Finds During Newspapers.com's Free Days

I don't subscribe to Newspapers.com so when it offers a free day, or several, I postpone what I can and put aside as much as possible so I can spend time searching.  If you don't have a subscription there are still a few hours left to search, depending on where you live, until 11:59 p.m. MT tonight, February 20, 2023.  You'll need to register but the searches and seeing the results are free.

I think I'm searched out for this round of free days.

What I found in U.S. newspapers

• an obituary for my g-g-grandmother, Catherine (Saylor) Froman
• several news tidbits about visits Catherine made to and with her sister
• several advertisements which named my grandfather Gust Doyle
• an obituary for my grandfather Gust Doyle
• an obituary for my great-grandmother Tressa (Froman) Doyle
• a marriage announcement for a grand-aunt, Elizabeth Doyle
• a notice of a fire in my g-g-grandfather Andrew Doyle's home
• notice of sale of property to my g-grandfather Fred Gerner
• marriage announcement for a great-uncle, Paul Gerner
• a court claim against a railroad filed by my great-grandfather Edward J. Bickerstaff
• an obituary of one of my mother's cousins, Mary (Bickerstaff) Barnett
• Amanda Gerner, a woman I believe is my g-grandfather Fred Gerner's sister-in-law
  

What I found in British newspapers
I was pleased to see that they've added more.

• report of the inquest into my g-g-grandfather William Doyle's death (posted a few days ago)
• honorary presentation to a man who may be my g-g-g-g-grandfather, Robert Reay  (More research is needed to confirm that this is my Robert Reay.)

  The ancestors I searched for and didn't find

• My g-g-g-g-grandmother Mary Bell.  But I found a ship of the same name.  (Sigh.)
• My g-g-grandfather Abel Armitage.  I know he's dead because he was born in 1821 but I can't find him after 1881.
• Eliza (Hartley) Armitage, my g-g-grandmother and Abel's wife
• Elizabeth (Laws) Doyle, my g-g-grandmother
• My g-g-g-grandmother Martha (Reay) Doyle and her children just after the death of her husband William

I have several grandmothers who have ships of the same name:  Mary Bell, Elizabeth Laws, and I think there's an Eliza Hartley, too.  That makes searching a little more challenging.

Robert Laws is a common name.  My g-g-g-grandfather Robert Laws was a coal miner.  The others were Robert Laws, Esq.; Robert Laws, gardener (who won many competitions with his produce); Robert Laws, storekeeper; Dr. Robert Laws; Robert Laws, fish-curer; Robert Laws, China merchant; Robert Laws, farmer....  And these were all found in Northumberland newspapers!  It makes me think that Laws might have been almost as prevalent as Smith.

I have my work cut out for me to take care of these treasures.

—Nancy.

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