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This page is where we post stories and articles that are relevant to Genealogy and Family History

A Most Welcome Surprise

1/8/2022

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​A Most Welcome Surprise
Contact from Dorset, England


Regarding My - Grand Uncle Ralph and His “Fancy Lady” Story

​First published in the Rootes Journal in September 2014
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​by Jennifer Rowe

The Maybee Society in the USA had copied the article onto their website and a descendant of Maud Taylor’s in Dorset, Caroline Jay Ranger was drawn to it by the “Fancy Lady”.
 
As Caroline read it, all the names her mother had mentioned were there and she realised the “Fancy Lady” Ada “Maud” Mabey nee Taylor, was most probably her Great Grandmother.
 
Previously we had no knowledge of Maud’s first child. Frank Charles Edward Taylor, illegitimate, was born on
26 May 1902, at 19 James Street, Southampton, Hampshire and had been handed over to John Daly and his wife Eliza Alexandra Emms and raised by them. Frank later changed his name to Daly, but not until 2nd September 1949.

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​Joseph Abbott

20/7/2022

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​Joseph Abbott
Was He Married Twice

An interesting man - Joseph Abbot,
or Joseph Alfred Abbott

by Jenny Young
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My great-great grandfather, Joseph ABBOTT, was an interesting man. His date and place of birth remain a mystery however his life in New Zealand was well documented. 

He married my great-great grandmother in 1873 and they had 10 children. The marriage took place in Cust in the South Island of New Zealand - Mary Ann Hutt was the bride. On viewing the marriage certificate print out I noticed that Joseph was recorded as Joseph Alfred Abbott, a bachelor of full age and Mary Ann was 17 years old. By 1884 the family are appearing in records in Otaki on the North Island of New Zealand, where Joseph is registered as a baker on the Otaki Electoral Roll.  

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