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kiterunner
30-09-11, 06:58
This is our weekly challenge to see how much information you can find out about each of your 4xg-grandparents. Because there are so many brick walls at this stage, we are expecting that you will have quite a few missing 4xg-grandparents, and that the ones you do post up will have quite a few gaps to fill in. For this challenge, we ask that you only post a thread if you know the first name of your ancestor. You are allowed to post up to two threads each per week, e.g. your own ancestor and your OH's as well.


This week, we are focussing on your father's father's father's mother's father's father.

If you want to take part, just start a new thread on this board and put your 4x-great-grandfather's name in the Title. Copy the following form and fill in the answers that you already have, then over the course of the next week you try to fill in the blanks and everyone else helps you. If you're lucky enough to have all the information already, then you can still post it up if you want, so that search engines can pick it up.

Can you fill in all of the following information about that person:

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Date and place of birth
Names of parents
Date and place of baptism - if applicable
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
Occupation(s) - if any
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
Date, place and cause of death
Date and place of burial.
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any


Adoptive or step-4x-great-grandparents welcome!

Also, something new for TO4G - if you have posted a thread in TO3G for this ancestor's son, could you please include a link to that thread. If you search for the tag TO3G3, you should find it. Please let me know of any missing / wrong tags and I will correct them.

Langley Vale Sue
30-09-11, 07:35
I can't do this week either :(. My GG grandmother was adopted in Canada and my OH's was illegitimate so no fathers or grandfathers known! Oh well, there's always next week:)

ElizabethHerts
30-09-11, 07:57
I can't find baptisms for either of my 3xgreats so no go for me either. :(

Merry
30-09-11, 08:28
A no-go for me this week. I don't have any 4xgs for OH on his father's side and I don't have a bap for my 3xg on this line. :(

It has reminded me that I have not finished struggling with my 3xg, John Saunders, coal merchant (remember him, Kate!!), so I might give him another go!

kiterunner
30-09-11, 08:46
Yes, I remember him well. *groans*

Merry
30-09-11, 08:52
:d:d:d

borobabs
30-09-11, 09:25
Oh well no baptism for Hannah 2 X G G so no chance ,,,unless I can do anon anon lol

Margaret in Burton
30-09-11, 09:33
I can't do this weeks either. OH's side is the (GF famous) family of Peter Henry Harrison and coincidentally mine is the father of Thomas Harrison my 3 x great grandfather who I'm stuck on.

WendyPusey
30-09-11, 09:37
I can't do any this week either.

Asa
30-09-11, 09:53
I have one lot a complete blank because of illegitimacy and the other - John Sullivan labourer probably from Ireland - isn't really worth putting up :-)

Michael
30-09-11, 20:17
I hit a brick wall at the 2gs, so no go for me either.

anne fraser
30-09-11, 20:46
I can't do this one either.

geniebug
01-10-11, 22:13
I'm still about 2 generations behind that :(

tenterfieldjulie
02-10-11, 04:26
I have one I'd like to claim, but she is a long shot.
William Avery married Lucy Chantler 1765 Ticehurst, Sussex.
Died 1803 Speldhurst Kent aged 70 - cannot find baptism but can find
John Avery bapt 1735 UpMarden, Sussex parents William and Catherine.
Marriage William Avery and Catherine Stillaway 1725 North Marden.
Baptism William Avery 1698 Harting Father John.
Now is the fact that I want this to be my family because: it would put my and my OH's family in the same village over 300 years ago; by coincidence I have visted the tiny church at UpMarden; is that blinding me to the fact that I really am clutching at straws !!

marquette
05-10-11, 20:36
I cannot do this one as the baptism record of 3xg gf Charles Tupper simply says
"Charles, Charlotte and Thomas Tupper baptised 1 March 1807".
I think their parents are Thomas and Ann, but how can I prove it ????

Cannot do OH's either as his 2xg g/m is the famous Emma Lewis Leak !!
Julie - OH's other side were also from the Speldhurst area (Tanner and Hardwicke though)

Di