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I have been doing a lot of family tree research since we have been snowed in.
On one branch of the family tree…. a great grandparent on my first husband’s side…. I found an interesting fact.
John had been married to an Emma. Emma died and John had children with his live-in servant, a Caroline. Caroline it turns out was the neice of Emma! Caroline’s mother was Emma’s sister!!
This is one occassion where it has paid to research a branch (the fist wife) that is really of no relevance to the tree, other than to complete a bigger picture! Without the research on Emma, I would not have easily found the relationship to Caroline!!

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I found a gt gt grandfather (my grandfather’s maternal side) a Daniel Tucker in a 1901 census. The exciting part was that I knew the area that the census was talking about. It was the Workhouse in Taunton, Somerset. This was situated in the parish of Holy Trinity, the parish where I went to my infant and junior school. My home was “just down the road” about a mile away! Not only that, when i was a child of eight, I went around the then infirmary, the hospital for old people, which in the past was part of the Workhouse!
In the same census I found some relatives of my direct line on my grandmothers side….. there was a Richard Maddock, his wife Elizabeth and their nephew William who was only 53.
On further investigation it appears that my mother’s grandfather, a Joseph Tucker was at this workhouse in his later years, and that her father took her to see her “granfer” there. Her father called him “Jack” so am assuming this was the name a lot of people knew him by. I will get his death certificate which should give the location of his death.

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I got really excited the other day to find that a nephew of my grandmother emigrated. What was most exciting was the fact that on his landing papers (Toronto, Canada) there was a description of him. He was 17 when he emigrated and when he was 23 and ten months old he was having five days in New York visiting a friend. He was five feet four and a half inches tall (interesting to me as my grandmother was under five feet tall, and all her siblings were short too), he had light brown hair and blue eyes!

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I have a new web page. We recently got some new material for our dining room chairs. Although the chairs were only about two years old, the material on them was a cream color and had got stained with wine, paw prints, and from our work clothes when we would sit on the seats before changing our dirty clothes! The web page tells how we re-upholstered the chairs and also has a power point presentation with photos of the proceedure.
I have been finding it difficult to put photos on the site that are jsut little thumbs. So my way around it was putting the photos onto powerpoint, then uploading the power point presentation.

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