Probate Interpretation - hopefully simple!

[Ray T]

Thanks everyone for looking. You've given me a lot to think about but we're just about to eat so I'll have to come back to this later in the weekend.

Regards
Ray

[lizdb]

And worth noting it is Administration that is granted, not Probate.So there is no Will

[Ray T]

Thanks again everyone. It looks like William married Jane Hallworth less than 4 months before he died.  (I really need another "Hallworth"; I already have 37 of them on my tree, from this particular area, but none of them seem to be related to Jane, so far.)

I can't find William on the 1871 but, hopefully, I just need to dig a bit deeper. One thing I can't get my head round though is that in 1881 he described himself as "bricklayer" whereas 5 years later, his probate record indicates that he was a "draper". This doesn't seem like a logical career progression given that building seems to have been in the family. In 1861, the Tomlinson family was living in "Tomlinson's Terrace". 

Regards
Ray

[carol8353]

In 1871 there is a William Tomlinson age 20 (bricklayer) b Hazel Grove, with wife Mary! lodging in Stockport with Jemima OSBALDESTON.

RG10/3650 folio 21 page 33


And a marriage in Marple on 18 Jul 1870 of a William Tomlinson 19 bachelor bricklayer,of Marple,father James Tomlinson ,bricksetter.

To a Mary Platt age 21 spinster of Marple,father Samuel Osbaldeston,labourer.

Witnesses John Hulme and Jemima Osbaldeston.

[Ray T]

Thanks, that sounds like him (them) - bet you're using FindMyPast rather than Ancestry!

Incidentally, for anyone researching in Hazel Grove post 1839, the website for Norbury St Thomas churchyard is invaluable - http://www.norburypc.org/gm/namindx.htm

[carol8353]

I can't find the Osbaldestone's ,but think that Jemima b 1843 was born a Hulme.

Same name as the witness