Author Topic: Ruth Howarth Leigh who Married Alfred J Gibb in 1907 [Cockermouth]  (Read 743 times)

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Ruth Howarth Leigh who Married Alfred J Gibb in 1907 [Cockermouth]
« on: Tuesday 14 August 18 13:44 BST (UK) »
Trying to find out where she was born -possibly Cumberland ca 1877?
Also who her parents were.
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Re: Ruth Howarth Leigh who Married Alfred J Gibb in 1907 [Cockermouth]
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 14 August 18 13:54 BST (UK) »
Have you looked for her in 1911 for a birthplace?
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Ruth Howarth Leigh who Married Alfred J Gibb in 1907 [Cockermouth]
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 14 August 18 13:57 BST (UK) »
Lots of records of her - looks like she was born 9 August 1877 and baptised 14 Oct 1877 at Heaton Mersey, Lancs.  Parents: James & Mary Elizabeth.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Ruth Howarth Leigh who Married Alfred J Gibb in 1907 [Cockermouth]
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 14 August 18 14:04 BST (UK) »
Birth reg as Ruth Leigh, mother's maiden name Oliver, Sep qtr 1877 Stockport.

James Leigh (bachelor, coachman, of Heaton Mersey) married Mary Elizabeth Oliver (spinster, of Didsbury) at St James', Didsbury on 30 August 1876. 
His father: James Leigh, joiner.
Her father: John Oliver, foreman.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)


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Re: Ruth Howarth Leigh who Married Alfred J Gibb in 1907 [Cockermouth]
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 14 August 18 15:51 BST (UK) »
That's sorted things thanks.