When I first began my Chugg family research, my grandmother Backman was my primary source. On more than one occasion my research has borne out that I am a fallible human in research. Love her to goodness, grandmother was also.
Irene Annie Treharne, she told me had married someone with the name Waterhouse, and had had two sons, Raymond and Howard, whom I forever after sought for under Raymond Waterhouse and Howard Waterhouse.
Well, today for some reason I opened up this line of research again and found Irene married to Raymond W. Foster in Ogden Utah in 1913. FOSTER! Maybe that W would be the Waterhouse key.
It was not, it is West, his mother's maiden name. But, I found a census showing that she had married a Mr. Waterhouse! But Raymond had been a stepchild in that family as well, and his name was Raymond West Foster, their sons Raymond W Foster, Jr and Howard John Foster.
So I begin research now on a new path, with new information, after backtracking.
We can view it as bad research, or that we are human researchers. I'll take the latter, and remind that baktracking can be - is - a research tool!
Tell me your news! We've been apart too long!
I am adding a note after a weekend and several days: having given this family a flurry of attention, I again have come to an end of the path.
This I know (or believe I do)
Raymond West Foster, Jr, b. 9 Apr 1914, Ogden, d. 20 May 1974, Inyo co, CA
Howard John Foster, b. 1 Dec 1916, Ogden, d. 12 Jan 1986, Orange co, CA
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Notes from the mine - digging into our Chugg Family History.
I have tried to stay consistent with my projects; I originally set out to find the "whole other family" that I learned about after finding John Chugg buried in Ogden, Utah. I was new to that area and did not know that John Chugg had been widowed and then had married a second wife with whom he had settled the Harrisville and Farr West area of Weber County.
What an education and adventure when I did learn of these kinfolk, and of the extended families through John's brothers and sisters. I am rich with Chugg heritage!
Because I had set my sights on those family members descended from the pioneer Chugg families I have done little in the way of exploring the extended family remaining in Devonshire, England, or Glamorganshire, Wales.
Well, some time back I found a note on the Chugg Clan group in Facebook from a Chugg kinsman in Illinois asking for assistance with locating a line that included Scotland, Canada, and part of the USA (not Utah or Idaho) and maybe Australia.
My own family pedigree record does not match up with his exactly, but they do intersect. We will have to discuss just where as we get to know the family lines back about three hundred years.
Three hundred years ago does not seem as far as it used to. 1716? More than a few generations, but recent enough to have complete dates in some cases. That is something to make a fuss of!
So I spent a good part of a Saturday, which had been planned to work in a different family project, following up in a new vein of Chugg ore. I think this is a good find, and count on increasing my wealth.
Our wealth! Get out your family history tools and join in. Chris Seemann of the Chicago area has pictures from his late mother and wants help to possibly link these up with names, or to follow up the lines that link his family into your own. Was his Richard a child of John and Mary Parmynter Chugg or Richard and Susan Harris Chugg.
Suddenly I have a blank mind - was it Richard and Alice Coats? Well, back to work!
What an education and adventure when I did learn of these kinfolk, and of the extended families through John's brothers and sisters. I am rich with Chugg heritage!
Because I had set my sights on those family members descended from the pioneer Chugg families I have done little in the way of exploring the extended family remaining in Devonshire, England, or Glamorganshire, Wales.
Well, some time back I found a note on the Chugg Clan group in Facebook from a Chugg kinsman in Illinois asking for assistance with locating a line that included Scotland, Canada, and part of the USA (not Utah or Idaho) and maybe Australia.
My own family pedigree record does not match up with his exactly, but they do intersect. We will have to discuss just where as we get to know the family lines back about three hundred years.
Three hundred years ago does not seem as far as it used to. 1716? More than a few generations, but recent enough to have complete dates in some cases. That is something to make a fuss of!
So I spent a good part of a Saturday, which had been planned to work in a different family project, following up in a new vein of Chugg ore. I think this is a good find, and count on increasing my wealth.
Our wealth! Get out your family history tools and join in. Chris Seemann of the Chicago area has pictures from his late mother and wants help to possibly link these up with names, or to follow up the lines that link his family into your own. Was his Richard a child of John and Mary Parmynter Chugg or Richard and Susan Harris Chugg.
Suddenly I have a blank mind - was it Richard and Alice Coats? Well, back to work!
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