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This is great information and really helps. 

I found the christening in Keele on FindMyPast but the record says parents are Isreal and LUCY.   

Is it likely that Alice Pepper would have used the name Lucy or should I be looking elsewhere?

Thanks again for everyone's help.  I'm leaning so much about how to triangulate things to verify facts.

Phil

I'm trying to figure out the birthplace of my 4th great grandfather Elisha Kinsey.  His 1851 Census data has his birthplace listed as what looks like ... Staffordshire, Webstanty (see attached photo). 

I can't figure out what 'Webstanty' refers to... maybe I'm reading it wrong.

Any suggestions as to location?

Thanks,

Phil

I am looking through some 18th century baptism records and I am confused by some entries in the column where I would expect to see a date.  I have attached an image showing the issue with the confusing words circled.  Anyone know what these words are?

Thanks for your help.

Phil

Hi everyone,

Looking for some help deciphering the "cause of death" on my Great, Great Grandfather's death certificate.  I understand a few words like "Chronic" and "Phthisis", but can read it all.

Any help would be much appreciated.



Phil

I am researching the marriage of two of my ancestors, John CLUTTON and Sarah CLUTTON (Nee EDWARDS).  My research so far indicates they lived together after their marriage in Malpas, Cheshire.  Strangely enough there was another couple living at different address in Malpas at the same time with exactly the same names.  Two different John CLUTTON's married different Sarah EDWARDS.

I have found two marriages in the area showing a John CLUTTON marrying a Sarah EDWARDS.  One in 1836 at St. John the Baptist Church in Chester and one in 1841 in St.Oswald's Church Malpas. Based on birth dates for their children, the 1836 marriage appears to be the marriage of my ancestors.

Here is my concern.  John CLUTTON was born in Malpas and I would assume lived there all his life as that is where the family lived after the marriage.  Sarah EDWARDS was born in Caldecott, which is about 5 miles NW of Malpas.  I don't know Sarah's whereabouts before the marriage to John. 

My question.  Given the above information, why would John and Sarah get married in Chester, which is 15 miles north of their birth places?  Why would the Parish record for the marriage in St. John the Baptist Church state they they were both "of this parish"?

I suppose Sarah could have moved with her family to Chester and the marriage occurred in Chester because of that, but why would both be said to be living in Chester at the time of the marriage?

Any thoughts or comments would be most welcome.  It's fascinating to try and imagine why things happened so long ago; hopefully I am thinking along the right lines.

Phil