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Hi Emily

Thanks for getting in touch - it's always great to find someone else researching the same family. I am descended from Henry Gainford and Martha Guest through their son Joseph, his son Isaac and his daughter Hannah, my great grandmother.

I did eventually find some information about Fanny Bradley nee Gainford that confirms the story outlined above.
I had an email conversation with a very helpful lady from the Yukon Archives who found the following -

"In the reference material researched and compiled by Star and Ed Jones titled "Hillside Public Cemetery, Oct. 26, 1898-1984"  there is listed 'Bradley, Fanny, age 30 and Bradley (baby)' , with November 18, 1899 as their date of death. The Hillside Cemetery, also known in the past as Evergreen, was Dawson's second public cemetery.  The listing was compiled by the Joneses over many years and from many sources. Those graves that had readable markers are noted - neither of the Bradley graves did. I checked the St. Mary's Hospital death records for that date, and there was no entry. This is not unusual, since most women would have given birth at home. Neither are they listed in the mortuary records in our holdings. Unfortunately, the microfilmed newspapers we hold of this time period are too faded to read."

And also this, but doesn't know the source, possibly church records -

Bradley, Fannie   
30 yrs.   
Female   
Cumberland County, England   
Protestant      
1869   
1899/11/18   
[Cause of death] Natural      
[Details] Childbirth   
Hillside      
Widower, William Bradley   
2001  No marker located.         
AFR #38; see Bradley (child)    "Funeral November 22, Rev. H.A. Naylor. Infant died same day."   
   
Bradley      
6 days   
Male   
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada         
1899/11/12   
1899/11/18   
Natural      
Hillside      
Father, William Bradley   
2001  No marker located.         
AFR #39; see Fannie Bradley   "Rev. H.A. Naylor. See Fannie Bradley. Mother died same day."

A sad story but not too unusual I guess

Hilary

Hi Ray

Yes, I'm still around although haven't logged in for a while.

Glad you were able to find the photo. As is the case many times when you inherit a box of family photos with nothing written on them, it's really frustrating. I was very appreciative of the help given here in solving this particular puzzle.

Good luck with your searches

Hilary

Hi

What a generous offer.

I would be very interested in the information on Peter Banks.

My grandmother's maternal line were the Banks family from Maryport and quite a few were tailors/upholsterers, back as far as Jonathan Banks born about 1780.

Many thanks
Hilary

Many thanks Rockofages - I think you may have identified them.

I do have an Edward Marson on my tree. He was a first cousin to my Gran, his mother being Rachel Ann Plaxton. In which case the other policeman would be William Warcup - must have been a colleague, not a relative as far as I know.

I have found an Edward Marson in the 1911 census in Hull who would be the right age, so I will put him on the list of ones to get.

The George Plaxton is also on my tree - my Gran's uncle. He can't have been a policeman for long, as he was a servant in the 1871 census, a policeman when he married in 1878 and a general labourer in the 1881 census, then later becoming a railway signalman.

Thank you so much for sorting a long lasting family mystery

Hilary