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Woodofchester - Sorry I didn't pick up you post sooner.  I haven't got a Peter Wood on my tree and cannot see a baptism circa 1796 in Tarporley on Ancestry, FindMyPast or FamilySearch, unless I'm missing something.  You go on to say you have a Daniel, son of Daniel Craven but you don't give any dates or indication which one was the father of Peter Wood.  It all sounds very interesting, but to link anything you have with my Craven Tree would need more data.

Boo

Thanks for your two comments.  In her Will Elizabeth goes  on to ask her executors to sell her real estate as soon as possible after her demise so I was really looking for the house before she inherited her share off her brother Joseph

I've checked my tree and have no David Todd listed as a relative - yet!


I'm hoping to visit the library next week so will see if I can find anything on FindMyPast.  Meanwhile, thanks again for your input.


Ken

        I have the Will of my maternal great great grandfather, Joseph Todd (1821-1892) written in 1891 when he says “I hereby give and bequeath unto my sister Elizabeth Hinchliffe all my share and interest in the property situated at Chester le Street in the County of Durham for her sole use during her life….”
   In his widowed sister Elizabeth Hincliffe’s (1823-1894) Will of 1894 she doesn’t refer to the property except by saying “ my real and personal estate...”
   Joseph and Elizabeth’s father was another Joseph (circa 1788-1851) an excise officer who had lived in Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire and Lancashire, dying in Manchester, but I have not been able to locate a will.  Neither have I found any direct link with Chester-le-Street.  Except that a possible near relative of Joseph’s, Thomas Todd (circa 1784-1847), another excise officer, married Ann Burrell in Chester-le-Street in 1812 – the groom of Shiney Row, Houghton-le-Spring and the bride of 'this Parish'.  Thomas died in Salford, Greater Manchester but again no trace of a will but his widow, in the 1851 census, describes herself as “proprietor of houses”.  Again no will.

I wondered if the voting registers for Chester-le-Street for the period my ancestors held property there would show Todds or Hiinchcliffes having a right to vote there but that their abode was in Manchester?  If so, are there registers on-line?

A long shot I know, but I would like to know more about the County Durham connection.  Thanks in anticipation.

Finally got a copy of the death certificate of the Daniel who died in 1848 and it is definitely my ancestor as the informant was Thomas Craven of Marton, which was his son.  So I suppose his name was just left on the electoral register for a couple of years after until the list was updated.
Many thanks everyone for your input on this one.
Regards
Ken

Just to point out that Martha was buried in Nantwich on 5 July 1847, aged 30.  Abode given as Union Workhouse, from township of Eaton.  But I can't see anything, in the available Workhouse records, for Martha.

Thanks BumbleB. Added info to my tree.