Today the door fitters installed our new front door and side panel. It looks really nice and tomorrow they will automate it. Kent contract with JLC to do these so they are arriving tomorrow. Kevin had to take the day of work because I had a meeting at work. JLC only told us last Friday afternoon they were coming so it was rather short notice.

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My hunt last weekend... Hine, Sarah. Born c 1840

My grandmother married Ernest Hine. Last weekend started the hunt for his mother and her parents.

I found Ernest Hine in the later census as a child. In 1901 he was living with his mother Sarah Hine, brother Fred and sister Ella living in Cardiff.

My search begin tracing Sarah Hine born in 1863 as it said in the 1901 census.

Step 2

After much searching I found the family in the 1891 census. However, I found the census giving Sarah A Hine born 1844 in Shotley, Warwickshire. She was married.

Step 3. - Where the hec is Shotley?

I tried to look up Shotley and this gave two location in the UK but none of them in Warwick. Also we have different birth dates and and it is unknown what the 'A' stood for.

Step 4. - Find a Marriage

My grandmother recalled her name might have been smith. I located the marriages of Sarah and Thomas (took all day trying in various combinations). Bingo - found Thomas Hine married to Sarah Ann Smith in Stratford Upon Avon (BMD records). Now we can limit the search to Sarah Anns.

Step 4. - Find a MAP!

I checked out on the internet what the word Shotley could have been if mispelt and traced some old maps of the Stratford Upon Avon area. It appeared to have been Shottery.

Now I had to find a Sarah Ann and what her real birth date was (census records found so far gave 1844, 1845 and a 1863).

Step 5. - Find sarah as a child and see who she lived with.

Then I searched and eventually found a Sarah A Smith born in 1843. Her birth was registered in Shottery in Old Stratford according to a family on the census.

Step 6 - Finding parents...

I found that around that time there were few households in the area and they were the only Smith family. I found the 1871 Census with a Sarah A. The head of the household was William Smith born in 1816 working as a butcher. He was married to Ann.


Step 7 - Anns Mother had died or divorced.

I then tried to find the family in 1861 census. Then checking the 1851 census Sarah A Smith is aged 8 and it gives her birth as 1843. This appear to be the birth date that features the most. Interestingly, if we believed the 1901 census she would have be aged 14 when she Married and when falling pregnant with son Fred so this appears to have been incorrect (original census states she is aged 36 rather than 56 as she should be).

However, in 1851, her father William is married not to Ann but to Mary. Hence Mary must have been Sarah Anns real mother. She either died or divorced - there are 9 deaths of Mary Smiths in that area between 1851 and 1861 that it seems impossible to tell. I can find any marriage details for William and Mary or his second marriage to Ann. Mary was born in 1814 and the population of Old Stratford at that time was only 996 residents.

Today I'm back on my tree (although many may say I'm more out of my tree or off it completely!).

I found this little poem.

To some it's just a hobby, to ME it's so much more,
I learn the joys and heartaches of those that went before.
They loved, they lost, they laughed, they wept - and now, for me
They live again in spirit, around the FAMILY TREE.

--

I have met people all over the world, found out that a relative was a master carpenter for Canterbury Cathedral and composed music for Queen Victoria.

My Grt .Grandfather rode in the first TT Race on the Isle of Man and another relative is a world famous dentist!

They hail from England, Ireland, Wales, America, Australia and more.

Who knows what else I will find out...