Sorry Jean, just noticed a typo in the previous email. "Mary Ann" married 10 years, 3 children born, 3 living should read as your "Mary Ellen". Regards, Sally

Hi, Thank you for this, I am working on these lines and do have much of the information. Given that I was told Robert abandoned his family I expected the missing person to be his wife Emma. I couldn't understand why the girls were listed as married and surname HAIGH. I have had information for the past 20 years of who the girls married and how many children etc. I have recently contacted Robert's grandson. I didn't think it mattered too much to record any more about them until this amazing ability to tap into each other's family tree. I now have a g grandaughter of Annie living in Canada who is interested in all this, her grandfather is the one who gave me the information originally. Her Uncle from an adjacent line is also doing this research and I have a couple from the Mary Ellen line who are doing research too. I am now trying to help my husband understand how it all fits together as best I can. It is like taking a time capsule into a community a century ago to see where they lived and what they did. All our data would provide a great social statement of the century from early 1800s to mid 1950s. I re-read emails from the past which told me about the Mill trade in Newtown Wales where Elizabeth grew up. It seems that about 1881 times were hard and unemployment forced people to move in droves to USA, Australia and back to parts of UK they had moved from. This explains why my family married in Wales but moved to Batley and then Huddersfield between 1878-1881. They were back in Wales for 1891 census but the husband was working elsewhere, our ancestor was born in 1892 and the family returned to Huddersfield shortly after. Just trying to put what I know of Elizabeth on paper I learned much, now I am really starting to learn more about Robert H Haigh too Grandma Alice called her first born Robert Hugh. Haigh and gave her next son the middle names of Hugh Haigh as well. (I've yet to locate the origins of Hugh mind you.). I've have always known about Robert but it is news to me he abandoned his family. Perhaps he wanted to live in America but his wife didn't. Emigrating was a huge step leaving behind all ones support systems. I always tell people we were just too young to fully appreciate the enormity of what we were doing or we wouldn't have been brave enough to do it. (I don't have any regrets but we were naive). Of course one always has to bear in mind that the census is only one night every 10 years but they are great fun - a pity we don't allow ours to be viewed. Jean in S. Australia.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "sally roberts" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [WRY] 1911 Census > > Sorry Jean, just noticed a typo in the previous email. > > "Mary Ann" married 10 years, 3 children born, 3 living should read as your > "Mary Ellen". > > Regards, > Sally > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >