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Family History Beginners Board / looking for harrisons and leonards in macclesfield
« on: Tuesday 02 November 10 19:37 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for any surviving Harrison or Leonard families in Macclesfield who are related to my family.

The Leonard family in the 1911 census shows May 1903 my grandmother, she is 8yrs old and living at 13 Knight St, Macc, with father Alf, 1857,mum Sarah,1859, (nee Plant) and siblings, Fred,1891,Robert,1894, Hannah 1889 also William 1900. 

The Harrisons I have found in the 1901 census, at 253 Hordsfield Road, Macclesfield, Eli 40, Annie E 34, Emma 4, Annie 3, Eli 2 and my grandfather Andrew 10 months. 

I would love to hear from anyone who knows of any whereabouts of any of the family - we lost touch with them, especially the Harrison side, as grandad was thought to have had shell shock and was admitted to Parkside Asylum - where he died in 1951.

Look forward to hearing from anyone

Regards

macbrit

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Help needed with Wainwrights
« on: Monday 11 January 10 12:24 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry, pressed the wrongbutton and it was posted!  To continue:  think I might have found William George's marriage but that it yet to be confirmed.

They were all born in Burslem and lived around the St John the Baptist  C o E Church in Burslem.  I have the 1891 census, in which Amelia's brother Michael James McManus was living with them, I then have the 1901 and 1911 census'.  I  am also looking for a Mrs Holdcroft who took  the children to the workhouse, she is shown as their Aunt.  I think, looking through marriages, she may be an Eliza Wainwright, married to a Samuel Holdcroft  19 Nov 1900 - but again this has to be confirmed.

Does anyone have any info ref this family?  Wainwrights, McManus's and Holdcrofts.   I think Amelia McManus was born in Navigation Road, William in Baker Street, and their children in various streets, Peel, Amicable, Malkin Street, Upper Haldrig and Esterview Middleport,  all Burslem.

Any help much appreciated.

Macbrit

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Family History Beginners Board / Help needed with Wainwrights
« on: Monday 11 January 10 12:14 GMT (UK)  »
Iam looking for help with my husband's family search.  His mother was brought up in a workhouse in Stoke, was sent to the deaf school and then went back to the workhouse.  My husband knew nothing of the family as his mother and father were both deaf and used sign language as their preferred mode of communication.

Thanks to Stoke Archives, we now know the sad story of her family and why she was sent to the workhouse in 1911.  We now need to find her family.  Her mother was Amelia McManus  who married  William Wainwright.  They had 10 children, (8 survived) the youngest three, Elsie, Ethel and Florence were placed in the workhouse in October 1911.  Florence, myhusband's mother, never left, but I do not know if the other two children left the workhouse before they were old enough to work.  I am looking for relatives of the other children

William George b 1889, Annie 1891, James 1893, Ester 1895, Edmund 1897, Elsie 1901, Ethel 1904.

I have found somone who knows of James 1893 - but only that he married a distant relative of hers and that is all she knows, I think I may have found William G


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