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Title: Astbury
Post by: Suse on Saturday 02 May 09 00:12 BST (UK)
Wonder if anybody can help,,am tracing the family of a cousin and have her 3xg grandfather as a Thomas Astbury (who married a Sarah Sandbach). Their daughter was born 1818 in Preston Brook Cheshire - he had died by 1851 and in 1841 was living in Liverpool (but did not come from lancs) So I wonder if he came from Cheshire - especially with the name Astbury. Thanks
Susan
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: garstonite on Sunday 03 May 09 08:35 BST (UK)
Hi Sue....what was the daughters name who was born in 1818....if we can find her on Cheshire parish records database(CPRDb) we may be able to work backwards to find Thomas.......allan
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: Suse on Sunday 03 May 09 09:45 BST (UK)
Thanks - the daughter was Ann b (according to IGI) 1818 and they also had a Thomas b c.1824
Thx for your help
Suse
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: garstonite on Monday 04 May 09 08:33 BST (UK)
Hiya Suse...ok...preston brook is 6 miles from where I live..
ANNE ASTBURY married JOSEPH BUCKLEY in 1844 in St Marys church Whitegate(this is Preston Brook  area)....this marriage is on
www.cheshirebmd.org.uk  can you check this marriage out ?
Ref No is 154/1/69.....be back  soon.....allan
OK Suse......there are 28 babtisms in Whitegate (preston brook) area for ASTBURY....but I can`t find ANN b 1818....so I don`t think these Astburys are Thomas and his family....the Thomas in Preston Brook  around 1800 is
Thomas Astbury babtised 5 oct 1800.......this Thomas marries a Mary Hopley 25 july 1822.......looks like a dead end....check it out yourself......go to Cheshire Resources thread and look for the www.csc.liv.ac.uk/cprdb link and then click on DATABASE....then babtism/marriage/burial  then type in the surname ASTBURY........good luck....allan
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: LM on Thursday 07 May 09 18:31 BST (UK)
Suse - are you the same person who was looking for info re Mills of Merrion Row?? If you are, I might be able to help ...
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: Suse on Thursday 07 May 09 20:24 BST (UK)
Yes, I am the same person! I am chasing up Astbury for a cousin (so Sarah mcMurtry would have been her great aunt...) hence my interest there!
Thx
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: LM on Thursday 07 May 09 21:26 BST (UK)
Mills of Merrion Row was a catering/confectionery business through two generations of  Joseph Edward Mills.  Are you sure that Ernest was JEM's brother?
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: Suse on Thursday 07 May 09 21:39 BST (UK)
yes, pretty sure - checked his birth details etc in Dublin and found that Joseph was his father - dont have my notebook here but I think his mother was Mary ann (maiden name Jameson)
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: LM on Friday 08 May 09 09:09 BST (UK)
yes, it was!  How bizarre - JE Mills was my grandfather, so we must be cousins of a sort. 
I don't know what the protocol is - I'm gatecrashing the Astbury conversation. Do we start a separate string, or what?
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: deryckjohn on Friday 08 May 09 12:11 BST (UK)
Hi Sue....what was the daughters name who was born in 1818....if we can find her on Cheshire parish records database(CPRDb) we may be able to work backwards to find Thomas.......allan

IGI says that the baptism were at the Wesleyan Baptist, Preston Brook.

Ann Astbury - 01 Dec 1818 Wesleyan, Preston Brook, Cheshire
Sarah Astbury - 16 Aug 1820 Wesleyan, Preston Brook, Cheshire
John Astbury - 17 Mar 1822 Wesleyan, Preston Brook, Cheshire
Mary Astbury  - 28 May 1823 Wesleyan, Preston Brook, Cheshire
Thomas Ashbury - 11 Aug 1824 Wesleyan, Preston Brook, Cheshire

or Liverpool

Daniel Sandback Astbury - 9 Jan 1830 Saint Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire
Elizabeth Astbury - 14 Jul 1831 Saint Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire
Emma Astbury  - 13 May 1833 Saint Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire
Frances Astbury  - 04 Jun 1835 Saint Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire


There is a Sarah Sandbach baptised at Whitegate 16 Jul 1797, but I cannot see Thomas.

No marriage on the Cheshire Marriage index either.
Deryck
Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: Suse on Friday 08 May 09 16:33 BST (UK)
re Mills

How great to be in contact with a Mills - I have been trying to find contacts on that side - on my grandmothers side (McMurtry) found a numbert of cousins (or second cousins never sure what!) so would be lovely to exchange further information = happy for you to have my e mail direct so we can continue the conversation: (*)
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Title: Re: Astbury
Post by: Suse on Friday 08 May 09 16:37 BST (UK)
Thanks Deryk - that is very useful. My cousin is coming over from Chicago  and i am putting a family tree togther for her and also a list of "roots" places to visit so this information is extremely helpful.