Peter Catterall, attorney & registrar

[HughC]

Peter Catterall of 15 Winckley Square, Preston, must have been born about 1796.
Can anyone tell me the maiden surname of his wife Jane?
And was he a brother of Paul who lived next door?

[rosie99]

Could it be Jane Rishton
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FB89-VMK

[ShaunJ]

I think it was Jane Rishton. Marriage witnesses ( Witton-Cum-Twambrooks, Cheshire, 20 Sep 1822) were Mary Catterall and Edw Rishton.

[rosie99]

Pauls marriage from LancashireOPC
17 Oct 1833 at St John, Preston
Paul Catterall
Harriet Susannah Whitehead
Witnesses Ursula? Catterall, John Catterall, K Taylor & Jane Elizth Whitehead
Married by Licence

[HughC]

Many thanks to you all for your swift help.

I'd already found Paul's marriage, but Peter evidently married elsewhere.
Oh, and no. 13 where he lived was presumably next-door-but-one: I was forgetting for a moment that houses are numbered consecutively round a square with a garden in the middle.

[ShaunJ]

That name Ursula keeps cropping up (also Peter's eldest daughter):

Baptism: 18 Jun 1796 St John, Preston, Lancashire, England
Peter Catherall - Son of Paul Catherall & Ursula
    Born: 29 May 1796

Baptism: 28 Nov 1798 St John, Preston, Lancashire, England
Paul Catteral - Son of Paul Catteral & Ursula
    Born: 20 Oct 1798

Baptism: 28 Nov 1797 St John, Preston, Lancashire, England
Thomas Catteral - Son of Paul Catteral & Ursula
    Born: 6 Nov 1797

Baptism: 2 Oct 1800 St John, Preston, Lancashire, England
Thos. Catterall - Son of Paul Catterall & Ursula
    Born: 30 Aug 1800


All from LAN-OPC

[Pennines]

There is an actual marriage licence for the wedding of Peter Catterall to Jane Rishton - he is described as a 'gentleman' of Preston and Jane was a spinster of Witton. Both are 'twenty one years and over'

[ShaunJ]

1873 obit from the Law Times

[HughC]

More thanks to you kind Rootschatters.
Mary Ann must have been his second wife: he was a widower in the 1861 census.

I'll confess my interest: the son John (b. 1833) married in 1856 Amelia Threlfall (b. 1831) whose father also appears to have lived in Winckley Square.  The clergyman who married them was the Rev. Richard Holgate Brown, who I think was Amelia's 2nd cousin and who a few years later married Harriet, daughter of Paul Catterall.

It's the sort of thing that happens in family trees.