This week it's DebbieG's turn for the Scavenger Hunt and it's a really interesting one. I know you'll all do some serious digging for Debbie.
Good Luck and Good Hunting
Barbara
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I have a small dark red book, which has been owned by at least 5 other people before me, It is a Birthday Book and in it are noted the dates of birth of 7 generations of one branch of my family, the most recent being my grandson Jack born Feb this year. Its first owner was my Grt Grt Grandmother Sarah Hannah Campbell (nee Lucas)
Sarah Hannah Lucas was born in Leeds in 1825, from her marriage certificate (2nd marriage) I know her father was George Lucas a hairdresser. She married 1st in 1843 in Leeds to William Hayes and they have several children, some of whom die as infants. They move around a bit, in 1851 they are in March in Cambridgeshire, and William dies in 1853. In 1855 Sarah Hannah Hayes (nee Lucas) marries my Grt Grt grandfather George Campbell in Huntingdon and they have 3 more children, Emma in 1856, George in 1858 and Finally my grt grandfather Arthur in 1862. I have George and Hannah in all the census's up to and including 1891.
I am fairly sure I have found Sarah's parents and siblings in 1841 in Leeds
from 1841 Miller street Kirkgate Leeds
George Lucas 35 Hairdresser Y
Ann 35 Y
William 15 Y
Harriet 12 Y
George 1 Y
and I have a marriage from the IGI which seems to fit of George Lucas to Ann Arthington in Leeds St Peters 17th March 1824. but then I am stuck, by 1851 Sarah Hannah has moved away and her siblings are all split up with the youngest George in what seems to be some sort of orphanage, so it looks as though both parents have died. So I only have rounded ages for them from the 1841 census and the IGI is showing various possibilities for Georges baptism. I would love it if we could pin down the parents of both George & Ann.
I am also interested to know what happened to Sarah's 3 siblings, and the surviving children of her first marriage Rosina (b 1847 Leeds) & Charles (b 1845 Leeds) Hayes, I think
