Newsletter – 24th
July 2023
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Without a trace: finding a living
relative who has vanished
Without a trace: relatives who disappeared
from the census
When something just doesn’t look right….
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Investigative
Genetic Genealogy Conference BOOKING ENDS TODAY
The
Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center in Ramapo, New
Jersey offers a 15-week remote-learning programme – but at $6000 you would have
to be looking towards investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) as a career. Next
weekend, from Friday to Sunday, there is a conference being held at
which a fantastic range of speakers will be talking about different aspects of IGG,
and it’s only $120 for virtual attendees.
However bookings close today, Monday 24th
July, so you’ll need to make your mind up very quickly. Don’t worry if the
times don’t work out for you – recordings of the sessions will be available to
attendees roughly 48-72 hours after the conference, and you’ll have 90 days to
watch them. If you’re going to be attending let me know, and I’ll set up an
area on the LostCousins Forum where we can discuss the sessions.
Note:
thanks to genetic genealogy expert Debbie Kennett for alerting me to this virtual
opportunity via Twitter (yes, it does come in useful occasionally!).
Without a trace: finding a living relative who
has vanished
LostCousins
is primarily about finding cousins that you don't know of, though your
grandparents or great-grandparents probably would have known their grandparents
or great-grandparents – typically you’ll discover 3rd, 4th, and 5th cousins.
Because
LostCousins members are all researching their own family tree, and most have
been doing it for 20 years or more, they have a wealth of knowledge - some of
which will relate to the part of their tree which overlaps with yours.
Although
LostCousins isn't a missing persons service, if you are researching your
family tree you will find that a lot of the techniques and resources can be
used to track down people whose existence you know of. Two particularly useful
resources are the BT phonebooks up to 1984 (which are online at Ancestry),
and the modern Electoral Registers (which are online at Findmypast).
These two resources are not free but you might glean some information from a free search, and even if
you don’t have a subscription your local library might.
Note
that 2002 is the earliest year from the Electoral Register in Findmypast's
modern collection, and is also the last year before
people could opt out from the published version of the register. You can often
check whether someone has moved since by looking up the address at Rightmove
(the property website), which should show if the house/flat has been sold. I
find it simplest to Google the full postcode, then choose the first search
result from the Rightmove site – it’s normally near the top. However
searching for property sales won't help with people who were living in rented
accommodation.
A
free resource that might also help is the FreeBMD website - if you can identify a marriage for
your missing cousin you'll get a clue as to where he or she was living at the
time, though if the surname is a common one there will be some guesswork
involved. Once you have found a marriage you can try looking for children born
to that couple, and whilst FreeBMD’s coverage tails
off in the early 1990s the GRO
website has a free online birth index which covers more recent years (you might
also glean clues from the GRO’s death index, which is also free).
Member
of the younger generations can often be tracked down on social media (if you can
see who their friends are, that might enable you to confirm that it’s the right
person), or on LinkedIn. Don’t forget the British
Newspaper Archive (which is also accessible via Findmypast)
which has coverage of some local newspapers up to the end of the 20th
century, and occasionally beyond; you can only get so far with free searches,
but if you don’t have a subscription, your local library might. Even Google
searches sometimes produce leads, especially if the person you’re looking for
has been involved in sport or other leisure activities.
But the best way to find a missing cousin is
to ask the cousins who aren’t missing – including the cousins you’ve found at
LostCousins. They might not be as closely-related
as you are to the person you’re trying to find, but that doesn’t mean they won’t
have some useful clues. Family stories move in mysterious ways…..
Without a trace: relatives who disappeared
from the census
Have
you ever noticed that in the 19th century some of your ancestors’
siblings or cousins just disappeared – they don’t seem to have died or married,
but they’re not on the census?
It
might be that your relative changed their name in an attempt
to escape their creditors (or their spouse), or joined the Army, but it’s
more likely that they joined the more than 10 million people who emigrated from
Britain between 1815 and 1914. To put that number into context, it’s almost as
many as the entire
population of Britain at the start of the 19th century!
