Capt. Mondo's World o' Mondo-ness

More Ancestors Uncovered
Spent the evening digging through the new census records available on the ancestry.com Web site. Recently they've digitized and transcribed the whole of the 1871 UK Census, and have made significant progress doing the same for the 1901 UK census. They also seem to have learned from their past experiences and user feedback from the work they did similarly transcribing the 1891 UK Census, which is what drew me to this subscription-based Web site in the first place. For example, once you have a rough match, you can easily choose to look at the immediate family members listed on a separate Web page, instead of having to load up the actual census image and scan it. This new feature contained in the listing for the 1871 and 1901 census saves a lot of time eliminating false leads. The 1871 census is essentially complete, and the 1901 is only a partial, with significant gaps (like all of Lancashire, for example).

This time around I thought I'd do a search on some of the more peripheral family members that I don't have a lot of info on, such as the Moyses and the Woodrooffes. The Moyse family fits in with our Stuart relations, Jane Stuart having married a Charles Moyse in Hemingstone in 1866. So any living relations would be very distant cousins at this point. But I had never bothered looking into this branch of the family before, and I was able to pull up the census records for that household in short order, establishing the names of their child. At this point I probably have enough info that I could make positive connections with anybody doing genealogical work in that family line.

I was also able to dig up more useful information in more directly related family. I was able to track down the households for my immediate Alders and Stuart ancestors, which for the most part helped to cement information gleaned from previous census information. Such as the fact that my Great Grandfather James Alder was born in mid-19th century South Africa (likely from Cape Town). And there's an interesting, implied maternal link to the Grayston family that cropped up in the census record for the Stuart household: an Ella Grayston is listed as living with the family, listed as a "cousin". I already knew that the eldest son from that family had Grayston as a middle name, and I strongly suspect that his maternal Grandmother will turn out to have that as her maiden name. I just have to wait for more census information to turn up to be able to confirm it.

I have printed off a few copies of the census records I have found and will be mailing them to my relations in England, as well as my Aunt Audrey who lives in this country, who will likely be interested in the Stuart info.