If I'd known this was going to be a problem, I'd have picked your brains last week as I have had print outs of census records from 1841-1901, tracing one branch of my family.
I am trying to find out about my GGF Albert Smith, married to Helen, father of Lilias and they lived at North Street, Leatherhead. It may well be that the house at North Street was Helen's family home and had been for generations.
The story goes in my mother's family that my GGF was a self made man and Helen came from a family with money, position and have a family crypt in a churchyard somewhere in Leatherhead where their ancestors are buried right through from the 1400s. How can I get verification of this, where do I start or will I have to go the local records office in Leatherhead? I know this 'family' owned the half of Leatherhead the church didn't or so I have been told.
Smith is a really common name, there are some marriages that maybe my great grandparents but the wife's name is missing, first and second names and other registries I don't have access to. Albert was 40 and Helen 35 in the 1901 census, my grandmother was born around 1896 if that helps. Albert was the son of Richard & Sarah and has a brother called Ernest.
I am trying to find out about my GGF Albert Smith, married to Helen, father of Lilias and they lived at North Street, Leatherhead. It may well be that the house at North Street was Helen's family home and had been for generations.
The story goes in my mother's family that my GGF was a self made man and Helen came from a family with money, position and have a family crypt in a churchyard somewhere in Leatherhead where their ancestors are buried right through from the 1400s. How can I get verification of this, where do I start or will I have to go the local records office in Leatherhead? I know this 'family' owned the half of Leatherhead the church didn't or so I have been told.
Smith is a really common name, there are some marriages that maybe my great grandparents but the wife's name is missing, first and second names and other registries I don't have access to. Albert was 40 and Helen 35 in the 1901 census, my grandmother was born around 1896 if that helps. Albert was the son of Richard & Sarah and has a brother called Ernest.
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