My Tangent – A Lost Dog – Ancestor List In My Genealogy Search

Good Day,

And yes I lost one dog this morning. Three accounted for, all asleep on their beds; Taylor, Tinker, and Bella. Where the hell was Radar? Not in the kitchen. Not in the living room. Not at the dining room window transfixed at the early morning strollers.

Nowhere to be seen on the patio checking out the Grays. I called... I whistled. Then finally I caught a glimpse of a moving mountain of blankets and covers on the bed. Out pops the hazel eyes and ratty snout, a stump of a tail wagging. Just looking at me, inquisitively demanding, "Why the hell are you disturbing my comfy nap?" Oh, well The Pack is complete.

I'm at sort of a quandary about where and what I should do next. Of course I'm not at a loss of what I need to do in my search for the origins and genealogy of my ggg-grandfather James Smith...but I feel that I am at a juncture of dis-organization.

I look at my piles of papers on my desk and I see the tremendous number of downloads and files in my storage and in the many folders just screaming out to me to do something. “Get the damn papers and files organized!” “Where is your To-Do List?” “Start something…” “Do something, anything!!!”

Okay, here’s who I need to find, in my search and research of my genealogy. Just a few of the ancestors in my genealogy.

• GGG-Grandfather James Smith – last known location – Grenada


• GGG-Grandmother Mary Ann (née Doret) Smith – last known location – Grenada


• GGG-Grandfather William Thomas – Possible last known location – Grenada


• GGG-Grandmother Maria Matilda (née Rush) Thomas – Possible last known location – Grenada


• GGGG-Grandfather Henry Rush – Possible last known location – Unknown


• GGGG-Grandmother Grace (née ?) Rush – Possible last known location – Unknown


• GG-Grandfather John Merrifield – Possible last known location – Middlesex, England


• GG-Grandmother Esther (née Bailey) Merrifield – Possible last known location – London, England


• GGG-Grandfather William Merrifield – Possible last known location – Gloucestershire, England


• GGG-Grandmother Susanna (née ?) Merrifield – Possible last known location – Gloucestershire, England


• GGG-Grandfather George Bailey – Possible last known location – England


• GGG-Grandfather William Goodey – Possible last known location – Essex, England


• GGG-Grandmother Keziah (née Warner) Goodey – Possible last known location – Essex, England


• GGGG-Grandfather James Warner – Possible last known location – Essex, England


• GGGG-Grandfather Joseph Goodey – Possible last known location – Essex, England


• GGGG-Grandmother Sarah (née Pudney) Goodey – Possible last known location – Essex, England


• GGGGG-Grandfather John Pudney – Possible last known location – Essex, England


• GGGGG-Grandmother Mary (née ?) Pudney – Possible last known location – Essex, England


• GGG-Grandfather Thomas Megwire – Possible last known location – Lancashire, England


• GGGG-Grandmother Christian (née Dudgeon) Robertson – Possible last known location – Lanark, Scotland


• GGGGG-Grandfather John Robertson – Possible last known location – Haddington, Scotland


• GGGGG-Grandmother Ann (née Lyle) Robertson – Possible last known location – Haddington, Scotland


• GG-Grandfather George Goodey – Possible last known location – Sweden


• GG-Grandfather Benjamin Victor Abraham – Possible last known location – Demerara, British Guiana


• GG-Grandmother Emily (née Boyle) Abraham – Possible last known location – Demerara, British Guiana


• GGG-Grandfather Victor Abraham – Possible last known location – Middlesex, England


• GGG-Grandmother Rebecca (née Levy) Abraham – Possible last known location – Middlesex, England


• GGGG-Grandfather Michael Levy – Possible last known location – England

If anyone has any information, please contact me.

This is just the start of my Smith and Robertson Family Line searches. And this list is to continue. Stay tuned.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Part 139a – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Abraham Descendant Chart

Morning again,

I thought I would stick to my list of Expectations and attempt the first on my list – Create a New Abraham Descendant Chart. This Chart completes the eighth one of my Ancestral Lines as depicted on the Sixteen Ancestral Lines in Part 58s.

As you can see, with a magnifying glass of course, there are quite a number of Abrahams provided on this Chart. The information that I have been able to gather has been from a number of sources, especially regarding the siblings of my gg-grandfather Benjamin Victor Abraham. (You can find him at about the center of the Chart.)

From the various sources I have seen and read, the number of siblings at that generation varies between 16 and 22. I have provided initially a family total of 18. This number, as well as the information may change from time-to-time based on the sources found and accessed. Also from my preliminary readings I have discovered that the number of Levy ancestors, especially those of ggg-grandmother Rebecca (née Levy) Abraham may increase substantially.

Much credit is to Bernard for his research and information at our gg-grandfather Benjamin Victor Abraham’s generation. Thanks Bernie.

