ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 50, 13 December 2000, Circulation: 734,040+ (c) 1998-2000 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS are free, weekly e-zines Editors: Julia M. 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The LILLITOE/SILLITOE Bible by Geoff Lewin Blaxall geofflewinblax@cwcom.net [In the "Somebody's Links" section of MISSING LINKS, Vol. 5, No. 49, 6 December 2000, this notice was published: "I have had in my possession for many years an old Bible, small and a little ragged, that may interest someone. The inside front cover has a handwritten inscription: `Ernest Walter LILLITOE, 122 Dunlace rd., Clapton Park [England?], Age 7, July 12, 1886'" and it was signed by Tony Dell atd694@aol.com. Geoff Lewin Blaxell saw the notice. Here are parts of two of his responses.] [7 December 2000] . . . Dunlace Rd. IS in England. . . [V]isit http://www.mapquest.com . Under the heading "Maps" click on "Street Maps"; then click on "United Kingdom" and enter 122 Dunlace Road London Postal Code E5 . After zooming in a few times you will find that Dunlace Rd. still exists. However, all the houses were demolished shortly after World War II and the whole area redeveloped with characterless Local Authority apartment blocks. How do I know this? Just above Dunlace Rd. you will see Glenarm Rd. and just above that is Blurton Rd., where my late father, Lewin Charles BLAXALL, was born 9 November 1888. You will notice that all three roads are linked down the right hand side by Glyn Road. My father's family all attended church in Glyn Road (I think it was nonconformist, i.e., Baptist or Methodist.) If Ernest [LILLITOE or SILLITOE] was presented with a Bible at the age of seven, then it is highly likely that his family were also regular church-goers. I wonder, therefore, if both families attended the same church? If so, by the time my Dad was 10, Ernest would have been 19 -- just about the right age for a junior Sunday School teacher, so he may have catechized my Dad! I wonder if there are any other clues in the Bible? I'd love to know. You don't say in which country you are located. I assume it to be the U.S.A. If so, I wonder how Ernest's Bible came to cross the ocean? . . . [The plot thickens . . .] [10 December 2000] I am a little intrigued that your posting in [MISSING LINKS] refers to LILLITOE whereas you quote the 1881 Census as SILLITOE. Be that as it may, I have to say the LILLITOE/SILLITOE family didn't move very far from 1881 until 1886 as Clifden Road is jammed in between Dunlace Road and the Homerton Hospital. Don't worry that the 1881 Census shows Clifden Road to be Hackney rather than Clapton, they are cheek by jowl, but Hackney was the name used for the Registration District. All the lads from the Claptons (Upper, Lower, Park) used the area known as Hackney Marshes as their playground, indeed they still do. A very wide expanse of coarse grass and scrub with ditches meandering through, now covered almost entirely by football pitches, all of which are well used every weekend. . . I well remember my Dad telling me that he and his brother Jim once got a good hiding for catching tadpoles in Jim's Sunday cap. Just for fun I asked http://www.mapquest.com to give me driving instructions between the two addresses. . . Instead of the most direct route it goes all around the Hospital but still only takes three minutes. Perhaps it knows something I don't know like maybe it's all one-way traffic round there nowadays. Mind you, I doubt the street numbering has remained the same because, in 1888, the newly-formed London County Council (LCC) in conjunction with the General Post Office (GPO), revamped all street names so that there were no duplicates anywhere in London and the house numbering was changed so . . . the numbering started at the street end nearest the local Post Office (Mail Delivery Office). This took several years to complete and must have caused absolute chaos. . . Yesterday I spent a very wet Saturday afternoon in the Records Office at Blackheath, Greenwich straining to read all the microfiche covering UK Birth Records for the years 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1882 (they are notoriously faint). No sign whatsoever of a LILLITOE, nor Ernest Walter SILLITOE. Most of the births are shown in the midlands area, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, etc. Only one SILLITOE birth registered under Hackney, that of Albert Edward SILLITOE in the last quarter of 1881, so he may be a sibling. I then turned to the microfiche for the 1881 Census. There was only one family named LILLITOE in the whole of the UK and they were in Whitechapel, London, several miles away from Clapton. Sure enough I found Ernest W. SILLITOE living with his father, Walter G. (a carpenter), his mother, Sarah, and