Researching Silas Jayne
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 281 people with the Jayne surname? In that year Jayne was ranked number 3298 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Silas Jayne on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Silas Jayne and the Jayne Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Jayne Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Jayne family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 496 people with the Jayne surname in the UK? Jayne is now ranked number 3573 for popularity in the UK. |
Jayne Genealogy Databases
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Jayne Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Jayne surname in the USA? Jayne is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Jayne Databases
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Some Famous People called Silas Jayne
Silas Jayne
Silas Carter Jayne (July 3, 1907 – July 13, 1987) was a Chicago-based stable owner and horse trainer who was heavily involved in criminal activity, and suspected of involvement in two of the city's most notorious multiple person disappearances. Jayne was convicted of rape as a teenager for which he served a year in reformatory. He operated a variety of rackets centering on horses, particularly show jumpers, and orchestrated numerous schemes to sell worthless horses at vastly inflated prices to unsuspecting wealthy buyers. He also regularly killed horses for insurance money, as part of the wider horse murders syndicate of corrupt Midwestern horsemen. He was convicted for conspiracy to murder in 1973 of George Jayne, his maternal half-brother and business rival who was a judge for the American Horse Show Association, for which he served seven years imprisonment. After his death, Silas Jayne was linked to two of the most notorious unsolved crimes in the city's history, the 1955 Peterson–Schuessler murder of three young boys, perpetrated by an employee of his. He was likely responsible for the 1965 death of a young woman who died when a bomb exploded in George's car. Three women disappeared who may have witnessed the crime. Jayne was at one time suspected of the 1977 disappearance of heiress Helen Brach, who had fallen victim to a horse scam perpetrated by a business associate of Jayne while Jayne was in prison for murdering his brother. Jayne is also considered a person of interest in the murder of a policeman who was investigating horse scams.
Source: Silas Jayne, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Jayne
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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