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The Common Room / Is this marriage legal?
« on: Saturday 26 September 15 18:07 BST (UK)  »
My great-grandparents were married in a church in Derbyshire in 1903. The vicar was Revd George Claridge, vicar of St Thomas Church, Heigham, Norwich. The problem is he was the son of the vicar of St Thomas Church (Revd Charles Claridge) and never was a vicar before or after this time. So were my great-grandparents legally married or not?

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Norfolk Lookup Requests / Downham Market Workhouse
« on: Saturday 28 February 15 07:58 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to find my great-grandfather John Thomas Osborne who was from Norfolk, and by a process of elimination have decided he's likely to be the John Osborn who was in Downham Market Workhouse in the 1871 and 1881 Census. I think his mother was Sarah as she was also in the workhouse in 1871 and also two siblings Rebecca and Mary. By 1881 Sarah and the two girls have gone, I've traced the girls but not Sarah, and some more Osborn's have joined John - I believe only Annie was his sister. I'd be grateful for any information about who his father was, what happened to Sarah, and what happened to John when he left. I know he was in Sheffield in 1893 when he married his first wife but can't find him on the 1891 Census.

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Derbyshire / Linneker and Bingham from Norton
« on: Tuesday 03 February 15 19:09 GMT (UK)  »
My great, great grandmother was Elizabeth Linneker born in Norton, Derbyshire (now in South Yorkshire) in 1838, married George Cutts in 1862 and died in 1868 a few months after the birth of my great grandfather Arnold Cutts. Quite a few of her siblings and her aunts and uncles (and other relatives a bit more distant) were married to people called Bingham, also from Norton. As children are born in families over a period of about 20 years and names are repeated in families and generations I was getting myself tied up in knots trying to work out who was married to who, especially as some married the sibling of a deceased spouse. So I wondered if anyone else has already traced the Linneker (sometimes Linacre or Linaker) or Bingham families and can help me out.

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England / Searching for Sgt Woodward
« on: Monday 25 August 14 10:56 BST (UK)  »
My mother-in-law has fond memories of a Sgt Woodward who was stationed in Eckington, Derbyshire at the start of World War II before being posted overseas. He would come to her home for a meal and he taught her to play draughts. She was only about 7 at the time (she's now 81) and he seemed to have brought her some kindness into a tough life as her mother was ill and died shortly afterwards.  She thinks he may have come from London but has no idea of his regiment or first name. She has a photo of him and some of the other soldiers; the photo attached is a close up of him taken from this photo. I know it's a long shot but maybe there is a Woodward family somewhere who heard stories about Sgt Woodward's brief time in Eckington.

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The Common Room / John Thomas Osborne - from Norfolk?
« on: Sunday 04 August 13 19:59 BST (UK)  »
Hi I'm new to Rootschat and have been helping my dad with his family tree and we've done quite well with some lines but we've got stuck on my great-grandfather John Thomas Osborne. This is the information we have about him:
10/07/1893 married Ada Dalton at Dore Church, Sheffield, he said he was 23 and his father was called John Thomas Osborne, deceased, and he was a horse ostler.
1901 Census he is living at Totley, Derbyshire, he said he was 31 and born in Norfolk.
03/08/1903 he married by great-grandmother Mary Jackson at Dore Church, Sheffield (his first wife had died), he said he was 34, that his father was John Thomas Osborne, deceased, and he was a labourer.
From this information if he'd given the correct details we've deduced he was born between 11/07/1869 and 03/08/1869. I've searched births in Norfolk for a few years either side of this and not come up with anyone. I've also checked the 1891 Census and not found anyone called John Thomas Osborne or John Osborne from Norfolk at about the right age. The nearest I've found is a John Osborne who is a year older living in Hebburn, Durham with his parents and siblings. He was born in Hebburn, but his parents and older siblings were born in Norfolk and he doesn't appear in the 1901 Census in Hebburn. I've checked the death records and this John Osborne hasn't died between the two Census times, but also his father is still alive by the time of the 1st marriage.

How do I establish if he is the John Osborne I'm looking for? And if it isn't him then where do I go from here?

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