Anyone going to Sheffield Archives?

[LizTJ]

Anyone going to Sheffield Archives could you do a lookup for me please for a marriage at Woodhouse Mill in the December 1/4 of 1904:-
Thomas John Dannatt born c 1883, father Thomas John Dannatt and
Caroline Cook Weston born c 1887 in Kennington, London.
Thanks a million
Liz

[dobfarm]

This parish of Handsworth incorporating Woodhouse Mill appear to be one of the very few not held at Sheffield Archives but incumbent held at the Church itself in Handsworth.

You could try to write to the Vicar or Churchwarden but being as late a 1904 (or post July 1837 {Sept qtr]) and cost of copying, postage etc,---it is likely they will tell you to buy the marriage certificate from the GRO BMD's or local register office who cover Handsworth BMD's

Sods law! I'm afraid

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Handsworth/Handsworth68.html

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/CBW/WRY/Handsworth.html

[LizTJ]

Thank you for any trouble I have put you to.  I had looked on the Archives site and found a reference PR111 m for St James. Woodhouse Mill.  As my Dannatts lived there I had hoped that that was where they married, perhaps I should have included the reference on my original request.
Liz

[dobfarm]

No Trouble

Its seems Genuki have the wrong info on where abouts of these PRs.

[Goughy]

From his Army Records, Thomas and Caroline were  married 10 October 1904 at Sheffield Register Office.

Children:

Carrie 26/10/07 Sheffield
Walter 13/12/08 Sheffield
William Henry 29/1/1911 Chesterfield
George 17/1/14 Chesterfield Died 4 /3/1915

[LizTJ]

Thanks for that, obviously wouldn't have found that one at St James.  Didn't know about the army records, on the 1901 census he is a coal miner pony driver age 17, on 1911 he is a coal miner age 27. Can you give me anymore info on the army records?
Are you related to the family in any way?
Liz

[Goughy]

Hi Liz

No relation - just helping a fellow Rootschatter.  Thomas's Army Records are available online, there's about 18 pages, including a copy of the death certificate of his youngest son George. Yes he was a coal miner.   In brief, he joined Yorks & Lanc Regiment  in June 1901 - 1904. He was a reserve 1904 - June 1913. Back as a reserve Sept 1913.  He was in France Feb - May 1915. Discharged 31 July 1916 (physically unfit). 

Goughy

[LizTJ]

This appears to confirm what I was told by my auntie when I started researching the family history, she told me he had been hit in the leg by a bullet, but she wasn't sure whether it was WW1 or not.  He went on to have two further sons after Georges death - and a further four daughters, I was quite young when he died in 1952 but I remember Aunt Carrie, she died 1959.
Thanks for all your help.
Liz

[Goughy]

You are welcome. 

Just to confirm for you, his army records show he had a gun shot wound to his right thigh whilst in France on 27 April 1915.