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Offline Ali M

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1851 census lookup - oswestry please
« on: Thursday 23 June 05 02:00 BST (UK) »
I'm trying to research my gt gt grandmother's family from Oswestry. 
Only problem is I can't decipher her maiden name on her son's birth certificate :(.
I know she was Elizabeth,  born in Oswestry in about 1845 (from later census) and her maiden name looks like Paddie, Priddie or even Niddie ??? 
I thought at first it might be Middle as that is an Oswestry name - but can't fit her in to any of the "Middle" families - and it doesn't really look like an "m" on the certificate!
Her husband notified the birth and I guess he may not have known how to spell her maiden name which makes it even more confusing.
Can anyone please help me out here from the 1851 Oswestry census?
many, many thanks
Alison
Shropshire :  Mullineux, Vaughan, Middle
Lancashire: Neale and variants, Edwards
Warwickshire: Lapworth
Devon: Hamblin(g), Cleverley, Jarvis
Oxfordshire: Castle, Haynes, Eden
Northants: Gibbins
Staffs:  Gilbert

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Re: 1851 census lookup - oswestry please
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 23 June 05 03:20 BST (UK) »
Hi Alison


Oswestry is a big area to look up as it is not indexed.

Have you tried looking for her marriage on http://freebmd.rootschat.com. If you look up her husband's name then you can find out who left is on the same page.

i had a look in 1861 but there wasn't anyone that matches the name Paddie, Priddie or Niddie  :'(

Tara
Hertfordshire(Anstey, the Hadham, Reed, Standon): Gault, Hoy, Miles, Smith
Shropshire(Aston Botterell,Burwarton,Stoke St Milborough,Wheathill): Angell, Blackmore, Blakemore, Bennett, Pheysey
Essex(Dunmow,West Ham): Allen, Blackmore, Carr, Sutton
Warwickshire(Birmingham,Edgbaston): Angell
Yorkshire(Doncaster,Hull): Brooks, Doe
London/Middlesex area(Battersea,Wandsworth, Willesden): Angell, Brooks, Carr, Carswell, Salkind
Norfolk (Norwich,Nth Walsham,Lynn,Gt Yarmouth): Carr, Salkind

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Re: 1851 census lookup - oswestry please
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 23 June 05 03:37 BST (UK) »
Hi Tara,

Thanks very much for trying.  As yet her marriage (to Robert Vaughan) is not on Free BMD - thought I'd found it, but it turned out to ber another red herring.  :'(
I'll keep trying
many thanks, alison
Shropshire :  Mullineux, Vaughan, Middle
Lancashire: Neale and variants, Edwards
Warwickshire: Lapworth
Devon: Hamblin(g), Cleverley, Jarvis
Oxfordshire: Castle, Haynes, Eden
Northants: Gibbins
Staffs:  Gilbert

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Re: 1851 census lookup - oswestry please
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 23 June 05 14:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Alison

Could you scan the name from the certificate and post it on Rootschat?  People are really good at sorting out difficult handwriting.

Monica 
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk


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Re: 1851 census lookup - oswestry please
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 23 June 05 21:03 BST (UK) »
What a good idea!  am a bit technologically challenged but I'll try
Thanks Monica!
Shropshire :  Mullineux, Vaughan, Middle
Lancashire: Neale and variants, Edwards
Warwickshire: Lapworth
Devon: Hamblin(g), Cleverley, Jarvis
Oxfordshire: Castle, Haynes, Eden
Northants: Gibbins
Staffs:  Gilbert