I feel like I've won the pools!!
I have been doing a hobby tree for years, which pivots round one man called Timothy Holden, born in 1700 in Darwen Lancs.
A great deal is known about his descendants (hence my hobby tree) but Timothy's origins are obscure, apart from the name of his father. Timothy's early years are a blank and he doesn't really get into his stride until the 1750s, which is where the records begin - he was a strong nonconformist and everyone assumed he just didn't have anything to do with the church.
This morning, a contact who is working on a specific branch of Timothy's descendants, sent me a scan of a baptism for a child of "Timothy Holden of Darwen" in a completely unresearched area. It has only just come on line and he was looking for something else entirely.
It tells me many things. It tells me Timothy was married very young and probably was married twice - his proven children are all in a close few years from 1735 to 1745. This baptism was much earlier - 1723 and now gives more credence to another, unproven child born in 1718. It tells me Timothy either lived, or worshipped, many miles from Darwen and I now have an entirely new place to look.
I'm jumping around like a loony. It is absolutely years since I had any backward lead on this family at all.
GRRRRR...I have to go and do entertaining things for my family....I just want to get at my tree!!
OC
I have been doing a hobby tree for years, which pivots round one man called Timothy Holden, born in 1700 in Darwen Lancs.
A great deal is known about his descendants (hence my hobby tree) but Timothy's origins are obscure, apart from the name of his father. Timothy's early years are a blank and he doesn't really get into his stride until the 1750s, which is where the records begin - he was a strong nonconformist and everyone assumed he just didn't have anything to do with the church.
This morning, a contact who is working on a specific branch of Timothy's descendants, sent me a scan of a baptism for a child of "Timothy Holden of Darwen" in a completely unresearched area. It has only just come on line and he was looking for something else entirely.
It tells me many things. It tells me Timothy was married very young and probably was married twice - his proven children are all in a close few years from 1735 to 1745. This baptism was much earlier - 1723 and now gives more credence to another, unproven child born in 1718. It tells me Timothy either lived, or worshipped, many miles from Darwen and I now have an entirely new place to look.
I'm jumping around like a loony. It is absolutely years since I had any backward lead on this family at all.
GRRRRR...I have to go and do entertaining things for my family....I just want to get at my tree!!
OC
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