Every full episode of The Family Histories Podcast includes a segment where our guest shares one of their research dead ends – a ‘brick wall’. These are inevitable in family history due to records being lost, hidden, damaged, or a whole plethora of reasons, and these brick walls can stand in your way for anything between a few hours and seemingly forever.

Here’s a list of the brick walls that our guests have shared so far. Click to find out more and listen to their podcast episode for free. If you think you can help our guests solve them – then check the episode show notes for how to contact them directly, or head over to our Contact Form and we’ll pass your message onwards.

Unsolved

• PATRICIA and ROBERT ANDERSON born aft 1945, of Minnesota, USA. More info…
• JAMES ARSCOTT of Teignmouth, Devon, UK, burial 1816. More info…
• HENRY ATCHERLEY of Shropshire, UK, 1822. More info…
• MARY BAILEY (née Clarke) of Suffolk, UK, after 1881 census. More info…
• FRED BECKWITH of West Ham, UK, 1882. More info…
• ANN BRENNAN of County Mayo, Ireland, after 1911 census. More info…
• RICHARD BROOKS born circa 1740, lived in Bledlow Ridge, Buckinghamshire, England. More info…
• JOHN GEORGE CARTER (alias Jack or Nick), between 1924-1928. More info…
• SAMUEL CHIDDICKS born circa 1761, possible Essex, UK or with an Irish connection. More info…
• JAMES CONLEY of Sunderland, UK, 1871. More info…
• GEORGE RICHARD CORDWELL born 1894, looking for First World War records. More info…
• SELL COWLING born circa 1775, somewhere in England. More info…
• FARID DARDASHTI during 1960s in Tehran, Iran. More info…
• WILLIAM DAWSON in West Riding of Yorkshire, pre-Dec 1820. More info…
• DAVID DAVIES of Swansea or Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, born circa 1797-1801. More info…
• MARY DAVIES of Herefordshire, UK, c.1824. More info…
• MARIA ANGELA DE RISO of Carpinone, Molise, Italy, c.1750. More info…
• FREDERIK DRÆBY of Silkeborg, Denmark, circa 1849. More info…
• JAMES DUNCAN of Victoria, Australia, 1857. More info…
• THOMAS EDWARDS of Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, circa 1809. More info…
• BERNARD BRAND FIEGEHEN b.c 1755, potentially Berlin, Germany. More info…
• ROBERT HENRY FISHER (also FISCHER) b.c 1898, New York state, USA. More info…
• CATHERINE FLYNN before 1851 census and after 1861 census, UK or Ireland. More info…
• THOMAS FLYNN before 1851 census and after 1861 census, UK or Ireland. More info…
• JURAJ FRANKO of Slovakia, missing in Manhatten, New York, USA, 1942. More info…
• WILEY FULLER of Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, pre-1870. More info…
• THOMAS GOODWIN of Westminster, London, UK, circa 1781. More info…
• THOMAS GRAHAM of Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, UK, 1881. More info…
• JULIAETTA HARRINGTON of Michigan, USA, born 1841. More info…
• JACOBUS HENDRICKX of near Meerle area near the Belgian and Dutch border, circa 1660. More info…
• ELIZABETH HOLMES of Sedgley, West Midlands, UK, mid-1700s. More info…
• LULA HORN – the Horn family of Sandersville, Mississippi, USA, 19th Century. More info…
• HANNAH HUDSON of Bisham, Berkshire, England, pre-1788. More info…
• MARY HUTCHINSON of Huddersfield, England, pre-1841. More info…
• RICHARD HUTCHINSON of Huddersfield, England, pre-1841. More info…
