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I wonder if anyone can help me understand an article I have recently discovered in the Huddersfield Chronicle, 19th May 1866.

'The clerk informed the board that, with respect to the case of Kate Armitage, who was alleged to have been illegal induced to remove to Huddersfield from Knutsford had laid all the particulars before the poor law board who had replied that the relief by which the woman was enabled to come to Huddersfield had not been advanced by an officer of the board, but by an overseer; the attention of the district auditor would therefore be called to the item, should it be charged in the Union accounts. He (the clerk) had also informed the Poor law board that the guardians had agreed to carry out the suggestions of Mr Wilkes, the Lunacy Commissioner, with regard to Deanhouse Workhouse, and the poor law board returned thanks for the attention paid to the commissioners’ recommendations'.
 
I know that Kate was born in Knutsford in 1832, the daughter of Peter Richardson and Mary Davies. Peter was a shopkeeper in Knutsford and later moved to Mobberley. I believe he became an Alderman. I can track Kate in the 1841 and 51 census but there is no sign of her in 1861. The next record is the registration of her daughter Annie in Bradford in 1863, she is listed at this time as Kate Armitage and Annie’s father is William Armitage a draper. Their next child William was born in Nottingham in 1864. William senior is listed as a policeman at the time. I do have his police records but the only personal information is that he was born in about 1835, sadly no location. William Snr died in Nottingham in 1865. I had always presumed that Kate then moved to Huddersfield as their third child Jane was born there in 1866 (April-June). However, now that I have discovered this article I guess she first went back to Knutsford.

I am intrigued to understand the article, had she been in an asylum? What is an overseer? Would there be any records of this in Cheshire of Huddersfield? There is no mention of the children in this article, would they be elsewhere?

Kate had rather a sad life, she remarried a John Walker and had a son George, but John died and she spent the rest of her life in and out of the workhouse. She died in Crumpsall Workhouse in 1906.

Sorry this was so long. Many thanks. Marge 

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Wasn't sure if to post this here or on the occupational interests board. My grandfather served with the Air Raid Patrol during world war two and until the time of his death. He died in Raywell sanatorium in 1944 of TB. He was 37.

Would anyone know if any personnel records would survive anywhere? My father was a small boy when he died and he knows little of him. It would be interesting to know more of what he did during the war.

Many thanks

Marge

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I am trying to find the baptism records for the children of John and Ann Brannan (Brannon/Brennan/Brannen). John was an iron worker and lived in Newcastle under Lyme in 1871. I know John and Ann came from County Mayo in Ireland - if possible I would like to discover Ann's maiden name. Children born in Newcastle are;

Mary abt1867
Ann abt1869
Thomas abt1874
James abt1876
Michael abt1880

Many thanks in advance

Marge

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I am trying to locate more information on William ARMITAGE. Up until now the only details that I had are: he was married to Kate Richardson (although I can find no marriage). They had three children Annie b1863 Bradford, William b1864 Nottingham and Jane b1866 Huddersfield. I know William had died before 1870 as his wife remarried, stating at her marriage that she was a widow.

As the details I have fall between census dates it is really hard to find anything. However, after a couple of wrongly purchased death certificates I have today located the correct one. I had been looking in Huddersfield, but it turns out William died in Nottingham in 1865, before the birth of his youngest daughter.

Details on the death certificate are that he died on the 8th October 1865 at the General Hospital of an aneurysm of the aorta. He was 33 years old and a policeman (this matches William's birth certificate). Present at the death was Charles Lalthbridge. The death was registered in the Park district.

Would anyone be able to tell me were I might find burial or cremation records for this are? Many thanks Marge