Calendar of added and updated items 

 

The "recent edits" tab leads to a list of recently edited people. This "what's new?" page will let you know of major changes or additions to the site.

 

August 2011

  • Photo of Jessie Fernee, her husband Thomas Daniel Felstead & their four adult children, 1947, Australia (Mark Felstead)
  • Information about Frederick Henry Fernee (1903-1976) (Sheila Allen). His Royal Navy service records are available from The National Archives
  • Photo of Celia Fernee Coveney & her husband riding in a motorcar (Jessica Yonwin) & posed shot of Cecilia
  • Photo of Jessie May Fernee Symonds 1889-1949 with her sons (Yonwin)
  • Birth certificate for Joseph Hart 1876 and death certificates for his twin siblings James at age 7 months and Alice age 9 months (Paul Smith)
  • Photo of George Henry Coomber, husband of Fanny Voillet Fernee & their marriage cert (Paul S)
  • Death of the Coomber's only son Charles Henry at age 19
  • Discovered another child for Robert Hart & Eliza Fernee - George 1875, who died at 11 months; also records for Emily Elizabeth death in 1919; bcert & dcert for Jessie Phoebe the youngest Hart child; Annie bcert, dcert, and marriage to James Crampton in 1900 (Paul Adamson)
  • Photo of Joseph Hart & also his death cert (Paul A)  
  • Photo of Richard Fernee at the outset of WW2 (Sheila)
  • Photo of Emily Fernee and her daughter, taken in 1880s England and sent to a cousin in Australia (Marie)
  • Thomas Fernee & Rachel Louisa Smurthwaites in 1911 census which added several children; their son Richard emigrated to Australia (Linda Griggs)
  • 1911 census - Ellen Annie Fernee & husb Edward Eyre & 3 sons in Sheffield (Mary Duggan)
  • Census and other info about Sylvanus Ainsworth Fernee's widow Mary Patience in Yorkshire

 

March 2011

  • Children of Jessie (daughter of Joshua in Australia) & her husband Thomas Daniel Felstead; photo of Jessie (courtesy Mark Felstead)
  • Baptisms for the 8 children of Robert Hart & Eliza Fernee from 1868-1882; Robert's untimely death in 1884 (Paul Adamson)
  • Death cert for Eliza Foden Fernee in 1873; she had 13 children so is likely an ancestor of many who view the website (Paul)
  • Birth cert for Hannah Elizabeth Bygrave who married Edward Spencer Fernee in 1887 (Rae Sidwell)
  • BMD information for Ellen Annie, one of the Sheffield Fernees (Mary Duggan)
  • Children and 1901 census for Celia (Jessica Yonwin)
  • Children for Horace from 1902-1921 (Jessica)
  • Children for Jessie May
  • Photo of Mary Eliza Fernee Woodall (Marie Bennetts)

Also of note -- a new style of descendant chart that is collapsible and expandable and great for seeing the "big picture".   You can open up the whole thing or just the parts of interest to you.  Check them out!

December 2010

  • Will for Robert Fernee who died in 1847
  • (Elizabeth) Blanche Fernee marriage to Vernon Chitty in Michigan
  • found several Australian Godart newspaper notices, e.g. Frank's marriage and death, Mary Caster's death
  • James Fernee, gas furnace engineer in Sheffield, business card (contributed by Marie)
  • Information from the first Fernee birth certificate (Eliza in 1837) and her death cert in 1922 after returning from Australia (thank you Paul)
  • for her son Archibald Hart - birth & death certs and a portrait (Paul)
  • many entries from Islington and St Pancras burial indexes
  • details added for Anthony Fernee who was in the navy and went to California in the 1860s

August 2010

  • Added a 1910 newspaper clipping about police constable Archibald Hart and a photo of him in his Royal Artillery uniform (his mother was a Fernee) (thanks Paul)
  • Added oodles of records for the period from 1880 to 1900
  • Discovered the whereabouts of William Frederick Fernee after he married Florence Trenaman in 1894 ... they went to America!
  • Added information about Herbert Stanley Fernee, born 1877. He appeared as a child called Bertie in Ontario, Canada in 1890 and eventually was known as Albert, located in Michigan, USA.  He was one of the British Home Children, who were poor or orphaned children sent to Canada to have a chance at a better life.
  • Added details about Frederick Thurotern Fernee's family (thanks Richard & Hester)
  • Found siblings Edwin, Melinda, and Elizabeth Fernee in the workhouse in the 1901 census. Their mother died in 1894 and their father Edwin was a stableman living with his mother.
  • Photo of Eliza Fernee Hart who was born in 1837 (from Paul)
  • Fernee entries from the England & Wales National Probate calendar 1858 - 1941 (with many gaps) which has recently become available online: Thomas (died in 1850), Elizabeth (1868), Esther (1868), John (1876), Maria (1879), Ann Mary (1881), John Robert (1887), Thomas (1892), Ada (1913), Anne Selina (1916), James (1917), Edith (1922), Herbert Augustus (1927), Thomas (1933), Elizabeth Maria (1934), George Henry (1938), and Alice Maud (1939)
  • Godart entries from the National Probate calendar: Katharine Frances Farmer (1926) and her husband Thomas Peter (1928)
  • Image of the marriage register for Peter Godart & Elizabeth Jackson in 1809
  • Early photographs - photos of the Australian Fernee branch and photos sent from relatives still in England. Hugh Woodall, Edward Hillman Fernee, Emma Elizabeth, Thomas Fernee & wife Mary Ann Jarvis & their 5 small children c1880, Mary Eliza Fernee Woodall c1900, Joshua Joseph. Gravestone photos for Henry & his son Henry Edwin in Mount Gambier, Hugh Woodall & wife Mary Eliza Fernee (thank you Marie)

 

 

July 2010

  • Images on the people pages are now displayed as thumbnails; click to see enlarged image
  • Charts are accented to highlight my ancestors and siblings of my ancestors
  • Burial for a Sarah Elizabeth Godart -- is this Zara?
  • Burial for an infant Thomas Godart in 1816 -- who are his parents?
  • Photos of the William & Mary (Godart) Murrell gravestone and a photo of their daughter Rose & her husband William Partridge (thank you Tom - a descendant)
  • Added parents and a baptism for Chrissy Bennett who married George Fernee in 1814 

December 2009

* Digitised images of many parish registers held at the London Metropolitan Archives are now available at Ancestry.com. They cover much of the area that is now encompassed by Greater London but not the original City of London.  The included parishes were once in Middlesex and Surrey.  I have added the information from dozens of baptism, marriage, and burial records - all of those indexed properly as 'Fernee' and 'Godart'. Now to find the ones with variant spellings and errant indexing!

* Added a calendar for marriages.  Note that there were several on Christmas Day.

 

December 2008

* Lots of information and people added to the Story branch of the Fernee tree, including Charles who emigrated to America and photos of his brother Anthony (thanks, Terry). Anthony's son Richard Wallace emigrated to Canada

* Just for fun - added a calendar of birthdays for everyone on the site

November 2008

* Oodles of details about the family of Joshua Fernee who emigrated to Australia. He married and had 11 children. Check out his timeline chart, too. (thanks, Mary)