The Mahoning list gave me the answer that while my 2Xggf naturalized in 1869 there would be no mention of where in England he came from (Wales actually *G*) Very upsetting when that was pretty much the last place to find his birth place. There are two of his name and age in the Welsh baptism records so we are pretty much stuck <G> Eliz On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Nivard Ovington <ovington1@sky.com> wrote: > Hi all > > I was quite excited to find that the following had been added to > familysearch recently > > Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977 > > And in there I found > > Mahoning Naturalization abstracts 1847-1866 > > So looking further as I knew there was a Naturalisation for a Bryan > OVINGTON in 1855 > > I was then disappointed to find only > > p51 of 91 > > Bryan Ovington > (subject of Queen Victoria) > Declaration filed July 30th 1855 > > <https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-27757-23581-96?cc=1987615&wc=MMR6-XY8:997055037> > > I already had > > Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s > about Bryan Ovington > Name: Bryan Ovington > Year: 1855 > Place: Ohio > Source Publication Code: 6842 > Primary Immigrant: Ovington, Bryan > Annotation: Date and place of intention or naturalization and, after > page 34, > date and port of arrival. Extracted from Common Pleas and Probate > journals at > the Mahoning County Court House and other records located in the Immigration > and Naturalization office in the C > Source Bibliography: POWERS, WILLIAM. Mahoning County, Ohio, Naturalization > Proceedings, pre 1870 Immigrants. Canfield, OH: Mahoning County Chapter, > Ohio Genealogical Society, 1987. 51p. > Page: 14 > > So, does anyone know how to gain more information on this naturalisation > please? > > I am hoping it records his place of birth and or parents > > I also have a William OVINGTON who arrived in Ohio circa 1830/31 with > his inlaws to be the MEADs > > William died in 1847 would he have needed or desired to be naturalised > in that period? > > -- > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Eliz I suspected as much but had to go for it One day I keep telling myself, one day <g> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 17/07/2012 19:32, Eliz Hanebury wrote: > The Mahoning list gave me the answer that while my 2Xggf naturalized > in 1869 there would be no mention of where in England he came from > (Wales actually *G*) Very upsetting when that was pretty much the last > place to find his birth place. There are two of his name and age in > the Welsh baptism records so we are pretty much stuck <G> > > > > Eliz