The WikiTree Challenge 2022 Challenge 10

Date: 12 May 2022 to 19 May 2022
Surnames/tags: challenges wikitree_challenge Musk

Contents 1 WikiTree Challenge Week 10 1.1 Notes From The Guest 1.2 Needs Work 1.2.1 Needs Work - South Africa 1.3 Photographs 1.4 FamilySearch Image Look-ups 2 Tell Us What You Found!! 2.1 Interesting Finds 2.2 Free Space Pages 2.3 Military Profiles 3 Ancestors 3.1 Brick Walls 3.1.1 Paternal Brick Walls 3.1.2 Maternal Brick Walls 4 Resources 4.1 General WT Resources 4.2 Country-Specific Resources 4.2.1 England 4.2.2 South Africa

WikiTree Challenge Week 10

Guest Star: Elon Musk

Notes From The Guest

• There are no notes, as Elon is a 'focus' and not a 'guest' this week.
• Mindy's Tweet 1 Dec 2022

Needs Work

Please remove them from the list if you finish them. Thanks!!

1. Suggestions
2. John Spencer (1750-1824) b. Connecticut. Still needs more work - Revolutionary War Soldier, needs sources.
   There are extra 'notes' and the sources need attention. Thanks!
   Duplicated sources have been removed and span tags replaced by in-line citations. Ellingson-287 20:50, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
3. John Musk (abt.1768-abt.1834) b. England Needs research, a bio, and children
4. Eliza (Parry) Angel (abt.1851-) b. England Needs bio - done - Bio written, death sourced Potter-10870 08:45, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
5. William Nixon (1743-1819) b. England Needs children added - done Wheatley-2390 23:19, 14 May 2022 (GMT+1)
6. Fanny (Mack) Irish (abt.1816-) b. England Has parent's whose sources are rather sparse, any extra sources to flesh out profiles perhaps? Have added the other children but currently drawing a blank with more records.Buckle-52 09:51, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Needs Work - South Africa

1. John Irish Champion (1854-) added birth record and some headings cannot find a death record, needs some cleaning up in bio Cormack-404

Photographs

Note: Please check with your captain, Joan Whitaker, if there are any questions about the images being protected by copyright.

• Church of St Mary Major, Exeter

FamilySearch Image Look-ups

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest at the end of the week. Please add your Wiki-ID after each discovery. Thanks!!

For ideas on what is generally used for Interesting finds, you can check out a prior week.

