tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45620222494883825202024-03-19T16:05:48.951+11:00Sterry Family HistoryReports and discussion on the latest research in STERRY family history and STERRY One-Name Study. Particularly investigates new sources of historical documents and their usefulness to increasing our knowledge of STERRY family history.STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-60914501648811646552022-07-06T13:48:00.001+10:002022-07-06T13:52:35.992+10:00Fun 'Enhancement' of Shield from Sterry Coat of Arms<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT7DRjmNRGm0zHIBy3r0BMXDLGxij8xFcAyrtca7e5Rm3LgdpHTGFJSAcXDe3hxn9llXlFXMUhOZjWfgUbrHreRlvrYI3JrGJOHQ5rI4zcI3kr_fvyNP9LbxaME0WRsCPHT3-Gsb0UOfuk29Sgy0RDVRS2pXGXzd8msnjHIxyjtjMpYpFyxnF-mTrB/s1400/Sterry%20Knight%20with%20Coat%20of%20Arms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="990" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT7DRjmNRGm0zHIBy3r0BMXDLGxij8xFcAyrtca7e5Rm3LgdpHTGFJSAcXDe3hxn9llXlFXMUhOZjWfgUbrHreRlvrYI3JrGJOHQ5rI4zcI3kr_fvyNP9LbxaME0WRsCPHT3-Gsb0UOfuk29Sgy0RDVRS2pXGXzd8msnjHIxyjtjMpYpFyxnF-mTrB/w282-h399/Sterry%20Knight%20with%20Coat%20of%20Arms.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><br /><p>The same artist who enhanced the WW2 photo of Harry Sterry also created a rather 'tongue in cheek' version of the shield from the Sterry Coat of Arms.</p><p>The real Sterry Coat of Arms is shown below. It was granted to the Sterrys of Eastbury House in Barking, Essex, UK. You can read more about it <a href="https://sterryworldwide.com/coatarms.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSws97bf_J19Dl0Da0A03z9q5qFyp_4-Q0IaZlUX_rwEt1uNlwcfZMN4ef3JN7TJf6fQPY_KgMvqGOxw5jUdHOj31aKj5h-eff0GpOYqtg4hxxsoz0X0vfk-4Q9dyC2fuCRvmK_aHLhzaWln3jt833BPvAF99xJC-PEq0sTFnTwc0ANyAl4vuQQHih/s1011/sterrycoatofarms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1011" data-original-width="830" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSws97bf_J19Dl0Da0A03z9q5qFyp_4-Q0IaZlUX_rwEt1uNlwcfZMN4ef3JN7TJf6fQPY_KgMvqGOxw5jUdHOj31aKj5h-eff0GpOYqtg4hxxsoz0X0vfk-4Q9dyC2fuCRvmK_aHLhzaWln3jt833BPvAF99xJC-PEq0sTFnTwc0ANyAl4vuQQHih/w281-h343/sterrycoatofarms.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-77046620826493894782022-04-30T11:45:00.011+10:002022-04-30T16:12:54.535+10:00Magical Family Photo Enhancements<p>How often have you wished someone could take that old and tattered family photo and restore it to its former glory? Well, recently I've met up with a very talented Aussie Sterry artist who can do some very magical things with family photos. So I thought I'd share them via this blog.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQPgyMZPfMG8cc29fLRc2SAT20RYLd127_9YoIm-p4CSbyfmg_CGV4KcYiI2phJG-hV6D2Nf0ChnXV8mIzRSjR9oZU6hZSzeKewoSRkHzGO4AsFmJhJypL8_cza0FM18yHFcnbJ_GMppMXGSrVVhRHmzSDG3X0AX1cBVModVFZ64HTwrWJOMLW9Sx/s1395/Harry%20Sterry%201916sm-with%20special%20background.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1395" data-original-width="990" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQPgyMZPfMG8cc29fLRc2SAT20RYLd127_9YoIm-p4CSbyfmg_CGV4KcYiI2phJG-hV6D2Nf0ChnXV8mIzRSjR9oZU6hZSzeKewoSRkHzGO4AsFmJhJypL8_cza0FM18yHFcnbJ_GMppMXGSrVVhRHmzSDG3X0AX1cBVModVFZ64HTwrWJOMLW9Sx/w284-h400/Harry%20Sterry%201916sm-with%20special%20background.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Harry Sterry </span><span style="text-align: left;">[1886-1960]</span><span style="text-align: left;"> is shown in his Royal Field Artillery WWI uniform. He was a bombardier in 'B' Battery, 95th Brigade R.F.A.[Royal Regiment of Artillery], British Expeditionary Force. </span></div><p></p><p>The Field Artillery of course often worked with horses in WW1; hence the whip and riding boots.</p><p>He enlisted in 1914, then aged 28, and was sent to France. He was reported wounded and missing in action in May 1918. He survived and was sent to a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany in July the same year. He finally returned home and was demobilised at Woolwich in 1920.</p><p>Harry Sterry was a bombardier in 'B' Battery, 95th Brigade R.F.A.[Royal Regiment of Artillery], British Expeditionary Force.</p><p>The original of the same photo of Harry Sterry is shown below. Our Aussie artist has colorised the black and white photo and then, to add context, he's added a WWI horse drawn gun carriage in the background.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkkt-iE3h6yu-edYo1yzsepVNylbbP3q4PdMqQKkNTM9wKvRbeW4zDOmLI7US71UjOULMd9XKubu1qYz2x4iL9ibjpYYiU5oc0SO3TusmIjSU9hDx3rNMnZlcPgnmjitCqIHZJZxegoHTDam3iMlXcAjCkil0CIH_VbxhH2y2xw1g1JNynG2HUYVKu/s800/Harry%20Sterry%20%5B1886-1960%5D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkkt-iE3h6yu-edYo1yzsepVNylbbP3q4PdMqQKkNTM9wKvRbeW4zDOmLI7US71UjOULMd9XKubu1qYz2x4iL9ibjpYYiU5oc0SO3TusmIjSU9hDx3rNMnZlcPgnmjitCqIHZJZxegoHTDam3iMlXcAjCkil0CIH_VbxhH2y2xw1g1JNynG2HUYVKu/w300-h400/Harry%20Sterry%20%5B1886-1960%5D.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">A simpler colorised version, also done by our Sterry artist, is shown below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tDGJqx8i33POiUGfi_VFoOMti5dSvPeEuCl18kwkOd-4EKqv2v-q1Y8UiAQJms0M5sVQubujgpXqlU1s7cpk-pCwsPu6DGhXTD0Hq65ljIY4Mjz5J1aGLgiwjPypBBijwDwcCml13HJqZ4FTkx7qrpCL3WRcSghgPm2rc-agmCZ443Td8BS_KmQQ/s1395/Harry%20Sterry%201916sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1395" data-original-width="990" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tDGJqx8i33POiUGfi_VFoOMti5dSvPeEuCl18kwkOd-4EKqv2v-q1Y8UiAQJms0M5sVQubujgpXqlU1s7cpk-pCwsPu6DGhXTD0Hq65ljIY4Mjz5J1aGLgiwjPypBBijwDwcCml13HJqZ4FTkx7qrpCL3WRcSghgPm2rc-agmCZ443Td8BS_KmQQ/w284-h400/Harry%20Sterry%201916sm.