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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: William Atkinson (?? 1784-1849) of Winchester
« on: Thursday 18 May 23 14:15 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much for your suggestions!

I find Elizabeth Annets b Winchester 1800, certainly possible, and various Elizabeth Rugg and Rigg -- so these are good for further searching.

 

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: William Atkinson (?? 1784-1849) of Winchester
« on: Thursday 18 May 23 04:24 BST (UK)  »
Now (again not before) I can see the very marriage. By license, no surprise. Not by the rector. There are six witnesses (!) Including dad William, sister Ann, the verger William Silver (who also witnesses many other weddings in this register) and one, Richard Humphrys.

And two others whose names I find illegible. Could someone help? Elizabeth something and Elizabeth something else.

This is 28 Jan 1819, at St Lawrence Winchester.




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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with a word from an old will please?
« on: Monday 10 April 23 13:01 BST (UK)  »
chaudron

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: William Atkinson (?? 1784-1849) of Winchester
« on: Friday 31 March 23 03:46 BST (UK)  »
Catherine continued with her millinery business in the High street through at least 1830.  William appears Pigott's directory as a Toy Dealer in 1828, at literally next door.

Also "W Atkinson, Perfumer", was one of three selected as constables for Winchester in 1826. [Hampshire Chronicle 5 Dec 1825, p 3].  (I'd seen that before but now I know it's him.)

Mercurial chap: gent, perfumer, toy dealer, navy captain, disappeared.  Still can't help feeling Moorsom took after his dad.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: William Atkinson (?? 1784-1849) of Winchester
« on: Friday 31 March 23 00:24 BST (UK)  »
Now (not before) I can see the baptisms of William and Catherine’s three children, in 1822 and 1825.  It only adds to the mystery, because all three times William’s “Quality, Trade, or Profeſſion” is ”Perfumer”, neither Toy Dealer nor Navy man nor Gentleman.

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The Lighter Side / Re: WHAT IS THE POINT? by "Fed Up"
« on: Sunday 12 March 23 21:18 GMT (UK)  »
^^^ like

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The Common Room / Re: Consanguinity in Marriage
« on: Tuesday 07 March 23 23:47 GMT (UK)  »
Marriage to deceased wife's brother's daughter was legalised in England (where this 1827 marriage took place) by the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act, 1931.

So, in 1827 not legal in civil or Church law.

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Lancashire / Re: John Howard, theatre manager
« on: Tuesday 07 March 23 19:13 GMT (UK)  »
Inquest

See Saturday 02 January 1836
Newspaper: Bolton Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Page: 2, 3

"Was well known in the theatrical world"
"Died by the visitation of God"
"Parish workhouse for internment"

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Ayrshire / Re: Did you meet any of your great grandparents and did they help you with research?
« on: Friday 03 March 23 01:48 GMT (UK)  »
My father's paternal grandfather was born in 1859 and died in 1945, when my father was 12.  So I never met him: but he helped me with my research. In fact he got me started.

For he did genealogy himself, and wrote a book combining the results with a biography of his father and his own memoirs.

Thus we can pass our work forward to our own descendants whom we may never meet.

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