Friday, June 17, 2016

52 Ancestors - Week 129: #158 John Phillips (1722-before 1800)

Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I am extending this theme in 2016 to 156 Ancestors in 156 Weeks. Here is my ancestor biography for week #129:

John Phillips (1722-before 1800) is #158 on my Ahnentafel list, my 5th great-grandfather, who married #159 Hannah Brown (1725-before 1774) in 1749.

I am descended through:

* their daughter #79 Martha Phillips (1757-after 1820) who married #78 Isaac Buck (1757-1846) in 1780.

* their daughter, #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882), who married #38 Thomas J. Newton (about 1800-after 1836) in about 1834.

* their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923), who married #18, Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.

* their daughter, #9 Hattie Louise Hildreth (1847-1920) , who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.

* their son, #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942), who married Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

* their son, #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.

* their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

* Name: John Phillips[1–9]
* Sex: Male

* Father: Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1746)
* Mother: Mary Smith (1698-1746)

2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

* Birth:   11 September 1722, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[1–2]
* Deed:   25 September 1752 (age 30) , Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[5]
* Deed: 6 March 1758 (age 35), Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[6]
* Census: 1 June 1790 (age 67), Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[9]
* Death: before 1800 (before about age 78), probably Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

* Spouse 1: Hannah Brown (1725-1774)
* Marriage: 3 May 1749 (age 26), Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[3–4]
* Child 1: Sarah Phillips (1750- )
* Child 2:   Jonathan Phillips (1752-1826)
* Child 3:   Joanna Phillips (1755- )
* Child 4:   Martha "Patty" Phillips (1757-1820)
* Child 5:   Elizabeth Phillips (1764- )

* Spouse 2: Mary Richards (1733- )
* Marriage: 3 June 1774 (age 51), Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States[7–8]

4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

John Phillips was the third child and second son of Ebenezer and Mary (Smith) Phillips of Charlestown, Mass. The birth record of John Phillips in the Charlestown town record book says[1]:

"John, son of Ebenezer and Mary Phillips born
Septem^r 11^th 1722"

John Phillips married Hannah Brown in Southborough, Mass. on 3 May 1749. The town record says[3]:

"John Phillips & Hannah Brown married May the 3rd day 1749"

Their first two children were born in Southborough in 1750 and 1752, and their last three children were born in Shrewsbury in Worcester County, Massachusetts between 1755 and 1764.

John Phillips, husbandman of Southborough, sold land in Southborough to Peter Brewer, husbandman of Southborough, for 74 pounds, 13 shillings and 4 pence on 25 September 1752[5]. The land was two parcels in Southborough; one piece contained Eight Acres and a half and fifteen Rods of meadow and upland, and the second parcel was two acres of Meadow. The deed was recorded on 29 October 1765.

John Phillips, Husbandman of Shrewsbury, sold land in Shrewsbury to Daniel Bixby, for 3 pounds, 6 shillings and 8 pence on 6 March 1758[6]. The land was a parcel in Shrewsbury containing four and a quarter acres. The deed was recorded on 23 March 1762. Hannah Phillips signed the deed on 20 December 1758.

Hannah (Brown) Phillips probably died after 1764 (when her last child was born) and before 1774 (when John married again), perhaps in Shrewsbury or Southborough.

John Phillips married, secondly, to Mary Richards of Southborough in 1774. The Southborough town record book says[7]:

"John Phillips & Mary Richards married June 3 1774"

Mary Richards had one son, named Isaac Buck, born out of wedlock in 1757 in Southborough. Her son, Isaac Buck, married Martha Phillips, daughter of John and Hannah (Brown) Phillips, in 1780 in Lancaster.

John and Mary (Richards) Phillips probably resided in Lancaster until the town of Sterling, Massachusetts was set off from Lancaster in 1780. There are no land records in Worcester County showing John Phillips buying land in Shrewsbury, Lancaster or Sterling.

In the 1790 US Census, John Phillips is a head of household in Sterling, Massachusetts with one male over age 16 and three females[9].