Whilst
some emigrants may have returned in later life, most didn’t and if they travelled
to the New World – where land and resources were plentiful – they could well have
scores of living descendants. With the benefit of hindsight
it’s not in the least surprising that I’ve found so many cousins in Australia
and New Zealand since I began my research (and especially since I tested my DNA),
but it isn’t something I expected when I began my research. To the best of my
knowledge my family had no contact with cousins overseas, and as a keen stamp
collector I’d certainly have noticed if an envelope with a foreign stamp
arrived in the post.
Note:
after my father died in 2011 I found a series of
address books which must have gone back to the 1950s; in one of them was an
address in Canada for a relative of my Auntie Min, who was the daughter of my grandfather’s
first wife, Marian Hazell. In 1907, when Min was less than a year old, her mother
died of TB and as my grandfather didn’t remarry until 1915
she was brought up by her father’s stepmother (who was also his aunt, but that’s
a tale for another day).
The
National Archives at Kew holds Ships’ Passenger Lists from 1890-1960, providing
us with a fair chance of tracking down cousins who emigrated during that period
– relatively few people would have travelled by air before the 1960s. Both Ancestry
and Findmypast
have the outgoing passenger lists, and it’s worth trying both sites as they transcribed
them independently, and their searches offer different features.
But
most of the records that would track our relatives’ movements before 1890 are
held overseas, usually in the country that became their new home. Of course,
there’s nothing stopping family historians in Britain from accessing overseas
records in order to trace their emigrant cousins, but there
are some good reasons why most of us don’t:
1)
We
can’t be certain that our relative emigrated
2)
Even
if they did emigrate, we can’t be sure where they went or precisely when they travelled
3)
We’re
too busy dealing with ‘brick walls’, the barriers that prevent us researching back
further on our direct lines
The
good news is that we don’t need to look for them – we’ll come across their
descendants during our research. In fact, one-third of all the matches at LostCousins
are between cousins in the UK and cousins in the New World – so it’s yet
another reason to complete your My Ancestors page.
If
you’re wondering how you can connect to a cousin whose ancestors migrated
before 1881 (which is the main census we use at LostCousins), it’s quite simple
– your cousins in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada will enter the British
relatives their ancestors left behind, and who were recorded in 1881.
Tip:
because ALL of our living cousins are descended from
the branches of our tree (some researchers refer to them as ‘collateral lines’),
it’s the relatives from the branches who are most likely to provide the
connections to our ‘lost cousins’. This is great news for anyone whose direct
ancestors left Britain before the 1881 Census, or were out of the country for
some reason, because it means they’re just as likely to make connections with
their British cousins as the rest of us!
When something just doesn’t look right….
This
article and the one that follows are good examples of how instant low-cost to historic
birth register entries will transform our research. The people you’ll read
about probably aren’t your relatives, and they’re certainly not my relatives, but
hopefully the process of untangling the web will be as insightful for you as it
has been for me….
I’ve
just spent two days and a fair amount of money trying to get to the truth. It
all began when I read a letter in the latest issue of Who Do You Think You
Are? magazine, but how it started isn’t important – what matters is how it
finished.
A
correspondent reported that her mother, Mabel Watson, was recorded in the 1911
Census as the ‘niece’ of the head of household although in reality she was his grand-daughter. Although the terms niece and nephew have
quite specific meanings today – we use them to describe the children of our siblings
– the words from which they are derived were more general in meaning, and until
the 17th century (and possibly later) the term ‘niece’ might have
referred to a grand-daughter.
The letter writer suggested
that the 1911 entry is an example of the word being used in its former sense,
though the editor was not so sure – and nor am I, because incorrect
relationships in censuses aren’t that unusual, and they can’t all be explained
away by reference to archaic meanings. Some of them are certainly mistakes or
misunderstandings, and after examining the evidence you might agree that this
one falls into one of those categories.
©
The National Archives – All Rights Reserved. Used by kind permission of Findmypast
I’ve
reproduced the census schedule here because I think it deserves close
examination. Remember, the 1911 Census is the first for which the household
schedules have survived, so in theory the form has been completed by, and
signed by, the head of household.
