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Hi,

Please can you help with this margin note? It is a parish record of a burial in Derbyshire, the man was 25 when he died, local to the area, and I can't find a word online to match this!

Hilary

On 11 June 1781 two baptisms are recorded:

1 Joseph Cowlishaw, son of William, christened 11 Jun 1781 at Kirk-Ireton
2 Joseph Cowlishaw, son of Thomas, christened 11 Jun 1781 at Long Eaton, residence Kirk-Ireton

(I came across these when looking at how people delayed christenings until - apparently - they could arrange a joint baptism with relatives who might live up to 20 miles away)
These baptisms are on FS, Ancestry and FindMyPast. No images are available, so I followed the Indexing Project Batch Numbers back and found the following:

1 Joseph Cowlishaw, son of William, the listing shows that everyone in that batch (presumably lived at Kirk-Ireton) and was christened at Kirk-Ireton.
2 Joseph Cowlishaw, son of Thomas, the listing shows virtually everyone in that batch lived at Kirk-Ireton, but they were all christened at Long Eaton.

Does anyone know why 'half' the children of Kirk-Ireton would be christened at Holy Trinity, Kirk-Ireton, but the other 'half' would be christened at Long Eaton, which Google tells me is 21.9 miles away along modern roads! I have lots of other instances of people travelling far for whatever reasons, from the Wirksworth late baptisms, but this case is a bit different.

As an added extra, I haven't followed these two Joseph Cowlishaws back, but is there any way that they could be one and the same - that's what I will follow next.

Thanks in advance!

1861 Census:

1861 and Amelia Fry is living at Galhampton, her father George Fry is a licensed hawker, her mother is a hawker's wife, her older brother George is a horsebreaker and Amelia Fry, age 23, is ??

It's a something Helper. On the 1851 census her father was a dealer in marine stores, so I get the impression that he was hawking household objects, bits of hardware, buying and selling. So maybe Amelia looked after "the shop" such as it was. It wasn't licensed premises of any kind at that time so that rules out a few other things.

The original looked a bit like C....npt Keeper, then the first work is crossed out and it looks like Creenpt Keeper. I'm baffled!

Any ideas, please?

Hi everyone,

Can anyone connect with Thomas Hartigan of Limerick whose children Martin and Hannah appeared in Salford/Manchester between 1851 and 1861?

Best wishes
Hilary

Hi Everyone,

I have a mystery and I'm stuck!

My great great grandfather John SALTHOUSE married Lucy WALTERS at St Mary, Nether Alderley, in 1842. The family lived at Sossmoss Lane until at least 1871.

In February 1871, John SALTHOUSE appears to be alive as he appears to be 'living' on his son's marriage certificate. A couple of months later, when the census was taken, his wife, Lucy SALTHOUSE, is recorded as a widow.

Lucy and seven of the children are buried in two graves at St Mary, Nether Alderley, dates spanning 1842 to 1934 and there is no reason at all why John SALTHOUSE couldn't have been buried there. But I can't find any trace of John SALTHOUSE's death in BMD, Cheshire or Lancashire BMD or 1837 or GMRO. He seems to have just disappeared without trace! Even if his entry in the records was so illegible, I would have found him in his churchyard, but he's not there :-(

His wife, Lucy, died to TB 4 years later in 1875. She died in Southport, the death recorded by her eldest daughter, Annie, and her body was brought all the way back to Nether Alderley so that she could be buried with her children, so the family was not workhouse-poor. On her death certificate she is described as 'wife of John Salthouse, Master Shoemaker' so the family seemed to be proud of John and not trying to  forget about him.

Can anyone solve my mystery? I've checked every archive site online (I can't travel at the moment), wars, ships, transportations, etc, but nothing turns up.

Best wishes
Hilary