There are no known death records or gravestones for John and Mary (Richards) Phillips in Lancaster or Sterling, Massachusetts. They probably died between 1790 and 1800.

There are no probate records for John Phillips, Hannah (Brown) Phillips or Mary (Richards) Phillips in the Middlesex County or Worcester County, Massachusetts probate indexes.

5) SOURCES

1. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Charlestown, Archives Births Marriages Deaths, 1629-1800," page 191 (penned), image 155 of 385, John Phillips birth entry, 1722.

2. Roger D. Joslyn, Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984), 3 Volumes, Births, page 278, John Phillips entry, 1722.

3. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Southborough Births, Marriages and Deaths," Page 49, on Image 103, John Phillips and Hannah Brown marriage entry.

4. Systematic Historic Fund, Vital Records of Southborough, Massachusetts to the end of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Mass.: Franklin P. Rice, 1903), Marriages, page 135, John Phillips and Hannah Brown entry, 1749.

5. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org), Worcester County, "Deeds 1765-66, Vol. 53-54," image 242 0f 682, in Volume 53, Page 433, John Phillips to Peter Brewer, deed in Southborough, Mass., 1754.

6. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Worcester County, "Deeds 1761-63, Vol. 45-46," image 274 of 612, in Volume 45, Page 500, John Phillips to Daniel Bixby, deed for one tract of land in Shrewsbury, Mass., dated 20 December 1758.

7. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Southborough Births, Marriages and Deaths," image 123 of 1007, page 83, John Phillips and Mary Richards marriage entry.

8. Systematic Historic Fund, Vital Records of Southborough, Massachusetts to the end of the Year 1849, Marriages, page 135, John Phillips and Mary Richards entry, 1774.

9. 1790 United States Federal Census,, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Sterling town; Page 551, John Phillips household; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com), citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M637, Roll 4.

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Famous Cousins - Bogart, Shepard, Williams, Earhart, Dudley and Bradstreet

On this week's Genealogy Roadshow from Boston, D. Joshua Taylor told one of the subjects that he was related to Humphrey Bogart, Alan Shepard, Tennesese Williams and Amelia Earhart, plus Josh himself, and also Thomas Dudley and Ann (Dudley) Bradstreet too. The subject loved it. Since the relationships all seemed to have New England ancestry, so I was curious to see if I am related to them too.

I entered their names on both Geni.com and WikiTree, and sure enough, there were relationships for all of them to me. But Geni.com's relationships were different than WikiTree's.

1) For instance, here is the Geni.com relationship chart for me and Bogart:

But I see an error I haven't corrected in Geni.com - my William Cutter's mother was not Mary Pike, but Mercy Kelsey.

The WikiTree relationship page for Humphrey Bogart (Bogart-6) and me (Seaver-15) is (two screens):

Hmmm, the common ancestor is Humphrey Kirby (1592-1620) through daughter Jane Kirby (1615-1650) who married Richard Kirby (1603-1688). I don't have Jane as a Kirby because there seem to be no reliable records with the surname. I'll pass on this one.

2) I'll use WikiTree for my relationship with Alan Shepard (Shepard-1194). Here is the top of my relationship chart with Alan:

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This is a Mayflower line to Richard and Elizabeth (Walker) Warren, and I am fairly confident that Alan's line is correct and I'm very confident that my line is correct. Alan Shepard and I are 10th cousins according to the chart, but we are really 8th cousins twice removed. There are 318 common ancestors within 25 generations on the site.

3) I'll use WikiTree for my relationship with Amelia Earhart (Earhart-1) also. Here is the top of the chart

This is also a Mayflower line to Richard and Elizabeth (Walker) Warren, and I'm very confident in my line. So Amelia Earhart and I are 9th cousins twice removed also.

4) Lastly, let's look at my relationship to Tennessee Williams (Williams-9016). Here is the top of the page:

I recognize the line back to the common ancestors John Stanton and Mary Harndel, and have high confidence in my line. Tennessee and I are 8th cousins twice removed.

