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  • SKS and serendipity

    The photo below was part of a family album collection.



    I knew from the annotation that it was Hannah, the sister of my OH's Irish-born g.grandmother, Mary Frizzell, married name (B?)(L?)Aird together with someone named David.

    For years, all I knew from my set of 1881 Census CDs, was that Hannah lived with her married sister and family in Glasgow. Then the Scottish censuses became available, and I finally discovered Hannah had married an elderly widower, John Laird.

    Armed with a correct surname, I was able to search Canadian passenger lists when they were offered as freebies, and found she had travelled to Canada after the death of her husband, escorted by her brother in law who had taken his family to Montreal a couple of years previously. I found she crossed the border into the USA, headed for Wilmington, Delaware....then nothing. Was she going to live with David?....was he a stepson (she had no children of her own)...a cousin?

    I took out an Ancestry worldwide sub this year and diligently searched through the USA censuses under every variation of name I could . All to no avail. I looked at family trees, newspapers, historic data bases...Hannah had disappeared without trace, although I knew from a collection of family postcards she was still in touch.

    Finally, this afternoon, I opened 'Message boards' on Ancestry...and there she was! SKS had bought a page of marriage registrations in 2003 and out of the goodness of his/her heart had posted up the details of the other marriages on the page.

    Hannah had married a David Dever in Wilmington in 1912.

    As SKS wrote "I hated to see the rest of the information “go to waste,” so I’m posting it out here in the event that it may prove useful to someone else."

    I can think of no other way I could have learned of this marriage and have been enabled to follow Hannah's fortunes further. My grateful thanks to SKS........and I will try to do likewise in future with all that extra data that comes my way when I buy images.

    And I will certainly remember to include 'Message Boards' when I am trawling Ancestry in the future.
    Last edited by Macbev; 20-03-09, 00:47.

    Beverley




  • #2
    Wow, how fantastic. A lesson for us all I guess. I'll definately post up any info I get like that in future. So glad you found her.
    Jules

    I'anson of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Bannister of Lincolnshire. Burnett of Northumberland. Carter of Sussex and Hampshire. Goldring of Sussex and Hampshire. Fitzgerald of Goodness knows where. Smith of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Dixon of Lincolnshire. Payne of Hampshire

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    • #3
      Brilliant Bev I never think to search message boards but I will in future..




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      • #4
        What a great result. I'm very happy for you.
        Kit

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        • #5
          Bev how wonderful, like others I never think to look at Ancestry message boards although I have the world subscription.
          Daphne

          Looking for Northey, Goodfellow, Jobes, Heal, Lilburn, Curry, Gay, Carpenter, Johns, Harris, Vigus from Cornwall, Somerset, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, USA, Australia.

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          • #6
            Wonderful find Bev

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            • #7
              Bev, how exciting for you! It's good to know that persistence and luck can combine occasionally.
              Off to visit Ancestry message boards....

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              • #8
                Fantastic Bev and go you good one whoever SKS is.
                I will have to save up and also put Ancestry World on my wish list for birthday/Christmas etc. Other item on it is an external hard drive for my photos.

                That is a great photo you have also it is in very good condition.


                MACPANDA'S FAMILY **Please click in**

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                • #9
                  Isn't that great!

                  With that new material, you may be able to find complementary info by using the LDS pilot site, which has quite a lot of USA census stuff and other records. Sometimes it's only by links to existing site, which may be PAYG.

                  Christine
                  Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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