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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) Lookup Requests / Re: Martha Cunningham and Anthony Garvey Marriage - possibly Bridlington or Selby
« on: Thursday 20 June 24 22:54 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much Mabel and Comberton. It is rather embarrassing that you are able to find these things so quickly. I wish I were better with my searches. I use Ancestry and sometimes the results of the searches seem quite scattergun. Comberton, I see you use Find My Past. Do you think it gives more accurate results and has more documents? Also, I can't see the images when I follow your link. I see the narratives though.

Thanks again!

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) Lookup Requests / Martha Cunningham and Anthony Garvey Marriage - possibly Bridlington or Selby
« on: Thursday 20 June 24 21:57 BST (UK)  »
Background: My relative is Martha Hartley Jackson. She married William Cunningham in 1851, had five children to him and then he died in 1862. She then had two children to an Anthony Garvey (1869 and 1873) and in the 1871 and subsequent censuses she was shown as his wife and living in Bridlington (1871) and York (1881 and 1891).
My problem: I cannot find any record of the marriage between Anthony and Martha. Can anyone help? Could it be that they merely claimed to be married? Or was that never done in the 1800s?

In advance, thank you for any help that anyone can give! :)

 

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Accessing the 1841 Census for a particular street
« on: Saturday 02 December 23 19:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for all the help.
Poor understanding of processes mean that I can't seem to get to see the High Steet in order or with house numbers and before I know it I'm in Grimsby Road! However, I can't see John Thompson or Loies Heaton anywhere. Thanks for the idea of looking for the witnesses (Thomas & Mary Dawson). I found a few Dawsons with the most likely being a couple aged 30 but, unfortunately no John Thompson or Loies Heaton. Their location in the 1841 census remains a mystery I'm afraid.
I do have a findmypast membership but couldn't seem to get into the full house by house census. I fear it will be my poor abilities rather than an issue with data!

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Accessing the 1841 Census for a particular street
« on: Friday 01 December 23 19:42 GMT (UK)  »
Good evening
I'm wanting to look at the 1841 census pages for the High Street Hull. I'd like to see if I can spot two of my relatives who may have lived there. When they married on 22 August 1841 the male (John Thompson) says he lived at 4 High St Hull and the female (Lois Heaton or Hayton) on the "same street". When I do searches in Ancestry for either of them they do not appear and yet the census was only a couple of months earlier. This is why I'd like to go through the record, page by page for the High Street.
Is there any way to do this?
Thank you!

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Laugharne family and Griffiths family - Pembrokeshire
« on: Friday 07 January 22 19:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Vivien
Thanks for your response. I was hoping you'd pick up my post and be able to access my tree. Thank-you also for your information on William's father Thomas. Where do you get this excellent information from? I'd love to see copies of source evidence (I'm not a lawyer but I like proof, it makes me feel warm inside - and I've seen so many dodgy unproven links that I don't want to perpetrate more than I already probably have  :D).
Because of distance all I can do is undertake research online but you sound to be a little closer to Dinas! (And to understand Welsh).
My guess is that you have got so far back that some of these Laugharnes would have been fighting Napoleon. Wouldn't that be a great story to add to the trees!
Anyway, thanks for picking this up and for the information. More power to Rootschat!
Graham

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Laugharne family and Griffiths family - Pembrokeshire
« on: Saturday 01 January 22 14:37 GMT (UK)  »
Happy New Year
To those of you interested in the Laugharnes of Pembrokeshire, I have been researching a small corner of them. The ones related to Thomas and Mary Laugharne of Bwlchmawr, Dinas and, in particular, William Laugharne and his wife Ann. It has taken me years, on and off, to get to some form of conclusion and I now attach a word document. Unfortunately I am sure there are inaccuracies but it is my best effort to date. Any additional evidence will be gratefully received.
So far I have not visited any record offices - I live too far away from any of the relevant ones although I may contact Kew or other maritime records offices to see what they have got.
I have tried to attach the fruits of my research to rootschat but the docs breach the file size limit to I am trying an alternative by including a link to "my" William Laugharne's page on ancestry. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/13043727/person/-40793827/Gallery?_phtarg=eHC528

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Lincolnshire / Re: THOMPSON family - High Street, Crowle, Lincolnshire
« on: Monday 21 January 19 18:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thank-you Carole W and DCB for your help. And for pointing me at GRO.  I confess, I had used it but only to ask for certs I had found in other places.
Based on your recommendation I went back to GRO but it decided it did not like my password and also wouldn't issue the password refresh email to my email account (I also looked in spam).  I'm waiting for GRO to come back to me to explain the problem and then maybe I will be able to get in and have a proper look around.

Anyway...thanks again.

Graham

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Lincolnshire / THOMPSON family - High Street, Crowle, Lincolnshire
« on: Wednesday 12 December 18 22:01 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching my great grandfather, John Thompson and his wife Lilly Thompson (nee Couch). The 1911 Census indicates that three children had been born alive although one had subsequently died. This latter death occurred between census's and I can't seem to find any record in births/baptisms via ancestry.co.uk searches.

Can anyone help?

Bilham

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Lincolnshire Lookup Requests / Re: Crowle enquiry
« on: Tuesday 13 November 18 00:06 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for the replies. Through the wonders of Google Maps (and Google Earth) I have found the cemetery and it looks like the one. I've also sent a message to Crowle Council....let's hope they reply!

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