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Shropshire / Re: John Bigglane,1853-1904
« on: Friday 05 November 21 20:04 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: hanes teulu on Friday 05 November 21 18:17 GMT (UK)
Did you spot the item in the Staffordshire Advertiser, 11 Nov 1905, re Norah?

Hanes Teulu - I can find an article for 11 February 1905 about the compensation awarded (£192 - worth about £25,000 today) but can’t find one for 11 November 1905.

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Shropshire / Re: John Bigglane,1853-1904
« on: Friday 05 November 21 13:02 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: hanes teulu on Friday 05 November 21 08:27 GMT (UK)
The inquest into the death of John Biglane, Staffordshire Sentinel, 24 Dec 1904, gave his age as 44.
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This is slightly curious. His burial record also shows 44. However the 1891 and 1901 census have him as 38 and 47 so I assume there’s been a misunderstanding somewhere. Not surprising given the emotional turmoil which must have being going on in the family at that time with the death of the son followed shortly after by the death of the father.

Thanks for pointing me at that Sentinel article. I knew he’d died in an accident at work but didn’t know the details. Sounds gruesome.

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Shropshire / Re: John Bigglane,1853-1904
« on: Friday 05 November 21 08:49 GMT (UK)  »

Phew so much information to sift through. Thanks everyone.

Quote from: garstonite on Friday 05 November 21 08:05 GMT (UK)

are you sure John Patrick Biglane was Johns son ??

This is one of the few things I can be sure of as he’s on a list of burials in Newcastle-u-L as the son of John and Norah. He died at Burntwood Asylum, Lichfield.

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Shropshire / John Bigglane,1853-1904
« on: Thursday 04 November 21 22:28 GMT (UK)  »
I’m trying to find more information about my great grandfather, John Bigglane,1853-1904. He is recorded in the 1891 and 1901 censuses living in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire with a birth location of Wellington, Shropshire. He married Norah Herrity in 1883 in Newcastle-u-L and died in Dec 1904, sadly just a few days after the death of his son John Patrick Bigglane.

I haven’t found any records of him before 1883. There is a John Biglean born in 1853 in Wellington who briefly raised my hopes but he appears to have died in 1855.

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Staffordshire / Re: Alice Hazlehurst, b1873, Stone.
« on: Wednesday 03 November 21 07:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks CaroleW and Comberton. I’m sure that’s the Alice Hazlehurst I’ve been searching for. Sad to learn that she died so young though.

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Staffordshire / Re: Alice Hazlehurst, b1873, Stone.
« on: Tuesday 02 November 21 18:15 GMT (UK)  »
CaroleW - Many thanks for that. I’d overlooked that marriage in Congleton, Cheshire. I haven’t found any mention of a Alice Hazlehurst in the vicinity of Congleton in 1891 or earlier so certainly can’t rule this out as being a correct match. Now I’m curious about how Alice might have ended up in Congleton. It’s only 20 miles from Aston where she was born but I haven’t found any other family connection there which might have explained why she moved.

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Staffordshire / Alice Hazlehurst, b1873, Stone.
« on: Monday 01 November 21 17:29 GMT (UK)  »
My great grand aunt Alice Hazlehurst was born in 1873 in Stone, Staffordshire. In 1891 she was living with her father and 3 sisters in Little Aston near Stone and working as a domestic servant. After that I can find no further trace of her. Any help in tracing her would be gratefully received.

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The Common Room / Re: William North, Photo Artist, 1871
« on: Saturday 30 October 21 09:39 BST (UK)  »
Thanks CaroleW. Until coming across this I hadn’t realised how early commercial photography had developed. It was only 30 years after the invention of the daguerreotype and Fox Talbot’s inventions. Then again if we look back 30 years to photography in 1991 it bears little resemblance to today’s world of digital cameras.

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The Common Room / William North, Photo Artist, 1871
« on: Friday 29 October 21 17:47 BST (UK)  »
In the 1871 census for Silverdale, Staffordshire I came across an entry for:

William North, age 34, occupation Photo Artist, living in a caravan, place of birth - Leicestershire, Loughborough

I assume William North was some sort of itinerant photographer taking portrait photos but, although Silverdale had significantly expanded in the middle of the nineteenth century as a coal and iron mining community and undoubtedly had a growing middle class, the majority of people in the census for the village were miners or labourers.  I can’t imagine many of them had the money or energy to have their photo taken after a long week of hard manual work.

I haven’t been able to find any other trace of William North so have no clues to the type of work he was doing. Has anyone come across him or similar in the middle to late nineteenth century?

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