5) As I suspected, I seem to be related to all four of them, but Bogart may be a stretch. I did not find Josh Taylor in the Geni.com or WikiTree files, probably because he is a living person. After I die and someone enters my death date into Geni or WikiTree, he can perhaps blog about our relationship.

6) The subject on Genealogy Roadshow this week was also a descendant of Thomas Dudley and Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, as am I.

Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (Dudley-318) is my 9th great-grandmother, and Thomas Dudley and his wife, Dorothy Yorke, are my 10th great-grandparents.

7) Well, that was my fun for the day. Are you related to these historical people? Are you in WikiTree (free) or Geni (pay)? They are both connected family trees.

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NewspaperARCHIVE Collection on MyHeritage May Disappear Next Tuesday

...but it may come back later. Or not. I have hope!

The MyHeritage Blog post today titled NewspaperARCHIVE.com Collection Notice says this:

We wanted to give our users a heads up that MyHeritage's license of the newspaper content from NewspaperARCHIVE.com is about to expire next week. This means that on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, the collection will be de-published (withdrawn) from MyHeritage. In addition, pending Record Matches from this collection will be removed. Confirmed Record Matches that were saved to family trees will remain in place.

MyHeritage is currently in negotiations with NewspaperARCHIVE.com to enter into a new license in order to keep this collection on MyHeritage. If these efforts are successful and the content is relicensed, then it will be reloaded onto MyHeritage and the Record Matches will return, and all links to newspaper records that were saved into family trees will continue to work. This will work well even if the newspaper content will be de-published for a while, and then return.

We advise users who have pending Record Matches from this collection, to view them before Tuesday, and to confirm as many as of them as possible and extract their value into their family trees.

This does not affect other newspaper collections on MyHeritage such as Trove from Australia and Jewish Chronicle from the UK.

Thanks,The MyHeritage Team

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My Record Matches list by collection shows this from the NewspaperARCHIVE.com collection for persons in my MyHeritage family tree.

Over several years, I have been occasionally reviewing the pending Record Matches and either Confirming them or Rejecting them (often because they are duplicates) - I have resolved 1,505 of them and have 879 to go. The NewspaperARCHIVE.com record collection has been invaluable for adding obituaries, articles and notices about my ancestral families. MyHeritage is the ONLY website that matches newspaper articles with family tree names and provides them as Record Matches (e.g., "Hints" on other websites)..

I hope that MyHeritage is able to make an agreement with NewspaperARCHIVE.com that preserves the collection, and the Record Matches from the collection.

If they do, I hope that MyHeritage and NewspaperARCHIVE.com improve the reliability of the page images appearing on MyHeritage - in many cases, the page image fails to load, which is very frustrating.

What can researchers do now? As the MyHeritage blog post suggests, they could use the Record Matches for NewspaperARCHIVES.com on MyHeritage to find as many useful records as possible. I plan on doing that.

The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/06/newspaperarchive-collection-on.html

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 318: 1734 Birth Record of Abigail Wing (1734-1806)

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1734 birth record of Abigail Wing (1734-1806), daughter of Benjamin and Content (Tucker) Wing, in Dartmouth, Massachusetts town records:

Births of nine children of Benjamin Wing, by his first two wives, are on the left-hand page:

Abigail Wing's birth record is the fourth one down this list:

The transcription of this record is:

"Abigail Wing Daughter of Benjamin Wing and Content his wife

was Born the 25th day of april 1734"

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Dartmouth, Births, Marriages, Deaths," page 200 (image 465 of 2331), Abigail Wing birth entry; citing original data from Massachusetts town and city clerk records in Jay and Delene Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records (Provo, Utah : Holbrook Research Institute), Microfiche collection,

Abigail Wing is my fifth great-grandmother, who married Jonathan White (1732-1804) in 1756. I am descended from their son, Humphrey White (1757-1814) who married Sibel Kirby (1761-1848).

