<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Triumphs @ myroots.blog-city.com</title><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Triumphs) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 myroots.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:16:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Triumphs @ 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>A second marriage for Phoebe Wakefield (nee Wade)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/a_second_marriage_for_phoebe_wakefield_nee_wade.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/a_second_marriage_for_phoebe_wakefield_nee_wade.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fsecond%5Fmarriage%5Ffor%5Fphoebe%5Fwakefield%5Fnee%5Fwade</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>John Charles Hill: misdemeanours recorded in military papers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_misdemeanours_recorded_in_military_papers.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_misdemeanours_recorded_in_military_papers.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 19:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=john%5Fcharles%5Fhill%5Fmisdemeanours%5Frecorded%5Fin%5Fmilitary%5Fpapers</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>John Charles Hill: addresses of next of kin in military papers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_addresses_of_next_of_kin_in_military_pape.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_addresses_of_next_of_kin_in_military_pape.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=john%5Fcharles%5Fhill%5Faddresses%5Fof%5Fnext%5Fof%5Fkin%5Fin%5Fmilitary%5Fpape</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>John Charles Hill, great-uncle: military records and an Irish connection</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_greatuncle_military_records_and_an_iris.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/john_charles_hill_greatuncle_military_records_and_an_iris.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 19:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=john%5Fcharles%5Fhill%5Fgreatuncle%5Fmilitary%5Frecords%5Fand%5Fan%5Firis</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Death of Elizabeth Sarah Evans, formerly Hill, new Windebank</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/death_of_elizabeth_sarah_evans_formerly_hill_new_windebank.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/death_of_elizabeth_sarah_evans_formerly_hill_new_windebank.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=death%5Fof%5Felizabeth%5Fsarah%5Fevans%5Fformerly%5Fhill%5Fnew%5Fwindebank</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Found 18 of James and Alice Stocking&apos;s 19 children</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/found_18_of_james_and_alice_stockings_19_children.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/found_18_of_james_and_alice_stockings_19_children.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=found%5F18%5Fof%5Fjames%5Fand%5Falice%5Fstockings%5F19%5Fchildren</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Alexander, the last of James Stocking&apos;s children?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/alexander_the_last_of_james_stockings_children.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/alexander_the_last_of_james_stockings_children.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 16:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=alexander%5Fthe%5Flast%5Fof%5Fjames%5Fstockings%5Fchildren</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Richard Stocking&apos;s early death</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/richard_stockings_early_death.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/richard_stockings_early_death.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 16:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=richard%5Fstockings%5Fearly%5Fdeath</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Lavinia Brown&apos;s death certificate found</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/lavinia_browns_death_certificate_found.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/lavinia_browns_death_certificate_found.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 15:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lavinia%5Fbrowns%5Fdeath%5Fcertificate%5Ffound</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Some surviving family homes in Google Street View</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/some_surviving_family_homes_in_google_street_view.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/some_surviving_family_homes_in_google_street_view.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=some%5Fsurviving%5Ffamily%5Fhomes%5Fin%5Fgoogle%5Fstreet%5Fview</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Locating my old haunts in Google Street View</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/locating_my_old_haunts_in_google_street_view.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/locating_my_old_haunts_in_google_street_view.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=locating%5Fmy%5Fold%5Fhaunts%5Fin%5Fgoogle%5Fstreet%5Fview</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Ephgrave family farm rents for c &#xa3;4000 per month!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/ephgrave_family_farm_rents_for_c_4000_per_month.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/ephgrave_family_farm_rents_for_c_4000_per_month.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ephgrave%5Ffamily%5Ffarm%5Frents%5Ffor%5Fc%5F4000%5Fper%5Fmonth</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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 ,]]></description></item><item><title>Finally found Horace Brown b1901 on 1911 census</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/finally_found_horace_brown_b1901_on_1911_census.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/finally_found_horace_brown_b1901_on_1911_census.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=finally%5Ffound%5Fhorace%5Fbrown%5Fb1901%5Fon%5F1911%5Fcensus</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Kate Seaby (Badcock?): appears twice on 1911 census</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/kate_seaby_badcock_appears_twice_on_1911_census.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/kate_seaby_badcock_appears_twice_on_1911_census.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kate%5Fseaby%5Fbadcock%5Fappears%5Ftwice%5Fon%5F1911%5Fcensus</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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).]]></description></item><item><title>Alice Mary Stocking nee Wales - finally found her death in 1907?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/alice_mary_stocking_nee_wales__finally_found_her_death_in_1.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/alice_mary_stocking_nee_wales__finally_found_her_death_in_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=alice%5Fmary%5Fstocking%5Fnee%5Fwales%5F%5Ffinally%5Ffound%5Fher%5Fdeath%5Fin%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><item><title>Unravelling Fage children mysteries from the 1911 census</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/unravelling_fage_children_mysteries_from_the_1911_census.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/unravelling_fage_children_mysteries_from_the_1911_census.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=unravelling%5Ffage%5Fchildren%5Fmysteries%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5F1911%5Fcensus</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![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]]></description></item><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>James Stocking b1901 in the 1911 census</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/james_stocking_b1901_in_the_1911_census.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/james_stocking_b1901_in_the_1911_census.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=james%5Fstocking%5Fb1901%5Fin%5Fthe%5F1911%5Fcensus</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Like so many other family history addicts (I suspect) I have wasted little time in searching for ancestors in the newly-released 1911 census.&nbsp; My first search - for my grandfather James Stocking, born in London in 1901 - was successful. His birt]]></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></channel></rss>