Information on my great-great grandmother
Hi everyone,
I am wondering if someone could help me find my great-great grandmother’s true origins. My grandmother was told that she was originally from Italy. The story goes that my great-great-great grandmother (Elizabeth Maria Smith, born 1850) and her daughter (my great-great grandmother, Rosina May Grint, born 1877) moved from Italy to England. They had supposedly bribed government officials to change their documents to make it seem as they were British.
If someone could please help me find out where she was originally from that would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much,
Matthew
Antworten
-
Wow, Don't know why they would have needed to bribe government officials. England wasn't really preventing emigration from Italy at that time. I would take the time to find every document you can on them in England and see if there are any indications on those records if they really came from Italy. You see, if you don't have a name, and don't have a place in Italy where they came from, you will have a very hard time locating them. Do you have them (and sources) in an online tree anywhere that we could look at with you to see if there are any anomalies in their sources?
0 -
Without some other piece of information (such as italian real names and supposed places of birth), I'd say it's almost impossible to find anything else, apart maybe from documents with their english names. As starting point, to confirm that the basic story is legit, you could maybe take a DNA test.
0 -
I am honesty not sure if they did bribe government officials, it was a pretty taboo topic within the family. Most of what I've heard from my grandmother and father has been speculation to better understand the situation. Yes, someone in my family created an online family tree website, http://www.raytaylor.com/Grint_1878_Rosina_May.htm . I would say that the main anomaly is that on some family trees Thomas Grint is listed as Rosina May's father even though he passed away 6 years before she was born. On the website it states that she did not have a father. There has also been conflicting ancestors about Elizabeth Maria on different online family trees.
Hope that helps and thank you
0 -
I will look into taking a DNA test then, thank you for the suggestion
0