Hi
Sorry I have been so long in getting back to you.
On a slight tangent, I am curious about the names in the residential addresses. Can I assume that the address The Parks in 1841 and 1851 is the same as Park Street in 1861 and Park Terrace in 1871? Was this a period when naming conventions changed?
And is Back Park Street another street - which is parallel to Park Street ... ?
The area in Congleton known as the Parks is a cluster of streets and roads that surround the local park and they all have Park in their name, the area as changed somewhat over the last 150 years but most of the names are still in use as well as some of the old buildings.
As a matter of interest my brother is the largest textile manufacturing employer left in Congleton and his business is on Lower Park Street in a mill that was built some 180 years ago.
I have a reference to Louisa's voyage - her ship arrived in Australia in 1880 but her age was given there as 40 (based on the 1871 census, it should have been 55!)
A lady is never expected to tell the truth regarding her age, but I think she is stretching the truth a little to much, there again it could just be a transcription error, how does her age compare at her death ?
Over the last few weeks I have been trying to find the Isaac Kirkham that was missing from the 1851 Macclesfield census, below is what I have managed to find and it seems to prove that he is not "your" William/Isaac.
In the 1841 census we found Isaac (14) son of James and suspected that James's parents were William and Sarah and that he was born in Hurdsfield area of Macc.
I did a search of the Hurdsfield area in the 1841 census and found.
HO107-105-13-F7 Arbourhay Street HurdsfieldSarah Kirkham 70+ not born in county
Sarah Kirkham 25+ silk winder born in county
Edward Davenport 18 cotton spinner born in county
I then found Sarah senior again in 1851 in lodgings( in Bank St.) along with her grandson Isaac and his wife Sarah, who I found had married in 1850 at Tewkesbury ref. Dec V11 P727.
1851 HO107-2159-F 279 Bank Street MacclesfieldWilliam Kirk head marr 31 shopkeeper born Staffordshire
Sarah Kirk wife marr 26 born Macclesfield
Mary daug 1
Sarah Kirkham widow lodger 84 born Buxton Derbyshire
Isaac marr lodger 23 silk piecer Macclesfield
Sarah marr lodger 21 ~ ~ Caughton Warwickshire
1861 RG9-2578-F 134 Goodhall St (off Bank St.) MacclesfieldIsaac Kirkham head 32 journeyman dyer (silk) Macclesfield
Sarah wife 30 factory girl born Worcestershire
Ann Harris sister/in/law 11 scholar born Tewkesbury Gloustershire
NEW INFO 17 MAY 2006 THE ISAAC AND WIFE SARAH ABOVE WERE FOUND IN PATERSON NEW JERSEY (1880 US CENSUS)Also in 1861 is this ref for Isaac's father still in Bank St
1861 RG9-2578-F 143 Bank Street MacclesfieldJames Kirkham head 65 silk weaver Hurdsfield Macc
Mary wife 61 silk weaver Macclesfield
Margaret daug 25 silk winder Macclesfield
Proberbly the most intersesting and most problematic find was the 1861 census for Preston which sort of maybe clinches things IE two James Kirkam's.
1861 RG9-3135-F 10 140 Adelphi Street Preston LancsWilliam Dickinson head marr 31 pork butcher born Prestbury Macclesfield Cheshire
Robert Dickinson son 10 scholar born Congleton
Elizabeth Wilcock sister/in/law 31 servant Congleton
James Kirkham servant marr? 61 Butcher Hartington Derbyshire
Ophelia Kirkham servant unmarr 18 born Congleton
I will let you digest this.
Who is William Dickinson, could he be William Kirham a name he adopted when running away with his sister/in/law ?
Was there anyone else with them identified on the shipslist?
I will go away and do some more searching.
regards
peterbennett