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I believe that Jonathan Hall and Mary Makepeace are probably my 4x great grandparents, their daughter Eleanor being my 3x great grandmother. Eleanor married William Ward in Lanchester in 1805. As Boo has suggested it is worth looking at the children of Thomas/ Dorothy. In my line's case one piece of useful evidence is that there appears to be a naming pattern going on - eldest son of William and Eleanor called Jonathan and second daughter named Mary.

I do understand your difficulty. In my own case I do not feel I can go further back than Jonathan Hall and Mary Makepeace with any degree of certainty.

William

Here is a link to the article about the funeral of Alice Edge. It is  the first article and is titled "Funeral of Miss A Edge". You would need to register  with the British Newspaper Archive to read it in full.

( I found it by searching for Alice Edge and then using the filters to narrow the search down to 13 Jan 1966).

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1966-01-13/1966-01-13?basicsearch=alice%20edge&somesearch=alice%20edge&retrievecountrycounts=false

William

This may be worth checking out.

There is a death for an Alice Edge 31 Dec 1965 in Nantwich. The death was registered in the first quarter of 1966.

Not only did she leave a will but there is a report of her funeral in the Nantwich Chronicle of 13 Jan 1966. This names many family members who you may recognise.

" The funeral took place at All Saints Cemetery, Nantwich on Wednesday of last week of Miss Alice Edge, aged 76, of 23 Pratchett's Row Nantwich, who died the previous Friday".

You can register for the British Newspaper Archive and , I believe, obtain 3 free articles.

William

Family Search has a new set of transcriptions re Scottish Civil Registration.

Here is the marriage of Helen Tew which names her parents:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSSG-DJNS?lang=en.


And here is the marriage of Sophia Tew:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3J-BY5K?lang=en.

The problem with these particular transcriptions is that while Helen's father is named as Thomas for Sophia her father is showing as William. Also Helen's transcription has her mother's maiden name as Key while Sophia's has Rye. This perhaps emphasises how useful it would be to look at the originals on Scotland's People!

William

I suspect his mother was actually Jane Ann.

I would suggest you look for the parents of John Hogg who married Mary Ann Smith. In the 1881 and 1891 census there is a grand daughter Jane A living with them. There is no birth reg for a Jane Ann Hogg in Hexham RD in 1877 but there is a reg for a Jane Ann Smith with no mother's name recorded.

Look for a marriage for a Jane Ann Hogg to Ernest Stobbs in 1924 Newcastle in 1924 ( you should be able to find them in the 1921 census unofficially married). You should also be able to find her in the 1939 register with her mother which will give you her date of birth.

William