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The Lighter Side / Re: Ancestry and personal family trees
« on: Saturday 06 March 21 15:26 GMT (UK)  »
I agree with Guy re using a variety of the online sources and records.

I keep a private tree and a public tree.  My private tree has far more detail and precision, and always up to date.  I just use the private tree to allow genuine exchange and learning about other, possibly important connections and I'll update it occasionally (especially if I later spot a misstep).

I give the wilfully false no time and the blind the occasional pointer - the joy and satisfaction after all is in the detective work and the realisation that x and y are connected!

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Lancashire / Re: 1851 Pritchards in Manchester?
« on: Thursday 14 January 21 11:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Ashleigh

The three daughters of the 1st Ann appear to be: Sarah, Jane and Emma.  Jane and Emma are with the 2nd Ann in Bradford in 1841 (relationships not described) and described as nieces of the 2nd Ann in Stockport in the 1851 census. (Henrietta and Mary Ann are the 2nd Ann's own daughters.)

Jane had married Edgar Trafford in 1848 (he died 1850), and William Henry Board in 1853.
Emma had married before 1851 (surname Wiener? on census), and married again after? as she married William Turner as widow Emma Hall in 1860.
William B, chiropodist, is cited as the father for the dated marriages.
I haven't found the eldest sister Sarah in later records, but she was baptised in 1827 in Leeds (same as Jane and Emma).

I wondered if Bridgett was his birth surname.  There are a few people with the surname in the area.  I haven't pursued it recently.
I also wondered if our James is the James Pritchard who married widow Abigail Low in Leeds in 1817 - this James was a joiner but no status or age given.  He could equally be another son to our James and a brother to William B.  If James' family life was as chaotic as William B's, then he may well be difficult to trace.

Deeply frustrating not to be able to find William B's birth for sure!  That he was able to set himself up as a chiropodist in central Manchester which seems to have given him a relatively substantial income is a curious fact.  I'd love to know his secret.

Fiona

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Lancashire / Re: 1851 Pritchards in Manchester?
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 10:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Ashleigh

I haven't got any further at all with James.  I'm still expecting to find him somewhere... I think he is the one who died in Leeds, 1849.

However, I did find that William B had married twice before marrying Margaret Richmond. Do you have these? 
One was Ann who died in 1829 - no surname as I can't find the marriage, but had three daughters.
The second was Ann Carter in Bradford in 1830 by whom he seems to have had 2 daughters and a son - just before, and one at the same time, as he had a child with Margaret.  The second Ann moved to Manchester at roughly the same time as William and Margaret, kept a separate household and looked after his daughters by the first Ann.  He married Margaret after Ann Carter died in 1852 which seems to be when his children with Margaret were baptised.

Everybody seems to have been aware of everybody else.  The marriage certificates of his daughters by the two Anns are interesting.

Fiona

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Cheshire / Re: CPRdb: are there plans for further updates?
« on: Friday 11 December 20 09:36 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you, Doolittle. 
And thank you to the transcribers (mentioned) above.

I'm glad the university is keeping it available.  I presume they have access to means of data input?
 Development seems to have fallen by the wayside, and it doesn't seem likely that there will be more.  'Tis a pity.
It seems to need a new "consortium" to co-ordinate the project: from the original records, to software issues etc.

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Cheshire / CPRdb: are there plans for further updates?
« on: Thursday 10 December 20 13:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Roots Chat

Does anybody know if the CPRdb people are still active?  It's such a good, reliable resources (if a little clunky with its older software) and the parish notes from churchwarden records are interesting.  It's frustrating though that it's still incomplete, it means you can't conclude research possibilities.
I'd really like to see the remaining Chester wards/parishes on there, and Prestbury parish.

Thanks
Fiona

PS Happy to assist with transcriptions if it would help.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Free Credits on F M P
« on: Saturday 28 December 13 16:43 GMT (UK)  »
Here's the ones they're offering on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/findmypast/app_162995940520885

If you are already signed up (basic, not for a package), just click on "redeem", sign in and put in the code (or you put in the code and then sign in) - either way you get your free credits.  If you are not signed up, you can sign up for free to get your 30 free credits using XMAS13 code. 

I haven't seen any other offers for free credits yet - but please do feel free to put the links here...  Surely they advertised themselves somewhere with offers of free credits... 

Fiona

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Carlow / Rosanna Graham b. 1811, Carlow
« on: Friday 25 October 13 11:32 BST (UK)  »
Can anybody with more knowledge/access to Carlow records add any flesh to these bones...

Rosanna Graham, my 3x great grandmother, was baptised in Carlow on 2 September 1811 - COI.  She next appears in Nottingham, England (Radford area) as wife of John White where she has 2 children baptised in the putative RC church there in 1833 (John) and 1835 (Bernard). 

Subsequent children (8 of them), baptised RC between 1837 and 1858, are born in Dublin, but she and John are back in Nottingham in 1861 and she is a widow there is 1881 (census also confirms her birth in Carlow) with her now married daughter Ellen Burton and her family.  I am descended through their son Joseph.

Her parents at the Carlow baptism are Joseph and Mary Graham.  They may be the Joseph Graham and Mary Burrough who marry in Carlow in 1790.  I can't find any other children to Joseph and Mary, but I believe Rosanna may possibly have had a sister Catherine.

I can't find a marriage for Rosanna and John White - they may have met in Nottingham as there are hints that they may have parents/siblings there too.  I only know so far that John was born in Ireland, but nothing more.

Any information/pointers gratefully received

Fiona

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: White - Dublin > Nottingham > Manchester
« on: Friday 10 May 13 10:44 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the link Aghadowy - I'll investigate.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: White - Dublin > Nottingham > Manchester
« on: Friday 10 May 13 08:46 BST (UK)  »
Not really sure why, but I've only just seen this!

Indeed, I believe it is Joseph and Hannah's marriage.  It was registered and I have the marriage certificate - which doesn't show their mother's names so this is great.  Indeed the Dublin board were very helpful in locating the addresses: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,376380.0.html

Where did you find the information?  Are they transcribed online somewhere?  I'd like to look for siblings getting married from either address (with Mooney and White being fairly common names, the addresses and mothers can help me to distinguish), and baptisms.  And of course I now have to begin the search the mothers' maiden names etc.  How exciting!

Out of interest, why was this moved to the Beginners Board rather than left in the One-Name boards?

Thanks

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