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* UK Events

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* Family History Articles - A Story of Courage

Why don’t you email us your personal story about researching your family history and the interesting tales you’ve discovered about your ancestors lives. All stories submitted will be eligible to compete for the prize of £100 for the top story of the month.

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A Story of Courage by Carole Pharoah MBE

Whilst indexing the Kings Lynn census I made a discovery about my great, great grandmother, Elizabeth Hornigold (1845 - 1927). She was one of 13 children born to William and Margaret (nee Grimmett) Hornigold of Kings Lynn, Norfolk. I then discovered at the age of 16 Elizabeth gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth Adelaide Hornigold. She remained unmarried for another twenty years, bringing up her daughter Elizabeth on her own. At about age 40 she married Edward Carlyon, a widower and retired Army Sergeant. They moved to his home county of Cornwall where they lived in a little cottage in Coverack, until he died in 1907.

Elizabeth, then aged 65, married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel Munro aged 70 years. Daniel was a widower and a gentleman.(Could he have been the father to her illegitimate child? I ask myself).
He was the son of Daniel Munro, the King Lynn’s Master Brewer and Oatmeal Maker. Daniel and Elizabeth lived in the Coverack cottage until Daniel died in December 1920. I have a photo of the old cottage and I visited the village in search of the building. Alas, during the war three bombs had fallen in the area, with one having landed right on top of the cottage.

A new bungalow was built on the site but the original outbuildings and garden wall still remain. I have the invoices from the undertakers for both Edward Carlyon and Daniel Munro, who both died in Coverack, and it is interesting to note that the cost for a coffin rose from 4s 6d (£5) in 1907 to 8s 6d (£9) in 1920, almost doubling in cost.

Elizabeth Adelaide Hornigold, my great grandmother, was educated well and became a pupil teacher. At the age of 18 years she was offered a job as School Mistress at Strattin Strowlers School (in Norfolk I think) for the grand salary of £40 per year. She later married Francis G R Hampton, a printer in Kings Lynn, and they had three children together, one of whom was my grandfather, Frank Hampton, who also became a teacher.

Another interesting story concerns one of Frank’s children, Margaret, my aunt.

Margaret Hampton married Alan John Quinton, an RAF navigator. He was involved in a mid air collision between a Martinet fighter and a Wellington bomber in 1951. Alan, known as John, gave the only available parachute to an air cadet, Derek Coates, whose life was saved. Flt. Lt. Quinton died in the accident and for his self-sacrifice was awarded a posthumous George Cross. He was flying as navigator in the Wellington when the collision occurred in August 1951. The citation for his GC read:

‘The force of the impact caused the aircraft to break up, and, as it was plunging to earth out of control Flt Lt Quinton picked up the only parachute within reach and clipped it on to a cadet’s harness. He pointed to the rip-cord and a gaping hole in the aircraft indicating that the cadet should jump. At that moment a further portion of the aircraft was torn away and the cadet, clutching the rip-cord, was flung through the side and landed safely. Flt. Lt. Quinton acted with superhuman speed, displaying the most commendable courage and self sacrifice, as he well knew that in giving up the only parachute within reach he was forfeiting any change of saving his own life.’

I find family research very interesting and addictive, especially when you stumble on a piece of a puzzle that suddenly makes everything fall into place, leading you onto the next chapter of your own history. Although the internet has helped me enormously with my research, nothing can compare to searching through some of the old parish registers or the original index of wills which were written over 150 years ago and still survive.

I feel lucky that I had the opportunity to use some of these old books before they were scanned and digitized for the computers or put onto fiche.

My interest in family history started a few years ago when my great aunt died and amongst her papers was a family tree showing connections with Nelson and Samuel Pepys. I wondered how much of it was true and set out to prove it. I am still working on it and probably will continue for a few more years yet! My real interest is to write the story of our family so that future generations can learn a little of the way we lived. Although I have over a 1000 names and dates it is the little stories that I have discovered about some of my ancestors that hold me fascinated and keeps me addicted to further research.

I am at the moment living in Cyprus on a RAF base so my access to Parish records, old newspapers and the like is restricted to my visits to UK, unless I am lucky enough to find them online. I have been using some of my free time out here to help with the indexing project which can be done at anytime on a computer. It gives me a great sense of achievement to complete a piece and if I find a few more details to further my own research as well so much the better. If everybody interested in family history was to help just a little everybody would benefit in the end from the information that would be readily available. Many hands make light work!
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This is just one of the exciting stories subscribers are writing on TheGenealogist.co.uk new family history article system which allows you to read and publish stories about your family history. The top articles will of course feature here as well as on the site which is open to all subscribers to The Genealogist.

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WHAT’S NEW ONLINE

New Surname Map feature

One major problem when you are researching your Family History is to locate those wandering ancestors.

Where is the most likely place to find them? Where did they come from? The biggest changes in population shift were brought about by the Industrial Revolution and the population nearly doubling between 1841 and 1891.

This caused the creation of large cities surrounding centres of commerce and industry. One way to see the changes of location is by using maps of surname concentrations.

Rather than basing the maps on the later 1881 census, long after the major population movements, you are given a choice of census years back to 1841.

Subscribers to All-Inclusive subscriptions on www.TheGenealogist.co.uk can now view these surname maps for any year of census.

An All-Inclusive subscription can cost as little as £14.95 for three months giving access to the largest collection of census transcripts, BMD and much more.

New Features designed to make using TheGenealogist more friendly

The Research Log - allows you to store individual details or a family to browse at your leisure. At the moment you can add records to your research log from the census transcripts; we will be adding the facility to BMD indexes, census indexes and parish record transcripts in due course.

