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JosiahS
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Hello there!
I'm trying to trace a John Thursfield and his wife Eleanor back to where they came from.
They started having children in Northumberland and Durham in 1776 and continued to 1794! However they did not marry in the North East.
The family were Potters for generations and some of his grandchildren moved to Staffordshire to work at a later time.
From what I can see Thursfield is a name which seems to originate in the Staffordshire area, and while there are no matching marriages on the IGI I would appreciate it if anyone has access to data which does not appear on the IGI could check to see if they have my elusive Thursfields.
I am descended from a Hannah Thursfield who married a John Shepherd Martin (also an elusive potter) in Co. Durham in 1790 - she may be either the daughter or sister of the above John (they had children baptised on the same day at the same church in 1794)
Any help or advise gratefully received.
All the best
Ashley
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« Last Edit: Tuesday 01 April 08 18:05 BST (UK) by JosiahS »
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DU: Jones, Miller, Laverick, Orwin, Burn, Finlay, Robson, Robinson, Jobling, Fenwick, Spoor, Saunders, Billingsley, Bainbridge, Chilton NB: Pickard, Gilchrist, Curry, Heron, Thompson, Bell, Henderson, Aynsley, Crumbie CU: Bell, Armstrong, Parker SY: Saunders, Bartlett, Ellis Buckinghamshire: Saunders N Yorks: Miller (Swaledale), Raw ALL CENSUS INFORMATION CONTAINED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT FROM www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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trish251
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Hi Ashley
THis is rather a long shot too - I have a rather ancient cd which has some Staffordshire bdms (I think it came from ancestry - moons ago)
I can't find the marriage, but I found these two baptisms
Wolstanton parish Registers
20 Jul 1755 Jno son of Jno and Hannah Thursfield
01 May 1763 Hannah d of Jon and Hannah Thursfield
The records I have for Wolstanton only go to 1769
Trish
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JosiahS
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Hi Trish and Annie
Many thanks for those - I had spotted them myself as I reckon John and Hannah would be of about the right ages, and it would explain why Hannah only had two children.
I spent Friday going through the records for Heworth and Jarrow in Co Durham where they lived. John's wife Eleanor seems to have remarried in 1798 and then died in 1817 aged 65 so again that would support the idea of John being born in the early 1750s as well. However there was no death for John Thursfield in the registers - if I can find that then I might get an age.
I also checked the baptisms of the children they had in Gateshead but go not more information (not even John's trade) so my last hope is to check the one baptism in Newcastle Upon Tyne St Nicholas which is the only one to mention the mother's name and hope there is a bit more information on there.
I think the key to linking the Wolstanton Thusfields to mine may be to find John and Eleanor's marriage. Jarrow marriages aren't on the IGI but I checked the records on Friday and it didn't happen there. They may have been married when they arrived in Co Durham, but there are no marriages for unknown Thursfields in the county so I suspect that they had no children before they arrived. Certainly there were no Thursfields in the county before them.
Thanks for your thoughts and assistance.
Ashley
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but I'll post just in case !!