COMPLETED ... SALT family - Alton/Goldenhill/Church Lawton ... COMPLETED

[BumbleB]

Dave - you will be the death of me    You're never going to let me forget those incidents, are you?  But I did warn you about the nettles, so it was your own fault if you didn't take notice of me    Claire, just ignore him   

Sue

[Tapestry]

Ahhhhhh, Yorkshire.  My father's side is all Yorkshire.  In fact I can trace back to 1388 or some such.  I'm good Viking stock via Ireland or France or both on that side.
I was just trying to stick to the female line for a challenge.  Much harder to find the girls as they usually change their surname upon marriage.

Back to the SALTs.  If you come across Thomas SALT father of Mathew SALT, I'd like to know.  I'm looking for a possible link between Thomas SALT and Elizabeth BRINDLEY, daughter of Joseph who was brother of the famous canal engineer, James BRINDLEY.
The family tale is that we have a link.

[dobfarm]

She's right ! She not Wrong! just can't remember what she was right about.

Good Luck with it all- Dave 

[BumbleB]

Oh, dear it might be fisticuffs at dawn then - my husband is related to John Grundy - Brindley's rival! 

But, back to the Salt family - I'll have a look at the marriage of Matthew and Sarah Robinson, plus the baptism of John Salt at Longton and see what else I can dig up.

Sue

[BumbleB]

Claire:  Just remembered that there is a church at Lane End (not sure where that is in the relation of this area as it doesn't seem to exist as a separate entity anymore), and there is a gap in the coverage on the Hugh Wallis site, so I've booked myself back into the Archives tomorrow, and let's see what that brings up, plus I'll have a look at that 1814 baptism at Longton for John Salt.  There was also an "entry" on the new Family Search for Charles being born in 1818 and baptised two years later at Milwich (no actual date given though, other than November 1820) because Charles at one stage says that he was born in (transcribed as) Eston but there is a Coton which is very near to Milwich, Alston and Stone, and Fradswell is not far away either - so they're all in your kind of area.  Anyway I'll be back   

Sue

[patrish]

I am following this thread with great interest 

It must be wonderful to be able to get to your local archives easily  , wish I could get to mine 

[BumbleB]

I know, patrish - but I ONLY live here    My research is Yorkshire, and I can't get there      So I do what I can for others.   But I feel a bit sad, because I get the "yahooo" feeling when I find something, and the person whose family it is, doesn't    You can't win!

Sue

[patrish]

I don't live anywhere near any local archives    so I am not able to help others, only wish I could, like you it gives me immense satisfaction if I can 

I do belong to my local family history society (I have to rely on a friend taking me there)    which had a library just around the corner from where I live, just as my children left home and I had time to spare.... they moved   

[BumbleB]

patrish:  so where do you live in Kent?  We lived in Rainham for 20 years, but then I had no interest in family history, and don't have any connections, anyway 

Sue