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The Common Room / Re: Probate Orders (the last minute ones)
« on: Monday 05 January 26 12:26 GMT (UK) »
Happy to report that the last few of mine arrived mid-December 
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The Common Room / Re: Probate Orders (the last minute ones)
« on: Monday 08 December 25 23:42 GMT (UK) »
I ordered 6 pretty much as soon as the price increase was announced. Two were delivered within 1-2 days but I've heard nothing further about the rest. I would imagine they've been inundated!
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The Common Room / Re: 1910 "Domesday" survey
« on: Monday 24 November 25 20:21 GMT (UK) »
Do you mean on the Genealogist? If so then maybe ask then directly - they have a Contact Us section as well as a forum with a Technical Help section. I haven't used them much lately but they were always very responsive to questions and queries when I did.
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Durham / Re: William Jones, Stockton
« on: Monday 24 November 25 13:02 GMT (UK) »
Small world, my Welsh family lived at No. 11 Leonard Street in the mid 1870's, and were also Puddlers. Leonard Street was in the Portrack area of Stockton, close to the iron works.
All but one of mine either returned to Wales (even some who weren't even born there!) or emigrated to the US (Ohio / Pennsylvania), but with such a common name as William Jones it would be difficult to track your man with any certainty.
For what its worth, I think the enumerator has added a ditto to his name in error when copying the information from the household schedule, erroneously changing it from William Jones to William Jones Daniels.
All but one of mine either returned to Wales (even some who weren't even born there!) or emigrated to the US (Ohio / Pennsylvania), but with such a common name as William Jones it would be difficult to track your man with any certainty.
For what its worth, I think the enumerator has added a ditto to his name in error when copying the information from the household schedule, erroneously changing it from William Jones to William Jones Daniels.
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Durham / Re: William Jones, Stockton
« on: Sunday 23 November 25 21:11 GMT (UK) »
Can you clarify which name we're looking for please. Is it William Jones as in the title of the post, or William Jones Daniels as in your opening query?
Also you've said where he was born, but not when.
Also you've said where he was born, but not when.
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Leicestershire / Re: Missing: Fanny/Frances Swift b1840 Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire
« on: Friday 07 November 25 02:24 GMT (UK) »
Thank you - just the small matter now of what happened to her after that 
My gut tells me that Flora and Fanny/Frances are the same person, but proving it or even tipping the scales of probability still feels out of reach.
My gut tells me that Flora and Fanny/Frances are the same person, but proving it or even tipping the scales of probability still feels out of reach.
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Leicestershire / Re: Missing: Fanny/Frances Swift b1840 Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire
« on: Wednesday 05 November 25 01:07 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to those brief settlement notes I've been able to find Flora's Removal Order to Paddington.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2651/images/31952_a014583-00396?usePUB=true&_phsrc=MKO828
Unfortunately there's no further information about her origins but it does confirm that the father of her children is George Wright of 10 Charlotte Place, Paddington.
I'd suspected it was him from the 1871 newspapers where he initially proclaimed that he would not be responsible for his wife's debts and then shortly afterwards advertised two rooms for rent.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2651/images/31952_a014583-00396?usePUB=true&_phsrc=MKO828
Unfortunately there's no further information about her origins but it does confirm that the father of her children is George Wright of 10 Charlotte Place, Paddington.
I'd suspected it was him from the 1871 newspapers where he initially proclaimed that he would not be responsible for his wife's debts and then shortly afterwards advertised two rooms for rent.
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Leicestershire / Re: Missing: Fanny/Frances Swift b1840 Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire
« on: Wednesday 05 November 25 00:24 GMT (UK) »
A big thank you for those jonwarnn - I'd managed to find the creed registers but had given up on finding any form of settlement examination, so that's a brilliant find 
Next question is what does it say? I've got as far as:
8 Nov 1877
Flora Tobin, 32, W
4, 2 + 14 days
I lived with Mr Wright(?) as his wife at Charlotte Place, Paddington [] for about 6 years and only left him about 5 months ago.
Paddington Order Made
Next question is what does it say? I've got as far as:
8 Nov 1877
Flora Tobin, 32, W
4, 2 + 14 days
I lived with Mr Wright(?) as his wife at Charlotte Place, Paddington [
] for about 6 years and only left him about 5 months ago.Paddington Order Made
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Leicestershire / Re: Missing: Fanny/Frances Swift b1840 Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 13:50 GMT (UK) »
At marriage both John Tobin & Flora Swift gave their address as just 'St Marylebone' but the address on Flora Annie's birth certificate a few months later was 11 Dorset Buildings, the same as the Infirmary entry you mention.
The informant for Flora Annie's birth was Isabella Ann Richardson, Occupier, 11 Dorset Buildings
The informant for Flora Annie's birth was Isabella Ann Richardson, Occupier, 11 Dorset Buildings