We spent the morning at the Ottawa City Archives where the Ottawa Branch of the OGS has their library and we helped to sort through the books. We are moving from the present building to a brand new archives building at the end of next year and the plan is to catalogue the books using the Dewey Decimal system (modified for genealogy). Right now we are going through them to verify the current list.
This afternoon I decided to transcribe some documents that I purchased from the Hampshire Record Office a couple of years ago. This one was from 1685 and was an Indenture between Christian Hinxman (widow of Joseph Hinxman (first cousin to my 8x great grandfather William Blake)) and Thomas Barber. The interesting part is the description of the property which runs along beside Peter Blake at Clatford. This is William's brother and part of the proof that he is still alive in 1685 (he died shortly thereafter although appears on the 1686 Hampshire Visitation). I have a number of Hinxman documents in this time frame as I was trying to locate information on my William who, after completing his degree at Oxford and being an incumbent at a Church in Warwickshire for one year and then teaching in Staffordshire for one year, returned to Andover, married, they had four children (two survived), and then lived at Foxcott as far as I can tell the last twenty years of his life where he died in 1696. He does not leave a will. Finding information on him has proven to be very difficult. He sells off all of his leases over a 20 year period. One might think he was ill but he lived to be 81 years of age - outliving a number of his siblings. My 7x great grandfather (his grandson) only outlived him by 18 years (he was 29 when he died). It has led to a paucity of data on this particular timeperiod for my Blake line.
We also entered another 50 Music CDs into Library Thing and just have about the same left to do, one row of books on the bookcase which I missed as they were hidden behind the music CDs. Also we have decided to enter the records into Library Thing as well and the music tapes. Once I have entered all the fiche then our job is finished on this floor. Our little townhouse has three floors each one stuffed with books and other genealogical material for our lines.
This was our dancing lesson evening and we learned the Fox Trot. Actually I know how to dance although I am somewhat rusty. But we did extremely well with the Fox Trot.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Hinxman v Blake document and the Question family
I completed the transcription proofreading of the Hinxman v Blake document and sent it off to my correspondent. It wasn't until today that I really could see the intent of the document. Joseph Hinxman was appealing to the local magistrate Lord Thomas Courtney to persuade William Blake (my 9x great grandfather) to properly execute his mother (Johane Blake)'s will. She had divided an orchard between the two of them. William however decided to redo the lease and take the entire orchard instead of waiting until the lease expired that had been passed to them by his mother. She had asked them to enjoy the orchard together as well. Whether William simply didn't want to be executor or he really wanted the entire orchard is the mystery. Just ten years later William wrote his will and Joseph is one of his overseers and there isn't any mention of an orchard in his will. Interesting document as it certainly gives you a picture of the times.
We added another 100 music CDs to Library Thing. We want to do a complete inventory of all of our materials - genealogical, musical, books, fiche and then we can separate them into units and direct them so that our daughters do not have to do all of that work if anything happens to us. We are just beginning the task really but already have over 750 items (about 600 books) entered. A lot of work ahead for us during the long cold winter months!
I then decided to transcribe my three Question family wills and completed that task. I now know that the line of ascent is Elizabeth Question (married to Robert Siderfin and my 6x great grandparents), Augustine Question (my 7x great grandfather), John Question (my 8x great grandfather and he does not appear to have left a will) but his brother Andrew left a will in which he mentions that the first child of John has been born by 1627, and Augustine Siderfin (my 9x great grandfather). The interesting item that ties them all together is the mention of Rod[e]huish which is a small village (manor) in Carhampton where the Question family lived with both my 9x great grandfather Augustine mentioning it in his will and my 7x great grandfather Augustine Question also mentioning Rodhuish in his will. I also have the Poor Law Records which show that this family was continuously at Dunster (Augustine my 7x great grandfather mentions his property at Dunster as well as Rodhuish). So a very good day of transcribing and I need to now work on the other documents that mention the Question family.
I also updated my webpage with the Question family and the new details on the Buller and Beard families.
Tomorrow I need to decide what to work on - probably continue with the entering of the Music CDs into Library Thing for one item.
We added another 100 music CDs to Library Thing. We want to do a complete inventory of all of our materials - genealogical, musical, books, fiche and then we can separate them into units and direct them so that our daughters do not have to do all of that work if anything happens to us. We are just beginning the task really but already have over 750 items (about 600 books) entered. A lot of work ahead for us during the long cold winter months!
I then decided to transcribe my three Question family wills and completed that task. I now know that the line of ascent is Elizabeth Question (married to Robert Siderfin and my 6x great grandparents), Augustine Question (my 7x great grandfather), John Question (my 8x great grandfather and he does not appear to have left a will) but his brother Andrew left a will in which he mentions that the first child of John has been born by 1627, and Augustine Siderfin (my 9x great grandfather). The interesting item that ties them all together is the mention of Rod[e]huish which is a small village (manor) in Carhampton where the Question family lived with both my 9x great grandfather Augustine mentioning it in his will and my 7x great grandfather Augustine Question also mentioning Rodhuish in his will. I also have the Poor Law Records which show that this family was continuously at Dunster (Augustine my 7x great grandfather mentions his property at Dunster as well as Rodhuish). So a very good day of transcribing and I need to now work on the other documents that mention the Question family.
