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Messages - Mark Harris

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Nobody Lives Forever
« on: Tuesday 11 June 19 11:49 BST (UK)  »
Trouble with family tree stuff is it just keeps taking you to different places. Wonder what happened to Elias and Amelia, married 1839, there in the 1841 census, then next thing is I find Elias in 1851 census, it is him, in Burnley working as a shop assistant in a drapers, unmarried.
Cant find Amelia, dead or remarried. Oh well, it keeps me out of the pub I suppose.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Nobody Lives Forever
« on: Tuesday 11 June 19 10:53 BST (UK)  »
I had the census and wondered about Elias the draper, thanks.
Makes sense also why two of Samuels children are called Frederick Kent and Amelia Kent.
Close family I think.

Thanks again

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Nobody Lives Forever
« on: Tuesday 11 June 19 09:06 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for this. All that time and I had the wrong Elias Morrell. A lot of other stuff fits now.
Elias Morrell was my great-great-grandfather.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Nobody Lives Forever
« on: Monday 10 June 19 20:40 BST (UK)  »
The Morrells were Butchers and or slaughtermen too, as were quite a few of other relatives.
There was a huge lairage in Birkenhead at the time, built near Cammel Lairds and was a huge draw in itself as well as the new docks. The town expanded massively at this time. No sign of Elias though, strange really...No one knows him now but its like a mystery now. What happened to Elias?

Thanks for everything, all the other info slotted in and solved a few questions I had.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Nobody Lives Forever
« on: Monday 10 June 19 17:19 BST (UK)  »
It all adds up, thanks so much. The spellings of Morrell though, astonishing.
No sign of Elias' death still? I shall keep hunting.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Nobody Lives Forever
« on: Monday 10 June 19 15:10 BST (UK)  »
Seems like I had the wrong Elias. The one certainty is that Edward Shepherd Morrell born 1872 has mother as MMN Smith. Shepherd is a family name, all the first born are called Edward Shepherd. Needs a bloody shepherd to sort it all out! There six of them, my grandad was Edward Shepherd too, born 1897.
So its still Elias but not the manchester one 1844 who died 1857. Bugger!

Really appreciate this.

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Family History Beginners Board / Nobody Lives Forever
« on: Monday 10 June 19 13:06 BST (UK)  »
My GGGrandfather was Elias Morrell, b. Manchester 1844, he married Elizabeth Smith from Liverpool b1842. They married in Liverpool in 1864 and had 5 children, the last Edward Shepherd Morrell b1872 being my GGrandfather. I can find no trace of either Elias' death or Elizabeth, they seem to have disappeared after 1871. The 1871 census has a record but it shows Elias as being born in 1833 and from Derbyshire, Elizabeth is there with all the children bar one all correct.
I have 1851 census, Elias living with parents, aged 6, in Manchester.
Elias pops up, I think, in 1886, at his daughters wedding in Birkenhead, Anne Jane Morrell to James Cardus...but I believe that does not mean he was there in person.
Its the deaths of Elias and Elizabeth that is puzzling? Don't think they emigrated...
All brainwaves greatly appreciated as ever.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Steamy Edmonton
« on: Wednesday 05 December 18 15:04 GMT (UK)  »
I have to assume Emma remarried, can't find a death as Haszell or Coomes that fits. I've tried marriages as Haszell or coomes but nothing pops up. Spelling variations too. You wouldn't believe the way that Haszell is spelled or interpreted.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Steamy Edmonton
« on: Wednesday 05 December 18 15:01 GMT (UK)  »
They had two more after marriage, Edith and Editha as Faint mmn Castle, maybe it was getting embarrassing with Thomas, 'You here again'!

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