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Re: Charles Obst
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 14 June 18 17:43 BST (UK) »
I don't have the info for their marriage with me but if I remember correctly it was late 1860's / early 1870's. I have seen a copy of the marriage cert so can confirm its correct.

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Re: Charles Obst
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 14 June 18 17:53 BST (UK) »
Robert’s birth shows as 7th March and Robert snr died June quarter -both 1859 so it seems likely that he is of that marriage.

Yes, Robert Ruxton b 7 March 1859 was baptised 25 April 1859, son of Robert and Anna (nee Gilmore).

Robert Ruxton snr (a baker) died at the Northern Hospital, Liverpool on Tuesday 7 June 1859, having injured his hand on 20 May in machinery at his workplace: Mr Harrison's ship-bread bakery, Mersey St.  An inquest reached the verdict of accidental death. (Liverpool Mercury, 9 June 1859).
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Charles Obst
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 14 June 18 18:11 BST (UK) »
I don't have the info for their marriage with me but if I remember correctly it was late 1860's / early 1870's. I have seen a copy of the marriage cert so can confirm its correct.

Did it tell you the name and occupation of Charles' father?
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Charles Obst
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 14 June 18 18:19 BST (UK) »
I didn't know about Robert sent being a baker or what happened to him, just that he had died at a young age. It's this sort of detail about ancestors that brings them to life so thank you.
The cert for Charles and Anne's marriage didn't have info about Charles father I'm afraid..
I'm still wondering about Charles getting to Liverpool though. I've tried checking ships records with no luck and I believe he would have had to register with the local JP as an alien upon his arrival but again I'm not having any luck. Seems an unusual decision to move from Prussia all the way to Liverpool without a specific reason


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Re: Charles Obst
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 14 June 18 18:32 BST (UK) »
Hello,

He may well have been a sugar baker. There were a good number of Prussians who came over to the UK in the 19th century to work as sugar bakers. I have a relative who came to London from Hanover about that time.

Sugarbakers, a rootschat member has set up a very informative site about it http://www.mawer.clara.net/intro.html

Brie

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Re: Charles Obst
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 14 June 18 19:38 BST (UK) »
Hi Brie, thanks for the link it was very interesting. Charles was a tailor in Liverpool but I don't know who he worked for. Would maybe make sense if he had moved for work but again I think it's a long way to come without a specific job or reason to make the trip

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Re: Charles Obst
« Reply #15 on: Friday 15 June 18 00:55 BST (UK) »
I don't have the info for their marriage with me but if I remember correctly it was late 1860's / early 1870's. I have seen a copy of the marriage cert so can confirm its correct.

Very strange this - there is no marriage listed for them in the marriage index under either of their names.

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Re: Charles Obst
« Reply #16 on: Friday 15 June 18 06:54 BST (UK) »
The information below is from a tree on Ancestry - have you seen it?

Friedrich Charles Obst married Anne (Ruxton) Gilmore
step son Robert Ruxton Obst
Birth   1825 Sachsen Germany

But I am still not seeing a marriage.

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Re: Charles Obst
« Reply #17 on: Friday 15 June 18 07:25 BST (UK) »
 Alien Arrivals, England lists:

Tobin Obst, a Taylor, arriving 10th June 1854 from Prussia

He may be related or a change of name  :-\
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