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Yesterday I went to the LDS Family History Centre in Johannesburg, and looked at the microfilms of the parish registers of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. A lot were faint and illegible, but I did manage to find the marriage of John Hayes to Margaritta Jane Caple, and the baptism of their son William Wickham Hayes. [...]
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June Murphy replied to a query I had left on the RootsWeb message boards, about the Allen, Williams, Benoke and Nipper families of Somerset. She is descended from Hooper Scott Benoke, who was staying with his grandfather Giles Williams in the 1861 census.
June also left a message in our message forum (see sidebar), that [...]
Filed under: Allen family, Benoke family, Nipper family, Somerset families, Williams family | 2 Comments »
I’ve just had a phone call from Belinda Kalantar to say that her mother, Mary Jane Conway, had died a couple of weeks ago.
She couldn’t give details, as the phone line was so noisy (I’d only just reported the problem to Telkom when she phoned), and I’ll only be able to post this if there [...]
Filed under: Bristol families, Hayes family, Mary Jane Conway, Parsons family | Tagged: Belinda Kalantar, Belinda Kalantar-Zadeh, Mary Jane Conway | 1 Comment »
Lois in Wisconsin has just sent us an update on the Mocine family history and we’ll be checking through it to see if there are any births, marriages and deaths we don’t have, and bring our family tree up to date. Thanks Lois!
Lois lives among strange creatures called Yoopers who wander around in the snow [...]
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When we started doing family history, soon after we were married, one of the first things we did was to ask Val’s grandmother, Emma le Sueur, (formerly Greene, formerly Chelin, born Decker), about the family. Val’s grandfather was her second husband, Allan Greene, and she couldn’t remember very much about her in-laws, other than that [...]
Filed under: Cape slaves, Creighton family, Crighton family, Flamme, MacLeod family, McLeod family | 3 Comments »
A few years ago Deborah Devantier posted this on a message board, and I must have missed it at the time:
I am researching my husband’s family tree and know that his gradfather Otto Wilhelm Devantier arrived with his mother and 6 siblings in Queensland Australia in 1874. Unfortunately his father died on the voyage out [...]
Filed under: Australia, Brandenberg, Devantier, Huguenot, Queensland | 2 Comments »