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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Creating a MyHeritage "Sun Chart"

Creating a MyHeritage "Sun Chart" (see ) is relatively easy to do if you have an existing MyHeritage account and a MyHeritage family tree on the website.

From the "Family tree" tab dropdown menu on MyHeritage, select the "Print charts and books" item:

The "Sun chart" option is in the list on the left side of the "Print Charts and Books" page.

I clicked on the "Sun chart" option and saw (on the same page) the "Customize the chart" options:

I typed "Isaac Seaver" and then selected Isaac Seaver (1823-1901), my second great-grandfather, with his second wife, Lucretia Townsend Smith (there is a dropdown menu on the right for a person with more than one spouse), for the chart.

I selected 5 generations for the chart - that would include me and my siblings and first cousins.

After clicking on the orange "Preview chart" button at the bottom left of the screen above, I waited for a short time for the chart to be created. Here is the first view of the chart - it's for the central persons:

There is a zoom bar at the top of the chart - I zoomed out to get a full view of the chart. Here is the top half of the chart:

The bottom half of the chart (with some overlap with the above screen):

I wanted to save this chart as a PDF, so I clicked on the orange "Generate chart (PDF)" button on the upper right of the screen above. The program started generating the chart:

The screen above says:

"Generating chart...
Generating a PDF may take a while.
We'll email it to you when ready."

It didn't take long. They sent an email with a link to the PDF file, which I opened and then downloaded to my computer file folder for Isaac Seaver. The 5 generation file, which was about 5,900 pixels on each side, was only 691 kb in size. I opened the PDF from the file folder, and the 100% size was about 82 inches on each side (almost 7 feet).

I then tried an 8 generation chart for Norman Seaver (1734-1787), my 5th great-grandfather, and it took awhile longer to create, and the chart has 525 persons, is a little larger (11,000 pixels per side) and 981 kb in size, and measured 156 inches (13 feet!) on each side.

When I tried a 10 generation chart for Robert Seaver (1608-1683), my 10th great-grandfather, it took over 30 minutes before I cut it off. 8 or 9 generatinos may be the practical limit.

From the generated Sun Chart, you can see that I have not uploaded photographs of many of my cousins to MyHeritage. I need to do that before I get this chart printed.

This process is very easy to perform. I love the chart - in full scale it is readable. The five generation chart is almost 7 feet square, so it would fill up a wall in a home. That's really the largest size you want to display in a home - the 8 generation chart would require a 13 foot square wall.

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MyHeritage Releases Innovative Family Tree "Sun" Chart

I received this press release from MyHeritage today:

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MyHeritage Releases Innovative Family Tree Chart

The Sun Chart is designed to be the most spatially efficient way to display a descendant family tree with photos

TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah, June 15, 2016 — MyHeritage, the fastest-growing destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history, released today the Sun Chart — a new type of descendant fan chart, available to all users of MyHeritage for free. The center of the Sun Chart features an ancestor selected by the user, with multiple generations of descendants in the outer rings. This chart is the world's first descendant fan chart with personal photos, unique to MyHeritage.

The Sun Chart is designed to place as many descendants as possible on the smallest possible chart, scaling to hundreds and even thousands of people, making it ideal for sharing with relatives at a family reunion or get-together. Descendant charts that would not fit in a room if arranged horizontally or vertically, can now be prepared in this compact circular format and hung conveniently on the wall. It is designed to be the most compact family tree chart, while offering a very eye-catching and attractive visualization of a family tree, complete with photos.

The Sun Chart design was inspired by a family tree chart format that MyHeritage staff encountered multiple times while researching family history in Corfu, Greece. It was used for centuries by the Jewish community in Corfu, and the researchers immediately saw that it offered a unique benefit: a different segment is allocated for each person, proportional to the extent of descendants he or she has, creating a very compact layout that can easily be extended as new generations are born.

