Thought I'd use the Calendar feature on my website to select today's subject and I settled on Alice Burrows, my gt-gt-aunt, who married John Hopkins today in 1819. The daughter of Robert & Elizabeth, nee Jallen, Alice was born in Manea in 1798 and she & John were married in the parish church there.
Over the next twenty three years they produced eleven children (seven daughters, four sons) and, according to my records, begat 86 descendants. That is, 86 descendants that I know of so far. The majority of them appear to have stayed in the county but one or two broke out and went as far as Lancashire!
What I noticed most of all though was the difference between my early research and the info that I logged more recently. References.
The early stuff is seriously lacking in the things. And one reference, memorably, simply says "Christening Records". Hey, nothing much got past me in those days.
So, I shall leave you contemplating 86 descendants and I'm going to start finding some of those references. Let's just hope that I agree with the information.....
More soon.
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