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24 October, 2022

Mary Faulder married to David Johnston, Blacksmith in Allonby

Filed under: - 1837,1837-1911,Are We Related,Blaylock,England,Faulder,Genealogy,Parish Records,Scotland,Status: Update as Information Arises,Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , — David @ 12:38 pm

I received a somewhat brief comment from a researcher who was:

Looking into David Johnston marriage to Mary Faulder. David was Blacksmith 1871 census in Allonby Cumbria

Email comment sent in by Dwight Donaldson 23 April 2022 (UK Time, possibly 22 April in US)

Within my research into “Unlinked Faulders”, I had a number of Mary Faulders who could have been adults around 1871 in the Allonby area of Cumberland.

As so often is the case this did not turn out as straightforward as one might hope.

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15 September, 2021

Williamson: Current Research

Filed under: - 1837,1837-1911,1861-65 ACW,Blizard,Clark (m Williamson),England,Estate Administration,Ireland,Politics,Religion,Rescue,Research Note,Scandal,Status: Update as Information Arises,Temperance,Tinplate Industry,Trade Unionism,United States,Williamson — Tags: — David @ 5:35 pm
Link between myself and the Williamsons
Link between myself and the Williamsons

Currently a number of events have brought my focus back to the Williamson Family – my maternal grandmother’s family (through my mother’s adoption).

The purpose of this post is to summarise the current areas of research and what is being done (September 2021) in order to help others and via search engines to catch the attention of people currently unknown to me who may be researching the same family.

Currently we know of the Williamsons in Cork in the first half of the 19th Century, later emerging in Worcester in England in the 1861 Census. That same census indicates that there was a branch of the family in New Jersey United States.

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12 July, 2021

The Family of James Keighley (1805-1888)

Filed under: 1837-1911,England,Fell,Genealogy,Keighley,Lead Industry,Lendrum,Ramsden,Status: Update as Information Arises — Tags: , , , , , , , — David @ 9:52 am
Faulder to Keighley Ancestry

James Keighley was my Great Great Great Grandfather. His daughter Martha (1834-1920) married Robert Fell (1924-1910) and their eldest child, Elizabeth Fell (1856-1929) was the mother of my paternal Grandmother, Marjorie Fell Lendrum (1887-1963).

Reconstructing James’s family or families is of interest not just because he is at the time of writing the most distant Keighley relative but also because of two outstanding genealogical itches:

  • The identity of “Granny’s sister and her bridesmaid” – an elderly woman standing behind Martha Fell in Robert and Martha’s Golden Wedding Photograph at Somerville, Hungerford Road, Huddersfield – the annotation written from the perspective of someone of the same generation as my Grandmother Marjorie Lendrum.

As a “read” it is probably only of interest to Keighley, Fell and Ramsden relatives and those wanting to find out a bit more about the two posts referenced in the paragraphs above.

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30 August, 2020

Are We Related: George Willett (1. b ~1862 at Whitechapel)

Filed under: 1837-1911,Are We Related,England,Genealogy,Parish Records,Status: Update as Information Arises,Uncategorized,Willett — Tags: , , — David @ 9:16 pm

This post, and its pair, is in response to a comment about a possible relationship between the Willetts (from Colchester – “my ancestors”, as researched elsewhere on this website) and a line of Willetts in the East End of London. The key link seems to be a George Willett born around 1862 or 1863.

This post examines how I am related to this George Willett. A second post looks at the other line.

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Are We Related: George Willett (2. b ~1862 at Henham)

Filed under: 1837-1911,Are We Related,England,Genealogy,Parish Records,Status: Update as Information Arises,Uncategorized,Willett — Tags: , , , — David @ 9:13 pm

This post, and its pair, is in response to a comment about a possible relationship between the Willetts (from Colchester – “my ancestors” as researched elsewhere on this website) and a line of Willetts in the East End of London identified by Lee Willett. The key link seems to be a George Willett born around 1862 or 1863. Branches of the Colchester Willetts migrated to the East End.