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">You can read more about Harry Sterry on the <a href="https://sterryworldwide.com/webtrees/individual.php?pid=I114&ged=minsterworth.ged" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Minsterworth, Gloucestershire</a> tree.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">More photos to follow!</span></div></div></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-20103239438833231302020-10-10T15:44:00.004+11:002020-10-10T15:58:42.925+11:00Probate Records for State of Victoria, Australia<p>Returning to this excellent resource for Probate Records in Victoria, Australia for the years 1841-1925.</p><p><a href="https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/wills-and-probates">https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/wills-and-probates</a></p><p>This resource is free. Note that there are usually three separate files for each Probate Record and all three need to be downloaded.</p><p>There are quite a few Probate Records for STERRYs. I never got around previously to transcribing them or adding them to our Records for Australia.</p><p>I will be doing just that over the next few weeks and the results can be viewed </p><p>at <a href="https://sterryworldwide.com/Australia%20Records/Aust%20Wills/willsau.html">https://sterryworldwide.com/Australia%20Records/Aust%20Wills/willsau.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-9265005313254780262019-03-25T15:56:00.003+11:002022-04-30T13:31:17.007+10:00The Sterry Family of America by Walter SmithIt's been quite a while since I used this STERRY research blog but thought I'd start using it again and see what interest it generates.<br />
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The link on FamilySearch to 'The Sterry Family of America 1670-1970' by Walter Smith has been updated. It is now:<br />
<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/17318?availability=Family%20History%20Library">https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/17318?availability=Family%20History%20Library</a><br />
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You will need to log in or create a free account to view.<br />
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Many thanks to Ashley Gaumond for this information.<br />
<br />STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-69411543593957063282014-11-18T15:54:00.000+11:002019-03-25T16:02:10.937+11:00Thomas Sterry of Faversham, Kent finally finds a homeEvery now and then one manages to find that extra little piece of the puzzle that brings all the other pieces together that have been lying about on the table for many years.<br />
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I happened to be looking at some STERRY Apprentice records from the 1600s on an excellent and free website - Records of London's Livery Companies Online - Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900<br />
<a href="http://www.londonroll.org/">http://www.londonroll.org/</a><br />
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I found some entries from the Mercers Company that I had not seen before and this one in particular:<br />
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STERRY Thomas, New Apprentice [Father] Thomas Sterry, Clerk, Finesham Kent, dead [Master] Thomas Threkeld, Co Mercer [Apprenticeship Year] 1664 [Bond] 7 years from 24 June next<br />
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By the way, Wikipedia most helpfully tells me:
The Worshipful Company of Mercers is the premier Livery Company of the City of London and ranks first in the order of precedence of the Companies. It is the first of the so-called 'Great Twelve City Livery Companies'. The Company's aim was to act as a trade association for general merchants, and especially for exporters of wool and importers of velvet, silk and other luxurious fabrics (mercers). By the 16th century many members of the Company had lost any connection with the original trade.<br />
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I remembered a Will of a Thomas Sterry of Faversham, Kent proved in 1653 that had never been attributed to any Sterry family line. A transcription of the Will is on the Sterry website -<br />
<a href="http://www.sterryworldwide.com/Will_Thomas_Sterry_1653.htm">http://www.sterryworldwide.com/Will_Thomas_Sterry_1653.htm</a><br />
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However, as this Thomas owned land in Ruardean, he almost certainly belonged to the Ruardean, Gloucestershire family line.<br />
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But Walter Sterry in his book 'The Sterry Family of America 1670-1970' published back in 1973 was unable to place this Thomas into the Ruardean line.<br />
