Family Tree Frog

Hanwell Lunatic Asylum 1848 from  Illustrated London News , January 15, 1848, p. 27 That got your attention didn’t it?  Nothing like a cheeky headline to make you read my blog. So, this weekend I have been delving into the Forfar line again.   FindmyPast were having a free-for-all this weekend, so I thought I would take advantage of it and look as much as I could into the Forfars in Bannockburn and the Forfars in London. I am particularly interested in fleshing out the story of Robert and Lucy Forfar and their son, George, who was my great-great-grandfather.  He was the father of Walter William Forfar who I have blogged about a bit here  and here and here.    This weekend produced a lot of data, so it’s a bit difficult to know where to begin. First of all and most importantly, it has finally sunk into my thick skull that Lucy’s maiden name is SWAIT and not SMART as I had originally thought. This realisation comes about from actual...

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...