How you helped me find my Wragg/Wragge

[LyndainSpain]

Hi all

Had been searching on ancestry for my Wragg family. I could not find them on the 1881 census, just could not understand it. Then I read about how names and details got recorded and mistakes could be make, this led me to search Wragge as well, and there they are top of the list.

Thanks very much. Saved me a lot of time

Lynda

[Christine in Herts]

When you're looking on Ancestry, it's well worth making use of their wildcard facility. Exasperatingly, they demand at least three non-space characters before you put in a wildcard, but it would mean that, using your case as an example, you would search for "Wrag*", to pick up every name which started "Wrag..."

It's also worth using the less-is-more principle, because there are often mistranscriptions, so you can pick up what you're after on (say) three quarters of the info and bypass something which has been mis-entered.

Christine

[Laura the Explorer]

HI
do you know where they where as I have wraggs in my family




Laura

[LyndainSpain]

Hi there

My Wraggs are Elizabeth Wragg 1889 my Great-Grandmother,
Her parents Edwin Wragg c 1853 Shropshire, Whitchurch. Elizabeth Parker his wife born 1854 Cheshire Carden. They married in 1873 in Nantwich Cheshire and are shown on the 1881 and 1901 census as living in Rostherne. Cheshire

Elizabeth Wragg born 1889 married Harry Orme born 1887 Knutsford Cheshire and the daughter Alice Winifed born 1910 Knutsford was my Nan.

Hope this helps

Lynda

[Laura the Explorer]

HI
no they do not link up with mine if you find them heading towards derbyshire let me know



Laura

[Christine in Herts]

If you're resarching in Cheshire, I hope you have this link:
Cheshire Births Marriages & Deaths

And these:
UKBMD - Births, Marriages, Deaths Indexes & Census Transcriptions On-line for UK Family History and Genealogy
UKGDL - Genealogical Directories and Lists On-line for UK Family History and Genealogy.
Where you can select Cheshire from the Counties list and see what links they have.

Christine

[Patience of Pendle]

HI
no they do not link up with mine if you find them heading towards derbyshire let me know



Laura

My Wragge ancestors are from Yorkshire/Derbyshire