Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 6 – a challenging case…. At long last, the final chapter in my three Elizabeth Beakes project. Since early July last year, the main focus of my research has been solving the puzzle of the three cousins named Elizabeth Beake who lived in East Kent during the 18th century. The discovery of several wills, administration documents, and even some newspaper mentions helped me positively identify two of the cousins and their husbands: …

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Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 5 – the final piece of the Beake and Tickner “puzzle”… Over the past few weeks, I've built out a family for Elizabeth Beake, daughter of William Beake and Mary Gibbs, and connected her to Thomas Tickner (?-1779), and illustrated much of my process in a succession of blog posts. The final pieces of evidence I've left til last, although I did allude to them in my October 27 post, Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 4…

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Proving Parish Register entries incorrect… First, I apologize for any confusion this post, with its many people of the same name will cause and completely understand if you abandon reading it! In the genealogy world, it's generally acknowledged that the record created closest to the time of the event will be the most accurate. As we know, however, there are always exceptions to this unofficial rule.

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Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 4… In my last Beake-related post, I outlined the various documents I managed to track down related to my cousin 7x removed, Elizabeth Beake, daughter of William Beake and Mary Gibbs (click image to enlarge): Elizabeth came from a very big family - she was the fourth child whose baptism entry I found in the register at St Nicholas in Ash-next-Sandwich.

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Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 3…collecting evidence… Gathering the documents necessary to write this next profile took a lot of time and is a perfect example of how analysis and correlation are necessary to our process. Separating the eldest of the three cousins named Elizabeth Beake from the younger two proved fairly straightforward, based on her age and location (click image to enlarge): I was fortunate she remained in the same general area throughout her life.

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FamilySearch Full-text Search solves another family history mystery… I sadly confess to having allowed FS full-text search to distract me a bit from my Beake line research. That said, this week that sideline resulted in a discovery that answered my question from earlier this year: "who was Mary, the second wife of George Wardell, named in his will, dated 31 March 17961". Quick summary: George's will named a second wife, Mary and his daughter, Elizabeth as his co-executrixes.

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