Hi all This is a crossing of lists. But I am posting this to give heart and encouragement to any who may be feeling a little low and who have not had much in the way of return mail on their family tree. If you stick with a list long enough, something is bound to break through. I have found this on various Wales lists and also the Shropshire list probably about five times now in relation to finding living relatives - and all this within the space of two years of being on the internet. This is quite staggering. How could you otherwise locate living relatives on the other side of the world - certainly not through the usual snail mail, or through newspapers! Stick with it, dear friends, you will find a breakthrough if you hang in there long enough. What you have to remember is that there are probably folk out there researching your own names but that they may have previously put their enquiries out in years past or even have yet to do so. I suspect that some of my own relatives out there in limbo-land may have done their research back in the 1950s-70s and because no one was responding in those days, decided that all were dead. Comes the new generation, and they, the younger ones, will eventually hop onto internet genealogy. It may be five years, it may be ten, but the odds are that one or two persons at least who are connected with one or more of your family branches will put their interests on the internet in due time. If I can find five within the short time of two years, surely you should be able to find at least one or two, or hopefully more. Never give up. Never say die. Never think for one moment that there are no relatives out there waiting to be found. Look at this. >Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:30:25 +1000 >To: ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com >From: Graham Price <genetree@pacific.net.au> >Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] New Names PARRY FEARNALL > >At 08:01 AM 12/10/01, cnsalt wrote: >>Hello, >>Thought I would try some new names I found.... Peat Parry Fearnall > >And so you should, dear Catherine, YOU HAVE JUST MADE A >HIT! BULLSEYE! These folk belong to me! I'd noticed your email >postings over the past year or so, but little did I realise that there may >have been a connection until now. > >>George Peats PARRY b 1873 married Amy FEARNALL >>. >>George, Farmer of Ellesmere son of Charles PARRY Auctioneer >> >>There is also a connection with Frank LLOYD Auctioneer in High St Whitchurch. >>And the FEARNALL family of Ivy house farm Tilstock >> >>regards >>catherine Salt in Cheshire > > >If you have these folk in your family tree then you are related to me, and >my two living (recently found) fourth cousins in Cheshire and Shropshire >by surname Hayward and Parry. ROYLE also comes into the family tree. So, >where have you been hiding? Isn't the internet amazing? But perhaps one >should say, isn't the Shropshire List amazing, because without it we never >would have found this connection. If you can prove a connection, which >certainly seems likely, I can probably add up to 300 more relatives to >your own family tree, and possibly even more than that! Need your details >concerning this family ASAP, but one thing I can assure you, if you are >related to George Peats (Peate) Parry, then you are certainly IN. >Whoopee! > >Ellesmere parish records: p191/1527 Baptism, George Peat Parry, parents >Charles & Charlotte Parry, of Haughton, Ellesmere, *farmer, ceremony >performed by Edmund Foulkes? (*Also auctioneer of Ellesmere). > >George married Amy circa 1890, most probably about 1898. Unfortunately the >parish records that are available finished before one was able to >ascertain their marriage, but given info from my fourth cousin Hylton >Royle Parry, they had ten children from 1900 onwards, commencing with >Charles Newnes Parry and ending with Frank and Roger Parry. So, there's >more. Contact me, COUSIN! >caio >Graham >Melbouirne >Oz Well, lovely listers, if you want to know the ensueing details of this saga, let me know Graham