his three-year- old sister, Maude E., at 33 Clifden Road. As his father is Walter, it is reasonable to assume that Ernest's "W" is also Walter, so it looks as if we have identified the owner of the Bible. Walter G. is shown as being born in Sudbury, Suffolk, some 75 to 80 miles to the north and it is intriguing to note that many other SILLITOE mature men living in the Hackney Registration District were also born in Sudbury. Looks as though there might have been a mass migration. Eighty miles may not seem very far to you out there in the wilds of Arizona, but in England, especially in those days of poor travel, it could have been the other side of the world. . . Now for the good news -- I think I've made the connection. You tell me your forebears came from Ansty Wilts and Fonthill Bishop Wilts? These villages are about 4-5 miles apart. Ernest W. LILLITOE's mother Sarah is shown in the 1881 Census as being born in Sisbury, Wilts. I searched in vain in my gazetteer of the British Isles for Sisbury, but searching the maps of Wilts, what do I find halfway between Ansty and Fonthill Bishop? The village of Tisbury (population approximately 2,000). It looks as if somewhere down the line there has been a slip of the pen transposing an "S" for a "T". You will need to check dates, relative ages, etc., but it now looks possible that Sarah and/or her parents/siblings knew or were related to one or another of your forebears who immigrated to the U.S.A. This opens up the possibility that Ernest W. LILLITOE immigrated some while later and, naturally, would have gone to stay (at least initially) with a relative or family friend. What a small world this is. It certainly goes to show that it pays to post a query with RootsWeb. * * * * * RootsWeb's WORLDCONNECT contains more than 50.5 million names and new GEDCOMs are added daily. 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I typed in the information and found my father's buddy's name; however, it didn't say whether he was still alive (some people even put themselves on the memorial list). My father wrote a letter, through the organization, to his friend; it was returned, as they had no forwarding address on file. We were lost. I even tried a search agency; they couldn't come up with anything. Then, I saw the California Death Index on RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi and tried it. It came back with great amounts of information. His friend had died back in the early 1960s (we didn't know how). My father was saddened, but at the same time he could start closure. Then, this year, while attending a Navy reunion in Rhode Island, he called families with his buddy's family name (his friend was originally from there); as luck would have it, he found his friend's brother (and the answers to many of his questions). Again, thanks RootsWeb! Thomas Duvernay goongdo@hotmail.com . . . [T]hanks for the query boards, particularly Erie County, New York. This is how a descendant of my great-great-great- grandparents, Joannes SCHAAR and Margarethae MARX, found me. With the bits and pieces we both had, we were able to figure out that Joannes from Hetzerath Wittlich, Rheinland, Prussia, was the father of the SCHAAR siblings who came to the United States in the late 1840s. Twin sons, Anthony and Joseph born in 1821, settled in Hennepin County, Minnesota circa 1858. Daughter Helena (born 1818) married Peter METZEN and settled in Buffalo, New York (my line). It was a pretty big thrill for me to learn that I had relatives who pioneered in Minnesota 150 years ago. I am amazed by their fortitude, especially since I now live near International Falls, Minnesota -- a full appreciation of the cold winters and still many lonely stretches. Filling out this tree should be easier since many of the German Roman Catholic records seem to have survived relatively intact. I'm still looking for clues to the origins of my Peter METZEN (born circa 1820, occupation: carpenter). The documents found so far say "Prussia" but the family lore is of origins around Metz, Alsace Lorraine. Children of Peter and Helena, born in the U.S. between 1850 and 1867 were John Anthony, Peter, Joseph, Frank, and Mary. I only have information on John Anthony's family so if you see a connection, I would love to hear from you. May you all have the happiest of holidays with the wish that your Christmas present is that piece of information that we all seem to be searching for. Diane Sheppard, Emo, Ontario, Canada shieldma@fort-frances.lakeheadu.ca * * * * * HUMOR. Thanks to John Wiley of Marietta, Georgia wileyjohnh@mindspring.com , who says "I wrote this last year when it was cold and slow. As the same conditions exist again, I thought you might want to use it." Indeed, we do. I WANNA KNOW (parody by John H. 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