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Somerset / Mary Jane Sinclair Parfitt
« on: Thursday 08 September 22 09:39 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for help with a Mary Jane Sinclair Parfitt - supposedly born 1855 in scotland.   On her marriage cert. to Robert Wood in 1875 her father is named as Henry Parfitt a mariner.  In the 1881 census a Rose Parfitt born in Liverpool in 1824 is staying with Mary Jane and Robert and is a widow and looks as if it it says mother on the form but I seem to have hit a brick wall!    The handwriting on the census looks like Purfitt.  I have tried looking at Scotlands people for Mary Janes birth but found nothing.Henry doesnt seem to turn up in any census and I am not sure where he was born.     Philippa

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Family History Beginners Board / Mararoa Glasgow to auckland 1885
« on: Monday 28 December 15 20:31 GMT (UK)  »
The maiden voyage of this ship which was built in Dumbarton in 1885 was from Glasgow in October 1885 but I can't find any passenger lists - does anyone have any bright ideas?    My great grandfather James Blair with his wife Catherine and children, James, Annie, Frederick and Archibald were supposedly passengers on it, arrival in Auckland Dec 8 1885.

Philippa

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Sophia and Mary Bromley
« on: Thursday 10 December 15 08:00 GMT (UK)  »
Sophia and Mary were born 1784 and 1797 - Sophia baptised Westminster to William and ann Bromley. she was married to Thomas Wilson at Westminster in 1807 and in the 1851 and 1861 censuses she is living with her sister Mary (now widow of John Randal)          there seem to be so many William and ann Bromleys around I wonder if anyone can help find the correct ones?

Philippa

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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Marriage of Mary Colebourne and Adam Read
« on: Monday 30 November 15 08:04 GMT (UK)  »
I think John Read  was the father  of Adam Read who married Mary colebourne in Old Swinford in 1684 but I don't know who the parents are of Mary.     Can anyone help with this one please?   Philippa     

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Shropshire Lookup Requests / 1801 Marriage at Ellesmere of Thomas Edwards and Mary Jones
« on: Monday 16 November 15 07:41 GMT (UK)  »
Could someone be able to look up the above marriage for me - with such names as Edwards and Jones I haven't been able to get beyond these two and their 1801 marriage. 

I have the names and dates of birth of their 6 daughters starting with Elizabeth in 1802 and ending with Georgina Jane Edwards in 1813

Philippa

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / William Green and Mary Clayton
« on: Tuesday 29 September 15 08:39 BST (UK)  »
The above married at Garforth in 1815 - Mary of the Parish of Garforth, William of the parish of Aberford,  by Banns with consent of parents.   Witnesses  William Morley and Richard Green.

Does anyone have any further information on the ancestry of these two?

Philippa

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Lanarkshire / Thomas Blair and Margaret Borthick, marriage Lanark 1759
« on: Tuesday 25 August 15 09:28 BST (UK)  »
+Thomas was a surgeon in Liberton where he and Margaret were married -  I am unable to read the Parish Margaret was from on Scotlandspeople and wonder if anyone has any information about the parents of either of them?   I also wonder if Margaret was actually a Borthwick!

Philippa

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Cheshire / Mary Minshull
« on: Tuesday 02 June 15 10:22 BST (UK)  »
Mary (possibly daughter of John Minshull of chester) born approx 1684 married Thomas Tagg of Chester in 1708.     Can anyone help please with any information about either Mary and her ancestors or Thomas and his?           

I do know that Mary the daughter of Mary Minshull and Thomas Tagg married Jonathan Brayne of Cheshire.

Philippa     

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Painting of funeral of a child
« on: Saturday 19 October 13 09:08 BST (UK)  »
My grandparents had a painting of a church with a funeral taking place in the foreground - my grandfather's father did a lot of small paintings and we wonder if this is one of his - he lived in Argyll, Dunoon,  Old Kilpatrick and originally in Glasgow.   He left Scotland in 1885.l           If anyone recognises the church I would be thrilled!     Philippa

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