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In a message dated 12/29/2004, kebaker(a)pathcom.com writes:
Happy New Year everyone,
I am interested in the family of Peter CHARLTON who was born c1797, Hollim
in Holderness, Yorkshire, England. He married 1827, Huggate, Yks, RACHEL
HARKER, born c1805, Warter, Yks.
They had 10 children: Benjamin Charlton, 1827, Warter; Mary Anne Charlton,
1830, Nunburnholme, Pocklington, Yks; Peter Charlton, 1831, Nunburnholme;
Elizabeth Charlton, 1834, Nunburnholme; Robert Charlton, 1835, Nunburnholme;
Catherine & Jane Charlton, 1839 & 1840, Numburnholme; Thomas Charlton, 1843,
Nunburnholme; Seth Charlton, 1845, Nunburnholme and Viner/Viney Charlton,
1847, Nunburnholme.
After Peter Charlton's death in 1854, Rachel Harker Charlton married JOHN
JACKSON and they moved to Ontario Canada. The children who moved to Canada
with parents were called JACKSON and not Charlton (Robert Charlton Jackson
is my ancestor, born 1835).
I'm looking for any information on this family in the area of Nunburnholme,
Yorkshire and especially the names of Rachel's parents and her remarrage to
John Jackson.
Thanks and all the best in 2005,
Kathy Baker,
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
(my mother's maiden name is Jackson)
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I am looking for descendants of John Charlton and Hannah (Annie) Kirkland. My grandmother was their daughter Jessie Annie. She was born in Elaine Street, Toxteth Park in 1877. Katie, another daughter was also born in Toxteth Park.
John was a Master Mariner.
I look forward to hearing from anyone with information relating to the Charlton/Kirkland family.
Judy
Hello all,
As we gather together over the holidays, lets be sure -- as family historians
-- to take advantage of our own 'Windows Of Opportunity'.
The following article appeared in the 22 November 2004 “Roots and Branches”
newsletter and is reprinted with permission of British Ancestors -
http://www.britishancestors.com
Wishing everyone a happy, healthy, and safe holiday season!
LaRae
CHARLTON listmgr.
WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY
By Val Atkinson
When I was a young mother I was once in the supermarket with my two children.
They weren’t naughty, just being children and constantly wanting my attention
with their WHY? WHY? WHY?/WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? And their constant MUM! MUM! MUM!
I was really exasperated. I turned to the woman next to me at the checkout,
and complained: ‘That’s the story of my life, kids always shouting for me.’
She replied (and I’ve never forgotten her words):
‘Yes. It’s a good story isn’t it?’
That was the first time I became aware of experiencing a ‘Window of
Opportunity'. Until then I don’t think I’d fully appreciated being a mother.
Not long afterwards I saw a picture in a magazine of an elderly lady sitting
with a book. Round her was a large group of children. The caption read:
‘There are many little reasons to be a good example, and some day they’ll
all be big’.
Realising I was in a ‘window of opportunity’ helped me change my attitude to
my circumstances.
Throughout our lives we experience these ‘windows’, and sometimes we never
look through them at all to see what they have to offer, partly because we don’
t understand them.
They function to divide our lives into areas of interest.
I’m not a young mother now. That window is closed, and my ‘grandmother window
’ has opened. I don’t waste windows anymore. I’ve learned my lesson.
Family history and what it offers is a ‘Window of Opportunity’ which we can
look through at any time in our lives but which we can scrutinise thoroughly
only at certain times.
I glanced it regularly when I was in my ‘young mother window’, stealing the
odd moment after children’s bath and bedtime.
I kept glancing while I was a mature student in my late thirties, and slowly,
very slowly, I ended up sitting down for a long hard look at the ‘family
history scenery’ and what it had to offer.
I wonder if this is why genealogy and family history are considered an older
person’s interest, because the golden time for research is when we have less
immediate family responsibilities, and more opportunity to expand our knowledge
and interests .
Yet families aren’t just made up of old people.
This helped me to see things I hadn’t considered before.
Family history is:
· An activity we should participate in all our lives
· An interest we should encourage in our children
· An involvement in service to our ancestors as we identify and claim them,
to graft them into our family trees
· A realisation that we have sprung from unknown roots that we want to make
known
· A longing to be linked
· A feeling of gratitude for our ancestors
·
We should:
· Not try to do everything at once, because the ‘Windows of Life’ dictate
our times and seasons.
· Consider carefully our circumstances, resources and abilities. Family
history often needs a financial budget
· Remember that research does need the time and patience that can’t often be
accommodated in the WHY? WHY? WHY? or the MUM! MUM! MUM! season of life.
