finding our past
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the joys of illegible handwriting
I finally sent off for the birth certificate of George and Sarah Jago’s daughter, Sarah, so that I could check Sarah’s maiden name. So, it seems that the handwriting on Mary Ann Jago’s birth certificate was even more problematic than I previously thought! I was never certain that Sarah’s name was Bayldon and it turns…
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yes, the boltons continue to read like a victorian melodrama!
Spent an afternoon visiting two lcoal history archives in London, Southwark and Camden, looking for newspaper reports of coroners inquests. Camden proved fruitless as there is no sign of anything in the local paper for Holborn about George Jannion Bond and why there was an inquest held into his death. This means that i am…
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the plot thickens
I have been searching for a death certificate for Susan Bond [ne Aldridge] for a while as I know that she was alive for the census of 1891 and that her husband, George Jannion Bond Senior, remarried in January 1900, when he was apparently a widower. George died six months later and an inquest was…
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who knows where the time goes?
Sadly, I did not make it to the Surrey Archives so Thomas Varney’s inquest report remains unseen. I am now thinking that it may be better to have them look it out for me instead. The nominal charge they make is less than it would cost for me to go there myself. Hopefully, when I…
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confirmation
Nothing new to add except that I now have documentary proof that the Mary Ann Bolton who was in Friern Barnet is the correct one. In her case notes, her next of kin is named as George Bolton of 44 Strathnairn Street, St James’ Road, Bermondsey. This is confirmed by Frederick Henry Bolton’s birth certificate,…
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mary ann bolton’s case notes
Today I collected the scans made by the LMA of the two main pages of case notes for Mary Ann Bolton while she was in the Colney Hatch Insane Asylum. These include a photograph of her taken at the time of admittance and also give various pieces of information about her, including the fact that…
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watermen apprentice entries
The other week I managed to get down to the Guildhall to make copies of the apprentice records for the Haleys and Warners. The scans are here although the quality of the copies is not fantastic in some cases but hopefully they can be read them well enough. Charles Lloyd Warner Charles Warner [Charles Lloyd…
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trying to make it clearer
I have added four ancestor outline pages for eacxh branch of the family, Within these are links to the certificate and documents relating to each person. I know it is hard to visualise the relationships so, hopefully, this will make it a bit clearer as to how each individual relates to the others within the…
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our dickensian ancestors
Today was a productive day spent at the LMA. I was on the trail of the Bolton Great Great Grandparents having located the various documents relating to their deaths. The coroner’s inquest into the death of John Henry Bolton was held on 22nd December 1894 at St Giles and the papers are currently housed at…
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not quite brave enough to pull ivy off headstones!
Had a couple of weeks off which I used to do some research and then spent a week doing things other than family history! Who would have thought it, eh? A few things I did do, however, were to make copies of the Watermen and Lightermen records for the Warners and Haleys, order a bunch…