Chart 5 explored

I have been exploring Chart 5 and Brickwall
John Greathead married Jane Musgrave on 26 November 1808 in Yarm, Yorkshire

They had two children. Their sons John and William both emigrated to USA John married Ann Walker and they had six children. When John and Ann finally emigrated they took four children with the. Harriot had died aged one and Jane married William Mawer and the descendants their family still live in Yorkshire.

William, a hatter, staying in US after he and his brothers trip in 1840. He married Harriett and they had six children. Three girls and three boys. The boys William and Allan both married and had a daughter, Frederick married and had four children, two died in infancy and I am still researching the others.

Greathead bible

A while ago I was sent a copy of a page of a bible containing details of the children of William Mawer and Jane Greathead. At the top of the page were entries about Robert and Esther Greathead. At the time I could not manage to understand how the families were related. I was sure they should be.

I write now because I have been reviewing some of my old data and believe it or not still cannot find the relationship, but there must be. Any ideas?

Website updated 2 March 2009

Sorry my PC and me were poorly yesterday. Since I felt quite dreadful I could not get to the bottom of my PC's illness. Today my PC seems a little better and I hope maybe once the "pills" my doctor has prescribed kick in I will too.

Anyway I have managed I hope to update the website. See the recent updates for full details

Website update delay

Sorry folks website will not be updated as usual tonight, just too tired. I may make a serious error if I do it now. Best to leave hopefully do very soon

Who do you think you are exhibition in Olympia

With all the excitement with the birth of little Harry I thought I would not be able to go this year. However my good friend Teresa phoned yesterday and offered me a ticket to go with her today. I jumped at the chance of attending the exhibition and seeing Teresa again.

We met on Clapham Junction railway station and exchanged news travelling on the train together to Olympia. She had to go to the DNA stand so I headed off to get us some tickets for the talks.

We listened first to Martyn Killon the Vice President of Society of Australian Genealogists and made lots of notes. He gave us a potted history of Australia which gave us a good idea when things happened to help us identify where we should go to look in our researches in Oz. He suggested the first port of call should be http://www.coraweb.com.au/. BMD indexes are available for most states although newspaper digitalization is slow.

Then we listened to Sarah Wise talk about the Old Nicol are of Shoreditch. An amazing talk of a serious slum area. Fascinating.

The last talk we attended was by Nigel Bayley about how to chart and pubish your family history. He gave some fresh ideas in the ideas about creating charts. Suggesting putting time lines together with charts

We then split up and visited the show and all that was on offer. A great day, but oh how I ache now. Thanks Teresa for a great day