Jean,
If you were well off you could afford to live in big house and announce your births, deaths and marriages in newspapers.
Here are a few more for you:
The Hull Packet and East Riding Times Friday, November 30, 1849.
November 17, at Darfield Church, John Watkins, Esq., of Clapham Surrey, and late of Aislaby Hall, Yorkshire, to Fanny Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Ebenezer Elliott, the celebrated corn-law rhymer, of Hargate House, near Barnsley.
This may not be your family but a previous owner of Aislaby Hall.
The Hull Packet Tuesday, June 16, 1807
Lately, Mr. John Johnson Hayes, son of –Hayes, Esq., of Aislaby Hall, near Pickering, to Miss Moon, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Moon, attorney at Bridlington.
The Hull Packet and Original Weekly Commercial, Literary and General Advertiser Tuesday September 15, 1807;
Marriages
On Saturday last, at Whitby, Mr. Francis Watkins, to Miss Christian Bogue, both of that place.
The Hull Packet and East Riding Times Friday, June 2, 1843
On the 30th ult.,at St Mary’s Whitby, by the Rev. James Andrew, Mr. J.T. English, to Sarah, second daughter of the late Francis Watkins, Esq.,of Aislaby Hall, near Whitby.
The Hull Packet and East Riding Times Friday, March 30, 1849
Deaths
March 22, at the residence of A. W. English Esq., Denmark Hill, Surrey, Sarah, beloved wife of Mr. J.T. English of Stamford, and daughter of the late Francis Watkins Esq., of Aislaby, near Whitby.
The Hull Packet and East Riding Times Friday, October 16, 1846
Marriages
October 7, at Paris, Francis Williams, fifth son of the late Francis Watkins, Esq., Aislaby Hall, Whitby, to Marie-Columbo Cesanrine, second daughter of Charles Claude Garnier, Juge de Paix, Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur, Paris.
Have sent you a PM so you can look up a few more yourself!!
Tom
