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Today I got a message from Lyn? who told me that she had Bakers and Offords in her family tree, and may have information for me.
I LOST IT!
I don't know how.

If this was you, please please send again

Lindy

I have been searching the records for the Payne family forever, and yet it seems that the only other people looking at this name are my two second cousins.  As far as I understand it, Payne is a long established Essex name and I am amazed that nobody else out there seems to be even interested in the Paynes.
Did we do something REALLY awful at some time?  so that nobody wants to be associated with us 

We married into other families as well,
Thomas, Barnes, Baker, Sullings, Greenaway  and these are only the ones I am sure of, there are male Paynes who married and whose wives surnames I am unaware of.

Isn't there anybody out there who would like to know more about the Paynes?

Lindy

I am hoping that somebody out there will have some information about William Robinson  who married Betsy Snowdon in Auckland   Co. Durham in 1907.
If I am right, this is the William Robinson who was living in the house at the head of the St Helens coal pit around the 1920s/1930
My Mum and her parents, her father was Betsy's brother..Robert Snowdon..lived there with them when mum was young, she remembers playing with one of her cousins around the pit head area and going back to the house covered in black
Betsy was her favourite aunt and it would be nice if anyone could give me any information as to what became of her and her family.  I know that the pit was open until 1966 and it might just be that someone can remember or know something about it.

Hope so

Lindy

I seem to have lost my mum's favourite aunt,   Betsy Snowdon married William Robinson circa 1900, they lived in a house at the St. Helens coal pit around 1920, my mother and her parents lived with them there when my mother was very young.  Betsy and William had children because my mother has spoken of playing with her cousin, I think his name was Billy but I cannot be sure.

Is anyone out there researching William Robinson and his family, I would love to be able to tell my mum that I have found out about her aunt's story.

Lindy

I keep on looking on the web for 'Worthen'
I know that it exists, I found a page on Genuki which tells me that it is " a parish in the hundred of Cawrse, county Montgomery. (Montgomery? I thought it was Shropshire!)  So it exists, but the only other things that I have found tell me that it is in the Hereford diocese.  (Hereford?  I really thought that it was Shropshire!)   I know that my geography was never good, I once had an exam paper returned to me with 'waffle' written all across it, no, I could never claim that geography was my strong suit, but could somebody please explain to me how this works.
I can find no pictures of Worthen, or come to that, of West Felton which is also a place that I am interested in,  and although I can find Worthen on a modern map, it is shown as one town, yet when I come to try and find it on old maps I discover that there are something like half a dozen parishes which all appear to be in Worthen as though it was a large area.  Now how can that be?

I have my ancestor on an 1861 census shown as born in Worthen, but he was born in 1812. so no nice birth certificate to tell me exactly where he was born.   I have him on Parish and Probate records for Shropshire -  this for his baptism  shown as   28 Jun 1812 John, s. of Thomas and Margaret Davies--Worthin.  I presume that Worthin is Worthen? , this reference is where I get 'Worthen - Parish Registers, Hereford Diocese from.  But nothing to pinpoint the exact spot.

Could anyone throw some light my way, please 

Lindy