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Occupation Interests / Ice cream sellers and street musicians

« on: Sunday 01 April 07 10:22 BST (UK) »

Luigi Brissolari from Genoa sold ice cream in Manchester and Liverpool in the 1860s. He was also a street musician, and his household in the 1871 census included a large number of foreign musicians. (You can read about Luigi on the Lancashire page in the thread "Ice cream sellers in Manchester and Liverpool", and about the origins of his English wife Jane Maile on the Huntingdonshire thread "George Farey Maile".)

I've heard from several other Rootschatters with similar family links, and we decided it would be a good idea to open this thread and possibly discover new information and even link some of the families.

Gill

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Armed Forces / East Lancs Territorial Army pre-WW1

« on: Monday 26 March 07 11:33 BST (UK) »

According to family legend my great-uncle Arthur John Fairey was a drummer in the East Lancs T. A. He was born in March qtr 1865 in Old Brentford, Middx, and died Mar qtr 1910 in Burnley, apparently as a result of an accident. I don't know whether this accident was connected with his TA activities or even his "day job" as a railway carter.

Is there any way I can find out about his T. A. service? A family member says she remembers an old photo, since sadly destroyed, in which he was wearing military uniform, including a bearskin on his front.

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United States of America / Thomasin Fairey - death in Kansas

« on: Friday 23 March 07 11:34 GMT (UK) »

I'm searching for a record of the death of Thomasin Fairey, also spelled in some US records as Ferry or even Perry. She emigrated to the US around 1878 along with her son William to join her daughter Rachel in Kansas.

Rachel had previously emigrated to look after the family of her sister, Rebekah Benson, who died after the birth of her fifth child. In 1878 Rachel married her sister Rebekah's widower, Thomas Benson. The family lived in Belleville, Liberty or Republic county, and I have obits for Rachel, Thomas and William, but so far have found no record of Thomasin's death. She appears in the 1880 census as Thomagin Ferry age 72 with the Benson household in Liberty, Republic, Kansas. William is there too as a farm labourer living not far away with the Driggs family and entered as William Perry.

I haven't found Thomasin on any further census records, so imagine that she died between 1880 and 1885. Is anyone able to help me, please?

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Lancashire / Coroner's inquest 1922 Burnley

« on: Thursday 22 March 07 14:39 GMT (UK) »

On 9th May 1922 Annie Cox otherwise Fairey age 83 years, widow of John Cox Journeyman Brickmaker, died at 89 Rectory Road, Burnley, of Natural Causes, namely Senile Decay and Heart Failure, certified by Arthur F Sutcliffe, Coroner for Burnley after an inquest held 10th May 1922.

Annie's maiden name was Church, and she was born in Gt Paxton, Hunts, 24th November 1839. Her first husband was Amos Fairey.

If there is anyone from the Burnley area who is able to visit the Burnley Library or Local Studies and find details of the Inquest or a newspaper report or obituary, I'd be really grateful for any additional details.

Gill

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Huntingdonshire / Parish Clerks in Spaldwick

« on: Friday 09 March 07 15:55 GMT (UK) »

Can anyone recommend a site where I can find the name of the parish clerk of Spaldwick around 1800, please? Most Historical Directories don't go back early enough for this, especially not for Hunts.

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Norfolk Lookup Requests / Norwich marriage c late 1840s

« on: Monday 26 February 07 16:04 GMT (UK) »

Looking for a marriage record for a Luigi or Lewis Brissolari in the late 1840s in Norwich. I don't know the bride's name definitely, but there is an off-chance it could be Jane. Variations in spelling include Bripolari, Brassolere, Brissellauri, etc. Luigi was born in Genoa, Italy, and later had jobs as a street musician or ice cream seller.

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Lancashire / Ice cream sellers in Manchester & Liverpool

« on: Wednesday 14 February 07 09:28 GMT (UK) »

I'm aware that some of the Italian families who sold ice cream in Manchester have good websites, but I can't find a reference to the family of Lewis or Luigi Brissolari, born in Genoa c 1823. He married an English girl, Jane Creamer Maile in Manchester in 1862, and had the following children:

Mary Anne b Norwich c1857(possibly from an earlier marriage), John b Birmingham? c1859, Louisa c1865 and Theresa c1868, both born Liverpool.

The family had moved to Liverpool by 1871 (recorded as Bripolari), and the trail seems to run cold then, with just Theresa (Brissolri) turning up in 1881 in Blackburn and Louisa (Brissoleri) in W Derby, then Theresa again in 1891 in Lancs. Mary Anne married David Albericus in Liverpool in 1874. I have Luigi, Jane and family and a large number of foreign lodgers on the 1871, but can't trace him before or after that.

Can anyone help, please?

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Scotland / Looking for Faireys

« on: Thursday 11 January 07 20:53 GMT (UK) »

This is just a shot in the dark, but maybe someone can help solve a mystery.

There's a possibility that Fairey/Fairy/Farey, etc. families wandered down across the border and down the east coast of England, settling in the Beds, Northants, Hunts, Cambs area, maybe in the 16th or 17th century. Certainly there are families of that name recorded around that time in Scotland, with spelling variations, of course.

If you belong to a family with that name, do you have any evidence that they migrated southwards? I'd be most interested to hear about it, also to know where your oldest recorded ancestor came from. Could it be France or Ireland?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Gill

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Huntingdonshire / George Farey Maile

« on: Tuesday 02 January 07 09:55 GMT (UK) »

In 1901 George Farey Maile, widower, is living with his spinster aunt Jane Farey and her widowed sister Sarah Heckleton in Warboys. Jane and Sarah were born in Warboys c1818 and 1811 respectively.

George's birth was registered in June qtr 1839 in Huntingdon. He may possibly be the shepherd living with his wife Mary Ann in Farcett, Hunts, in 1881. I have only been able to find a marriage to an Ann Padget in 1862 on Camdex.

I already have complete census records for Jane and her sister Elizabeth, and may have found Sarah in 1881 visiting Mary Newberry in Brampton, though the age is 10 years out. Sarah (Hukelton) has moved in with Jane by 1891. Can you help me find George and Sarah in the other census records, please?