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When this young Thomas was apprenticed in 1664, as were most apprentices at this time, he was probably aged 15-18, so born 1646-1649. And since I could find no place called Finesham in Kent, I decided this might very well be a mistranscription of Faversham. And I had previously found this baptism of a Thomas Sterry in Faversham:<br />
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Faversham St Mary of Charity<br />
Baptisms<br />
1648 Mar 10 Thomas son of Thomas Sterry a gentleman and Anne<br />
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Walter Smith had also noted in regards this Thomas Sterry of Faversham that Thomas "entered Oxford University in June 1639, aged 18 "son of John Sterry of London, gent" So we knew Thomas Sterry senior was born abt 1621. We also knew from the Will of Thomas Sterry junior that his father was John Sterry. [Walter Smith somehow got it wrong and thought the father was Joseph. That's why he never made the connection.]
And we already have a John Sterry baptised 11 Feb 1619/20 at Saint Saviours, Southwark, Surrey, England, the son of John Sterry [1594-1672] and Margaret Weston.<br />
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This has to be our man!<br />
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Of course now that leads to further research. We know from his Will that Thomas Sterry of Faversham had four sons - Benjamin, Samuel, Thomas and Charles. Can we trace any of their lines? We also know from the Will that Thomas owned land in Ruardean, Gloucestershire and in the Liberty of Ely in Cambridgeshire in the parish of March. The Will suggests that this land in Cambridgeshire may have been inherited through his wife, Anne French. Can we locate any land records? And finally Walter Smith tracked down this piece of military detail on Thomas Sterry that might provide further clues:<br />
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'From British Council of State proceedings we know that Thomas was commissioned on August 22, 1650 to be a militia Captain of county Kent. Further, on November 18, 1650 or 1651 the Council resolved to approve "what Capt. Sterry and the Mayor of Faversham have done in detaining James Greenstreet, and to require that witnesses be examined who can testify as to correspondence between Robert Greenstreet and his son"'.<br />
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There is another baptism at Faversham St Mary of Charity of Thomas' brother that confirms this connection:<br />
1650 Jan 16 Charles son of Captain Thomas Sterry and AnneSTERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-77981707252655801002014-08-05T17:28:00.001+10:002014-08-05T17:55:39.340+10:00Latest DNA results a bit of a quandryOur STERRY DNA Project is now in its 7th year and 26 male STERRYs have now joined. The <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Sterry/default.aspx?section=results">DNA results</a> have proved a very helpful supplementary tool in our ongoing quest to understand how the different STERRY trees are related, especially where historical documentation has not survived or is uncertain. In recent months DNA evidence has demonstrated that the Lowestoft, Suffolk; Ipswich, Suffolk; and both branches of the Southwold, Suffolk Sterry trees are all part of the same genetic group and are definitely related.<br />
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John Sterry from the Ipswich, Suffolk line is our most recent and is the second member of the Ipswich, Suffolk to join. As these two Sterrys were second cousins, an exact match was anticipated.<br />
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However, a 2-marker mismatch between them was recorded and both were now 3-markers distant from the calculated mode or 'signature' of the DNA group to which we believed they both belonged. This was rather disconcerting. [Specially selected DNA 'markers' are used to determine relatedness; such markers being passed down largely unchanged from father to son over hundred of years.]<br />
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So we sought the advice of two excellent <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/">Rootsweb</a> mailing lists: the <a href="http://one-name.org/">Guild of One-Name Studies</a> mailing list [available to members only] and <a href="http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/DNA/Y-DNA-PROJECTS.html">Y-DNA-Projects</a> [a public mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding practical issues related to testing for Y-DNA surname projects] as well as the helpdesk at <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/">Family Tree DNA</a>.<br />
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June Willing from the GOONS mailing list provided a particularly detailed and helpful reply. [The #numbers are the IDs of the two Ipswich line participants in the STERRY DNA Project.]<br />
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"I don't see any problem with #349959 being closely related to #169049, even though
they have a GD [genetic distance] of 2. #349959 has a mutation on [marker] CDYb which the others in
the group do not have. #169049 has a mutation on 385b which the others in
the group do not have. So each has picked up one mutation in 3
generations. Nothing unusual in my experience. They both have a mutation
on [marker] 570, suggesting they
could be more closely related to each other than to the others in the
group.
