In my last post, I posed the following research question: Was Mary Keel, daughter of George Keel and Sarah Keel, wife of James Spong, the mother of Sarah keel, baptized at Preston-by-Wingham on March 19, 1787? While circumstantially I could assume that, based on the lack of any other Mary Keel living in Preston or… Continue reading Another Sarah Keel…Part 2…
While browsing the Preston parish register images a couple of years ago, I stumbled on the following intriguing baptism entry: “March 19th – Sarah, baseborn-daughter of Mary Keel” A research question immediately presented itself: Was the Mary Keel, whose daughter Sarah Keel was baptized at Preston on March 19 1787, the daughter of George Keel… Continue reading Another Sarah Keel…Part 1…
Almost five years ago I wrote a post about two baptisms in the Chislet parish register for girls named Sarah Keel. The first entry records a child, daughter of William and Elizabeth Keel on May 25, 17491. Below that entry is one for another Sarah Keel, daughter of William and Mary Keel, but from more… Continue reading Solving the puzzle of the two Sarah Keels…
I mentioned in my recent Genealogical goldmine post how I’d found a couple of wills which revealed a plethora of genealogical details, allowing me to build a family for Sarah Keel and move back at least two more generations. Here is the family I hypothesized based on the work I’d done so far, except for… Continue reading Confirming a hypothesis with Robert Keel’s will…
Despite a very challenging and exhausting time at work recently (we’ve had multiple people out sick over the last few weeks) I’ve managed to squeeze in some genealogy work, albeit a little less often than usual. My focus has been abstracting and analyzing the will of William Keel (mentioned in my last post), dated 8… Continue reading Abstract and analysis of the Will of William Keel…
Thanks to a recent post by Judith Batchelor, 18th Century Sleuthing in Kent, I delved back into FamilySearch’s England, Kent, wills and probate collection via the Kent Probate Index mentioned by Judith. The last time I used the FamilySearch collection, I wasn’t completely certain I would find a will for George as all I’d previously… Continue reading A genealogical goldmine…
Follow-up Research Question: Are George Keel (of Preston) and Ann Hammond (of Stourmouth), who married on 5 Dec 1739 in Stourmouth, the parents of George Keel, baptized November 30, 1740 at St Mildred, Preston? As established last week, in late November 1740, George Keel, son of George and Ann, was christened in Preston1 and I… Continue reading Keel Family research…working through the evidence – Part 2
I’m setting my Taylor research aside for a while as I’ve hit a bit of a roadblock and am returning to another difficult branch of my tree, that of the Keel family from east of Canterbury in the county of Kent. I’ve written about the challenges with this particular line before and in the intervening… Continue reading Keel Family research…working through the evidence…Part one
As a Canadian, I had a long weekend, so my answer to Randy’s challenge is coming a little late – I was a bit too bogged down in the details to post last night: 1) Share something unexpected that you’ve found while researching an ancestor. 2) Share about your unexpected something in your own blog… Continue reading Thanksgiving Monday Genealogy Fun…(a day late)
Last week I wrote about Parish Chest Records and how using them can open up new avenues of research. While browsing them can be tedious, it’s well worth the time and effort, as my example below illustrates. For a couple of years now, my profile of my 5th great-grandmother, Sarah Keel, has remained incomplete due… Continue reading Pinpointing a death for Sarah Keel from Parish Chest Records…
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