Following a recommendation from a contact, I joined Lancashire Libraries online (despite living in Sussex!). They have a very good family history reference section, with good links, many of which are free or can be accessed via a Lancashire library or online via your library pin number.
Can’t wait to receive my card. Check things out yourself via http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries/
After trying so desperately to locate the family of my dad’s uncle Walter BALDOCK, I may have hit on something …
I had been searching Kent records (particularly Thanet, where they had lived) for marriage records, with no luck. I knew his wife was known as Jessie, but this could have come from anywhere. Nevertheless, I finally gained the patience to search systematically through Ancestry and FindMyPast.
And there I found it! Uncle Wally and Aunt Jessie were married in Norfolk – Erpingham district, to be precise! Walter A BALDOCK married Jessie I ABRAM !
Now armed with a maiden name, I also found six daughters; we already knew the names of some, but this confirmed things, along with birth quarter-dates, a marriage and two grandsons. Of course, all this has yet to be verified.
I now hope to get the marriage certificate, and plan to further investigate the children to seek out possible marriages, further grandchildren, and maybe locate a family member living somewhere.
The Norfolk marriage is spooky, given my belief that the BALDOCK family may have some ancestry there. Maybe Jessie was from Norfolk? Or perhaps she was a Cromer seaside holiday romance? The certificate will help …
After recently revisiting research on the MAYTUM family, I determined12 children of Charles MAYTUM & Emma FAGG, who emigrated to Iowa, USA in 1864.
I believe that their son, Wellington, was a very prominent physician and played an important part in Iowa state politics. In fact, medicine appears to be a chosen family profession.
In addition, Wellington and his brother Walter married two SYFERD sisters.
I intend to investigate this family in a lot more detail.
