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I am looking for help with all of the above but mostly George Ketchley and his wife Henrietta. George joined the British Royal Navy in 1866 as a boy and then 'for real' on his 17th birthday on 28 March 1870. I have his record, it is blank.
On 23 Feb 1878 George Ketchley married Henrietta Quinn in Liverpool. George is described as a mariner. On 4th November 1878 they have a daughter, Henrietta Mary, born in Boston. She is baptised on 24th November and in the 1880 US census is in the Massachusetts Infant Asylum.
I do not know whether her parents died or whether she was abandoned.
I have a record for a marriage of a Henrietta (S)ketchley, maiden name McQueen, to a William E Murphy in Danvers in 1888. She was a widow & this was her second marriage so Quinn may be a misspelling of McQueen (or vice versa). William E Murphy was a seaman and there may be an Irish connection. I cannot find William and Henrietta beyond this date.
Can anybody help please??

Looking for information on Delia CONROY, known to have been in Sutton in 1937. She was working as a barmaid, so was presumably 18+.

I am looking for help with information about the Gossip family of Thorp Arch near York in the period 1790-1841.

I know that William Gossip inherited what I think was just the use of the hall from his uncle Wilmer Gossip in 1790. At this point William Gossip was 20 and a student at Oxford. I know that he did not complete his studies. I am connecting the two events.

Burke's reports that he married twice. I can find a marriage in London, to Elizabeth Thirkill, in 1795 and a marriage to Phoebe Dykes in York in 1833. I know that the latter marriage was him as this is family. I need confirmation re his marriage to Elizabeth and also information re her death.

Burke's also reports that William died without issue. He did however have two children in 1815 and 1819 with Phoebe. He recognised these children as his natural children in his will, made in 1833 after his marriage, and before his death, in the same year.

I think that William's grandfather, another William Gossip, created some sort of trust for Thorp Arch in his will. He died in 1772 and his will is online. I cannot read the will and would be grateful is any-one could advise.

There is a record from the Manchester Grammar School registers which says that William lived at Thorp Arch 'for some time' before giving it, in 1814, to his brother Randall. This is supported by the subsequent births, at Thorp Arch, of Randall's youngest children.

So, William inherits in 1790 and does what for 25 years?

He impregnates a local farmer's daughter in 1814 and her son is born in 1815. I can find no acknowledgement at this stage of William's involvement.

In 1819 a second son is baptised in London and is clearly identified as the son of William Gossip and Phoebe Dykes.

Then nothing more until 1833 when William married Phoebe in York and dies 4 months later. His will and her will are both online.

Could any-one help fill any of the gaps or tell me where I could look? Thank you.

 

Hi
I am looking for info on the above family.

I have Canadian Frank(lin) C Lowe in 1900 census in Toledo with wife Lula (believe to be Louette Jane Callahan/Callaghan) and 3 children - Frank E, Harry (really William Henry?) and Mable M Lowe. I have no marriage record. He appears to be an out of work house painter. A final child Charles Alonzo Lowe was born in 1900.

By 1910 they are not together. Lula, now 37, is back with her parents in Washington, Hancock, Ohio. she is recorded as being divorced. Are there divorce records? How common was it in 1900s?

I cannot find him at all.........in 1917 I think he volunteered in the Canadian forces as George C Lowe, he gave Frank E Lowe of Toledo as his next of kin.

Charles aged 9 appears to be in Lucas County children's home, I cannot find the other children.

Ultimately I would like to find out more about Frank/George and to see what happened to his American family. If I am correct, he married an English relative  of mine during WW1