Brick Wall help needed please

[CaroleW]

Is there any way of searching Chorlton on Medlock in 1871 (just before birth of Robert junior) to see what butchers were living there ?

I don't know about FindMyPast but you can't search the 1871 on Ancestry using an occupation. 

[alpinecottage]

I think you can search on FindMyPast for whoever was living at 1 Shepherds Street, West Gorton in 1891.  It may be that RHJ O'Neil was there with his family or nearby with his family at the census prior to his marriage..

[keyboard86]

I think you can search on FindMyPast for whoever was living at 1 Shepherds Street, West Gorton in 1891.  It may be that RHJ O'Neil was there with his family or nearby with his family at the census prior to his marriage..

Is it SHEPHERDS street or Shepherd Street Gorton, as 1, Shepherd Street, Gorton is a Thomas Groom
Census ref RG12/3172/16/25
Keyboard86

[JennMorgon]

The wedding certificate states 1 Shepherd Street.  The marriage took place in All Saints Church Gorton. 

[keyboard86]

The wedding certificate states 1 Shepherd Street.  The marriage took place in All Saints Church Gorton.

[Maiden Stone]

Have you searched for him under various spellings of Neil, without an O in front? Also with an O but without an apostrophe? Some Irish people didn't use O in front of their surname until late 19th-early 20th century.

[jennifer c]

Birth reg Sept qtr 1872 ref 8b 364 West Derby Robert James O'Neill, but I can not find him on the GRO index.

Jennifer

[CaroleW]

Looking at the GRO index I think it's page 304 not 364 but there's still no match on GRO online.  He signs as Robert Henry (Henery) on his marriage cert.  No mention of James

Nothing for that birth on Lancs BMD either

[Maiden Stone]

1871 census Chorlton-on-Medlock:  baby James A. R. Neill was with his widowed mother Mary.
1881 census Salford: James A. R. Neill was with sister Edith.  Head of household & stepfather was  John E. Alton.

Death registration Salford 1871 Robert Neill, aged 36.

Butchers on 1891 census:
James H. Neale , Didsbury, Chorlton
William Neale, Salford
John R. O'Neill (20), Chorlton, Hulme was a carter for a butcher.