Tag Archives: family history

When your family tree website does not have the information, try searching the internet. This is how I found Elsie’s 2005 obituary. She died at home in Kings Lynn, Norfolk […]

Margaret was born in 1899, several months before her parents married. After her parents separated, Margaret lived with her mother. Her father had custody of the younger two children. Cyril […]

Agnes Poulter’s father was born in 1869 in Kannur, Kerala, India. In 1870, her grandfather died at the age of 24 years old. He may have been a soldier at […]

Charles appears in electoral listings from 1948 to 1974. He lived with his mother until he died in 1988. This fact leads me to believe Charles may have suffered from […]

The Woodhouse family surname was carried by two of our Oxborough ancestors. Charles Woodhouse Oxborough, who is the subject of this post. The other was his nephew, who carried the […]

Grace’s great-great-great-grandfather, Joseph Charlish, was born in 1758 in Norfolk County, England. The 1841 England census shows that he was living in the parish of Earsham at that time. Charles […]

Emmeline claimed to be a widow on the 1901 England census. However, I discovered that John Samuel Travis had moved to Monmouthshire, Wales. In 1891, he lived in Trevethin. In […]

Charles was born out of wedlock to Phoebe Oxborough. His father may have been Thomas Barber. Yet, I have my doubts.  This was because Charles never lived with them. Charles […]

From 1871 to 1878, Charles’ family lived in the coalmining village of Bigges Main, Northumberland County, England. In that time, I discovered that Stephen had changed his surname to Ward. […]

I placed a photo of Charles and Eliza’s daughter, Millicent, next to a photo of my half-sister, Sonya. They seem to have similar facial features. Could an Oxborough gene have […]