TROUBLING QUESTIONS:
How can we interest our children in this absorbing activity?
How can we help them see that it is absorbing?
Why are genealogists considered as odd as (for example) train spotters?
Why must we avoid saying the ‘FH’ (family history) words, and the ‘G’
(genealogy) word around our families?
Why are they bored by it?
Why is it so damaging to health? It can cause immediate deafness and acute
loss of memory. It can affect their vision (at times I’ve felt totally
invisible!)
Do these comments ring a bell?
· ‘Get Real!’
· ‘Boring!’
· ‘Not again, can’t you talk about anything else?’
· ‘Get a Life’
CONCLUSION:
· Be careful how you speak about family history if you want your family to
hear the whole sentence!
· Look for ‘windows of opportunity’ to further your cause and an ‘effectual
door’ will be opened through which you can draw your families.
WHAT ARE THESE WINDOWS?
HOW WILL WE KNOW WHEN THEY ARE PRESENTING THEMSELVES?
I have a friend who saw a ‘window’’ at her father’s funeral, where family
came cautiously together after a divorce and a general drifting apart. Cousins
met who hadn’t seen each other for forty years, and rapport was established.
Relatives had been living only a few streets away, unknown and unrecognised.
Family was e mailed and asked for remembrances to be included in a eulogy.
Photographs were hunted out and given to family members.
A Royal Marine came to the funeral in full dress uniform to honour the twenty
two years of service her fiercely patriotic father had given to his country.
This eulogy has become part of her family’s history, and the Royal Marine was
a visual reminder of her father’s life. This ‘window’ experience resulted in
a family reunion to gather in those who couldn’t attend the funeral, and
relatives willingly came from far and wide.
The culmination was:
· Living and deceased family being joined, through speaking of ancestors and
showing photographs
· Finding new facts and dates for family history
· Creation of new memories
· A family photograph taken of all the living relatives.
· A reunion for 70 year old cousins who hadn’t seen each other for over half
a century
· Involvement of the ‘bored’ family members
· Free use of the ‘G’ and ‘FH’ words passing unnoticed in the general joy
THIS MUST MEAN THAT Family history is also about:
· Gathering in the living, and coming to know them
· Putting aside rancour and bitterness and looking to the future.
· Making our houses ‘houses of order’
· Extending love and showing concern
· Persevering with disinterest
Look through your ‘windows of opportunity’ regularly until you catch sight
of the ‘effectual door’ just waiting to be opened.
Roots and Branches Copyright 2003-2004
http://www.britishancestors.com/
British Ancestors Research Services
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THE HARRISON NEWS HERALD
Pub. Dec. 13, 2004
Page C-3
Harrison Co., OH
Mary l. Fisher, 90, Walnut Hills Retirement Home, Walnut Creek, formerly of Jewett, died Dec. 8, 2004 at Joel Pomeren Memorial Hospital, Millersburg.
She was born October 16, 1914 in Fairpoint, a daughter of the late Thomas and ISABELLE ( CHARLTON ) Hepner.
She ertired from the U.S. Post Office in Jewett after 22 years of service. She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church in Jewett and the Friendly Sunday School Class and was a member of the Jewett Women's Club.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, William J. Fisher ; three brothers and a sister.
Surviving are two sons, Richard ( Shirley ) Fisher of Mansfield and Gary ( Shirley ) Fisher of Scio ; 4 grandchildren ; 8 great-grandchildren.
Service was held Dec. 11, 2004 in Koch Funeral Home, Scio.
Burial in Fairview Gardens, Jewett.
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My husband's great grandfather was John M. Charlton. Which brother of John M. are you related to?
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I am still looking for ernest edward charlton formaly foster formaly anderson from newcastle upon tyne.
He had 2 son,s we think
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We are trying to find out what happened to Robert W. Charlton (b. Darlington c.1865.)
On the 1901 census he was a relief Stationmaster for the NER at High Coniscliffe, near Darlington aged 36 and still single. We have reason to believe that he moved to Hull after that (possibly Cottingham?) and that he retired from the railways in 1916.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
Keren Charlton.
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E-Mail me at day12345@aol.com....I will be happy to pass on what I have.
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Surnames: Charlton, Myers, Blanton, Booher, Long, Hammons, Cyrus
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I follow the same line as your generations 1 thru 3, but my ancestor was a brother of John M. Charlton's. I would love to swap info.
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This is also my family line. we part lines at Abraham Charlton Jr. You go backas far as I do . There the line stops..There are others also working on this line. Look in family Trees, Abraham Charlton Jr.