Another boost for the family history
Family history is very much an on and off affair over the years for me. I find that it’s largely made up of short bursts of activity when some new information source becomes available or I hear some snippet by chance.
Thus only a few weeks ago I had a major breakthrough when I found that the 1901 census was finally online.
I hadn’t expected this to add an awful lot of information to my records as the 1911 census did. That one filled in a lot of detail about branches of the family and completed locations for me. I wasn’t expecting much from this one as everyone on the 1911 census would be on the 1901 census and I’d locations nailed down at 1896 so wasn’t expecting any big changes there.
However, there was one key thing on it: the family weren’t in the same house in 1901 as they were in 1896 and 1906. This has quite a big impact as my grandfather was born in 1899 which means that I can now get his birth certificate when previously it wasn’t found on the traces (because of the incorrect address).
Interestingly, it also confirms that my grandmothers name was Jane and not Jean/Jeannie as everyone thought. That difference seems to be down to the Ulster Scots pronunciation: she was always “ginnie” which younger folk in the family took to mean Jeannie when in fact it was the familiar form in Ulster Scots of Jane.
Finally, I’ve confirmation that the family, or at least the Youngs, did come from Scotland with my great-grandfather John Young recorded as being born in Scotland (I think near Ayr but that’s only from hearsay). His wife Catherine was born in Northern Ireland as were all their children so he appears to have come over here sometime in his 20s.
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