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Hi all

Can anyone help me please?
I have an ancestor (Kate Giddings/Giddings) on the 1881 census as an inmate at London Female Penitentiary, Pentonville, This is NOT Pentonville prison, and appears to be a charity building for fallen women of sorts. However, searches on Ancestry and FindMyPast want to search prison records - which is isn’t, but it also isn’t an asylum or a hospital.
Kate then appears in Staffordshire getting married in 1884. I’m trying to find the discharge records so that I can find out when and why she went to Staffordshire.
Previous to this she was in an industrial school in London, put their by her grandmother, with the statement that her parents had deserted. No name for the grandmother or the parents. And I do feel like her surname wasn’t the name she was given at birth. I can’t find a birth record for her, but it should be sometime around 1860.
I have all of the information from her marriage onwards.
Any help would be amazing,
Thanks in advance
Lisa

Is there anyone kind enough to find an obituary for me please?

David J Brookes
died 3rd Jan 1996 age 53 in Arizona


I think this is the person I am looking for, but aren't sure. I don't know who his parents were but know he had 3 children Paul, Stephen and Elizabeth.  I'm not trying to find any living people, but I want to just find out where and when he died. I've been given his name, year of death and Arizona!

If anyone can shed any light, or tell me where to find this info, I'd be very, very greatful

Lisa

Was Herbert under 21 in 1894?

Yes! I've only just spotted that!And Mary was 26!

Hi everyone!
Hope all is well with you, wherever you are!

I have found an entry of Banns readings in Hanmer, Shropshire for Herbert Carr and Mary Butterton.
The 3 dates entered are Dec 16th, Dec 23rd and Dec 30th 1894.
However, the third date is not signed and written diagonally across it is:
"Forbidden by John Carr father of Herbert Carr ?? at Threapwood. H.H."  (H.H. are the vicars initials)
Can anyone read what the word before "at Threapwood" says?
Herbert and Mary did get married later in 1895 but I can't find any parish records for them.

thanks!

Hi everyone

I'm trying to find out information on
Susanna Illston/Ilston/Illstone

Born 1798 in Sharnford, baptised on 20th Jan 1799 daughter of Jno and Elizabeth Illston

Mother of William Illstone, born 1820 in Sharnford.  No father on baptism entry.

I can't find anything else other than those 2 bits of information.  William states later on his marriage certificate that his father was Allen Sanders/Saunders. I can find him, but only as a widower and haven't established yet who his wife was.  But I don't think it was Susanna.

Any help would be gratefully received!!

Many thanks!

Lisa