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Not long after I started researching my husband's tree, I sent a copy of what I had learnt so far to various family members including his mother's elderly cousin, and said I would be grateful for any other information they knew about the family.
I heard nothing from the cousin -- just put it down to he had no interest in family history.

About 15 years later, I was contacted by his nephew who had been given the papers I had sent  -- the nephew had started to research his tree so was very grateful for the starting point! By this time, I had of course got a lot further with the family so was able to pass more information on. We are now in regular contact

Whereabouts in the UK?
Scottish Registration started later than England & Wales, and has different information on it.

For England & Wales -- yes you can apply for a certificate for 1855 from the GRO.
You can get one in various forms at various prices -- paper, PDF download etc

The Mother will certainly be named -- both her married name plus her maiden name
The Father will certainly be named if she is a married woman -- it will be assumed her husband is the father and so his name & profession is listed
For an illegitimate birth, the father will only be named if he is present at the registration and consents to be entered on the certificate, otherwise the column will be blank.

I have some Richard Depledges not too far from Darton -- but probably a generation or so later than yours -- but there may be a connection somewhere?

Richard Depledge "of Burton Smithies" married my 5x Great Aunt Eden Wainwright at Royston in 1754.
I don't have a birthdate for Richard, but Eden was born 1730, so am assuming similar or older.
Richard died in 1758 and was buried at Royston
I have not tracked Richard's family backwards as he is only a side branch

Richard & Eden's children were bapt at Royston and I have made a note that there was another Richard Depledge -- of Notton -- also baptising children at Royston during the same time period.

So it would seem that Richard Depledge was not too unusual name in the wider area at that time

My Grandmother's cousin married, as her 3rd husband, their Aunt's widower
She therefore became step-mother to her two cousins

She had divorced her first husband for cruelty ( a rare thing in the early 1900's) -- he later went on to murder the supposed lover of his second wife and was sentenced to hang, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

She and my Grandmother were close, and my Grandmother inherited several pieces of her gold jewellery which I now have.
One of the pieces has initials on -- but I cannot find anyone with those initials in any of the families she was connected to, so where it has come from is a mystery!

I have an Ann Lingard, daughter of Nicholas Lingard (b 1673) & Ann Ashton who married a Hadfield at around that time.
I don't have any more information at present -- my notes under Nicholas say " His children's names from Wills of sister Ann Kirk and brother-in-law Francis Ashton"

I will have a look later today for my notes on the wills and see if there is any further information


Nicholas was from the  branch of the Lingard family that lived at Stodhart / Stoddart  in Chapel-en-le-Frith. Stodhart is / was a house /farm between Chapel Milton & Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Rev James Clegg of Chinley Chapel fame lived & farmed at Stodhart in the 1700s