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Shropshire / John Bigglane,1853-1904
« on: Thursday 04 November 21 22:28 GMT (UK)  »
I’m trying to find more information about my great grandfather, John Bigglane,1853-1904. He is recorded in the 1891 and 1901 censuses living in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire with a birth location of Wellington, Shropshire. He married Norah Herrity in 1883 in Newcastle-u-L and died in Dec 1904, sadly just a few days after the death of his son John Patrick Bigglane.

I haven’t found any records of him before 1883. There is a John Biglean born in 1853 in Wellington who briefly raised my hopes but he appears to have died in 1855.

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Staffordshire / Alice Hazlehurst, b1873, Stone.
« on: Monday 01 November 21 17:29 GMT (UK)  »
My great grand aunt Alice Hazlehurst was born in 1873 in Stone, Staffordshire. In 1891 she was living with her father and 3 sisters in Little Aston near Stone and working as a domestic servant. After that I can find no further trace of her. Any help in tracing her would be gratefully received.

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The Common Room / William North, Photo Artist, 1871
« on: Friday 29 October 21 17:47 BST (UK)  »
In the 1871 census for Silverdale, Staffordshire I came across an entry for:

William North, age 34, occupation Photo Artist, living in a caravan, place of birth - Leicestershire, Loughborough

I assume William North was some sort of itinerant photographer taking portrait photos but, although Silverdale had significantly expanded in the middle of the nineteenth century as a coal and iron mining community and undoubtedly had a growing middle class, the majority of people in the census for the village were miners or labourers.  I can’t imagine many of them had the money or energy to have their photo taken after a long week of hard manual work.

I haven’t been able to find any other trace of William North so have no clues to the type of work he was doing. Has anyone come across him or similar in the middle to late nineteenth century?

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The Common Room / Entered twice in the same census.
« on: Tuesday 26 October 21 16:06 BST (UK)  »
The census of 1891 has two records for what appears to be the same person, ie my 2*great-uncle Joseph Hazlehurst (1847-1899).

In one he is recorded as living in Kings Norton, with his wife, Jane and three children. In the other he is recorded as living in Alvechurch about 5 miles away. All details are the same apart from one having  Jane’s age as 43 and the other as 45.

How were censuses carried out at that time? Were they not supposed to record who was living at a particular place on a specified date as they do now?

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Family History Beginners Board / George Handy - Birmingham, Warwickshire to Silverdale, Staffordshire
« on: Wednesday 20 October 21 15:00 BST (UK)  »
The first mention I’ve been able to find of my 2*great grandfather, George Handy, is in 1857 when he married Mary Espley in Wolstanton, Staffordshire. His father’s name is recorded as William Handy.  In the 1861 census he is recorded as living with Mary in Silverdale, Staffordshire, being 34 years old (so born around 1827), working as a forgeman and having been born in Birmingham, Warwickshire. He remarried in 1863 to Sarah Dale (née Rushton), with whom he had 3 sons in the four years before he died in 1867.

I’ve not been able to find any earlier definitive trace of him. He was 30 when he married Mary which seems a bit old for those times so I wondered whether he’d been in the military or in prison but can find no records.

Any suggestions?

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