Some markers tend to
mutate pretty quickly and those concerned in your results, CDY and 385,
are among the fast- moving markers.
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DNA results do not in themselves prove a
relationship, but must be used in conjunction with the documentary evidence.
But in this case, in my opinion, the results do not contradict this."<br />
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Darren Marin from Family Tree DNA provided an intriguing insight into the possible cause of the unexpected mutations:<br />
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"While this is unusual to have two mutations
and be related within the past 4 generations it is entirely possible. One
way of reading the TiP calculation would be to say we see this exact scenario
almost 30% of the time. While what causes mutations is not well
understood one thought is that the older a man is when he has a child the more
likely a mutation will be to occur since the DNA replication seems to not work
as well as when younger. If either of their lines have older fathers this
may explain the more recent mutations. "<o:p></o:p><br />
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David Sterry, Co-Coordinator of the Sterry DNA Project comments:<br />
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"We were thereby reassured that the two members of the Ipswich Sterry tree were indeed related and that the mismatch could have been the result of genetic mutation in a recent generation, possibly caused by the common ancestor fathering one of his sons "later" in life. In this case we noted that George Arthur Sterry was 24 when Mervyn`s grandfather Ernest Sterry was born whilst he was 42 when John`s father Robert Charles Sterry arrived.<br />
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Another feature noted was the sharing of a common marker difference to the combined Lowestoft, Southwold & Ipswich modal indicating an earlier mutation which may be related to the progenitor George Starry being 48 when his son, George, was born.<br />
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Ultimately, the suggested connection of the Ipswich line with the Southwold branches and the older Lowestoft tree appears to be firming up.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />We would now very much like to recruit a member of the Pakefield, Suffolk line to check out our developing suspicion that the progenitors of both that line and the Ipswich line were brothers! </span>"STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-70737186511184847452014-07-16T16:14:00.001+10:002014-07-16T16:14:37.388+10:00Sterrys in the Republic of Ireland<div class="MsoNormal">
A new and improved set of Irish
civil registration indexes has been launched on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp"><span class="spelle"><span style="color: purple; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">IrishGenealogy</span></span></a>, the state-run website best known for
its church records microsite. These free indexes differ from those currently
available via FamilySearch, Ancestry and findmypast by including births,
marriages, and deaths right up to 2013 - as well as a certain amount of
additional detail to aid identification.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"The
Births Index, which dates from 1864, includes the mother's maiden surname from
1900. Additionally, the actual date of birth is included from 1900 to 1927 and
from 1966 to current. The Marriages index, which dates from 1845 for non-Catholic
marriages and from 1864 for all marriages, includes the names of both bride and
groom for all marriages from 1913, and for some marriages from 1900 to 1912.
The Deaths Index, which starts in 1864, includes the age at death from 1924 and
the marital status of the deceased from 1966.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"As
with the pre-existing online database, the new GRO Indexes cover the entire
island up to and including 1921. Thereafter, it includes only those events
registered in the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Source: <a href="http://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters/jul14news.htm#Ireland">http://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters/jul14news.htm#Ireland</a>]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Almost all of the STERRY events listed in these new enhanced indexes relate to one Dublin family descended from John Edmund Bagge Sterry [1889-1965] and Mary Margaret Felton. John Edmund Bagge Sterry and his descendants can be found on the <a href="http://www.sterryworldwide.com/webtrees/individual.php?pid=I185&ged=southwold.ged">Southwold, Suffolk, UK Sterry tree</a>.</div>
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Details on this Dublin Sterry family can also be found on the My Heritage website on the well researched <a href="http://www.myheritage.com/FP/entry.php?s=131928951">Dolan-Haugh Family Tree</a>. You need to sign up [for free] and login to view.</div>
STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-77274123936621703372014-06-29T12:49:00.000+10:002014-06-30T16:43:04.442+10:00Researching Norfolk ParishesHave returned to working on parish registers in Norfolk, England.
