« on: Monday 31 December 18 15:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi
One of my brick walls for years has been a woman called Elizabeth Ann Hughes. She married George Philipson in Windermere in 1894. I know what happened to her after that but her early life is a mystery.
I have done many many searches and cannot pin her down because unfortunately I don't know enough about her.
Her marriage certificate says her father was John Hughes and that he was a farmer.
She claims to have been born in Manchester which I have assumed is true but her parents or Grandaparents most likely had a connection with North Wales(Rhyl and/or St Asaph)
According to those who knew her she was rather proud of her Welsh connection and she could speak Welsh. Though I know this in itself proves nothing.
To summarise all I can prove is:
Her Marriage in 1894,
Her whereabouts in subsequent censuses
Her death in 1945
The censuses have her year of birth as 1870 in the but when she died in 1945 her age was 80years which suggests
1865 as her birth year and makes her harder to pin down in searches.
Does anyone with more experience have any ideas.
Many Thanks
Reid, Munro, kempster: Edinburgh
Sutherland, Gunn: Caithness
Ferguson: Fife
McIntyre: Liverpool
Key: Newcastle On Tyne/ Norfolk
Lake, Brinded, Wymer, Briggs: Norfolk
Philipson, Kellet, Peet, Storrow, Leck, Gifford Willan, Dover Dowker, Casson Benson, Verty: Westmorland & Cumberland & Lancashire
Ludford, Allen, lockwood: Leicestershire & Warwickshire
Trotter, Collier, Pollard, Cresswell: Northumberland