Genealogy Chat

I have been trying to find the marriage of my gg grandparents c1854, in the Poplar area of London. I have found an Amelia Jennings, married at about the right time, and in the right place.....Now...to check who her husband was I do the same thing for James Hadley.....and......the two references should match, yes!!!!!!!! My brain is a little mashed at the moment, I am trying to work on the computer, him indoors wants me to hold a piece of wood as he is extending his train set....oooooooohhhh, sorry, Model Railway, and i am getting alittle frustrated. There he goes again, will be back shortly. Kathlyn

Is that them with a 16 year old dau called Dora(h) on the 1871 census?? Merry

Yes, what you say is correct about the ref no's Merry

An Amelia Jennings married in Stepney 1854 but her groom wasn't James Hadley: Marriages Mar 1854 Buckley Timothy Stepney 1c 809 Jennings Amelia Stepney 1c 809

Here is Dora's birth but she seems to be named Medora: Births Mar 1855 Hadley Medora Amelia Poplar 1c 598

I am bothered that James says he is only 31 in 1871. A very young dad in 1855?? Or is that age wrong? Hows the Thomas the Tank set coming along??! Merry

Don't some people have peculiar hobbies? OC

Thank you for your replies. Yes Dora is in fact Medora and I thought that maybe Amelia had married first to this Timothy Buckley and that Medora may have been his daughter, But I have obtained Medora`s birth cert and James Hadley is recorded as her father. Medora was born on 26th December 1854 and I assumed that Amelia and James had married earlier in 1854. Kathlyn

Merry, Don`t even go there........He has taken over the whole of the attic, you would think he was building a piece of Sheraton furniture the care he is taking with bits of wood. Back to James and Amelia, as for him being quite young, subsequent census returns seem to have corrected the age. It seems he was born c 1830 in Wednesbury, Staffs. Kathlyn

OC, At least he is not out drinking or seeing strange women!!!!!! Kathlyn

I can only say that a lot of Poplar marriages seem to go AWOL. I have been looking for one for years! Have you tried the Docklands Ancestors website? Cheers, Horatia

Horatia, Do you have the address for the Docklands site??? Regards Kathlyn

Yes, here it is: http://www(.)parishregister(.)com/ Remove brackets. Cheers, Horatia

OC I've gone right off you now. Though the model railway has taken a back seat this year for one reason or another. What else were garages designed for? J

John One day I will tell you the piteous and mindbending saga of how I tried to get rid of my late father's model railway, which took up a two-car garage, ran up a ramp into the house and through the hall and bedroom. OC

With a little ingenuity could the railway not be adapted to deliver to your computer regular drinks and snacks made by other half ?

What a brilliant idea, Judith!! A siding over to my desk too please. And if any of us put on too much weight, we can go on the Thomas Beeching diet! Merry

OC Perhaps you missed the bit in the Oxford Dictionary of Misquotations: A model railway is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. I get enjoyment from having the gas meter reader scrabbling on the garage floor to read the meter. J

Oh dear, it gives me nightmares even thinking about it. Everyone said how wonderful it was and how they would love to have it...but they didnt have the room. In the end, my Aunt and Uncle said they would take it off my hands but they were off to the US for three weeks. I eventually found a Carrier willing to take it - ever tried to wrap a railway for transit? They delivered it ok but there was no-one in, so they left it in the drive. It was the wrong house. OC

OC These days you'd just put it on eBay for 99p, collection only, and some unfortunate would bid for it by accident and then have to dismantle and collect it. J