I recently rejoined the <a href="http://www.norfolkfhs.org.uk/">Norfolk Family History Society.</a>
NFHS has a large number of their own transcribed Norfolk parish registers and memorial inscriptions accessible from their website through their <a href="http://norfolkfhs.ourarchives.info/bin/index.php">Norfolk Online Record Search [NORS]</a>.
All their online records have now been cross referenced to what we already have on Sterry WorldWide.
I will now be trawling through any <a href="https://familysearch.org/image/viewer#uri=https%3A//familysearch.org/records/collection/1416598/waypoints">Norfolk parish registers on the Family Search website</a> that have not already been checked through other sources.
These are being done in simple alphabetical order for all baptisms, marriages and burials 1700-1780 and have so far been checked up to Great Massingham.STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-4865603885805350242013-06-26T23:43:00.000+10:002013-06-26T23:43:01.216+10:00The Sterry Family of America 1670-1970 by Walter Smith now onlineThis seminal book on Sterry Genealogy has been published online as an ebook by the Genealogical Society of Utah aka FamilySearch.<br />
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Copyright free the entire book of 368 pages in pdf format can be freely viewed online or downloaded<br />
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<a href="https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1018560">https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1018560</a><br />
<a href="http:"></a><a href="https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1018560"></a>
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The Connecticut Clan, Descended from Roger, of Stonington by 1670, and the Maine Clan, Descended from Samuel, of Ipswich [Mass.] by 1753, with Mention of Other Sterrys and the Family in England Back to 1190 [Sturry]) by WALTER BURGES SMITH.<br />
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Printed privately in Israel for the author.STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-28216760978957092222012-11-25T17:07:00.003+11:002013-06-26T23:00:30.943+10:00Researching Wills in Shropshire, Worcestershire and HerefordshireI am currently researching the STARY/STARIE family of Burford and Corely in Shropshire, Knighton-on-Teme and Neen Sollars in Worcestershire and Stoke Bliss and Stoke Prior in Herefordshire. Although this sounds as though they are spread over quite a large area, in fact they are all within about 15km of where they appear to have originated in Burford, as the following snip from a googlemap shows.<br />
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It so happens that almost this entire area, although covering three counties, came under the Diocese of Hereford as far as pre-1858 probate records are concerned and the Episcopal Consistory Court of Hereford in particular.<br />
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There is a very useful Family Search wiki article on the <a href="https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Court_of_the_Bishop_of_Hereford_%28Episcopal_Consistory%29">Episcopal Consistory Court of Hereford</a>. The wiki very conveniently cross references to Family Search films that can be ordered online and viewed at your local LDS Family History Centre.<br />
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The titles of the films indicate fairly clearly what they contain. Here are some I have looked at so far, with some excellent results: see <a href="http://www.sterryworldwide.com/herfwills.htm">Stary/Sterry Herefordshire Wills</a>.<br />
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Original Wills, Administrations, Inventories Court of the Bishop of Hereford 1579-1631 [LDS Film 91671]<br />
Original Wills, Administrations, Inventories Court of the Bishop of Hereford 1602-1623, 1631-1650 [LDS Film 91672]<b><br /></b>Probate Indexes and Abtracts, Court of the Bishop of Hereford 1662-1669 [LDS Film 1647469]<b></b><br />
Registered Wills, v.17-18, 1709-1714 [LDS Film 91597]<br />
Registered Wills [Court of the Bishop of Hereford] 1709-1714 [Film 91597] <br />
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The series 91632-91679 are Wills, Administrations and Inventories 1540+-1660+ proved at the Court of the Bishop of Hereford. Apart from the probate
declaration at the end of the document, they are in English and are
indexed. They are arranged by letter of surname and year range. However, some of the years are out of sequence. Some are organised by particular surnames.<br />
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The series 91588-91621 are complete, registered Wills from 1663-1858 proved at the Court of the Bishop of Hereford. Apart from the probate declaration at the end of the document, they are in English and are indexed. They are arranged by letter of surname and year range. Note however that the index and the Wills they refer to may continue over two films.<br />
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The series 1647469-1647653 are only abstracts proved at the Court of the Bishop of Hereford from 1662-1858 and contain only very limited information, such as the most recent parish where the testator lived and the names of the executors.They are also in Latin. However, they are useful as they effectively provide a combined index to Wills and Administrations from 1663-1858. <br />
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There are two series that I have not looked at. Films 91680-91716 contain Administrations and Inventories from 1662-1736; films 91622-91628 contain Act Books from 1662-1858.<br />
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An Index to Wills proved in the Bishop's Court of Hereford 1442-1579 [Film 990127] is also available.<br />
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Apart from the Family Search collection, there are two published indexes for the Court of the Bishop of Hereford that can be referenced at family history libraries and some record offices - if you're lucky enough to have one that is accessible.<br />
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Calendar of Probate and Administration Acts, 1407-1550 in the Consistory Court of the Bishops of Hereford, with an Appendix of Abstracts of Registered-Copy Wills 1552-1581, ed. Michael Faraday, 2009<br />
