Category: Migration/travel
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Back on the trail with Bertram 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…
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Putting all the Levis in order Another tale of Welsh miners in America
The idea of one, or more, Watkins ancestors being born in America was tackled a while back, in ‘Cracking a family myth‘. Now another possible source of the tale has emerged, through a family tree on Ancestry. The original story as recounted by cousin Islwyn was about the father of John Watkins, namely my 2x…
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Double trouble
The Jeary family in America, descended from great great aunt Jane Watts and husband Robert who settled in Seward county, Nebraska, is quite extensive (see Going Abroad – America and global for some starters). Partly as a consequence, Robert Jeary’s siblings, who also emigrated to Nebraska from Norfolk, have been less researched by me to…
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Alice arrives in Canada
A nice little update to a previous article about great aunt Alice Neal – Turning an absence into a presence – which traced her to Canada. I have now located her in the passenger lists arriving in Canada. It’s a bit of an odd record, as a form has been adapted slightly. But there’s little…
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All at sea with a new cousin
So this makes the nice large wall chart of dad’s family “out of date”, if that’s the right phrase for having newly discovered historic information. With a bit of help from the Ancestry Facebook page {1}, I’ve downloaded the 1911 census form for my ‘half great great uncle’ William John Cullum from the actual Ancestry…