Hi!Thanks for stopping by.
I've been researching my family for about a year and a half,
and its gotten big!
Sometimes, on a good day, I pick up a few cousins. On a great day, I get proof.
My most recent foray was to the Public Records Office (PRO) in London.
I went looking for my grandmother's grandfather, John CONLY.
I found him in the 1841 census. Age 9. Parish of St. Leonard's, 10 Queen Street, Shoreditch.
Contrary to family lore, it seems highly unlikely that John was a page to the court who got a free ride to America.
The 1841 census lists, John, his mother, Charlotte, two aunts, and six other unrelated individuals living all under the
same roof.
St. Leonard's wasn't a cathedral.It wasn't even a church. St. Leonard's was a borrowed classroom at the neighborhood school.
It probably was the only time John went there.Mr. A. Starling, census-taker, didn't list young John as a "scholar".
And I don't think he was 9, either. He was christened at St. Leonard's in 1836.
By the the time the 1851 census rolled around, all from 10 Queen Street, circa 1841, were gone from St. Leonard's.
I would have liked to have seen the place. I would have too, but for the blitzes.
Incidentally, John CONLY married Diana or Anna NORRIS in Lowell, MA 1 July 1854.Diana's father was Jacob NORRIS.
John CONLY died on 27 Feb 1877. Less than one year after Diana, who passed 30 Mar 1876.
They are both buried in St. Johnsbury, VT.
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