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Calendar of probate and administration acts 1407-1541 and abstracts of wills 1541-1581 in the court books of the Bishop of Hereford, ed. M.A. Faraday and E.J.L. Cole, British Record Society, 1989.<br />
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But the Wills they refer to in the above indexes evidently no longer exist. <br />
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There is a long-standing project by the British Record Society to produce a consolidated index to all records in the Episcopal Consistory Court of Hereford and the Consistory Court of the Dean of Hereford [that covered parishes in Hereford itself and nearby parishes] up to 1700, but this is currently unpublished.<br />
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Of course it's one thing to locate a probate record; it's not necessarily an easy task to read it - especially if it's pre-1700 and partly in Latin. But it is possible to teach yourself with enough determination and patience. <br />
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And I have found quite a few online resources to help me do this.<br />
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But I'll leave that topic for another post!STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-20205900000140175972012-10-29T11:15:00.000+11:002012-10-29T11:15:55.037+11:00Guild of One-Name Studies Australian SeminarAttended the first GOONS Australian Seminar last Saturday, October 27 in Sydney, organised by the New South Wales Regional Rep for NSW, Karen Rogers.<br />
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Speakers included Heather Garnsey from the Society of Australian Genealogists [Sydney], Richard Merry [Regional Rep for South Australia], David Evans [Regional Rep for Victoria], Michael Mitchelmore and Karen Rogers.<br />
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Apart from a rare opportunity of meeting face-to-face with others who shared a passion for researching a particular surname worldwide, I found the presentations by Richard Merry and David Evans the most personally useful.<br />
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Richard gave an overview of the latest information on using Y-DNA [the male sex chromosome] as part of a One-Name Study. Amongst a lot of information, he recommended a very useful site Eupedia-Genetics: <a href="http://www.eupedia.com/genetics/">http://www.eupedia.com/genetics/</a><br />
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Although I have been running a STERRY DNA Project for over three years myself, there is always so much that you don't know and so much more to learn.<br />
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David Evans gave an overview of how the Guild works. There are no many support services now available as a member of GOONS<br />
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that it was great to be reminded of all that is on offer, especially online. David's presentation has certainly stimulated me to have another look at their excellent website, including a fairly new section called Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness where members can offer to help other members. As someone living in Australia with strong research interests in England, any offers to do look-ups in county Record Offices is a great boon to my own research.<br />
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Although Heather's presentation on the resources available at the <a href="http://www.sag.org.au/">Society of Australian Genealogists</a> [SAG] was for me very much talking to the converted as I have been a member - and indeed a sometime volunteer - for many years, there is always something that is forgotten. During her talk Heather mentioned the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/">TROVE Newspaper Archive</a> of the National Library of Australia. <br /><br />
This is indeed a fabulous site for genealogical research. The number of newspapers, especially country and regional newspapers, that have now been been digitised and can be searched for particular names online is prodigious and is being added to all the time.<br />
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Although this site is not new to me, I checked it again when I got home and was surprised how much new material had been added. I had one particularly excellent find: an item on my g.grandfather, William Sterry from 1891. It appears someone stole his horse and cart from right in front of his bakery at Smith St, Collingwood in Melbourne, Victoria. Although I knew that my g.grandfather was indeed a baker in Melbourne in 1891, I previously had no idea where his shop was located. This opens up a whole new area of research!<br />
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Thanks Karen for organising a most interesting seminar.STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-62429879869226204092012-10-22T22:52:00.000+11:002012-11-25T15:41:47.630+11:00Locating Wills in England before 1858After parish registers, undoubtedly one of the most valuable source records that are available to anyone undertaking family history research in England are probate records.<br />
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But knowing where to look for Wills before a civil system was introduced in 1858 has always been tricky. Wills could be 'proven' in any one of a number of ecclesiastical jurisdictions depending on where the deceased's property was located.<br />
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And even if you knew which ecclesiastical court applied, indexes of Wills in regional and district courts are few and far between and/or difficult to use.<br />
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In my own STERRY research I found many years ago that Wills proven in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury [PCC] were the best indexed and most readily available. [Wills were proven in the PCC if the deceased had property in more than one ecclesiatical diocese.]<br />
