OK, so I'm not terribly keen on the new layout of FamilySearch most of the time but today I simply love it! I've found India ....
Well, I knew India exists, obviously, and I also know that some of my rellies soldiered out there. But today I discovered someone marrying out there, having a child out there and, by inference, dying out there (his young bride marries again, three years after marrying him, and is listed as a widow).
Jaazaniah Culpin, for t'was he, was born in Ketton cum Tixover, Rutland, in 1824, the youngest of the eight children of John and Ann and was christened in the parish church. And that's all I knew about him, until today. I'd thought that his unusual name would help me keep track of him ...... yeah, right, I was quite naive back then! I have to think about how to spell it so I don't imagine it appears the same way twice.
Anyway, I'm very pleased to have found him and his son, named after him poor boy, but then he dies so soon . Not unusual, I appreciate, but my experience has always been that the wife dies first! Still, being a soldier was undoubtedly an occupation which was hazardous to health so I shouldn't have been surprised.
Let's hear it for FamilySearch .... and I'll try harder to like the layout.
More soon.
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