Nottinghamshire Families

27/06/2019

It's surprising what bits of information about our ancestors are out there on the internet. Whilst looking through the British Newspaper Archive a few months back, I typed in a search for my grandfather, James Ellis.
I came across a piece in the Nottingham Evening Post about a James Ellis, who had stopped s man stealing a box from the back of a unattended delivery van.
This James Ellis worked at a nearby cinema. Now I had no way of knowing if this man was my grandfather, and I had no way of knowing if my grandfather had worked at a cinema. I saved the piece in case I came across anything else which would confirm that it was him.
Some time later, I had access to the 1939 Register and was searching for ancestors who I knew would be on there. I typed in my grandfather, and there he was, living at 6 Ryeland Cresent. Occupation? Cinema Attendant. Not only that but my grandmother was also an usherette.

16/09/2015

Find My Past is free this weekend 18th to 21st September. Don't forget you have to be registered first though.

30/07/2015

6 Famous Graves in Nottingham! ( Cemetery)

6 Famous Graves in Nottingham! ( Cemetery)

Nottingham's most noteworthy citizens, who helped to put the "great" in Great Britain, are all long dead. So why not find out a little about (just) a few of ...

30/07/2015

After many hours spent looking for a family transcribed on the census as ORNINGTON, I have now found that their name is really CRUDGINGTON. There's no wonder we have difficulty finding ancestors😬😬

11/02/2015

My Family History and other stuff !!: My search for Gertrude Annie Lacey

My Family History and other stuff !!: My search for Gertrude Annie Lacey

28/10/2014

I have just opened a new website for Nottinghamshire Families at http://paulellis57.wix.com/notts-families

13/07/2014

Researching the British Newspaper Archive this morning. So far I've found 1 attempted su***de, 1 suspicious death and two accidental deaths, all in the CHEETHAM family line.

14/06/2013

I am hoping that a trip to the Archives yesterday will prove helpful to some of my family connections in Tasmania. Also found my mum's baptism entry in the St George's baptism registers along with my aunt's. Mum's birth date is wrong, however. They have it as August 26th, a month later than it was.

22/05/2013

I have managed to repair the opening page on the Nottinghamshire Families web page. You should be able to read it ok now and follow the pages from the menu.

14/02/2012

how did it get on there

04/11/2011

I have found a lot more CHEETHAM ancestors in the village of Orston, Now I've just got to sort 'em out.

11/10/2011

I am now researching the Carey ancestors in my family. They mostly lived in the Kirkewhite Street area of the Meadows

14/01/2011

Auxillary Fire Service

I have just added a new page to theoldmeadows.co.uk Follow the llink or click the "Meadows during the War" link on the home page

My mother's father, Joseph Corthorn, served with the Auxiliary Fire Service during World War Two. Strangely enough the family have been able to find no details of the AFS during this time. It is thought that most records of the men who served in the AFS were destroyed after the war.

30/09/2010

Received the Wills I requested from the Probate Office. The Will of Alfred Chaplin didn't get me any closer to resolving the John Chaplin puzzle but the rest of the Wills have given me a few more ancestors to chase.

30/09/2010

Completed my search of the Orston Parish Registers today. I still can't find the link to the Cheethams from Flintham so now I am searching the whole of the Flintham registers.

23/09/2010

Had a good day at the archives today. I decided to concentrate on the Orston Parish Registers, the village where most of the Cheethams seemed to live. I found quite a few baptisms a few marriages and even three burials. All I have to do now is match them up to the Orston Cheethams in my tree.
I have a feeling that the family did not originate in Orston but in one of the other little villages in the Rushcliffe area.

08/09/2010

The papers from Nottingham University Manuscripts Department have arrived. There is a lot more than I thought there would be. Got to set about transcribing them now so I can find out who owned what and who sold what to whom

26/08/2010

I didn't manage to find any information to confirm The CHAPLIN hunch. It seems that there might have been two Alfred CHAPLINS born in Bermondsey living in Nottingham after all.

26/08/2010

Not going to the archives today. Too wet!!

25/08/2010

Off to the archives tomorrow. I'm hoping to find out more about the CHEETHAM family in Whatton in the Vale. I want to see if I can find out where they were before Whatton. Also hope to find out if my CHAPLIN hunch is correct. Got to search the electoral registers. If I've got time after that I will look for my grandfather's other brother.

14/06/2010

Why not let
Nottinghamshire Families do the legwork for you in the county of
Nottinghamshire. We make regular visits to the Archives Office and the
Local History Library in Nottingham and can also visit smaller local
libraries, as well as churches and museums to search out ancestors

14/06/2010

Do you want to discover more
about your family's origins?
Do you have a famous ancestor?
Do you want to know where great
aunt Agatha was buried?
Maybe there is a family secret
waiting to be discovered?
Do you want documentary evidence
for information you already have?