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Please can you help me identify the name of Mary Wilcox' birthplace in the 1861 census. She was born in Wales but was in the Southwark area from at least 1814 onwards.

Mary Pugh - 1783-6 ish, born Llan...(??), Montgomeryshire. Ancestry thinks it says Llanwehyn but that doesn't seem to exist.
other refs:
1814 Married James Willcocks in St Mary Newington, London. He was a Tanner from Totnes in Devon.
1841 census (Mary Willcox, 55), St John Horsleydown, Southwark
1851 census (Mary Willcocks, 66) - St John Horsleydown, Southwark. Gives place of birth Montgomery, Wales
1861 census (Mary Wilcox, 78) -St John Horsleydown, Southwark.  Place of birth: see attached.

Hiya all

I have a person who puts their father's occupation on their marriage certificate to be Spinner (he was born ?? in c1807, occupation given in London 1845)

I have another person with the same father's name who puts their father's occupation to be "Cloth Manufacturer" (he was born Leeds 1797, occupation given London 1837).

Does anyone know if these could be the same occupation or would this indicate a wide difference (like between Ag Lab and Farmer say).

The 1807 person is my ancestor and very difficult to trace, so I'm exploring other families with the same name who live nearby in London to see if I can find links back to my ancestor. I know this is clutching at straws a little but it passes the time

Hi all

I have seen the records of the British Lying-in Hospital (St Giles in the Fields, Holborn) and my ancestor and his wife appear to have been due to have their baby at the hospital in May 1761.

These records are part of the Non-Conformist BMDs available at S&N/TheGenealogist so I can give the details to anyone who has a subscription and can take a look, but basically it's a list of married women checking in and having their babies, with columns for "Day of order for Admission", "Time of Reckoning" (due date?), "Came in", "Delivered", "Baptized", "Woman Discharged".

For my ancestor, there is a line through the columns from "Came in" through to "Child Baptized" that says "Out of Time". The discharge date is given as 21st August, though she seems to have been admitted (and been due) mid May.

Does this mean she got her dates wrong and ran out of her allocated time she was allowed to stay at the hospital and was still pregnant when discharged, or did she just not show up? Or was she not pregnant?

It seems to happen occasionally (once every few pages) - and the date of discharge always seems to be about 3 months from date of admission.

Anyone encountered this before?

best wishes
dilly

Devon archives have a settlement certificate for "William Willcocks, Susanna his wife and Mary 17, Susanna 14, Richard 5, James 3 and Elizabeth 1, their children: Manaton". It is dated 1789.

Apparently it doesn't say anything else and they don't have the corresponding examination bit.

From Manaton parish records, it would appear that William Willcocks marries Susanna Mudge in 1770 and there are baptisms for a number of the children that correspond well to the above ages, including Richard and James.

Susanna and Elizabeth give Manaton as place of birth in later census records. James gives Totnes but he's further away by then, and is a tanner, and appears to have been apprenticed to Edward Langman who was a tanner in Totnes in 1795. Mary gives her place of birth as MoretonHampstead in the census, and the IGI has a birth that could well be her.

All fine, now the question is - does the fact they had a settlement cert imply that William/Susannah were not born in Manaton, even though they seem to have been there for quite a few years? I don't see them in the parish records, though there are both Willcocks and Mudges around. Is it feasible they're from Moreton, since one of their early children was born there? Can anyone help me with what this settlement cert might actually "mean" for their situation.

many thanks in advance
dillybert

Hi everyone

I got a new spurt of energy on my brick wall, and wondered if someone with more US experience than me might be able to help with some ideas of how to search for Sarah. I have ancestry access to US census and can look for records in findmypast etc so I don't really need a lookup, but am just stuck as to now to nail down where she might be and where to look next. 

Basically, I have a Sarah Priestley, born 1864, Bradford Yorks. She is last "seen" in a census for certain in 1871 as a child with her parents, but has a child in 1881 and she marries in 1885 (to a James Bairstow), but her husband says he's a widower in the 1891 census. She next shows up in 1923 (In Bradford) - using the name Bastow, and remarries.

We're fairly certain she was in the US for some of the missing time - stories came down two separate sides of the family that seem to place her in the US for at least some time. Unfortunately, I'm not sure she travelled under the name Bairstow/Bastow, or whether she married (it seems likely that since she was still using Bastow in 1923 that she didn't remarry).

Supposedly, she was in the Boston area but I have no confirmation of this.

Her brother Washington goes to the US around 1880 and lives in Philadelphia. He seems to die after 1910. Her father also supposedly (family stories) travelled back and forth to the US as crew in the 1860s (in between all birth certs and censuses where he was a miner). This supposedly explains why he called he son Washington and his daughter Cincinetta, which I admit would have been unusual in 1860s Bradford   

Can't find any record of any of them travelling to the US.

There's a bit more detail here, where some helpful rootschatters help me pin down the 1885 marriage:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,262750.msg1515883.html#msg1515883

AS mentioned, any ideas welcome. My default solution is to wait for 2011 and hope she might be back in the UK by then, though she might not be, and it might not tell me anything new. Really stuck on this one!

best wishes, thanks to anyone who has got this far!
dilly