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If any kind person is accessing these PRs, please could they look in the Baptisms to try to solve a small conundrum. I have a Marriage Nov 1792 Timothy Hughs (sic) & Eliz: Hinley (sic). This was at Prestwich with both parties "of Oldham in this parish", but I am assured that although Oldham folk frequently wed at the mother church it was quite rare for them to be baptised or buried there.

I am hoping I have traced Timothy & Elizabeth to Frodsham, Chs (only 30 miles from Oldham) where they (if it was them) baptised 5 children although there is no record of a marriage.

The lookup I need is to see if there were HUGHES children baptised Oldham within a reasonable period (say 3-5 yrs) starting Jan 1793.

If feeling really kind and enthusiastic, my helper could also look around 1780 for Timothy's baptism, and around 1762 for a baptism for Elizabeth, who, if she went to Frodsham was buried there in 1832 aged 70. I haven't found Timothy's burial yet: it was not at Frodsham!

I know it's a lot to ask but I live in North Wales and cannot travel to Manchester Record Office myself for various reasons.

Anyone any ideas how to trace William CASHIN who married Ivy ROSE at Scunthorpe Parish Church 6 Nov 1929? He left the area not long afterwards, and I can find no firm evidence of his origin (said to be Ireland).

I have the Marriage Entry: he was 28 a Labourer son of James a Farmer, and that's the lot!!

I suppose he may have worked at one of the steelworks.

Has anyone access to any of these, please?

I'm seeking info about the CROSS family who were Tanners & Curriers. They first appeared in Street Directories of 1800 & 1803:

Christopher & John Cross, Curriers, 2 Orange Street.

Christopher moved to Manchester before 1822, but John remained and was joined by his 3 sons William, John & Christopher. I would be most interested in any entries about them between 1810 and 1870. John moved to Birkenhead before the 1841 Census and remained there until his death in 1881. William was listed as Retired in the 1861 Census. Christopher died in 1872.

They may also appear as Leather Cutters or Leathergoods Mfrs.

Or is there anything online I could access?

Is anyone able to access these (e.g. at Birkenhead Library?), please?

I would love to know if there were Obits for:

John Threlfall CROSS of Arno Road, Oxton, who died 16 Mar 1929, and for his father:

Samuel Braddock CROSS of Park Rd. East, Birkenhead, who died 25 May 1915

Please can sks look for William McVITTIE, possibly in Marble Street (Lime Street Ward) and hopefully with wife Margaret and daughter Jane or Jean who would be about 20.

Also need to find William BROWN age about 30, unmarried, bootmaker, who in 1845 was living in Houghton Street