Monday, September 1st, 2008
Friday, August 15th, 2008
I have finally added the ancestors and siblings of Benjamin Fagg to the site. Although there is no direct proof that this link is 100% correct, below are my reasons for believing it to be true:
* Birth/Christening date of Benjamin in line with expectations
* Parent’s names Thomas and Lydia repeated in Benjamin’s known family
* Known court case involving Benjamin Fagg v Alfred Fagg (descendant of Thomas Fagg)
* Lydia had a brother called Benjamin Butcher, which is where I suspect the name Benjamin originated from.
* In a will left by Robert Harding Fagg, it names his living (or loving) brother Benjamin and his wife Mary, which was correct at the time.
Please take this into consideration if you use my site as a source for your family history.
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
I have been making some minor tweaks to the site:
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
I have upgraded both TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding) and TMG (The Master Genealogist).
I’m hopeful that there won’t be any changes to you..You can now create PDF reports and charts from the site.
I continue to work on documenting the FAGG family information that I have and will post it shortly.
Let me know if you have any issues with the changes.
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Hi there -
Have been busy and haven’t really done anything really relating to family history. I’ll write more when things change!
Sean.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I finally received the military records (digitally) of my grandfather, Walter Keith Barrs from the National Archives of Australia. In the file (56 pages), there were 3 photo’s of Keith. 1 of them was the photo above. They were taken around the time of enlistment, when Keith was just over 18 years old. More to follow soon.
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Some time ago, I came across a court case where an Alfred Fagg was taking legal action against my ancestor, Benjamin Fagg (National Archives reference: C 13/440/4 ). I was intrigued to find what, if any, link there was between Alfred and Benjamin. I now think that I have discovered the link between the 2 men - they being 1st cousins. The proceedings bought against Benjamin were relating to land that he held in Cheltenham. I’ll get more details when the National Archives allows people to review these documents again. I’ll update the site shortly with details that I have found.
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Whilst researching the Fagg family, there was a mention of the murder of a young child, Lydia in 1737.I tracked down some details in the book, Freshest Advices: Early Provincial Newspapers in England By Roy McKeen Wiles (Held at Newbold College) . Details:
There was no lack of intimations of immorality from all parts of the country. Two illustrations picked out of hundreds will serve to show how such matters were treated in country newspapers. The final paragraph of news in the Sherborne Mercury, number 16 (7 June 1737), reached the editor through his London correspondent, who, on June 4, communicated to him a two-hundred-and-eighty-word report dated at Canterbury on June 1, It told of the arrest and confession of Margaret Wickes, a single woman about twenty-two years of age, who had been “committed to his Majesty’s Gaol of St. Dunstan’s,” near Canterbury, on suspicion of having murdered Lydia Fagg, eighteen-month-old daughter of her employer, a gentleman of Dover.
This Maid Servant got up from the Bed where she lay with the Infant, at her Master’s House in Dover, about four of the Clock on Saturday Morning last, and before she went out of the House, as she now says, she went up and kiss’d the Child three several Times, and at last took the Child from the Bed, and carry’d her asleep to the Sea-side; when a great Wave wash’d the Child out of her Arms; that she saw the Child struggle several Times, and went into the Sea after it to save it, but could not. But ’tis confidently reported by strong Circumstances, that she flung the Child into the Sea, to be reveng’d of her Mistress.
She can give no Reason for carrying the Child so early in the Morning to the Sea-side. This hard hearted Creature afterwards, instead of going Home, rambled about three Miles to St. Margaret’s, where she was found, conceal’d in one of the Cliffs about ten o’clock the same Morning; and the Child about the same time was taken up in one of the Fishermens Nets.
A twentieth-century reader of this account, finding him-self thinking of a folk ballad or of an incident in a Hardy or a George Eliot novel, is moved to wonder what distress of mind prompted Margaret Wickes to her strange action.
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
I have received the translated details from the record card of my grandfather, Victor George Williams, who was a POW in Japan (Fukuoka No.2 Branch Camp) during WWII.
This index card was retrieved at the National Archives, record series WO345 - Details of the research guide.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Hi there -
Based on the research of professional genealogist, Liz Carter of Backtracks , she has traced what looks to be our Boon ancestry back to the early 1700’s.
This was done by searching through various local sources such as Baptism, Marriage and Burial registers for parishes around Doddington in Cambridgeshire.
David Boon was born around 1730.
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