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Northumberland / Re: Edith Handyside M. Alexander Turnbull Davis 1911
« on: Wednesday 30 July 25 20:11 BST (UK)  »
Absolutely astounding.

I cannot believe this at all. I had no idea about the bigamy charges towards Alexander Turnbull Davis. My father, had went to meet Edith in the late part of the 1960s, yet he recalls that she never mentioned anything about her husband, or their plan to go to Australia. This has really shocked me.

Thank you

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Northumberland / Edith Handyside M. Alexander Turnbull Davis 1911
« on: Wednesday 30 July 25 17:15 BST (UK)  »
Trying to find information about Edith Handyside, born August 20th 1885 in Hebburn, daughter of William Robertson Handyside and Mary Ann Graham, who married Alexander Turnbull Davis (1877-1941), on September 14th 1911.

I am unable to find if she had any children, and when and where she died. I know she was still alive in 1950, and resided in London, but that's all I know about her.

Thank you

Additionally, she is sometimes credited as "Ellen."

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Lanarkshire / Re: Govan Poor House Records Circa 1869
« on: Friday 25 July 25 18:52 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much for this information Alan, it's very helpful.

I've sent you an email.

Thank you

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Lanarkshire / Re: Govan Poor House Records Circa 1869
« on: Friday 25 July 25 18:00 BST (UK)  »
Thank Alan,

I have replied to your PM and sent an email.

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Northumberland / Re: Elizabeth Sharon b. 1670 Married George Blenkinsop
« on: Friday 25 July 25 17:38 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much for your reply.

I had also figured that Sharon/Shasen was not a very popular name (especially in Northumberland) at the time, so I figured it must have been an error in transcription again. I thank you very much for offering to look up the original record for me at the Northumberland archives, and I think the original record may prove her last name to be "Shotton" or something very similar to it.

Thank you

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Lanarkshire / Govan Poor House Records Circa 1869
« on: Friday 25 July 25 17:32 BST (UK)  »
My 2nd great grandfather George Scott Blenkinsop was born in Gateshead, Northumberland in 1827, and until the 1850s, was living in Sunderland, Durham, with his wife, Mary Pigg. In 1861, he moved to Govan, Lanarkshire (presumably in search of work) with his family, and died in 1869.

On various trees on My Heritage, and on one on the IGI he is stated as dying in the Govan Poor House, but non of these have any reputable sources which would prove this to be true. The same year he died (1869), he had a son, Henry Jackson Blenkinsop, and his address is just lasted as "Govan, Scotland".

I have looked on various records of the Govan Poor House, and his name does not crop up on any of them, which I found to be interesting.

I would like to know if anyone can find anything or any records that state George Scott Blenkinsop as being a resident of the Govan Poor House.

Thank you

P.S--George Scott Blenkinsop is sometimes listed as "George Blankinsop".

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Sarah Jane Peel b. 1863 Snape, Yorkshire
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 19:39 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for your reply.

It appears that Mary Ann was born in 1843, which would match up with her being 18 in 1861, and this Francis fellow proves to be very interesting! I'll have a look if I can find him on the census anywhere, and see if he was a farmer or something. If so, than I think (75%) that this could be the man. But more often than not in genealogy--you can never be sure!

Thank you

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Sarah Jane Peel b. 1863 Snape, Yorkshire
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 19:07 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your reply.

I do have a photo of both Mary Ann and Sarah Jane (somewhere!), and I understand that she was most likely illegitimate.

What I do not understand though, is on Sarah's marriage certificate, she states the father as "Francis, farmer". Now, I do not know if he actually existed (I highly doubt it), but I wonder why she noted this down? Was it compulsary to note down the father on a marriage certificate? Was it truth? Or was it just to not appear illegitimate?

Thank you

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Sarah Jane Peel b. 1863 Snape, Yorkshire
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 18:33 BST (UK)  »
Having trouble finding the parents of Sarah Jane Peel, born 1863 in Snape, Yorkshire. In 1881, she married John Leonard Raw (1857-1896), and on her marriage certificate it states the parents as:-

"Francis Peel, Farmer"

and "Mary Ann".

The aforementioned Mary Ann, later married a man called Thomas Lund, but I can't find traces any of Mary Ann and Francis. Weirdly, on Sarah's birth certificate', there is just a line on the column labelled "Father", and the mother is just credited as "Mary Ann". Sometimes Mary Ann was credited as "Mary Ann Peel" (was that her maiden name or married name? (ie:-the last name of Francis?))

Along with this, I can't find a marriage certificate of Mary Ann and Francis, but there is a marriage certificate of her later husband, Thomas Lund, where it credits her as "Mary Ann Peel". There is a "Francis Peel, farmer", listed in the 1861 census, but his wife is labelled as "Alice", and he does not live in Snape, so we can rule this out.

So the questions are:- 1. Did "Francis (Peel??), Farmer" actually exist?

2. Did Mary Ann even marry Francis? (if he did exist) or was Sarah Jane born out of wedlock?


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