Hi to all you great people who have been so helpful.
I apologise profusely for not replying straight away --unfortunately present day family concerns intervened.
Springbok -- The family I am researching has only a brief window in the Bulwell area and there is only one guy with the surname which is ANGUS. First name is HENRY.
He turns up out of the blue in 1785 when he marries an ELIZABETH OLDHAM.
No birth or family for him in the area.
I know they have three children in Bulwell, the last in 1789 and the next thing I know of them, with a twelve year gap, is when they have more children up in Carlisle beginning in 1801.
Other kind folk have found me the marriage and baptisms at Bulwell, which I was able to see for myself in July, but it seems nothing more is about in parish records etc.
Obviously I am
dying to know where Henry came from, what he was doing there, and when and why he left.
Maybe it is time I started looking at the Oldhams, as I believe they are a local family and were probably in the area longer!
I thank you for your interest and encouragement.
Hi to Jane too,
Again I am grateful to you for your always valuable input. I have printed off what you told me before from the book on old Nottingham suburbs. Good stuff.I wish I had had more time in Nottingham to do more myself but I have to change trains three times to get there from where I stay..It take longer than it takes to get to England from Turkey!!
I wonder if I can get a copy of that book from somewhere, sounds like a good read.
BMDs and census would be a bit late for my time period, worse luck, though I am grateful for the kind offer. I hear that there are some workhouse orphans from London, brought up to work in the mills , who are buried in Bulwell churchyard, does anyone know anything about them?
Hello custard pot,
Maybe your Gents knew my Henry, who knows?
Have you any idea what they did for a living in the 1780's? I have a theory Henry worked in the cotton mills as he was a calico printer up in Carlisle. A shame there are no censuses for that time period...
I thought if I had some idea of what went on in the village in those days I could get a better idea. Perhaps there are some enlightening family legends you know!
Bill, and all of you. thanks for the links.
You have given me plenty to get my teeth into. I shall also be taking notes of things to do on my next trip to Nottingham, next July!
all the best
Jane
