<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from myroots.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 myroots.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-10-26T22:16:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-09-05:links.412181437</id><title>Henry Nightingale&apos;s death 1901</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/henry_nightingales_death_1901.htm"><![CDATA[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&#39;s Road, Islington. A search for]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/henry_nightingales_death_1901.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-09-05T17:35:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-05T17:35:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-09-01:links.412180995</id><title>A second marriage for Phoebe Wakefield (nee Wade)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/a_second_marriage_for_phoebe_wakefield_nee_wade.htm"><![CDATA[I&#39;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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/a_second_marriage_for_phoebe_wakefield_nee_wade.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-09-01T14:17:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-01T14:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-08-02:links.412178392</id><title>William Moorhouse Stoney b1765/1768/1771?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/william_moorhouse_stoney_b176517681771.htm"><![CDATA[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&#39; transportation.&nbsp]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/william_moorhouse_stoney_b176517681771.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-08-02T18:02:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-02T18:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171849</id><title>John Charles Hill: misdemeanours recorded in military papers</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_misdemeanours_recorded_in_military_papers.htm"><![CDATA[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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_misdemeanours_recorded_in_military_papers.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T19:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T19:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171847</id><title>John Charles Hill: addresses of next of kin in military papers</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_addresses_of_next_of_kin_in_military_pape.htm"><![CDATA[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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_addresses_of_next_of_kin_in_military_pape.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T19:43:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T19:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171846</id><title>John Charles Hill, great-uncle: military records and an Irish connection</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_greatuncle_military_records_and_an_iris.htm"><![CDATA[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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_greatuncle_military_records_and_an_iris.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T19:23:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T19:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171844</id><title>Death of Elizabeth Sarah Evans, formerly Hill, new Windebank</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/death_of_elizabeth_sarah_evans_formerly_hill_new_windebank.htm"><![CDATA[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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/death_of_elizabeth_sarah_evans_formerly_hill_new_windebank.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T18:50:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T18:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171837</id><title>Found 18 of James and Alice Stocking&apos;s 19 children</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/found_18_of_james_and_alice_stockings_19_children.htm"><![CDATA[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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/found_18_of_james_and_alice_stockings_19_children.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T17:50:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T17:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171827</id><title>Alexander, the last of James Stocking&apos;s children?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/alexander_the_last_of_james_stockings_children.htm"><![CDATA[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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/alexander_the_last_of_james_stockings_children.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T16:21:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T16:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171826</id><title>Richard Stocking&apos;s early death</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/richard_stockings_early_death.htm"><![CDATA[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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/richard_stockings_early_death.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T16:01:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T16:01:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-05-25:links.412171820</id><title>Lavinia Brown&apos;s death certificate found</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/lavinia_browns_death_certificate_found.htm"><![CDATA[I&#39;d been looking for Lavinia  Brown&#39;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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/lavinia_browns_death_certificate_found.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-05-25T15:06:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-25T15:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-04-05:links.412162154</id><title>Some surviving family homes in Google Street View</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/some_surviving_family_homes_in_google_street_view.htm"><![CDATA[Google&#39;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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/some_surviving_family_homes_in_google_street_view.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-04-05T20:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-05T20:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-04-05:links.412162152</id><title>Locating my old haunts in Google Street View</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/locating_my_old_haunts_in_google_street_view.htm"><![CDATA[I was quite excited to hear of Google&#39;s new &#39;Street View &#39; feature in Google Maps as I&#39;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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/locating_my_old_haunts_in_google_street_view.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-04-05T19:30:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-05T19:30:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-04-04:links.412162033</id><title>Owners and occupiers of Heron&apos;s Farm</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/owners_and_occupiers_of_herons_farm.htm"><![CDATA[I know that my four times great-grandfather Thomas EPHGRAVE  occupied Heron&#39;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 &#39;farming 140 a]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/owners_and_occupiers_of_herons_farm.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-04-04T20:26:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-04T20:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-04-04:links.412162018</id><title>Ephgrave family farm rents for c &#xa3;4000 per month!