1. Elon's 10th great grandmother Lijsbeth (van de Kaap) Sanders (abt.1659-1742) was an enslaved African, so Elon is African-American. - Maeder-84
2. Elon's 11th great grandfather Antonij Jansz van Bengale (1635-abt.1700) was a freed slave - and a slave-trader. - Maeder-84
3. Isaac Barter (abt.1816-) was transported to Tasmania will create a free space page with more details from the newspapers Buckle-52 08:13, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
4. Thomas A. Haldeman was a blacksmith by trade. Thomas A. Haldeman was an occupant here for several years, and carried on wagon making in shops on the opposite side of the street. He also filled the office of justice of the peace. Hauschel-1
5. Elon Musk's 2nd great grandmother Eliza Musk (bef.1844-1913) had twins, Elon had twins as well (might be genetic).[Please note: Elon Musk and his first wife, the former Justine Wilson, were married in 2000. Their first son, Nevada Musk, died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The couple then used IVF and had a set of twins and a set of triplets, named Griffin, Xavier, Damian, Saxon, and Kai. The couple divorced in 2008. Steen-1128]
6. Harold Fletcher (1884-1980), Elon Musk's great grandfather. In 1900 the following newspaper report was published in Lincolnshire, England: Stamford Mercury 06 April 1900, page 7, SPILSBY POLICE, Monday.- Before the Rev R W. Cracroft (chairman), Mr. W.W. Gainsford, Mr. J. W. Walker, Mr. M. Staniland, Mr H. Walker, and Mr. B C. Garfit.,Several charges of obscene language were dealt with. Harold Fletcher, Harry Bradshaw and George Alliss, youths, Toynton All Saints, for loitering and smoking near the chapel during divine service, at Toynton All Saints on the 25th March, were fined 6d. and 4s.6d. costs each.^[1]Wheatley-2390
7. The name Elon derives from Hebrew, meaning "oak tree". This name carries through generations of this family: John Elon Haldeman (1871-1909), Elon Powers (1803-1876), and Elon Musk . Elon Powers (1803-1876) is the third great grandfather of Elon Musk . Steen-1128
8. The 1854 home of Elon Powers (1803-1876), third great grandfather of Elon Musk, has been restored "allowing particular care to be given to historic accuracy and craftsmanship", in the McHenry County Conservation District. Known as the Powers-Walker House, Ringwood, Illinois, it is a venue for public programs and research. Steen-1128
9. Charlize Theron's fourth great grandmother, Anna Sophia (de Vos) Theron (bef.1748-1818), was the sister of Elon Musk's fifth great grandmother, Maria Susanna (de Vos) Theron (bef.1750-1796) .Steen-1128
10. Peter Duckworth (1808-) and his second wife, Ann (Baguley) Duckworth (1821-) had two sets of twins.
11. Unusually sisters Mary Ann (Barter) Devine and Lucy Barter (third great grandmother of Elon) marriages are on the same scanned page of the marriage register for the church in Caledon despite being married two years apart Caledon Marriage Register (Wallace-16818)
12. Brothers of Eliza Musk Elon's Great Great GrandMother namely Robert Musk and John Musk married two Brooks Sisters Pamela and Melina.
13. Interestingly one of Martha van Coppenhagen (born Irish) daughter's (Magdalena Aletta van Coppenhagen (1869-1953)) married a Mr Perfect, lol (Wallace-16818)
14. At some time in the early 1860s William Duckworth and his wife and children changed their name to Robinson. The reason for the name change has not been found.
15. Elon’s fifth great grandfather Stephen Pope ran a rough pub in Cowes on the Isle of Wight in England called the “Prince Regent”. In 1826, he was convicted of keeping it open after hours and fined £5.
16. The same Stephen Pope was a member of Vectis Union Society, held at West Cowes. One of the rules of the club was not to drink after 9 o’clock, and when a member of the club allegedly spotted him in another pub after 9 he was stripped of his pension. There then proceeded a dozen or more court sessions when Stephen appealed and was eventually reinstated, but it is not clear that he ever got the money he was owed.
17. Another descendant of Stephen Pope, Frederic William Gauntlett, survived the sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915 when the famous liner was struck by a German torpedo off the south coast of Ireland.
18. Elon's ninth great grandfather was a Mennonite bishop, Hans Herr, and Elon's grandfather's sister-in-law (Elon's great aunt), Martha Hartogh Musk Hartogh-8, was the ninth great granddaughter of a Mennonite preacher, Martin Oberholtzer Oberholtzer-21, who was martyred, drowned by followers of the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, Ulrich Zwingli Zwingli-5, who is Elon Musk's fifteenth great uncle. ~ Steven Johns Johns-4574
19. Jacob Haldeman Haldeman-53 was a cousin of General Sir Frederick Haldimand Haldimand-13, Governor of Quebec. A tradition in the Lancaster County family states that in 1773 General Haldimand visited the family and wished to adopt one of Jacob Haldeman's children, but the offer was refused. (Albasini-30)
20. In July 1673, Barbara Wyss Wyss-354 was banned from Steffisburg for being an Anabaptist. His husband Christian Haldimann Haldimann-14 then distinguished himself in when he intervened with loud cries and equipped with a simple fork at the arrest of his Anabaptist wife. This action earned Christian a prison sentence and the bailiff of Thun also imposed a very heavy fine of 200 pounds on him. (Albasini-30)

Free Space Pages

List of Free Space Pages created for or linked to members of this family.

• Isaac Barter Criminal and Transportation Records

Military Profiles

• Great-Great Grandfather Joshua Norman (abt.1835-1915) served in the Civil War

• William Henry Maton (1853-) joined the Royal Rifle Reserve Regt in 1900.
• Alfred Maton (1864-) joined the Dragoon Guards in 1885.
• Walter Henry James Musk (1917-1986) served as private in WW2 in the Technical Services Corps seeing action in Egypt, Abyssinia, East Africa and Italy. He received a number of stars and medals for his efforts.

Ancestors

Brick Walls

These links were added mid-week by Mindy and Joan Whitaker. Remember to claim any brick wall bounties in the G2G!

Paternal Brick Walls

1. Ann (Edwards) Musk (abt.1772-1861)
2. Mary Dalton (abt.1810-)
3. Edward Powell (1830-)
4. Stephen Pope (abt.1770-1849)

Maternal Brick Walls

1. Elon Powers (1803-1876)
2. Ann (Harker) Norman (abt.1802-1867)
3. John Stephenson (1813-)
4. Mary (Lee) Reeve (bef.1785-abt.1811)

Resources

Please list any resources that you have. We all gain knowledge from eachother!

General WT Resources

• Editing Tips This page shows basic markup that can be used on WikiTree profiles and Space pages. Please remember not to use tables on Challenge profiles.
• Example Challenge Profiles This is a guideline on how the profiles can look.
• WikiTree AGC This addon is to clean up gedcom 'clutter' once we've connected to existing profiles. It is awesome at cleaning up the gedcoms and putting the source information together.
• WikiTree BEE This addon is great for a lot of things, but the main help for the Challenge is the 'auto-bio' button that it puts on the profiles. This will give you basic narrative you can add to.There is a WikiTree BEE extension available for Chrome and Firefox users.

