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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Liverpool Mercury Lookup
« on: Tuesday 01 December 09 06:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I wrote to the Crosby Library about obits for my family, and they were extremely helpful - and quick, too!

email:  crosby.library@leisure.sefton.gov.uk

Arkay


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Caernarvonshire / Re: Marriage Patronymics 1850s Llanddeiniolen
« on: Friday 20 November 09 18:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Baslow,

Sorry, no.  My Whittakers all lived in Liverpool and Great Crosby in the 1870's.

Good luck!

Arkay

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Armed Forces / Re: Waterloo ancestors
« on: Friday 23 October 09 01:59 BST (UK)  »
Hi Thoyts, and welcome to Rootschat!  Thank you for the additional info about Captain Thoyts and his troop, which I will now print out and add to my files.

Regards,
Arkay

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Armed Forces / Re: Waterloo ancestors
« on: Friday 09 October 09 22:38 BST (UK)  »
Don't worry, Martin.  At least I now know the approximate number in his troop, how many were killed or missing and that they were called the "Blues", which is more than I knew before!

Thank you.

Arkay

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Armed Forces / Re: Waterloo ancestors
« on: Friday 09 October 09 20:16 BST (UK)  »
Hi Martin,

Joseph Bastow (b. 1789, Yorkshire) was a Private in the Household Cavalry Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, serving in Captain J. Thoyt's Troop at the Battle of Waterloo.  When he retired, he converted a few houses in Meltham, Yorks into a public house called "The Life Guardsman".  He was also a boot and shoemaker.  He was married to Hannah Wilson and later to Martha Pearson and had 15 children in total (how did he have the time or energy!!).

Do you have any further info about him (dates, etc.)?

Arkay

60
Occupation Interests / Re: Hunstmen
« on: Sunday 27 September 09 05:57 BST (UK)  »
Thanks OR, Stan and Steve.  I shall try to imagine him dressed in hunting pink with horse and hounds, and try not to think about his quarry - I love animals!

Tally-ho!

Arkay

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Occupation Interests / Hunstmen
« on: Friday 25 September 09 06:23 BST (UK)  »
Hello All,

An ancestor of mine was a "Huntsman" in Liverpool (!) in the mid-1700's and I was wondering what exactly he would have done.  Would he have been an employee on an estate or working on his own?  Did he "ride to hounds" or hunt vermin on farms?  Can't find the occupation listed on any websites.  Does anybody know?

Arkay

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Almondbury Baptisms & Marriages - RILEY
« on: Friday 11 September 09 08:44 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for looking, Claire.  At least I now know the church they were married in. 

Arkay

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Almondbury Baptisms & Marriages - RILEY
« on: Wednesday 09 September 09 06:57 BST (UK)  »
My gg-grandmother Mary Riley's 1843 marriage cert shows that her father THOMAS RILEY was a tailor in Almondbury.  (I think he may have died before that, though, because he doesn't appear on the 1841 census.)

I am trying to find Thomas's baptism - I believe he was born in the 1770's.   As he and several of his sons were tailors, perhaps his father was, too.

The IGI shows the marriage of a Thomas Riley to a Mary Brook in Huddersfield on 7 Oct 1799.  It also shows the baptism of 8 children of Thomas and Mary at High St Chapel Methodist New Connexion, Huddersfield, but they say they were born in Almondbury or Crosland Moor on the censuses.  They were: Sarah (1803), Thomas (1805), Richard (1807), Rowland (1808), Samuel B (1810), Matilda (1813), MARY (1814) and Hannah (1817).  However, the oldest child, Elizabeth, was baptised in 1800 "near Lockwood". 

If anyone can find out anything about my Rileys I would be extremely grateful!

Arkay


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