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The Lighter Side / Re: Disappearing Bodies!
« on: Friday 25 April 14 11:58 BST (UK)  »
Not far away as the packhorse hikes, there are loads of Emmett/Emmotts in the Nelson(MarsdenL and Burnley (Briercliffe) areas of Lancashire - and the area is close enough to Todmorden and Halifax to be worth a look.
Exactly what information do you have on him, to help us out?

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Lancashire / Re: help finding john prescott of hindleys will of 1846
« on: Friday 25 April 14 11:42 BST (UK)  »
Was he the (one of many John Prescott)s born to Edward and Mary in Hindley at the end of 1773?

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Lancashire / Re: help finding john prescott of hindleys will of 1846
« on: Friday 25 April 14 11:35 BST (UK)  »
There's nothing complicated about registering to post on the "Wiganworld" forum - and as there is at least one, as you have noticed, very long, convoluted and informative thread on there which is probably the best place to get the help you need, I suggest you try again, and post on that thread, they really are the Prescott family experts!!
It's a very complicated family, apparently, where almost nothing is as it seems.
The "Wigan History Shop" could also be a fruitful place to seek help.
I'm sure the information will be out there somewhere - do give the Wiganworld forum another go, before you write it off.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: need a nudge in the right direction.
« on: Sunday 20 April 14 16:09 BST (UK)  »
Wow! What a story .... so sorry my initial ideas were of no use. Fantastic developments, though.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: need a nudge in the right direction.
« on: Saturday 19 April 14 17:46 BST (UK)  »
Could the father have been in the Army in India? There's a Martha Patterson b 1885 Edinburgh area - close enough to Linlithgow - with grandparent Jane Halliday, and others including a William and Martha Patterson in 1891 in Midlothian. Jane had a daughter Jemima in earlier records, can't find her later, either.
I can't find an Ada Lilian anywhere yet, sorry. You could try tracing William and Martha back in earlier Scottish censuses, check out names of likely sons, see if any entered anything like Army or Trading companies or administration there, and see if that gives a likely lad to try and trace that way? Nothing else comes to mind, sorry

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I will "look up" trees on line, when hunting through and an ancestor of mine "pops up" as in someone's tree, but I'm most chary of taking information presented there as anything but a possible hint.
I'll look up things for people if I can help - but expect them to check it out themselves properly if they get the chance. I gratefully accept people doing the same for me, on the same basis. It can speed matters up.
On-line research can be a fascinating way to spend an idle hour or two - I'll drop in often for a bit - but I try to check, authenticate, re-check and then check again before accepting any hint as worth incorporating.
I'm not brilliant at deciphering old records at all, but I often think those who gobble up swatches of other people's trees are only fooling themselves, really. I've put one or two minor "inaccuracies" deliberately in mine, just in case of idiots ( they should be evident, the inaccuracies - and the idiots, of course ). My main tree is very safely on huge sheets of paper.
Having said all that, I've often thought "oh, so that is where that name came from....." and then set off to check it out!

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Those of you who have older living relatives are really lucky. I hadn't any close ones still alive when I started out - but I did have a tree drawn out in the 1940s, for the main line who lived in one place for centuries, done by a previous generation member.
When I checked it out - it was very accurate!
I have an older relative, not direct line, who did quite a bit on the same surname, and shared her work with me.
Those things helped me to get further, but on "other half's side we've absolutely no-one and nothing, it was only via grave inscriptions, an odd co-incidence of a shared birthday between me and other half's grandmother, and her unusual first name that even got us off the ground.
I must admit I check out very carefully up and down the decades when I think I've found someone who fits.
Only if I find no information contradictions as far as possible via censuses, for example, dare I even pencil them in.
I always wonder at the people who gather up records that, when you check it out, show they've sort of fitted two families together to make them fit
- or where people seem suddenly to dash from one wife, family, job and even age and birthplace, to another, then back, over different censuses.
And I have vast folders of notes, mini-trees waiting to be transplanted into their place on the main forest, charts of censuses in successive years that often help me eliminate entries that at first sound very plausible.... and card indexes ... and diagrams galore ( I tend to work visually).
At present I'm "tightening the net" around the woman who may be the mother of one of other half's ancestors.... tracing relationships, eliminating possibles one-by-one ... I'll get there, someyear!

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Thomas Hindle
« on: Thursday 17 April 14 17:21 BST (UK)  »
It's a stinker, isn't it?
However, there is a Thomas Hindle (67) as a lodger in Cleaver Street, Blackburn lancs in 1891, with birthplace entered as "Blackburn" and the person next down the list from him ( there are quite a few lodgers at the address) , a George Hemmingway, has his birthplace entered as "Leeds", and the person above him in the list, Richard Kirkham (72) has as occupation "Iron Moulder".
           - Do you think the person who filled in the form for the whole household could have got a bit muddled up, and put things on the wrong lines?
 It could be worth tracing the two other people  in earlier and later censuses, to see if their details are different there? It looks like a decent bet to me.... Happy hunting!

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Cumberland / Re: Charles Fisher marriage to Elizabeth c 1850?
« on: Thursday 17 April 14 16:58 BST (UK)  »
yes, sorry if I sounded abrupt, lizbd, I certainly didn't mean to. I know that'd settle it, either way - perhaps, but I was attempting to be fairly certain before shelling out for another non-linear certificate, and I'd be "proper cross with me'sen" if I launched in and got the wrong one on yet another Fisher! I'll eventually give in and order it, I know - and then I'll be really cross with myself! Thanks, though.

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