A brickwall in genealogy usually means that you have looked everywhere, but still can't get any further on in your research into a certain individual. My Brickwall Belles are females in my family tree that have made me stop short in my research - because I don't know where to look in the first place.
It''s not that I have 'looked everywhere' and got stuck. I haven't looked, because I don't know where to go. Each lady seems to have her own distinct difficulties, but the main one is that she has the sort of name which was immensely popular (and therefore which one is she?) such as my great-great-great-grandmother, Mary WEBBER. I have her marriage certificate to James LETHBRIDGE (14 July 1839 in East Stonehouse), and on it is her father's name - John (really unusual). Oh, and she is 'of full age'...
Mary's daughter, Mary Ann, married John BLAGDON, whose mother was another Brickwall Belle. Another great-great-great-grandmother: Elizabeth Thomas HALL, born in 1800 in Plymouth (Devon), married John BLAGDON on 9 July 1817 in Stoke Damerel, and died in 1876, also in Plymouth. But I have no idea of her parents or siblings. At the moment, she is still just a name.
And, unfortunately, there are quite a few more. One thing that this month's blog posts have taught me: I know little or nothing about many of my female ancestors. Time to remedy that, methinks...
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