Hi Everyone,
I am new to the forum and world of Genealogy, and I have come to the end of the trail online and I am looking for a little advice on where my next step will be.
I have traced my family back using personal family records and various online census information to the 1811 birth of my grt, grt, grt Granddad Cornelius Fulwood (married to Charlotte Harrison) from Ilkeston, Derbyshire. This is where it gets confusing, the surname as been mis-spelt as Fullwood, Fulward that I have seen so far, but the questionable part is that the 1841 census lists it as Fullard, (they had typed his first name as Neal too, although in pencil Cornelius is written on the original document). The 1851 census showing the correct spelling of Fulwood so I assumed the 1841 census was just a wrong spelling on the documents.
I have not been able to go any further back yet to found his parents, until last night when I came across a record on FamilySearch.org - Family History and Genealogy Records which suggests his parents were John Fullard and Ann (e) Beardsley. So I am not sure if the spelling of the surname of the family changed or was just miswritten.
What I need to do now, is confirm if John Fullard and Ann Beardsley are indeed the parents of Cornelius. If I can confirm that then I can look at the spellings of the name.
So that is my question to you experts on here, would my first steps be the parish records, I assume at the Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock?
Advice and suggestions welcomed.
Thank you.
Ashley
I am new to the forum and world of Genealogy, and I have come to the end of the trail online and I am looking for a little advice on where my next step will be.
I have traced my family back using personal family records and various online census information to the 1811 birth of my grt, grt, grt Granddad Cornelius Fulwood (married to Charlotte Harrison) from Ilkeston, Derbyshire. This is where it gets confusing, the surname as been mis-spelt as Fullwood, Fulward that I have seen so far, but the questionable part is that the 1841 census lists it as Fullard, (they had typed his first name as Neal too, although in pencil Cornelius is written on the original document). The 1851 census showing the correct spelling of Fulwood so I assumed the 1841 census was just a wrong spelling on the documents.
I have not been able to go any further back yet to found his parents, until last night when I came across a record on FamilySearch.org - Family History and Genealogy Records which suggests his parents were John Fullard and Ann (e) Beardsley. So I am not sure if the spelling of the surname of the family changed or was just miswritten.
What I need to do now, is confirm if John Fullard and Ann Beardsley are indeed the parents of Cornelius. If I can confirm that then I can look at the spellings of the name.
So that is my question to you experts on here, would my first steps be the parish records, I assume at the Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock?
Advice and suggestions welcomed.
Thank you.
Ashley
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