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Staffordshire / Re: Looking for Family from Rugeley Staffordshire
« on: Monday 09 January 12 00:50 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, that looks like them. I've spotted that before - the 'Sarah' business is odd but possibly a mishearing/transcription error. D. Ford is Hannah's father, Daniel.

Thanks for your help.

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Staffordshire / Re: Looking for Family from Rugeley Staffordshire
« on: Sunday 08 January 12 22:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hi.

John Thomas Ford is my Great Grandfather too!

I hit the same problems as you and also have a copy of the marriage certificate sans father's details.

I think I have a little more information on this, a bit too complicated (and unverifiable) to go into here but as far as I can find, JTF's mother Hannah married a John Brickley not long after JTF was born and JTF spent the first 20-odd years of his life, until marriage it would appear, being called Brickley. I have some anecdotal evidence from (still living) family members that confirms the link to the Brickley family. Whether John B. is JTF's natural father or not, I sadly have no idea.

It would be great if you could drop me a private message as I have a bit more information on this and it would be good to swap notes. I can also give you some background on the locale if you need it as I grew up in the Hednesford area.


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Rutland / Luffenham Hall
« on: Sunday 08 January 12 21:49 GMT (UK)  »
I have an ancestor, John Graves (b. N. Luffenham 1826 - 1881), who is listed in 1851, and presumably for several years afterwards judging by the birthplaces of his children, working as a Groom at Wycliffe Hall, Co. Durham . By 1861 and then for 20-odd years, John was first a Groom, then a Coachman working at Luffenham Hall in N. Luffenham, in the employ of William Heathcote.

I have some basic details of Luffenham Hall & Wycliffe, but does anyone know whether there was any link between Wycliffe Hall & Luffenham Hall and/or its inhabitants that might have been the reason for John spending several years working quite so far from home?

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