Need Help looking up Ancestors

[Billy_B]

You can’t really go off census details. You need the birth records and you have him 1847 from Lancashire?

Marriage

January 24th 1842
Walton on the Hill
Henry Owen, Labourer of Parliament Street Father John, a Farmer
Sarah Norcott of Parliament Street Father John, a labourer

I went through the tree on FamilySearch and did a bit of tweaking and looked into the Norcott's - seems Sarah had a number of siblings, at least one of which (Mary) married and had a number of kids. Her mother is Sarah Eaton.

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K4TW-4Q4

This is the most likely candidate for her baptism:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NB27-8PN

Although her marriage records don't include parents, so...:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N659-GNL

Looks like ther husband may have died before the 1841 census, if so, she may have remarried:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKT6-M4R
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2D4L-YDV

As you can see, things tend to get a little tricky once you get into the early 1800s but it is possible to push back further, you just need to pick apart the records and keep an eye out for wills and other documents that might help

[jowen1986]

Thank you billy. I will update her info to add her mother.

[Billy_B]

And when things are looking more solid make sure to update your ancestral surnames on FTDNA and add in your family tree as they are very useful for helping people figure out if they have any matches. If you haven't done so already you can also add your autosomal data to GEDmatch.

This is the extra bonus of pushing your family tree back a generation as you double the number of ancestral surnames as it feeds into your DNA tests (helping get more value out of them) which may then help with the family tree.

[jowen1986]

Thanks Billy I will update it as soon as I can.