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Title: MIs for Ormskirk Parish church(name: Ashton)
Post by: arabella on Monday 30 March 09 07:39 BST (UK)
after looking for this family for the last 10 years I have at last managed to get what I think is the right family - even visited Ormskirk parish church graveyard on Saturday to see if I could find a likely headstone - but of course in a short visit (and finding that many were now included in the pathways) - I gave up, too little time and an impatient husband!

I see there are Ormskirk Parish church MIs on CD - at £10, but was wondering if someone had a copy already and could let me know if its worth getting - ie, are there any Ashtons on it?
Title: Re: MIs for Ormskirk Parish church(name: Ashton)
Post by: dotty on Monday 30 March 09 18:37 BST (UK)
Lancashire Records office hold MI transcripts for Ormskirk.Are you looking for someone in particular?I am going hopefully tomorrrow if yoy want me to look


Dotty
Title: Re: MIs for Ormskirk Parish church(name: Ashton)
Post by: arabella on Monday 30 March 09 18:52 BST (UK)
thank you very much for the offer - I am hoping there is something there for John Ashton, buried 8 Aug 1867 aged 73....hopefully with a wife Margaret (think she died in early 1861).

The burials are in St Peter & St Pauls Church registers, Ormskirk (the parish church)....There were 3 separate John & Margarets there during the same period, John being a sawyer during his working life...

Don't worry if you  don't have time  to look after you have done your own searches - I know how the time flies once you start looking.
Title: Re: MIs for Ormskirk Parish church(name: Ashton)
Post by: cassandra123 on Monday 30 March 09 19:02 BST (UK)
I'm afraid the CD's DVD's are covered by copyright. but you should be able to get the information from Lancashire  (Preston )Records Office
Title: Re: MIs for Ormskirk Parish church(name: Ashton)
Post by: arabella on Monday 30 March 09 19:55 BST (UK)
Quote from: cassandra123 on Monday 30 March 09 19:02 BST (UK)
I'm afraid the CD's DVD's are covered by copyright. but you should be able to get the information from Lancashire  (Preston )Records Office
Yes, I do realise they are copyrighted ,which is why I didn't ask for a lookup. But if someone had.replied saying there were none at least it would save me £10....... so many times in the past I have purchased fiche or cds only to find that my ancestors were too poor to have headstones.
Title: Re: MIs for Ormskirk Parish church(name: Ashton)
Post by: dotty on Tuesday 31 March 09 22:14 BST (UK)
The only MI transcription book had been compiled privately and only showed an Elizabeth Ashton of Southport died 27th April 1847,aged 75

Dotty
Title: Re: MIs for Ormskirk Parish church(name: Ashton)
Post by: arabella on Wednesday 01 April 09 06:58 BST (UK)
Quote from: dotty on Tuesday 31 March 09 22:14 BST (UK)
The only MI transcription book had been compiled privately and only showed an Elizabeth Ashton of Southport died 27th April 1847,aged 75

Dotty

thankyou for checking for me - strangely enough I did see an Elizabeth on one of the many headstones being used as a footpath slab.
Lynne
Title: Re: MIs for Ormskirk Parish church(name: Ashton)
Post by: modem on Wednesday 01 April 09 14:35 BST (UK)
Lancs OPC has a burial record for Margaret Ashton age 65 on 3/1/1861 at St Peter & St Pauls Ormskirk

http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Ormskirk/index.html

Lots of Ashtons in the BMD records
Title: Re: MIs for Ormskirk Parish church(name: Ashton)
Post by: arabella on Wednesday 01 April 09 15:41 BST (UK)
thanks, it was seeing those that inspired me to start searching again - and the reason I was hoping for an MI which might have put some of those names into families/groups.......I am now pretty certain that John who died in 1867 is our ancestor, and that Margaret seems a likely one because he was widowed by the 1861 census, which just fits in with that burial date.