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Family History Jottings
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This site is not so much a "Family History Website", more of a notebook which I use to share my research as often as I remember.
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Tilseds in Bere Regis, Dorset, 1581 - 1640
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I am grateful to Michael Russell, OPC for Dorchester and Fordington, for the wealth of detail he has made available online regarding the Bushrode family and Dorchester branches of the Gould family. Unfortunately I still haven’t worked out how Dionis Bond (also known as Denis or Dennis Bond) comes to be “cozen” (ie probably nephew) to William ( Read more... ) -
Dionis Bond of Dorchester, also known as Dennis Bond, 1588 - 1658
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My interest in Dionis Bond is peripheral - he is named as "my cozen" in the 1622 Will of William Gould(x) and charged with the responsibility of managing the money William Gould was leaving to Thomas Norman, during Thomas's minority. Young Thomas was the son of Thomas Norman, a preacher in Wimborne Minster(x)The following information has been ( Read more... ) -
Settlement Examination - Betty Tilsed, Singlewoman - 11th September 1761
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Document PE/WM/OV/9/3/31 at Dorset History Centre. I have inserted paragraph breaks for clarity.
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Betty Tilsed of Wimborn Minster in the County of Dorset Singlewoman maketh Oath that she has heard and believes she was born at Wimborn Minster afsd where her Parents were then legally settled ( Read more... ) -
Narrative Snippets
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Return to NarrativesAs I have an annoying tendency to get overly caught up in details and never actually complete a narrative, I'm trying a new approach - posting snippets as I think of them ( Read more... ) -
"Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence"
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In other words, just because you haven't found any unusual events in a person's life, doesn't mean there weren't any. Example: Thomas Jennings of Woughton on the Green, born ~1766N, brother of my children's 5g-grandmother, Sarah Jennings born 1770NI haven't even found a christening for Thomas, but I know that he existed: I have found his marriage ( Read more... ) -
Lester Diary Entries - Part 2
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These transcripts are part of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative and I am sharing them here for non-commercial purposes under the terms of a Creative Commons licence.All entries in this analysis written by Isaac Lester ( Read more... ) -
Lester Diary Entries - Part 1
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These transcripts are part of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative and I am sharing them here for non-commercial purposes under the terms of a Creative Commons licence.All entries in this analysis written by Isaac Lester ( Read more... ) -
Letter - John Thomas Tilsed to Sub-Commissioners of Pilotage, Poole, 1858
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This letter is a companion piece to Letter - John Tilsed to Sub-Commissioners of Pilotage, Poole, 1858. Like that letter, this one was found as an unsourced photocopy of a handwritten letter, in an envelope of papers donated by the late Mrs Edna Tucker née ( Read more... ) -
Some Tilsed Lives in 18th and 19th Century Court Records
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An analysis of the appearance of men named Tilsed in records of the Admiralty Court, the Petty Sessions (Oysters) and Quarter Sessions Indictments. The records analysed are transcripts indexed at Poole History Centre.
To be completed.
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