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South Africa / Re: Finding a grave location in South Africa (1970 death)
« on: Saturday 16 January 21 17:29 GMT (UK)  »
The headstone photograph is a memorial to Mrs May Eleanor Belton (2nd wife) died 1954 and Andrew Belton died 1970.

Mrs Kathleen Belton, died 1983, was Andrew Belton's 3rd wife.

Thanks

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Cumberland / Re: Preston Quarter Cemetery Whitehaven
« on: Saturday 23 May 20 22:10 BST (UK)  »
Good day alyson123,

I've recently seen this post you began asking for information about Whitehaven and Preston Quarter Cemetery and Bardy Lane. Attached is a plan of that cemetery with Ward 6 Section O highlighted in red border.
That part of the cemetery was generally for Roman Catholics so presumably your 3x Gt Grandmother Mary Doran was RC? There is no headstone for that grave which is in the middle of a large grassed area as a lot of that section was for common graves.

Hope this helps. If you want a photograph of the approximate location of that grave I can pop along some time and take one.

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Lancashire / Re: Checking a Liverpool R.C. marriage (November 1913)
« on: Sunday 08 January 17 19:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks very much.  :)
That's the one.

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Lancashire / Re: Checking a Liverpool R.C. marriage (November 1913)
« on: Sunday 08 January 17 18:32 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: ..claire.. on Sunday 08 January 17 16:07 GMT (UK)
Hi

Anc**try have Liverpool Catholic marriages online to 1921 ~ Our Lady of Good Help included amongst others.

Have you a name so we can help  :)

claire

Thanks.

The bride and groom were Maria Balin and Andrew Belton. From a note on Andrew's baptism record the date of the wedding was 2 November 1913 (which was a Sunday).

I didn't realise asking someone to check details on subscription sites was allowed on this forum? At the time of writing the website for the successor parish for this area of Liverpool does not have anything as to who to contact for archival records.

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The Lighter Side / Re: When is a relative not a relative?
« on: Sunday 08 January 17 16:21 GMT (UK)  »
At a local or parish level it is possible councillors could be distantly related to a large number of residents if the extended family has lived there for several generations. Distant cousins, such as second or third cousins as in the example you give here, may not even know of the family connection.

If a distant family relationship is known in advance when an issue arises at a council planning meeting I would expect it to be referred to the council clerk who would be able to check if the kinship, such as it is, needs to be declared.

It's an interesting point, but I don't think you could expect every councillor on every council in the country to know all their distant relatives in a district.

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Lancashire / Checking a Liverpool R.C. marriage (November 1913)
« on: Sunday 08 January 17 15:35 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know if it is possible to do a 'simple' check of a marriage in a Liverpool R.C. church (Wavertree) dating from November 1913, please? I have found a searchable with transcript details of Liverpool R.C. marriages up to 1901 but there is nothing to indicate where to look for anything after that time: 
http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/liverpoolrcmarriages/

The church where the marriage took place, so far as I know, was called "Our Lady's" at Wavertree. Would this be "Our Lady of Good Help" or would there have been another Catholic church in the district with a similar name?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can advise.

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: John Martindale, farmer of Newchurch parish
« on: Wednesday 10 February 16 21:46 GMT (UK)  »
The good news for you is that the baptism, marriage and burial records for what is now known as Watermillock All Saints parish still survive as far back as 1580 and are available at the Cumbria County Archives (Ref. PR 132/1 and 132/2). See link to complete list below:

http://www.archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/CalmView/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=PR%20132

Perhaps you (or someone visiting Carlisle Archives Office to help you out) might be able to find further details of your John Martindale, or even a generation or two before him. 

As you are probably aware, it was in this area (Gowbarrow Park) that inspired William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

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Australia / Re: Isabella (Bella) Baudot (nee Tyrell) [c.1854 - 1884]
« on: Sunday 03 January 16 14:11 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry about the relatively late posting of this reply to the thread. But, thanks to everyone who has provided information and leads that I have been able to follow up.

It has proved really informative, and especially as the research has been in several different lands around the world.

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Cumberland / Re: Holme Cultram - a building or a place?
« on: Thursday 08 October 15 17:33 BST (UK)  »
The attached photographs show the exterior of the modern-day church building of Holme Cultram Abbey which, although still impressive, is a much smaller building than existed before the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the reign of King Henry VIII.

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