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160 - Posted by: PATRICIA BERRY (B100) ... 01 November 2008
Message:
Hello
Would anyone be able to tell me where I might find the Baptisms of St George Presbyterian Church 57 Northway Maghull?
The Church appears to be St George United Reformed now having changed it's name around 1950.
I am after Baptism's for 1943/1944.
Thanks
Pat (patriciaberrry38[at]nsw.chariot.net.au)
159 - Posted by: F.D.BRADLEY (B84) ... 01 November 2008
Message: ... see message 161 on page 17
I omitted My G grandfather name in the request for info on Ellen Sharrock in my message Number 157 31 October 2008 I hope that this will help to clarify the request on the above.
Dennis Bradley (dennis.brad[at]talktalk.net)
158 - Posted by: KEITH JENKINS (J29) ... 01 November 2008
Message: ... response to message 156
Replying to Dianne Ellis, msg no 156
There's an Edward Miller (widower) aged 49 born Aughton in the 1851 census, a wool comber living in Preston. I tried to email you with details but with no success. If you don't have this, please email me and I'll try again.
Keith Jenkins (pennyjenks[at]btinternet.com)
157 - Posted by: F. D. BRADLEY (B84) ... 31 October 2008
Message: ... see message 161 on page 17
I am trying to find my ggrandfathers wife who's name that I have got which is listed as Ellen Sharock or Sharrock born in Hesketh Bank but all I get is no match. Has anyone any information at all about her if so I would appreciate anything at all about her.
Dennis B84 (dennis.brad[at]talktalk.net)
156 - Posted by: EDWARD MILLER ... 29 October 2008
Message: ... see message 158 on page 16
Would anyone know of Edward Miller who was born about 1802 in Aughton. I would like to know if he was born there and the date. Thank-you!
Dianne (dianneellis5[at]hotmail.com)
155 - Posted by: KATE HURST ... 20 October 2008
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Wondering if anyone is researching the Hursts in Ormskirk/Scarisbrick? The furthest back I have traced the line is Joseph Hurst (b. c.1732, d. 1819) who married Margaret Preston (d.1795?) at St. Peter and Paul's in Ormskirk (although they were Catholics.
The line then comes down through their son John (1771-1854), who married Elizabeth Owen, their son Joseph (1792-1884) and his wife Margery Rimmer, their son John (1814-1877) and his wife Susannah Hurst (he married his grandfather's niece!), their son John (1846-1908) and his wife Ann Woodcock who lived at Rosemary Lane Farm in Downholland, and their son John (1872-1957) and his wife Esther Jane Grayson, who were my great-grandparents and also lived at Rosemary Farm.
Would be interested to know if these names mean anything to anyone.
Kate Hurst (katehurst[at]hotmail.co.uk)
154 - Posted by: MIKE RIMMER ... 19 October 2008
Message:
I LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON A LAWRENCE &
ELIZABETH RIMMER FROM HALSALL & LITHERLAND
LAWRENCE WAS BORN IN HALSALL IN 1780 AND MOVE
TO LITHERLAND ABOUT 1800
MIKE RIMMER (M.RIMMER[at]SKY.COM)
153 - Posted by: KEITH JENKINS (J29) ... 29 September 2008
Message:
My research has taken me just out of our area, to Ramsbottom (Bury) - but the problem I have hit is not area specific. Can anyone suggest an explanation for this:-
The marriage of Thomas Haslam and Catherine Dale was registered in Bury, Q1 1870, and the birth of their first child, Harry Haworth Haslam, was registered there in Q3 1870. Why then does Catherine Dale appear in the 1871 census for Ramsbottom under her maiden name, living in the house of her father, William Dale, with her husband (son-in-law) Thomas Haslam and no sign (here or elsewhere) of the infant Harry? (The 1881 has them together in Ramsbottom as a Haslam family with Harry aged 10 and two other children.)
Keith Jenkins (pennyjenks[at]btinternet.com)
152 - Posted by: SANDRA GASKELL ... 25 September 2008
Message: ... see message 196 on page 20
I am researching Culshaws and Disleys from the Ormskirk area. I am stuck in my research. I have John Culshaw b abt 1815 who married Ann ?. They had at least three children James, Ann and Margaret. Ann died and John married Esther Cotterall or Catterall, nee Westhead. I have found a christening for a John Culshaw as 9 March 1814 in Ormskirk, father Peter Culshaw and mother Elizabeth Burrows but there were several John Culshaws born about the same time and I am not sure that this John is the John in my tree. Can anyone help? My John's daughter Margaret married Thomas Disley, b abt 1845, Burscough.
I am stuck at this Disley also since his death certificate gave his father's name as Hugh Disley but I can find no Hugh Disley anywhere.
I do not know the name of his mother nor any siblings.
Thanks for any help you migh be able to give. I live in Canada so my research is mainly done through the internet.
Sandra (gaskell1109[at]rogers.com)
151 - Posted by: TREVOR PENN, FYLDE ... 19 September 2008
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One of my wife's great grandmothers was Margaret Swift, b.1864. Her family came from Bickerstaffe, where her grandfather was a farmer.
In the course of researching the Swift family I came across a cousin of Margaret's, Henry Swift, who was born in 1848, the son of Edward and Alice (nee Culshaw) of Bickerstaffe. Edward and Henry were both coal miners. Edward died young before Henry was 4 years old.
Henry left England when he was 21 for north America. He first worked in the Pennsylvania coal/anthracite mines but soon moved to Nova Scotia to the coal mines there.
By the age of 42 he had risen to be manager of the mines at Springhill. He is described in the Canadian national biography as the epitome of the self-made man of that age. Sad to say on 21st February 1891 he was killed, along with 124 of his men, and boys, in what was Canada's worst mining disaster when fire swept through the pit. By all accounts the mine was one of the most modern and best run and the enquiry found that nobody was to blame. News of the disaster soon spread. It was reported in the New York Times the following day and in the London Times the day after. Funds were raised to help the widows and orphans; indeed Queen Victoria made a donation herself.
I have been greatly assisted by the local Family History society in Cumberland, Nova Scotia.
Does anyone know of any local acknowledgement of this connection with a sad chapter of Canada's history?
Trevor Penn, Fylde (trevor.jp[at]tiscali.co.uk)
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