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Re: Unknown whereabouts/death
« Reply #27 on: Sunday 29 November 20 23:44 GMT (UK) »
Hi
Yes, sorry, Elizabeth Ann buried 1860! :-[
I am thinking now that maybe Elizabeth might well have died in 1866, and buried at Victoria Park. Age 38, up a bit.
William John Postlethwaite buried a year earlier, but it says he was 5 years old on the burial and death reg, when the Clerkenwell born one would not yet be 4. Also death registered in Holborn (close I know), address (whatever it is!) looks a bit unlikely to me as well.

There was a William John born in Shoreditch at the end of 1859, perhaps it was that one who died in 65?
John

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« Reply #28 on: Monday 30 November 20 09:09 GMT (UK) »
More details
20 Nov 1886, Arlecdon, Cumberland
William John's father John Postlethwaite
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NXKV-MQS

Birthplace Frizington! Do they mean residence?

I see that William J Postlethwaite was a tinsmith.

So is this him in 1881, going under his mother's surname?

RG 11/ 5183/ 95 / 9

Chapel Row, Frizington

In the household of Thomas Rucastle

William J Page, boarder, unm, 19, tinsmith, London Middlesex
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Re: Unknown whereabouts/death
« Reply #29 on: Monday 30 November 20 09:18 GMT (UK) »
Which leads in 1871 to

RG 10/ 5238/ 60/ 17

Union Workhouse, Cockermouth

Elizabeth Page, inmate, 38, domestic servant, Northamptonshire, Geddney Hill
William John Page, do, 9, scholar, London Clerkenwell,
Clara Elizabeth Page, 4, Northamptonshire, Eye

Elizabeth Clara Postlethwaite, 1st q 1866. Peterborough 3b, 244, mother's maiden surname Page.

Possible death for John Postlethwaite? 1st q 1869, Cockermouth 10b, 369, aged 57 (i.e. born c 1814)
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Re: Unknown whereabouts/death
« Reply #30 on: Monday 30 November 20 09:26 GMT (UK) »
That’s another interesting find, Jen.
I would think this all needs writing down and sorting out  :)
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Re: Unknown whereabouts/death
« Reply #31 on: Monday 30 November 20 09:28 GMT (UK) »
Great finds Jen!
So Elizabeth didn't die in 1866! Does it mean that John Postlethwaite was heading homewards and died before 1871?
The daughter possibly may have married in Bootle in 1886.
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« Reply #32 on: Monday 30 November 20 09:30 GMT (UK) »
Possible death for John Postlethwaite? 1st q 1869, Cockermouth 10b, 369, aged 57 (i.e. born c 1814)

Possibly not right. A newspaper article indicates that this John Postlethwaite was a shoemaker of Maryport  :-\
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Re: Unknown whereabouts/death
« Reply #33 on: Monday 30 November 20 09:40 GMT (UK) »
Can't see anyone like that in 1851 and 1861.
In 1901 William John did say that he was born in Maryport.

Do we know John's trade when he joined the army?

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« Reply #34 on: Monday 30 November 20 09:53 GMT (UK) »
Husbandman according to his record in WO 116
Images 25, 26
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14728659

He may have been given a pension for a limited time? Pity!
There is a John Postelthwaite of the 2nd Life Guards indexed three times in the WO 23 registers on a pay site. They give the district the pension was paid from, and also will note a date of death (go up to mid 1870's)

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Re: Unknown whereabouts/death
« Reply #35 on: Monday 30 November 20 10:16 GMT (UK) »
Marriage in Cockermouth in June qtr 1874
Richard Henry Chick
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Elizabeth Page

They are in Irton with Santon in 1881
Elizabeth Chick born Gedney Hill
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