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Lancashire / Re: Help finding a burial/cremation for Lily Williams
« on: Friday 21 August 20 14:21 BST (UK)  »
She doesn't seem to be on findagrave either. Sorry, not sure what to suggest if shes not in with other family members. Have Liverpool Council got online burial records?

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Lancashire / Re: Queens Park, Heywood
« on: Thursday 20 August 20 16:06 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Lydart on Sunday 26 July 20 18:05 BST (UK)
My father was posted to the RAF maintenance place in or hear Heywood; being disabled he didn't join up so worked on maintenance .... I think of aircraft ?   

I'm getting more interested !    Isn't it such a pity when all the people we could ask are long dead  :(

There was an RAF maintenance unit in Heywood and a barrage balloon place a little further down the road at Bowlee. The maintenance unit is now a distribution park but there area a few of the older buildings left now owned by the DWP. I drive passed it on my way to work sometimes, or Queens park if the motorway is bad.

This might be of interest...

https://www.heywoodhistory.com/2015/05/heywood-spitfires.html

Same website has an article about the opening of Queen's Park too.

https://www.heywoodhistory.com/2017/03/park.html

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Signatures on certificates
« on: Friday 07 August 20 15:04 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Maiden Stone on Friday 07 August 20 14:15 BST (UK)
Quote from: AddictedtoFamilyTree on Thursday 06 August 20 17:09 BST (UK)
George Henry had a sister called Sarah, but having double checked, she is too young to be a witness or married to become Sarah Pearson.
How old was Sarah Pearson, George's sister? Was there a minimum age for a marriage witness?

I was trying to work out of the witness Sarah Pearson could be his sister Sarah, but I don’t think it can be her.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Signatures on certificates
« on: Friday 07 August 20 15:03 BST (UK)  »
Sarah Roberts would have been 10 when her brother got married. So I don’t think she is old enough to be married herself and now Sarah Pearson to be one of the witnesses?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Signatures on certificates
« on: Thursday 06 August 20 17:09 BST (UK)  »
George Henry had a sister called Sarah, but having double checked, she is too young to be a witness or married to become Sarah Pearson. Georgina's husband, Isaac Frost, had a Grandma called Bailey too!  ??? They're making my head hurt so I think I might leave it for today... or at least until after tea...

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Signatures on certificates
« on: Thursday 06 August 20 16:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: suzard on Thursday 06 August 20 15:22 BST (UK)
Have you noticed on the same page as Georgina's baptism there is this
Alfred Bailey born 24 Aug 1884 baptised 10 Sept 1884 Parents William Bailey & Mary Ann address 74 Bradshaw St father's occ hosepipe weaver

as they lived on the same road as George Henry and Mary Jane did when they married I wondered if they were related to Mary Jane
It seems Alfred's mother was b Ireland -so I wondered if there might be a connection between her and witness James Delahumty  as this seems to be mainly an Irish name
Just guessing of course !!

Suz

I've double checked my Mary Jane's siblings, she had two brothers called William, one died as an infant, hence the second William, and he didn't make it to the 1880s. She had a sister called Sarah but she died as an infant too. Maybe Mary Jane and William are cousins? Georgina's first husband was lodging with her mum's sister Amy in the 1901 census. They all seemed quite close. Georgina's son also married one of Amy's children.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Signatures on certificates
« on: Thursday 06 August 20 15:58 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Gadget on Thursday 06 August 20 15:27 BST (UK)
I wondered about the signature when I looked at it last night. George and Mary's signatures on the marriage cert look as if they are in the same hand  :-\

Both very wobbly. Although I often think how similar people's handwriting is on some certificates.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Signatures on certificates
« on: Thursday 06 August 20 15:57 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Gaie on Thursday 06 August 20 15:30 BST (UK)
Hi

One of my ggg grandmothers signed at her marriage (pre-registration times, beautiful signature).  By the time of her sixth child in August 1837 she made her mark on her one and only daughter's birth certificate.

The certificate was dated the day after birth - I had always put it down to exhaustion !!!   ;D   ;D

Gaie

Could have been, bless her. Thank you.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Signatures on certificates
« on: Thursday 06 August 20 15:56 BST (UK)  »
Would they have needed to be actually living at Bradshaw Street? Although that address does pop up a few times with different people... Can't recall which ones off the top of my head. Its these Baileys with an Irish connection popping up that have made me go through the ones I've got, who have a welsh connection, and double check everything.

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