Numerous transcriptions abound prepared by devoted people to help others find relatives lurking in past records but be very wary about relying on them without reference to original sources. I am currently benefiting from an annual subscription to Find My Past which enables me to constantly refer to original records to see where transcribers have strayed by giving us HOOKINS people we shouldn't have and depriving us of those who are rightly "ours".
I have just altered all my records for the family of a Caleb HOOKINS who was recorded as such as a widower with his 3 children in the 1891 Census on a transcription. Having now looked at the original Census page image on Find My Past I am inclined to transfer him and his family to the HOSKINS fraternity and a further check on the birth index for all 3 children reveals that they were all recorded as HOSKINS so he has been truly despatched to that clan.
Another plot by people to infiltrate our elite family has been foiled!
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Caroline HOOKINS (Tree G)
This is a bit of a Caroline and George HOOKINS run around. Having just almost tied myself in knots with Carolines and Georges I'll attempt not to lose you in the explanation. It all started with Caroline HOOKINS born in 1831/2 judging by the 1881 Census but that varies it seems at each Census or record I found! She had an illegitimate child called George at the Union Workhouse in Mitcham in 1853 - although when George got married he gave his father's name as George (but more of that in a moment). George then proceeded in 1874 to marry someone else called Caroline (nee TRASH and whose father was George TRASH) who had been born in Cove Hampshire and they had at least 11 children one of who was a George but it seems no Caroline. 3 years before her marriage this Caroline (TRASH) had been a Nurse Maid at the Dog & Fox Hotel in Wimbledon. George died in 1903 and his wife in 1925.
George's mother Caroline had married John COLLINS in 1863 at Streatham but as this was 10 years after young George's birth he is unlikely to have been the father. Although I haven't prove it I assume that John COLLINS died because in 1873 (1 year before son George's marriage)Caroline COLLINS married George TRASH the father of her daughter-in-law so as George TRASH therefore became young George's step father I guess may have used his name on his marriage certificate rather than leave it blank - He id call him Hookins though! In the 1881 Census both families are living in Bath Road - a common address for Mitcham Hookins' - next door to each other and George TRASH and his wife had George's 2 children living with them.
There we are - wasn't that fun?!!!!!
George's mother Caroline had married John COLLINS in 1863 at Streatham but as this was 10 years after young George's birth he is unlikely to have been the father. Although I haven't prove it I assume that John COLLINS died because in 1873 (1 year before son George's marriage)Caroline COLLINS married George TRASH the father of her daughter-in-law so as George TRASH therefore became young George's step father I guess may have used his name on his marriage certificate rather than leave it blank - He id call him Hookins though! In the 1881 Census both families are living in Bath Road - a common address for Mitcham Hookins' - next door to each other and George TRASH and his wife had George's 2 children living with them.
There we are - wasn't that fun?!!!!!
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