I'm French, but my mother was born in Northampton, where half of my family lives right now. Her maiden name was "ADDIS", and it's a family trick to call the first son 'John' .. I guess it's enough for you to guess how much of a headache I get while trying to find out who's who..
I started looking around Northampton, to find out that they actually came from the Herefordshire, and before that, from the Worcestershire.
Since I have absolutely no idea of how registers and official documents are kept in England, I got myself an account on ancestry.com and found most of the informations I have now there(from resencement documents and birth, marriage and death indexes). Thanks to this site I was able to follow pretty closely my ADDIS ancestors until about 1841, date of the first resencement in the UK. Without being 100% though, which is bothering me, I feel like building sandcastles..
Since I am an absolute newbie when talking about genealogy research, I wonder where or how I could find what I'm missing, which are :
- copies of certificates(births, marriages and deaths ones)
- any earlier information..
I'm also interested in Mary Ann Featherstone who got married in 1890 in worcester, I need to find wether she got married with Albert John Addis or not.. their marriage have the same references but I guess you can put several marriages on the same volume on the same page so I can't be sure..
And in knowing wether a Catharine Maran on 1851's resencement(born around 1825 in St. Andrews, Worcestershire) can be a Caroline Mason on the next ones ?
Thank you for your time
