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From: "Julie Cooper" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMS] Hi
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:58:16 +0000
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Hi Philip,

Thank you very much for this info and for the link. I will put it in
my favourites and study it when no-one is pestering me for the use of
the computer!
I do appreciate your time and effort. It is another crack in the
brick wall of this problem!

Thanks again

Julie.

On 11/02/07, Philip Maddocks <> wrote:
> try familyhistoryonline.net. Banns and marriage for George in 1824
>
> Philip Maddocks
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julie Cooper" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 6:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMS] Hi
>
>
> > Hello Cath,
> >
> > Thank you for your kind offer on Rootsweb. I wonder if you could help
> > me if you get time?
> >
> > This is my "Brick wall" My paternal Grandmother had a cousin but I
> > cant find out which relatives he was related through. If I could find
> > out his mothers maiden name, that might give me a clue. He was born
> > before the BMD records were started and didn't have any children which
> > makes it worse. Also, I have a marriage cert for him but her name is
> > completely different from his wife's name on their gravestone in Old
> > Humberstone Churchyard. I cant find any record of him becoming a
> > widower and marrying again.
> >
> > His name is Elliot John Norman Galer, according to census he was born
> > in Cambridge but I don't know the Parish. I cant find him on the CFHS.
> >
> > Although I have found info on the internet and in his Will, I have had
> > no luck in finding out who they were related through.
> > According to the IGI,he was Christened on 24 AUG 1823 in Toft, Cambridge.
> >
> > I cant find him on census 1841 to1861. He turns up in Leicester in
> > 1871. He married Mary Ann HODSON nee BASSETT in London 1858. They were
> > both actors and opera singers and his wife''s stage name was Fanny
> > REEVES and her name on their gravestone (in Humberstone,
> > Leicestershire) is Annie Reeves Galer. They
> > did not have children which makes them more difficult to trace.
> > Elliott''s father was George Galer, a farmer according to his marriage
> > cert, and I think he had a sister Anne who is somehow related to the
> > MALLANDAINES.
> >
> > Somehow Elliot is related to the WADSWORTH and/or ODAMS families
> > of Cambridge/Huntingdonshire
> >
> > Sorry if this is a bit garbled but I thought it might help to put down
> > all I know.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Regard,
> > Julie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 25/01/07, catherine <> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi im new to the cambridge bit. My main interest is Berkshire, and people
> >> down that way help me,
> >> by looking up things. So i thought i would offer my time to anyone
> >> needing things checked out, ie
> >> finding grave stones in Cambridge uk. Seeing as i live in Cambridge and I
> >> need the exercise and an
> >> excuse for a walk, i thought i would offer. But not too many at once
> >> though i'm still weaning
> >> myself off the car !
> >> Cath
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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