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Staffordshire / Hard Nut to Crack
« on: Thursday 25 January 24 10:47 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning
I have a James Smith watch maker born 1837 St Ives Huntingdonshire , in Wolverhampton and his 'wife' Sarah Moore  born 1844 Birmingham.
I've finally bitten the bullet and bought a marriage certificate for 1911 .
It tells me that his father is William Smith carpenter and Army pensioner deceased which as James is 73 is hardly surprising.
James is also a widower which may explain why they didn't get married before.
The 1911 census tells me James was also in the Army for 10years and is a pensioner. He  now can't write his name as he could in January when he got married.

Trouble is Smith is not a great name to find and James's first marriage could be anywhere.And there seems to be no Army record for either him or his father.

The censuses have James and Sarah in Wolverhampton 1881-1911 .
Before that possible entries 1841 and 1851 at St Ives
1851 Back st .St Ives
Elizabeth Smith widow 36 laundress St Ives
James 15 ag lab
John 13 ag lab
Ann 10
Joseph 4
George 10mths

1841 gives his father as William age 35 labourer and an extra son William 12.
But  a carpenter isn't a labourer and would a sg lab really become a clock maker ?

I'm not sure and there seems to be no parish records on line for St Ives.
So can anyone find James's first marriage ,his army records and his parents?


Fingers crossed

Ciderdrinker


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Somerset / Frome 1785 census
« on: Saturday 30 December 23 12:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hello and Merry Christmas
Just a quick question
Does anyone know if the 1785 census is online anywhere?
I know there is a copy at Taunton archives and Frome Museum but I'm nowhere near there.

Ciderdrinker

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Inverness / Margaret Munro born 1845 Strath ,disappears in Edinburgh
« on: Tuesday 29 August 23 12:43 BST (UK)  »
Hello
Trying to find this lady for someone in my family history group.

Looking for a Margaret Munro born 1845 in Strath.
She was baptised as Peggy in the same year daughter of William Munro and Mary Macfayden.
Got until 1872 when she has a daughter Edith Joan in Edningburgh.
Then a possible sighting 1881 18 Nicholson St Edinburgh
Margaret 37 millner Invernesshire
lodging with a Christina tod 39 Milner born Newburgh Fife and her children George 8 ,Richard 7 and Jessie 5.
What happened to her after that?

Daughter's marriage Cert 1905 says she is deceased.

Any ideas.
I've slogged through marriages in Edinburgh 1972-1905 but there are still 13 possibles out of 46 initial entries.
And lets face it even if I paid for each one there's no guarantee that I'd find her.

Any clues out there?

ciderdrinker

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Sussex / Death duty records
« on: Tuesday 25 April 23 10:34 BST (UK)  »
Good Morning
I know Ralph Joanes of Horsham died in 1812 and his estate was liable for Death Duties.
I've got as far as the index on the National Archives at Kew.
Ralph Joanes 1812 Court of the Bishop of  Chichester  3/491
Paid by William Joanes

What do I do now?
I've got the reference but it still doesn't seem to bring up the record.
Can anyone take a look and just give me the details or some link to them.I interested in how much he left and his 3 children.
Any help appreciated.
Thank You

Ciderdrinker

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Staffordshire / Mysterious Pugh's
« on: Monday 17 April 23 11:03 BST (UK)  »
Hello
I've had a look myself but I'm failing to find a baptism for
Thomas Bailey Pugh born 1920 at Wednesbury.
His siblings are at St James,St Barts and the Primitive Methodist Chapel so he could be anywhere.

Also can anyone spot Francis Peter Pugh born 1909 Wednesbury on the 1921 census.I've found the rest of the family in Dale Street but he seems to have gone workies.He was only 12 so he can't have gone far.

Much appreciated

Ciderdrinker

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Warwickshire / James Allen born c 1844 Birmingham
« on: Thursday 06 April 23 10:07 BST (UK)  »
Good Morning
Trying this one for a friend
She has a James Allen puddler born 1844 living in Wednesbury.
The censuses there give his birthplace as Birmingham
While his marriage to Mary Eliza Webb 28 Feb 1869 at Wednesbury St John gives his father as James Allen fishmonger.
All lovely ,except no sigh of a James Allen fishmonger.
Can anyone find the key for this Allen?

Ciderdrinker

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Hi
Doing a family tree for a a friend.
I have Edmund Harry Ives and wife Emma together at Kennet Road Marylebone in 1901.
In 1911 Emma says she is a widow.Only death I can see for Edmund is 1910 but a probate suggests that is a farmer from Surrey with a son Edmund.
Not my chap.
Emma is on the 1921 census at Welldon Cresent Harrow but no sign after that.
Any ideas welcomed.

Ciderdrinker

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London and Middlesex / Frances Ives just vanishes
« on: Thursday 06 April 23 09:52 BST (UK)  »
Good Morning
I'm doing a family tree for a friend and one aunt just seems to vanish.
The daughter of Robert Alfred and Emma Ives.
Frances Ives born 7th December 1914 is with her mother  Emma Ives nee Joannes until the 1939 Eletoral register at 114 Victoria Road Edmonton.
She then just disappears.
No mention in the family ,just gone.No mention in the family ,nothing
Any help appreciated.

Ciderdrinker

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Staffordshire / Benjamin Ainesworth married Sarah Cartwright 1788.
« on: Thursday 22 December 22 12:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hello there.
This has been a brickwall of mine for some time.
Benjamin and Sarah lived in Willenhall and Benjamin was a locksmith.
They married at St Peters Wolverhampton in 1788
Children Mary 1789 ,William 1791 ,Stephen 1794 ,Theodosia 1795 ,Charles 1797 ,Sarah 1802 ,John 1805 ,Benjamin 1808,Elizabeth 1810
I can't  find a baptism for Benjamin.

There is a 1758 marriage at Wolverhampton for Benjamin Aynesworth a soldier of this parish and Mary Isaacson .
Surely thy must be his parents.
There is a daughter Catherine buried at Bilston 1767 but no sign of any other children.

Any ideas?

Ciderdrinker

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