Family Tree Frog

From Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings. .. Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Determine where your ancestral families were on 1 September 1863 - 150 years ago. 2)  List your ancestors, their family members, their birth and death years, and their residence location (as close as possible).  Do you have a photograph of their residence from about that time, and does the residence still exist? 3)  Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status or Google+ Stream post. The Conners Edward Conner (1829 - 1903) - an engineer in the Royal Navy and his wife Rebecca (1830-?) would have been living in 4 Kilminston Street Portsea, Hampshire, England with their children Edward G (7 years old) and Clara Rebecca (5 years old) and Walter (2 years old) as per the 1861 Census.   I suspect that Kilminston Street is now called Kilmiston Close as per the ma...

James Vernon Cook This is my 2nd great-grandfather James Vernon Cook, father of Eleanor Eliza Cook who married Edwin Conner.   At least that's what it says on the back of several copies of the photos that I have It doesn't help that Eleanor's brother was called James and her father...and her grandfather.... So, I'm not sure when this was taken.  Let's say c1900. His final rank was Chief Gunner or I think Lieutenant Commander in retirement. Certainly if you look at this ad for a full dress uniform from Christie's it seems very similar.  Here's another great photo of him courtesy of my cousin Geraldine in England. According to Geraldine's photo of his grave, he died 25 January 1928 so I imagine this was taken a bit before then.   What do you think he is standing next to?  Geraldine says it might be a dovecote. I posted pictures of his funeral before here on my other blog. According to the Natio...