Heritage Trail: European Research

In preparation for our summer travels, I tried to organize potential sites and find what was going to be worth visiting with our limited time and children interest levels. Here's what I came up with as a guide, and wished we could've made it everywhere on the list! (There are many more locations in England, but we were primarily traveling in the southwest--need to go back for Cottams in York, Welches in Chesterfield, and so on.)

Name	Region	Birth	Marriage	Burial	Sights	address
Nicolai Sorensen	Denmark	Fjenneslev, Soro	Soro, Vestsjalland	x	Fjenneslev Kirke	Fjenneslev church then farmhouse just beyond (Soren Abrahamsen’s house, Nicolai’s unknown in Haugerup)
Malena Sorensen	Denmark	Soro, Vestsjalland	Soro, Vestsjalland	x	Farmhouse in Soro
Bertha Poulsen	Denmark	Forlev, Vestsjalland	Soro, Vestsjalland	x
Mary Jacobsen	Denmark	Vemmelev, Soro	x	x	x
HCS Hegsted	Denmark	Vrejlev Church, Hogsted	Town justice in Hjorring	x	Family not in cemetery	Farm Vestrebrenderslev infant to age 19
Maren Borglum	Denmark	Aalborg	Town justice in Hjorring	x	Dressmaking school in Copenhagen	Lutheran
Mary Bathgate	Scotland	Bathgate	x	x	x	x
Ebenezer Hunter, William Hunter	Scotland	Stobhill, Edinburgh (25 minutes south)	Whitburn, W Lothian	x	Mother died Jeffrey’s land Armadale near Bathgate, not in cemetery	x
William Muir	Scotland	Bannockburn	x	Parents in St Ninians, Stirling (1 hour west of Edinburgh)	Church but not in cemetery	Find plaids-Muirs, Robb, McFarlane, Bathgate, Hunter, McAulay
Jane Robb	Scotland	Logie, Stirling	x	x	Parents Perth, Stirling	x
Peters	Wales	Llandecwyn, Llanfair, Ffestiniog			Woolen mill	Rhyd-y-Sarn
Charlotte Perkes	Liverpool			x	Millinery shop	52 Toxteth Street, near St John Baptist church, Liverpool
Rebecca Rogers	Birmingham			x	149 Great Hampton Row possibly, Bond St Baptist church
Billingtons	Audlem	Fadley, Cheshire; father from Ashow parish		x	Lockkeeper house Audlem	St James church, Audlem
Stephen Wells	Paddington			x	16 Caroline place 36 Bell Street 21 Salem Garden	Father William baptized at St Marylebone Parish Church, Francis Bacon married here, but redone in 1884
Jane & Annie Thorne	Chalford			x	Chalford church	Main Stroud to Cirencester Rd
Perkes	Dudley			x		Church of St Thomas

Scandinavia

See where Sorensens, Hegsteds, and Borglums lived in Denmark (Hogsted Vrejlev Church, Aalborg sign, Hjorring, Vennebjerg church)

Soro-Sorensen farm

Vemmelev—no house to see but old Norman church with whitewashed walls with originally stars underneath, caretaker gave Ann a tour, couldn’t come up with island coastal house likely option, but see where Mary was christened in stone baptistry

Think of Anna Gustava Cottam in Tegneby, Bohus, Sweden (by Gothenburg)

Think of Jensens leaving Oslo

Scotland Think of Bathgates in Bathgate

Hunters—born in Stobhill and Armadale near Bathgate

Think of Muirs, Robbs and McFarlanes in Stirling, an hour west of Edinburgh

Wales Peters in Ffestiniog, James, Llewellyns

England

Liverpool where pioneers sailed from, Charlotte Perkes had millinery store but nothing to see there

Dudley where Perkes were from, St Thomas church

Birmingham where Rebecca Rogers lived, not much to see from her life

Audlem where the Billingtons were lockkeepers on the canal—hopefully find house, St James church

Ashow parish north of Warwick where Billingtons were from (not in cemetery)

Chalford where the Thornes lived—parish church

Paddington where Stephen Robert Wells was from, Marylebone parish

Hoopers from Cornwall