"The new Sun Chart is a perfect example of MyHeritage's unique approach," said Uri Gonen, Senior VP of Product Management at MyHeritage. "We bridge together cutting-edge technologies and an appreciation for the wisdom of generations past. When our research on the genealogy of the community in Corfu revealed an unusual and highly useful family tree format, we decided to harness our technological abilities to bring the benefit of this style of family tree chart to as many people as possible, and added personal photos to make it even more appealing."

Sun Charts provide extensive configuration options to control photo size, font size, and level of included detail, so users can customize each chart to their needs. MyHeritage has developed an algorithm for compacting the charts, which calculates every person's position precisely in order to result in the smallest possible chart. Personal photos are included in the chart, helping to bring the family tree to life, and creating a visualization that is more appealing and interesting.

After generating the chart, users can download it in PDF format and print it themselves at home or at any printer, or email it to their family members. MyHeritage also provides an integrated poster printing service that is useful for charts of unusual size, with worldwide shipping.

Sun Charts are free. To generate a Sun Chart, users can sign up on MyHeritage for free and start a new tree, or import their existing tree as GEDCOM.

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Visiting the Maritime Museum in Auckland -- Post 417 for (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I'm posting old (and sometimes new) family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they won't be wordless posts like others do - I am incapable of having a wordless post.

Here are some of the most precious (to me) images from my Seaver/Leland photograph collection:

In March 2010, we visited Australia, New Zealand and Fiji on a three week Grand Circle Travel Tour to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, and I took some photographs with my trusty digital camera.

1) On our second day in Auckland, after the sailboat ride, the Maritime Museum had the 1995 America's Cup boat Voyager on display.

2) Inside the museum, the 2000 America's Cup defender boat, NZ-1, was on display:

3) I was particularly interested, being an aerodynamicist, in the controversial "thing" below the waterline:

4) The steering wheel of one of the HMS Calliope ships was also in the museum:

More on our New Zealand visit in coming weeks.

Unfortunately, I've lost the memories of all the details of this vacation - I know what we saw but can't remember what we were told. Fortunately, I found my Facebook photo albums from our 2010 vacation with pictures and some captions so all is not lost. I found that I posted very few photos from this vacation on Genea-Musings.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Finding Newspaper Obituaries for Seaver Folks on Findmypast

One of my part-time projects is to find historical obituaries for some of my Seaver ancestors and relatives.

I have found that by searching for a specific name and a short date range around a known death date can yield results quickly.

Today, I searched for Ebenezer Seaver (1763-1844), who died in Boston, Mass., on Findmypast in their NewspaperARCHIVE collection. I easily found the Boston Post newspaper page dated 2 March 1844 with the obituary:

The magnification capability is limited on Findmypast, so I have to download the newspaper page to my computer files, and then open it with my photo program, and magnify it to the point I can almost read it. Then I used the Windows Snipping Tool to make an image of only the obituary and saved it to my computer:

The transcription of the obituary is:

"Died, in Roxbury, yesterday morning, March 1st,
Hon. Ebenezer Seaver. He was born in Roxbury,
July 5, 1763, and graduated at Harvard College in
1784. In 1803 he was chosen a representative to con-
gress, and continued to represent the district of Nor-
folk in which he resided until 1813; in the exciting
times, and strong debates of that period, his uniform
consistency gave great weight to his opinions. He was
a representative to the general court for several years,
and for a long period held offices of trust, and had great
influence in the administration of the affairs of his na-
tive town. In many other stations he served his coun-
try, state, and town, in all of which he labored to do
his whole duty. He was a republican, firm in his faith,
and zealous in the cause; while he claimed the liberty
of forming and declaring his own opinions, he was lib-
eral, and had a respect for every person who honestly
differed from him, and despised all deceit. His habits
were plain, his speech sincere, independent, and with-
out ostentation; a worthy example in these days of
sycophancy. But he has outlived most of his genera-
tion, and is the last of his father's family; his early
friends are few, and his discourse and thoughts were
chiefly on the days that are past. In his death the
town has lost an honest man; his neighbors a counsel-
lor and friend."

