Hi Colin
Excuse the delay in replying but I’ve been away on holiday recently and got back early last week just in time to get distracted by Wimbledon.
I’ve spent the last few months photographing and transcribing a few cemeteries in my local area, so I’ve not done any new work on my own research.
I noticed that the Lancashire OPC have transcribed more records for St Michaels Cockerham in the last few months, including that of John Lamb’s burial. This agrees with the IGI record that you found and is three days after the death certificate that I have.
Burial: 21 May 1847 St Michael, Cockerham, Lancs.
John Lamb -
Age: 47
Abode: Cockerham
Buried by: J. Dodson, Vicar
Register: Burials 1843 - 1901, Page 19, Entry 152
Source: LDS Film 1278872
Also ancestry have now increased their databases to include a lot of scanned documents for the Lancaster area including St Marys Lancaster and Christchurch Ellel which is extremely informative for ancestors that were living in the Glasson/ Thurnham area.
So all I intend to do this summer and autumn is to cross check all my information gathered from the local history centre at Preston some years ago, with the new information available on the web.
Many years ago I found that some trees on the web mentioned a John Lamb (AKA John Limpus) that was born around 1760 in England and had a family in the USA. They linked that John Lamb with the John Lamb born about 1758 married to Elizabeth Towers, but I think they are mistaken and have got the wrong John Lamb.
I tried to post my scanned death certificates of John and Ann Lamb but the file size was too big, so I’ll try to reduce their size to get them posted
If I find out anything new or of interest when looking through the records, I’ll post them here.
Best wishes
Maggy
