Crowle families – Vause, Brunyee, Isle, Ellis

Yesterday I continued looking at the microfilm of the Crowle parish registers, and found more records referring to the Vause, Ellis, Brunyee and Isle families.
My interest was mainly in my ggg-grandparents, John Vause and his wife Eleanor Wyatt, who appear to have moved there from Thorninghurst Farm in the Thorne-Fishlake area of Yorkshire some time [...]

Strange anomalies in VAUSE family records

Yesterday I was going through the baptism registers of Crowle, Lincolnshire when I came across three baptisms for the VAUSE family on the same day.
They were children of John and Eleanor Vause, who were my ggg grandparents, and I was quite gobsmacked to find them.
Here are the baptisms, together with the baptism of [...]

Green – Wilson – Francis – Thwaites

Jenny Marsh writes:
… found this info amongst Glorias letters. “Agnes Thwaites,
admitted to Adelaide Hospital 2/4/1880 of Gawler, 44 yrs married C/E , born
Nova Scotia. Arrived in the colony aboard the Countess of Harborough.”
Every little bit helps, and that’s quite a few bits. At least it gives the name of a ship to look for. [...]

Hickman family of Durban and Old Swinford

We had a couple of e-mails from Michael Hickman giving updates on his branch of the family, and he has a web page on the Hickman family.
Michael’s children John-Michael and Sebastian Richard were abducted to Germany in 1995..

Michael Hickman is Val’s 5th cousin on the Crighton -> Flamme side.
Much of the basic research [...]

Green, Francis, Battye, Cowley

A fat book arrived from Bob Cowley in Australia today — “Addendum 1″ to his Soldiers, surveyors and selectors, which he compiled about 10 years ago, to which this was an update.
Quite a lot of it deals with Margaret Agnes Anne Green, and he’s managed to collect a fair bit more on her brother Alfred, [...]

Cottam marriages in Lancaster

I spent some time yesterday at the Mormon Family History Centre in Johannesburg transcribing COTTAM marriage records from St Mary’s, Lancaster.
Here’s what I found so far.
Cottam, Adam Page, Ann [...]

Growden, Pope and Dyer

My great great grandfather, Matthew Growden, married Christiana Pope, born Dyer, in Cornwall in the 1840s.
From various censuses it seems she had three children (at least) before she married him, and they were said to have been born in Tintagel – James Dyer, Thomas Pope and Philippa Pope.
So today I went to the Mormon family [...]

Mail problem solved

Last night I sent a message to recent correspondents to say that there were problems with mail at my address shayes@dunelm.org.uk, and gave alternative addresses to use.
It seems that Durham University’s servers went down over the weekend, but no mail seems to have been lost, just delayed.
So this is to let you know my e-mail [...]

King, Mocine and Blum families

Andy and Linda Blum recently visited the King family in Texas, and Andy sent us these photos.
Here are Jennifer and Jean King, and Jean’s mother Katharine Mocine, and Andy Blum.

And Katharine Mocine with Linda and Andy Blum.

Andy, Jean and Jennifer are descended from Edward Lister Green and Emily Ogilvie, who were married in Grahamstown, Cape [...]

E-mail problems

There seem to be problems with the mail server at Durham University, and e-mail sent to my address at shayes@dunelm.org.uk does not seem to be getting through.
If you have sent mail to me recently and have not had a reply, please resend to one of my alternative e-mail addresses:
* hayesstw@telkomsa.net [...]