Maiden Stone, which William Wilson was the shoemaker in Whalley?
I found him through Lancashire Online Parish Clerks. I also found Moses Wilson, baptised at Clitheroe on that website.
www.lan-opc.org.uk It's a free, volunteer-run website. Has transcriptions of parish registers + some other data (e.g. some workhouse admissions, census transcriptions for a few places). You can search individual parish registers or use "Ancestor Search" pages, focussing on a church or place or doing a county-wide search. When searching within a specified distance of a named church, results show number of miles each one is from the selected church. I usually search for marriages in a wider radius than for baptisms and burials as spouses may have lived in different parishes and young courting couples may have walked (or later cycled) a few miles to meet each other.
LAN-OPC began with transcriptions of Church of England registers. Some Catholic and Non-Conformist registers have been added in recent years. (Not all Catholic and Non-Conformist registers survived.) A new batch of registers are on the "What's New?" page this week. I check "What's New?" at least once a month. There's a county map which can be enlarged.
Another essential free site for Lancashire family history research is Lancashire BMD. Volunteers have created an index to births, marriages and deaths (from 1837) taken from original certificates. This index has fewer transcription errors than the national GRO index as Lancs. BMD is indexed from original certificates.
Heywood has found William the shoemaker + 2 of his children on a census. Cordwainer is another term for shoemaker.
Children of William Wilson, shoemaker & Jane, his wife, baptised at St. Mary & All Saints, Whalley:
Richard 1819; Alice 1823; Elizabeth 1828; Mary Anne 1830; Charlotte 1832; Thomas 1835.
This may be Jane's burial at Whalley in 1838: Jane Wilson age 41, wife of William, abode Whalley.
Moses Wilson who was baptised at St. Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe 1824 also had parents William & Jane. (There seem to have been several William & Jane couples in Clitheroe and Whalley parishes.)
Possible siblings of Moses baptised at St. Mary Magdalene:
Sarah 1815; Richard 1818; Thomas 1821; William was a labourer, abode Mearley.
Possible burial of mother, Jane, aged 67 at St. Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe 1850.
The only George Wilson baptism in the right time-frame at Clitheroe I could find was 1802, parents William & Susan.
