Hello Dot re: http://www.a2a.org.uk I've looked at the site before but you inspired me to look again last night - of course, I should have been in bed - but ... I did a global search and found my grandfather, the only one of the Jefferys Wiltshire farming family to live abroad, on the passenger list returning by ship from India in both 1949 and 1950. And I searched on my grandmother's family and found several of them returning by ship from India around 1950. I'm now about to ring my aunt and ask who her aunt Edith and cousin Amy were and why haven't I heard of them before. Bet she won't know either. So two queries raised last night but two other answers confirmed this morning with the marriage certificates received from the ONS. My great grandfather Thomas King Jefferys' wife, Elizabeth Haines, was his cousin, as I'd thought. Another cousin Martha Pickett Jefferys had married her cousin, but not the one which current members of the family thought. The census had pointed me in another direction and I was right. She married Stiles Edward Jefferys. Stiles Edward Jefferys was the son of Edward Jefferys of Hill Deverill Farm. He was born at Maiden Bradley. He and his brother Samuel were the sons of Stiles Jefferys, 1761 - 1824, who farmed at Maiden Bradley. Stiles was the son of Edward Jefferys of Bremhill and Amie Stiles of Hilmarton. Edward had a brother William. I'd like to hear from any one researching all these Jefferys, especially anyone following William's line. With the same first and second names being used over and over again in the same and connecting generations plus the marriages of cousins in large families there must have been much scope for confusion and mis-understandings. I wonder what it was like at the family parties. Life is very confusing for the poor family historian but the eureka moments are good. Susan Dot Gulliver <gulliver@gotadsl.co.uk> wrote: Hi Wendy That's good news. It's worth going back to the site occasionally as more documents are being indexed all the time. Also, try running a search on the place where they lived as you will occasionally find documents where their name has the wrong spelling. Dot On 18/9/06 23:13, "Chris Butcher" wrote: > Hi Dot, I would like to thankyou so much for giving me such an interesting > site to browse through, it is a site all should look at to see if there > ancestors are there, My Thomas Moody was. > Thanyou for your help. Wendy from down under. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dot Gulliver" > To: > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:56 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-WILTSHIRE] re small > > >> Hello Wendy >> >> You could try the website http://www.a2a.org.uk/ to see if there are >> any documents relating to your family. >> >> As SMALL is a fairly common name I suggest that on the search page you go >> to the section 'Location of Archives' and select 'Wiltshire and Swindon >> Record Office' near the bottom of the list. This will narrow the field to >> documents held in Wiltshire >> >> Good luck with your search >> >> Dot >> In Salisbury, Wilts >> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message