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Essex / Crowland and Taylor
« on: Wednesday 07 April 21 11:25 BST (UK)  »
I hope that someone may be able to help me with Mary Ann Crowland and Charles Taylor.

Mary Ann is on 1851 census as a 2month old living with parents James and Rachael in Heybridge.      She is on the 1861 as 10 year old living with parents at Heybridge.

Mary Ann married Charles Taylor in Maldon 1869 q2 4A 265.      No solid knowledge of who Charles is or where from.

They had a son Stephen Charles baptised 31 Jul 1870 at St Mary, Maldon father a tinman of St Peter in Maldon.

Stephen Charles is on the 1871 census living with Rachael Crowland, his grandmother.

I cannot find Mary Ann or Charles Taylor in 1871 census, or anywhere after 31 July 1870

I understand that a tinman was a tinsmith, who worked with tinned metals and similar sheet metals.      Presumably Bentalls and perhaps Maldon Iron Works - amongst others - might have provided work.

But where have Mary Ann and Charles gone?      Any ideas or suggestions would be most welcome and helpful

Coelmar.

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Suffolk Completed Lookup Requests / Susannah Euston of Buxhall
« on: Saturday 03 April 21 18:26 BST (UK)  »
I have hit one of the legendary brick walls.      I hope there is someone who can help me through over or under it?

Susannah, wife of George Euston, died 1889 in Stow Regn District, probably in Buxhall.     I think she had four children by George - Ernest 1880-1960. Ellen 1882--1889, Kate 1887-, and Arthur 1888-1889.

George was born 1858 in Buxhall, and after Susannah's death he married Kate Bradley of Gt Finborough in 1894.      Kate and George had Sidney Frank 1894-1975,Wilfred James 1897-1917, Minnie 1899, Rose Ellen 1901, Cecil George 1904, John William 1906.

So far so correct I hope.      But who was Susannah?      1881 census shows her age 22 born in Buxhall.

My brick wall then is Susannah - any help on her maiden name would be very much appreciated.

Coelmar

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Cornwall / Jemima Aver
« on: Wednesday 19 August 20 14:50 BST (UK)  »
Hello, on a glorious (?) wet day
   I am trying to trace the story of Jemima Rickard, nee Aver.      She lived at Towcester, Northants from about 1845 until her death in 1877.     
   I think she was baptised at Kenwyn in 1820, and the 1841 census gives her as a single person in Probus workhouse.      Ancestry gives her discharge from Bodmin Prison as 1844 regn no. 9845: and 1845 regn no. 10198.
    She had a son James at Towcester Workhuse in 1850, giving her as Jemima Rickard nee Aver.
    The 1851 census gives her as born Truro, married, head of household with one child, living at Towcester.       
    Her Settlement Examination at Towcester 1854 says she married James Rickard "years ago", but he left her on 13 March 1850, she has no contact with him or her parents.and she has no contact with her mother and father.

     I would like to know why she was in Bodmin Prison, was she there once or twice (or more?), and why she had rejected her parents.

      Can anyone offer any help to brighten up a pretty nasty day here in East Anglia?
Coelmar

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Northamptonshire / Rose Jane Harrison Bigamist marriage 1896
« on: Wednesday 20 May 20 21:43 BST (UK)  »
     Rose Jane Harrison age 23 of 21 Victoria Promenade, Northampton, married Dexter Thomas Dalley on 25 Dec 1896 at All Saints, Northampton giving her father as Thomas Harrison, collier?   page 58 No. 115 of register  witnesses William John Dalley (?) and Edith Mary Ward.
     Rose Jane Harrison age 23 of 21 Victoria Promenade, Northampton, married William George Smith on 25 Dec 1896 at All Saints, Northampton giving her father as John Henry Cox, groom   page 58 No. 116 of register   witnesses Annie Cox and John Henry Cox.

     Yes, I know, Christmas Day, brandy for the parson and baccy ......

      I know Rose Dalley had Henry 1897, Herbert 1901 and Edith 1904.     I also know Rose J gave her birth date on the 1939 Register as 7 July 1874.
      She may have been living in Bolton as a 17year old cook from Northampton at 1891 census, but would only have been 16. 
      She may have been daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Harrison of Birmingham in 1881 and 1891 census, but again a year out in age.
       Pretty certain she is not Rose daughter of Vincent Frost O'Connor publican, drunkard and adulterer (or so his wife said at the divorce) of Northampton.
       I have tried FindMyPast and Ancestry, a number of near fits, but no actual hits. 