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These days indexes of PCC Wills can be readily searched online and the copies of original Wills from 1462 to 1858 downloaded for a small cost.<br />
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And now, thanks to the Familysearch Wiki, locating Wills in Episcopal and lower courts is also much easier. <br />
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https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/England_Probate_Records<br />
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The range and number of indexes and original probate records in England that have been filmed by the LDS is awesome and so far I have only begun to scratch the surface.<br />
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Allthough I live in Australia, I can order these probate indexes and original Wills through my very handy and local LDS Family History Centre at a very reasonable cost.<br />
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I am currently researching Wills mainly in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire and I plan to share my journey via the Sterry Family History blog over the coming months. I hope you may find what I learn of interest in your own research.<br />
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More as it happens .....STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-10060010518651181422011-12-05T12:28:00.001+11:002012-02-03T09:31:12.950+11:00FreeREG - a forgotten resource?I have been further exploring the availability of Norfolk, England parish records online and recently came across a site I have of course heard about for years but have quite forgotten to check for a very long time. It perhaps doesn't get the publicity and acknowledgement it deserves.<br />
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<a href="http://www.freereg.org.uk/">FreeREG</a> aims to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K. FreeREG is a companion project to <a href="http://www.freebmd.org.uk/">FreeBMD</a> (a database of the GRO birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837) and <a href="http://www.freecen.org.uk/">FreeCEN</a> (a database of census information).<br />
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The number of Norfolk FreeREG parishes included in their searchable database is astonishing and represents an enormous effort on the part of volunteer transcribers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.freereg.org.uk/parishes/nfk/">http://www.freereg.org.uk/parishes/nfk/</a><br />
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So anyone interested in tracing their families in Norfolk have a fabulous resource in FreeREG.<br />
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I understand Norfolk is particularly well covered in FreeREG but other counties are undoubtedly worth checking. I believe Lincolnshire also has particularly good coverage.<br />
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FreeREG doesn't allow you to view the actual transcription. There is a separate search engine for baptisms, marriages and burials. There is no provision for any wildcards so all variants of a surname have to be entered separately. Because many transcribers place a '?' after doubtful entries, the site also recommends searching for the surname and variant of interest together with a '?' to ensure you pick up those entries. The search engine does provide for 'soundex' searches that will pick up variants - but this also produces an awful lot of surnames that are of no interest at all. And of course if the surname is completely incorrectly transcribed, it's almost impossible to find it!<br />
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Although it doesn't contain anything like the number of parishes included in FreeREG, the <a href="http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php">Norfolk Transcription Archive</a> is also well worth a look. This archive conveniently lists all the surnames found in its database. This is very helpful in picking up strange and unexpected variants.STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-77610683017531705102011-11-06T13:15:00.000+11:002011-11-06T14:01:06.791+11:00Additions to familysearch.orgI am always amazed when I check the latest additions to the LDS Family Search website.<br />
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They must have an army of volunteer transcribers judging by the amount of transcribing and indexing that is happening. The site is a 'must check' on a regular basis.<br />
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In addition to the transcribing of source records and offering them on their website for free, the LDS are entering into sharing arrangements with a surprising number of commercial sites. The arrangement seems to vary from company to company and the material that is on their site is still free to view - it just may not be complete. You may need to pay something to their commercial 'partner' to obtain the full detail of a particular entry.<br />
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A good example of this is BMDregisters.co.uk. You can search and view enough of the entry to be useful but if the entry has particular interest and you want to see every detail available, then you'll be offered to link from the Family Search site to the BMDregisters site and buy some tokens to view it. This is actually pretty good value and an excellent arrangement. BMDregisters specialise in non-conformist records that can be incredibly difficult to find so they provide a unique contribution to available online records.<br />
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This is the way I worked it. I went to familysearch.org: 'Browse By Location' links on left column and selected the Europe and United Kingdom as my present interest. This brings up a huge number of available collections. Some are transcribed records and some are still just image collections that need to be 'trawled' through year by year and page by page - just like viewing a parish register on a microfilm reader at an LDS Family History Centre.<br />