Country-Specific Resources

England

• FreeBMD
• FreeReg
• FreeCen
• England Research Resources
• England Research Resources Category
• Reliable sources for pre-1700 profiles in England
• Dengate name study
• GENUKI
• England Counties England’s current counties.
• Historical Counties of England England’s historical counties.
• Gravestone Photos
• UK GRO Indexes - login and search to get mother's maiden name (Births from 1837 onwards) can also search deaths with ages
• UK Probate Calendar Search
• English Roots Sticker {{England Sticker}} (See their sticker page for more specific locations)

South Africa

• Important: Please do not use the Middle Name field. (See the project's naming conventions). Add your name and timestamp to each source you add using the tildes: (~~~~)

No middle names - The middle name must be left blank. All first names go into the Proper First name field. The use of a middle name is an Americanism and you will not find the use of the phrase middle name on any official South African document. Do not forget to tick no middle name on the edit page.

• Note the tildes method (while better than nothing) is not the South African project preferred method for signing sources. The sources on South African profiles should be signed inside the reference tags and the tildes don't convert to a name and date inside the ref tags.

To sign your name in profiles use [[WikiTree ID|Name]] on date

This you put inside the reference tags<ref> Signature Goes Here </ref> like this<ref>[[WikiTree ID|Name]] on date</ref>

e.g. <ref>Source: FamilySearch; Baptism Registers; Page x of xxx; Entry xyz ; Added by [[Smith-12345|John Smith]] on 9 May 2022</ref>

• Country Naming Guidelines Locations with the years they changed. See the editing tips for further guidelines on working with those profiles.

• Use the names for locations that are as per the correct time period
• The information must not just be in a narrative but must all have the sub-headings with the facts cited/referenced and signed/dated.
• Under the subheadings, transcribe and collate the core facts (do not remove the "facts" of others; avoid and resist transforming facts into narrative).

• Project Categories
• South African Cape of Good Hope Project Overview
• How to Structure South African Cape of Good Hope Project Profiles for the period 1652 - 1806
• South African Genealogy: Locating Pre-1950 Estate Files Online A help video made by Matthew Bode
• South Africa Project Sources guidelines
• 1652 - 1806 Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) Sources
• This FamilySearch collection has scanned images of indexes to Transvaal estates from 1911 to 1958
• You can use Gendatabase's Transvaal Estate Finder to locate the batch of images for Transvaal Estates (TAB / MHG) found on NAAIRS or NARSSA by looking up the reference/estate file number. You have to scroll the the images to find the NON-INDEXED estates.
• Gendatabase - Main search returns death dates and detail will at times return birth date. Handy for deaths in range 1900 to current. Marriage search also useful. Need to pay for full access.
• IdentityNumber - Look up death helps find birth and marriage names at times. Need to pay for full access.
• Ancestors - Has free and paid for indexes.
• SA ID Number Check - Some ID numbers in death notices or estates or entries in gazettes have mistakes and this will check if they valid based on the check digit. If the number is valid then you can assume the first 6 digits are the date of birth and are correct. It uses the format yy-mm-dd but being a 2 digit year means you have to decide if 99 = 1899 or 1999 or if 19 = 1919 or 2019.
• KZN: A Photographic and Historical Record - Includes some cemeteries and gravestones not elsewhere
• Mole Genealogy blog with a collection of genealogical information - most not obviously linked in but can be searched for or browsed for under the years. Old records, transcripts, help on finding records, information on various items from the past.
• A guide to South African records and sources at Geni
• Digital Libraries Repositories
• Digital Libraries/ETDs/Scholarly Repositories (South Africa)
• Research Archives, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand
• St George's Cathedral (Cape Town) Records
• St George's Cathedral Registers . Some of these are indexed by FamilySearch but are not referenced as St George's Cathedral or Cape Town but simply as South Africa with no image visible.
• South African War Graves
• One can request old SA military service records e.g. WW1 or WW2 from the department of defence archives in SA.
• If you come across a scan of an indexed birth or baptism record for the Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) in a typed list on FamilySearch, you can look up the original/copy of the baptism record by using the information of the index. For example on this index for a baptism register it shows the surname at the top, the person's name and then date of birth. It then lists the place of baptism, the book in which the baptism is listed and the page number. So you then look that up here: https://southafrica.mypeoplepuzzle.net/NGK_Cape_RingBooks.html , just know that sometimes the link to the book on FamilySearch is not exact but it gets you started and then you look for the correct page from there. There are sometimes missing pages from the scans but sometimes FamilySearch has a second scan that you can look through.

• Sticker for South African Roots: {{South African Roots Sticker}}
  

  ... ... ... is genealogies verbind aan Suid Afrika /is genealogically connected to South Africa