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Title: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: dylan on Wednesday 14 November 07 08:30 GMT (UK)
Please,  if anyone has   the 1851  census   for Woodley     or Newton  in Lancashire have a look for   William Clegg        born  c 1822 He is  given as  born being born in  Woodley  on the 1861 census , he  had a  son   born 1852  in  Newton, I would like  find  anyone else   was with them ,
Thanks for any help
DYLAN
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: wozzle on Wednesday 14 November 07 08:40 GMT (UK)
there is a william clegg born 1818 in manchester with wife hannah and various children living in newton in 1851
if you think this is him and want the full census entry then i will post it.
HO107/2231/327/32.
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: dylan on Wednesday 14 November 07 09:41 GMT (UK)
Many thanks   for your kind offer  I would like to see    the Newton 1851 list if your would  send.
Regards
Dylan
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: Gatacre on Wednesday 14 November 07 10:06 GMT (UK)
It was interesting to see Woodley as my grandfather used to write to an address in that location in the early 1900s. When I tried to access info I was told that I would need to contact the Cheshire Record Office.

I do not know if there are two places named Woodley

Gatacre
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: dylan on Wednesday 14 November 07 10:49 GMT (UK)
Hello Gatacre
This is  one of the problems I have been having with my Cleggs, I believe the boundery changed  at some   point to Cheshire.

Dylan
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: Gatacre on Wednesday 14 November 07 13:00 GMT (UK)
Dylan,

I have asked the local studies in Manchester if Woodley was ever in Lancashire as I am interested in whether it changed with the new county boundaries..  I have been informed that it will take some days for a reply.

Interestingly. I am both a Clegg by marriage and descent  but mine came from Rochdale

Norah
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: Gatacre on Wednesday 14 November 07 13:20 GMT (UK)
Dylan

I have just received the following from Manchester Local Studies.  Hope it clarifies the situatio re. the Woodley location.

Woodley is historically part of the county of Cheshire. It was part of the parish of Stockport and the township of Bredbury (See http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/chs/bredbury.html)

In 1974 it became part of the newly formed County Borough of Stockport.

Most records relating to this area will be held at Stockport Archives (at Stockport Central Library) or Cheshire Record Office.

We hold some methodist church records for Woodley (it is part of the Manchester Methodist District). A list of what we hold can be found at http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=448&documentID=464
This is interesting

Norah
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: dylan on Wednesday 14 November 07 13:43 GMT (UK)
Thank you Norah for telling me this,I  know little of the area my husbands Cleggs started from, they are on the 1861  census  with Woodley being  in Lancashire ,so will see    what I can find in Cheshire.

Regards
Dylan
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: wozzle on Wednesday 14 November 07 20:11 GMT (UK)
1851 HO107/2231/327/32.
william clegg age 33. b. manchester. occ. agr.lab. head.
hannah clegg age 34. b. salford. wife.
thomas clegg age 13. b. bury. son.
ellen clegg age 5. b. eccles. daughter.
mary anne clegg age 4. b. manchester. daughter.
william clegg age 3. b. manchester. son.
samuel clegg age 7mnths. b. newton. son.
living at (looks like)henmount square,newton,lancs.
reg.dist. manchester.
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: wozzle on Wednesday 14 November 07 20:23 GMT (UK)
1851 HO107/2236/226/25.
probably him more so than the other one
john ashton age 70. b. hyde,cheshire. occ. cotton spinner. head.
betty ashton age 68. b. stourport. wife.
eliza ashton age 36. b. haughton,lancs. occ. calico weaver. daughter.
william clegg age 30. b. woodley,cheshire. occ. coalminer(married). lodger.
ann clegg age 27. b. godley,cheshire. occ. calico weaver.(married). lodger.
nancy clegg age 17. b. newton,cheshire. occ. calico weaver.(unmarried). lodger.
living at bottowmoth moor,newton,cheshire.
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: Chorlton on Wednesday 14 November 07 23:57 GMT (UK)
Dylan,

Looking at Williams son, born 1852 in Newton, are you aware that Newton by Hyde came under the Ashton under Lyne registration district until 1923.  And, although Ashton under Lyne was in Lancashire, all the BMD records are at the Cheshire BMD website at http://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk


You say that you have William Clegg in the 1861 census, being born Woodley c1822.  I assume it is this one:
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Checking on marriages for William CLEGG, this one looks interesting:
Dec 1858 at Rotherham  9c/586 there are four people married who are named:
William Clegg, Hannah Hobson, Joseph Longbottom, Martha Ibbotson 

In the 1861 Census there is a Joseph & Martha Longbottom, with a 1 year old daughter, indicating a recent marriage ?
Therefore giving good likelyhood to the 1858 marriage of William Clegg and Hannah Hobson, showing at the above 1861 census, with Hobson Stepdaughters.

It looks to me like William was married before 1852 and had the child John to a different mother, then remarried in 1858 to Hannah Hobson, and then had four further children.

In the Cheshire BMD there is a William marrying:
Ann HEATON at Mottram in Longdendale in 1844
and
Jane P BUCKLEY at   Marple, Stockport   in 1849

In 1851 there is a William & Jane Clegg (nee Burkley) living in Ashton with Jane's mother Ann Burkley. (note the slight spelling difference), with no children of their own.

At the Cheshire BMD there is a John CLEGG born in 1851 at Newton & Godley, Tameside  ref: NEW/10/48
Although at FReeBMD there are 3 possible births:
Q3 1851 John CLEGG.  Ashton  20/110   or 20a/110
Q4 1851 John CLEGG.  Ashton  20/80   
Q4 1852 John CLEGG.  Ashton under Lyne  8d/44?

Maybe a few things there to follow up ?
Title: Re: William Clegg, Woodley and Newton
Post by: dylan on Thursday 15 November 07 07:43 GMT (UK)
Many,  many thanks to everyone    for all the  information you kind folk have sent me, the  marriage of   William    to  Hannah Hobson is  definitely  my husbands line, they were his G Granparents so now I have something  I can work on.

Regards
Dylan