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Hi Janey
I´m probably telling you something else you already know, but have just been reading your post because my 3xg grandfather fought in Spain & Portugal& anything connected to the Peninsula War interests me.
GranAda is Spain. Greneda is the West Indies.
Cheers Marion

Well, GrEnAda is in the West Indies. ;) (It was originally named Granada by the Spanish, then Grenade, then Grenada.)

It was that one where he was discharged, I think I finally decided, yup. (Tropical diseases, and all, see my post just above.)

My peninsula/war connections are way farther back: the Bond ancestor of me and 007 who was with Drake, and brought home the family motto "Non sufficit orbis" ... The world is not enough!

Apparently that came from Santo Domingo ... this time in Spain, not the Caribbean. ;)

Ann o' GG, are you looking? I was just taking a gander back at this thread for some info in it and realized that big ream of Wiltshire Ponton stuff you posted over several posts is still here. I think I'd been hopeful that you would remove it when I noted that it was all unrelated.

Could I possibly humbly beg and prevail upon you to do that? Five posts I think it is, of parish baptisms etc. for a load of people not related to my Canterbury Pontons.

That way I'll be able to refer the person I wanted to share this info with to the thread without fear of making their head explode.

Ta very much!

(and then I'll delete this beseechment, of course)



What I was wanting to add here for my info and for the person I want to refer to it:


Name: James Ponton
Gender: Male
Burial Date:
Burial Place:
Death Date: 27 Sep 1835
Death Place: Canterbury, Kent, England
Age: 74
Birth Date: 1761
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I00751-9
System Origin: England-EASy
Source Film Number: 1786138
Reference Number: P. 40, #318
Collection: England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991

(not verified I think; Mary (Young) Ponton is in 1841 and 1851 born c1771-2)

Hey Janey,

Are we any further forward on this?

Any mere morsels you can throw at us to go and hunt down?


Tracey x

Janey
Let me know if you ever want me to trawl through records in Canterbury Cathedral Archives.


Gwyn

Ta you two -- Gwyn, very generous -- I do have that distant cousin in Canterbury and that's how I got such a lot already. (She and I have the same gx4 grandmother, Mary Ponton's husband's grandmother ... if I have it straight ...)

She found one of Mary Ponton's husband's aunts living in one of her households in the mid-1800s as "aunt" and couldn't make head nor tails of that, til she traced up her tree and found our mutual grx4 grmother marrying twice, the second marriage being her family, and then back down on my family's side, to my notes in a census at Ancestry! (And in return, I found a load of her ancestors' descendants here in Canadian records.)

Tracey, if I were to go further, it would be to the origins of James Ponton and Mary Young born 1760s-early 1770s and so far I haven't managed that from anything on line. And I guess the other thing I don't have yet is the marriage of Mary Ponton's parents William Ponton and Elizabeth sometime 1821-1824. I don't think my cuz could find it, and she has the parish records on CD.

Danged annoying isn't that, how you can find someone's grandparents but not their mother? I just solved that longstanding mystery for another set of grx3 grandparents this fall -- had the grx4 grparents but not the grx3 grfather's wife (matched their son to the father on his son's marriage certificate, but didn't have the son's own birth or parents' marriage). Same thing here.

I am very happy when I get back to two generations born before 1800, thrilled in fact, given that I started with only my grandparents born around 1900 and info about their parents varying from a good start (name and birthplace) to nil (not even the name of William Ponton's granddaughter, my gr-grmother).

Maybe I should dig up another branch of my tree and start a thread about that for you Tracey. ;)

Work still has me buried at present, but I'll see what I can do in March ... !