The
first thing that stood out for me was the omission of any relationship for
Willie and Stella Stannard – though checking the GRO birth index confirms that they
were indeed the children of Arthur Stannard and Anna(line) Leveridge
or Leveradge. One of their older children, Alice Mary,
had married William Watson and Mable was their child.
The
second thing you might notice is that the ‘signature’ at the bottom of the household
schedule seems to have been written by someone other than the person who
completed the form – and checking the church register entry for the 1888
marriage of Arthur and Anna I could see that Arthur made his mark on that
occasion, so it would certainly be surprising if he had completed the form
himself. Furthermore, whilst Anna signed her own name in 1888, the ‘A’ in her
signature is quite different from those on the 1911 schedule – so perhaps one
of or more of the older children filled in the census form on their parents’
behalf?
My
guess is that at least two people were involved – and that’s not including the
enumerator, whose scrawled amendments are in a paler ink. Compare, for example,
the ‘H’ of ‘Head’ against the ‘H’ of ‘Harold’. It also looks to me as if ‘Head’
and ‘Wife’ might have been added later – otherwise it’s hard to understand why ‘Son’
has been centred in the relationship column, resulting in the ‘S’ almost
overlapping the ‘f’ of ‘Wife’.
Taking into account all of the evidence so far it seems to
me unlikely that the relationship ‘Niece’ (or ‘Neice’
as it was written) was intended to invoke the archaic meaning of the term.
If the person who completed the form wasn’t a family member
it could simply be a misunderstanding resulting from the closeness in age
between the two sets of children; alternatively it
could be referring to the relationship between the children – Mabel was indeed
the niece of Harold, Willie and Stella. If the older children were involved in
completing the schedule it’s an understandable error.
But
my interest in this family wasn’t just about the use of the word ‘niece’ – I had
spotted something else that didn’t add up….
I
mentioned earlier this month that I’d spent far more money with the GRO since I
joined the Online View trial 2 years ago than I would have done normally. One
of the reasons for this is my insatiable curiosity – when I’m intrigued by something
I’ll follow it up, even though it’s got nothing to do with my own family, because
I’d rather spend £2.50 and solve a mystery than have it nagging at me (and
there’s always the chance that it’ll make an interesting article for the
newsletter!).
It’s
pretty obvious, looking at the schedule for the
Stannard family (in the previous article) that Lillian Watson must be Mabel’s
sister. But this doesn’t fit with the 1911 entry for Alice, their mother, who
was staying with her in-laws:
©
The National Archives – All Rights Reserved. Used by kind permission of Findmypast
We
can see why Mabel and Lillian are elsewhere on census night – Alice has a new
baby, George, who was born on 15th March, just over 2 weeks before
the census. So if Lillian is also Alice’s child, why
does the form show that Alice has given birth to only two children?
Time
to look for Lillian in the GRO birth index, and purchase
the birth register entry. It turned out that she wasn’t registered as Lillian Watson,
but as Lilian May Stannard:
Although
The Oaks sounds like a nice place to give birth, and it’s now a rather
attractive bed & breakfast (as you can see here), in 1908 it was the
workhouse infirmary. It’s also interesting that the birth registration was delayed
so long – was this an administrative failure, or were they hoping that the
father of the child would marry Alice? In those days they might talked about
him “making an honest woman of her”, as if the situation she found herself in
had nothing to do with him!
It’s
probable that Lilian was fathered by William Watson – but only DNA evidence could
confirm this. And whether or not William was the
father, the question on the census form is about children “born alive to the
present Marriage”, which excludes any children who were still-born or born
outside marriage.
George
and Mabel Elfreda can both be found in the GRO birth index under Watson with
the mother’s maiden surname shown as Stannard – which you probably expected
having followed this circuitous story thus far. So all
that’s necessary is to find the marriage of William Watson to Alice Stannard – and
there is quite a narrow window, so how difficult can it be?
More
difficult than you might have expected, because it turned out that Alice didn’t
marry under the surname Stannard, she married as Alice Leveradge
– her mother’s maiden name – because she was born before her parents married.
