My own personal family tree is pretty solid back to the 3 x great grandparent level. It should be, I've been working on my tree for a long, long time. Some of my family lines I've taken back even further with some confidence. Others are more of a challenge. One of those challenges includes my paternal line. Once I hit the fourth great grandparent level on that line I ran into some challenges. My third great grandfather, Benjamin Cavanagh, was the son of Benjamin Cavanagh but I've searched in vain for more information on the first Benjamin. It doesn't help that he made his home in London, a genealogical quagmire if I've ever seen one. To top that off, I have no idea if the first Benjamin was born in London or perhaps was from Ireland as his name might indicate?
I've spent years trying to find out more about my fourth great grandfather, Benjamin, but now I've switched gears. Surely it will be easier to dig back further into my paternal fourth great grandmother's line. That grandmother was Matilda, Benjamin's wife. The marriage entry showed that Benjamin Cavanough married Matilda Fletcher, so hunting down Fletchers should put me on the right path. Not so fast. The marriage record also stated that Matilda was a widow at the time of her marriage to Benjamin Cavanough and AI informs me that a widow would go by her married name. So Fletcher was probably not the name she was born with. My task, as I see it at this point, would be to expand upon the information that I have for Matilda and maybe by doing that I might also find out more about her husband, Benjamin. And so it begins.
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