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Title: Can you find the connection?
Post by: durhamgirl73 on Saturday 24 October 20 20:20 BST (UK)
I am so close to finding a dna connection but I can't find that final piece of the puzzle. Hoping you wonderful people can help  ;D

Thomas Macnay married Alice Waggett 1809 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
son Thomas is my ancestor
son Joseph (1826 Wallsend) is an ancestor of a dna match received today

1851 census for son Joseph Macnay:
Piece 2392 Folio 440 Page 41

on this census there is an Alice Laws (9) and I'm wondering if Alice is sister to Ann Laws who is on the tree of an unknown match.

Ann Laws married Anthony Parkin in 1857 Durham

I was wondering if:

Alice and Ann are siblings?
Alice is Joseph's niece?
Joseph has a sibling who married a Laws?

Thankyou  :)
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: Rosinish on Sunday 25 October 20 00:17 BST (UK)
Personally, I think links to census' are far easier for others when helping.

Can you please list all in the household in 1851 with their details & relationship to Head?

Have you found all in 1841 which may help with discovering more about relationships & have you found the birth for Alice Laws?

Annie

Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: Jamjar on Sunday 25 October 20 00:39 BST (UK)
1851 census for son Joseph Macnay: Piece 2392 Folio 440 Page 41

1851: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGBR-P5X

Christening of Joseph: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:C6B9-692M

Jamjar
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: durhamgirl73 on Sunday 25 October 20 00:49 BST (UK)
information for Joseph Macnay

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/9KVG-CDC

dna match has parents of Ann Laws (born c1837) as Thomas Laws and Dorothy Smith.
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: Jamjar on Sunday 25 October 20 01:35 BST (UK)
Joseph’s wife was Mary née Jackson:

Dec 1845 Chester le St 24 34
MCNAY Joseph
JACKSON Mary

1871: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5R5-QZ2

1881: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27V-ZHXY

MACNAY, ELIZABETH  ALICE mmn JACKSON 
GRO Reference: 1847  D Quarter in EASINGTON  Volume 24  Page 124

MCNAY, BESSEY mmn JACKSON 
GRO Reference: 1849  J Quarter in EASINGTON  Volume 24  Page 157

MCNAY, THOMAS mmn JACKSON 
GRO Reference: 1852  D Quarter in EASINGTON  Volume 10A  Page 213

MCNAY, SARAH  ANN mmn JACKSON 
GRO Reference: 1854  D Quarter in EASINGTON  Volume 10A  Page 234

MACNAY, LIDDELL mmn JACKSON 
GRO Reference: 1858  D Quarter in STOCKTON  Volume 10A  Page 99

MACNAY, JOSEPH mmn JACKSON 
GRO Reference: 1861  J Quarter in STOCKTON  Volume 10A  Page 88
Death:
MACNAY, JOSEPH  3 
GRO Reference: 1864  M Quarter in AUCKLAND  Volume 10A  Page 110

MACNAY, ISABEL mmn JACKSON 
GRO Reference: 1864  M Quarter in AUCKLAND  Volume 10A  Page 209

Jamjar

Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: durhamgirl73 on Sunday 25 October 20 01:54 BST (UK)
I have this information but thankyou for looking - it is a connection of Ann/Alice Laws to the Macnays that I am looking for.
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: Jamjar on Sunday 25 October 20 01:58 BST (UK)
Alice is a servant on the 1851 census. So, why do you think she is relative of the MacNays?

1841: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQBJ-RLX

1851: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGJT-T7G

Christening of Thomas: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWNS-L6R

Possible death of Dorothy:

LAWS, DOROTHY  37 
GRO Reference: 1850  J Quarter in DURHAM AND LANCHESTER  Volume 24  Page 60

Possible death of Thomas:

LAWS, THOMAS  65 
GRO Reference: 1877  D Quarter in EASINGTON  Volume 10A  Page 224

Children:

LAWS, MATTHEW mmn SMITH 
GRO Reference: 1839  S Quarter in DURHAM AND LANCHESTER  Volume 24  Page 63

LAWS, FRANCES mmn SMITH 
GRO Reference: 1841  D Quarter in DURHAM AND LANCHESTER  Volume 24  Page 73

LAWS, SARAH mmn SMITH 
GRO Reference: 1843  M Quarter in DURHAM AND LANCHESTER  Volume 24  Page 93

