tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post3162304409023056717..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Searching for Cornelia in the IGIRandy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-17667836475912841502007-03-09T22:25:00.000-08:002007-03-09T22:25:00.000-08:00Hi THJnr, I have looked for possible brothers of C...Hi THJnr, <BR/><BR/>I have looked for possible brothers of Cornelia in Jefferson county NY where she ended up as a wife and mother - some distance from where she grew up. Great suggestion, though!<BR/><BR/>Where is Skipton on Swale? Is it near Richmond or Darlington? I have a Richmond grandmother, so I made the visit to jolly old England in 1993 and visited my broken down castle on the hill above the river Swale. What a beautiful site! I still have two posters on the wall of my genealogy cave - one of the imposing castle wall from the river, the other the announcement of the summer medieval pageantry inside the castle. I wish I could have attended that - do they still have that sort of thing? Sounds like great fun!<BR/><BR/>Good luck with your William Clark search - that sounds hard because of the fairly common names. The parish registers are the way to go - but I know many are incom plete. I'm stuck in Wiltshire on all of my Richman and related lines due to poor parish records before 1800.<BR/> <BR/>Cheers -- RandyRandy Seaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-61573829197420503382007-03-08T15:20:00.000-08:002007-03-08T15:20:00.000-08:00Hello RandyI can't comment on your search of US re...Hello Randy<BR/><BR/>I can't comment on your search of US resources, as I don't know how complete the LDS extractions are for the areas you mention.<BR/><BR/>However, I'm conducting a similar exercise using UK records, hunting for a William Clark who was born (we suppose) around 1715 in North Yorkshire. William appears quite a lot in the IGI, as the grandfather of some 15 children born to his son, John Clark and Jane Barker. Fortunately, John and Jane's children show up in the parish records in North Yorkshire as 'Dade' records - detailed parish records named after the vicar who instituted them, who asked clerics to keep 3 generational records.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, I've never yet found any siblings to John, son of William, in the records. So... I'm approaching it sideways. <BR/><BR/>I've identified over 20 'Dade' records (kept between 1770 and 1800 in a lot of North Yorkshire parishes) within a ten mile radius of where John Clark was born. I'll be interrogating the Parish records on Monday.<BR/><BR/>If I find even one that has a grandfather as a William Clark, cartwright of Skipton on Swale, Yorkshire ... you'll hear the shout even in California!<BR/><BR/>I suppose my comment then, is ,,, have you found any siblings for Cornelia?<BR/><BR/>Best regards<BR/><BR/>THJnrBill Blunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15395505727397010185noreply@blogger.com