A few years ago after sending an email inquiry off to an unknown cousin in New Zealand I received this chart in the mail. Wow! what a gift! Some of it I had but most of it I did not.
Since then my cousin Patricia and I have become good friends and we work on this Direct Line of ours together and share new information whenever we can.
You can imagine the many little mysteries and connections that go along with this many ancestors. The families who stayed in one place for centuries were quite easy to trace but the ones who moved around, well, that takes some detective work.
One such ancestor is Tyson Longrigg 1827-1873, born in Appleby, Westmorland, England. The son of Joseph Longrigg and Mary Hodgson his father was a Farmer and an Innkeeper in the lovely town of Appleby.
Tyson became a Doctor and by age 33 he was married and living and practicing in the Bronx, in New York City. We know from other researchers on his wife's line that he stopped in Canada and met and married Rachel Hodgson 1828-1885. She appears to have been a cousin on his Mother's Line.
Other researchers lost track of Tyson and Rachel except for saying that Rachel would visit her sisters from time to time and bring them lovely dresses from New York.
My research has found them in several City Directories two Census Records and two Catholic Church Records and two burial records...
Their two eldest sons are listed in Catholic Baptism records in the Bronx.
This past week Patricia contacted me and asked me where I had found the death date for Tyson and that sent me off on another search. I had found his death in an e-book on Google from the New York Herald. Decided to look a little more on this family and came up with a new burial record for his wife Rachel and was directed from ancestry.com to a Cemetery web site in the Bronx. Not just any cemetery but a very famous Historical one...
One more piece added to the puzzle!
1 comment:
SO very interesting. I love that you are such a detective. Good work ... again.
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