Later Records
It is some time later before the records are complete enough to start building convincing family trees. But even then some trees have rather large gaps and unproven assumptions. Despite plenty of problems, large family trees have been assembled from the archives.
Family A - starts from William (~1796-1849) and Jane nee Trotter(1805-1890) - for the most current family tree use our Webtrees database
Family B - starts from Thomas (~1762-??) and Christina nee Millish (1764-??) - for the most current family tree use our Webtrees database
Family C - starts from Thomas (~1825-??) and Elizabeth nee Yawkins / Yorkings (1831-??) OR Thomas (~1826-??) and Eliza Elton nee Martin (1829-??). Clearly Family C has some unanswered questions and some entries in the archives that seem to contradict each other. However both variations seem to imply that one or both trees are connected with Family B.
The entries that used to form the small Family D line are now combined with Family B - for the most current family tree use our Webtrees database
One of the problems with the families starting from Thomas and Christina is that children were given the same names as their nephews and nieces. This resulted in much confusion when then families of similar ages were living in the same district. The most extreme example being these two birth registrations in the June quarter of 1862 - 1. TOWNSLEY Henry William Russell Lambeth 1d 404 2. TOWNSLEY William Henry Russell Lambeth 1d 367
Having such unique names should have made tracing easy. But neither seemed to use their full names - or even their first listed names - in subsequent official documents meaning that working out which one stayed in London and which one went to Canada involved buying copy certificates.
Clearly there are still some issues with these trees that cannot be resolved without some more information.
Does anyone have any new clues that could help?
Especially useful would be any information that is independent of the major family history archives (Ancestry, FamilySearch, FindMyPast, etc) and so should avoid the same data being re-cycled.
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