Take one 3xG-Grandparent week 1 29 Oct - 4 Nov 2010
 

Welcome to Take One 3xG-Grandparent!

If you're wondering why there was no poll for this, with 32 3xg-grandparents each, there would have been 16 options on the initial poll even if we made it men or women only each week like we did with TO2G. So there would have been too many to choose from and keep track of! But since we aren't expecting as many threads each week as we had for TOGG and TO2G, you are allowed to post up to two threads each per week, e.g. your own ancestor and your OH's as well.

This week, we are focussing on your father's father's father's father's father.

If you want to take part, just start a new thread on this board and put your 3x-great-grandfather's name in the Title. If you don't know his name then put whatever you like in the title!

Copy the following form and fill in the answers that you already have, then over the course of the next week you try to fill in the blanks and everyone else helps you. If you're lucky enough to have all the information already, then you can still post it up if you want, so that search engines can pick it up.

Can you fill in all of the following information about that person:

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Date and place of birth
Names of parents
Date and place of baptism - if applicable
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
Occupation(s) - if any
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
Date, place and cause of death
Date and place of burial.
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any


Adoptive or step-3x-great-grandparents welcome!

I've done mine, OH's can't do as we know nothing at all about OH's grandfathers ancestry.

Mine's done too.
Can't put my OH's GGG Grandfather as his grandfather was illegitimate.
I think I know who his father was though, but haven't put that.

These are brilliant threads, Kite. They make you have another look at your tree.

I didn't realise I had a book with a photo of my 3x great grandfather...

I can't do it as apart from 2x grandfathers name I'm totally stuck at the brick wall. Since 2x gf didn't know where in Cornwall he was born and the only clue to his possible father was the same name as a witness to his marriage and as it's a common name in Cornwall, I can't go back. :(

I really enjoy these threads and agree with Libby about re-looking at your tree. My entry for today, I havnt even looked at him or his line for about 3 years and its got me really interested in them again. :)

Very pleased you are going back another generation. These threads really make you check to see if any thing else has turned up. I was lucky with this week's as Thomas was the parish clerk so I have all the entries though he manages to give his wife's name as Esther and Hester.

The church is interesting. I read that churches dedicated to St. Martin are often very old and this one near Bath was found to be the site of a roman villa.

so glad we're going back another generation - this should take a few weeks!

It's really helped me look at my tree again, find out what I actually KNOW rather than what I thought I knew!

Useful to know it will be on the web too!

What did you parish clerk do Anne? I found an ancestor listed as a parish clerk in a trade directory and I realise it's a different thing to today's clerk to the parish council.

Great, I am glad we are continuing with this idea, it will make me look at some ancestors I have not visited for a while

Diane