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Hi Sylvia,

yep, used that a lot!!


have a good trip, and a safe flight!


sylvia T

Hi Sylvia,
Are you aware of the Batch number system?
This is a great way to find family pre 1837.
Finding the parish they were in is the challenge but once found & the IGI have the records each batch will show the kids of a particular name in that parish.
I have had luck with more than one branch.
Beautiful weather today.
I'm off to New York tm/rw for 5 days, not so mild there.Brrrr
Sylvia

It's also pouring with rain in Vancouver!! I thought it was supposed to ease up this afternoon?

I'm from Lancashire, left the UK in 1967, spent 1 year in Texas and we then came up here for 2 years. Still here!


I also have come to a halt at around 1837 fro most of the lines (both mine and husband's), although I was really lucky with my father's paternal line.

My brother and a cousin worked on it in the 1980s, and they got it back to 1720. Since then, it has been put on the web and some other people have got it back to the mid-1500s on the side of the wife from 1720.

I've done as much doublechecking as I can, including having a copy of the research done by bruv and cousin (they used Somerset House, parish records, graves, etc etc), and it all seems to pan out fine.

Not so easy to do the research pre-1837 from overseas is it?


Sylvia T

Weather was great yesterday.
I love a good walk down at the Vedder River.
Such an interesting area for different reasons at each season of the year.
It can be a smelly place with all the dying salmon that has completed it's cycle rotting in the shallow waters.
However the snow capped mountains & wide flowing river are a typically scene of Canada's best vistas.
I too am an immigrant to Canada.
Lived here now for over 35 years but was raised in Devon (nearest place to heaven) south west England.
Re my genealogy research has come on most branches to an abrupt end.
My ghost busting goes now to before civil registration 1837 so I'm trying to locate parish records etc.
Not so easy & more of a challenge.
I have a few ancestors who I feel right on the edge but just can't locate them.
Probably having a good laugh at moi?

Pouring rain right now out in dear old Chilliwack.
Sylvia

Hi Sylvia,

My help is UK only.

I'm the immigrant to Canada, all our families were in England or Wales.

I have subscriptions to ancestry.uk, and a couple of other sites, and use those to help people who don't have subs.

wasn't the weather lovely today?


Sylvia T.

Hi again Sylvia,
Is most of your help for Canada or does it extend to the UK?
Sylvia

Hi Sylvia,

I'm right in the big city!

Have had some great successes, and some great help from people on here, but I actually spend most of my time helping others!


Sylvia T

Hello Sylvia,
I'm out in the Fraser Valley (Chilliwack).
This board if great, many helpful people.
Have you had some luck with your searches?
Sylvia

Yes Margaret, That was his grand parents & of course a possibility.
Thanks for the input.
Sylvia

Sylvia, on the 1891 census there is another Higgins family living next door. They're at 102a Bear? Tree Rd. while Leonard & Annie are at 102. The other couple are William & Sarah and are old enough to be Leonard's parents. Could it be that Thomas was born at Grandma's house?
Margaret

Hi Sylvia BC


from another Sylvia in BC!



(nothing to contribute to the htread, but I just had to post!!)


sylvia (Vancouver)

Rose & Margaret,
The plot thickens!
Now I have school records which show that Thomas was born at a separate address (next door) to all his siblings?
Could he have been fathered by a family member & then taken under the wing of Leonard & Annie?
Food for thought.
I'd better change my name to Sherlock?
Thanks kindly to you both for all your help
Sylvia

Thanks Margaret, According to his birth date recorded on his Navy records it was 25th October 1887?
But given that no record of his birth at GRO?
Sylvia

Thanksyou Rose I do have this
Sylvia

Here's the Tom Higgins that fits that birth:

1891 England Census
about Tom Higgins
Name: Tom Higgins
Age: 4
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1887
Relation: Son
Father's Name: George
Mother's Name: Susannah
Gender: Male
Where born: Rawmarsh, Yorkshire, England
Civil Parish: Rawmarsh
Ecclesiastical parish: Rawmarsh
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England
Registration district: Rotherham
Sub-registration district: Kimberworth
ED, institution, or vessel: 28
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
George Higgins 48
George Higgins 9
John W Higgins 6
Susannah Higgins 32
Tom Higgins 4
Walter Higgins 12

Rose

Actually Sylvia,

I've change my mind. That birth is too close to his brother Lewis and this would make him 4 and 14 on the census records. I'm not so sure now.

Births Mar 1886
HIGGINS Lewis Rotherham 9c 650

Births Dec 1886
Higgins Tom Rotherham 9c 646

Rose

Just had a chuckle at this one.

Ozi.

Oh duh, Rose!
Never thought to look for plain old Tom!
We're a couple of dumb Canadians, Sylvia!
Margaret

Births Dec 1886
Higgins Tom Rotherham 9c 646

Rose

1901 England Census
about Tom Higgins
Name: Tom Higgins
Age: 13
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1888
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Leonard
Mother's Name: Annie
Gender: Male
Where born: Parkgate, Yorkshire, England
Civil Parish: Rawmarsh
Ecclesiastical parish: Parkgate Christchurch
Town: Parkgate
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England
Registration district: Rotherham
Sub-registration district: Rawmarsh
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 160
Household Members: Name Age
Annie Higgins 34
Annie Higgins 1
Cyril Higgins 5
Doris Higgins 4 months
Florence Higgins 4
Leonard Higgins 34
Lewis Higgins 15
Lily Higgins 3
Sarah Higgins 70
Tom Higgins 13

Rose