other areas of research rather than parish records

[mollymandysb]

Happy New Year to you all

hope weather not too bad, managed to get away with only frozen pipes but no bursts.

can anyone advise what other areas of research i can try to find my elusive ancestors.  cannot find them in the parish records, ancestor was born in 1823/5 in bunbury.  i can find no trace of his baptism in the St Boniface records would there have been any other, perhaps non conformist records for that area. i have an address for him in 1841 and his occupation was an ag lab, would it be feasible to think that he lived on his employers land and that records would have been kept of employees. a long shot i know.

tx

[liverbird09]

Hi, have you tried the new Familysearch ~one of mine was christened in Bunbury 1801 and I found a Bishops transcript for her with fathers name. Have noticed some non conformist records too.
Good luck

[mollymandysb]

Hi Liverbird

yes have tried family search loads of times but nothing coming up.  seem to have hit a brick wall with this side of family.  makes it harder because when he got married he called himself thomas hooley and purported that his father was john hulse.  no records of marriage between john hulse.  might have to go up to archives or even engage a researcher,

tx anyway

regards

molly

[Redroger]

Is it possible they were non conformists or maybe Baptists? If so, it seems a trip to the appropriate archive might be helpful, but I would check first to see if they hold relevant information.

[mshrmh]

It won't help with his parentage, but he may be on the tithe maps if he had a tenancy - they were compiled over a period around 1840 (dates are shown) and are online
http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/

I've found families where children were baptised later - sometimes several at the same time, sometimes not, so may be worth looking quite a bit after the expected time and even in other areas if the family had moved around. Is there any indication they weren't C of E - this person's own children for example?

Have you tried the online catalogues for Cheshire RO & the wills database? Sorry if I'm covering well-trodden ground...
http://apps.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/RecordOfficeWillEpayments/search.aspx
http://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/council_services/record_office/catalogues_and_indexes.aspx

[mollymandysb]

hi to everyone

thomas hulse or hooley married in a c of e and had all his children baptised in c of e in over. his purpoted parents had a child called maria in 1831 she was baptised in c of e in over. just cannot find any records of a marriage for john and martha (but dont know where they came from) nor can i find any other children nor any birth related info for thomas.

a question for redroger, the picture you have of your dad and fireman what is the engine? my grand dad worked as an engine driver from shrewsbury and then my step dad (who was my uncle) have photos of him driving clun castle and flying scot.

regards

steph

[Redroger]

Steph; The engine Dad was driving was an LNER style though then BR Eastern Region B1 class locomotive No.61379 Mayflower. The photo was taken on the day of the naming ceremony. If your grand dad was a driver at Shrewsbury then though Clun Castle is likely, Flying Scotsman is most unlikely to have been driven by him. It was used on the LNER route between King's Cross and Edinburgh, though after preservation in 1963 it was (and is) used for widespread excursion work.Hope I can run at 60mph when I'm 88, Flying Scotsman can.

[Jo Harding]

There was quite a big Methodist following in this area of Cheshire. Two Methodist chapels were built in Huxley, these were funded from subscriptions from local adherents. One was a Wesleyan Methodist and the other a New Connection Methodist chapel.

I seem to recall answering a query on this person before. I think he is on the census returns as Hooley, rather than Hulse.

Jo.

[Redroger]

At least both these demonimations practised infant baptism, which is some advantage over the Baptists!