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/ephgrave_family_farm_rents_for_c_4000_per_month.htm"><![CDATA[A distant cousin forwarded property details from Savills , the Estate Agents, who are handling the rental of Heron&#39;s Farm, Gustard Wood, Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire. The house was once home to my four-time great grandfather Thomas EPHGRAVE ,]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/ephgrave_family_farm_rents_for_c_4000_per_month.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-04-04T17:53:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-04T17:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-04-04:links.412162015</id><title>Finally found Horace Brown b1901 on 1911 census</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/finally_found_horace_brown_b1901_on_1911_census.htm"><![CDATA[I found three of my four grandparents on the 1911 census online fairly soon after it was launched, but I couldn&#39;t trace my mother&#39;s father, Horace BROWN, nor other members of his family known to be alive at the time. A search on Horace (no su]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/finally_found_horace_brown_b1901_on_1911_census.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-04-04T16:50:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-04T16:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-02-14:links.412154156</id><title>Sad tale of the Spring children from 1911 census</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/sad_tale_of_the_spring_children_from_1911_census.htm"><![CDATA[Louisa Elizabeth Fage  was born in 1874, and was my grandmother Elizabeth Sarah Fage&#39;s great-aunt, daughter of my great-grandfather Jem Fage.&nbsp; I worked out from the 1901 census and FreeBMD records that she married Frederick Thomas Spring in]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/sad_tale_of_the_spring_children_from_1911_census.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-02-14T19:05:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-14T19:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-02-14:links.412154140</id><title>Kate Seaby (Badcock?): appears twice on 1911 census</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/kate_seaby_badcock_appears_twice_on_1911_census.htm"><![CDATA[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).]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/kate_seaby_badcock_appears_twice_on_1911_census.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-02-14T16:18:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-14T16:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-02-07:links.412152607</id><title>Alice Mary Stocking nee Wales - finally found her death in 1907?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/alice_mary_stocking_nee_wales__finally_found_her_death_in_1.htm"><![CDATA[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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/alice_mary_stocking_nee_wales__finally_found_her_death_in_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-02-07T19:18:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-07T19:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-01-21:links.412149485</id><title>James and Alice Stocking: only 19 children according to 1911 census</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/james_and_alice_stocking_only_19_children_according_to_1911.htm"><![CDATA[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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/james_and_alice_stocking_only_19_children_according_to_1911.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-01-21T22:51:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-21T22:51:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-01-19:links.412149050</id><title>Seeking the third Ephgrave infant death before 1911</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/seeking_the_third_ephgrave_infant_death_before_1911.htm"><![CDATA[My great-grandparents Frederick and Phoebe Ephgrave state that three of their children have died  by the time of the 1911 census. A search of the BMD entries for Ephgrave children born between their marriage date in 1896 and 1911 (and taking into acc]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/seeking_the_third_ephgrave_infant_death_before_1911.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-01-19T17:57:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-19T17:57:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-01-19:links.412149048</id><title>Unravelling Fage children mysteries from the 1911 census</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/unravelling_fage_children_mysteries_from_the_1911_census.htm"><![CDATA[The mysteries from the 1911 census  surrounding the children of my great-grandparents John William and Alice Fage are beginning to unravel. I still can&#39;t find Frederick John Fage b1896 in the census, although know he was still alive by 1940. But]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/unravelling_fage_children_mysteries_from_the_1911_census.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-01-19T17:47:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-19T17:47:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-01-17:links.412148796</id><title>Counting the children of William Fage: mysteries of the 1911 census</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/counting_the_children_of_william_fage_mysteries_of_the_1911.htm"><![CDATA[My great-grandparents William John Fage and Alice (nee Cade) appear in teh 1911 census at London Road, Sandy, Bedfordshire. William is aged 39, born in Sandy, and a Market Gardener&#39;s Labourer (as he seems to have been all his life), Alice is 38 a]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/counting_the_children_of_william_fage_mysteries_of_the_1911.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-01-17T21:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-17T21:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-01-17:links.412148784</id><title>1911 census reveals a missing Ephgrave child death</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/1911_census_reveals_a_missing_ephgrave_child_death.htm"><![CDATA[The additional information in the 1911 census has opened up a new mystery relating to the children of my great-grandparents Frederick Ephgrave and Phoebe (nee Gibson). The census return shows that they had been married 16 years by 1911 and had had ni]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/1911_census_reveals_a_missing_ephgrave_child_death.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-01-17T19:07:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-17T19:07:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myroots.blog-city.com,2009-01-17:links.412148781</id><title>Edith Florence Herring and George Massey in 1911</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myroots.blog-city.com/edith_florence_herring_and_george_massey_in_1911.htm"><![CDATA[My grandfather, James Aaron Stocking, married my grandmother Jessie Ephgrave in 1929. This was his second marriage. His first was to a widow, Edith Florence Massey (nee Herring), in 1927. Although not related to me, the Herring-Massey connection inte]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myroots.blog-city.com/edith_florence_herring_and_george_massey_in_1911.htm"/><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><author><name>Lesly Huxley</name></author><updated>2009-01-17T18:11:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-17T18:11:00Z</published></entry></feed>