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Flintshire Lookup Requests / Re: Fox family Ferry Bank Farm Sealand
« on: Wednesday 02 June 10 14:37 BST (UK)  »
Hi jeannie

No hurry. Work is flat out so won't be able to enter anything on the family tree for a while anyway. Thanks for your efforts though!!

Regards

mark

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Flintshire Lookup Requests / Re: Fox family Ferry Bank Farm Sealand
« on: Monday 31 May 10 02:05 BST (UK)  »
Also interested in the Meacock Family connection too ..

Regards

Mark

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Flintshire Lookup Requests / Re: Fox family Ferry Bank Farm Sealand
« on: Monday 31 May 10 02:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jeannie

Just wondering what information you have on the Heyes Family back from Jane Heyes (who married John Fox). You mentioned the 1851 census shows :

James HEYES / brother in law / age 21 / Partner in the Business / born Hawarden
Thomas HEYES / brother in law / age 45 / Land Surveyor / born Ormskirk, Lancashire
Henry HEYES / brother in law / age 38 / School Master / born Liverpool

They are obviously Jane Heye's brothers so I'd like to add them in as well .. but Tribalpages doesn't let me add them in until I can add Jane's parents to the tree .. and I don't have any information on them ..

Regards

Mark

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Flintshire Lookup Requests / Re: Fox family Ferry Bank Farm Sealand
« on: Sunday 30 May 10 22:33 BST (UK)  »
 :)

Well howdy cousin!!

Isn't this fantastic. I'm new to this whole family tree thing, and I must say I'm starting to see how addictive it can become! Especially when you start to make connections like this. It's fascinating.

Many thanks for your help Jeannie. Any information you can give on the siblings of John Fox senior would be very helpful .. I'm updating the family tree my cousin has setup on Tribal Pages. Great to have that photo of John Fox too ... many thanks for that!! I've added that to the tree as well.

Thanks again for all your help

Regards

Mark

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Flintshire Lookup Requests / Re: Fox family Ferry Bank Farm Sealand
« on: Sunday 30 May 10 01:23 BST (UK)  »
Wow that's fantastic Jeannie you are so kind. Would love to have that information and the photo would be extremely appreciated!! I will pm you my email address. Thaks again - hope the foot is getting better?

Regards

mark

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Flintshire Lookup Requests / Re: Fox family Ferry Bank Farm Sealand
« on: Friday 28 May 10 22:57 BST (UK)  »
Jeannie that's fantastic!! Many thanks!! Yes would love the information about the fox family. Thank you so much for your help. In under a week our knowledge of the family has gone back two more generations!

Fantastic

regards

mark

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Flintshire Lookup Requests / Re: Fox family Ferry Bank Farm Sealand
« on: Tuesday 25 May 10 23:56 BST (UK)  »
Further to my previous post, I have a marriage certificate for Elizabeth Hayes Fox to Paul Evans (a brewer from Seacombe in Cheshire)  dated 1869.

Fathers of the two are listed as Thomas Evans, Coach Proprietor and John Fox, Brewer.

I came across a post here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/askalocal/pages/hist40.shtml where someone is asking for information about a pub called the Hawarden Castle where her Great Great Great Grandfather, a William Evans, was listed as the Publican on his death certificate in 1850. Interestingly, one of the witnesses on the marriage certificate is a William Evans - obviously not the same one, as the marriage was in 1869 and the death certificate in the post above was dated 1850. But it's perhaps possible that the William Evans who witnessed the marriage cert was related to (son or nephew perhaps) of the William Evans publican?

One thing does appear clear - the Hawarden Castle was definitely a pub supplied by Castle Hill Breweries.

I'm interested in a possible "Cheshire" connection here too. Paul Evans, on the marriage cert, is listed as coming from Seacombe in Cheshire. I know that Castle Hill Brewery was acquired by the Burtonwood brewery from Cheshire in 1948. Burtonwood continued to operate until only a few years ago when it appears that it was sold to a pub chain called “Marstons” which operates 500+ pubs across UK : http://www.marstontaverns.co.uk

So I wonder whether there was an Evans/Cheshire connection operating here that may have been tied into the Burtonwood acquisition in some way  .. since Paul Evans was clearly listed as a "Brewer" from Cheshire in the marriage certificate??

This is all fascinating .. so any further elucidation would be very welcome!?

Regards

Mark Evans

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Flintshire Lookup Requests / Re: Fox family Ferry Bank Farm Sealand
« on: Tuesday 25 May 10 14:39 BST (UK)  »
Hi There

I'm tracking backwards and think I can solve the puzzle of Elizabeth Hayes Fox raised by Chris in this thread - so let's hope people are still monitoring it as it's looking oldish now.

Anyway - Elizabeth Hayes Fox was my great-great-grandmother. She married a Paul Evans (my great-great-grandfather) and obviously emigrated to New Zealand, as that's where her decendants have ended up. I think she and her husband Paul Evans probably emigrated to New Zealand in approximately 1885 or thereabouts.

I'm basing this on a photo that I have in which she and husband and children (Thomas, Mira, Inez, Paul, Mabel and Eva) are pictured in a very "staged" looking shot next to a boat. We think this was shot in New Zealand after arrival - though it's a studio shot, so difficult to know for sure.

My great-grandfather Thomas Evans who was born in 1875 or thereabouts appears to be about 9 or 10 years old in the photo. Which would make the date of the photo around 1885.

In the picture are:Thomas Evans and in the very front (small girl) Mira Evans. 

Mama (Elizabeth Hayes Fox/Evans) and Papa (Paul Evans) are middle and right. With Mama is Inez Evans and along the back row from left to right are: Paul Evans,  Mabel Evans and Eva Evans.

Very keen to make contact with others in this branch of the family tree ... and have a digital copy of this photo if anyone's interested.

Regards

Mark Evans

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