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Thanks to all who have responded, much appreciated. A few more marriages to add to my original post.

Annie Affleck married Richard Crompton 1919 Salford
Thomas Affleck married Jane Chadwick 1902 Hulme
William Affleck married Amy Amelia Merrick 1923 Collyhurst, lived in Oldham

The Manchester and Salford Family History Forum has been really useful, thank you.

Interested in the possible link to Affleck & Brown, will see how to follow up.

Again many thanks all.

David (in Aberdeen) 

Interested to hear from anyone connected to Thomas Fleck (Affleck) and Eliza Donaldson who married in Kilwinning Ayrshire in 1867, before moving to England and settling around Salford, Lancashire. Thomas was the son Alexander Fleck and Mary Speirs who married in West Kilbride, Ayrshire in 1843.

Sometime after they moved south they changed their name to Affleck, and some of their subsequent children were born with that name.

Known children of Thomas and Eliza are: -

Jeanie Donaldson Fleck/Affleck born Kilwinning 1867, Dressmaker, married Peter Aldred
Alexander Fleck/Affleck born Kilwinning 1869 Clerk
Thomas Fleck/Affleck born Kilwinning 1871, married Jane…. Dress Cutter
John Fleck/Affleck born Glasgow 1873 Dress Warehouseman
Maggie Carruthers Fleck/Affleck born Bideford, Devon 1876, Dressmaker, married Samuel Thomas Garside
Mary Speirs Fleck/Affleck born Bideford, Devon 1877, married Augustine Finlay
James S Fleck, born Kilwinning 1880
William Affleck, born Manchester 1881, Clerk Cotton Mills
David Kennedy Affleck, born Manchester, Lancashire 1883, Clerk Coal Merchant
Elizabeth Affleck, born Manchester, Lancashire 1883
Annie Affleck, born Salford, Lancashire 1887, Tailoress
Herbert Affleck, born Salford, Lancashire 1888

Look forward to hearing.

David

Thank you for your help. It is much appreciated. Yes, my mother too was very hesitant to share details about her family and could not understand the interest in it.

I think the valuation roll for Mrs Catherine Coulter is one of mine. I believe she was the widow of David Coulter, a Grand uncle. I had not seen this source before so have now found quite a few close family on the rolls.

Do let me know if I can help with any of your research on the Scottish side. Thanks again.

 

Hello Victor

Many thanks for your assistance in trying to solve this mystery.

Since placing the message I have found a few other bits of info, and heard of a tapestry sampler in the extended family, which lead me to believe my ancestor may have been named Hester or Esther Hensley Shortland.

I also believe its very plausible her parents were a William Shortland and a Hester something. In 1851 a Hester Shortland, aged 83, Annuitant is staying with daughter Mathilda Shortland aged 57, Grocer,  at (known as) 45 Malbro St, St James, Bristol. Hester Shortland died in Bristol in 1855. From IGI I found Matilda Shortland was Christened 10th June 1794 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire to a William Shortland and Hester.......She had a brother William also born in Cirencester and christened there on 3rd May 1795. I have also established that another sibling Benjamin Hensley Shortland was born in Marshfield Gloucester around 1805. Benjamin Hensley Shortland, married Sarah Elly and died in Warrington, Cheshire in 1855.  Matilda Shortland died in Belper, Derbyshire in 1874.

Following this line I found that a Hester Hensley Shortland, widow aged 60, born Gloucester, appears in the 1851 census, living at 4 Bridgewater Court, St Giles, Cripplegate, London (however Ancestry has transcribed it as "Hester Heathy Shorttrad"). Ages etc tie in well, and it could be she reverted to her maiden name after James Sellwood's death? 

However I am no closer to finding a marriage for James Sellwood and Hester/Esther. Sellwood of course has a lot of variations (Selwood, Sellard, Sellerd, Sellhard etc) and Shortland just as many (Shirtland, Shartland, Sharland, Hartland, Harland etc)

Once again, I most appreciate your assistance, best wishes