Questions tagged [1830s]
For questions about research in the decade from 1830 to 1839. If the question is not only specific to this decade, use the 19th-century tag.
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Understanding B.D. abbreviation on Irish Marriage Register
Can anyone help me understand what the abbreviation B.D. means in the attached image of my 2nd Great Grandparents marriage record?
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Wording on an English marriage register from Somerset in 1834
I am confused by the word "resident" when referring to the groom - here in context:
Henry Chapman (a bachelor) resident of this parish
and Grace Cummins (a spinster) of this parish
To me it ...
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Finding 1834 location in St Clement, Cornwall, England
I am using the Kresen Kernow website for the first time, and trying to understand information about my 4th great grandfather Francis Green in one of its holdings.
The documents are titled Mortgage, ...
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Translating German Jewish birth record in Hebrew
Can somebody translate the two lines in Hebrew of this birth record for a German Jew from 1832 in Dessau?
The German part is translated (s. below), what is missing is the line in Hebrew in the first ...
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Getting birth certificate of Augusta Fluger Pasch born in Hamburg in 1834?
I would like to have a birth certificate of Augusta born in Hamburg - Germany in 1834. His father was Clemens Augustus Fluegels and his mother Magdalena Pasch.
When she was born, her father was 22 ...
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Finding birth/baptism records for Prussian ancestor born around 1840?
My GreatGrandfather listed in his US census that he was born in Prussia around 1840. I believe that I traced him to Lubeck.
How can I find birth/baptism records for Lubeck/Travemunde for about that ...
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Where is Trehavron, Kenwyn (Cornwall, England)?
Today I received the Death Certificate of my 3rd great grandfather Henry Green whose death was registered in the District of Kenwyn (Cornwall, England).
It says fairly clearly that he died on 21 May ...
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Seeking parents of ancestor born 1838 in Saxony Province, Germany?
I am trying to find the parents of my Great Grandfather, Fredric William Pahnish, born 11 dec 1838 in Saxony Province, Germany.
He died on 18 Aug 1890 in Bannack, Beaverhead, Montana, S
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Finding parents for James Henry Posey who was born in Maryland 1831?
I have been looking for 2 years for the parents of:
James Henry Posey
Birth: 12 Sept 1831 St. Mary's Maryland, United States
Death: 24 April 1914 Alexandria, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
I ...
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Finding when and why ancestor was in Bodmin Gaol ca 1835-1839?
I'm looking for inmate records for Bodmin Gaol jail in the UK circa 1835-1839. My 4th great-grandfather Phillip Stephen Rule (born 1777) was an inmate there based on records I have found on ancestry....
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Trying to find ancestor prior to his marriage, believed born in Quebec
My ancestor, Thomas Kirby is believed to have been born in Quebec in 1838, at some point he and or his family moved to Kirby, Ontario where he married Elizabeth A Tremaine. I can't find any birth ...
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Deciphering this area of Indiana?
I am looking at a sworn testimony for an application to transfer a Revolutionary War pension that speaks of moving before May 1838 from Aurora, Dearborn, Indiana to this location, also in Indiana:
I'...
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Finding who owned/managed Yorkshire Hall Plantation in Demerara (Guyana) in early 19th century?
This question is related to an earlier one (Where to find Will of Giles Chichester from 1820s, probably in Somerset or Guyana?) and more generally to the time that three (possibly four) brothers of my ...
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Tracking 1836 removal from Brewood to Tipton, Staffordshire?
The image below comes from Ancestry.com's England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 (Piece 2932: Brewood (Independent), 1810-1837) for Joseph Anslow and it appears to ...
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How to narrow down date of U.S. census data collection before 1850?
Starting in 1850, the U.S. census had a date at the top of the page for when the enumeration was recorded for the families on that page. I was looking at the 1830 census and 1840 census in Claiborne, ...
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