If you have any questions, comments, and information to add, please either comment to this Posting or email me.

And I really don’t know what the little vertical red line in the upper left-hand corner is that keeps appearing on my recent Charts. It has something to do with the software I’m using; GenoPro and SnagIt. If anyone has a fix please let me know.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Early Morning, May 18, 2009 - The Season Begins and The Princess Gown

Morning,

And is our summer here? It appears so, and the sure-fire way I can tell, the tile floor is sticky all day, and the papers on my desk and tables begin to look like they been soaked and dried. You know that dry-but-wet look, sort of a damp buckling. Yup, that's it, for the next five to six months.

A little while ago I was surfing the Internet for the name of my three-times great-grandfather Victor ABRAHAM. He and his wife, ggg-grandmother Rebecca (nee LEVY) were the parents of my gg-grandfather Benjamin Victor ABRAHAM. GGG-grandfather Victor is of my father's mother's line. Thanks to cousin Bernard and others a classic compendium of relevant data and information has been and is still being collected. The portrait, to the left, is of ggg-grandfather Victor and can be found in Arthur Barnett's 1961 book The Western Synagogue Through Two Centuries (1761-1961).

Found at the Jewish Museum Collection, in London is one of two of ggg-grandfather Victor's Trading Cards. In today's vernacular that would be a business card. And I was particularly interested in the phrase on the Trading Card "Embroiderer To The Queen". The key words I used in my Internet search were "Victor ABRAHAM and Embroiderer".

The search did not take too long and I chanced upon a link from Kentucky that caught me eye. The link was to a publication from the 27th Annual Kentucky Book Fair held on the 15th of November, 2008 at the Frankfort Convention Center. On page 25 of the publication I was introduced to an author, Linda Leopold Strauss and of her new book, The Princess Gown.


To my amazement the children's book is "based loosely on the family of the author's husband. His great-great-grandfather, Victor Abraham, was Embroiderer to Queen Victoria..."

It was a Eureka moment! Here it is:

1. I, Jim, living in Tampa, Florida in the United States, am looking for information,
2. Of the father Victor, my ggg-grandfather, who lived in London, England,
3. Of my gg-grandfather Benjamin, who lived in Georgetown, British Guiana, (now Guyana),
4. From information received from a cousin, Bernard, living in Stockholm, Sweden,
5. And found an author, Linda Leopold Strauss, listed at a Book Fair, in Kentucky in the United States, who has penned a book, who lives in Ohio,
6. Of her husband's, my cousin's family, and
7. Whose gg-grandfather Victor and family lived in London, England.

And this just continues to amaze me... how global-encompassing this search has been, and it doesn't end here. Four-times great-grandparents Victor and Rebecca (nee Levy) ABRAHAM had, based on various recordings somewhere between 16 and 22 children. That's quite a bit of researching, but I found it written that gggg-grandmother may have been one of 26 sisters!

So I continue, and hope you enjoy,

Jim

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Morning, May 11, 2009 - Reference Books and Sources

Morning,

I've decided to proceed with the creation of a list of books, physical and on line, that I have and I have used in my research. This list should, all-things-being-equal, be never completed... sort of like my own personal basic card catalog. And as I am creating it as a part of this blog, the hope is that I will be able to reference it from any location that I can login to my blog... This list should help me to avoid purchasing the same book twice, but of course that's not a guarantee. Many thanks to those who directed me to the book and/or sent me a copy.

To start with here a just a few that are sitting atop the desk beside me:

- Before the Sunset; Eileen Gentle; Shoreline, Quebec, Canada: 1989

- Evidence Explained; Elizabeth Shown Mills; Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: 2007.

- Selected Vital Records From The Jamaican Daily Gleaner Volume 1: 1865-1915; compiled by Madeline E. Mitchell; Heritage Books, Westminster, Maryland, USA:2007.

- The Grenada Handbook, Directory and Almanac For The Year 1901-1902; compiled by The Colonial Secretary; Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London, England: 1901. (On-line...)

- The Grenada Handbook and Directory 1946; compiled by E. Gittens Knight, The Advocate Co., Ltd., Bridgetown, Barbados, B.W.I.:1946. (Thanks Steve...)

- The Island of One People; Marilyn Delevante and Anthony Alberga; Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica: 2006. (Thanks Heather...)

- The Laws of Grenada, And The Grenadines; From The Year 1766, To The Year 1852; edited by William Snagg; Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1852. (On-line...)

- The Western Synagogue Through Two Centuries (1761-1961); Arthur Barnett; Valentine, Mitchell & Co., Ltd., London, England: 1961

This is a start, and shortly, thanks Joel, I'll be including a self-contained list on this blog.

Enjoy your day,

Jim

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