My Trails into the Past

I have completed one hundred seventy-one (171) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. Although we are on vacation, we are wearing our masks aboard trains, busses, and streetcars, and anywhere there are crowds or enclosed places. Genealogy Blog Writing : Last One Standing: Reginald F Lancaster I wrote about one of my second granduncle who married but never had children. This post was highlighted by Amy Crow Johnson for last week’s 52 Ancestors challenge. SNGF: Your Most Vivid Memory of Your Father I wrote about the work my dad did and the sports he followed, and how we interacted with him on his days off. Genealogy Because we are on vacation this week, I attended no meetings and did no research on my own families. I did some volunteer work, working on press releases for BCG webinars. I also watched one webinar:  Finding Your Ancestral Homestead by Sheilagh Doerfler (NEHGS) I am reading : The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny—FINISHED! A Noble Radiance by Donna Le...

The final whereabouts of my husband’s great-grandfather’s sister, Lydia Nicholas Davey, was unknown until now. What Was Known She was born 1 April 1841 in Bristol, England. [1] The family was living in Bedminster Parish of Bristol in 1841 and the two youngest children of Thomas Davey and Mary Nicholas, including Lydia, were born in the county. [2] By 1851, her family were living in London in the Burrough of Greenwich. [3] Sometime before 1854, the family had arrived in the United States. She was baptized at St. Peter’s Methodist Church in Reading, Pennsylvania on 12 March 1854 along with her sister, Mary Jane Davey. [4] All that was known about her was from the listing of the survivors for both of her parents. In February 1886, she was Mrs. Lydia Jackson of New York City. [5] In September 1893, she was Mrs. Lida M. Colbey of New York. [6] She supposedly had twin boys, Albert and Alfred. Well she was found in New York City in 1883, living at 185 Prince. Her name...