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The Common Room / Re: Interesting history needs help!
« on: Saturday 04 February 23 11:48 GMT (UK)  »
Coming to this very late, but if it's still of interest I have information on the captain Alexander Ellis. He was the youngest of three brothers who were all master mariners - I'm descended from his brother Robert (1816-95).
They were born in North Leith; their parents were Robert Ellis, a plasterer, and Chirsty Mackenzie, daughter of Donald Mackenzie (d 1801) who farmed at Morangie - now the site of the whisky distillery of Glenmorangie.
Andrew (b 1 Mar 1815) and Alexander (b 2 Feb 1823 (not 1824 as it says on his Master's Cert.)) are both in ..
1858 - Directory for Nort'd North Shields lists
Ellis Andrew, master mariner, 27 Nile Street
Ellis Alexander, master mariner, 87 Norfolk Street
but I haven't found any later trace of Andrew, so perhaps he died soon after or emigrated  ??
I haven't found a marriage for him either; I have some details of Robert and Alexander's families.

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Cumberland Resources & Offers / Re: LINK: Cumberland Church Records
« on: Monday 03 February 20 18:43 GMT (UK)  »
@ Graham Simons

Many thanks, that is helpful.  However, I think one still has to search among each parish's links to see which if any give full transcriptions.  And transcription in Cumberland looks to be at that awkward stage where quite a few, but well less than half, are available.  E.g. with your help I've just searched Lamplugh successfully, but other local parishes, esp. Lorton and Loweswater, don't seem to have been done yet ;-(

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Loweswater Parish Registers - WOOD family in 1720s
« on: Sunday 02 February 20 22:39 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to find out if the following belong to the WOOD family of Low House, Brackenthwaite, so would like to know if any of their Parish Register entries (a marriage and four christenings) give their residence:

John Wood / Mary Dickinson, m 3 Jul 1726 Loweswater
   (John is probably the son John of William Wood of Low House born in 1704)
-> likely children
Rachel Wood - c 20 Jul 1727   Lowes-Water
   (m 9 May 1751 Lorton  to Samuel Norman)
Sarah Wood - c 20 Jul 1727   LOWESWATER
Deborah Wood - c 30 Oct 1731   LOWESWATER
   (m 9 Jun 1755 Loweswater  William Hodgshon)
John Wood - c 5 Jun 1737   LOWESWATER

Also, just in case you spot him, I'm trying to find the christening of Jonathan Wood who owned Low House in the 1770s - he could be another child of this marriage.

I'll be grateful for any help

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Cumberland Resources & Offers / Re: LINK: Cumberland Church Records
« on: Sunday 02 February 20 22:23 GMT (UK)  »
I've just posted the following on the Crosthwaite Registers request thread, but I hope it's also useful here.  Noting that this thread is quite old (goes back to 2004), can anyone give a general catchup on which parish registers in Cumberland have been transcribed, either printed or (better!) avialable online like the Crosthwaite ones?

Further to my request of a few years back, I've recently discovered that the full transcripts of the I've Crosthwaite Registers 1562-1812 are now available free online on familysearch.org . Just use the Search drop-down menu to search for a Book, and search for "Registers of Crosthwaite".  They are in 4 volumes (printed in around 1930), with Indexes for both Names and Places, and you can either read them online or even download them to your own computer to browse at leisure.  The transcriptions look very carefully done, so though I suppose there could be a few cases in which you'd want to check with a film of the original registers - or even the original register itself, generally they are much easier to use than the originals.

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Cumberland Resources & Offers / Re: Offer: Crosthwaite parish register transcripts
« on: Sunday 02 February 20 22:15 GMT (UK)  »
Further to my request of a few years back, I've recently discovered that the full transcripts of the Crosthwaite Registers 1562-1812 are now available free online on familysearch.org . Just use the Search drop-down menu to search for a Book, and search for "Registers of Crosthwaite".  They are in 4 volumes (printed in around 1930), with Indexes for both Names and Places, and you can either read them online or even download them to your own computer to browse at leisure.  The transcriptions look very carefully done, so though I suppose there could be a few cases in which you'd want to check with a film of the original registers - or even the original register itself, generally they are much easier to use than the originals.

So my new question is: does anyone know of an easy way to find out which parish registers have been transcribed and printed in this way?

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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Barham baptism 1804 lookup request
« on: Tuesday 08 January 19 12:45 GMT (UK)  »
I do subscribe to Ancestry currently, so if there's anything you want me to check let me know.
And I do use scotlndspeople occasionally, though I don't like it's payments through credits system, and its transcriptions of names are often very poor - I think they must be done by non UK natives. And I find Familysearch much more difficult to use since they `improved' it a few years ago - but the quality of those old transcriptions is so much better than Scotlandspeople!

