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Maddie

Maddie Report 19 Apr 2017 15:53

John Whitfield
Gender Male
Christening Date 1790
Christening Place SWINSTEAD, LINCOLN, ENGLAND
Father's Name John Whitfield
Mother's Name Agnes

1861
John Whitfield
County Lincolnshire
Event Type Census
Event Date 1861
Event Place Swinstead, Lincolnshire, England
Ecclesiastical Parish Bellister
Registration District Bourn
Gender Male
Age 70
Marital Status Married
Occupation Agricultural Labourer
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Birth Year (Estimated) 1791
Birthplace Swinstead, Lincolnshire
Page Number 14
Registration Number RG09
Piece/Folio 2315 / 31
John Whitfield Head M 70 Swinstead, Lincolnshire
Elizabeth Whitfield Wife F 69 Aslackby, Lincolnshire
Eliza Pawlett Niece F 23 Spalding, Lincolnshire

John Whitefield
Spouse's Name Elizabeth Morley
Event Date 21 Oct 1822
Event Place Swinstead, Lincoln, England
Citing this Record

Name: John Whitfield
Gender: Male
Age: 78
Birth Date: 1790
Burial Date: 9 Aug 1868
Burial Place: Lincoln, England
FHL Film Number: 1450486

Elizabeth Whitfield
Event Type Death
Registration Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration Year 1868
Registration District Bourne
County Lincolnshire
Event Place Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
Age (available after 1866) 78
Birth Year (Estimated) 1790
Volume 7A
Page 173
Line Number 123

Rambling

Rambling Report 19 Apr 2017 16:36

This 'may' be the Charles Edward Marriott birth if first and second names reversed

MARROTT, EDWARD CHARLES - Order
GRO Reference: 1862 D Quarter in BOURN Volume 07A Page 274


Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Soldier Service Records, 1760-1920

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Name: Charles Marriott
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1863
Birth Place: Corby Lincoln
Service Start Year: 1884
Regiment: Royal Artillery
Regimental Number: 40784
Attestation Paper: Yes



1911

Name: Charles Marriott
Age in 1911: 50
Estimated birth year: abt 1861
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
Civil Parish: Portswood
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County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England
Street address: Southbourne, Manor Farm Rd, Bitterne Park, Southampton, Hants
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Carpenter And Joiner
Registration district: Southampton
Registration District Number: 99
Sub-registration district: Southampton Eastern
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Household schedule number: 96
Piece: 5935
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles Marriott 50
Lily Marriott 33 ( *nee Dean)
George Marriott 8
Ethel Marriott 2

Marriages Dec 1897 (>99%)
Dean Lily Ellen S.Stoneham 2c 163
Marriott Charles S. Stoneham 2c 163

JoonieCloonie

JoonieCloonie Report 19 Apr 2017 18:30

MARROTT, EDWARD CHARLES looks like Charles Edward for sure -- and with no mother's surname recorded.

I thought I'd been trying alternate spellings ...

and

MARROTT, WILLIAM GEORGE - mother's surname blank
GRO Reference: 1865 D Quarter in BOURN Volume 07A Page 266


if Elizabeth was not giving her birth surname, she may have been representing herself as a single woman and not naming the child's father.


this birth showing the mother's surname confirms the MARROTT spelling

MARROTT, CAROLINE mother WHITFIELD
GRO Reference: 1868 S Quarter in BOURN Volume 07A Page 309
(died in infancy)

Olive Jean

Olive Jean Report 19 Apr 2017 20:47

Wow
It has been amazing all the info you all have found
I will try the Webb Site you have given me

I will read through all the info and piece it together
Thankyou all so much
Olive

JoonieCloonie

JoonieCloonie Report 20 Apr 2017 01:39

I meant to say, looks like Maddie sussed out Elizabeth Whitfield too.

Good thing, since she's the only known parent of Henry!


If Henry is a direct ancestor and you feel like spending a bit of money and time, there is always DNA testing.

If there is a direct male-line descendant of Henry available -- his son's son's son... -- that would be the best test, called YDNA.

The idea is that a match might be found who is descended from the same man as Henry, back however many generations. For instance, it could be somebody descended from Henry's father's great-grandfather. And that could give you a surname to investigate -- since, coincidentally, surnames in our culture follow the YDNA down the male line.

YDNA is passed from father to son to grandson and so on down, with very few changes over many generations.

But finding a match depends on somebody with a shared ancestor actually having tested.

(This is more likely to happen if someone in the other line emigrated to the US, because that is where most people who test are now. That is how I found a match with my grandfather's family: the man who matched was the elderly grandson, in the US, of a man from the same part of Cornwall as my grandfather, who had emigrated in the mid-1800s.)

It is the key that can unlock the mystery of unknown fathers, such as very many of us have in our trees. But only if there is a male-line descendant to test, and only if someone whose DNA holds the key does the test too. That could happen now, or years in the future!