After the webinar about weather brought Charles Pratt Chambers to mind last week, I entered him on my Ancestry family tree. Then I went looking for any documentation I already had. I dug deep into this family in the past. I even included them in a report that I wrote on the Strange/Chambers family from information I had found.
I was able to take my Strange family back quite far because the Reverend Thomas Strange (1723-1784) was a well-known nonconformist minister with links to other nonconformists in England and there was a lot written about him. My research into this family was also helped along in the early internet days through RootsWeb which brought together various Strange researchers. I didn't get nearly as far with the Chambers family line.
Because both the Stranges and Chambers in my family appeared to be concentrated in Northamptonshire, I explored the county and its documented sources in person at one point. The Chambers were also nonconformists, unsurprising when considering the location and family connections. At one point they lived in the village of Weldon but had they been in that location for generations or had they come from elsewhere? This looks like a good time to review the information I've been able to dig up so far and then see if I can get any further back. I'll be sure to add more people to my Ancestry tree for this family line as I go along. Now to interpret the report that I left for myself on the Chambers family. It starts by citing a 1786 will for Joseph Chambers. Looks like one of my first steps should be finding that will among my documents.
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