• JENNEKEN HEIJLIGER JANSSEN of near Meerle area near the Belgian and Dutch border, circa 1660. More info…
• KARLSTADT Church records from The Thirty Years’ War era, Bavaria, Germany. More info…
• ANNA MARIA LAMBERT of Pennsylvania, USA, 1764. More info…
• MARGARET LAUGHLAN of Ayrshire, Scotland, b. 1841. More info…
• PATRICK LAVIN (or LAVAN) of County Mayo, Ireland, after 1911 census. More info…
• CORNIELLE DE LESTRE of Belgium, circa 1545. More info…
• GUISEPPE LONGO of Cefalù or Capaci, Sicily, Italy, 1890s. More info…
• THE LOWN FAMILY of Clenchwarton, Norfolk, UK, 1861. More info…
• MILLY MATTENBURG of Białystok, Russia, 1882. More info…
• THOMAS BOWEN MAULTBY of London, after 1915. More info…
• JAMES McEWAN (or McQueen) born circa 1796, potentially Scotland. More info…
• JAMES McQUEEN (or McEwan) born circa 1796, potentially Scotland. More info…
• AARON MENDOZA of London, UK, 1744. More info…
• ELIZA MITCHELL of Teignmouth, Devon, UK, circa 1816. More info…
• REBECCA MONKSFIELD after 1836 in Tasmania, Australia. More info…
• ELIZABETH NICHOLS (or Stivey, Twivey, Nicholas and more), pre-1830 and post-1940, around UK. More info…
• WALTER PARKER of SS Ionian, Liverpool, UK, 1906-1907. More info…
• FLORENCIO PÉREZ COMOTO of Veracruz, Mexico, then Spain, circa 1820s+. More info…
• JOSEPH QUIN of Brixton, London, UK, post-1896. More info…
• THOMAS REILLY of Dublin, Ireland, pre-1901. More info…
• JANE RICHARDSON born circa 1833, potentially in Glasgow, Scotland. More info…
• SARAH NANNY ROGERS of Barbados. More info…
• NANCY ROMINES of Tennessee, USA, 1851. More info…
• ALEKSEY GRIGORYEVICH SARYCHEV of Nyukhovets, Russia. 1812. More info…
• NIKOLAI EDVARD SECK of Pskov, Estonia, before 1915. More info…
• EDITH ROSA SINCLAIR of Kennington, London, born 1881. More info…
• HANNAH SMITH of Melbourne, Australia, circa 1859. More info…
• WILLIAM SMITH of Melbourne, Australia, circa 1859. More info…
• GUSTAF SPOROWSKI of Kotten, Kreis Johannisburg, Poland, 1881. More info…
• JAMES STOCKS assumed of Scotland, circa 1779. More info…
• MR. TAN potentially of Fujian, China, and Argao, Cebu, Philippines. More info…
• ELLEN TAYLOR (aka Eleanor, and Ellen Linsell) of Marylebone, London, UK pre-1890. More info…
• DAVID THOMAS of Lampeter, Ceredigion area of Wales, pre-1757. More info…
• JUTTA TOWNSEND of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK, WW2-2012. More info…
• THOMAS TYLER born circa 1910-1912, connected to London, UK. More info…
• MATILDA VANCE of Cokesbury, Abbeville County, USA, before 1880 and after 1899. More info…
• JULIA VERNO of Pskov, Estonia, before 1915. More info…
• MARY ELIZABETH VICKRESS of Birmingham, UK, 1886. More info…
• BRIDGET and HONORA WILLIAMS of Ballyporeen, County Tipperary, Ireland, 1820s. More info…
• CHARLES ADOLPHUS WILLIAMS of Manchester, Jamaica, 1889. More info…
• JOHN WILSHAW born circa 1804, likely Staffordshire, UK. More info…
• GEORGE WRIGHT born circa 1920s, possibly living in Johannesburg, South Africa post-January 1947. More info…

Solved

These guest genealogy research brick walls have been solved – either by listeners or by later research by our guests. Some guests have returned to record a BRICKDUST episode to explain how it got solved, and what then then discovered!

• R. HEDGES BATES of London, UK, 1936. More info…

• MARY WILLIAMS born circa 1831, Shropshire, England. More info…