Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help because I'm struggling a little.
I'm looking for a William John Poots. His wife was called Eliza Ann (Elizabeth on a couple of documents) and his children were: Eliza Ann (Lizzie), Robert, William John, David, Olive, Margery (who died in 1906) and Andrew. He died sometime before 1909 because his wife remarried a Wright and is listed with some of the children under the name Elizabeth Wright in the 1911 census. I've found them on the 1901 census living at St Mary's Row in Banbridge. According to that census he was an agricultural labourer and he couldn't read or write.
Here is where I come a little unstuck. I can only find indexes online for marriage and birth records. There's a marriage listed for 1893 (a year before the first child was born) in Banbridge for a William Poots, can't work out how to find the spouse.
Would like to find his birth record as well, the only one I could find puts his birth as 15th December 1844, which would make him 62 when the last child was born!
Obviously, without finding his birth record, I'm struggling to find who his parents were!
I also have absolutely no clue what Eliza Ann's maiden name was either, so if anyone comes across that information, that would be much appreciated. Thank you!
