gaol which I've been expecting for about 3 weeks. I'd seen an Edward Culliford was in prison in 1857 and...
... Hi Maggie :-) Thanks for the suggestions. I'm just about to have a hunt around to see if there is anyone who does lookups of parish registers going back...
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