Memorise your Search Criteria – Great for hopping around different census counties and years so you don’t have to keep typing in the same search criteria. Currently available on census transcripts. E.g. Let's say you are looking for John Turner in London:

• You could run a search on the London 1841 census
• Then click the M+ button to save it to memory
• When you have finished working with the London 1841, click the 'Back to My Subscriptions' link
• Select London 1851 census
• On the London 1851 census search page, click the 'MR' button to automatically run a search for John Turner

Parish Register Transcription Project

www.TheGenealogist.co.uk has started a major transcription project to transcribe Parish Records from microfilm. This will enable you to search through baptisms, marriages and burials back to the early 1500's.

County archives can join the scheme and receive free use of the service for visitors. This is a great way for archives to provide fully-searchable databases of their records. We offer transcription and indexing services in return for access to the material.  

The site has now got transcripts for various parishes from Wiltshire and Nottingham live, and we are about to add parts of Kent. Many more counties will be added over the year.

This is in addition to their special PDF book interface which gives searchable access to thousands of historic books which include Parish records, Land Records and Directories.

For archives and organisations interested in the project ring 01722 717005 or our main number 01722 716121.

[16 Jan 2007]
Lancashire 1901 Partial Transcript
The Current state of our Lancashire 1901 transcript is now available online and contains nearly 4 million records.

We have also added over a million more records to our London 1901 transcript.
 
[9 Jan 2007]
World War 2 Deaths
NEW: Look under the BMD Indexes section for World War 2 Deaths - this new database covers the deaths of British Service Personnel throughout the world during the second World War.

[5 Jan 2007]
COMPLETE Census Coverage for England, Wales and C.I.
We now have transcripts and indices for all of the counties, completed and with images for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891

The Channel Islands 1861 is now available as both a transcript and an index, completing our set.

We have also added a new directory to the site today for Midlands and East Anglia Counties.
 
[4 Jan 2007]
New - All Inclusive Feature - Map your Surname back to 1841
Find where your ancestors lived before the boom in population and rapid expansion to towns and cities caused by the Industrial Revolution. The maps show how surnames spread over time.

You can also use the mapping feature in the BMDs for modern surname mapping.
 
[22 Dec 2006]
New directories have been added to the site today for Northern and Southern English Counties.

Also two new specialist records have been added, Irish Landowners and Scottish Landowners.

[13 Dec 2006]
Lots more data
A large variety of data has been added to the site today, including: Berkshire and Lincolnshire marriage registers, have been added to the Parish Records (Printed Books) section.

Irish Wills index are now searchable.

Channel Islands 1851 and 1871 complete transcripts and indexes.

Images of the original census pages have been added to the transcripts for: Lancashire 1891, Herefordshire 1841, Glamorgan 1841 and 1851 and Yorkshire 1861.

We have also made the current state of the London 1901 transcript available.

All of the new data has been added into the All-Inclusive subscriptions which cost as little as £4.66 a month.

www.TheGenealogist.co.uk

WHAT’S NEW ON CD

RootsMagic – 3.2.4 UK Edition

S&N Genealogy Supplies have released an update to the UK edition. This now enables you to search within RootsMagic for any individual on www.TheGenealogist.co.uk, Roots UK and Family Search.  It enables you to find your ancestors with ease.

You can use RootsUK.com search facilities for as little as £5 to help locate more information about your ancestors.

RootMagic also has the following features:-
 
Christening and burial are now added to Ahnentafel reports when birth/death isn't available.
It can now print the list of relationships from the relationship calculator
New Reports - It now prints a list of private facts
Whole word matching is now available in the note editor search
Long places can now be imported from FTM
Source citations can be shown in printouts

An update CD is available for only £5 if you have version the UK version 3 from S&N

New CDs

We have released many new CDs this month including several military lists and Rolls of honour to help locate your ancestors.

Army List 1900  £ 19.95
Army List 1929  £ 19.95
Army List 1932  £ 19.95

Buckinghamshire, Chesham Parish Registers 1538-1636  £ 17.45

Craven's Part in the Great War  £ 19.95
National Roll Of The Great War - Section 12 (Bedford and Northampton)  £ 14.95
Navy List 1915  £ 19.95
Navy List 1935  £ 19.95

Edinburgh, The Official Guide to Edinburgh Circa 1930  £ 17.45
Essex and Hertfordshire Kelly's 1929 Directory  £ 17.45
Hampshire, The Huguenot Society of London Registers of Southampton  £ 17.45
Kent, Kelly's Bromley 1928 Directory  £ 17.95

London 1930 Post Office Directory, Volume 1  £ 17.45
London 1930 Post Office Directory, Volume 2  £ 17.45
London, Baedeker's London and its Environs 1911  £ 14.95
London, St Mary's, Lewisham, Monumental Inscriptions 1889  £ 17.95
London, St. Margaret's Church, Westminster Parish Registers 1539-1660   £ 17.45
London, Westminster, Indexes to the Ancient Testamentary Records  £ 17.95

Wiltshire, Broad Chalke Parish Registers 1538-1780  £ 17.45
Somerset, Wells Wills 1528-1536  £ 17.45
Somerset, Wilton Parish Registers 1558-1837   £ 17.45

Who's Who 1897  £ 17.45

Worcestershire, Dudley Non-Parochial Parish Registers 1656-1837  £ 17.95
Huntingdonshire & Rutlandshire 1901 Census  £ 16.95
Lancashire 1841 Census Name Index £ 19.95

Yorkshire 1841 Census DVD set  £ 32.95
Yorkshire 1841 Census Name Index £ 19.95

See www.genealogysupplies.com/whatsnew.php for details of our new releases.

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