Genealogy Chat

Just to let you know that I have to close down the internet for a while.... if I haven't got back to anyone who sent an email, I apologise. I'll be back online tomorrow hopefully :-). Thanks again for the input xx

Thanks everyone for the support.... I'm working my way through them xx

If the above information is correct then this is George's birth reference (which is not the one you say you already have from 1889):- Birth, George Timons June qtr. 1894, Mansfield, 7b, 61 You'll have to check all the information carefully. I think the George whose birth you already have may have been a cousin of Emily. In 1891 there are two Timon's families living next door to each other. That George was in one family and Emily was in the other - they were definitely not brother and sister. Emily's brother George was born after the 1891 census. Kath. x

If I have the correct information above, I think I have found Emily with her family in 1891, and brother George with the family in 1901, although Emily isn't with them in 1901. However she could have been working anywhere as she was about 17 by this time. I've saved the images if you'd like them. The 1901 census gives Emily and George's parents names and their grandfather's name (he's a widow). Kath. x p.s. have found Emily in Mansfield in 1901 - saved image. (spelt Timmons, but birthplace and age correct).

Hi Jenny, Wasn't your mum's grandfather Frederick Knott and his wife Emily Timons - so George would be HER brother and not your mum's grandfather's brother. That would mean we are looking for an Emily and George Timons together as children, and if I remember rightly Emily was born c.1883, and your mother was born in the Derbyshire area. Hope I've got all that right. Kath. x

Jenny Hallo again! I love your description of blundering - so like me when I got going and I'm still doing it, lol! Don't rely on your mother's memory. Memories, including ones own, play false. Do go on certificates and start with what you know and work backwards. After all your mum isn't sure whether or not she was raised by her grandfather. Did he have a name - find him and a George together on a census when they were little and you will get their dates and places of birth. Then you can look for that George's marriage to Nellie (could be a name in her own right, or Ellen, Eleanor or Helen). Do you know when your mum's grandfather or George died? If you want to find Brian/Billy and his sister, roughly which decade(s) would your mum have taken him out in a pram. nell

searching for individuals never really works, you need to collect all the records that look like they might be relevant and see what story they tell. In this case, if you mean the George Henry born Mansfield district in 1889, there's a matching death registration in the same quarter, and there's no young George in that area in the 1891 census. Your lucky break is that this is a rare name. Everybody called Timons/Timmons in the same area will probably turn out to be in your tree somewhere so it won't be wasted effort.

I've had tremendous help from the GR forums, while I blunder my way through my family tree, but I've yet another little set back on this... without going into long winded complications, it may have turned out that Mum had been raised by her Grandfather (although we haven't clarified this as definite), George Timons is his brother. While I've come across (thanks to a GR member) George's Birth in 1889... I've got a bit of a block on his family... Mum says he was married to Nellie (no idea of maiden name, DOB), had a Son Brian (I thought mum had said Billy) and a Daughter, Dorothy. Again, we have no idea of DOB's but mum remembers Brian being youngest of the two children as she recalls always taking Brian out in the pram when he was a baby. If I have such limited info...how will I know if I have the right people if by some miracle the names do appear on any searches? Do you have any suggestions that may help? Many thanks:-)