I'm starting to slip a bit with the entry-every-day thing, skipped a couple of weekends. Need to get back on top of that really, otherwise I'll stop altogether & I'm enjoying having the entries there to look back on. I had intended to write things as backup stuff that could just be dropped in on days when I felt there were other things I'd rather ( Read more... )

For the first time in ages (over a year! :o ) I have been doing some more genealogical research - back to looking at Stewarts (my father's father's father's people). Most of what I've spent the last couple of afternoons/evenings doing is re-familiarising myself with what I'd done before, and double-checking some dead-ends. And this LJ entry is ( Read more... )

The non-gaming part of my brain is beginning to prod at me a bit, so maybe these entries will get more interesting for people who don't share my obsession with games? While I was out in the garden (putting coffee grounds in the recycling bin and chasing the fucking rabbit out) I was looking at the flower beds with an eye to what needs to be ( Read more... )

All the certificates I was waiting on arrived the other day - and I now know for sure that Margaret Patterson was formerly called Oxley, it says so on all 3 children's birth certificates that I have over a 13 year span whether she was the informant or her husband. And I still can't find her pre-1861 in the censuses. She's pretty definite about ( Read more... )

Another certificate arrived on Sat morning - Mary Robinson's death cert - and the place of residence for the informant let me track down one of her sons in 1861/71/81/91 and his family. It was nice to have one of those easy ones to track down after banging my head against the Storeys so much recently, shame it's a tangent really ( Read more... )

More certificates arrived, so I got all the data from them into the database yesterday afternoon. Then settled in to try & find more about the Storeys. But no joy :/ And while I found a possible family for Mary Forster (John Storey's second wife & J's g-g-g-grandmother), I'm not sure enough of it. I did have a brainwave this morning as I was ( Read more... )

One of the certificates I ordered arrived yesterday (hopefully that means more today!) - that for John Storey & Mary Forster's marriage. Looks like I was right about the possibility of Thomas's older sibs having a different mother, John is listed as a widower on this certificate. So once the other child's birth certificate arrives (today with any ( Read more... )

More writing yesterday afternoon - words on paper for everything, though some of it needs a thorough overhaul (it either doesn't quite say what it should, or it says all the things but in a totally crazy order). J read through some of it & said it was understandable to people-who-are-not-me which is good \o/ He also pointed out I had some ( Read more... )

Monday was mostly notable for getting rained on & hiding in the bookshop. So I didn't bother to write about it ( Read more... )

As I knew was bound to happen, as soon as I got round to ordering the certificates I wanted, I found another one that I should've ordered in that set - one which might help me get a generation further back with the Spences or maybe not, depending on how old Nanny Spence was when she died in 1846 (if this is the right lady). I may put the order in ( Read more... )