becomes Donkin, Dunkin and various other interpretations over the years and now that I have found who his mother was (from his military records - she had married) I now have yet another batch of Smiths to track oh joy! Interesting in a number of ways: his census records have one daughter with them in 1891 and 1901 who is elsewhere in 1911; a son James who doesn't appear until 1911 and is not on the earlier censuses under his father or his mother's last names and the child count on the 1911 shows 3 born 3 living so there is one more out there somewhere. His mother had three children before she married Joseph SMITH, the other two are on censuses as his children with the last name SMITH until they leave home. The 1911 child count for Mary and Joseph SMITH includes the three earlier children - 14 born, 13 living As I mentioned in an earlier message an off shoot of the tree and as I now cannot track most of her children after they leave home am content to let it rest as they didn't have the foresight to give the other children distinctive names - some names take toooo long to trace. Many thanks to everyone for their help on this Wendy -----Original Message----- From: lynne scaife Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 5:51 PM To: oxfordshire list Subject: Re: [OXF] George Francis DUNKIN Dear Wendy My sympathies, this hobby of ours is most frustrting at times! It's a fairly unusual surname, I'll keep it in mind. Kind regards Lynne ---------------------------------------- > From: wendyking37@hotmail.com > To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:31:28 +0100 > Subject: Re: [OXF] George Francis DUNKIN > > Lynne > > thank you for the suggestion but as I have been doing this for some years > now I have the CDs and I have all the grandparents, aunts, uncles and > cousins on both sides. In the case of Hannah and Joseph back into the 18th > century (with good sound researched material) There is little or no > Oxfordshire stuff on the IGI. He gives Tetsworth as his birthplace - again > the CD stops before his birth date. He is a minor, but irritating sprig on > the tree and if no one connects then I will with him what I do with all > such > sprigs once I have explored all the avenues = ignore 'em > > Wendy > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lynne scaife > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 4:05 PM > To: oxfordshire list > Subject: Re: [OXF] George Francis DUNKIN > > > Dear Wendy > > I've just had a little look at this for you, my sympathies, there doesn't > seem to be any IGI coverage for Lewknor at all. > > If you have the CD for baptisms, have you tried looking for the grand > parents, Joseph and Ann or Hannah, and then subsequent children? If George > Francis was born in 1863, the mother I would think would be at least 20 > years old, so I would look from 1843 backwards, which is within the range > of > your CD. > > Hope this helps a little. > > Regards > Lynne > > > ---------------------------------------- > > From: wendyking37@hotmail.com > > To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com > > Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:35:28 +0100 > > Subject: [OXF] George Francis DUNKIN > > > > > > Hi > > > > does anyone connect to George Francis DUNKIN born 1863 Lewknor and if so > > are > > you able to who his parents are please? I have the OFHS CD with Lewknor > > bmd > > but the baptisms finish at 1856. He is on the 1871 census with his > > grandparents Joseph DUNKIN and Ann or Hannah nee KING. I know that the > > other > > grandchild on the census is son of their daughter Jane as he is on a > > later > > census with her, but George is on his own by 1881 and not with parents > > at > > any stage. > > > > Wendy > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > OFHS "Wills Library" : > > Can you submit any wills, please?http://wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/ > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > OFHS "Wills Library" : > Can you submit any wills, please?http://wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > OFHS "Wills Library" : > Can you submit any wills, please?http://wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OFHS "Wills Library" : Can you submit any wills, please? http://wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message