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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Cheshire => England => Cheshire Lookup Requests => Topic started by: judith 4 on Friday 01 October 04 16:06 BST (UK)
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Looking for a Catherine Ann Quinn. According to the IGI she was born in Parkgate any help much appreciated. Thanks Judith
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Hi Judith
Can you post her age and parents names ?
peterbennett
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Hi Peter you have looked for me before with no success, but I thought it might be worth one more go, her fathers name was John and she was born in 1834.
I did find an Ann Quinn living in Liscard with a John Quinn as her father and a Martha as her Mother and wondered whether this could be Catherine.
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there is this family in 1851 could it be them?
living at heaton norris lancashire
anthony scanlan 40yrs bricklayers labourer born ireland
ann quinn 48yrs sister widow washerwoman born ireland
catherine quinn 16yrs daughter cotton spinner born stockport cheshire
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regards
alli
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they are in heaton norris in 1841 also-
anthony scanlon 25yrs cotton stripper born ireland
ann 25yrs born ireland
bridgit 20yrs cotton spinner born ireland
alice 15yrs born ireland
catherine quinn 5yrs not born in county
ann docherty 60yrs independant means born ireland
SOURCE INFO-H0107-582/5
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regards
alli
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Thank you for this information alli.
I am not sure if this is Catherine but it is the closest I have got to finding her. On her marriage certificate it has got Neston Cheshire as her birth place. On census records it has Parkgate, Lancashire and Cheshire. Her father's name was John and he was a joiner according to the marriage cert. The age of this Catherine is right. Now I have to think of a way of confirming if this is the right Catherine.
I did find a family of Quinn's in Neston but no sign of Catherine, I went to the records office in Chester but could find no sign of her there either.
Thanks again
Judith
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Hi Judith
I have spent absolutely ages trying to find our correspondence Re your Quin & Ankers.I finally remembered today we are using P.M's. One of the reasons i don't encourage P.M's for none personnel posts is that is what happens they get lost. Plus you cant see all the posts.
Anyway what i wanted to say was the library has finally opened today. Over the holiday i had a look in a few Cheshire/wales directories available on line before i go today As the Anker family were in Foulk Stapleford/Hargrave in the vicinity of Chester in 1881.I spent a long time looking for them(website very slow) As there are only three four Ankers in any one book in the Chester area.I feel these must be yours or at the very least be connected.
1868 North & South Wales and the City of Chester only one Anker he was. William Anker of the Golden Lion Vaults 13, high Street Wrexham
1902. I found 3 Miss Ankers, Frogs Tavern Chester (occupations) no address
In Huxley, David Ankers a cowkeeper,
In Crew a Mrs B. Ankers of 33, Nelson Street Crew, could she be Davids wife. To check up and see if David is yours.Ask for a lookup for David Ankers 1901 he should be he should be 30 and born Waverton. I will be back here later, Celia P.S you have other Quinn/Anker Topics where are the?
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Hi Celia
Looks like I am causing you all sorts of problems :-[
The David Ankers you mentioned, I am pretty sure is one of mine.
I have to wait until Monday before I can go to the archives office as they are fully booked until then.
Sorry if I sound a bit of out of it but what do you mean about the other Ankers/Quinn topics?
Judith
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Hi Judith
No your not giving me problems,i love going to library doing reasearch.
I am trying to post my pre written document but rooschat wont let me paste it even though its my own.so will have to print and copy it out :'( ???
Celia
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Bang goes my time saver :(
I went through a few directories this morning,looking for any Quin in Wirra.Apart from three names i took i didn't take the rest because i don't have enough information.So this is just a distribution of surnames
1845. Quiet a few Quin in Liverpool none in Wirral
1853. Five Quin in L,Pool no Ankers.I did take these for some reason. Ann Quin Victualer? 105 New Bird Street.
Jane Quin Clothes dealer,19 Hatton Gardens. John Quin, Tailor. 8 Powell Street.
1855. same as above. 1850 No Ankers or quin in Chester
1874 Directory & Gazetta of Cheshire with Stalybrige.Great & Little Neston ,None. There might be more in those books but like the census the directories only give the housholder.The person that pays the rent ;D so if a person is living with someone he might not be in the book.Unless he has a trade then he might be mentioned under that. I picked up the Directory of chester 1976 by mistake. There are 16 Ankers in that, So you might find a Rellie their one day.
Celia
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Hi Celia
It looks as though its back to square one.
I was wondering if the names of Catherine's and Joseph's grandchildren might give a link, for example one of David Ankers children was called Burton Ankers and I am not sure where that name comes from as his wife's maiden name is Williams, a long shot I know but who knows.
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It looks as though it's back to square one
Well i don't know about that Judith, i think you have moved on,thanks to the census's that were found for you.You started out looking for Cathrine with not much information.You now her grandchildren and more information than you had before.Cathrine will turn up one day when you least expect it. I have had one of my trees for five years and i never got past my G.Grandfather in 1840.If i ever see any Anker names in Cheshire/Chester directories after 1901 that i recognize i will let you know
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Hi Celia
Your right Celia, I think it is because I am so desperate to get find Catherine before she was married I can have tunnel vision sometimes.
By the way Celia, when you mention directories, what are they and where are they?
Thanks again Celia
Judith
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Hi Judith
The Cheshire Directories or any other county,in a nutshell are books that were printed from the late :-\ 1700 for reasons i do not know down to at the latest 1970.I always explain them as Postal directories.In them you can find a person under their surname,that section will give their address and occupation.Thats the easy bit, Or you can look under trades,or if you want to know who lived in which house in Wirral/Chester/ and for some reason Liverpool. in 1852 you might find a street section.The directories are not all the same. For some reason Rootschat wont let me put a link to the Directory website. So Type in Historical Directories and go that way.Then you can have a browse ;D
Celia
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Thanks Celia, I am off to have a nose now.
Judith