Which single brickwall solution would be your best Christmas present?

Question

For Christmas, I’d like to discover the English parentage of this brickwall:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lawing-25

What about you! Which single brickwall finally solved would be your best Christmas present?

Comments

For me, finding my Thomas Gray’s line in England on my father’s side.  Been searching for a long time.

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This is a great thread Pip. Could it be a "stickie" so we can keep referring to it ?

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Good idea! Done!

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Removed as posted in wrong place.

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I remember this. Still struggling with ol’ Isham, huh? I’ve got some of those, too.

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My 6xGreatGrandfather Barnaby Dolman-203 has me totally baffled for years. We have found his wife and children and then everything stopped. There is nothing else Like he disappeared.

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Jerry,

Have you checked for a natural disaster that could have killed your entire family?

I would go to https://familyhistorydaily.com.  This is a free weekly publication with many old ones available. It is a treasure trove of information.  If you have not looked there, you should

Taylor

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Taylor thank you so very much. It is a reassure trove and should keep me going for some time. At worse it will be just the same as it is now. but if I find something about Barnaby then it will be much better. I want to find something, even a sibling or a parent.  There is nothing except what I found. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am so excited. Thank you so very much.

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Because this got bumped already .. my expressed in this thread Christmas wish was granted.  Not at or by Christmas, but a couple of months later (even if I sat on it for a while checking things out to be sure I wasn't dreaming them up).

As has been posted elsewhere on G2G my "Liverpool born" gr-gr-grand wasn't.  Which is why he was a brickwall.  He was born in Sweden and the names he gave for himself and his father weren't exactly 100% accurate, either.  (More brickwall.)

But once the bricks started to loosen enough to pull from the wall, he was documentable and verified.

Definitely post this again, Pip.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glynn-633

This brickwall would be ALL my christmas & birthday present for life. My 2x Great grandfathers parents 

Answer 1

This Christmas, I'd like an answer to the origins of my 3x-great-grandma, Nancy Hall Sorrels: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hall-33707

She and her two brothers Parham Hall and Andrew J. Hall married three Sorrels siblings in Lawrence co. MS. However, both Nancy and her husband were dead by 1850, when their children appear living in the households of their aunts and uncles. Nancy's brothers have also proven frustrating to research. There was an Alexander Hall living next door to Green Sorrels (father of the three Sorrels who married the three Halls) in the 1820 census, but this proved too good to be true. Alexander Hall's will is extant and none of his children were named Andrew, Parham, or Nancy. Perhaps he was an uncle -- but who knows, he could've been no relation at all!

Answer 2

First I would like to thank all the members of WikiTree. Since becoming a member of WikiTree. I have learned a lot about my family,debunked some incorrect family myths,broken down brick walls,found lost Soules and learned much about myself.None of this would have been possible without YOU.Here is one brick wall I have not been able to break down https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Martin-35521    John and his wife Ann are a mystery.They appear out of nowhere and disappear the same way.So my wish this year is to be able to give the knowledge of this family's origins to my Mother who is now 81.She has told me they are the Ancestors she is most curios about.I would be extremely grateful for any help.Merry Christmas!

Answer 3

My 2nd Great Grandfather Joseph Smith https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-194559

He was arrested and jailed for bigamy 

"A man named Joseph Smith, aged 29, pleaded guilty to a charge that, at Warrington, on 1 Mar 1869, he unlawfully married Ann Grimes, his former wife, Mary Ann Smith, being still alive. He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment" 

I only know his fathers name to be John Smith...well according to his marriage cert to my GG Grandmother, he could have told a pile of horse poop

Answer 4

I consider myself very fortunate to have recently climbed the two brick walls that had bedeviled me for years—the two grandmothers of my great-great-grandmother, Sophia Marden (Ricker) (Robinson) Gilpatrick. Neither ascent was cheap—I live in Wisconsin, and it took a trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City to find the last name, birth date, and parents of Hannah (Hatch) Ricker and a trip to the University of Maine LIbrary in Orono, Maine, to confirm the parents of Eunice (Lord) (Ward) Marden.

That leaves my biggest brick wall as Mercy Brown, who married Simeon Newcomb of Eastham, Massachusetts, in 1745. I think it's very likely that she was a member of the William Brown family of Eastham, but I've never been able to find a connection.