I completed proofreading the Presentation Returns for Braintree (I still have 25 names to continue querying in a total of 574 - a very large parish) for my husband. An enormous variety of names in this parish which is 41 miles northeast of London, England. My husband has a number of ancestors who emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s and 1640s from Braintree including the Loomis family.
Other than my rather sore ribs where I fell I am feeling improved from my bout of illness so will now plot out the next few weeks of looking at the old records. However, I received from the Routledge group a rather interesting 20 pages of Routledge wills from the 1500s and 1600s. I will put together a chart of all that information today and see if it can assist me at all. Definitely it will change one concept that I had. I had thought that my Todholes Routledge family and my Oakshaw Routledge family were closely related (both descend from a James Routledge) but the wills would certainly show that there isn't a close relationship 100 years earlier than I had originally thought from the registers. It is always better to find more than one source for documentation.
I had thought about starting my Certified Genealogist application to the Board of Certified Genealogists this winter and may still do so. My hesitation is my short time in the field of genealogy (five years) although I have now experienced most of the major repositories for collections that deal with my ancestors on this side of the Atlantic. A visit to Kew is absolutely essential on our next trip to England and then I think I would feel ready to be a Certified Genealogist - it is sort of one thing to be able to do all the written work and researching but another to be fluent in the language which is only acquired through years of research which I quite appreciate. My logic in acquiring the CG now was more to support the family research that I am doing although I have done some teaching, research and writing for my small publishing business. Initially I had considered working full time as a genealogist but my shoulder injury made me rethink those ideas and retire.
Going back to my Salt Lake City images now, I will perhaps do a quick overview once again of all the material that I have collected and then a look at the material of which I have completed transcription. I can then make a plan for the next stage of transcribing. With the Christmas season my time will get chopped up somewhat but a plan will move me smoothly through the holidays and into the working time of January.
Showing posts with label Braintree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Braintree. Show all posts
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Canada
I became wrapped up in the political crisis here in Canada and watched television although did do some work on the protestation returns. Still proofreading Braintree and it is a slow process.
I also remembered I was working on my FamilySearch page for the 1916 Canadian Census (already completed a number of them) but they had taken it back again. I decided to try the Belgium emigree list and will work away at that the next few days.
With a few days passing since the initial crisis began here in our parliament, I have given some thought to the cause. Is it possible that our Prime Minister suddenly became sick and tired of all the jibes and comments being made by the Opposition leaders (they view their comments as usual political style) and was considering retiring and letting others carry the torch? I am left to think about that thought for awhile. The real farce was Elizabeth May rushing to Ottawa (thinking there was a Senate seat in it for her I suspect)and then making her usual inane statements but this time she really came up with a corker - tanks at Parliament Hill. I think perhaps she is just not suited to this life as she really doesn't know how to express herself. I felt that way at the debates as well. Her personal attacks on Stephen Harper were absolutely unacceptable and should have been halted. He is an excellent Prime Minister and shouldn't be driven from his post by inane comments. He has managed to get rid of the Liberals as our "permanent" government finally bringing back together the conservative parties of Canada. History will remember him well and be kind to him.
Off to the opera today.
I also remembered I was working on my FamilySearch page for the 1916 Canadian Census (already completed a number of them) but they had taken it back again. I decided to try the Belgium emigree list and will work away at that the next few days.
With a few days passing since the initial crisis began here in our parliament, I have given some thought to the cause. Is it possible that our Prime Minister suddenly became sick and tired of all the jibes and comments being made by the Opposition leaders (they view their comments as usual political style) and was considering retiring and letting others carry the torch? I am left to think about that thought for awhile. The real farce was Elizabeth May rushing to Ottawa (thinking there was a Senate seat in it for her I suspect)and then making her usual inane statements but this time she really came up with a corker - tanks at Parliament Hill. I think perhaps she is just not suited to this life as she really doesn't know how to express herself. I felt that way at the debates as well. Her personal attacks on Stephen Harper were absolutely unacceptable and should have been halted. He is an excellent Prime Minister and shouldn't be driven from his post by inane comments. He has managed to get rid of the Liberals as our "permanent" government finally bringing back together the conservative parties of Canada. History will remember him well and be kind to him.
Off to the opera today.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Results of Research at Salt Lake City - 3 Dec 2008
First full morning of working on the protestation returns for Braintree. I am proofreading them. It is a slow process because I have never worked on this parish or even looked at this parish in my five years of doing Genealogy other than noticing that my husband had a number of ancestors who left Braintree during the 1630s and 1640s. I thought it would be interesting to give him the transcription for Christmas and I should complete it in time now.
