Take one 4xg-Grandparent week 5 - 2 - 8 Sep 2011

[kiterunner]

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 father's mother'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 daughter, could you please include a link to that thread. If you search for the tag TO3G32, you should find it. Please let me know of any missing / wrong tags and I will correct them.

[Sue from Southend]

This is one of my either or situations! Could be Thomas or Abraham..... and as we didn't get very far with it on TO3G32 there's not much point in my posting it again

[ElizabethHerts]

I can't really post my side this week either. There are a number of candidates, and I haven't a clue which one is most likely!

Sobs I carn go on this weeks either

[Michael]

No chance - my paternal line hits a brick wall long before (or after?) that. It's what comes of being called Jones!

[anne fraser]

Sorry I can't do this weeks either. I am looking for parents for Hester Hopes and although there is a possible candidate baptised in the next county there is nothing to say she is mine.

I can

Although I don't know much about him where he came from or what happened to him!