English records - ELLIS, COX, and HANN families

I've been watching episodes from the UK's "Who Do You Think You Are Are,"and have been reviewing my records on a pre-civil registration family in Dorset, England.

John Ellis, born abt 1760-1761 (possibly Dorset, England), married, 5 Aug 1790 (by license), Sarah Cox, in Dorchester Holy Trinity parish, Dorchester, Dorset, England. John Ellis was listed as being "of the parish of Hounslow" and Sarah Cox was listed as being "of the parish [of Dorchester Holy Trinity]."  Both John and Sarah signed their names, and the witnesses to the marriage were George Hann and Thomas Hardy.

Before John and Sarah married, they had a son, George, baptized 9 April 1790 in Holy Trinity parish, Dorchester, Dorset, England.  Their first legitimate child, Thomas, was baptized in Holy Trinity parish, on the 5 July 1791. Their other children were Mary Russell, Elizabeth, Robert, Ann, Michael John, Sarah, Mary, and Jane. Burial records have been found for George Ellis/Cox, Mary Russell, and Robert. Further records have been found for Thomas, Michael John, Sarah, and Jane.

On 1 December 1796, in the parish of Dorchester Holy Trinity, George Hann married Ann Cox, both of the parish, by banns. The witnesses to the marriage were Thomas Bessant and Sarah Ellis. The signatures of George Hann and the signatures of Sarah Ellis/Sarah Cox matches the ones from the marriage of Sarah Cox to John Ellis.

George Hann and Ann (Cox) Hann had at least four children: William, Mary, Robert, and Charles. Burial records have been found for William and Mary. No further records have been found for Robert or Charles.

The families of John Ellis and George Hann both lived in Shire Hall Lane in Dorchester. John was a blacksmith; George's occupation is currently unknown.

Sarah (Cox) Ellis, wife of John Ellis, of the parish of Dorchester Holy Trinity was buried 19 November 1820, aged 58 years, in St. Peter's Parish, Dorchester. That gives a birth year of approximately 1762.

Ann (Cox) Hann, wife of George Hann, of the parish of Dorchester Holy Trinity, was buried on 21 January 1817, in St. Peter's Parish, Dorchester, aged 48 years. That gives a birth year of approximately 1768.

George Hann, of the parish of Dorchester Holy Trinity, was buried 13 May 1817, in St. Peter's Parsh, aged 49 years. This gives a birth year of approximately 1767.

I've not been able to find the death record of John Ellis. I've been able to track him on the 1841 and 1851 censuses with his son Michael John Ellis, and both censuses indicate the John Ellis was born in Dorset [somewhat conflicting with the "of the parish of Hounslow" from the marriage register. Thomas Ellis had emigrated from England to New York in 1837 and from there moved to Canada by 1851.

I've also not been able to find the baptisms of Sarah Cox, Ann Cox, or George Hann in the parish records for Dorchester Holy Trinity or other Dorchester parishes.

I'm not familiar enough with English records nor do I have the ability to get at some of these records.

This family married into a branch of a family that married into a branch of one of my RICHARDSON branches. Until I hit this snag, I was doing well on the ELLIS family. I think that Sarah and Ann Cox are relatives in some way, possibly sisters.

(c) Sara Gredler, 2012

Organization presentation - housekeeping items

So today I gave a presentation on organizing your genealogy at the Round Rock [Texas] Family History Center for their Family History Fair. We had a great time, even with our DNA sidetrack. I've given this talk multiple times and each time I do a little more revision.

I had screencaptures of my digital files and had people ask for the contents of my genealogy template folder (folder of empty folders of each record type that I use in my SURNAMES folders) and my general Genealogy folder.

Genealogy Template Folder contains:

BibleRecords

Biography

BountyLandRecords

CemeteryPhotographs

CemeteryRecords

Census-Nonpopulation_Federal

Census-Nonpopulation_State

Census-Population_Canada

Census-Population_England

Census-Population_Federal

Census-Population_Scotland

Census-Population_State

ChurchRecords

EducationRecords

FamilyRecords

FuneralRecords

Immigration

LandRecords

LettersandEmail

Maps

Military

Naturalization

Newspaper

Obituary

OnlineData

PensionFileRecords

Photographs

ProbateRecords

PublicationsorPeriodicals

Signatures

TaxRecords

VitalRecords-Birth

VitalRecords-Death

VitalRecords-Divorce

VitalRecords-Marriage

VotingRecords

These are all items that I have encountered. I do not use spaces in my filenames, I use either dashes or underscores. Spaces, to me, are a problem. 

In my Genealogy folder, I have my random items that don't fit anywhere else. I have folders and files like:

BradburyHeightsElementarySchool

Buildings

CivilWar

CorkSKG [Items from the year I lived in Cork, Ireland]

CornellAlumniNews

defcarbolicacid.txt [Text file from the Columbia Encyclopedia, due to several family members, both extended and close, committing suicide by drinking carbolic acid]

Directories [City Directories]

DNA

DraftCardA.pdf

DraftCardB.pdf

DraftCardC.pdf [Series of forms downloaded from Ancestry.com of the three types of World War I draft card forms.]

Emails [Items that don't fit into a surname folder]

ExcelFilesTranscription [like the pdf forms above, used for transcribing documents, downloaded from the internet.]

FamilyCemeteryRecords

FamilyGroupSheets

FamilyHeirlooms

Familymultimedia

familypictures-unknowns

familyrecipes.doc

familystories-Gredlerside.doc [This needs to be moved to the GREDLER surname folder.]

GEDCOMS

GreatMigration [individual biographies of multiple men from the Great Migration project publication.]

Letters

maps

mapsofPA [Both of these could probably be moved to my LOCATIONS folder.]

MassachusettsVitalRecords [found on Archive.org and Google Books, pdf publications for individual Massachusetts towns.]

MayflowerRecords

PAArchives [pages downloaded from Fold3.com for individual books within this series of publications]

Postcards

Savage-GenDictionaryNE [publication in pdf format]

SKGredler-memories [that's me]

SURNAMES

I also have documents in this folder for items such as vital records that I have ordered but do not belong to my family.

We went through lots more today, but as a teaser, I will be giving a portion of this presentation in January at the Williamson County [Texas] Genealogical Society monthly meeting on 17 January 2013. Please visit!

(c) Sara Gredler, 2012.

Tombstone Tuesday (early) and results of Wilbarger County visit

So this Tombstone Tuesday post is very early, but I want to share the results of my trip to Wilbarger county for work and the side trip to a cemetery there to find some Snow family relatives.

Gates at Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Texas

The two SNOW family burials there:

S. B. Snow (1822-1898); E. Snow, his wife (1828 - [blank])

Eugenia Snow (daughter of L.A. and Anna Snow) (15 Mar 1892-9 Apr 1892)

S.B. (Stillman Bullard) Snow's gravestone has an entry for his wife (E. Snow [Emily]), but no death date.  That further convinces me that the families of her children moved shortly after the 1900 census in Wilbarger County, Texas and that she left with the family of one of those children, either to another part of Texas or to Oklahoma, and died there. Now to figure out where she went!

(c) Sara Gredler, 2012.

Bridges!

Two examples of what I have been doing the past week:

Bridge at the Red River where I got stuck:

 Bridge and its beautiful surroundings:

Enjoy!