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Lancashire / Re: Friends School, Warrington
« on: Sunday 10 September 17 10:07 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for posting the photos.

 I also have ancestors that attended this school. The girls look so happy. Could I ask, are these your own photos? or are they available in a book or archive. Also do you know the names of any of the girls in the photos?

A question for the original poster, did you ever find out why she attended this school?

Little Wren

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Lancashire / Re: Isaac Wilcockson of Preston
« on: Friday 23 November 12 19:43 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that Lancsann.
I was so excited when I thought I had found their house and walked around the area imagining what it was like in the past, but then was told that the house had been destroyed by fire and the house there now was built later. They also lived next door to the Harris family. I suppose having to get the newspaper published each week would have made it difficult to go travelling.
regards
Little Wren

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Lancashire / Re: Isaac Wilcockson of Preston
« on: Sunday 18 November 12 09:46 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Radcliff
I have a bit of background info for Isaac. He's not mentioned very much in histories of Preston but he must have been involved in the civic society of the time. He ran the Chronicle newspaper so must have known what was going on all the time. He was born a Quaker but was disowned probably because he married outside the faith. He was involved with railways around Preston, the gas company in Preston, he owned a small cotton mill?, he was involved in other societies in Preston. There is a letter I have seen in Manchester Archives where he has been asked advice about education but he has declined because he has retired from public life. I have been to the site of his house in Ribblesdale Place - a wonderful position with views over the river and beyond. He published a book about the Preston Guild in 1822. I also have his photo in a family history book. I have birth, marriage, death and probate info. The only thing missing is where he was in 1841 and has been suggested he may have been abroad, or he may just have been missed.
regards
Little Wren





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Lancashire / Re: Isaac Wilcockson of Preston
« on: Friday 16 November 12 19:52 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you to Emsworthy and Sandymc for looking .
I didn't have the 1835 information, many thanks for that.
They might have been abroad, Isaac had a cousin in Preston who liked travelling, he was in Preston in 1841.

Regards
Little Wren

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Lancashire / Isaac Wilcockson of Preston
« on: Friday 16 November 12 08:11 GMT (UK)  »
I have researched Isaac born 1783.
The only thing I am missing is where was Isaac and his wife Amelia in the 1841 census.
Can anyone find them for me?
I have found the street in Preston where their house was in 1841 and they do not appear to be there.
I have also checked Amelia's family (Senols) as far as I am aware - they lived in London.
They had no children.
Isaac ran the Preston Chronicle newspaper.
In 1851 and 1861 they are at home in Ribblesdale Place, Preston.

thanks
Little Wren

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Westmorland / Re: DOVER Family
« on: Monday 27 February 12 10:06 GMT (UK)  »
I do not know if this links to your Dover family, but are you aware of the Westmoreland rape case? (I am researching Lowis family in Shap and came across this sad sad story.) It involves a Jane Dover and Elizabeth Dover daughters of Matthew Dover in 1846.

I have typed up the newspaper articles on my blog which you can find by googling "Garnetts from Orton". It is under Newspaper Articles Shap.

Hope it does not distress anyone too much. Be warned I found it very unsettling.

Little Wren

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Lancashire / Re: Elizabeth Johnson - how do I proceed?
« on: Thursday 22 December 11 02:44 GMT (UK)  »
And lastly perhaps an even greater mystery :

from the Liverpool Mercury etc. Friday Dec 8 1848
Sept 17, at Medellin, New-Granada, in his 37th year James, eldest son of the late Mr. James Johnson, mason and builder, Everton.

Was this Elizabeth's father? If so he was born about 1811.

Happy hunting.

Little wren.


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Lancashire / Re: Elizabeth Johnson - how do I proceed?
« on: Thursday 22 December 11 02:34 GMT (UK)  »
But there is a second link to the family.
The family you have found in 1851 in Everton has daughter Mary aged 4 born Everton.
In 1861 she is living at

Everton 19 St George St
Ellen Askew 40 widow born Liverpool
Mary Johnson 14 niece born Liverpool
+ two boarders (unrelated)

Ellen Williams married Joseph Askew at Walton St Mary in 1851, details on the brilliant Lanc opc site.

The Williams family in 1841
Everton, Walton on the Hill
looks like Orient Street

William Williams 55  might be farmer?
Elizabeth Williams 60
Edward Williams 20 carver and gilder
Ellen Williams 20
Jane Williams 15
and others

Details of some of the Williams can be found on Lancs opc site under St. Georges Everton.

burials of Jane Williams age 20 of Orient street, 6 Dec 1842
Elizabeth Williams age 66 of Everton, 18 sep 1845
William Williams age 74 of Everton, 27 Aug 1858
Ellen Askew age 42 of West Derby 27 Jan 1866

You will also find info on the baptisms of Edward, Ellen, Jane and a Richard which will also tell you of the occupation of William Williams.

And also in the baptisms at St. Georges you can find James Johnson and William Williams Johnson who were also baptised at St. Peter, details you already have.

I have not checked all the William and Johnson entries.

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Lancashire / Re: Elizabeth Johnson - how do I proceed?
« on: Thursday 22 December 11 02:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I think you can link Elizabeth Johnson, to a Williams family through her mother Mary.
(You already know she had a brother William Williams Johnson.)
I have not copied all the info.

In 1851 she is in Everton with her brother.
30 Clarence Grove.
William Williams age 66 widow retired cowkeeper born Bangor
Edward Williams 33 carver and guilder born Everton
Joseph Askew 30 son in law optician
Ellen Askew 32
James Johnson 14 grandson
Elizabeth Johnson 8 grandaughter
Winifred Davies 26 servant

and in 1861 she is a domestic servant to Mary Frazer and family Spencer st. Everton
she is mistranscribed as Elizabeth Johnston age 18.

This could suggest that Elizabeths mother was Mary Williams - however I have been unable to track down a marriage between James Johnson and Mary Williams. And also I have been unable to track down any baptism for Mary Williams.


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