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I have a certificate for a marriage in 1859 in Cheshire. Because of a number of questions about the groom’s life before this (and afterwards, at various times) and the lack of any records that match the details on the marriage certificate, I’ve been wondering if he was who he said he was. Does anyone know what sort of checks – if any – were done of a person’s details before they got married in those days? Would it have been possible for a man with a trade to start calling himself a totally different name?

Any views on this would be welcome (although I don't know where my searching would go from here if identity changes were easy).

Thank you

Jojosam

Hello all

Thought I'd use this thread to add my thanks to the techo people who organise the Rootschat site. I've had no problems navigating it and have urged our IT people to look at it for ideas about  how to improve parts of our intranet here at work .

I really like the wealth of links and information that can be accessed from the home page. That's a real advantage for people with s-l-o-o-o-w dialups - we don't have to go to a pile of different pages to find the link we want.

The search engine is really handy - I do a couple of different surname searches (some with another limiting word) every so often to turn up posts that I've missed on the 'unread posts since last visit' board - another good feature of the site - or that disappear because the connection dies while I'm on the site and I lose the list. 

I know there are more functions that I haven't found or used and one day I will get to them. But at the moment I'm still too eager to read the posts - so thanks also to all of you whose posts make this such a great site. 

Jojosam

Excellent!   Thank you Joe and Karenlee. Your information throws up some totally new information.

Do you think I'm safe in assuming that Robert's 1871 birthplace info was wrong? Please don't tell me they are more likely to be two different families - although I am wondering where Margaret (my g-g-grandmother) was in 1871. And now I've just realised that the marriage I found can't be right if the two families are the same.

Oh well - another branch with some more puzzling out to do. I think I must have had some of the information wrong.

Jojosam

Thank you Mike and Prue for your swift responses.

I suppose I was expecting the advice that the damage can't be repaired - but I will take on board the advice for storing the photos and hopefully stop any more from going the same way. They were all in

I also want to learn to use the image software that is just sitting on my computer and scanning and restoring my photos is a very good reason. The work on this board gives me something to aspire to.

Thanks again.

Hello Peter (and Kirkham rels and anyone else who might be reading this) 

Unfortunately I haven't been able to come up with anything more to shed any light on Isaac/William and his forebears.

At the time of his marriage in September 1859 he was called Isaac Kirkham, was 28 years old and was living in Preston. But he was born in Macclesfield (although we don't know if he grew up there) so when did he move?   

Mulling over the information now available (most of it obtained by Peter), I've realised that we still don't know where Isaac was during the 1851 and 1841 censuses. Those details might give some clues to his background - I've been doing some chasing up on the assumption that the James Kirkham born in Hartington was his father. I'm also more than a little convinced that Isaac, for some reason, was using an alias in the 1861 census. 

Are you (or anyone else) able to start tracking that 1841 and 1851 census information please? Or point me in the right direction to get to it myself? Of course Isaac might have been in Preston (or somewhere completely different) then but I suppose there is no reason not to start in Cheshire, and we can assume he was probably a butcher of some sort in 1851 and maybe a scholar or apprentice in 1841.

Hoping you can come through (yet again).

Jojosam