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Sarah Buxton from Middleton By Wirksworth
Sarah Buxton was Ari’s 7x great-grandmother. She was born in Middleton By Wirksworth in Derbyshire in 1744 and baptised on 21 November...
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 24, 20222 min read
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Benjamin Mullens from Chicksgrove
Ari’s 6x great-grandfather, Benjamin Mullens, was born in 1762/3 in the hamlet of Chicksgrove, Wiltshire, and baptised at St John’s...
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 23, 20221 min read
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Elizabeth Dancocks from Kempsey
Elizabeth Dancocks was Ari’s 7x great-grandmother. She was born in the village of Kempsey, situated on the river Severn in...
Jessica Feinstein
Jul 22, 20221 min read
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Martha Dunn, washerwoman
Martha Dunn is one of Ari’s more unusual Derbyshire ancestors, in that she was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne. I don’t know how she came to...
Jessica Feinstein
Jun 26, 20222 min read
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What did Ari's ancestors do?
Of Ari's ancestors found so far (585 people) who have an occupation listed in my database, these are the most common:
Jessica Feinstein
Jun 14, 20221 min read
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Mary Ayres from Church Knowle
Mary was one of Ari’s 6x great-grandmothers. She was born in Church Knowle in Dorset in 1787, and baptised at St Peter’s church in the...
Jessica Feinstein
Jun 12, 20223 min read
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Frances from Pinchbeck
Frances Chapman Cawthorn was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother, born in the year 1800 in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. She was given her mother...
Jessica Feinstein
Jun 11, 20222 min read
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William Phipps from Ockbrook
William Phipps was born in the village of Ockbrook, which is near the canal on the road from Nottingham to Derby. William was one of...
Jessica Feinstein
Jun 10, 20222 min read
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Isaac Dibben, miller
Thomas Hardy’s cottage in Higher Bockhampton, which we visited when we went to Dorset in 2014. Isaac Dibben was one of Ari’s 5x...
Jessica Feinstein
May 30, 20222 min read
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Eliza Kent from Kirk Langley
Eliza Kent was one of Ari’s 5x great-grandmothers. She was born in 1814 in the village of Kirk Langley, which is 4.5 miles north-west of...
Jessica Feinstein
May 29, 20222 min read
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Thomas Davis Cobley, farm foreman
One of Ari’s great-great-grandfathers was Thomas Davis Cobley. He and his twin brother Edward Daniel were born on 1 June 1874 in the...
Jessica Feinstein
May 6, 20222 min read
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Looking for Sheva
Sheva (Sophia) Brenner was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother, and I am using this blog post to look again at what we know about her, which is...
Jessica Feinstein
Apr 29, 20222 min read
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Sarah Ann Stanton
Sarah Ann Stanton was Ari’s 3x great-grandmother and came from West Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire. She was the youngest of seven daughters of...
Jessica Feinstein
Apr 25, 20222 min read
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Emma Orchard from Corfe Castle
Emma Orchard was one of Ari’s 5x great-grandmothers. She lived in Corfe Castle in Dorset, and had been born there in 1843. Her parents,...
Jessica Feinstein
Apr 23, 20222 min read
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Chiena (Annie) from Novogrud
I know very little about Annie, who was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother. She was born in about 1850 in Lithuania, and must have died before 30...
Jessica Feinstein
Apr 22, 20222 min read
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Elizabeth Phipps from Holbrook
Ari’s 3x great-grandmother, Elizabeth Phipps, was born on 11 December 1876 in Holbrook, Belper, Derbyshire. She was the fifth of the...
Jessica Feinstein
Apr 20, 20223 min read
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Getting it wrong: the case of Mary Ford
What do we do when the facts don’t fit our story? Sometimes we just give up at that point in our tree, deciding that it’s too complicated...
Jessica Feinstein
Apr 19, 20225 min read
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Alfred Turner, plasterer
Alfred Turner was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather, and he was a plasterer. He was born on 7 August 1823 in Warminster, Wiltshire, and baptised...
Jessica Feinstein
Apr 19, 20222 min read
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Jakob Gross from Kalisz
Jakob Gross was Ari’s 6x great-grandfather, and he was a tailor. He was born in about 1780 in Poland. He married Esther Brajna Grün in...
Jessica Feinstein
Apr 18, 20221 min read
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Jasper Allen from Dorset
Ari’s 8x great-grandfather, Jasper Allen, was born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, in 1716, which gives me an opportunity to use this photo...
Jessica Feinstein
Apr 17, 20221 min read
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