LAWS, WILLIAM mmn SMITH 
GRO Reference: 1845  S Quarter in DURHAM AND LANCHESTER  Volume 24  Page 81

LAWS, THOMAS  LAWS mmn SMITH 
GRO Reference: 1848  M Quarter in DURHAM AND LANCHESTER  Volume 24  Page 95

Jamjar
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: wivenhoe on Sunday 25 October 20 01:26 GMT (UK)
Census  1851   @ Haswell  Durham
McNAY Joseph     head  25y  coal miner   b. North Wallsend Northumberland
McNay Mary        wife    26y                   b. Hebron Durham
McNAY Alace                   3y                   b. Haswell Durham
McNAY Elizabeth              2y                  b. Haswell Durham
McNAY William                4m                  b. Haswell Durham
LAWS Alace        servant  9y                   b. Wrekenton Durham

Look for a LAWS / McNAY / JACKSON born Wrekenton, Durham ....in earlier/later Census...also marriages for these family name combinations....to account for Alice LAWS.

Using GRO I am not seeing birth for Alice LAWS.   Where is Alice in Census 1861?


Is this the 1857 marriage? I am not seeing a PARKIN marriage.

What do you see on this document? -

FreeBDM   SepQ 1857  Durham  VoL 10a   page 307

Ann  LAWS mar. Anthony PARKER

....church...names...dates...occupations...witesses....place names.....

Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: Jamjar on Sunday 25 October 20 01:39 GMT (UK)
Using GRO I am not seeing birth for Alice LAWS.   Where is Alice in Census 1861?

Me neither. I wonder if she is Frances?

Jamjar
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: mckha489 on Sunday 25 October 20 01:44 GMT (UK)
Parish Church Shincliffe

Anthony Parker, bach, blacksmith. new Shincliffe,  father, Anthony Parker, a Labourer
Ann Laws, spinster, New Shincliffe, father Thomas Laws, a labourer

Witnesses.  Elizabeth Douglas and James Douglas, both signed
Bride & Groom marked

Added. James Douglas is a regular witness
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: durhamgirl73 on Sunday 25 October 20 10:06 GMT (UK)
Thankyou everyone.

I have a 3-4 cousin dna match 154cM across 4 segments - the majority of shared matched I can connect to the Macnays - other people match to Sarah Parkin (1865) parents Anthony Parkin and Ann Laws - when I saw an Alice Laws on the 1851 census with Joseph Macnay, son of Thomas and Alice, I thought there could be some link to Ann and Alice as they were close in age so could be sisters - although Alice is recorded as servant I thought she could be related possibly a niece

So looking at the marriage record you found Ann's dad is Thomas Laws.

Is there a marriage record for Thomas Laws and Dorothy Smith?
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: durhamgirl73 on Sunday 25 October 20 10:20 GMT (UK)
1841 census the Macnays were living in Wrekenton
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: Millmoor on Sunday 25 October 20 11:09 GMT (UK)
Marriage of Thomas Laws to Dorothy Smith in Penshaw 15 Nov 1834. Is this what  you are looking for?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DCX3-D9F?i=496&wc=9K5S-BZS%3A13618101%2C30639601%2C30652501&cc=1309819

One of the witnesses is a Matthew Laws.

William

Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: durhamgirl73 on Sunday 25 October 20 11:16 GMT (UK)
Thankyou
Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: WolfieSmith on Sunday 25 October 20 12:47 GMT (UK)
One possible Alice.

Thomas McNay has a daughter Mary McNay who marries a William Days, 18 May 1840 Gateshead. Some family trees on Ancestry have kindly posted the marriage cert.

William and Mary Days have a daughter Alice, baptised Lamesley 1 June 1842. Abode is Eighton Banks, right next to Wrekenton.

William and Mary Days are living in Haswell in 1851, same township as Joseph and Mary McNay, but no Alice with them. Joseph McNay and Mary Days are both down as born Wallsend, Northumberland.

Alice Days reappears in 1861 age 19, born Wrekenton. According to various trees she marries a George Henderson in 1862 and subsequently gives her place of birth as Wrekenton in most later census.

Days - Laws ?

Alan.

Title: Re: Can you find the connection?
Post by: durhamgirl73 on Sunday 25 October 20 13:56 GMT (UK)
Thankyou - I've added Alice to the Days family  :)