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I then clicked on the top of the Last Updated column to bring up the latest additions by date order. This gives me their latest additions.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A//api.familysearch.org/records/collection/1416598/waypoints">England, Norfolk Parish Registers, 1538-1900</a> is a stunning example of the digitising of entire parish registers and placing them on-line. The only way I could view such original parish registers previously was to either fly to England from Australia and head for the local Record Office or order in the microfilm and view it at my local LDS Family History Centre - which in fact I have been doing on a very regular basis for 15 years. This is just a wonderful development and thousands more will follow. The LDS has a hollowed out mountain in Salt Lake City, Utah with hundreds of thousands of microfilmed parish records from countries all over the world. <br />
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The <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1465709">England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1900</a> collection are transcribed records - one of many collections that we can thank hundreds of volunteers for transcribing. Nowhere yet complete of course but still substantial. It is updated as new transcriptions are added.<br />
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The England and Wales, <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1666142">Non-Conformist Record Indexes</a> (RG4-8) is an example of where Family Search has entered into a sharing arrangement with a commercial company to provide the records free on line. There are now a huge number of non-conformist records available for searching on the BMDregisters site so being able to view enough of each entry to know if it's worth paying for the full entry is a huge bonus. It's worth knowing that RG6 records are all Quaker records as a large proportion of the available records are indeed Quaker. So if you're not interested in Quaker ancestors, that will reduce the number of records to check considerably. It's also possible to cross reference the RG number to the film that is available on the LDS Family History Catalogue. If the only piece of additional information you need is the chapel where the event occurred, this is a way of finding it without needing to pay for it. But if the record is of any significance, then you'll certainly want to open the purse strings.STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-7714505674889752502011-11-02T14:21:00.000+11:002011-11-02T14:24:19.388+11:00New STERRY Family TreeIt is with much pleasure that I have added a new family tree to the collection of STERRY Family Trees on STERRY WORLDWIDE. Called the Tennessee, USA line, it details the descendants of William Williston Sterry.<br />
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I first made contact with one of the principal researchers of this line, Anne Sterry Henges, way back in 1995. More recently I have been working with Anne's sister Carolyn Magruder, also a keen researcher, in an attempt to find where William Williston Sterry came from.<br />
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All we know about the origins of William is that his family moved from Albany to Syracuse in New York State in 1825 and that he was the middle of three children. [William later moved to Sycamore in Tennessee about 1843 and probably married there in 1848. He was a cabinet maker and farmer and died there in 1894.] Unfortunately New York birth records for this period have generally not survived.<br />
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Anne and Carolyn's research brought them inevitably into contact with Walter Smith, the author of the book "The Sterry Family of America" [1973] with whom they corresponded over several years.<br />
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Carolyn introduced me to a third researcher of the Tennessee line, Tracy Robb, who was interested in trying out DNA testing as a means of hopefully establishing where William Williston Sterry may have come from. Tracy encouraged James William "Bubba" Sterry to join the STERRY DNA Project. When James' results came in they matched the DNA signature of the main Connecticut Sterry line or the line of Roger Sterry [1640-1681]. DNA evidence had proved a connection where years of traditional research had failed because of lack of surviving documentation.<br />
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Needless to say everyone was very excited.<br />
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So it seemed timely to assemble all the research over many, many years into an online version of the Tennessee, USA STERRY line. This work has now been completed and the Tennessee tree has taken its due place as the sixteenth Sterry Family Tree. It can be viewed on STERRY WORLDWIDE. With much thanks in particular to Anne, Carolyn and Tracy for sharing all their years of research and making it freely available on Sterry WorldWide. We are hopeful that this may prove of interest not only to members of the Tennessee, USA Sterry tree but also to those following Sterry family history research generally. We invite contributions and corrections and in particular encourage others to contact us who may have access to any records that may shed further light on the origins of William Williston Sterry.STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562022249488382520.post-16155070865985754882011-10-17T18:37:00.000+11:002011-10-17T18:37:09.532+11:00Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records [1760-1913]A big thank you to David Sterry for searching and transcribing these records for any STERRY/STERREY entries from the Find My Past website. Eleven records were located and these have been added in a new section under Military Records - UK:<br />
http://www.sterryworldwide.com/militaryuk.htm<br />
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The records have also be added to each individual within their respective STERRY famly tree. Family trees represented by these records are Lowestoft [Suffolk], Longhope [Gloucestershire], Worcestershire, Southwold [Suffolk], Bury St Edmunds [Suffolk] and Pakefield [Suffolk]. These new entries will appear on the next occasion these trees are updated online.STERRYWORLDWIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11401330120718282147noreply@blogger.com0