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Lancashire / Re: William Henry Holt m Annie Hardy
« on: Tuesday 26 September 17 12:54 BST (UK) »
I'm confident the Philadelphia family is not the one I'm researching. They're the one posted previously in Spring Garden in 1900 and 1910, a neighborhood of Allegheny City, later annexed into Pittsburgh. I have Minnie's marriage in 1901 with the same address. Philadelphia is 300 miles away on the other end of a very wide state.
Since somebody brought up the idea of William and Ann's marriage being a second one for Ann, I'll add a fact which I previously gave no credibility. I have obituaries for both William and Ann in which her maiden name is listed as Hardy. I also have death certificates for Minnie and three of her siblings. Three of those death certificates list parents as William Holt and Ann Hardy. But one lists Ann's maiden name as either Bower or Borver (it's hard to read). I read it as Bower. Maybe that was either her real maiden name or the husband's name in a first marriage. Odds are it was just a mistaken name but I thought I should point it out.
Since somebody brought up the idea of William and Ann's marriage being a second one for Ann, I'll add a fact which I previously gave no credibility. I have obituaries for both William and Ann in which her maiden name is listed as Hardy. I also have death certificates for Minnie and three of her siblings. Three of those death certificates list parents as William Holt and Ann Hardy. But one lists Ann's maiden name as either Bower or Borver (it's hard to read). I read it as Bower. Maybe that was either her real maiden name or the husband's name in a first marriage. Odds are it was just a mistaken name but I thought I should point it out.