Am I alone in finding much of this correspondence deeply distasteful? Please don't forget that a much-loved young woman has been brutally murdered only days ago and the police investigation is still not completed. Now is not the time for geneaological speculation about one of the names involved. Giles Oakley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Jefferies > On 3 Jan 2011 at 14:39, Chris Jefferies wrote: > >> I have 125 Jefferies on my Tree and I have no other Christopher >> Jefferies on my tree either. The person in question has now been >> released on police bail but someone said that he was born somewhere in >> Lincolnshire but I don't know how true that is. However it is still >> possible that his ancestors came from the Bristol area originally. > > > Numerous press reports, easily found with Google, say that the Chris > Jefferies who > has been released on bail was born at Grimsby in 1945. These references > include the > website of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph. > > The online GRO birth indexes reveal only one person of that name born in > 1945, a > Christopher J E Jefferies born at Grimsby in the Jan-March quarter, so > there seems > little doubt about it. > > His mother's maiden name was HARRIMAN and the marriage indexes have the > marriage of an Edward P JEFFERIES and Kathleen HARRIMAN at Bucklow, > Cheshire, in 1938. Today's Daily Mail quotes an aunt, Barbara Jefferies, > speaking at > her home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, so it seems likely the family came from > that area > and not Bristol. FreeBMD has only one Edward P Jefferies who was born at > Chorlton, > a Manchester registration district, in 1911 and the most likely candidate > for the mother > was Kathleen Harriman, born at Ashton (also a Manchester/Cheshire area RD) > in > 1912. > > It has surely been well established that he only moved to Bristol when he > took up a > teaching post at Clifton College. > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On 3 Jan 2011 at 16:08, Giles wrote: > Am I alone in finding much of this correspondence deeply distasteful? > Please don't forget that a much-loved young woman has been brutally > murdered only days ago and the police investigation is still not > completed. Now is not the time for geneaological speculation about one > of the names involved. > > Giles Oakley < Possibly, but I did NOT start it! The thread was begun by Chris Jefferies, who was possibly and understandably concerned that some people might associate him with his namesake who was initially arrested and has now been released on bail. Chris appeared to be seeking assurances that the man concerned did not originally come from Bristol, evidence which I was able to supply. I am, for one, content to end it since I had no plans to post anything further anyway. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE