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I was looking at Stradbroke parish for the Thrower family who were paupers and seemed to disappear in the early 1820s, and in the 1874 White's Directory it said: "The parish sent about 200 paupers emigrants to America from 1831 to 1843."

So I did a search for Stradbroke in the TNA catalogue and it found lots of information about Lord Stradbroke - however, this description of a letter dated 17 July 1844, reference MH 12/489/188 was interesting:

" Content: Folios 274-276. Letter from John Marshall and Co, to E Chadwick [E Chadwick, Secretary to the Poor Law Commission, enclosing Mr Buchanan's certificate regarding the emigrants by the St Anns to Canada from: Fenny Stratford, Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union. Woodford, Daventry Poor Law Union [Northamptonshire]. Blofield, Blofield Poor Law Union [Norfolk]. Frittenden, Cranbrook Poor Law Union [Kent]. Stradbroke, Hoxne Poor Law Union [Suffolk]. Water Eaton, Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union. He asks that the Commission notify these unions of the due performance of the contracts. Enclosed is the following list giving the name of the parish, union, emigrant, occupation, number in family, number of rations, amount of landing money, destination (all bound for Montreal unless specified): Fenny Stratford, Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union: William Pool, Labourer. Woodford, Daventry Poor Law Union: George Luke, Labourer, John Ludgate, Labourer, George Claridge, Labourer, George Cleaver, Labourer, William Smith, Labourer, George Humphrey, Labourer, Hannah Smith, infirm, William Dew, Labourer. Blofield, Blofield Poor Law Union: William Francis, Labourer, Charles Cockerill, Labourer, Anthony Barber, Labourer, Jeremiah Carver, Labourer, Thomas Stapleton, Labourer, Christmas Thrower, Labourer, William Powley, Labourer. Frittenden, Cranbrook Poor Law Union: John Munn, Labourer, George Tolhurst, Labourer, George Ransome, Labourer. Stradbroke, Hoxne Poor Law Union: George Rumsey, Labourer, Quebec; Harriet Noyce, James Dove, Labourer, [John Darrette], Labourer, William Hobbs, Labourer, J Bryant, Labourer, Mary Stapleton, wife of Thomas Stapleton, Rachel Tolhurst, sister of George Tolhurst, Michael Tolhurst, Chemist, John Hill, Labourer, J H Crate, Printer, John Newberry, Carpenter, Quebec; James Parrack, Quebec;William Tillman, Quebec;Butcher, Mary Gilbert, Thomas Candy, Labourer, James Ponds, Labourer, Robert Dunkerton, Draper, Quebec. Water Eaton, Newport Pagnell Poor Law: [John Sonster], Labourer, William Cook, Labourer, John Venn, Cooper, Quebec; William Harris, Stonemason, Quebec; William Buskin, Carpenter, Quebec; William Gould, Labourer, Quebec; Joseph Kendall, Agriculturalist, Quebec; William Cornish, Blacksmith, Quebec; Robert Henwood, Agriculturalist, Quebec. States that A C Buchanan, Chief Agent for Emigration, Quebec, certifying the agreement is fulfilled by J Richards, Master of the St Anns to Canada from: Paper Number: 10663/A/1844. Poor Law Union Number 23. Counties: Buckinghamshire. "

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10650504
Doesn't help me, but might help someone else.

Does anyone live in Bolton and recall a leather goods shop in Bridge Street? Possibly run by a Polish family in the 1950s or 1960s?

Or is there a directory online that I could search for it. Any help or ideas gratefully received.

Many thanks
tvc

My friend has recently tested on Ancestry and has been given the Ethnicity Estimate of 50% Great Britain 26% Eastern Europe, 13% West Europe, 7% Finnish/Russian and smaller amounts of others. They now have a very real concern that their father is not their real father and are upset.

I don't think that's what it is telling them, as I know the weight that should be assigned to this. However, I want to point them in the direction of a written paper to help them understand exactly what it means to allay their fears. They are not keen to share this with family members and it is not helping that so far they have no DNA matches to their father's side or none that can be identified.

Can anyone advise or PM me privately to discuss.
Many thanks
tvc

Hi
If anyone can help with Michael Riley's sister's name please, I would be most grateful... I'm presuming it's a married name as it doesn't look like Riley.

So far I have come up with Sister Mary Lee Al? Candelaria Co. Nevada USA. Candelaria is now a ghost town in the county of Mineral County, Nevada but at the time I think it was in Esmeralda County, Nevada. I can't find a record of her emigrating at all.

For context, Michael Riley was born in 1866 in Swansea, Wales and this is his attestation papers from 1887. He was in the RA and then RGA until 1904 when he was discharged. This is why his next of kin have changed over time as his mother Mary Riley who died whilst he was serving. His other next of kin are his brother Patrick and his brother Thomas who was in the South Wales Borderers (I've not found him there yet).

His sister Mary was born in 1869 also in Swansea. Wales, and was in the 1871 and 1881 census in Swansea with her parents and is possibly in Cardiff, Wales still unmarried in the 1891 census as a servant aged 23 with the Jones family and other visitors.

I've tried all sorts of searches to find Mary after 1891 but so far have come up with nothing. Any ideas on that name would be wonderful.
TIA (I'm also presuming that the page I attached is there when I post... )