I can not believe that I have been so busy that I have forgotten to post my doings!
Let’s see, what have I been doing?
My friends have contacted me for help in researching their families:
The latter family is most interesting as it has allowed me to mine the wealth of data already researched for families in the US and in New England.
More soon!
I’m trying my hand at my first transcription – the will of Robert Tilley d1827 in Leicestershire.
Everyone says that the handwriting is the hardest part of transcription – for me it is the lack of understanding of the legal terminology.
I wonder if there is a glossary somewhere that I can find?
An email exchange has opened up new investigative avenues for the Tilley and associated families in Leicestershire.
The Extended Craxford Family Web Site is, of course, about the Craxford Family in Cottingham, Northamptonshire. However, a branch of the Tilley family relocated there from Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire, in the late 1700s, thus creating the link!
Alan Craxford has been most helpful in clarifying a number of questions I had, and I was most pleased when I could give a morsel back to him on a line he did not have!
If you have ANY relations in the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire areas, I would suggest you check out the site:
http://www.craxford-family.co.uk
As is usual with coincidences, serendipity and flukes of nature, I posted a thread about the Turnbulls in Wollongong (William and Mary) and another genealogist has contacted me regarding their daughter Ann.
It appears that Ann was the reason the Turnbulls came to Australia.
Ann Turnbull was born circa 1824 in or around Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. She was convicted in 1848 of culpable homicide and sentenced to 10 years transportation to Van Dieman’s Land (now Tasmania).
It appears that the family decided to come to Australia too, though I have no proof that there was any communication between Ann once she arrived in Tasmania and the Turnbulls while they were still in Hawick.
Ann married another convict, William Weedon, and had 5 children, as far as I have found, and died in 1901 at the age of 78. The Weedons lived around the Westbury area, about 50kms west of Launceston.
I will be travelling to the Wollongong area shortly to investigate the areas where my Turnbulls lived after emigrating to Australia from Scotland. Sadly, I am yet to find their emigration details.
William Turnbull and his wife Mary (Wilson) Turnbull were both born c 1799, in/around Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Of course, everyone knows that the Scots continued to use the wife’s maiden name after marriage, but once arrived in Australia – Turnbulls every one!
I have found them in Australian censuses as living at Osborne’s Estate, Marshall Mount.
These days, Marshall Mount is often called/referred to as Marshall’s Mountain, though I believe that the correct usage should still be Marshall Mount. The only reference to Osborne’s Estate is the heritage listed house of the family, located on one of the main roads in the area – Marshall Mount Road and North Marshall Mount Road.
I have just found this fabulous site which provides research assistance in the form of a genealogy store with census records, parish registers, maps, books and detailed directories designed to help you uncover the full story behind your family tree. Have a look at http://www.parishchest.com
I’m starting this blog to record my research into my Family History.
I have, as some of my Ancestors, members of the following families:
– Tilley (Leicestershire)
– Hardy (Durham)
– Knox, Wilson, Turnbull (Roxburgh)
– Comber, Mackey (Ireland)
– Miller (Essex)
… and their descendants traveled to the United States and Australia.
Onward and upward!!!