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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: ELLIS
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:33:57 +0100
In-Reply-To: <005d01c1020f$fd034720$53187bd5@judith>
In message <005d01c1020f$fd034720$>, Judith Burke
<> writes
>HelloSue,
>
>You are right, I was taking more than a long shot. I had just that information
>in my files from way back and have no idea where it came from. I have tried
>every thing I know to find where my great grandfather came from. Some one on the
>list when I joined in March sent me this from the 1881 census in Wokingham.
>
>3, Portland Place, Wokingham,
>John Ellis, head, 38, agricultural labourer,
>On my grandfather Charles marriage cert his father John ELLIS lived, 24, Bourne
>Avenue, Bolton Road, Windsor, [a butcher]
It seems rather unlikely that an ag lab in Wokingham would be identical
with a butcher in Windsor. Not, of course, that the address in Windsor
is necessarily his at all - it would be the son's personal address at
date of marriage. The name John Ellis is a very common one and there
must be hundreds around even in the C19.
It would have helped if you had given any dates for the known events.
If the marriage is before 1881, then search the alphabetical indexes to
the census and find Charles (and wife), which will tell you exactly
where he was born. Then try either the GRO indexes or the parish
register for that place.
If he is married after 1881, look for him, with luck still at home
with father, and shorten the search that way.
Otherwise (if he is married but left the UK pre 1881) take the
information on the marriage certificate of Charles's age, try to find
matching birth entries. You can also look for a butcher named John Ellis
in 1881 - the area is not certain, but the occupation may limit the
choice.
--
Eve McLaughlin
Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
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