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From: "jthornton" <>
Subject: Re: ELLIS
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 11:31:56 +0100
References: <J5H0YUBVTzP7Ew+g@varneys.demon.co.uk> <001401c10790$0ad4fc60$9948073e@judith>

Hello Judith,
Have you subscribed to the mailing list?I
only subscribed yesterday,so can't tell you how successful it is but every
avenue is worth a try.
Good luck
Jennifer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith Burke" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: ELLIS


Hello Eve,

Thankyou for your reply. Sue gave me the same sort of reply off line. I
have been going to the Latter Day Saints office and they have mostley
Scottish records. They have sent away for records for me , although they
think I will have to wait until 1891 comes forth..

Judith
----- Original Message -----
From: Eve McLaughlin <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 15:33
Subject: Re: ELLIS


> 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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• ELLIS by "Judith Burke" <>
  • Re: ELLIS by Eve McLaughlin <>
    • Re: ELLIS by "Judith Burke" <>

      • Re: ELLIS by "jthornton" <>

      • Re: ELLIS by Eve McLaughlin <>
  • Re: ELLIS by "Sue Parsons" <>
  • ELLIS by "Judith Burke" <>
  • Re: ELLIS by jenny beaumont <>