I’ve been spending a little time with my Great-Great-Great Grandma Hannah Mallin. Although when she married at All Saints, West Bromwich in Staffordshire, she was said to be ‘of this parish’, I have as yet found no trace of her birth in the All Saints baptisms on the IGI. I should no doubt get a full transcript of the register. 

Between the IGI, the online National Burial Index and online copies of marriage registers, I’ve compiled much information but no more light.  Hannah’s parents and possible siblings, apart from brother William (1796-1873) of whom I have previous record, remain elusive. For now.

I will from time to time leave notes here on what I’ve been up to as far as updating the tree.

Most recently, I’ve done some work on basic entries for the family of Richard William Perrin (1857).

I also had a fresh look at Richard Miller and Anna Ward, parents of John Miller (1797) whose sister Anna married Richard Bayley, whose 1813 schoolboy copybook we still have, in bureau with ’secret drawers’ that was made for or belonged to Richard Bayley.

Richard Miller, “of Halesowen” when he married Anna, is something of a stumbling block. Anna Ward offers at least her parents. Richard and Anna had seven known children.

That’s *my* 7x-Great Grandparents. I’ll have to leave you to work out your number of Greats for yourself. And if you think of it, 7x-Greats is TEN generations!

In the Family History, you will see that we can confirm the family record to 1770, the marriage of William Perrin and Sarah Howse. But that with a bit of luck, we can be reasonably confident of the links back to 4 baptism at Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, beginning in 1698, to a John Perrin and Mary.

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Dad has once again been busy foraging away in a bid to expand our family history. Recent efforts have focused attentions on his maternal ancestors resulting in this account of the connection to Minnie Mahoney, his 2x Great Grandmother:

My maternal grandmother was Nellie Plant. Her mother, my great-grandmother, was Ellen Frost. Ellen Frost married George William Plant … She was 21 , a “spinster” … Her father was John Frost and one of the witnesses was William Frost, probably her brother.

As that was all that I then knew of great-grandmother Ellen Frost, I turned my attention to her mother, my great-great-grandmother “Miss Mahoney” …

Read the full account: One Thirty-Secondth Irish

For those of you who haven’t yet had the call from Karen yet, I am happy to pass on her proud news: an excellent performance in the Birmingham Sprint Triathlon meant qualification for the ITU Triathlon World Championships 2008 in Vancover next year.

I’m sure you will all join me in congratulating her on this tremendous achievement.

Well done Karen. Now the fundraising begins!

Tom’s been a busy man in recent times, living life at the forefront of the semantic web.

His recent email, and the podcast, sheds some light into where his forays in this arena have taken him.

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August 2003 saw three generations of the Perrin Male (and their better halves) brought together in one place – The Samling in Cumbria – following my wedding.

Less than 3 years on, another Perrin Family moment saw 4 generations of the Perrin Male together at the regular family haunt, the Tiverton Hotel.

Quite an occasion, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Okay, so in the true sense of the word, this is a blog. In reality, I am merely attempting to use the functionality provided by this blogging tool as a kind of wrapper around several disconnected collections of information that help identify the Perrin family now and way back then.

However, it would seem that the wonderful new world of the internet (or should I say Web 2.0) has no boundaries and even Dad (or Norman to those in the know) is getting in on the act. For those of you who know him, you wont be surprised to hear that he’s got lots (of very interesting things) to say! Why not take a read?

Do you know of any blogging Perrin’s out there? Let me know and I can add it to the blogroll.

We spent the Christmas of 2006 at Knockerdown Farm Cottages in Derbyshire.

A google web album has now been set up, take a look … Knockerdown 2006 Album