       Covid lockdown and a dodgy knee are enough for me, but Rose really is pushing it too far!
Can anyone offer ideas as to her origins, please?

Thanks

Coelmar

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Northamptonshire / Boughton or Bozeat, an 1833 perambulation
« on: Wednesday 25 March 20 13:49 GMT (UK)  »
Bozeat or Boughton?
      Martha, daughter of Dexter Thomas and Martha Skevington and was, according to Family Search/FindmyPast, baptised on 14 April 1833 at St John the Baptist, Boughton.
    My map shows Boughton to be a close North neighbour of Northampton.     
   
    Rushden Research Group has a Transcript that seems to indicate that Martha, daughter of Dexter Thomas and Martha Skevington, was baptised on 14 April 1833 at St Mary, Bozeat.   
    Bozeat is about 10 miles East of Northampton, just South of Wellingborough.

    Can anyone shed light on Martha’s actual baptismal church, please? 

     I must apologise for the pun, sorry.

Coelmar 

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Northamptonshire / Dexter and Skevington families of Bozeat, Northants
« on: Saturday 25 January 20 19:22 GMT (UK)  »
Sometime before 1800 I think a Dexter married a Skevington.       About 1791 Dexter Thomas Skevington was born.
The 1841 Bozeat census shows Catherine Dexter living next door to Dexter.     Subsequent census show her as a visitor. 
Anyone know the connection?
Many thanks
Coelmar

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Bedfordshire / Dalley family of Turvey
« on: Saturday 25 January 20 19:02 GMT (UK)  »
    I have traced the Dalley family in Turvey back to Henry Thomas Turvey born about 1824, mainly through census.  Henry T's marriage register (courtesy of FindmyPast) gives his father as Thomas.
    Can anyone help me date Thomas (the Dad)?
Many thanks
Coelmar


   

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Canada Lookup Request / Jean Downard
« on: Sunday 16 June 19 15:52 BST (UK)  »
Hello,
     Augustus Charles Downard and his second wife Elizabeth Alice Davis married 1928 and their daughter Jean was born 1929 in Pancras Registration District, London.
     Jean was not living with her mother in Northants, nor her father in St Pancras on the 1939 Register.     I know there was friction between Augustus and the Downards, it would seem there was also friction between him and his wife.
     She was not with any of the Downard family either, but as I do not know her Davis grandparents I have been unable to check if she was with them.
      Jean had a child in Islington in 1952, and he was adopted.     He has found one of the Downards and asked if they knew of his birth mother.
      Jean went to Canada in October 1952, on board the Queen Elizabeth to New York and then on to Canada.
       She was again in New York in May 1954 on board Queen Mary on her way to Vancouver, BC, Canada.


      Anyone know anything which might help me find Jean?

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World War One / Dalley brothers
« on: Friday 04 January 19 10:22 GMT (UK)  »
Happy New Year!

The National Roll of the Great War contains entries for Sapper H.T. Dalley and his brother Ordinary Seaman H.D. Dalley.     I can find no other entry anywhere about either of them.
Henry Thomas was my son-in-law's grandfather, born 1897 died 1981
Herbert Dexter was born 1901 died 1969 and served in Royal Navy in WWII.

I may have pressed the wrong button and published this unfinished, if so my apologies - it is still close to New Year.

Anyway, to continue
The family have no medals or momentoes, and the older members have died, leaving the present generation no clues as to what either brother did in WWI, other than the somewhat overdone entries in The National Roll.
HMS Eaglet was and still is the Liverpool Naval Reserves base, being renamed from HMS Eagle in June 1918.     I find it hard to believe that a base in Liverpool should be the accounting base for "ships" (shore bases, coastal forces or harbour craft or whatever) at Scapa Flow, yet I can find no mention of named establishments there.
As for Harry, being myself an ex-Sapper, I would like to find out a bit more about him.

Can anyone give me guidance or pointers, please?

Coelmar
and yes, my dragon is Saxon not Welsh

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