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I have been looking for children for Edward Robinson and his wife Alice Bland, who married in 1859 in Lancaster, he was a breaksman on the railway. Edward was born in 1830 in Brighouse, Yorkshire, baptised in Slaithwaite, Yorkshire and wife Alice was born in Overton, Lancashire.

I had already found Elizabeth Robinson 1860-61 and Robert Henry Robinson in 1864 in baptisms in Preston and I was looking for another one to fill the gap between 1864 and 1869 when Alice remarried to John Fisher in Lancaster. (cannot find Edward’s death!)

I found a baptism in Orton, Westmorland, that stated that James Pye Robinson was the son of Edward and Alice and that he was born 14 May 1867 and died 14 Aug 1867, the baptism was attributed to FamilySearch. I do realise that FS is not necessarily wholly reliable, so I double checked with the GRO.

I looked for the death first and found one for James Pye Robinson in Sep 1867 in East Ward district, but when I purchased it I found that he died on 11 Aug 1967, aged 3 months, in Tebay, Orton and his parents were James Robinson, railway engine driver, and his wife Isabella. So I looked for a birth and found one for James Robinson in Jun 1867 in East Ward district, when I purchased it I found that he was born 28 Mar 1867 in railway cottages, Tebay, Orton and his parents were Edward Robinson and Alice, formerly Bland.

So what should I do now? Should I ditch the FS transcript as false? Help please!
Helen

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Can anyone tell me when the bride and groom started to sign the marriage register in Guernsey please?

The reason that I ask is that I have a mainland ancestor who married in 1781 in Alverstoke, Hampshire, and signed the register. When he came to marry again in 1800 in Town Church, Guernsey, after the death of his first wife, the entry on the microfilm just looked like a diary entry by the priest or clerk.

Did signing the register start later in Guernsey than on the mainland please?
Many thanks
Helen

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Looking for some help please with a knotty problem.
I have a Dennis Wells baptised in Haddenham/Chatteris as daughter of William and Mary in a Quaker birth in 1763. She married William Johnson in 1782 in Warboys and they then went on to have several children in Hemingford Abbotts: Elizabeth (1796-1805), Mahali (1797), Thomas (1801-1801), Dennis (1803-1804) and Rachel (1807), before Dennis died in 1824 (aged 61) and William died in 1838 (aged 79).
So Dennis would have been 44 in 1807 and unlikely to have any more children, but my problem is that there is a big gap between marriage in 1782 and first known child in 1796 of 14 years. I have tried casting my net wider than Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire and came up empty – help please!
Helen

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If someone is going to the Priaulx library would they do a look up for baptisms in 1810s please?

I have a Thomas Gifford (or Jefford) Dowell and wife Mary who had possibly two children in Guernsey.
Thomas was baptised in 1781 and had his first mainland born child in 1818 in Paignton, Devon. But before that he had a son (named after himself) and a daughter Eliza. In 1841 they are born 1816 and 1815, but possible burials place them in 1812 and 1811.

Eliza was definitely born in Guernsey (as in later censuses) but Thomas junior only appears in 1841, where he says he was born in foreign parts.

Any help on these two would be great, many thanks
Helen

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Help needed please!
I have an Absolom Johnson who was born about 1829 in England, and is mentioned on his mother's grave as dying in 1857 in Evansville, America.

I have found him in 1850 in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana with his wife Lucy but no children (they were married in England in Sep 1849).

I have also found his grave, with a death of 1857 in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, but on the page is an entry for his wife Jane Johnson and daughter Mary Ann Norcross (Johnson), born 1852 in Indiana.

On the death certificate for Mary Ann Norcross in 1925, it states that she was born 6 June 1852 in Indiana and that her father was Absolom Johnson, born England, and her mother was Jane Slitt(or Scott?) born England.

Help please! Cannot find a death for Lucy or a marriage to Jane
Helen