Regret I don't normally have the time to SEARCH this website for your
ancestor. It shouldn't be a problem to do it yourself because all my
records are well indexed. (However, see below for special circumstances
when I can do a search).
But if you have FOUND one of your ancestors on this website but can't
trace them forwards or back (although you've honestly tried), maybe
I can HELP.
All the data on this website is also held in computer databases which
I have compiled for my own use. Databases are great for searching and
indexing, and are a tremendous help when trying to trace a family tree.
But only if the data is in the records to start with.
Send me enough details of the person you've found on this website to let
me locate them. For example:
Parish Registers: Burial 1758jul23 DOXEY Aaron(son)Aaron/(Middleton)
Then I'll use my 42 databases to try and trace their family
tree forwards or back. But I can only do this within the range of years
(1600-1900) and area (Wirksworth, Matlock, Middleton, Cromford etc) covered
by this website.
The kind of thing I may be able to unearth is:
Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, Maiden name, siblings, parents' names,
Aunts, Uncles, Dates, Birthplaces, Occupations, Addresses, Cousins,
Variant surname, movements of the family etc.
One of the reasons using a database helps is that all the alternatives are
shown on the screen together. So, looking at all the children and their ages,
I can make a good guess when their parents' marriage took place. Or looking
at several alternative baptisms, I can choose the most likely because of
father's job or birthplace. Or maybe I can trace a Marriage witness and find
he was a cousin of alternative "B". Sometimes I can disentangle the children
of two sets of parents with the same names. I can even trace a wife's maiden
surname by searching for an "Isabella" born around 1790 and discover there is
only one. Perhaps using the Census together with the Parish Registers
reveals just who someones mother was?
I am prepared to search the website for a person if I have their firstname,
their approximate age and strong evidence they were born in the Wirksworth Area.
For example, a married woman called Jemima appearing in a non-Wirksworth-Area
Census declares she is 28 in 1851 and was born in Cromford.
Ince's Pedigrees is a goldmine whose potential is only fully revealed by a
computer database search. For example a search on "High Constable" reveals
pedigrees of three holders of this office. A search on "America" reveals
some 40 people born in the Wirksworth Area who moved to the New World.
So drop me an e-mail if you think there's a good chance that using my database
will produce a result that you are not able to achieve searching the records
in this website.
Best wishes,
John Palmer, Dorset, England
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by e-mail with the details.