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Are you still looking as I can ask the local village history group to investigate for you

    I think it's early 1900's and i'm very intersted in the photo.  I have found it before.  If you look through the photo's of Salvation army bands here ...http://www.sacollectables.com/gal_ukcorps.html... you'll see that the striped jacket looks to dissapear after 1912 so I guess it is 1912 or before although the bandmaster could have been wearing an old uniform - I think definately not a lot later.     

The first Salvation Army Band was formed in Salisbury in 1878 and the first Corp band in County  Durham in 1879 so I guess that gives a 30 year window. 

My family were bandsmen and lived in Crowland until they moved to the Wisbech area in 1936.  My father was 6 at the time and a few years later his father sent him to the salvation army to learn brass.    The family has salvation roots prior to that so I am guessing that they would have been involved in brass bands in Crowland.  My grandfather became bandmaster of the Wisbech town band and most of the family played in it so I am guessing they would have all played in Crowland.   

Unfortunately my father is now dead but I do have a short recording of him where he talks about my great grandfather who played the bass drum in a brass band he died in 1911 so that must have been in Crowland.   

The interesting person in the picture to me is the small boy in the centre..........  I have a picture of my father as a boy and the face here looks very similar.    It would not have been Dad he would have been too young but it could be one of his brothers, Fred who was 7, Tom who was 13 or Jack who was 23 when dad was born in 1928.   That would make Jack 7 in 1912.

It would be really nice to know more so please let me know if you uncover anything else

Stuart

I am researching Sarah Maddox and have found her in 1881 4 years after her marriage to Alfred maddox but the entry is strange.

the three entries are:-

Christopher Potts - Lodger - unmarried age 26
Sarah Potts Alias Maddox - as wife - married - age 29
Elizabeth Ann Maddox - Daughter -- age 2

in 1891 I have Sarah Maddox, her husband Alfred and by then two children Elizabeth and Fanny at home.

I'm confused by the 1881 entry for Sarah and would welcome and advice on what this might mean does anyone have any idea on the alias and / or the "as wife" comment.

This is also a comment against sarah's occupation and and against christopher in the invalidity column.

I'd welcome any view on what these entries might mean

thanks in advance

Can someone help with an 1841/register lookup of this family please.

I'm trying to identify James Buckley married to Sarah Conway sometime around 1840 I think.  I have them from earlier family research with two children Ann Elizabeth Buckley born:1840 Marsh Gate, Doncaster and Emma Buckley 1844 born Doncaster.  The nearest match I can find in the 1851 Census is

James Buckley age 41 in Barnsley Yorks
Sarah age 38 in Honley Yorks

Children all born Barnsley.

Thomas age 14
Ann age 10
William age 8
Hannah age 5
Sarah age 2.

This looks the right family but I had birthplace of Ann Elizabeth and Emma as Doncaster.

There is a death of Emma Buckley in 1847 in Bradford from the free BMD but there are a lot of Buckley,s so this may not be the right one

Can anyone see the family in the 1841 census and does it shed any light on why I had Emma and Elizabeth born in Doncaster

Does anyone have access to the parish registers to confirm that Sarah's maiden name was Conway?

Many thanks

Geoff Louth yes sorry -  I meant to correct that - I can see no mention of Ireland on the image but the index has it as far as I can see it's in Lincolnshire.  Seemed to be quite a lot a errors in the transcription in this search a warning to not just trust the index I guess.


Teresa   - glad I could help I enjoy ones like this when they go well - I did a similar one for my brother in law took the whole village for 60 years and plotted the trees.   I find once you get past 1901 you can usually follow the same lines as here taking each census in turn to get the next two generations - sometimes if your lucky three.

I notice that they as a family are well routed in Covenham.  It's a small place so you might try typing the place into the Ancestry search field and looking at all the inhabitants - you might find other relatives or potential relatives that way.  Actually I think the Norton's may be harder than the Smith side but I'll have a look at them for you when I get some time.    I presume you have access to ancestry.com to get the balance of the data I left out.

good luck and good hunting

Stuart