The first post revalidated how I am related to the George Willett born in Whitechapel – a descendant of Everard Willett of Colchester. This post examines how Lee’s ancestors may be related to this George Willett.

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1 April, 2018

William Blizard Williamson of Cork

Filed under: - 1837,1837-1911,1861-65 ACW,Biography,England,Genealogy,Ireland,Migration,Religion,Status: Update as Information Arises,Tinplate Industry,Uncategorized,United States,Williamson — Tags: , , , , , — David @ 8:00 pm

One of my brick walls has been William Blizard Williamson and his family;

  • His wife Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) and
  • His sons William Blizard and George Henry.

George Henry was the father of Elizabeth Ann Willett who with her husband Everard William Willett adopted my mother, which makes William Blizard Williamson (senior) my Great Great Grandfather (by adoption).

This posts summarises what is and is not known about this family and what can be done to break down this brick wall! Essentially we know little about their Irish life or of their ancestors in Ireland.

(It was initially published on 24 December 2016 and updated 1 April 2018 and 3 August 2021.)

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27 May, 2017

Identifying the Fells at Huddersfield

Filed under: 1837-1911,Canada,Crowther,England,Fell,Lendrum,Photographs,Status: Update as Information Arises — Tags: , , , , , — David @ 5:25 pm

Family of Robert & Martha Fell

Family of Robert & Martha Fell at Somerville, Huddersfield

I came across a photograph believed to be of the Fell Family. A count of the people was consistent with Robert Fell and his wife Martha (née Keighley) and their children and the spouses of those children.¹

Robert and Martha had eleven children – all of whom are believed to have outlived their parents. Eight of them married.

Three faces have been pasted (old fashioned scissors and paste!) into the picture* – the two characters directly behind Robert Fell and another standing at the back on the left. * Or more accurately the negative – my print is a single sheet without pastings. (more…)

13 December, 2016

Obituary: William Blizard Williamson (the elder) of Worcester

Filed under: - 1837,1837-1911,Biography,England,Ireland,Migration,Politics,Rescue,Status: Complete,Status: Update as Information Arises,Trade Unionism,Williamson — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — David @ 2:35 pm

The following is a transcript of the obituary (and associated reports) for William Blizard Williamson (the elder) of Worcester. He was (via the adoption of my mother) my Great Great Grandfather and lived from about 1811/12 until 15 September 1878.
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27 October, 2016

The Willetts of Colchester, Essex (and Daylight Saving) 2 of 2

Filed under: Box,Consanguinity,England,Interweaved Families,Status: Update as Information Arises,Uncategorized,Willett — Tags: , , , , , , — David @ 1:39 am

I have split my current discussion of the Willetts of Colchester into two posts:

  1. (Previous Post) How I am related (through an adoptive line) to the William Willett of Daylight saving fame. He is my Great Great Uncle, so I need to trace back to his father (also William Willett) and thence to him.
  2. (This Post) Checking out the structure of the family at the beginning of the 19th Century (William Willett,  the elder’s ancestors). Hopefully this will provide a few hooks for those who think they are related to the Colchester Willetts.

This article is fairly long and detailed – a briefer post about Willett Antecedents summarises some of the relationships.

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12 October, 2016

Are We Related: Norman

Filed under: Are We Related,Norman,Status: Update as Information Arises — David @ 7:56 pm

The purpose of this post is to collate comments of a “Are We Related .. to the Norman family (as detailed on this blog)”. This is one of a group of pages collating “Are we related” type comments, which are intended to either:

  • document how we are in fact related, or
  • collate remarks about non-relations to act as a point of reference for other families which may, in this case, share the Norman surname.

Where comments have been moved from another post I have inserted a reference to the original post. I have also inserted a summary and link to any work I have done on the suggested relationships.

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