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Occupation Interests / Re: Weaving and Spinning Mills
« on: Friday 20 September 19 15:05 BST (UK)  »
I came across 2 other words for the occupation I know as fuller.

It seems to have been tucker in the south west. Not actually a family member, but related to some other reseach I was doing, William Hayne was master of the Gild of Weavers, Tuckers and Shearmen of Exeter in 1625, having joined the guild in 1606. And he was a tucker.

According to the National Instirute for Genealogical Studies, the word fuller was used in the south and east of England, and wa(u)lker in the west and north.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Row House, Marsden
« on: Saturday 13 July 13 21:14 BST (UK)  »
Yes, it's the Marsden near Huddersfield; they moved there a few years later. I did ask on the Marsden History Group forum, but hadn't had an answer yet, but thank you all, especially Wolfie Smith, that looks like a very likely answer.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: William Blackstone born 1773
« on: Saturday 13 July 13 17:55 BST (UK)  »
Lots of us are looking for him, and no-one has found him yet. I actually think it was a mis-hearing of Westerham. The Sloper family seem to have arrived in Eltham at about the same time as the Blackstones, and they originate near there. William Sloper married William and Elizabeth's daughter Sarah, and took on her illegitimate son Thomas, so I get the feeling the families were close friends.
There were very few Blackstones in the West of England at that time, but quite a big bunch of them in East Grinstead, and William seems more likely to have wandered north from there, but I can't find evidence for it.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Row House, Marsden
« on: Saturday 13 July 13 17:40 BST (UK)  »
My grandfather, William Thomas Blackstone, was born at Row House, Marsden on 30 Dec 1894. Does anyone know where that was, or what sort of place it was? The name sounds a bit posh for our sort of family, unless his father was working there, perhaps in the stables.

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Kent / Re: Goudhurst birth-John Morris
« on: Thursday 18 November 10 15:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Kish

I've been looking at the 1841 census too, and I wonder if your John Morris might be the one living in nearby Cranbrook, b ~ 1826 and working as a grocer's apprentice. There are no other Morrises listed in Cranbrook, so this one clearly seems to be working away from home. His age fits very nicely into the John and Harriet family in Goudhurst that Robin mentioned: there's Susan ~ 1824, Sophia ~ 1828, Ann ~ 1830, Maria ~1832, Albert ~1834, Samson ~1836 and Thomas ~1840. (I wonder if there was one in 1838 who died young?)

There are loads of other Morrises in Goudhurst, including an older John, b ~ 1771, who is also a carpenter.

Kathy

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Cumberland / Re: Are these two the selfsame person?
« on: Tuesday 16 November 10 09:13 GMT (UK)  »
They could be, but I don't think you can really tell.

There are other examples of William Bouch in Cumberland at that time:
one, son of Martin, christened 24 Apr 1773 at St James, Whitehaven (a bit further from Cockermouth than Wigton is, and in a different direction;
another, son of Lancelot, christened 6 Mar 1779 at Brigham, just outside Cockermouth.
Also an older one, b abt 1756 who married Elisabeth Langcake on 9 Sep 1779 in Wigton
and a younger one, son of John Bouch & Ann Ralton, christened 12 Jun 1805 at Allhallows, halfway between Wigton & Cockermouth.

All this from IGI. So clearly several families, may well have been related, but nothing I can see to tie down which William is yours.

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The Common Room / Re: Marriage cert year different in GRO index
« on: Monday 15 November 10 23:41 GMT (UK)  »
Or send for a copy of the certificate using the GRO reference, and compare their copy with yours.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Wealdstone Cemetery
« on: Saturday 06 November 10 09:55 GMT (UK)  »
I live fairly close to Wealdstone, but I don't know of a cemetary of that name, and neither does Google maps. Do you know what church it was associated with? What sort of date are we looking at here?

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The Common Room / Re: Leaving a young family behind
« on: Friday 05 November 10 07:38 GMT (UK)  »
I'm quite sure they wouldn't have been allowed to live in the cottage. At one museum I visited, the guide said if for example the man of the family was killed in an accident underground, the family would have to leave the cottage on the same day as his funeral. For that reason, if there were grown-up sons still at home, they would work a different shift fromtheir dad, so as to leave a current pit worker still resident.

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