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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Hertfordshire => Topic started by: zetlander on Thursday 30 June 22 17:10 BST (UK)
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Looking for details of the Dorrington family living there in 1885.
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Posted on the Beginners board?? Have asked moderator to move it to Herts board
40 entries on the 1851 & 55 on the 1861 for surname Dorrington. You have not given any christian names or birthyears
Have you checked the 1851 & 1861 censuses? All censuses are free here
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list?count=50&cqs=England+census
FindMyPast allows census search by address but subscription required
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Posted on the Beginners board?? Have asked moderator to move it to Herts board
40 entries on the 1851 & 55 on the 1861 for surname Dorrington. You have not given any christian names or birthyears
Have you checked the 1851 & 1861 censuses? All censuses are free here
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list?count=50&cqs=England+census
FindMyPast allows census search by address but subscription required
Thanks Carole
Got the date wrong - should be 1885.
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Which Dorrington family?
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Is it this couple?
marriage 26th December 1885 St Mary’s Hitchin
John Dorrington father James
Amy Thomason , father Thomas
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From Free Reg
John Dorrington, 31 yrs, widower, Engineer of Taylor’s Lane. Father, James, labourer
Amy Thomas, 21 yrs Bedford Rd
Witnesses were Thomason
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Previous posts
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=812045.msg6724068#msg6724068
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=847307.msg7144347#msg7144347
Maybe others
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Yes, it is the Dorrington/Thomason family.
Have posted a number of posts re my search for the family of John Dorrington without success. I have a lot of information on the family post 1885 but nothing before 1885 when the elusive John Dorrington was married.
Bit of a long shot but JD may have been living with a relative in Taylor Lane in 1885 when he got married. (JD born Whittlesey in 1852.)
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Have you got the house number from the marriage certificate?
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No census between 1881-1885 so you would have to look at electoral registers. As you don't have any house number - if Dorrington wasn't in Taylors Lane when the ER was compiled - there is no way you would be able to identify the right house unless there was another Dorrington living there
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Have you got the house number from the marriage certificate?
no, not got house number.
Were there Electoral Registers in 1885 and are they accessible on line? Would Herts Archives be able to help?
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There is a newspaper snippet - 4th June 1886 Herts and Cambs Reporter
It was a theft - the property of John Dorrington, of Taylor’s Lane.
So he was living there after marriage.
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There is a newspaper snippet - 4th June 1886 Herts and Cambs Reporter
It was a theft - the property of John Dorrington, of Taylor’s Lane.
So he was living there after marriage.
Anyone able to access the Electoral Registers for Taylor Lane Hitchen for 1885-87 period - hoping to find who was living with the elusive John Dorrington at that time. (House number not known.)
(Contacted Hertford Archives and they do hold the Registers for this period.) Thanks.
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Hi
I live in Hitchin, don't know of a Taylors Lane, but there is a small row of cottages called Taylors Cottages which runs off Oughtonhead Way.