Take one 4xg-grandparent week 32 - 9 - 15 Mar 2012

[kiterunner]

This is our weekly challenge to see how much information you can find out about each of your 4xg-grandparents. Because there are so many brick walls at this stage, we are expecting that you will have quite a few missing 4xg-grandparents, and that the ones you do post up will have quite a few gaps to fill in. For this challenge, we ask that you only post a thread if you know the first name of your ancestor. 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 mother's father's father's father's father's mother.

If you want to take part, just start a new thread on this board and put your 4x-great-grandmother's name 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-4x-great-grandparents welcome!

Also, something new for TO4G - if you have posted a thread in TO3G for this ancestor's son, could you please include a link to that thread. If you search for the tag TO3G17, you should find it. Please let me know of any missing / wrong tags and I will correct them.

[Merry]

mother's father's father's father's father's mother.

*double sigh* for OH and myself.

[Margaret in Burton]

I can only do OH's this week.

[ElizabethHerts]

I could post something for my side, but I have to decide which couple really are the parents of James Purkis - I have a choice of two sets!

I forgot to post last weeks earlier and raced home this afternoon and saw that the new thread hadn't been posted so I posted my FMMMMF. It either needs to be moved, as it is included with this week's or deleted. Sorry.

[kiterunner]

It's fine, Julie, don't worry. It was posted before the new week's threads started, and I've tagged it with the correct tag.

Thanks Kate. I was driving home and I suddenly thought .... rabbits I won't make it. So really appreciate it. He is rather a favourite ancestor too lol.

Oh there is only hubbys side and dam ancestry have cocked up with a merge and merged wrong family name to him so carnt delete without losing the people ,,,,they dont make anything easy by unpinning a person do they ,,father has 2 mams