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Westmorland / Re: Monumental Inscriptions
« on: Friday 24 January 25 00:22 GMT (UK)  »
Belatedly :) You can also read all the inscriptions in "Westmorland church notes" by Edward Bellasis pub.1888 vol.I on the Haithi website https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn2v6p&seq=1
Volume II can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: Graham of Wetheral
« on: Sunday 05 January 25 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
Richard Slack was a widower when he married Margaret G, both of Wetheral parish and the witnesses were Jane Young and Thomas Dixon.

The gap in Wm/Mary's children is curious, but maybe some of their children were baptised in Carlisle.
And I'm glad that it wasn't that Wm/Mary who died in the workhouse :)

I've no idea whether any of the Grahams in the censuses were distant relations, because our G male ancestor moved from Wetheral in 1797. But the Wetheral connection continued for another century, because he inherited a lot of tenanted land and houses (copyhold/customary) in Wetheral, which were passed down to the eldest son in each succeeding generation.
There was also a family connection to Eden Brows/Froddle Crook, which belonged to one of our Graham ancestors (a g/g/g/g/uncle) and was inherited by his son, who was there in the 1841 and 1851 censuses, but died before 1861.

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: Graham of Wetheral
« on: Saturday 04 January 25 22:00 GMT (UK)  »
Found William Graham b.1828 in the Wetheral parish records index.
He was baptised 1/6/1828 and his parents were William Graham and Mary Sanderson, who married in St Cuthberts, Carlisle, 18/6/1822, and had two other children baptised in Wetheral - Thomas 5/6/1836, and Emma 3/6/1838.

In the 1828 bapt, Wm (snr) was a farmer at High Stand, and in 1836 and 1838 he was a Labourer in Scotby.

Also in the Wetheral records are the burials of William and Mary Graham, who died 1877 and 1878 in Harraby Workhouse - but I don't know if this is the same William and Mary.
That William was 84 yrs when he died, so born c1793 - and Mary was 81y, so b.c1797.
The closest year I could find for a Wetheral bapt of any William Graham was 1790 - parents George Graham and Mary Lancaster. George was a Cooper at Warwick Bridge, and also at Wheelbarrow Hall.

I have quite a lot of BMD info for the Grahams in Wetheral - much of it unrelated to my branch, because there were so many of them !! and it's v.difficult untangling all the different families, many of whom, as far as I can gather, were unrelated.

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Cumberland / Re: Walton families - Alston & Allendale
« on: Saturday 11 November 23 01:59 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: AlisonM58 on Friday 29 September 23 16:18 BST (UK)
the actual transcript from the church for her marriage says her surname was Ritson. This strongly suggests that she was illegitimate.
Is it possible that your 4x g/gm Hannah's surname was Ritson from a previous marriage ?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Doyle baptism 1888 - South Africa
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 22:58 BST (UK)  »
Yes, it's driving me bonkers not knowing  :P

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Doyle baptism 1888 - South Africa
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 19:46 BST (UK)  »
I've not heard that name before, craggagh, but it certainly is a possibility. Thanks.
The problem with those middle letters is that they could be u, i, n, m, w, v or r.
It's frustrating that the only clue to another possible Doyle relative is illegible - sigh  :-\   

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Doyle baptism 1888 - South Africa
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 13:52 BST (UK)  »
Yes, that is "Van Staden" - and at the bottom of the page (online) the surname "Visagie" is written twice - so the 1st letter can't be a V.
I think the dot above the word is actually the start of the downward stroke of the first letter, and not the dot for an "i" - am going to look at the pages online now to see if I can find a capital letter that starts with a similar downward stroke.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Doyle baptism 1888 - South Africa
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 12:08 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, shanreagh. I also though the first letter might be a D - but, after looking at the writing on a lot of the other pages, I think the last two letters are "er".
Anyway, I'll keep Denis in mind when searching for Doyles in SA.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Doyle baptism 1888 - South Africa
« on: Tuesday 01 August 23 23:39 BST (UK)  »
Hmm, that's interesting, Sinann - thanks.
I don't know whether there was a John in the family, however - apart from my grandfather, that is, although he was actually baptised Johan. But he married in S.Africa, and never went to Ireland.

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