Neal relations at Cuckoos Cup, The Wrekin

Category: Scott

  • Exploring DNA results and tools

    Exploring DNA results and tools

    Clusters and chromosomes

    Clusters and chromosomes Almost two months on from first looking at DNA results, it can look like delving deeper has not come up with much. But there are some intriguing results, and it is interesting to see what the new tools and processes can come up with. Widening the net Several of the DNA testing companies allow you to upload an Ancestry DNA autosomal data file, which will provide matches against their own database of testers for free. However, the full features on their website’s  » »

  • Bardic furniture poses a question or two

    Bardic furniture poses a question or two

    Has the family a poet, and doesn’t know it?

    Has the family a poet, and doesn’t know it? The will of great aunt Emma Jane Evans nee Scott has emerged out of the ether {1, 3}. This confirmed that cousin Joseph Gregory was indeed its named executor in 1961, even if he was described in the probate record as an ironmonger rather than in his more well-known musical role. There are a number of other reasons why this document is of interest. Who’s bardic chair (and desk)? Clause 5 of the will contains this: » »

  • A fraud of a husband

    Court appearance throws light on family history

    Court appearance throws light on family history On first glance the attached newspaper article, about a fraud allegedly undertaken by William Walters, would seem to be just a background piece to the main family history. William was at one stage married to great aunt Phyl – Phyllis Amelia Scott. Article 21 Sep 1934 By reading through to the end, however, three distinct lines of inquiry emerge which have a broader impact. The cutting is from The West London Star, Friday 21st September 1934, under the  » »

  • Back on the trail with Bertram

    Another Scott relation found on military service

    Another Scott relation found on military service A nephew of great granddad Charles Scott made his way to Oz in 1912, returning to Europe with the Australian army a few years later. On the trail As highlighted some time ago in ‘A Major breakthrough in the Scott line‘, some of great grandfather Charles Vickery Scott’s siblings have been rather hard to track down. This time, I skipped a generation and looked at why nephew Bertram had disappeared after 1911 {2} – with his mother’s  » »

  • A Major breakthrough in the Scott line

    Taking a tank to knock down a small brick wall

    Taking a tank to knock down a small brick wall [toc] The siblings – full, half, and step varieties – of great grandfather Charles Scott haven’t had much of a look in on Cutlock and Co so far (just ‘How to Brake the records‘). Sadly this is mainly because most of them died in infancy. Also Scott is another of those common names, and (unlike the Smith line) no unusual or fixed middle names to help. Of those that survived to adulthood: » »

  • An array of Osbornes

    An array of Osbornes

    Knocking down a wall to see the wider picture

    Knocking down a wall to see the wider picture [toc heading_levels=”2,3,4″] Up until the beginning of this month (April 2016), two of great grandmother Amelia Osborne’s siblings had proved elusive, despite looking for several years. The brick wall has well and truly been smashed through thanks to third cousin Alan Croad, for one of the two at least. Elizabeth Osborne, the middle child of the family, married Fred Tucker in Neath district, rather than the expected Pontypridd, in 1899. With this cracked, it is easy to  » »