I haven't completed the search plan for my Argent family yet as other things have come along to distract me. Now the plan is to get back on track this weekend. Fingers crossed that I am able to move on from the Argent family name in the next few days. But it wasn't like I shelved my preplanning completely. A fair portion of the data from previous research trips has become part of the notes I will be able to refer to so that I don't duplicate my efforts.
While checking out Argent records on FindMyPast, I did stray ahead a little to check out the next family line, the Arments. I've been able to find out quite a lot about this family especially my 3 x great grandfather, Thomas Arment. Criminal records can be a goldmine. So can newspapers as criminal activities are something they cover. I was happy to find more stories online about Thomas and his son Thomas as FindMyPast has continued to increase the newspaper records available since the last time I checked.
Looking at both family's records at the same time also made me wonder about the relationship between them. In 1840 when Ellen Argent, the daughter of James Argent, an excise officer, married James Arment, the son of Thomas Arment, Thomas ran a business but by 1849 he and his son Thomas were being tried in the Old Bailey for receiving stolen goods. I wonder how this was received in the family when one side looked to be upholding the law as James Argent worked for the excise service while the other side headed by Thomas Arment senior had two members hauled up for breaking the law in a case that was covered extensively in various newspapers.
I'm itching to put together timelines for both James Argent and Thomas Arment to see if they were active in London at the same time. But I know I should put that aside for now or else I'll never get my research plan drawn up.
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