The army service sheet for William Austin states clearly that he was born in Glasgow on 10 Feb 1790, so I'll try to look at the corresponding microfiche at the Sc Gen Soc in Edinburgh when I'm next that way.  If his parents are Robert & Henrietta they were cutting it fine, having only been married on 30 Aug 1789 (acc. Ancestry tree).

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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Barham baptism 1804 lookup request
« on: Tuesday 08 January 19 08:33 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry, I should have reported that I found the original item requested under this thread some time ago.  The entry reads

Susannah Sophia Daughr. of James Austin, Sutler to the first Regt. of Foot Guards & Sophia his Wife Septemr. 2nd

The Christening register page is interesting, showing first, over 18 Sundays from 10 April to 12 August, ten christenings, so about one per fortnight, with no parental occupation given, presumably all permanent inhabitants of the parish; then there are 7 on 19 August, 2 on 26th, 3 on 2 September, so 12 in just 3 weeks; of these, the first on 2 Sept has no occupation given, so presumably a local, and the other 11 have army fathers (8 from 18th Regiment, 1 from 53rd, and 2 from the 1st Regt of Foot Guards).  The army was clearly a recent arrival - it was stationed at Barham against the threat of invasion by Napoleon, who inspected his army at Boulogne on 15 August.

Finding James's occupation was very useful, as it led into his later career, ending as club keeper at the Guards Club from which he retired in 1822.  I still know nothing definite about him from before 1804 or after 1822 - possibly 1827 as he's likely to be the Jas Austin witness at Susanna Sophia's wedding.

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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Barham baptism 1804 lookup request
« on: Monday 07 January 19 23:32 GMT (UK)  »
Haven't got further with James Austin's origins, tho' have filled out his career.  From in 1804 being sutler to the 1st Regiment of Foot, which was renamed the Grenadier Guards I think near the end of the Napoleonic War, he went on to be the club keeper for the Guards' Club at 49 St James's St, from shortly after the club was formed in 1813 until late 1822 - I found an advert for the sale of his stock of 600 cases of fine wine on leaving the Guards Club.

This has led to a probable identification of Sophia Hill, as the daughter b 1778 of Adam Hill, who died on 6 Nov 1820 - `In Park-street, Windsor, Adam Hill, many years Mess-master to the Officers of the Brigade of Guards' [Gentleman's Magazine]. He married Mary Pring on 10 July 1776, at  St Anne, Soho
->
Anne Hill       b 4 May, c 14 May 1777           St Marylebone
Sophia Hill    b 29 (31?) Oct, c 18 Nov 1778 (?/15 Jun 1779)   St Marylebone
Mary Ann Hill    Baptism   9 Dec 1781   St Marylebone
Adam Hill    Baptism   30 Jul 1784   St Marylebone
Martha Hill    Baptism   25 Sep 1785   St Marylebone
Sarah Hill    Baptism   28 Oct 1787   St Marylebone
William Hill    Baptism   25 Feb 1789   St Marylebone
Joseph Hill    Baptism   1 Aug 1790   St Marylebone
Mary Anna Hill    b 12 Nov, c 27 Nov 1791   St Marylebone

Coming back to James Austin, I had a look at the Austin-Morris connection. It looks pretty definite that there were brother and sister William M (1808-1883) and Sidney Sophia Austin (1811-1875) who both married Austins in Ceylon, but I can't see any known or likely connection between those spouses - JA/SH's daughter Mary Ann Austin (1806-) and the military surgeon William Austin (1790-1871) - though if there isn't it's quite a coincidence!  Have you got confirmation of William Austin's birth and parentage in Glasgow? - a tree (yours?) gives his paernts as Robert Austin and Harriet/Henrietta Copeland; I can find a bit about them on familysearch, but not William's birth.

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Cornwall / Re: LIDDELL of Bodmin
« on: Sunday 16 December 18 22:33 GMT (UK)  »
One at least of James Liddell's sons - my ggggf William Liddell (1802-54) continued the interest in plants and seeds; shortly after he emigrated to Madras (1833) he became Secretary (1835-38) of the newly founded Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Madras.  References I've found online include correspondence ordering vegetable seeds and fruit or flower trees. He also corresponded with a parliamentary committee in London about the possibility of growing tea in the area (I don't think that came to anything).
 

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