Category Archives: Roe

The children of William Greene, chirurgeon

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

I’m grateful to my fellow researcher and distant relative Ron Roe for his comments on my recent reflections concerning William Greene, the seventeenth-century Stepney chirurgeon who may yet turn out to be one of our ancestors. Ron tends to agree … Continue reading →

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John Bodington: son-in-law and apprentice to William Greene, chirurgeon

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

I’m extremely grateful to Joy Thomas, archivist at the Worshipful Company of Barbers, for her speedy and helpful reply to my query about John Bodington, barber-surgeon of Stepney, who I believe was either the father or grandfather of the John … Continue reading →

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The family of Mary Maunser

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

I’ve begun to explore the Manser or Maunser family, trying to find a link between John Manser, the London apothecary and ‘kinsman’ of my 8 x great grandfather, stationer John Byne (1651 – 1689), and Mary Maunser of Sussex, who … Continue reading →

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Magnus Byne and the Quakers

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

In recent posts I’ve established that my Byne ancestors definitely had their roots in rural Sussex. To recap: Mary Byne (born in 1683), who married goldsmith Joseph Greene, was my 7 x great grandmother. She was the daughter of John … Continue reading →

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Roe and Blanch families in the 1850s and 1860s: new information from land tax records

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

The newly-available London land tax records have provided me with important information about the movements of my Roe and Blanch ancestors in the 1850s and 1860s, supplementing what I’d already gleaned from census records and parish registers. My maternal great-great-grandparents, … Continue reading →

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Radicals and reactionaries in my family tree

Posted on May 29, 2012 by

I’ve written about the political affiliations of some of my ancestors, over at my politics blog, Martin In The Margins.

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Marianne Burbidge (1813 – 1885), publican’s daughter

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

Yesterday’s announcement by findmypast that they have published more than 1.3 million parish records from Westminster online is a huge cause for celebration among those of us with London ancestors.  As the announcement says: The records cover the vast period … Continue reading →

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John Blanch and the mysterious second christening

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

My fellow family historian and distant relative Ron Roe has alerted me to a problem with the records for my great-great-great-grandfather, John Blanch. John was a shoe and boot maker in Mile End Old Town, Bethnal Green and finally Soho. … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Gibson: a life in Georgian England

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

I’ve written a fair amount, under various headings, about my great-great-great-great-great grandmother Elizabeth Holdsworth, formerly Collins, née Gibson, who was born in 1733 and died in 1809. However, I thought it might be helpful to put everything we know about … Continue reading →

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Can these people really be my ancestors?

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

My mother’s father was a gardener at the City of London Cemetery. His father was a grave-digger and came from a long line of farm labourers. My mother’s mother was the daughter of a manual labourer, who was himself the … Continue reading →

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