Genealogy Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Is it a Possibility?

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Sheila

Sheila Report 13 Jul 2012 15:01

I know where my family were living in 1820.
In the Rates book for 1798/9 the tenant has the same name.
What do you think the probability is that it was my family?

Jonesey

Jonesey Report 13 Jul 2012 15:05

Reasonable I would have thought.

Would the ages of the family members who lived there in 1820 equate with the same individuals or their parents being a housholder in 1798/9?

Researching:
Don't put off until tomorrow doing what you can do today. If you like doing it today you can do it again tomorrow. Be kind to your children for it is they who will decide which care home you end up in.

Sheila

Sheila Report 13 Jul 2012 15:51

Jonesey,

My Gr.Gr. Grandmother was born there in 1820. Her mother was born about 1781. So perhaps the lady living there in 1798/9 could have been her mother.

I am sure about the cottage because my grandmother lived there with my Gr.Gr.Grandmother and she told me where the cottage was.

If it was a family member in that cottage it was lived in by my family for more than a hundred years. I can remember it being demolished.

Sheila

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 13 Jul 2012 15:55

Sheila,
Entierly possible I should think.

I have a farm workers family who were in a farmhouse in 1861 and descendants lived in the same house until December 2011.

Gwyn