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Looking for info on Anne Hamilton, widow, who married William Fulton, widower and tailor, 18 Nov 1851, by license at Strabane Registrar's Office. Both of Newtownstewart.

I would like to find out if her 1st married name was Hamilton, or was that her maiden name? The date makes finding records difficult - I lucked out finding the 2nd marriage on IrishGen.

TVM

Wasn't sure where to post this. If there is a better place, please let me know.

I am helping a friend look for the marriage of her great-aunt. Ethel (M?) Neale b. 1883 in Coventry, fa: Abraham, mo: Catherine. She was a nurse. Married Cecil James Robertson b. 1877 in Buenos Aires, fa: Jorge Robertson, mo: Juana (Janet) Lawrie.

They might have met and possibly married on a ship between South America and England, possibly around 1923. Where would that kind of marriage be recorded? We have not been able to find a marriage anywhere else.

They traveled quite a bit - we have found their Brazilian immigration certificates and their names on several passenger lists.

Ideas would be appreciated!

I have a puzzle as follows:

Elizabeth Hannah Hargreaves, born ca 1869 in Stacksteads, Bacup, Lancashire had six children:

1. Clara Page Hargreaves, 1888
2. Sarah Page Hargreaves, 1889
3. Joseph Page Hargreaves, 1891

In 1891, they were all residing with Joseph Page, single, in Nelson (Burnley) - Joseph and Elizabeth listed as the parents of the three children.

In 1901, Elizabeth was enumerated as a housekeeper in the household of Walter Johnson, still in Nelson, now with three more children:

4. Fred Hargreaves, 1893
5. Edith Hargreaves, 1897
6. Walter Hargreaves, 1899

In 1911, Walter Johnson, head, married, is living in Nelson with Fred, Edith, and Walter. No Elizabeth - instead a servant by the name of Alice Dawson. The children are all now bearing the surname Johnson.

I did obtain a marriage certificate for Walter Johnson and Elizabeth Hannah Hargreaves, dated 1903, register office Burnley.

Here is where it gets really weird.

According to the marriage certificate, Elizabeth is a widow, and her father's name is Roger Platt.

So, did Elizabeth get married and widowed sometime between 1901 and 1903?

Was her maiden name Platt and did she marry someone named Hargreaves - giving that name to all her children?

Or was it the custom for a previously married woman to put the name of her deceased husband in the spot for her father's name? (I found a marriage for an Elizabeth Hargreaves and a John Thomas Platt in 1903, but this seems to be just a coincidence - Hargreaves is very well represented in the area).

Because her name is common, I have not confirmed her birth and parents. The only reason I have as much information as I do is because, bless her, she named her children in a way to make it easier to trace them.

This is my husband's great-grandmother and I would really like to find her before and after the census records.

Thanks for any ideas that might help.

Kathleen


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The COOPER family lived in and around Cliviger, Cornholme from 1853 until at least 1910.
I have just obtained the marriage certificate of John COOPER and Mary LOMAX m. at Chapel St John's Holme (per certificate) in 1853. Mary was the daughter of Robert LOMAX and apparently underage as she married "with leave."

I have searched many times for John in the 1841-51 census and failed. I now learn that his father was Robert BERRY, so he might have been living with either his father's family or his mother. Any of the "possibles" I found of the right age and birthplace - Darwen circa 1826 - are probably no longer relevant, since I was looking for him as the son of a man named Cooper.

This is a real puzzle for me, and I would appreciate help finding him in these years.

Thanks,
Kathleen

Would appreciate very much a lookup for the following in 1841 Timsbury:

CHIVERS, George (should be with Emma, George, Jane, Elisha) -- they are at Bloomfield in 1851-61

Also, LINTERN, Joseph (possibly with Mary, John) nearby

Thanks and Merry Christmas.