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According to the marriage cert on Ancestry, Thomas Ellwood married Miriam Wilcock in Tunstall Lancashire 21st Aug 1851. Thomas, address was New Hutton and his father was Thomas Ellwood, a miller. Miriam's address was Leck? and her father was Richard Wilcock a farmer. The witnesses were Edward Ellwood and Elizabeth Robinson.

It was a catholic wedding.

So Thomas was not the son of Edward Ellwood and Abigail Shepherd.

That's right. This one's parents were Thomas Ellwood and Agnes Townson or Townsend.

It is his grandparents who were Edward Ellwood and Abigail Shepherd.

My Mother was an Ellwood born at New Hutton. Going back 6 generations in my family my Grandfather William Ellwood b.1796 was brother to Thomas Ellwood b.1802 who married Agnes Townsend.

That would be William Ellwood who married Agnes Douthwaite.

Can you tell us more about that branch of the family?

I have 7 kids for them -- which one are you descended from?

I think we have managed to sort out these families a bit more accurately now. 

I have attached family group sheets showing the information I now have on the Thomas Ellwood who married Agnes Townson, and the Thomas Ellwood who married first Isabella Dent and then Elizabeth Graham (born Burton). 

I don't know if this is the right county, but can anyone tell me but what was the next Parish to "Oakthorpe & Donisthrope" in 1891. The sub district was Hartshorn (Ashby De La Zouch).
The reason I ask this is I have an address in Acresford St which fails to appear on the area census. The most probably reason is that the remainder of the road fell under a different sub district.
Any ideas gratefully received.

At one time Donisthorpe was on the border of Leicestershire and Derbyshire. One side of the river was in one country, and the other half in the other. So you may find what you want under Leicestershire. Some of my wife's ancestors were born there, and were baptised at Over Seal which was then, I think, in Leicestershire. The country boundaries have changed several times.

Ann SANDERCOCK, daughter of Richard SANDERCOCK and Mary BENNETT was baptised at Cardinham, Cornwall on 6 August 1775.

According to some people she married Jonathan ELLICOTT in 1804 and had two daughters, Margaret and Gertrude Ann.

According to others, she married Thomas NORTHEY and had several children.

I think that the former marriage is more likely than the latter, There were several SANDERCOCK (or SAUNDERCOCK) families in Cornwall at the time, and those south of Bodmin Moor, around Cardinham, seemed to have little connection with those north of Bodmin Moor.

If anyone is working on these families, or has come across references to them, I would love to make contact.