In
fact banns of marriage between William Watson and
Alice Leveradge had been read in the parish church at
Saham Toney in September 1906, over 9 months before Lilian May was born, but
for some the reason the marriage didn’t go ahead – I suspect that her parents objected
(she was only 19 at the time). Well, she showed them, didn’t she!
©
Norfolk Record Office – All Rights Reserved. Used by kind permission of Findmypast
When
the couple eventually married in the last quarter of 1908 Alice had turned 21, so
her parents could no longer object – and just as well, since Mabel was born
less than 9 months later.
What’s
particularly confusing is that Alice’s birth was registered in 1887 as Leveradge, she appears in the 1891 and 1901 censuses as Leveradge, banns were called in 1906 in the name of Leveradge, and she eventually married in 1908 as Leveradge – and yet the births of all but one of her
children give her former surname as Stannard. The exception is Geoffrey, born
in 1915 – on that occasion her former surname is shown as Leveridge,
which I suspect is because the birth was registered not by Alice, but by her
husband:
Since
I have no connection with the family I’d never have figured
all this out without instant low-cost access to the birth register entries. Indeed,
looking through Ancestry trees which include this family there are all sorts of
errors and misunderstandings: for example, some show Alice marrying William
Watson in 1906, but provide only the banns register entry to back it up. And one
shows her marrying James Nichols in the parish of Saham Toney earlier that year
– which, if true, would certainly explain why the marriage to William didn’t go
ahead!
©
Norfolk Record Office – All Rights Reserved. Used by kind permission of Findmypast
But
though the Alice Stannard who married James Nichols is shown as the daughter of
Arthur Stannard, labourer, she’s not the Alice we’re looking for – she’s several
years older, and the identify of her father is in doubt: her birth registration
shows her as the illegitimate daughter of Ellen Stannard:
In
the 1891 Census she is living with her grandfather William Stannard and his
unmarried daughter Ellen:
©
The National Archives – All Rights Reserved. Used by kind permission of Findmypast
Bessie
was also illegitimate, judging from her birth index entry, though I haven’t
viewed the birth register entry, so can’t be certain it shows Ellen as the mother.
You’ll
also have noticed that Ellen had a brother called Arthur, who was a labourer in
1891 and was still single at the time of Alice’s conception, though I don’t
think we should conclude that Alice was the result of an incestuous
relationship between the two siblings – not least because there was another
Arthur Stannard in the village, the one who married Alice Leveradge
in 1888. No wonder the clergyman who conducted the latter marriage got confused
and forgot to sign the register!
©
Norfolk Record Office – All Rights Reserved. Used by kind permission of Findmypast
The
note in the margin explains that although the church copy of the register was
not signed, the entry in the registrar’s copy had been completed correctly, and
so anyone requesting a certified copy of the marriage entry should be referred
to the registrar. Although I’ve seen many deficient marriage
register entries, I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve seen one which
the officiating clergyman had forgotten to sign.
To
cap it all, the two witnesses were Frederick and Mary Ann Nichols, parents of
the aforementioned James Nichols – isn’t it a small
world!
A Rye smile
Anti-vaccination
movements aren’t a 21st century invention. In the 19th century
30% of those who caught smallpox died, and many of those who survived were
blinded or disfigured – so you might have thought that vaccination for young
children would be welcomed.
However there were some who objected to vaccination
being compulsory, and felt that it should be a matter of choice – though given
that vaccination was offered to infants in the first three months of their life
it would have been the parents’ choice, not the child’s. This page
on the National Archives website offers a useful summary of the issues, and you
can find out more by following the links.
It
was not until 1898 that the penalties for failing to vaccinate an infant were
abolished, and perhaps that explains why in October 1891 George Ransom chose to
register his daughter as Annie Antivaccinator Ransom:
Northiam is a village in Rye Registration District,
and the location of Great Dixter, a name which will be familiar to many
gardeners.
