My 3x great-grandmother Phoebe Wakefield (nee Wade) married for a second time in 1877. Her husband was Henry Nightingale, a pianoforte maker. In the 1901 census, Phoebe is shown as a widow, living at Upper St John's Road, Islington. A search for

I'd been struggling to find a death certificate (or mention in the censuses) for Phobe Wade, my 3xgreat-grandmother, born around 1832-5, daughter of Benjamin Pason Wade. She married my 3xgreat-grandfather Charles Saffary Wakefield in 1853, and ap

Vital details of my 4x great-grandfather William Moorhouse STONEY are still proving elusive. I found a record at OldBaileyOnline of a trial of one William Moorehouse STONEY in 1819 for fraud. He was sentenced to seven years' transportation. 

Great-uncle John Charles Hill was in the Royal West Kent Special Reserves and the 1st battalion of the regular army between 1908 and 1920. His papers at ancestry.co.uk show that he was a less than model solider, with a handful of offences - mainly

In his military papers relating to service with the RWK Regiment between 1908 and 1920, John Charles Hill, my great-uncle, gives names and addresses of next of kin. In 1908 these included his mother Elizabeth Mrs Evans at 14 Beechfield Road; his m

John Charles Hill was, I believe, the youngest brother of Susan Caroline Hill . He appears on the 1891 census aged six weeks, and his birth was registered in the March quarter of that year. In the 1901 census he is shown living with his mother and st

Elizabeth Sarah Windebank married John Hill in 1869. They were the parents of my great-grandmother Susan Caroline Hill.John died between 1891, when he appears in the census, and 1895, when Elizabeth remarried. Her second marriage was to Thomas George

The 1911 census shows that James Thomas Stocking and his wife Alice Mary, formerly Wales, had had 19 children, 16 of whom were still alive by the time of the census. Fortunately, even though James was by then widowed, he still completed the so-called

The 1911 census shows Alexander Stocking as the youngest child, aged 8, in the household of the widowed James Thomas Stocking. The census shows that James has had 19 children in all. I had seen an birth index entry for Alexander Stocking in 1902 som

Richard Stocking was born around 1890, the eleventh child (I think) of my 2xgreat-grandparents James Thomas and Alice Mary Stocking, brother to my great-grandfather James Aaron Stocking. I had found various records relating to a Richard or Richard H

I'd been looking for Lavinia Brown's death for a while and finally tracked the index record down following an entry in a family bible for 1944. I ordered the certificate and found it was the right one. A contact via MyRoots also forwarded a

Google's Street View feature has allowed me to walk along the street where I grew up and where my parents and grandparents once lived. I was able to see for the first time in more than 30 years the road in which my grandfather lived at the time o

I was quite excited to hear of Google's new 'Street View ' feature in Google Maps as I'm interested in finding out more about the places my family have lived. I found the house and street in which I grew up (99 Brightside Road, SE13 6

I know that my four times great-grandfather Thomas EPHGRAVE occupied Heron's Farm , Gustard Wood, Wheathampstead at the time of the 1841 census. Ten years later in 1851 he and his family are still there, and he is described as 'farming 140 a

A distant cousin forwarded property details from Savills , the Estate Agents, who are handling the rental of Heron's Farm, Gustard Wood, Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire. The house was once home to my four-time great grandfather Thomas EPHGRAVE ,

I found three of my four grandparents on the 1911 census online fairly soon after it was launched, but I couldn't trace my mother's father, Horace BROWN, nor other members of his family known to be alive at the time. A search on Horace (no su

Louisa Elizabeth Fage was born in 1874, and was my grandmother Elizabeth Sarah Fage's great-aunt, daughter of my great-grandfather Jem Fage.  I worked out from the 1901 census and FreeBMD records that she married Frederick Thomas Spring in

Kate Seaby is my first cousin twice-removed (or would be if she is still alive). She was born in 1900, a year before all four of my grandparents were born. Her mother was Margaret Jane Seaby, sister to my great-grandmother Lavinia Brown (nee Seaby).

With the information from the 1911 census that my great-great-grandfather James Thomas Stocking was widowed by then, and that his youngest son appears to have been born in 1902, I searched the death registers online again to see if I could track dow

A family tale suggests that my 3xgreat-grandparents James Thomas and Alice Stocking (nee Wales) had 21 children, all of whom survived to maturity. The additional information in the 1911 census appears to disprove this story. By 1911, James is record