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Family History Beginners Board / Elizabeth Parkin b1816 Leeds

« on: Tuesday 07 August 18 15:38 BST (UK) »

Hello,
Could you help me locate the whereabouts of Elizabeth?
She was born in Leeds 1816 to James Parkin & Mary Higham, she has 1 sister Rebecca b1818 & 1 brother John b 1821.
She is on the 1841 census living with her parents, her brother John 1821, John's wife Elizabeth b 1826, Charles Rose (mystery) b 1838 Edwin & Charles Parkin b 1840/1841 (these are mostly likely to be Elizabeths illegitimate children) & i can't quite make out the last child.. Alfred Holt?? (yet another mystery)
After this she vanishes, can't find birth registers for Edwin & Charles either!

The Common Room / How can you prove/disprove theories & assumptions?

« on: Monday 12 March 18 22:02 GMT (UK) »

Evening all,
So for the longest time i've been looking for further information on Mary Lines born between 1791/95 in Gresham Norfolk, she married Henry Butters on 20th October 1817 in Morston. I could never find anything on her "origins". Today i found an entry for the Norfolk records office
Title   Marriage licence bond: Henry Butters and Mary Lines
Date   16 Oct 1817
Description   Groom’s parish: Morston.
Bride’s parish: Burnham Thorpe.
Parish of intended marriage: Morston.

So looking up Burnham Thorpe on ancestry there are no Lines there, births, deaths etc. So i just put in Mary rough birth & Burnham Thorpe, the nearest in Ives, do you think an Ives is possibly a Lines??
Mary Ann Ives
17 Oct 1797   Baptism   Burnham Thorpe   Theophilus & Mary

Just as a side note Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe in 1758!

The Common Room / John Hall Parkin

« on: Tuesday 06 March 18 18:50 GMT (UK) »

Hello all, can any one cast an eye over a chap called John Hall Parkin & see if you can find him after 1871? He was born in Leeds 1850 to John Parkin & Elizabeth Hall. His mother died in 1851 & His father remarried Sarah Gaines. I have him on the 51/61 & 71 census & then nothing.

Family History Beginners Board / William Hornblower

« on: Monday 13 March 17 10:16 GMT (UK) »

Hello all, i am looking for further information on the parents of Sophia Hornblower baptised in Cradley 1809 to William Hornblower & Sophia ( i think Lewis) William & Sophia had several children,
1807 John Lewis Hornblower
1810 William Hornblower
1819 Joseph Wells Hornblower
1821 Lewis Hornblower
1820 Ann Lewis Hornblower

Thank you

Family History Beginners Board / London foundling hospital

« on: Saturday 04 March 17 15:40 GMT (UK) »

Hello,
Could you help me find some information?

Emma Brook was baptised 17/8/1823 at the London Foundling hospital. Her number is 19480
they were given new names as they were baptised. An info sheet for the hospital says records of the mothers & the childrens original details are kept & were to find them online, but for the life of me i can't navigate the page to see anything!

( https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/london-metropolitan-archives/visitor-information/Documents/33-finding-your-foundling.pdf )
Emma went on to Marry Henry Cowderoy. Can any one who isn't as thick as me have a look please?
I have never come across a foundling before & find it very interesting.

Devon Lookup Requests / Mary Ann Blackler

« on: Wednesday 28 December 16 18:55 GMT (UK) »

Hello all, can you help find Mary Ann? I'm swimming in a fog of christmas pudding!

Mary Ann was born in Hichleigh Devon appx 1834 to Harriet Lee & Richard Blackler, the family seem to have stayed around Bridford & St Thomas parish area.
There is a Mary Ann Blackler whom married in St Thomas Parish Apr/May/Jun 1854 to either a William Wilcocks or a William James (Ann Rolston is the other bride) but i can't confirm this or see the "husbands" on the 1861 census.

thanks

Armed Forces / Different Walter Lynch?

« on: Tuesday 08 November 16 21:35 GMT (UK) »

Hello in matters of the military i am useless.
Can i ask if you think 2 records i have found are the same chap? If so has he branch changed? I can't find any kind of further records for him after these.

My chap is Walter Lynch b 23/6/1881 Plymouth Devon

1st record Ancestry
Gunner (Army) Walter Lynch b1881, arrived London 1903 on the Gothic from Wellington

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01itp/

2nd record FindMyPast
Private W Lynch unit A.I.B leaving Plymouth to Aukland in 1915 on the Rotorua.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01itq/

thanks

Family History Beginners Board / Stephen Crosbie/Crosby

« on: Monday 07 November 16 20:49 GMT (UK) »

Evening all, can you help me find the birth of Stephen Crosby/Crosbie b 1859 York to Robert Crosby & Jane Walker (Bonnard 1st marriage) I'm also trying to find a marriage for Robert & Jane, again in York her 1st husband Thomas Bonnard died in 1858.
Thanks

Armed Forces / Raglan Barracks 1861

« on: Saturday 05 November 16 10:14 GMT (UK) »

Hello forgive my stupidity,
I'm trying to see what regiment Thomas Lynch b 1839 Waterford is in. He's on the 1861 census at Raglan Bks but i can't seem to find the unit.
Info on him his sparse, he married Sarah Blackler in Plymouth 1871 & is on the 1881 census in Plymouth but that's all. Hoping i might find out more info via the military route. (one can hope)