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Lanarkshire / Re: 1851 look up
« on: Sunday 15 January 12 17:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hmmmm,

I should learn to read-that is a bit more doable.

I guess you mean peter and not james?

Peter fits, but.....

I am still concerned that she is the right one though-mostly cos the 1861 census has her with a ditto under her hubby's "gallowayshire" birth place but then "Blackcraig" rather than Gatehouse.  This seems very detailed to be wong and clashes with the New Monkland birth place of 1851's Jean Benson.

More research I think

Chuzzle

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Lanarkshire / Re: 1851 look up
« on: Sunday 15 January 12 15:37 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry just noted a typo-For the second James sibling please read Jane.

Obviously all the rest born in Old Monklands.

Apart from deadend around peter benson in Ireland and his parents James(a field labourer) and sarah irving, I have also hit a dead end with Jane/jean armstrong(though she may be working as a servant in troqueer, galloway in 1851? and also margaret carson.  Again bags of carsons in Galloway and in the absence of census info it has been hard to track down her parents of william carson(saddler) and Sarah Clyne?

Very interested in these as we now live in Dumfries & Galloway so by accident have ended up close to some of my wife's ancestors.

Cheers

Chuzzle

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Lanarkshire / Re: 1851 look up
« on: Sunday 15 January 12 15:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hi All who have replied since I revived this stream a few days ago.
I will try to comment on a few things across several replies:
Distant relatives first-Thor.
My wife Gill is the daughter of a Barbara Fogden, who was in turn the daughter of Vera Benson, who was the daughter of John Thomas Benson a tobacconist in Oxford.  He was the youngest son of James Benson, much discussed in this stream.  He was one of only two children born in England Staffs, where James had gone to work as a miner-he died 6 mths before the birth.  So James is my wife' Great, Great Grandfather. JT's "10" siblings were James, Isabella, Mary, Margaret, Alice, James, Charlotte, Peter, Alexander and Jessie.
Jane Armstrong has been hard to track down-possibly because of the interchangeable Jean/Jane noted by Sancti.
The 1841 census I had seen and I think the James Benson lodging on his own in 1851-despite marriage the year before does not surprise-I had found that as well-it is interesting that it is with an Irish family and in a mining area.  James became a miner and his father Peter was from Ireland-in that other than some suggestions that Benson/Irving was common in Belfast/Shankill-we have no idea which bit, then maybe there was a connection to Sligo?.
I don't think the 1851 census for Jean/Jane is right.  there is no way they had a 9yr old son and I think there is evidence that Jane came from old Benson home area of Galloway-Near to Gatehouse of Fleet-Blackcraig?.  To many Armstrongs and limited birth/census records mean that I am not sure I have properly tracked her down in 1841 as yet.
Cheers
Chuzzle

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Lanarkshire / Re: 1851 look up
« on: Tuesday 10 January 12 17:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hi There,

Don't know if you are still out ther/interested in the bensons-but if you are can give you some later history as I have been investigating my wife's final history.

She goes back to James Benson-Peter's son born in 1828, who later moved to England to work as a miner in Staffordshire, married a jane and they had a biggish family.  He died there in 1869 and his wife in 1897.

Did you ever find out about Peter?

Cheers

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