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Topic: Audlem/Wrenbury - where do I go next (Read 1959 times)
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Dean1
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 290
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi Pat,
At the risk of sounding "thick" -how does one look at a census and put a name in - when I looked at the Congleton Census with all its villages (and there were many) I just looked from logging on to Astbury, Congleton and in included Congleton Edge. I had no idea you could do it any other way. Sue
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BREWER, BALDWIN, CRONSHAW, DEAN, FOSTER, BRIGHT, ROWLAND, SEWARD, CADMAN
AREAS: Lancashire, Chingford, Epping, Gt Baddow,Essex, Alverstoke, Petersfield, Hampshire, Timberscombe, Somerset, Catfield, Kings Lynn, Swaffham, Norfolk, Hampshire, London, Brighton, Sussex, Cheshire (Wybunbury, Audlem)
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Dean1
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 290
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi,
Have actually had a very good look at Kezia and at one time thought it was a distinct possibility - Iria gave me this lead. However, the family have a tree on Anc.co and I am almost positive this is not my George. What can I say.
Sue
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BREWER, BALDWIN, CRONSHAW, DEAN, FOSTER, BRIGHT, ROWLAND, SEWARD, CADMAN
AREAS: Lancashire, Chingford, Epping, Gt Baddow,Essex, Alverstoke, Petersfield, Hampshire, Timberscombe, Somerset, Catfield, Kings Lynn, Swaffham, Norfolk, Hampshire, London, Brighton, Sussex, Cheshire (Wybunbury, Audlem)
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Dean1
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 290
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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This George Foster is a real so and so!
Interestingly, on his military paperwork, although photos were not available in 1860 for recruits, they gave a description of the person. His is:
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Dark Brown
Skin: Dark
I realise this may be just sun=tanned because he led an "out of doors" life BUT I just wonder. I have to say no one else in the family has my type of hair etc.
This intrigues me because although I am European (throughout my life people have asked me where my origins are i.e. middle east, cyprus, "mixed race" etc.,) I actually have (or did have until it went gray) very dark Afro hair. OK nature has its accidents but I am intrigued!!!!!!
Sue
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BREWER, BALDWIN, CRONSHAW, DEAN, FOSTER, BRIGHT, ROWLAND, SEWARD, CADMAN
AREAS: Lancashire, Chingford, Epping, Gt Baddow,Essex, Alverstoke, Petersfield, Hampshire, Timberscombe, Somerset, Catfield, Kings Lynn, Swaffham, Norfolk, Hampshire, London, Brighton, Sussex, Cheshire (Wybunbury, Audlem)
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Dean1
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 290
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I now remember, the George who was Kezia's son was married and living in Lancashire (no children) at the time my George was joining the RMLI.
I suspect my George Foster is younger than he says. I can't find a birth that is relevant on BMD etc but I reckon he was born after 1840. Have looked at his wedding cert again today and ok, it was a celebration and he may not have been accurate but he says on that cert that he is 24 and his year of marriage is 1868. This does make him born in 1844. That long ago he presumably may not have had paperwork for his birth and would have been relying on what he was told about his birth. His baptism may have been 1844 and that is when he was told he was born.
Becaust George was a career serviceman it crossed my mind that his father, William, may have been also and he may have been born "in barracks" somewhere. I have looked and have been unable to find any barracks to look at the 1841 census in Newcastle under Lyne.
Interestingly, one of his later wife's relatives (and I believe this family was friendly/connected prior to that marriage) was superintendent of barracks in Ashton under lyne (which I understand is not in the same area). It had crossed my mind that his wife's family originating from Essex (Gt Baddow) and George's family probably originating from Essex that this may have been a connection.
There is one other odd twist about the Foster story. My aunt Myrtle Teresa Bachelor (nee Foster) married a Tom Bachelor - as far as I know he came from London but am not sure and I know nothing else about him except that he committed suicide. I don't know the timescale BUT they both (Myrtle and Tom) went off to farm in Wales and got into tremendous financial difficulties and were really on the breadline. They thought they had been left money from a "Foster farm" (I always thought in Cheshire but now think Essex) and went to see ?a solicitor. There was no legacy and Tom Bachelor shot himself on a train in a London station I am told because they were absolutely broke - I can't find a record of his death - I don't know when he died but I would have thought the Foster Will he was after would have been interesting. However, I have no idea quite where it would have been. There is, of course, no one left to tell me! I have tried to check newspapers on anc.co for that time but first of all can't really work out how to use that particular set up and secondly I have no real idea of the timescale I am looking at. Myrtle was born, I believe, about 1918 and I have no idea when she married and I can't find a record of it.
There is no real hint that they had children although a photo I have, from the body language, suggests there may have been grandchildren but totally unable to confirm this.
I remain bewildered and confused sadly.
Sue 
One thing I do know is that if Myrtle's husband shot himself in a London station and he was coming from Essex, it would have been either Liverpool Street or Fenchurch Street. I wonder how to follow that up? 
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BREWER, BALDWIN, CRONSHAW, DEAN, FOSTER, BRIGHT, ROWLAND, SEWARD, CADMAN
AREAS: Lancashire, Chingford, Epping, Gt Baddow,Essex, Alverstoke, Petersfield, Hampshire, Timberscombe, Somerset, Catfield, Kings Lynn, Swaffham, Norfolk, Hampshire, London, Brighton, Sussex, Cheshire (Wybunbury, Audlem)
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deryckjohn
RootsChat Senior
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I can't find him in 1861, where does it say he was born?
The apart from Attely, which is difficult to decipher, he seems to think Congleton/Astbury is where he was born. Assuming Kesia married William Forster, the G with Kesia, would seem to be a good candidate. Whetstone Edge is just a couple of miles east of Astbury.
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(Well I like to think that anyway!)