Family History

Pages tagged as "Hinksman"


Diary entry: 1 Jul 2024
On Saturday I received the marriage certificate of Maria Ponsford that, excitingly, shows her father to have been William Hinksman: ...
Diary entry: 24 Jun 2024
I’m on the hunt for more information about the Mary Taylor who lived with Mary Hinksman in the 1851 census. ...
Diary entry: 23 Jun 2024
I’m continuing the search for evidence supporting my hypothesis that the Hinksman baptisms in Twyford belong to a single family and that family includes my ancestor William Hinksman (see yesterday’s entry) ...
Diary entry: 22 Jun 2024
I’ve been documenting more about the life of William Hinksman, focusing particularly on what happened to his wife and family and have had a couple of potentially exciting breakthroughs. ...
Diary entry: 10 Sep 2023
Yesterday we visited The National Archives in Kew to examine the muster rolls of the 4th Infantry regiment for the early 1800s. ...
Diary entry: 1 Sep 2023
I took advantage of the new digital image service at the GRO and ordered quite a few birth certificates of siblings of my ancestors in the Hinksman, Carr and Hall families. ...
Diary entry: 31 Aug 2023
It occurred to me that the note “N3 from private Sth Hants” against William Hinksman’s recruitment could mean that he had transferred from the South Hampshire regiment, the 67th Foot. ...
Diary entry: 30 Aug 2023
I came across something quite interesting today. Ancestry gave me a new hint for William Hinksman: banns for a marriage between a William Hinkeman and Jane Fisher in 1803: ...
Diary entry: 15 Aug 2023
While adding some citations of William Hinksman’s muster roll appearances to Ancestry I noticed that the rolls also include lists of new recruits and the officer that commanded the recruiting party. ...
Diary entry: 14 Aug 2023
I’ve been writing the story of the Suffolk Hinksmans and reviewing some of the records I have searched. ...