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I have Family Historian to record my tree.
It gives hints linked with FMP and it also gives hints for My Heritage.

OH's great-grandfather William Henry Lamb was born in Whitby in 1829. He married a girl from Whitby in 1871 but he is absent from Whitby in 1851 and 1861 and I haven't found him elsewhere in England.

He was a tobacconist and I wondered if he might have gone abroad. His father died of cholera in 1832 and he was in the workhouse for a while. His mother remarried, only to die very painfully in 1851.

I am now getting matches for him through My Heritage :

2 matches for William Henry LAMB

Record Matches (2)
William Lamb
1860 United States Federal Census
Birth: Circa 1830 - Place
Residence: 1860 - Place
Wife (implied): Name of wife
Children (implied): Sarah Lamb and names of 4 more children

Adds: spouse(s) and child(ren)
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William Lamb
1870 United States Federal Census
Birth: Circa 1829 - Place
Residence: Day Month 1870 - Place
Wife (implied): Name of wife
Children (implied): Sarah Lamb and names of 6 more children

Adds: spouse(s) and child(ren)


I'm also getting matches from FMP which are exactly the same.

Is anyone able to view these records? I'm useless with American records as I don't use them much at all.




http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/f...iam+Henry+Lamb

I would have thought they should be available free on FamilySearch but am having trouble getting the search pages to load at the moment. Will try again later.

Thanks for looking, Kate.

The only match I can find on FMP is this one for 1870. Doesn't seem to be your man as he's not born n the UK:

William Lamb Male 41 1829 Missouri
Pegy J Lamb Female 41 1829 Kentucky
Sarah Lamb Female 18 1852 Missouri
Samuel Lamb Male 16 1854 Missouri
Mary Lamb Female 14 1856 Missouri
Henry Lamb Male 12 1858 Missouri
Oldridg Lamb Female 10 1860 Missouri
Newton Lamb Male 8 1862 Missouri
Eler Lamb Female 2 1868 Missouri

Thanks for looking, Merry.

When he married in 1871 he stated he was a bachelor, although he could have been lying, of course! He was 41.

And this is the 1860 census entry free on FamilySearch, which is for the same family as the 1870:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...=21&cc=1473181

Thanks, Kate. I can see no evidence to suggest this is the same William Henry Lamb.

I'll keep looking.

FMP are showing me records for the 1860s of a William H Lamb fighting in the U.S. but again I can't access them.

Search on FamilySearch for William H Lamb, "Any" 1860-1870, country United States, military, and I think the records you get back will be the same ones that FMP has.

Just looked at my spam emails and found one from My Heritage saying they are giving free access to US military records until 28th May.

Thanks, Kate. Again, no evidence at all to suggest it is our man.