Family History Journals
63,198 journals sharing family stories and genealogy research
Nanny Baker was with my Koro Wi Karaitiana (Ngamotu) in Tarawera before they moved with their children into Taupo and lived in Laughton Street until they both passed away. The family home was passed down to their children, Neil Karaitiana, May Karait...
I'm wondering what's the correct way to put my father-in-law in our family tree as he changed his surname by deed ? His mother died at childbirth & Tom was brought up by his father's sister in the Owers family. His surname was Williams from birth but...
Surnames:
WILLIAMSOWERS
The earliest we have been able to locate our Walter Todman in Australia is 1890 when he applies for a patent for shearing equipment which was duly reported in "The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser"(i) on the 27 December 1890 So I was very...
Surnames:
TODMAN, WILLOUGHBY
There is likely a connection between Ann Floating Cloud Vest Williams (1754 - 1840) and the Trail of Tears. Ann, I believe, was married to Pennsylvania Phillip "Buck" "Spike" Williams. They were grandparents of my grandmother's grandparents. Any o...
As the story is told, my great grandfather left Sicily, Italy to avoid punishment after committing a crime of domestic passion. It is believed he was born in Sicily around 1878. Speaking no English, he was unable to pronounce his sir name so others ...
I have been told David Young's parents were Mary Russel and John Young but now another relative has found that his parents were David Young (born circa 1815) and Charlotte Rintoul,Tillicoultry.
FROST marriages 1847-1866 Victoria Australia.
Males
Alfred Lee
Married: Fanny AMES 1847.
No Issues located.
Robert
Married: Elizabeth SHANKS 1850.
No Issues located.
Frederick
Married: Elizabeth FAIRCLOUGH 1850.
No Issues located.
...
Surnames:
AMES, BETERTON, CARDEN, FAIRCLOUGH, FISK
and 20 more
My 3x Great Grandfather is Thomas Henry. He was born 18 December, 1828 in Sheeptown, Newry, County Down, Ireland. He came to the US in 1846 and married Rachel Elizabeth McIntosh in 1854. We know nothing about his parents other that his father's na...
Surnames:
HENRY
looking for any information about henry hinks spencer and further back in his line, are they any other spencers in uk (Birmingham area) still alive now, I think my mother is one of the few remaining cheers
Surnames:
SPENCERWOOD
John LINDSAY born c1847 in Ireland migrated to England settling in Lancashire and then Birmingham. His wife's forename was Margaret, but I cannot find the marriage so cannot find her surmname. Their daughter Margaret married a BAYLEY in Birmingham. I...
Surnames:
BAYLEY, LINDSAY
my great grandfather was Richard McGrane (1829-1891) arrived in Australia about 1858, settled in Malmsbury, Victoria looking for overseas records, probably Ireland, father was Richard & mother was Jennie (unknown surname)
Looking for information on Peter Acre, I am a descendant of Peter's brother Jacob.
Surnames:
ACRE, LARRAWAY
I had been convinced that I was the last of the Kinions until one December evening 40 years ago when a man with the same name as my father knocked on my door. As we have all discovered, no one is the last of anything. Since then then I have been t...
Surnames:
KENYON
DORIS ELIZABTH THELMA MILLER WAS SHE MARRIED BEFORE ? WAS SHE A WIDOW PREVIOUS TO THIS MARRIAGE? IF SO WAS SHE MARRIED TO ERNEST JOHN REISCHBETH MC LEAN ? DORIS MILLER DIED 13-1-1991 BURIED AT SPRINGVALE BOTANICAL CEMETERY VICTORIA AUST
Surnames:
MCLEAN, MILLER
I'm looking for the father of my 2nd great grandmother - Sarah Ann Anderson, born 15 Jul 1836 in St Pancras, Christened 9 Jun 1839 in St Pancras (her father was listed as Peter Anderson and mother Jennette). She married Henry Boulton Adkins my 2nd g...
Surnames:
ANDERSON, JUCHE
My third great grandmother was Elizabeth Jago.
She married Henry Adkins 19 Feb 1828 at St Matthew's Bethnal Green, London. From Census records she was born about 1807 in Islington, London but I have been unable to find her parents.
Surnames:
ADKINS, JAGO
When John Turnbull and his wife, Ann
Warr Turnbull, left their native village of
Annan in Dumfriesshire in Scotland (Annan,
by the way, is just across the border
from the English town of Carlisle in Cumberland)
Annan is a...
Surnames:
CLELAND, EVERINGHAM, HOPKINS, KENILWORTH, KIRWAN
and 6 more