Hi All,
Again, this could also be red herring type clue, but it is 1841, Thomas Wilkinson aged 20 at Dutton Class: HO107; Piece 92; Book: 11; Civil Parish: Great Budworth; County: Cheshire; Enumeration District: 10; Folio: 7; Page: 8; Line: 4; GSU roll: 241233.
I have not ever found the "key" to linking Thomas Wilkinson to Mary Ann HUNT, just that my Dad's and two of his sisters have pencilled his name and bracketted it with comment "Hunt's Lock" 1860 and there is pencilled line to Ralph Hartley on different scribble, (prob my aunty's scribble).
I have no idea of how my Dad and siblings got that info, and I had always presumed it was only "oral" history, and they are long gone, AND their scribbles could have been made anytime between say 1950 and 1984, but most likely in 1971-1974, when I remember them spending many weekends trying to find their living relatives in Sydney NSW. I have raised the topic (Ralph and/or Sarah HARTLEY) with my cousins, but names like "Ralph" and "Sarah" do not appear in any generations of the SMITH=HUNT tree, and they did name eight of their ten NSW born children, so if there was a naming pattern, perhaps those two names ought to have cropped up at some stage!
To save everyone going back looking for those children born in NSW, they were: (- remember of course that they could belong to either John (Ellington) Smith or Mary Ann Hunt's forebears, and of course "Nellie" could be variant of either ELLEN or of ELLINGTON, or just a popular name in NSW in 1880's - there were many girls given that as their first name in those NSW times, - Ellen, Helen, Nellie etc, I have several on my maternal line in that era, all born NSW, Australia)
If there is a "naming" pattern to their children, then the following may help: Laura b 1883, Nellie b 1885, Thomas Hartley b 1886, Mary Jane b 1888, Reuben b 1890, Rebecca b 1891, Annie b 1895 and Rachel b 1897. There was an un-named daughter born and died before Laura, and an un-named son born and died November 1892.
Cheers, MA
