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Alexander Bentham b1801 Leyland
« on: Wednesday 12 December 07 15:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi, I am looking for the parents and siblings of Alexander Bentham born in village of Croston I believe 1801/2. Who married Ellen Hickam in Wigan 1820.

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Re: Alexander Bentham b1801 Leyland
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 13 December 07 17:25 GMT (UK) »
I've been trying to join Alexander on to my Benthams, also in the Mawdesley area, (some only a couple of census sheets away) but without success. His parents seem very elusive! None of the most likely churches have any Alexander Benthams mentioned at all. I wonder if the parents were religious non-conformists, as well as in their choice of names?

He seems quite insistent in giving his place of birth as Chorley, but of course he may just have been brought up there and the baptism we seek is elsewhere. The exception is 1861, when he claims to come from Parbold.

I know that Alexander was buried at St James the Great, Wrightington on 20 Mar 1877, aged 77 years.
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: Alexander Bentham b1801 Leyland
« Reply #2 on: Friday 14 December 07 10:42 GMT (UK) »
Hi Andrew, Have  found his siblings. Have you seen the record of his marriage to Ellen Hickam in Wigan 1820. I have been told by a cousin in Leeds that some of the family around the time of his birth were Roman Catholics.
          My connection to Alexander is through his son William who was my GGGrandfather who married Margery Forshaw 1848.
          Are you a relative of mine?.

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Re: Alexander Bentham b1801 Leyland
« Reply #3 on: Friday 14 December 07 13:31 GMT (UK) »
Don't know if you are a rellie or not, because neither of us can join Alexander to anyone else!
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: Alexander Bentham b1801 Leyland
« Reply #4 on: Friday 14 December 07 14:59 GMT (UK) »
Hi Andrew, Alexander was my GGGrandfather his son William was my GGrandfather and his son William was my Grandfather and my fathers name was George Robert Bentham.
                  What info have you.  Bertram.
 


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Re: Alexander Bentham b1801 Leyland
« Reply #5 on: Friday 14 December 07 15:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi EV, I do not have a death Cert. for Alexander. I could never find his death in the records.
          I do have him in the 1871 census living with his Daughter and son in law Thomas Marsden + childrenx4.
                         Census Ref. RG10/3881.
                          Wrightington
Ecclesiasticle District of. Ecclestone Old Parish with a church of Rome.
                   Where born Chorley.

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