I sent back my request to the Leicestershire Registry Office for the fiche of the parish registers of Castle Donnington and Loughborough (All Saints) to assist me in looking at my Cheatle family. This family has now become one of my new brickwalls and actually always has been. I found Sarah Cheatle quite early on in my research and her baptism at Ashby de la Zouch but have never been able to get back further in time with them. My work at Salt Lake City let me look at Ashby de la Zouch and sort out the three William Cheatles who were having children there at that time and to verify that they were three different men, that one of the Williams has a brother Benjamin with father Henry and this is not my line as Sarah isn't mentioned in the 1807 will of Henry as a daughter of William. The other William is definitely younger as he only begins to have children in the 1790s and continues to the midteens of the 1800s. Sarah is the last child of the William and Sarah Cheatle family and interestingly there is a burial for a Sarah Cheatle in 1793 (no age given, no parents but the register is quite brief for burials unfortunately). I do have the Cheatle family at Castle Donnington with a daughter Sarah and I am left to wonder if this is my Cheatle family. I hope to learn more with the registers. I also took a bit of time and mapped the twelve Cheatle males on the Freemen's list from the 1700s and found that there were three main areas where they lived with a cluster at each one. They are all on a radius from Loughborough and many of their family events occur at Loughborough. My thought is that my line was in the Castle Donnington area. Next time we are at Salt Lake City I will photograph the Poor Law Records for Castle Donnington. That was one bit of homework I should have done in advance as I already owned all of the material that I needed to produce these charts. It would have saved me time there and probably aided my research. They got missed in my research plan. My research plan for each day consisted of a minimum ten items and usually twenty. When I got back home I found that I accomplished between 80 to 100% of each day's work which I felt was quite good since I had never been there before. It is so easy to find the film and you are allowed to take back as many reels as you want (usually I only took 5 but sometimes for a long run I had 10).
Back to sleep again as my energy level is a little low still. Unfortunately I slipped and hit my ribcage and when we went off to the physician for my illness (related to my nervous disorder) I thought he was sending me off for an x-ray of my shoulder but actually it was an xray of an adnexal mass on my right ovary so I still do not know if I cracked a rib. I appear to be improving. Last night I had a dream where I remembered the ob/gyn that delivered our first daughter telling me about an adnexal mass on my right ovary 34 years ago - amazing thing dreams. I shall have to wait and see on that one.
I sent back my request to the Leicestershire Registry Office for the fiche of the parish registers of Castle Donnington and Loughborough (All Saints) to assist me in looking at my Cheatle family. This family has now become one of my new brickwalls and actually always has been. I found Sarah Cheatle quite early on in my research and her baptism at Ashby de la Zouch but have never been able to get back further in time with them. My work at Salt Lake City let me look at Ashby de la Zouch and sort out the three William Cheatles who were having children there at that time and to verify that they were three different men, that one of the Williams has a brother Benjamin with father Henry and this is not my line as Sarah isn't mentioned in the 1807 will of Henry as a daughter of William. The other William is definitely younger as he only begins to have children in the 1790s and continues to the midteens of the 1800s. Sarah is the last child of the William and Sarah Cheatle family and interestingly there is a burial for a Sarah Cheatle in 1793 (no age given, no parents but the register is quite brief for burials unfortunately). I do have the Cheatle family at Castle Donnington with a daughter Sarah and I am left to wonder if this is my Cheatle family. I hope to learn more with the registers. I also took a bit of time and mapped the twelve Cheatle males on the Freemen's list from the 1700s and found that there were three main areas where they lived with a cluster at each one. They are all on a radius from Loughborough and many of their family events occur at Loughborough. My thought is that my line was in the Castle Donnington area. Next time we are at Salt Lake City I will photograph the Poor Law Records for Castle Donnington. That was one bit of homework I should have done in advance as I already owned all of the material that I needed to produce these charts. It would have saved me time there and probably aided my research. They got missed in my research plan. My research plan for each day consisted of a minimum ten items and usually twenty. When I got back home I found that I accomplished between 80 to 100% of each day's work which I felt was quite good since I had never been there before. It is so easy to find the film and you are allowed to take back as many reels as you want (usually I only took 5 but sometimes for a long run I had 10).
Back to sleep again as my energy level is a little low still. Unfortunately I slipped and hit my ribcage and when we went off to the physician for my illness (related to my nervous disorder) I thought he was sending me off for an x-ray of my shoulder but actually it was an xray of an adnexal mass on my right ovary so I still do not know if I cracked a rib. I appear to be improving. Last night I had a dream where I remembered the ob/gyn that delivered our first daughter telling me about an adnexal mass on my right ovary 34 years ago - amazing thing dreams. I shall have to wait and see on that one.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Results of Research at Salt Lake City - 27 Nov - 2 Dec
Great strides made on transcribing the Protestation Returns for Eskdale Ward in Cumberland. I have completed all of them and will get at the busy task of proofreading them very soon. I also heard back from the Cumbria Journal and they would like to publish Lanercost so I will start preparing that one for submision.
I decided to transcribe the Protestation Returns for Braintree Essex as a number of Ed's families emigrated from Braintree in the 1630 and 1640 time period. I completed that but unfortunately was taken ill on Saturday so have accomplished absolutely nothing since. This is my first day back at the computer. I will need to catch up on all of my emails and other items. I did have my flue shot!
I decided to transcribe the Protestation Returns for Braintree Essex as a number of Ed's families emigrated from Braintree in the 1630 and 1640 time period. I completed that but unfortunately was taken ill on Saturday so have accomplished absolutely nothing since. This is my first day back at the computer. I will need to catch up on all of my emails and other items. I did have my flue shot!
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