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The Lighter Side / An Interesting 'Occupation'!
« on: Friday 29 September 06 11:33 BST (UK)  »
I have just found an 'occupation' in a census entry which made me smile.  The husband is 74 years old and the wife 20 years younger;  she was a corset maker (so was probably quite straight laced) and pretty fed up when the enumerator asked her "What does he do?"  I can just imagine this woman saying "Huh!  He gets coal in"! 

Any others?

Jill

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Completed Census Requests / 1841 Census - Robert DAYBILL - COMPLETED
« on: Sunday 26 March 06 15:08 BST (UK)  »
Robert Daybill was a Tailor, born in Newark, Notts. about 1811.  I suspect he had three wives in total, the first two probably died in childbirth in Newark.   By 1851 Robert is in Birmingham and married to Eliza who was born in Birmingham, but so far I haven't been able to trace a reference for this marriage.   The 1841 census may help me to narrow down the dates and I would be very grateful for any help.

Many thanks.

Jill

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The Common Room / Breast Cancer.....in 1807?
« on: Monday 20 March 06 21:42 GMT (UK)  »
At the Archives this afternoon I was checking an 1807 burial register and came across 'one of mine' where at the side of the usual name and date was written "Cancer breast".   Thinking my eyes were deceiving me I asked a member of the Archives staff to take a look and he agreed with me, but just to be sure we asked his colleague to also give an opinion.   All three of us agreed it definitely looked like "Cancer breast", but we also agreed that it was unlikely to be what today would be called cancer of the breast and we wondered if it might mean 'canker'.

Any comments, definitions, explanations etc. would be interesting!

Jill

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Armed Forces / Chelsea Pensioner
« on: Tuesday 31 January 06 18:29 GMT (UK)  »
This one is niggling at me and it probably isn't one of mine anyway...but

On the 1861 census I have found a man whose occupation is shown as Chelsea Pensioner.   He is age 62 and (if he is the right man) 10 years previously he was a Framework Knitter in Nottingham, living with his wife and family as you would expect.

My knowledge of what would be required to qualify as a Chelsea Pensioner is nil.   My guess would be that one had to have served in the army or navy, been wounded and sent to the Chelsea Hospital.

Is it possible that a man in his 50's would go to war?  I suppose if he did it would be to the Crimea.

The other odd thing abut this is that in 1861 he was back in Nottingham in lodgings, and his wife and daughter lived just round the corner so to speak.   Both he and his wife describe themselves as married.   The wife died 3 years later in New Zealand where one of their daughters had emigrated, but his death (if it is the right one) was in Chelsea at the age of 74.

Any views would be interesting.

Jill





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US Lookup Requests / Edmund Davill to USA
« on: Thursday 17 November 05 13:08 GMT (UK)  »
Edmund Davill (numerous spelling variants) emigrated to the USA sometime between 30 March 1851 and 1856.  He was born in Granby, Nottingham in April 1829 and died age 33 in 1861 in Lowell, Michegan.   He is believed to have been a Captain in the Army.

I would like to find out more about his journey to America, i.e. date,  ports of departure and arrival and which ship he travelled on. 

Any help or information would be greatly appreciated.

Jill

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The Common Room / Can you guess who this is?
« on: Monday 31 October 05 13:57 GMT (UK)  »
I have no idea who the marriage witness on the top line is.  Can anyone read it please?

Jill

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Durham Lookup Requests / Rachel Farrar - Help please!
« on: Saturday 29 October 05 12:35 BST (UK)  »
Rachel Farrar was my husband's 3 x g. grandmother.   She gives her place of birth on both the 1851 and 1861 censuses as Darlington, Durham and appears to have been born about 1789.  She married in Leeds in 1807 and spent the rest of her life there.

The IGI does not help.  The only possibility is the daughter of Daniel Farrar who was baptised at St. Peter's, Leeds in 1784 - 5 years before Rachel was born (her age is consistent on both censuses),  but who I have thought for 3 years was 'my' Rachel!

Can anyone offer any help at all to track her down please?  I cannot get to Darlington to search records there.

Many thanks.

Jill

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / 1851 Census - Sarah Ellis
« on: Monday 17 October 05 14:07 BST (UK)  »
Sarah Ellis married Joseph Jowett on 8th September 1855 in Leeds.   He was a widower (his first wife was Ann Ellis who died of consumption in 1853) and Sarah states on the marriage certificate that she was a spinster, but  living with Joseph & Sarah on the 1861 census is Walter Ellis, age 16, stepson to Joseph and presumably Sarah's son.   

I have been trying for a long time to establish a) whether Sarah & Ann were sisters, and/or b) whether Sarah was previously married.

Sarah's father was David Ellis, occupation given as Slubber, and a witness at the marriage was Eliza Ellis.  On all later censuses Sarah gives her place of birth as Leeds, except on the 1891 where it definitely says 'Yorkshire' but doesn't look like Leeds!  It is so faded I cannot read it!  (RG12/3707/122/1)

Hopefully the 1851 census will find Sarah and Walter, and, with any luck, some other family members!

Many thanks.

Jill

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Warwickshire Lookup Requests / Perry Girls of Aston
« on: Thursday 13 October 05 15:53 BST (UK)  »
I was always told that my grandmother was one of 13 girls, amongst which there were 2 sets of twins.   One set of twins were named Nancy and Nellie and they must have survived infancy because they wore ribbons in their hair to identify them - they were apparently known in the family as 'Nancy Brown' and 'Nellie Blue'.

Their parents were Benjamin & Maria Perry, who were married in 1876 in Dudley.   I have so far managed to trace:

Maria - born about 1877 in Worcestershire (presumably Dudley)
Annie - born about 1879 ditto
Sarah A. - born about 1880 in Birmingham (presumably Aston)
Patience - born 18th January 1883 ditto - my grandmother.
Martha - born about 1887 - ditto
Ellen - born about 1890  - ditto
Selina - born about 1892 - ditto
Clara - born about 1895 - ditto
Edith - born about 1899 - ditto.

Looking at the spread of years between all these births there is an obvious gap between Patience and Martha and another gap between Clara & Edith (although I was always told these were the two youngest).  My guess would be that one set of twins were born around 1885.

There are four girls missing from the 13, i.e. the two sets of twins - and I only know the names Nancy & Nellie.   Even so, I have been unable to find matching births for them.
 
If anyone has access to any information which would pinpoint these girls, I would be most grateful to receive it.

Many thanks.

Jill


 

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