When
Annie married Frank Austin in 1924 she didn’t use her
middle name, nor did it appear in her 1939 Register entry:
©
The National Archives – All Rights Reserved. Used by kind permission of Findmypast
However when she died in 1967 her death was
registered under her full name, and whilst the index only shows her middle initial,
this entry in the probate index leaves no room for doubt:
I
wonder whether Annie was ever vaccinated – if so, seeing her middle name could
have put a wry smile on the face of the doctor or nurse who carried it out. Though
as it doesn’t appear in the 1939 Register it probably wouldn’t have been on her
medical card – remember that the 1939 Register was repurposed as the NHS Central
Register
Perhaps
the most famous resident of Rye is the fictional hero of Nathan Dylan Goodwin’s
series of genealogical mystery novels, dubbed The Forensic Genealogist. In
the books Morton Farrier lives in a 15th century property called The
House With Two Front Doors which really exists – and as it’s a bed-and-breakfast
in real life you can stay there (if you can afford it – find out more here).
If
you’ve read the books you’ll know that Morton is an
adoptee, and as the series progresses he makes some amazing discoveries about
his parentage, though the central story in each novel is a genealogical mystery
rooted in the past – a territory with which we are all too familiar.
In
the last issue I asked
which fictional genealogist would be the first to make use of the GRO’s new Online
View service, and Morton seems to be in pole position judging from his creator’s
latest blog post! Incidentally, 15th September will be the 10th
Anniversary of the release of Hiding the Past, the first book in the
series, so it’s a handy coincidence that Amazon UK have chosen to promote the
Kindle versions of Hiding the Past
and The Foundlings (the ninth and
most recent book) by offering them at just 99p each until the end of July
(please click the relevant link so that you can support LostCousins with your
purchase – it may only be a few pence, but it all helps).
I
do recommend reading the books in order – there are a number
of threads that run through the series which you’ll probably find add to
your enjoyment (they certainly did for me). For example, there’s Morton’s
relationship with Juliet, and his quest to discover the identity of his birth
parents.
I
reviewed the first book in my newsletter of 17th December 2013 – and
to save you looking it up, here’s what I wrote:
“I won't be giving much of the storyline away
if I tell you that Hiding the Past also features an illegitimate child, but in
this case there's absolutely no doubt that the story is fictional. It's the first
outing for forensic genealogist Morton Farrier, and I have to say that there
were several points during the book when I was convinced that it would also be
his last appearance on the printed page! Fortunately, despite many unexpected
twists and turns (some of which certainly wrong-footed me), the likeable hero
not only survived but also succeeded in solving the mystery.
“Once I started reading Hiding the Past I had great difficulty putting it down - not only did I
want to know what happened next, I actually cared. I certainly hope that author
Nathan Dylan Goodwin is already writing the next Morton Farrier story because I
can't wait!”
Frankly, I could have written the same about
any of the books in the series – they all left me wanting more. And whilst the
discount above only applies to Amazon UK, you can currently download The
Asylum, the novella which acts as a prequel to The Forensic Genealogist
series, free:
Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Amazon.ca Amazon.com.au
And
finally, for those of you who’ve read all of the books
in the series there’s a new short story, The Deserter’s Tale coming out
to mark the 10th anniversary – and you can pre-order the Kindle version
now if you follow the relevant link below:
Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Amazon.ca Amazon.com.au
I
should mention that all of the novels are available in
paperback for those of you who prefer the old ways. Personally
I opt for digital copies of fiction works, since I’m only likely to read them
once, but choose paper copies of non-fiction books that I’m likely to refer to
time and time again. Remember that you don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books
– you can download free software for your computer, smartphone, or tablet.
Although I’ve owned a Kindle for longer than I care to remember, I prefer to
read books on my smartphone – although the screen is a bit smaller, it’s so
convenient!
Findmypast partner with the National Trust
Last
week Findmypast announced a collaboration with the National Trust which will
focus on the 1921 England & Wales census, and the insight that it can
provide into the inhabitants and employees of buildings and land which are part
of our national heritage. Records relating to the locations in the pilot
programme can be browsed free from a dedicated hub
on the Findmypast site.
On
a similar topic, when I looked up the Austin family in the 1939 Register (see
the article above) the transcribed address had some extra details added which
clearly weren’t taken from the register page, including the current address and
postcode, and the information that the property is Grade II Listed. This isn’t something
I’ve noticed before, so I don’t know whether it is a unique instance or part of
a programme.
