Summa Genealogica

In the first post, I explained that in this series I shall be tracing the ancestry of Thomas Graves, born c.1811, and baptised in 1815, in Thurcaston, Leicestershire. However, before we begin to move backwards up his tree, we will look at Thomas Graves, his life, family, and tragic death. Birth Unfortunately, we do not know the exact date that Thomas Graves was born, but the 1841 Census gives his age as 30, the '51 Census as 40, and '61 Census as 50, and all give his place of birth as Thurcaston - with such consistency, we can say that his birth was fairly likely to have been between 1810-11. He was eventually baptised on the 24th December 1815, in Thurcaston, Leicestershire, along with his siblings Benjamin and Mary Graves. [1]  His parents were Storer and Mary Graves (as we will see in Generation II), and Storer was a cordwainer at the time, someone who makes shoes from leather. Thomas's other siblings siblings were:  Ann Graves, baptised 24th Aug 1800, in Hathern, a ha...

As mentioned in my side tabs, one of my passion projects is documenting and "collecting" interesting Royal Descents of various people and families, partly out of my own interest in the subject, and also out of the hope that someone will find their own ancestors amongst this blog, and may learn some new information about them through it. A Royal Descent uses so many different sources of information to prove them that to see them written out and following the process of the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS, henceforth) can be tremendously useful for teaching people and helping them see potential avenues for further searching in their own research. That is what the following series is going to do: we will start with and go in-depth into the ancestry of Thomas Graves, probably born around 1811, and baptised in 1815, in the parish of Thurcaston, Leicestershire. On the 1841 census, he was living with his young family in Leicestershire and his occupation was "Ag Lab", an a...