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Re: [TSL] Re: 'Lost' Relative.
"Boyce Stretton" <Boyce.Stretton@tesco.net> on 11/26/2004
"Lorine McGinnis Schulze" otg@csolve.net wrote:-


> Have you checked the 1871 census in England. I've no idea
> where Worthing is (which is a good time to suggest that
> when writing a query folks should be sure to give full
> details of locations for those of us who may be
> geographically challenged) so I can't really be of much
> help there.

Sorry, I mustn't assume. Worthing is in West Sussex, England

> However I did spot a Sarah Coppord born in Barcombe,
> Sussex, age 24, in the 1871 census for Peasmarsh, Sussex
> England. I know enough about English town/village/parish
> names to know that an individual might give 5 different
> places of birth on 5 different census records, all of them
> tiny parishes or villages near each other. So if Barcombe
> is near Worthing (if Worthing is even IN Sussex!) then
> maybe this is your gal.

We have never found my Sarah in the1871 census (we have her from late 1871
onwards) so this could just be her;  Barcombe, although in East Sussex, is a
considerable distance from Worthing - by 1871 standards - but is well worth
looking into. Thanks.

> I see a marriage in 1840 for George Coppard and Eliza
> Stone, of Worthing District, Sussex - is this your George
> and Eliza? This is found in England and Wales, Civil
> Registration Index: 1837-1983 (kinda answers my question
> about where Worthing is...)

They're mine alright....

> Most arrival ports are indexed and on microfilm for the
> time period you want. This doesn't apply to New York where
> the only index you can get is online on Ancestry.com.

> You can get a list of film numbers (NARA & FHC) at
> http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/nara_indexbyport.shtml
> Scroll down to the state you want and click on the link,
> then find the film # you need, then decide whether to order
> it in to a nearby FHC or have NARA do a lookup.
>
> The staff of the National Archives will undertake a search
> of the original records for a fee.
> To find your nearest FHC you can go to
> http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp

> There are some ideas for researching hard to find
> ancestors on ships lists after 1820 at
> http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/usaaft1820.shtml

Thanks for all you suggestions.

> Where is Eliza in 1880/1881?

We think she was the widowed lady aboard the SS Erin in 1877; (her husband,
George had died in about 1875) and we are still trying to establish
definitive proof of this, but the pointers are good.  If that is the case
she was in Macon, Illinois, at the the time of the 1880 US census. We have
never found her in England after 1874.

Once again thank you for all your help and suggestions; also to Joe who took
the time and trouble to reply, I'll study the websites that you both have
passed on to me.

Regards,
Boyce





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