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Shropshire parish registers - indexed and with images - are now online at Find My Past. That's my weekend sorted then!

http://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records?SearchedRecordsetName=shropshire&Region=World

Steve

Over the relatively short time that I have been researching family history, I have benefited enormously from the efforts of those amazing volunteers who have given up their time to transcribe records of various descriptions. During my recent stay in Shrewsbury I found the Monumental Inscription (or MI) transcriptions deposited at Shropshire Archives particularly helpful and would like to place on record my thanks to all those involved in their production.

In an attempt to give a little back to the family history community from which I have taken so much, while I was at Waters Upton St Michael's I decided to photograph all the stones with legible inscriptions (not just the one that was of interest to me). My intention was to transcribe the inscriptions and put that data online at Find A Grave, along with the photos (enhanced to make the inscriptions on them as legible as possible). This I have now done, and a bit more besides, as I could not resist trying to find out more about the people whose deaths were commemorated. The inscriptions and photos are therefore accompanied by further information such as census, parish register and probate data.

The surnames on the stones (and the maiden names of the married women where I have been able to find them) are:

Ball - Arthur, Charlotte, Emma, John, Sarah (Cureton).

Beaman - Emma (Gregory), Richard.

Blantern - John, Mary Ann (Slack), Robert.

Buttery - Elizabeth Beatrice.

Cornes - Joseph.

Cureton - Elizabeth (Buttrey), Thomas.

Davies - Andrew Taylor, Annie May, Admiral Sir Arthur John, Rev. John Bayley, Marjorie Eileen, Susan Anslow (Juckes).

Dickin - William.

Dulson - Ann (BIshton), Charles.

Fisk - Annie (Waring), Thomas.

Foulkes/Foulks - Mary Ann (formerly Martin, maiden name not known).

Gregory - James.

Hobson - John, Rev. Samuel.

Hyde - Margaret.

James - Joseph.

Jenkins - Elizabeth, John, Jane (Evans).

Jones - Joseph.

Lawrence - Ann Britton (Meredith).

Martin - Edith Amy, Elizabeth, Jane, John.

Matthews - Ann, John, William.

Meredith - Martha.

Morgan - Arthur, George, Sarah, William.

Owen - John.

Pascall - Sarah.

Rawlings - John, Sarah.

Rider - John, Sarah (Tennant).

Ridgway - Alfred, Ann (Jones), Harriet Mayne (Knott), Janes, Sarah Ann (Woolley).

Swinnerton - Mary Ann (Blantern).

Titley - John, Mary (Atcherley).

Tompkin - Robert.

Walker - Ann.

Woolley - Mary (Pascall), Richard, Robert.

Wylde - John, Lucy (Strefford).

I hope some of this will be of use or interest to someone, somewhere!

Link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2417760

Steve

According to the IGI, Thomas COBB married Sarah HUMBLES at Eaton Bray on 27 Jul 1818. I'm trying to establish whether or not this was the same Thomas Cobb who married Ann READ at Eaton Bray on 20 Oct 1803 (did Ann pass away and did Thomas re-marry?).

I'm hoping that someone will have access to the Eaton Bray registers and can look up the Cobb-Humbles marriage and post the details - particularly the details of the Thomas' status at the time of the marriage, i.e. bachelor or widower (if shown).

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help with this.

Steve

Sidney Jones married Robert Edwards in the parish church at Chester St Mary on 24 Jun 1855. Her age was given as 20 and her father was named as Thomas Jones, a labourer. It appears that she spent the rest of of her life in Chester and although one census shows she was born there, others indicate that she was born at Wrexham. I gather that many parts of the 1841 census for the Wrexham area are lost and this would explain why I've not found her on that census. I think I have found her on the 1851 census at Gwersyllt in the parish of Gresford near Wrexham, with Thomas (42, born Gresford) and Martha (44, born Holt, on the border with Cheshire) Jones and their sons Thomas (12, born Marchwiel), Charles (10, born Wrexham) and Henry (3, born Wrexham). Ancestry's transcription has Sidney as Thomas and Martha's  niece, but looking at the image I think that Sidney was in fact their daughter (piece 2502, folio 236, page 13). Her birth place is given as Marchwiel.

Would it be possible for someone to locate a baptism for Sidney, presumably in 1835 or 1836 (ish) either at Marchwiel or Wrexham?

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help with this.

Steve

George Kilsby was born around 1800 and was buried on 13 Sep 1830 at Daventry. He and his wife Temperance (born around 1798 in Whitfield, Northants) had at least two children, both baptised in Daventry: Ann (bap. 4 May 1827) and George (bap. 15 May 1829). But where and when did George and Temperance marry, and what was Temperance's maiden name?

I'd be grateful if someone could find their marriage in the NMI and post the details.

Many thanks,

Steve