Ancestral Occupations

Various occupations my ancestors had.  Some had only the one but others had several over their lifetime.

DNA Ethnicity Results

 I always said I was quite an uncomplicated person!!!

They must be including the Scottish connection from way back before I have researched because since the 1700s I have been 25% Scottish and the rest Southern England (mainly Kent and Sussex).

Dad was half Scotland and half Kent.  Mum was Sussex with a smidgen of Kent!!!  My sister was born in Sussex but I had to be different and was born in Hertfordshire.  Both my children were born in Gloucestershire and my daughter's children were born in Hertfordshire and my son's children were born in America.

Direct Line Ancestral Names

 Trying to find different ways to show the family names that I am interested in researching.  Shows my surnames back as far as my 3x great grandparents.

Finders ........not Keepers!!!

 Joseph Weston, nephew to Zacharias who you can read about here and also a railway employee, sounds like a man you could trust.  In 1935 The Hastings and St Leonards Observer reported that he found an abandoned attache case whilst patrolling the line between Etchingham and Roberstbridge stations and handed it in.  It was reported that the case belong to Alice Cole, district nurse for the area, who had had it stolen from her car.  The car was parked two doors up from Robertsbridge Station.  Interesting for me, my grandparents, my mother and my aunt were living in that house and they were all great friends of hers and this is the first time I had heard what her first name was!!!

Joseph is a first cousin twice removed to me and was born in April 1878 and died in 1972, another long living Weston!  His parents were John Weston and Mary Ann Humphrey.  He married Mary Maria Relf in 1904 and they had 7 children; 6 girls and 1 boy.  The men were well and truly outnumbered!!

In 1901 he was a platelayer working on the railways and living at Etchingham and could well have been working in the same gang as is uncle Zacharias.  In the 1939 Register, at the start of World War 2, he was recorded as a railway lengthsman and living at Rother View in Etchingham.

Joseph Weston is the man on the left. In the front row next to him is Ernie Wells, his son in law.  On the opposite end on the right is Farmer Croft.  On the back row on the far right is Will Eastwood.  Can you identify the others?  (Credit to Etchingham in Bye-gone Days Flickr site here.)

Platelayers and lengthsmen were responsible for a section of railway track and it could be dangerous work.  They needed to be careful they were standing clear from passing trains and not slip onto the tracks when working or not get crushed between carriages or trucks if stationery trains started moving.

My Pedigree Tree coloured by county of birth

 What a different way of viewing this and makes for something that might even interest those family members who aren't currently interested.

Dates UK censuses were taken

 

United Kingdom censuses are  held every 10 years. The census records relate to the persons whereabouts on the date given below:

 1801 - 10th March Tuesday

1811 - 27th May Monday

1821 - 28th May Monday

1831 - 30th May Monday

1841 - 6th June Sunday

1851 - 30th March Sunday

1861 - 7th April Sunday

1871 - 2nd April Sunday

1881 - 3rd April Sunday

1891 - 5th April Sunday

1901 - 31st March Sunday

1911 - 2nd April Sunday

1921 - 19th June Sunday (publication date 1st January 2022)

1931 - 26th April Sunday (publication date 1st January 2032)

1939 - 29th September World War II National Registration (publication date 1st January 2040)

1941 - no census taken due to World War II.

1951 - 8th April (publication date 1st January 2052)

1961 - 23rd April (publication date 1st January 2062)

1971 - 25th April (publication date 1st January 2072)

1981 - 5th April (publication date 1st January 2082)

1991 - 21st April (publication date 1st January 2092)

2001 - 29th April (publication date 1st January 2102)

2011 - 27th March Sunday

2021 - 21st March Sunday