I know my readers expect a source citation:

"Died, in Roxbury," obituary, Boston Post [Boston, Mass.], 2 March 1844, page 2, column 1, Ebenezer Seaver obituary; digital image, Findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : accessed 14 June 2016), U.S. and World Newspapers, NewspaperARCHIVE collection.

Ebenezer Seaver is my third cousin seven times removed. Our common ancestors were Robert Seaver (1608-1683) and Elizabeth Ballard (1613-1657), the immigrant ancestors to Roxbury in 1634.

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Copyright (c) 2016, Randall J. Seaver

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TheGenealogist Completes Norfolk (England) Parish Records

I received this press release from TheGenealogist today:

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TheGenealogist completes Norfolk Parish Records

● Over 6.23 million new searchable Norfolk Parish Records released in partnership with the Norfolk Record Office

● This final tranche includes over 5.95 million records for Norfolk

● Plus more than 276,000 records relating to the boundary areas of Suffolk

● Adding to the 3.6 million individuals already released earlier

TheGenealogist has successfully completed a project to release over 9.8 million fully searchable records for the registers of baptisms, marriages, marriage banns and burials for Norfolk with images of the original registers.

It is now easier than ever to research Norfolk ancestors in the parish registers of this Eastern English county. With some of the surviving records reaching back as far as the early 1500s, this is a fantastically rich resource for family historians to use for discovering Norfolk ancestors.

Released in partnership with The Norfolk Record Office, the registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns of marriage cover the majority of parishes in the Diocese of Norwich. This also includes a number of Suffolk parishes in and near Lowestoft that make up the deanery of Lothingland. Also covered by this release are the parishes in the deanery of Fincham and Feltwell that were part of the Diocese of Ely in south-west Norfolk.

Examples of famous people to be found in these records include:

1) Edith Cavell, the First World War Nurse executed by the Germans for treason was born in the South Norfolk village of Swardeston. Her baptism can be found in the register of Swardeston for February 1866 where her father was the vicar and performed the christening ceremony. With a single click family historians can see an image of the actual entry in the parish register.

Edith Cavell’s baptism record in the Norfolk Parish Register on TheGenealogist

2) Likewise, Horatio Nelson - who would grow up to become perhaps Britain’s best known naval hero of all time - was also baptised by his clergyman father. In Nelson’s case it was in the the village of Burnham Thorpe on the North Norfolk coast in 1758.

Horatio Nelson’s baptism 1758 in the Norfolk Parish Registers on TheGenealogist

3) Another British seafaring hero, whose baptism can be found in the Norfolk parish records on TheGenealogist, is Henry George Blogg. He would grow up to become known as the “Greatest of the Lifeboatmen” and be highly decorated. In his case, however, it was not his father that baptised him. His entry in the register reveals a less than auspicious entry of this Norfolk hero into the world - the vicar wrote in the parish register of Cromer that Henry was “base born”. Blogg, however, became a skilled seaman and a lifeboatman. For the many rescues, that he took part in as the coxswain of the Cromer lifeboat, he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution no less than three times and also the RNLI silver medal four times. He was also honoured with the George Cross from the King, the British Empire Medal, and a series of other awards.

Norfolk Parish Registers on TheGenealogist: Henry Blogg’s baptism 1876

5) Five years after his birth, Henry’s mother, Ellen Blogg, married a fisherman called John Davies. It was this stepfather that taught Henry how to fish and the skills that he needed to be a highly competent seafarer. The marriage banns for Henry’s mother and stepfather can be found in the Banns book for the parish, within the new records on TheGenealogist. Their actual marriage can also be found recorded in the parish register for Cromer included in this new release.

Banns of Marriage records from the Norfolk Parish Registers on TheGenealogist

See the records at: www.thegenealogist.co.uk.

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MyHeritage Releases Innovative Family Tree Chart

The Sun Chart is designed to be the most spatially efficient way to display a descendant family tree with photos

Tuesday, June 14, 2016