<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Family tales and contacts @ myroots.blog-city.com</title><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Family tales and contacts) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 myroots.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:16:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Family tales and contacts @ myroots.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Counting the children of William Fage: mysteries of the 1911 census</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/counting_the_children_of_william_fage_mysteries_of_the_1911.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/counting_the_children_of_william_fage_mysteries_of_the_1911.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=counting%5Fthe%5Fchildren%5Fof%5Fwilliam%5Ffage%5Fmysteries%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1911</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>1911 census reveals a missing Ephgrave child death</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/1911_census_reveals_a_missing_ephgrave_child_death.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/1911_census_reveals_a_missing_ephgrave_child_death.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=1911%5Fcensus%5Freveals%5Fa%5Fmissing%5Fephgrave%5Fchild%5Fdeath</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Violet (Dot) Fage discovered</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/violet_dot_fage_discovered.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/violet_dot_fage_discovered.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=violet%5Fdot%5Ffage%5Fdiscovered</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was puzzled by the absence of Violet (Dot) Fage in the 1911 census, given that my mother had suggested she had been born around 1904. With FreeBMD updated, a quick search reveals the correct birth index entry nearly ten years later, in the March qu]]></description></item><item><title>Marriage of Edith Herring and George Massey in 1919</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/marriage_of_edith_herring_and_george_massey_in_1919.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/marriage_of_edith_herring_and_george_massey_in_1919.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=marriage%5Fof%5Fedith%5Fherring%5Fand%5Fgeorge%5Fmassey%5Fin%5F1919</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My father had told me that my grandfather James Aaron STOCKING had been married before his marriage to Jessie EPHGRAVE. After some detective work, I found that James&#39; first marriage was to Edith George MASSEY (or so it said on their marriage cert]]></description></item><item><title>Locating Gedling Street and Bermondsey Workhouse</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/locating_gedling_street_and_bermondsey_workhouse.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/locating_gedling_street_and_bermondsey_workhouse.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=locating%5Fgedling%5Fstreet%5Fand%5Fbermondsey%5Fworkhouse</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The long bank holiday weekend has given me a few hours to follow-up some of the leads that have come via MyRoots over the past few months. Geri, a Canadian who describes herself as a &#39;fellow family hunter&#39;, was kind enough to email me in Febr]]></description></item><item><title>Apologies!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/apologies.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/apologies.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=apologies</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have had a lot of contacts via MyRoots since my last posting (thank you very much!), but have had very little time to pursue various leads in the past few months, with work and present family and social life taking precedence. So if you&#39;ve been]]></description></item><item><title>More on the Beautyman brothers&apos; ships</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/more_on_the_beautyman_brothers_ships.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/more_on_the_beautyman_brothers_ships.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fbeautyman%5Fbrothers%5Fships</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Following earlier leads from contacats Maureen and Lesley, some internet searching reveals information that might be linked to the Beautyman&#39;s ships  (or those on which they served), The British Queen, The Grenville Bay and HMS Arrogant, and poss]]></description></item><item><title>Linking Elizabeth Windebank (b1849) to Jeremiah Windebank (b1782)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/linking_elizabeth_windebank_b1849_to_jeremiah_windebank_b.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/linking_elizabeth_windebank_b1849_to_jeremiah_windebank_b.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=linking%5Felizabeth%5Fwindebank%5Fb1849%5Fto%5Fjeremiah%5Fwindebank%5Fb</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another MyRoots contact, Rona, descended from Jeremiah Windebank via his son William, b1820, wasn&#39;t aware that Jeremiah had another son, David, from whom my descent comes. So had I made the right connections? I thought I&#39;d check back what I&#]]></description></item><item><title>James Stocking and Alice Wales: 21 children?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/james_stocking_and_alice_wales_21_children.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/james_stocking_and_alice_wales_21_children.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=james%5Fstocking%5Fand%5Falice%5Fwales%5F21%5Fchildren</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My great-great-grandfather James Thomas STOCKING and his wife Alice Mary, nee WALES, married on 29 November 1874 at St John&#39;s Church, Walworth, Surrey. A few years ago one of their grandchildren contacted my father asking for information about th]]></description></item><item><title>Albert Victor Fage and Louie Cade: more confusing connections</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/albert_victor_fage_and_louie_cade_more_confusing_connection.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/albert_victor_fage_and_louie_cade_more_confusing_connection.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=albert%5Fvictor%5Ffage%5Fand%5Flouie%5Fcade%5Fmore%5Fconfusing%5Fconnection</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#39;ve been doing over Christmas 2007 is seeing if I can find more information about my direct ancestors&#39; brothers and sisters and their descendents, as I like to build up a wider picture of how, where and with whom my grand-p]]></description></item><item><title>Origins of the name Ephgrave</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/origins_of_the_name_ephgrave.