I also updated my webpage with the Question family and the new details on the Buller and Beard families.
Tomorrow I need to decide what to work on - probably continue with the entering of the Music CDs into Library Thing for one item.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Buller and Beard families
The days have passed quickly since I last posted and we have spent quite a bit of it fall house cleaning and downsizing as we eliminate items that we do not use particularly - at the moment our daughter is the recipient of the small items that we purchased with her in mind over the years. We will keep items for our older daughter for her next visit to us to decide what she wants to do with them.
I continued hunting out the Buller and Beard families in the new upload at Ancestry (LMA BMBs). I found the marriage of Henry Christopher Buller and Sophia Scrooby (daughter of George Scrooby and Mary Bullock married 24 June 1798 at Saint Luke, Chelsea, London). They had three daughters Mary Ann (b 1807), Sophia (b 1811) and Eliza (b 1812). Mary Ann married Thomas Park Steedman and the witnesses were Christopher Parker and Hannah Steadman Scrooby. I haven't found a burial yet for Sophia (likely prior to 1838) but will continue looking. Henry and Sophia had two children (Henry is listed as a widower on his marriage registration with Ann Welch in 1838) Mary Ann (b 1832) and George Scrooby (b 1834). I think I have George's burial in 1847 but nothing thus far for Mary Ann. I never found any children from this first marriage in any of the records but will continue hunting out Mary Ann.
Off to the dentist to have one of my molars capped and back home again 1.5 hours later (included travel time). I will soon have all of my molars capped (this is number 5). It is good to have them capped actually as it means no more work on them in my lifetime! My teeth have actually been quite inexpensive although my husband has a dental plan anyway. I haven't had a new decay since my late teens (so nearly 45 years!) (most of my old fillings have been replaced with newer ones).
I find it hard to concentrate so decided to spend my time looking at the marriage registers in London. I am looking for the marriage of Christopher Buller and Mary Beard. I am checking the St Marylebone in Westminster as many Buller families lived in that area and it is also the area that Henry Christopher Buller used to visit on his trips back and forth to London. Also he had a butcher shop in Convent Garden on Lamb Conduit Way which is fairly closeby. I looked at all of 1794 and up to September 1795 in this parish and did find a couple of Lawrence marriages (see census 1861 for Henry) and one for Thomas Duller it looked like.
Interesting reading through the marriages in 1794 and 1795 at St Marylebone in Westminster. I did not find one for Christopher and Mary but seeing the names is also interesting. I will try some of the other parishes nearby Bermondsey to see if I can find their marriage.
We watched a couple of hours of television which was very relaxing and I shall get back to the Hinxman v Blake document tomorrow. I have completed a first run through but want to give it a proofread before I send it off to my correspondent.
I continued hunting out the Buller and Beard families in the new upload at Ancestry (LMA BMBs). I found the marriage of Henry Christopher Buller and Sophia Scrooby (daughter of George Scrooby and Mary Bullock married 24 June 1798 at Saint Luke, Chelsea, London). They had three daughters Mary Ann (b 1807), Sophia (b 1811) and Eliza (b 1812). Mary Ann married Thomas Park Steedman and the witnesses were Christopher Parker and Hannah Steadman Scrooby. I haven't found a burial yet for Sophia (likely prior to 1838) but will continue looking. Henry and Sophia had two children (Henry is listed as a widower on his marriage registration with Ann Welch in 1838) Mary Ann (b 1832) and George Scrooby (b 1834). I think I have George's burial in 1847 but nothing thus far for Mary Ann. I never found any children from this first marriage in any of the records but will continue hunting out Mary Ann.
Off to the dentist to have one of my molars capped and back home again 1.5 hours later (included travel time). I will soon have all of my molars capped (this is number 5). It is good to have them capped actually as it means no more work on them in my lifetime! My teeth have actually been quite inexpensive although my husband has a dental plan anyway. I haven't had a new decay since my late teens (so nearly 45 years!) (most of my old fillings have been replaced with newer ones).
I find it hard to concentrate so decided to spend my time looking at the marriage registers in London. I am looking for the marriage of Christopher Buller and Mary Beard. I am checking the St Marylebone in Westminster as many Buller families lived in that area and it is also the area that Henry Christopher Buller used to visit on his trips back and forth to London. Also he had a butcher shop in Convent Garden on Lamb Conduit Way which is fairly closeby. I looked at all of 1794 and up to September 1795 in this parish and did find a couple of Lawrence marriages (see census 1861 for Henry) and one for Thomas Duller it looked like.
Interesting reading through the marriages in 1794 and 1795 at St Marylebone in Westminster. I did not find one for Christopher and Mary but seeing the names is also interesting. I will try some of the other parishes nearby Bermondsey to see if I can find their marriage.
