Roy Interesting details of Colin's family history I have met him a few times or more correctly we were both attended the AGM of the National Association of Deafened People. I can tell you that Colin was a maths teacher at a school in Buckinghamshire until he lost his hearing and this resulted in him turning to writing. If he hadn't lost his hearing there may never have been any Morse books. Or they would have published later. Victor On 26/09/2012 3:25 PM, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: > Listers may be interested in my latest blog in the Famous family trees series at Findmypast > which is about the ancestry of the author Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse. > > I hope you will find this of interest because, though it doesn't involve Yorkshire, the project > was perhaps my most difficult to date because it illustrates to the novice family historian - and > even to an experienced genealogist such as myself - the dangers of just accepting > everything from the internet and ignoring conventional research! > > Initially, I got the wrong men as Colin Dexter's father and grandfather by identifying the wrong > person in the censuses. This was only uncovered when I obtained a number of BMD > certificates and found that an Alfred Dexter I thought was Colin's father was not the right man > because he didn't match with the named father on two marriage certificates. Eventually it > transpired that there were TWO Alfred Dexters of almost identical age at Oakham but one of > them had originally been born illegitimate in another name, in which he appeared in 1891, > and then, to compound the problem, though he had become Dexter in 1901 the name had > been mistranscribed. > > I hope readers will enjoy discovering how I eventually solved the problem with Morse-style > detective work and I hope the great man himself would be proud of me! > > The blog can be viewed at: > http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2012/09/famous-family-trees-colin-dexter/ > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > ..... > Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; > www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; > www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message