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Hello everyone, My name is Jane and I've decided that its about time someone in the family did the family tree, so here I am.
Its early days yet and I'm looking for the surnames TAYLOR, HILL AND EVANS for the time being.
When I was a child my great gran told me a story about her great gran (4x removed from her) who gave birth on board a ship and also on that ship was LORD NELSON who was asked to become GODFATHER to her newborn child.
He did so and somewhere in the family is supposed to be a document to prove this but I have not found it yet. This story is well known throughout the generations of my family. I have a big task ahead of me so any help would be grateful. The people Im looking for with the surnames above were born or at least living in the LYE, WOLLESCOTE and STOURBRIDGE areas of the WEST MIDLANDS from around 1865 to 1956. Thanks for reading my very long introduction.

Hi Jane

Hiya Jane and welcome! How fascinating is that story?
I also have Taylor, Hill and Evans in my tree, from the Oldbury, Rowley Regis areas

Mally

Hi Jane.Welcome.

hi jane and welcome to the forum

Hi Jane welcome

If you have Black Country ancestors if you scroll down the main board then we
have a dedicated section to that area called Black Country Genealogy so post any queries in there.
A few of us are also involved in a huge project to see how all the names link together for that area
click on my website logo on any of my posts to view that project, it is called Black Country Connections.

For any other query then do post in the General Discussion area

Thankyou all for your warm welcome.

jane2009 wrote:Hello everyone, My name is Jane and I've decided that its about time someone in the family did the family tree, so here I am.
Its early days yet and I'm looking for the surnames TAYLOR, HILL AND EVANS for the time being.
When I was a child my great gran told me a story about her great gran (4x removed from her) who gave birth on board a ship and also on that ship was LORD NELSON who was asked to become GODFATHER to her newborn child.
He did so and somewhere in the family is supposed to be a document to prove this but I have not found it yet. This story is well known throughout the generations of my family. I have a big task ahead of me so any help would be grateful. The people Im looking for with the surnames above were born or at least living in the LYE, WOLLESCOTE and STOURBRIDGE areas of the WEST MIDLANDS from around 1865 to 1956. Thanks for reading my very long introduction.

hi jane
im sue you moms cousin i have been doing the family history for 12yrs now i did not know auntie minnies ,beatties ,aunt eddies dad was a evans .nelson bit is very hard to prove every thing gran said was right apart i cannot found the christening
if you want to know any thing please ask .do you know the story of the man that went to canada was in the mounties i
found his grandaughter last year
sueh

Hi Sue, Wow, what a turn up. Who was your mom then? The only Sue I recall was Joys mom.
Yes uncle Colin told me about Mr Evans but all I know is that he had a brother called Henry.
I'm trying to find Gertrude Hills grandparents on her dads side. I know who her mothers parents were but I want to trace both sets of grandmothers to see if I can get back to this Nelson connection. So I'm looking for George Thomas Taylors parents. His grandmother was Harriet. I also need to find out about ted who was gertrude hills brother. I think one of his sons( Raymond) lives by wynall shops but is in his 80's I think and I have been told his not well at the moment and don't no if I should go knocking on his door or not. look forward to hearing from you.

jane2009 wrote:Hi Sue, Wow, what a turn up. Who was your mom then? The only Sue I recall was Joys mom.
Yes uncle Colin told me about Mr Evans but all I know is that he had a brother called Henry.
I'm trying to find Gertrude Hills grandparents on her dads side. I know who her mothers parents were but I want to trace both sets of grandmothers to see if I can get back to this Nelson connection. So I'm looking for George Thomas Taylors parents. His grandmother was Harriet. I also need to find out about ted who was gertrude hills brother. I think one of his sons( Raymond) lives by wynall shops but is in his 80's I think and I have been told his not well at the moment and don't no if I should go knocking on his door or not. look forward to hearing from you.

jane yes iam joys mom granddad taylors mom was jemima granddad taylors dad was john brace they never married
jane have you read my post about nelsons goddaugther it is not the main taylor line.i am in contact with aunt lilys son dickie
and they are all well into there 80s now .harriet was a chambers befor marrying thomas .i have spent a fortune on finding
out about nelson jane feel free to ask anything
sueh

sueh wrote:

jane2009 wrote:Hi Sue, Wow, what a turn up. Who was your mom then? The only Sue I recall was Joys mom.
Yes uncle Colin told me about Mr Evans but all I know is that he had a brother called Henry.
I'm trying to find Gertrude Hills grandparents on her dads side. I know who her mothers parents were but I want to trace both sets of grandmothers to see if I can get back to this Nelson connection. So I'm looking for George Thomas Taylors parents. His grandmother was Harriet. I also need to find out about ted who was gertrude hills brother. I think one of his sons( Raymond) lives by wynall shops but is in his 80's I think and I have been told his not well at the moment and don't no if I should go knocking on his door or not. look forward to hearing from you.

jane yes iam joys mom granddad taylors mom was jemima granddad taylors dad was john brace they never married
jane have you read my post about nelsons goddaugther it is not the main taylor line.i am in contact with aunt lilys son dickie
and they are all well into there 80s now .harriet was a chambers befor marrying thomas .i have spent a fortune on finding
out about nelson jane feel free to ask anything
sueh

jane i have found some evans in 1901 cencus with some henrys in auntie eddie was born in 1910 they are all in walking distance to hayes lane where all three of them were born

jane2009 wrote:Hi Sue, Wow, what a turn up. Who was your mom then? The only Sue I recall was Joys mom.
Yes uncle Colin told me about Mr Evans but all I know is that he had a brother called Henry.
I'm trying to find Gertrude Hills grandparents on her dads side. I know who her mothers parents were but I want to trace both sets of grandmothers to see if I can get back to this Nelson connection. So I'm looking for George Thomas Taylors parents. His grandmother was Harriet. I also need to find out about ted who was gertrude hills brother. I think one of his sons( Raymond) lives by wynall shops but is in his 80's I think and I have been told his not well at the moment and don't no if I should go knocking on his door or not. look forward to hearing from you.

jane maria freeman is your 5xgrtgrandmother maryann is your 4xgreatgrandmother i have been in touch about parish mag
i have to ring tomorrow jane this is my email address
(note by NL email addy withdrawn as a safeguard to member- pm sent to Jane with details on )
i have a researcher looking in to maria,s birth and i might get one to look into the log book in london

Sue I have deleted your email addy as a safeguard to yourself.
I have sent Jane a pm with your email in
do you know about pms on this site
you can just click on the members user name
it takes you to a new window
look to your left it says send a private message
that way you can both talk to each other without others viewing details