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Shropshire / Re: Stantons of Wroxeter
« on: Tuesday 20 September 22 13:02 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all.

Yes, my Isabel did marry Richard Harris and that's how she's referred to in her father's will.

I wonder if the Thomas Stanton Sr buried in 1670 was Thomas' father? The 1660 Isabel burial is also interesting... It does make me wonder what they classed as "a very old woman" in the 17th century  ;D

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Shropshire / Stantons of Wroxeter
« on: Tuesday 20 September 22 07:18 BST (UK)  »
Is anyone able to tell me if there are significant gaps in the Wroxeter parish registers?

I am currently researching the Stanton family, headed by Thomas Stanton, a carpenter and wheelwright. He had a daughter, Isabel, who was baptised in 1672. Isabel’s mother was named Ann but I haven’t found a marriage between Thomas and Ann yet.

I have Thomas’ will dated 1704 in which he mentions his daughter, Isabel, his wife, Martha, and two younger daughters, Mary and Margaret. So presumably his first wife died and he later married Martha. Mary and Margaret were said to be under 21 at the time so they are possibly Martha’s daughters rather than Ann’s. Thomas also mentioned a brother, William Stanton.

If it wasn’t for the Will, I wouldn’t be aware of any of these people as I am really struggling to find any mention of the Stanton’s in the parish registers.  ??? ???

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Cheshire / John and Ann Turner
« on: Tuesday 17 May 22 05:46 BST (UK)  »
I’m trying to work out if there were any more children born to John and Ann Turner of Stockport. The couple seemed to start producing children in the mid 1780s and I have a plausible marriage which fits.

John Turner married Ann Barlow on 2 December 1782 at Manchester St Mary. John was a silk weaver of “Eaton Norris” (Heaton Norris) and Ann was of Didsbury and a spinster.

Their son, my ancestor, was John Turner Jr, baptised at the Presbyterian chapel on High Street in Stockport. He gave his place of birth as Heston Norris in the 1851 and 1861 censuses.

I also have two possible sisters for John Jr…

Mary, 4 June 1785 at the High Street chapel, Stockport

Betty, 3 April 1791 at Churchgate Chapel

So it looks like John and Ann were non-conformists. Are most of the Presbyterian records available online?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Forename of bride in 1796 marriage
« on: Friday 05 November 21 16:09 GMT (UK)  »
She was born about 1778. She died in 1850 aged 72.
Lauretta married again in 1825 at Birmingham to John Delahay (husband William Hodgkins died in 1812). She was unable to sign her name but her name is ‘Laret Hodgkins” for her second marriage.
I have her in 1841 living in West Bromwich with one of her Hodgkins grandsons. She died in 1850 as Lauretta Delay, her death was registered by one of her son’s wives.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Forename of bride in 1796 marriage
« on: Friday 05 November 21 15:57 GMT (UK)  »
The transcript at the Hive said her surname was Scranage.

I had a unfounded suspicion that Lauretta was the Lawrett Albutt, daughter of John and Lawrett, who was baptised in 1778 in Bromsgrove. That was before the marriage entry was sent to me though.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Forename of bride in 1796 marriage
« on: Friday 05 November 21 15:35 GMT (UK)  »
I have attached the full image. It looks like there’s actually two examples of handwriting on this entry. I wonder if someone was trying to be helpful and altered Larrett to Sarah at a later date? Now I’ve looked again I think I can make out a faint “tt” at the end of Sarah.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Forename of bride in 1796 marriage
« on: Friday 05 November 21 15:24 GMT (UK)  »
A friend has sent me an image of a 1796 marriage from the Bromsgrove parish registers. We were expecting the bride’s forename to be Lauretta/Lawretta/Larrett but it seems to be Sarah to me, although I see a very faint letters at the end which looks like something has been scrubbed out.

Can anyone confirm either way? Thanks  :)

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Where is “New Grange”?
« on: Sunday 17 October 21 15:35 BST (UK)  »
The New Grange in Leeds seems to have been in Headingley so it makes more sense that Joseph Wainman was of New Grange in Bramley, Rotherham.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Where is “New Grange”?
« on: Sunday 17 October 21 10:36 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, it could well be! I don’t have a good understanding of the life of an excise officer but I presume they would have moved around a lot. If this is Joseph’s New Grange then I suppose he would have leased it from the Wade family.

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