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Lancashire / Re: Old Leeds/Liverpool Canal Photos
« on: Friday 07 March 14 22:45 GMT (UK)  »
A few things that might be of interest:

Most useful probably is the Boat Families site, where there's a chance you may find family members if they worked the canal: http://www.boatfamilies.org.uk/

They also published a book which is really good: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Burscough-Boatmen-Their-Marriages-Boats/dp/1901231127 OK, so your family may not be from around Burscough but the boatmen travelled wide and married outside the area. And that book is packed with great photos.

Modern photos and all sorts of info can be found on these two sites:
http://www.towpathtreks.co.uk/LLC/walking_the_leeds_liverpool_canal.html
http://www.leedsliverpoolcanal.co.uk/

It's also worth looking what groups there are on facebook, as there are some very active, picture packed local history sites for the North West running at the moment.

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / FTM 2008 Merging nightmare
« on: Friday 27 September 13 00:05 BST (UK)  »
My blood just ran cold as I thought my whole tree had disappeared...

I use FTM 2008. Tonight I tried to merge two people as I found out a brother and sister on one branch had respectively married a grandaughter and a son on another*. I backed up as requested and found all the relationship info in the whole tree had gone.

So I tried to restore the backup, as I'd only entered in a couple of baptisms I could easily re-enter. It didn't work.  :'( After ten minutes of fear, I found an old copy from this evening in the recycle bin and it seems to have worked.

I suppose, then, that I cannot merge two people in this way?

*Margaret R and Richard R are siblings. Margaret R married Robert M, Richard R married Jane S. Jane S is Robert M's niece.

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Lancashire / Re: Margaret Stewart 1848 West Derby
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 23:34 BST (UK)  »
I sent a message about it so it could be linked to it. I hope they will. I'm guessing that back when it was originally written down it was either an error or perhaps the cert was updated with something afterwards.

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Lancashire / Re: Margaret Stewart 1848 West Derby
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 22:48 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: CaroleW on Monday 12 August 13 22:51 BST (UK)
I think this is her parents marriage but appreciate it needs to be confirmed from her birth cert

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NN9C-QV3

I know you can ring/email the GRO to order certs or make enquiries so perhaps that might be an option in view of the double entries

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/contact_us.asp

I'm very suspicious that's her parents' marriage - there's also a tradition of names being passed on in the family Margaret made with her husband and one of them is Charles, not at all a name from his family. There's this marriage record, plus there's also a Charles and Catherine McCool in a household in the 1841 census. So I'm hopeful I've found some answers. I admit  McCool sounds an interesting name to do further searches on, so crossing fingers  ;)

Only the certs will prove it and I've got an order in now.

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Lancashire / Re: Margaret Stewart 1848 West Derby
« on: Monday 12 August 13 20:23 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: CaroleW on Sunday 11 August 13 23:10 BST (UK)
You say you know her fathers name - have you checked the 1851 for her?  There is a 2yr old birthplace West Derby with parents Thomas & Catherine

Yes, cheers Carole, I have spotted that one. He father is named Thomas Stewart on her marriage cert, and she also had a daughter who she gave the first names "Catherine Stewart" (I think this is particularly a Scots tradition to pass on the mother's maiden surname as a middle name), so I am just about as certain as it's possible to be that this is her in 1851. I have a possible name for her mother but of course need her birth cert for accuracy.

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Lancashire / Re: Margaret Stewart 1848 West Derby
« on: Sunday 11 August 13 22:45 BST (UK)  »
Wonder if there's facility to submit a 'note' with an online order to GRO? Then I could note that these could be the same person? I'd do a local order (I've heard they check these things) but she does not appear on LancsBMD which is still patchy as regards births in the Liverpool area. I know her father's name, but I'm after finding her mother's name.

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Lancashire / Margaret Stewart 1848 West Derby
« on: Sunday 11 August 13 19:47 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking to order birth cert/s for Margaret Stewart, born 1848, West Derby. There are two to choose from.

Just looked up the register books on Ancestry and the two entries both have the same ledger number:
Jul-Sept Vol 20, Page 1002
Oct-Dec Vol 20, Page 1002

Is it likely they are the same girl?

There are also two Charles Stewarts born W.Derby 1846, both Apr-June but with different ledger numbers.

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Lancashire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: LancsBMD registration district
« on: Friday 07 December 12 00:36 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: KitCarson on Monday 03 December 12 14:49 GMT (UK)
Hi Lal, when I looked on Street View it looked like it might have been a small village but you think it covered a bigger area?  I know that in the 1881c her husband had re-married and was living in School Lane, Skelmersdale.  It would be interesting to look at maps of the area from that time.  Kit
     

  School Lane is still there now, it's part of 'old Skem' as it's known, i.e. the original township before the 1960s expansion. There are other 'School Lanes' in the Lathom district, but if it states Skelmersdale it will be the one near Neverstitch Road (note, not the one in Upholland, as that was very definitely not part of Skem back then, it was its own parish).

I suppose the district was named Lathom due to the status of Lathom Hall as a great estate. Lathom village was always small and scattered.



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Lancashire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: LancsBMD registration district
« on: Monday 03 December 12 12:11 GMT (UK)  »
Lathom was a big district and also included much of Burscough, and possibly Parbold!

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