ScotlandsPeople have added records of lightkeepers for
the period 1837-1921, scanned from the registers of the Commissioners for
Northern Lighthouses. It’s a fairly small dataset, but
if you have a relative who served in a lighthouse it will undoubtedly prove
illuminating!
Of course you’re not – but you may well be asked to
prove it, by doing something that’s easy for a human-being but difficult for a
computer. For example, if you make an online purchase using a credit or debit
card, and the site uses WorldPay as their payment provider – as both the General
Register Office and LostCousins do – it’s likely that you’ll have to tick a box
like this:
All
you need to do is click the box and the tick will appear automatically – you won’t
have a problem with that (unless you are a robot, of course!). But what
comes next is a little more confusing for mere mortals – to complete the
payment you need to click the tick just to the right of the words MAKE
PAYMENT (I’ve highlighted it with a red arrow).
There’s
nothing intuitive about that step, and to compound the problem you could find
that you need to scroll down before you can even see the text and the tick.
OK,
it might be simple when you know how, but it’s jolly confusing when you’re faced
with it for the first time!
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It’s
been a while since I’ve shared my culinary exploits with readers, so there’s a generous
helping this time!
I’m
not sure whether the unusual weather pattern has anything to do with it, but it
looks as if we’ll have a bumper crop in the orchard this year – our Bramley
tree is absolutely loaded with cooking apples, whereas last year we didn’t get
any. So far this year I haven’t made any jams or chutneys, but on Wednesday I
made a summer pudding using redcurrants (kindly given to us by a neighbour who is
also a family historian) and gooseberries from our own garden; for extra
variety I added handfuls of raspberries and blueberries which I bought from the
supermarket.
As
an experiment I separated the different fruits with a layer of bread – I’ll let
you know in a future newsletter whether that worked out, or if it ended up too
stodgy – which meant I had quite a pile of crusts left over. Never one to waste
food I decided to use the leftover crusts as the basis of a bread pudding, a firm
favourite from my childhood – and, since the oven was going to be on, I took
the opportunity to make some individual rhubarb crumbles using the last of the
crop. (Why individual crumbles? It’s all about portion control!)
With
food prices still so very high I’ve been dusting off some of my old recipes,
including a chicken casserole recipe that I learned from my late partner over
40 years ago – it was one of a number of dishes in her
repertoire that we used to cook again and again because they were so easy, and
so tasty!
Start
with a pack of chicken thighs – Tesco sell 2kg for £4.50, which is a bargain. Skin
the thighs, removing as much fat as possible, then brown them in a frying pan
or casserole dish. Move your thighs to one side while you fry generous portions
of sliced onions, sliced mushrooms, and bacon pieces (although Tesco now charge
90p for 500g of cooking bacon it’s still the cheapest meat I can buy). Arrange everything
in a large casserole dish and add sufficient hot stock to cover the meat, then
finish the cooking in the oven – I find that cooking it slowly for an hour or
two works best, but you can speed it up if you’re in a hurry.
Once
the chicken is tender and almost falling off the bone I divide the casserole into
portions for the freezer: if the thighs are very large one per person should be
sufficient – the last 2kg pack I bought had just 12 thighs, so one each was plenty,
and this meant it worked out at a modest 55p per serving – but most importantly,
I’d prepared the main component of 6 meals for 2 people in less than an hour.
Serve it with rice (my preference) or any mashed root vegetables, plus whatever
green vegetables are in season (or in the freezer).
Changing
the subject, a final reminder for readers in the UK that after the end of this
month everyday (definitive) stamps without barcodes will no longer be valid for
postage. You can still exchange them for new ones – see this page
on the Royal Mail website for more details – and so far no closing date has
been give for the exchange programme.
This is where any major updates and corrections will be
highlighted - if you think you've spotted an error first reload the newsletter
(press Ctrl-F5) then
check again before writing to me, in case someone else has beaten you to
it......
I hope you’ve found the articles in this newsletter interesting as
well as instructive – I’ll be back next month with more news and tips from the
world of genealogy.
Peter Calver
Founder, LostCousins
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