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Isle of Man / Re: William Douglas Foy Robertson
« on: Friday 16 November 12 08:55 GMT (UK)  »
Do you have access to Ancestry?  I think you will find him on Great Britain, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927.
Date of birth: 11th October 1853, Liverpool.

12th Jan 1875, issuing port Douglas. Second mate.
Permanent address: 202, Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, London.

17th Jan 1884, issuing port London. First mate.
Permanent address: 202, Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, London.

19th Jan 1884, issuing port London. Master mariner.
Permanent address: 202, Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, London.

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Isle of Man / Re: Eccles IOM Birth
« on: Saturday 19 May 12 09:36 BST (UK)  »
Just a thought.  How about if the Eccles/Phipps marrriage was her second one?  She would have been about 30 when she married Thomas Phipps, plenty of time to have been married before.  I reckon the only way to get this sorted out is to get that marriage certificate for 1932, which should tell you whether or not she had been married before - although this isn't always 100%.

Catnav

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Isle of Man / Re: Eliza Gill b. about 1840
« on: Friday 18 May 12 12:27 BST (UK)  »
Sorry! Just spotted it!  Really should put my glasses on!

Catnav

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Isle of Man / Re: Eliza Gill b. about 1840
« on: Friday 18 May 12 12:23 BST (UK)  »
Have you got a date of birth?  Gill is not an uncommon name!

Catnav

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: John Havard Evans - is he a student at St Bees?
« on: Sunday 15 April 12 07:28 BST (UK)  »
The National Archives has a listing that has the entry books in the Cumbria Archives and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven, with a reference YDEC 2/1. Thank you for taking the time to try to find out for me, it never ceases to amaze me how generous people are! If John Evans did go to the Theological College, he may have left after his father died in 1873.

Catnav

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: John Havard Evans - is he a student at St Bees?
« on: Saturday 14 April 12 19:57 BST (UK)  »
I have got a fair amount of information from a variety of sources, and have his birth, marriage and death certificates.  Also, there is information about other members of his family in Crockford's, the "Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and Families of Wales" (not all accurate) as well as other documents.  I will hopefully be going to Crickhowell to see documents that they hold including John's father's will and family papers, but Whitehaven is a bit far for me!

Catnav

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: John Havard Evans - is he a student at St Bees?
« on: Saturday 14 April 12 17:51 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your confidence!  I have tried to explore all of the possibilities, even trying to track the progress of the several John Evanses who were born in Llanbadard Fawr at the right time - if I had found one that had turned out to be a vicar later on, then I could rule this one out! Crockford's Clerical Directories are a great help. I have traced the other John Evanses that were born in Crickhowell at the same time, and they seem all to tie up in 1871/81.  He could be out of the country, or even in prison!

Here's hoping someone can help,

Catnav.

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / John Havard Evans - is he a student at St Bees?
« on: Saturday 14 April 12 16:06 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to find John Havard Evans, born in Crickhowell in 1843 (son of John Evans, Rector of Crickhowell).  I cannot locate him in 1871 (or 1881), but he does marry a Sarah Mary Jackson in St Bees in 1875, and they are living in Albert Street, Barrow, in 1876 (address on her death certificate).  I am wondering if anyone is able to look at the entry books for St Bees Theological College at the Cumbria record office, between say 1865 and 1875 - I believe that the reference is YDEC 2?  Although his occupation in 1875 is as a clerk and in 1876 a railway clerk, he comes from a family of vicars, and in 1861 is described as an "attorney" a visitor at his uncle's, who is the Vicar of Marshfield, South Wales.  I have been unable to find a satisfactory reason as to why he would be in the area of St Bees, other than a lot of Welsh students of theology attended St Bees College.  In 1871, his future wife lives with her mother in St Bees, who is a boarding-house keeper, with several "Students of Theology" in residence, one of whom is a John Evans of about the right age, but who's birth place is Llanbadarn Fawr, nowhere near Crickhowell.

The St Bees College connection is a bit of a long shot, but I really have hit a brick wall with this stage of his life.  He appears later on in Cardiff, where he has children and dies in 1899.  I get the impression that he may have been a bit of a "black sheep"!

Thanks in anticipation of any help that anyone can give me,

Catnav

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Isle of Man / Re: Margaret Church
« on: Saturday 10 September 11 13:54 BST (UK)  »
I've just had a quick look at the Lawson micro site - follow the link from the Isle of Man Family History Society website.  It has the birth in Castletown listed, but also has the parents:

CLURCHER, Margaret 13 Apr 1881 Castletown 51 CLURCHER, Henry ROBERTS, Ruth

As the birth is in April, this accounts for her not being on the 1881 census, and for her age being estimated a year younger in following censuses.  I presume that this couple is the Henry Churcher and Ruth Roberts that marry in Penzance in Dec 1878 (FreeBMD).

Hope this is of help.  Have you traced the family backwards by actually sending for the certificates?

catnav

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