Roy: I don't know who the Charles Pace was who m. Ida Ackerley in 1928. Apparently they were of the Malta Paces, which I have heard of but do not know anything about their ancestry. Where is Malta and how did Paces get there? Gordon W. Pace -----Original Message----- >From: gtp3066@nexicom.net >Sent: Nov 24, 2009 9:10 AM >To: pace@rootsweb.com, rgcotton@skylinc.net, Jocelyn Bates <jbates@waldonet.net.mt> >Subject: Re: [PACE] Pacefamily tree > >Roy Johnson wrote: >> Locations help. Where were your parents married? Where were you born? A >> search of the records is probably a better choice than trying to find Pam >> Cotton. >> >> Roy Johnson >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pace-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pace-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf >> Of Jocelyn Bates >> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:11 PM >> To: pace@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [PACE] Pacefamily tree >> >> Hello , >> I`m trying to locate anyone who can help me fill in the gaps in my family >> tree. >> I am Jocelyn Bates nee Pace daughter of Charles Pace and Ida Ackerley who >> were married 05/12/1928. I was born 20/05 /1932. I stumbled across a >> reference to my parents marriage by a Pam Cotton ,but so far have not been >> able to locate her she also mentioned that my father had been brought up by >> the Grocott family whilst his parents went to Canada >> I do hope you can help me >> Jocelyn Bates >> >> jbates@waldonet.net.mt > >Yes, Location a clue. >Jocelyn is writing from Malta >although her names seem Anglesized, says her parents were married in >Stoke. If that's England, Stoke is the start of about 3 dozen place >names in my AA Road Atlas. I have written to the Cotton One Name Study >Guild chap in Burlington, Ontario. His ancestry goes back to Kenilworth, >Warwickshire. Maybe another clue. I have PACE-ARCH connections there >also and a Kenilworth web page. Obscurity yes, isn't it fun? >It connects with my PACE-ARCH people and the JOSEPH ARCH whose mother >was a PACE. HOSEPH was a farm boy, Methodist preacher, Union man, MP. > http://www.pacefamilyhistory.info/uk/barford.htm >He founded the National Agricultural Workers' Union 1873. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arch >One PACE descendent has PACE relatives both in Kenilworth England and >PACE in Malta. Sound like a merry-go-round. Since she said the Pam >Cotton knew about her parents, maybe the Cotton ONS Guild chap can help. >I'll phone him and talk as I'm also from Burlington/Hamilton where he >teaches the Mormon Genealogy programme PF5. His web site is interesting >and reveals a good atmosphere. Quite a revolving puzzle, for sure, but >isn't that why we are fascinated with this? >Gord Pace > >Maybe the PACE-ARCH puzzle of JOSEPH ARCH, Member of Parliament and >founder of the largest trade union in England can come clearer. I see a >PACE from Exhall below. That's where my grandmother's ARCH family was >from. The TREPASS name has connections to PACE in Malta too. Confusing? > >Joseph PACE b 1802 Kenilworth - Comb manufacturer >+ Elizabeth - b 1805 Coventry > > * Hannah PACE - Chr 7 Jan 1827 Kenilworth > 1851-worked for solicitor Edward Draper, the Hermitage,Kenilworth > + William HINDE - m 15 Nov 1852 Kenilworth wid by 1881 > o Rose HINDE b 1862 Kenilworth > o Bell HINDE b 1870 Kenilworth > * Mary PACE - Chr 26 Dec 1827 Kenilworth > + James Clegg SMITH - m 20 May 1854 Kenilworth > * Henry Edward PACE - b 3 Oct 1830 Combmaker journeyman widower 1881 > + Mary SELMAN - b 1830 Cricklade Wiltshire worked at Globe Inn >Castle End m 17 Aug 1851 Kenilworth > o Henry Edward PACE - b 16 Nov 1852 Kenilworth > + Eliza HARRIS - m 7 Jul 1870 Kenilworth > o Ellen PACE - b 09 Apr 1854 Kenilworth > o Lizzie PACE - b 11 May 1856 Kenilworth > o Mary PACE - b 08 Aug 1858 Kenilworth > o Sarah Ann PACE - b 1860 Exhall WAR > o Florence PACE - b 1867 Birmingham > * Eliza PACE - 3 Mar 1833 was Milliner & Dress Maker Kenilworth > * William PACE - 3 Jul 1836 > * Sarah Emma PACE - 28 Jun 1840 > + Walter TREPESS - m 26 Aug 1861 Kenilworth > READ LETTER - descendent - return with BACK button > o William Walter TREPESS - 4 May 1864 Birm. St Stephens > o Edith Ann TREPESS - 19 Mar 1865 Birm. St Stephens > * Ann PACE - Chr 23 Mar 1845 Kenilworth > + Frederick BAKER - b 1845 Coventry m 26 Dec 1868 Kenilworth > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com