Tempting links to take a tree back

 

                                            Both of my grandfather Henry's lines have been hard to take back beyond his grandparents

In an effort to find out more about Matilda Fletcher, who I wrote about in my last blog post, I took a look at the family trees on Find My Past. There was one that looked very promising, taking Matilda's ancestors back a few generations. The hitch (of course, there was a hitch) was that the tree's creator had assumed that Fletcher was the name that Matilda was born with. I wasn't so sure. When I looked further into that particular tree, I noticed more names that were in my own family tree. The only problem was that my grandmother was entered with her first husband's last name and she was given unrelated ancestors. Hmm, maybe it wasn't the best researched tree.

My strategy has changed. I decided to look for Fletcher children with a mother named Matilda born before Matilda's 1815 marriage to Benjamin Cavanagh. Perhaps then I could find the death of the first husband and, more importantly, the marriage for that husband and Matilda which would give the last name she was born with. I'm not sure how far I'll get but it's worth a shot. I just hope she was only married twice.

Sources:

Ancestry.com

FindMyPast.com