New Discoveries

 New discoveries just keep on coming, just when you think you have learnt all there is to know about the people in your family one or two individuals will suddenly give up new information, that will delight you. January 2022 and the new family research year started off with two such discoveries, from people that I have been researching one from the very beginning; my grandmother Kate and the other a cousin found through DNA matching some years back 4th cousin 1x recovered Reginald Albert Gorman. 

In the case of my grandmother I received an automated Email from a family tree building and research site that I subscribe to, informing me that a new Christening record had been found for my grandmother, and inviting me to come and see the record. After a day or so, I clicked on the record link and behold. I discover indeed more detailed information than in other past records.

Name Kate Elizabeth Wise

Sex Female  

Christening date 28 Mar 1875

Christening place Wareham, Dorset, England UK 

Christening place (original) St Mary's Wareham, Dorset England 

Fathers name William 

Mothers name Julia

The new fact I see for the first time in this record is St Mary's Wareham Dorset England, I had never known that Kate was Christened at St May's Wareham so I went Googling and found that St Mary's is still active today.

StMary's Wareham Dorset England/Public Domain.

Exploring St Mary's history on line I discovered an interesting fact about the Christening font, it is apparently the only 12th century Hexagonal lead font in existence. 

Christening font St' Mary's Wareham Dorset

   Grandmother Kate is a twin sister to my aunt Louisa so this discovery of the font is an interesting new fact to add to the family story.

Reginald Albert Gorman, Australian actor who has been in the tree since 2019 was only discovered for being the so well known actor of Australian TV that we know him for, while I was exploring my DNA match to his daughter Kate Gorman, who is also an accomplished Australian TV actress. Appearing in Neighbours and many other productions. Cousin Kate Gorman and her father Reg are related through William Bond and Sarah Bond/Acton and their daughter Sarah Jane Bond.

Reg Gorman

A third new discovery was while watching the program Who do You Think you Are, Australian journalist and television  presenter Jennifer Victoria Byrne was being presented with her family history and in the course of the program it became clear that her ancestral line had similarities to my own family. I have since learnt that we are 19th cousins.

 

Jennifer Byrne 

My lesson for this new year is I don't know what I don't know, when I think I know.  

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