Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

[darksideofthemoon]

I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.

The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.

How is everyone else going?

[flashie*]

Do Births, Deaths and Marriages ever make a mistake?

Yep....they sure do.

[lyndal1838]

They can be wrong through no fault of their own too.
My first husband gave his mother's middle name incorrectly for our Marriage Certificate.
I only found out last year from his sister....we were married in 1966.:_|

[darksideofthemoon]

I did play around with Adversity Cousin, but to no success Flashie..

I now have a small list of people I keep in my mind when I start reading up on information that Google can supply in the hope that their names will pop up.

It would be so great to be able to 'pop over to Europe' and really chase down birth, death and marriage certificates and the written history wouldn't it.

Yes mistakes can be made so close to home. My father never knew if he was born on the 29th or the 30th May and I friend of mine didn't know what year he was born. It makes it very hard to be sure of anything much at all.

I do find it is nice to have people in my ancestry that have confirmed history that one can read about, but with just one person forgotten or added and everything can change.

Sometimes it takes hours to try and confirm a birth or death date because it seems that the mother was too young to have had the child, but then little girls of twelve could be legally married and boys of fourteen... they would be married off to much older men and women in the hope of having an heir.

It was a bit like a supermarket and I do wonder how those young people suffered or survived. 😞

[flashie*]

The convict I found for a relly turns out to be part of a group (farm labourers etc) called the swing rioters who destoyed the threshing machines in the 1830's. 450 of them were transported to australia and I think it was 48 were sentenced to death. She is so excited he wasnt just any old convict, she said her mum who was known for her outspokeness but now deceased would be doing the happy dance. Im glad I made some one happy.

Your rellie will be thrilled to know according to the convict records her convict changed his name to David while he was in Tasmania and was charged with bigamy.:O

I will send you the details tonight.

[the_great_she_elephant]

I still feel there is a Puritan connection to your Adversity - specially as she came from Lincolnshire. Boston, Lincolnshire was the home of the Pilgrim Fathers, who were persecuted and imprisoned there before 'escaping' to seek a better life in the New World.
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/pages/046b-Prison-Cells/

When you look at the names some Puritans gave to their children, http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/England-Medieval/Puritan.htm
it is easy to imagine one survivor of that kind of that persecution naming his child Adversity, and the name being passed down through the family.
By the time your Adversity came along the family may have gone back to the mainstream C of E.
Don't know if this helps at all, but it is an angle worth pursuing.

[darksideofthemoon]

Yes ele, you could be right 'Adversity' is very much on a parr with 'Faith', 'Hope', and 'Charity' etc...

I wonder why Adversity? I bet there is a reason

[darksideofthemoon]

Just a thought coming on top of what ele was saying... do you know her date of birth?

It could come in line with a war of some sort.. Maybe she was born under adversity?

What country was she in? Like the war between the States?

Or if in Ireland, the potato famine... if you follow what I am thinking.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Yes ele, you could be right 'Adversity' is very much on a parr with 'Faith', 'Hope', and 'Charity' etc...

I wonder why Adversity? I bet there is a reason

As I said, Darki, the first Adversity may have been named after the persecution endured by the Puritans of Lincolnshire in the 16th century and the name was passed down through the family.
the english civil War (1642–1651) might be a starting point too - the Roundheads were Puritans

[matega3]

Flashie, very interesting thank you very much :-x
Isnt incredible to think that we can sit in our lounge. office or wherever and look at the original records from so many years ago. It never ceases to amaze me. The internet and what is available is just incredible.

[darksideofthemoon]

Flashie, very interesting thank you very much :-x
Isnt incredible to think that we can sit in our lounge. office or wherever and look at the original records from so many years ago. It never ceases to amaze me. The internet and what is available is just incredible.

I find that too matega, and even that I actually know more about my family than any of the previous generations, including my mother who knew a fair bit.

My grandfather would have been so interested and excited had he lived long enough to see all this.