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/origins_of_the_name_ephgrave.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=origins%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fname%5Fephgrave</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can&#39;t claim any credit in finding this either - but with myroots attracting a number of fellow researchers/relations, it seems churlish not to disseminate our collective findings more widely.&nbsp; I was very interested to read the origins of t]]></description></item><item><title>Badcock and Seaby mystery</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/badcock_and_seaby_mystery.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/badcock_and_seaby_mystery.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=badcock%5Fand%5Fseaby%5Fmystery</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, another contact through myroots has revealed another family history mystery. My great-grandmother Lavinia Seaby had a younger sister, Margaret Jane, who was born in 1869 in Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. Margaret appears as a one-year old in the]]></description></item><item><title>More connections, more steps forward</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/more_connections_more_steps_forward.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/more_connections_more_steps_forward.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Fconnections%5Fmore%5Fsteps%5Fforward</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Or perhaps that should be more steps backwards (in time).&nbsp; Even though I haven&#39;t been blogging for a while, myroots continues to generate connections with other people, some distant or less distant family, who are researching the same branch]]></description></item><item><title>Finally found great-grandfather Charles Brown&apos;s death in 1904</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/finally_found_greatgrandfather_charles_browns_death_in_1904.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/finally_found_greatgrandfather_charles_browns_death_in_1904.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=finally%5Ffound%5Fgreatgrandfather%5Fcharles%5Fbrowns%5Fdeath%5Fin%5F1904</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Charles' daughter-in-law, my grandmother Elizabeth BROWN (nee FAGE) recounted that her husband Horace's father died of cancer around ten years after he married, in 1903, in Bedford Hospital.  It has taken some time to track down his death, but a]]></description></item><item><title>Fage-Brown wedding described in local newspaper 1923</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/fagebrown_wedding_described_in_local_newspaper_1923.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/fagebrown_wedding_described_in_local_newspaper_1923.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fagebrown%5Fwedding%5Fdescribed%5Fin%5Flocal%5Fnewspaper%5F1923</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My mother's mother Elizabeth BROWN (nee FAGE) always said there were no photos of her wedding as they were too poor.&nbsp; I was pleased to find, then, in the microfilmed copy of the Bedfordshire Times and Standard at Bedfordshire and Luton Archives]]></description></item><item><title>MyRoots connection with Spornes of Norfolk</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/myroots_connection_with_spornes_of_norfolk.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/myroots_connection_with_spornes_of_norfolk.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=myroots%5Fconnection%5Fwith%5Fspornes%5Fof%5Fnorfolk</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This MyRoots weblog has succeeded in attracting another contact, this time for the SPORNE line.  The SPORNEs feature quite a long way back in my family tree, but I find I have a fourth cousin twice removed who still bears the surname and is desc]]></description></item><item><title>Tracking forward: Ephgraves and Locks</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/tracking_forward_ephgraves_and_locks.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/tracking_forward_ephgraves_and_locks.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tracking%5Fforward%5Fephgraves%5Fand%5Flocks</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This Weblog is generating some very useful contacts.  Just recently I've been in correspondence with a 2nd cousin on my paternal grandmother's side, who has filled in some detail about the children of my great-aunt, Rosa EPHGRAVE, who married a]]></description></item><item><title>Whaling ancestors via the Gibson-Beautyman line?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/whaling_ancestors_via_the_gibsonbeautyman_line.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/whaling_ancestors_via_the_gibsonbeautyman_line.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=whaling%5Fancestors%5Fvia%5Fthe%5Fgibsonbeautyman%5Fline</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thanks to a very helpful contact from Maureen via this MyRoots blog, I have been able to make some links further back in my GIBSON line to BEAUTYMANs of Norfolk, possibly involved in the whaling industry, but certainly mariners of some kind.My great-]]></description></item><item><title>Progress in the Seaby lines thanks to MyRoots</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/progress_in_the_seaby_line_thanks_to_myroots.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/progress_in_the_seaby_line_thanks_to_myroots.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=progress%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fseaby%5Fline%5Fthanks%5Fto%5Fmyroots</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thanks to a generous contact made via this MyRoots blog, I have been able to make quite a bit of progress on the Seaby branch of the family history.]]></description></item><item><title>Charles Brown born c.1862/3 Little Berkhamstead, Herts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/charles_brown_born_c18623_little_berkhamstead_herts.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/charles_brown_born_c18623_little_berkhamstead_herts.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=charles%5Fbrown%5Fborn%5Fc18623%5Flittle%5Fberkhamstead%5Fherts</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I thought I might have found my great-grandfather Charles' birth record with an entry in the civil  registration index (Hitchin, 3a 249, 1862); but I was wrong, as the GRO replied that the father on this certificate was not Benjamin.  From his marri]]></description></item></channel></rss>