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Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Harrison/Griffield couple - most elusive
« on: Saturday 24 September 22 22:16 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for clarifying that, Queenie.   I'll keep a note, in that case.  S

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Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Harrison/Griffield couple - most elusive
« on: Saturday 24 September 22 07:52 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Neale 1961.      I'm a little wary of that birth reg for the Charles Harrison I'm looking for because, as you say, it appears to match up with the single Charles Henry Harrison in 1901, who is shown as an iron founder.     Of course, he may have changed jobs, be living away from the family and not admitting he is married etc.!     I did find quite a few Charles Harrisons who didn't fit for one reason or another.   This is a bit of a minefield.     Nevertheless, I've kept a note of him, thanks.

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Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Harrison/Griffield couple - most elusive
« on: Saturday 24 September 22 07:24 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much, everyone.    That's quite a lot to get my teeth into now.    What a complicated lot.    I had feared that at the very least there would be misspellings involved!

In answer to your question about the witnesses to the marriage, Queenie, their names were R and D Foster.     (It's a good question to ask, because I remember one of my biggest brick walls in my own family was finally opened by information that came to light about two marriage witnesses!).    Siobhán

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Yorkshire (North Riding) Lookup Requests / Harrison/Griffield couple - most elusive
« on: Friday 23 September 22 20:51 BST (UK)  »
I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to help me to find other records relating to a couple I am researching.    The details I have are as follows:

I have a marriage certificate for Charles Harrison 21 years, Batchelor,  a ships carpenter, father William Harrison, a Shipwright.

The bride is Ellen Griffield 19 years a spinster of no occupation. Father shown as George Griffield (deceased), a coach builder.

They were married in Middlesborough on 28th September 1896, both shown as living at 47 Davison Street, Middlesborough.

I had hoped that getting this certificate was going to give me a few leads, but I cannot find these people anywhere in the census records.     (I did find one William Harrison, a shipwright, living in Kingston upon Hull in 1891, which raised my hopes, but he had no son called Charles, apparently).  I recognise that Charles, although young, could have been a servant somewhere else, but he doesn't appear in earlier years either, when he would have been too young to be working.

In the 1911 census, I have found Ellen Harrison, shown as Head of the family, but married and no sign of her husband. All three children are there.     That is the only positive record I can find.

If anyone can have a look at this one and see if they can find anything I can't, I'd be most grateful.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Hampshire Assizes Lent 1814
« on: Wednesday 08 June 22 23:03 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much, both.      I've got the bare bones of it from the newspaper records.   I was hoping, as you say, to get something like the Old Bailey transcripts, but it seems that is not the case, which is disappointing.  Ah well.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Hampshire Assizes Lent 1814
« on: Wednesday 08 June 22 19:07 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking for a report of a murder trial held at the Hampshire Assizes in Lent 1814.  Can anyone tell me whether full records are available, and if so, where they can be accessed?   Thanks.

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Armed Forces / Re: Second French Independent Company 1814
« on: Wednesday 08 June 22 18:44 BST (UK)  »
Excellent!    Thanks you very much ShaunJ.     Sadly, it doesn't mention the murder, or what he was doing at Hurst Castle, but it does give a really good picture of who they were and what they were about.    Thanks very much. S

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Armed Forces / Second French Independent Company 1814
« on: Wednesday 08 June 22 17:07 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking for some information on the above military Company, which I can't find anywhere on line.   I know that French POWs were sometimes pressed into English Regiments.   Is this what it was?

I'm researching a trial that went to the Hampshire Assizes in Lent 1814, where three Revenue officers were accused of killing a French soldier, one Private Pierre Lapuy, in a fight in Lymington.    He was described as being attached to the above Company, on duty at Hurst Castle.

From what I can see, Hurst Castle was being used as a military hospital during this period, for soldiers returning from the Peninsular War.    It may be that Private Lapuy was a POW, and a patient at the hospital, rather than 'on duty', as it said in the paper.    If so, he would seem to have been on the road to recovery as the fight in which he was killed took place, allegedly, in a brothel in Woodside, Lymington.

I'm interested in any further information about this one as I think that one of the prisoners, who was acquitted, was possibly my gggg grandfather.

Thanks.


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Irish Language / Re: Beannachtaí na Cásca
« on: Saturday 16 April 22 19:36 BST (UK)  »
Is amhlaidh duit, a h-Aislinn, and gach aon duine atá ag leamh an leathanach seo!   (GRMA!).

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