The Foyne Family Saga
THE PROBLEM OR TASK Today's research efforts have been about trying to add more ancestors to the Lost Cousins website in the fond hope of finding more cousins. I wanted to find a census entry for Samuel FOYNE, my 3rd great-grandfather. My cousin Sharon also has a theory that the FOYNES come from Ireland originally. We're contemplating engaging a researcher in the UK to dig deeper for us. I volunteered to come up with a research question and this research is part of that mission. One of the great things about family history, and one of its traps , is when family members use the same first names over the generations. I have been tracing the FOYNE family for a while and am keen to find its origins. The FOYNEs married into the CONNER family in 1851. Rebecca FOYNE married Edward CONNER at St Paul's Deptford London on 19 January 1851. [i] Rebecca's father was recorded on the marriage certificate as Samuel FOYNE, Cabinet maker. No reco...