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Northumberland / Re: Help wanted on Wedderspoons!
« on: Monday 14 June 10 15:52 BST (UK)  »
I found the marriage between Mary Wedderspoon and John Urwin:
The marriage was in Newcastle All Saints and they were both "of this parish".  The date was 28th Oct 1815, they both signed their names and the witness was Cuthbert Hutchinson.
I have been hoping John is my John Urwin.  He and his wife Mary had four children, Esther 1819, presumably died, Esther again 1821, John 1824 and Thomas 1825.  Mary died prior to 1837 when John married again (confusingly another Mary).
I have to admit that there were several John Urwins with wives called Mary around at the the time, but I have hooked onto Mary Wedderspoon because of the Esther name.....
Have you got any further with your research?
Chris

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Durham / Re: Urwin
« on: Sunday 24 January 10 16:25 GMT (UK)  »
I am interested in the marriage of Mary Hall and John Urwin - do you by any chance have the certificate and/or know what John's occupation was or father was called?

Chris

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Durham Lookup Requests / Re: Urwins in Holy Cross, Ryton
« on: Wednesday 20 January 10 09:05 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that - last night I tried imagining suitable names for children and did a search on the IGI, finding three children baptised in Washington (which also seemed a likely place as Mary was a native of there):
Elizabeth 1789, Thomas 1792 and Mary 1794, with parents John and Mary.  No luck on William, James, Margaret, Sarah or Ann though....!  I'll have to keep looking for John and at least one more girl in the missing years.  Maybe Jane died young and so Sarah became the 5th girl.

Will try the BT site again, though it is a bit cumbersome.  Anything free gets my vote.

I don't think I'll ever be able to tie in most of this info definitively, but it's starting to look like a few puzzles pieces are coming together

By the way, the Esther(s) born in Gateshead are definitely to my John junior and his first  wife, Mary unknown.  If I assume the first one died, they seem very keen to have a girl called Esther and so perhaps this was the name of Mary's mother...  Oops, speculating again.

Many thanks for everyone's help - and so quickly too!
Chris

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Durham Lookup Requests / Re: Urwins in Holy Cross, Ryton
« on: Tuesday 19 January 10 18:58 GMT (UK)  »
My John Urwin was born approx 1796. 
He was married three times and fathered some children in 1848/50, before dying in 1857.
His first wife was Mary unknown, who died prior to 1841.
His second wife was Mary Nicholson who married him prior to 1841 and died in 1845.
His third wife was Elizabeth Rutherford (nee Henderson) who married him in 1846 and died in 1855.
It was reportedly a drunken argument at 2 a.m. over who was going to be the fourth Mrs Urwin that provoked his fatal apoplectic fit in 1857.  I have a sneaking admiration for him!

I recently found the last two of John's orphaned children living in 1861 with their aunt Sarah Richardson (nee Urwin) who gave her birthplace consistently as Crawcrook.  From this, and her age, I deduced from the IGI that she was part of the family of John Urwin and Mary Cowan(s) but have been unable to view the registers as they don't seem to be online (or at any rate not freely viewable!) and I live abroad.

The IGI only has Jane 1801, Sarah 1805 and George 1808, and so I was thrilled to see the comment in the other thread that the register gave Jane as their 5th daughter, implying that there had indeed been many earlier children.  My John always gave his father's name as John and his father's occupation as engineer, and that also seems to fit.

Of course, John Urwin and Mary Cowans may have lived elsewhere prior to 1801....

I hope this fills in the gaps.
Chris

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Durham Lookup Requests / Urwins in Holy Cross, Ryton
« on: Tuesday 19 January 10 17:20 GMT (UK)  »
On another thread I saw that "Ecneps" had posted the following:
...... baptism:  Holy Cross  Ryton (Gateshead)
1 Nov 1801 Jane Urwin, of Crawcrook, born 20-Aug 1801, 5th daughter of John Urwin (enginewright, native of Lanchester) by his wife Mary nee Cowans (native of Washington)

I would love more details on this family as their son John was my gt-gt grandfather and has been v. difficult to trace.  Can anyone help please?
Chris

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