We watched a couple of hours of television which was very relaxing and I shall get back to the Hinxman v Blake document tomorrow. I have completed a first run through but want to give it a proofread before I send it off to my correspondent.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Buller and Beard Families
I started off my day this morning by reading my emails. I had 29 spam and 18 emails! My mind started to think about updating my webpage to reflect the new details for the Buller and Beard families that emerged with the release of the LMA BMBs on Ancestry. I updated my webpage but then got thinking about Jane (Blakely) Beard - second wife of Henry Beard my 4x great grandfather. I hadn't listed any information in Legacy for her so went in and pulled out that information and added it to her but she appears to have married at 10 years of ago so something amiss there! I then started looking through the burial registers and have completed from the date of the will 1 May 1817 to the end of 1819 at Bermondsey plus I have read 1823. Just need to do the years in between over the next little while.
Today was a washing day so have that out on the line as well. Hopefully the roofers will come today to put up the new roof. We are looking forward to that before winter sets in here. Our roof was replaced about 15 years ago after a major ice storm which ripped holes in the shingles.
I am also reading a new book "The Knights Templar Revealed: The secrets of the Cistercean Legacy" by Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe. The beginning of the book takes us back to prehistoric times with a discussion on the Minoan Culture of Crete. Quite a fascinating read thus far and the discussion in the second chapter on sheep farming was certainly most interesting considering the number of sheep we saw when we visited the British Isles. They imply contact between the ancient peoples of Briton and France and the Minoans who traded from the island of Crete along the Atlantic seaboard. The third chapter takes us to the Levant and proposes that the Philistines were the descendants of the Minoans who fled from Crete after the volcanic eruption on Thera.
Just back from another 10K bicycle ride. I am hoping to make it to Edmonton by the end of September on the virtual tour across Canada and I should be able to do so. My gear broke today whilst we were biking so will need to repair that before we go again. I need about 200,000 steps I think to make it to Edmonton.
I spent several hours entering books/booklets into Library Thing. We have nearly finished the living room and that is almost 550 books. We are going to enter the music CDs and the DVDs for genealogy into the database as well as the fiche that I have. That way we can search the excel file whenever we want to determine if we have something. We do not have too many duplicates fortunately but we have acquired a number of genealogy tools now and we may forget which ones we have. We can always look now and then check before we buy!
Today was a washing day so have that out on the line as well. Hopefully the roofers will come today to put up the new roof. We are looking forward to that before winter sets in here. Our roof was replaced about 15 years ago after a major ice storm which ripped holes in the shingles.
I am also reading a new book "The Knights Templar Revealed: The secrets of the Cistercean Legacy" by Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe. The beginning of the book takes us back to prehistoric times with a discussion on the Minoan Culture of Crete. Quite a fascinating read thus far and the discussion in the second chapter on sheep farming was certainly most interesting considering the number of sheep we saw when we visited the British Isles. They imply contact between the ancient peoples of Briton and France and the Minoans who traded from the island of Crete along the Atlantic seaboard. The third chapter takes us to the Levant and proposes that the Philistines were the descendants of the Minoans who fled from Crete after the volcanic eruption on Thera.
Just back from another 10K bicycle ride. I am hoping to make it to Edmonton by the end of September on the virtual tour across Canada and I should be able to do so. My gear broke today whilst we were biking so will need to repair that before we go again. I need about 200,000 steps I think to make it to Edmonton.
I spent several hours entering books/booklets into Library Thing. We have nearly finished the living room and that is almost 550 books. We are going to enter the music CDs and the DVDs for genealogy into the database as well as the fiche that I have. That way we can search the excel file whenever we want to determine if we have something. We do not have too many duplicates fortunately but we have acquired a number of genealogy tools now and we may forget which ones we have. We can always look now and then check before we buy!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Collateral Family
I ended up spending a goodly part of the day working on my 2nd cousin's family lines. When we visited them a year ago they were quite interested in the family tree work that I had done and expressed an interest in their family. I decided to extract their families' information and was quite successful at getting back to pre-census in just the one day. I passed it on to my cousin to see if he could find any errors or omissions.
I sent my old family images that we found the negatives for to my sister to work on. She has the original family albums but they were missing some of the pictures when we looked at them a couple of years ago. My husband photographed them in the 1970s so have shared those images with her. The big find was the picture of my father as a child of 3 in his sailor's uniform with his parents. I now have this excellent picture of my grandmother when she was about 30. Before this the pictures were of her when she was in her mid 40s and her ill health was starting to show. She died young at 64 years of age.
Tomorrow I need to get back to working on the Great Driffield records. My eyes were rather tired after my e hour session at the LDS and then another 3 hours at home.
I sent my old family images that we found the negatives for to my sister to work on. She has the original family albums but they were missing some of the pictures when we looked at them a couple of years ago. My husband photographed them in the 1970s so have shared those images with her. The big find was the picture of my father as a child of 3 in his sailor's uniform with his parents. I now have this excellent picture of my grandmother when she was about 30. Before this the pictures were of her when she was in her mid 40s and her ill health was starting to show. She died young at 64 years of age.
Tomorrow I need to get back to working on the Great Driffield records. My eyes were rather tired after my e hour session at the LDS and then another 3 hours at home.
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