Floodgate or Flood Gate (a place)

[The Geneal Geologist]

Any suggestions from a married woman in 1851 Yorkshire who gives her POB as Flood Gate, Shropshire? Not listed today as a town or village

[chempat]

Just putting a link to the census (F M P)
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBC%2F1851%2F4301804%2F00048&parentid=GBC%2F1851%2F0014815257

[Ruskie]

Is she born in the county of Shropshire in the 1841 census?

Does she appear on the 1861 census?

Knowing her name and 1851 census reference details may help.

[chempat]

This looks like 1841 census from F M P, where it is stated that she is born in county:

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1841%2F0009282276

and Ancestry
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01q5u/

[The Geneal Geologist]

Not so straightforward. Her family were mobile.
She was born Sarah NORBURY around 1780, but baptised in Cheshire at Church Lawton later that year. Married a man from Heckmondwike, Yorkshire in 1802 Liverpool, William POPPLEWELL, a woollen manufacture and lived in Batley. YKS.
Died 1854, so no further confirmation on POB.
Learned not to trust 1841. Says "yes".

[chempat]

Just in case she was born there, link to Church Lawton map

https://maps.nls.uk/view/114585289

[chempat]

There are several children baptised at Church Lawton to William and Sarah Norbury, perhaps she was mistaken in her belief that she was born in Shropshire?

[BumbleB]

Unless I've found the wrong marriage -

24 October 1802, by Licence - Christ Church, Liverpool

John Popplewell of the parish of Burstill, Yorkshire, Clothier and Sarah Norbury, spinster of Liverpool.


Added:  Family Search have Sarah from Burstill - BUT I was looking at the original parish register entry.

[chempat]

Just looked - she is in more than 70 trees in Ancestry.