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Hi Ruskie
How strange.
If I look at 'my posts' the thread has the same name and I just clicked on and found my way to my previous replies which aren't in this thread. I'm thinking now that the person I'm thanking in this thread (Mike) must have directed me here at the time from my other one.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=692405.msg5345282#msg5345282

Many thanks for all those very helpful resources, Mike 

Thanks so much, Shirley and thanks lots for the link, Tom.  I found my way to the website via your link (to the main home page).  I'm not sure whether I need to subscribe to find my way  individual entries.

Wow, thanks so much for all your replies.

Goughy, that indeed seems to be them and would love to know where I could find out more. It is really strange because William was a stonemason and was listed as having his own business in the 1841 census and so the fact that his sons were stonemasons ties in perfectly.  I'm now wondering if those in Pocklington aren't the right ones after all, except it's a big coincidence that the names and ages of the children are almost exactly right (but with two new additions since the 1841 census) in this case Edward aged 6 and Alice aged 4 (Alice was my great great grandmother and tragically dies in a house fire aged 38 but that is another story, she was actually born in 1845 but the census may well be two years out).  In the 1851 census, William is listed as a lodging housekeeper and I'm wondering if this is the son (as one of the older sons he was thought of as the main householder) and this is why he's not listed as a widower. We also have daughter Hannah listed as housemaid. Of course all this information was gleaned from microfiche years ago, although my mother did go up to the record officers. Your information is virtually identical the info I have as listed in Pocklington, apart from the fact that Hannah the mother isn't mentioned which is why we thought she'd died.

Thanks so much too, Carol. Yes, that is the marriage of our Hannah Horrocks to William Story but the death information is really helpful. It may be that we disregarded that one because we were looking for a much younger Hannah Storrie/Storey.

Where can I find out more?  I was able to get onto a free ancestry forum a few years ago but I don't mind paying for one that has detailed information.

Thanks so much again!

Hi

I am new to this site and thread

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=620642.0

but we have come to a block in our family tree regarding my great great great grandmother and her family. Her name was Hannah Horrocks and she married a William Storrie in 1841. We have documentation for the marriage at Sculcoates as well as the family and where they were living at the time of the 1841 census (Upper Union Street Hull) and the names and approximate ages of the children. However by the time of the 1851 census William Storrie is living in Pocklington as a lodging housekeeper with the children (most of the names and ages tally) but  Hannah Storrie isn't listed and neither is William Storrie listed a s a widower.

My mother has never found the birth certificate of Hannah Horrocks or the death certificate of her as Hannah Storrie. I am assuming there would have been death certificates of the cholera epidemic in 1849.  I see though that Myton was one of the areas worst affected and Hannah Horrocks' youngest child (my great great grandmother Alice Maude Storrie was born at Myton in 1845). I'm also wondering what would have been the situation though if she hadn't died eg she'd left her family to live with another or had had a mental breakdown.  I would be very grateful if you could give me a few pointers in the right direction or give some suggestions as to how I might go about unsolving this mystery!

I will also be following up some of the very helpful sources listed by mike covell above.

Many thanks