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Sarah Welch from Corfe Castle
Sarah Welch was Ari’s 5x great-grandmother. She was born in Corfe Castle in 1817, the seventh child of a tailor, Henry Welch, and his...
Jessica Feinstein
Oct 4, 20222 min read
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Elizabeth Colley, possibly from Oddingley
Elizabeth Colley was a spinster when she married the widower Francis Poole on the 18th of September, 1770, in Oddingley, Worcestershire....
Jessica Feinstein
Sep 26, 20221 min read
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Could Henry Walker have been Ari’s 5x great-grandfather?
As noted in the blog post for Mary Kitchen Pearson, shortly before her son Henry was born in 1842, a tin plate worker named Henry Walker...
Jessica Feinstein
Sep 18, 20222 min read
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Elizabeth Stapleton from Harringworth
Elizabeth Stapleton was Ari’s 3x great-grandmother. She came from Harringworth in Northamptonshire, where she was baptised on 22 January...
Jessica Feinstein
Sep 16, 20221 min read
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Rebecca White from Wiltshire
Rebecca White was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother. On 13 February 1775 she married William Tottershall or Tortoiseshell in Tisbury, Wiltshire....
Jessica Feinstein
Sep 9, 20221 min read
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John Kent from Kirk Langley, killed in a wagon accident
John Kent was Ari’s 6x great-grandfather, born in Kirk Langley, Derbyshire, in 1781. His parents were James Kent and Elizabeth Blood, and...
Jessica Feinstein
Sep 5, 20221 min read
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Isaac Spencer, lead miner
Isaac Spencer was Ari’s 7x great-grandfather. He lived in Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire, and was born in 1740. His parents were...
Jessica Feinstein
Sep 4, 20224 min read
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Sarah Andrews from Pershore
Sarah Andrews was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother. She was born in Pershore, Worcestershire, in about 1771, daughter of Thomas Andrews and...
Jessica Feinstein
Sep 3, 20222 min read
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Mary Chapman, and a soldier in the Union Army
Mary Chapman was Ari’s 5x great-grandmother. She came from Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire, where she was baptised on 20 July 1760. Her parents...
Jessica Feinstein
Sep 2, 20222 min read
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Benjamin Ballard, carpenter
Timmerman zittend op een schaafbank in zijn werkplaats by Jacob Taanman. 1861 http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.2941...
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 30, 20221 min read
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John Sheldon from Slaley, farmer
John Sheldon was Ari’s 6x great-grandfather. He came from the hamlet of Slaley in Bonsall, Derbyshire. He was born in 1796, the oldest...
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 29, 20223 min read
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Elizabeth Reynolds, gloveress
Elizabeth Reynolds was Ari’s 5x great grandmother. She was born in about 1815 in Broughton Hackett, Worcestershire. Her baptism took...
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 28, 20222 min read
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Robert Williams, Norfolk drover
I was very happy to discover that one of Ari’s ancestors was a drover. Sheet from a drawing book, cattle and sheep driven over a bridge...
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 19, 20222 min read
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Ann West from Witchampton
Ann West was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother. She was born in Witchampton, Dorset, in 1759, the oldest child of Richard West and Mary Foyle....
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 16, 20222 min read
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John Wheeldon, hatter
Six men are working with combs, irons and brushes as they make hats of various descriptions, some tools of their trade are hanging on the...
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 15, 20222 min read
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Susannah Whiteley from Ridlington, Rutland
Susannah Whiteley was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother, born in about 1759 in Ridlington, Rutland. The record of her marriage (to Francis...
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 13, 20221 min read
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Elizabeth Ann Murfin from Mugginton
Elizabeth Ann Murfin was Ari’s 3x great-grandmother. She was the first child of John Murfin and Mary Ford, born on 22 September 1877 in...
Jessica Feinstein
Aug 12, 20222 min read
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Louis Feinstein from Libau: Part 2
Back in 2017, I wrote about my grandfather Louis, and the first part of his story went up to 1919, when he was nineteen. Since then, I...
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 28, 20222 min read
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Mary Henrietta Smith from Chilbolton
Mary Henrietta Smith was one of Ari’s 5x great-grandmothers. She was born in 1811, the daughter of Thomas Smith and Jane Day. The family...
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 28, 20222 min read
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Well, that was lucky: Frances Bishop from Wichenford
Frances was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother. She was born in 1772 in Worcestershire, and married John Amphlett in about 1793. When I first...
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 26, 20222 min read
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