Progress To Date

Great Grandparent: Elizabeth Ransom(e)
- Her Parents: George Ransom and and Susannah Ollis or Alhous
- Her Grandparents: Thomas Ransom and Elizabeth Allen

Mini Family Tree (Direct Ancestors)

The family tree to date may be summarised:

Ransom(e) Family

Thomas Ransom b c 1757/8 d 1826
Married 25.2.1779
Elizabeth Allen b c 1754/5 d 1832

George Ransom b c 1790/1 d 07.10.1865
Married
(1) 17.11.1811 Susannah or Susan Ollis or Alhous b c 1790
d 1.11.1840
(2) 1845 Sarah b c 1801

Elizabeth Ransom b c 1836
Married 16.5.1864
Jeremiah Marjoram b c 1825/6

Eliza Marjoram b 11.4.1870
Married 25.12.1889
Arthur Hunt b 1.7.1866

Phyllis Marjoram Hunt b 6.6.1912 Died 1991
Married 6.6.1936
Leonard Stanley Collier b 30.11.1909

Christine Elizabeth Collier b 26.03.1946
Married 15.10.1966
Colin Bower b 12.1.1944

Link to Family Tree

Elizabeth Ramsom(e) & Descendants

Summary of Research To Date

We have made a little progress with the fourth of the Suffolk family names from visits to the Debenham area to inspect the parish records, and contact with a cousin of my wife Chris'.

Birth Marriage & Death Certificates Held
- Births: 1 Unwanted
- Marriages: 1
- Deaths: 1

Certificates Held-Ransom(e) Family

Census Records Obtained
- 1841 George Ransome Widower & family
- 1851 George & Sarah Ransome & family
- 1861
- 1871
- 1881
- 1891
- 1901

Census Records Held

Other Research Undertaken
- IGI sheets for Suffolk held
- Parish Records - Debenham
- Wills
- Businesses
- Correspondence - with another descendant of George Ransom
- Visits - Debenham
- Photographs
- Misc Info/Documents

Progress 2004/5

The research into the Ransom(e) family name is dormant and exchanges of correspondence have dried up. Things should develop again when I type up my records and identify the next areas of potential research.

Progress 2006/7

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Progress 2008

We added an entry from the 1861 Censuses.

Progress 2009

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Progress 2010

I included the Ransom(e) family in the project: The Big One!

The Big One - Family History Research Report - Ransom(e) Family

Progress 2017

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Things we wish we knew

• Who John Ransome was, e.g. cousin (witness at wedding of Thomas Ransome & Elizabeth Allen)
• Maiden name of George Ransome's second wife

Colin Bower
24 December 2017

Links to:
Ransom(e) Family - Main Links
Family History - Main Index