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 Ive had great success in tracing my Lingard ancestry to the small village of Gargrave. The earliest Lingard I can definitely link to my family is Thomas Lingard who is buried on the 14th of April 1720. I think I have his birth, being baptised on the 28th Dec 1642, in Kirkby Malham, born to Richard Lingard.

If I'm right, Richard Lingard marries Margaret Mason in 1641, Gargrave. The problem being that I cannot find any siblings for Thomas, or a birth record for Richard. Seems strange that I can't find any of Thomas siblings, knowing how many kids the average family had in the 17th century.

There are Lingards in Kildwick, which is only about 6km from Gargrave as the crow flies, that seems to be the only nearby place that is home to any Lingards.

Can anyone help me establish a link between Richard and the preceding generation of Lingards and/ or find some siblings for Thomas 

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I'm looking for as much info on a particular address as I can get. Ultimately, I'm interested in finding out how long a particular person would have been staying at this address. 3 Victoria Road Birkenhead. I know he was there in 1928, but that's all I know.

The more I know about this address, the more I can rule out. Pretty much ANY info would be of help

Any help or ideas?

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I'm trying to trace my great grand father Samuel William Davies. My grandfather never knew much about him and has himself now passed away. I have only been able to find two instances of his being mentioned, once on my grandfathers marriage certificate and once on his birth certificate.

The birth of my grandfather (Samuels son) is registered in Birkenhead. His address is given as 3 Victoria Road.

I have found 5 Victoria Roads spread throughout Liverpool and two in Birkenhead (one has now been renamed to Victoria Mount).

The only "leads" I have are that a family of Davies' owned the Railway Hotel (in Victoria Road, Wallasey) around 1860, to my knowledge, none of the male children had heirs. The second is that a Mr Edward Davies lived at 3 Victoria Road in west Derby (around 5 miles east of birkenhead) in 1870.

Here is the scant information I have...

***Edit:Any ideas about how I could trace Samuels Parents?***

I wanted to run something passed you guys to see what you think. I am looking for a marriage between my great grandfather Thomas Lingard and an Elizabeth (Surname unknown). He lived in Gargrave for most of his life and died in "Coldiker" which I now know to be Cold Acre. I believe he owned a farm in the Kirkby Malham area which I'm guessing was called Cold Acre.

Anyway, he was born Circa 1650 and had his first Child in February of 1671. I can find absolutely no applicable Marriages at all, except one. It takes place 16 days after the birth of his first Child. It is between an Elizabeth Preston and a Thomas "Linger".

Elizabeth is listed as living at Kirkby Malham and Thomas (Linger) is listed as being from Gargrave. Now, I have a copy of the registers for Gargrave and there is absolutely no mention of a Linger. Not one. In fact, I can find mention of only 5 Lingers in the whole of Yorkshire, 40 years either side of my Thomas Lingards birth (using popular genealogy websites).

Does everyone think I'm ok to assume this is actually my Thomas Lingard and not Thomas Linger or am I being a bit hasty?

There's also one more piece of the jigsaw, in my copy of the gargrave registers, Thomas's first child is just mentioned as being the Son of Thomas Lingard (no mention of a wife) while every one of his other children, born later, mention a wife (Elizabeth). This could support the theory that the wedding took place after this first childs birth?