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Have now followed up a bit more on Kay99īs suggestion about James Haigh. Have not found out much more about him but did find something else interesting. The 1851 English census has a Mary Haigh living in All Saints parish in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with children Emily, Mary and George that fit the same ages as the Staver children in Schenectady in 1855. The girls were born in Yorkshire and George in Newcastle. This is close enough to where my Peter lived for her to have known him. Strengthens my theory that he may have left Margaret and family to hop across the Atlantic with Mary.
The Lindley name on the cemetery record opens a new line of enquiry. I am now looking to see if there is a Mary Lindley who married a Haigh and lived in Yorkshire for a while before heading north to Newcastle.
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