Celia Cotton – Page 2 – Family Nibbles

74 – Louise’s Family, Oh Henry

Let’s continue our look at Louise’s Jervis family, this time two generations of Henrys:

If we could trace Louise’s Jervis family back far enough, we would eventually find our common grandparent.

And if we did find that ancestor, we could perhaps trace forward to find our Elizabeth.

As you’ve seen, there are a variety of spellings for Jarvis.

Jarvis, Jarvais, Jervis, Jervais, Gervis, Gervaise, Gervace, Jarvice, etc.

Can we come up with the definitive form? Did Elizabeth use only Jarvis, or could she have used any of these other spellings?

In May 2018, Celia Cotton offered to help me reboot my search for Elizabeth Jarvis in England.

At the time, I didn’t know about the DNA match with Louise Longworth. So all Celia had to go on was our “problem statement”.

Not Thelma and Louise. Celia and Louise.

Genealogy involves time-consuming research – hunting for citations and stories and references. And you’ve heard me bemoan the brick wall.

But sometimes you just get lucky. And I did. Twice.