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Cheshire / Re: Living in Wirral but marrying in Liverpool early 1800s
« on: Sunday 23 August 09 20:48 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Esther58 on Tuesday 10 March 09 13:35 GMT (UK)
Hello, I am wondering if your Povalls were James and mary, had children Joseph, John, Edward, George, Sarah Ann and James.

Regards

Esther

Hi Esther,
My Povall ancestors include James` brother Henry born 1806. Apologies for the delay :)
 :)

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Cheshire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1841 census look up please Waring
« on: Thursday 15 February 07 14:45 GMT (UK)  »
I have just been puzzling about the 2 William and Marys and I think the second William is shown as Norway on the 1841 census. Assume he is with second wife Hannah and daughter Elizabeth 20, son John 12 and daughter Mary 3. The other William and Mary are in Lancs..Allerton 1851, with children William, Thomas and Edmund.
Cheers

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Cheshire / Re: Living in Wirral but marrying in Liverpool early 1800s
« on: Tuesday 06 February 07 20:53 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for the welcome Celia  :)

A fellow researcher suggested a couple of reasons; St Nicholas did group weddings which made the process cheaper or a couple who were living together might not have wanted the neighbours to know they were not married. I also thought that perhaps for reasons of tradition you married where your parents had married. Two of my ancestors married in Liverpool in 1789, had all their children christened at St Oswald in Bidston (they were living in Claughton) and six of their children then married  in Liverpool.

Gaynor

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The Common Room / Re: Advice please from transcribers of Old B.M.D certs
« on: Monday 05 February 07 11:54 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Celia,
I just posted a query re marriages of folk living in Wirral in Liverpool. Someone had suggested it was perhaps because St Nicholas in Liverpool did cheap group weddings, because a couple did not want the neighbours to know they had been "living in sin" or because there was already a previous wife or husband in existence. I had not thought about the possibility of it being just fashionable. Do you know where I can find any info about routes over the Mersey prior 1850? 

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Cheshire / Living in Wirral but marrying in Liverpool early 1800s
« on: Monday 05 February 07 10:38 GMT (UK)  »
Whilst researching I note that several of my Povall ancestors living on the Wirral in the early 1800s travelled across to Liverpool to marry (St Nicholas or St Peter). I would have thought that pre steamboats this would have been a bit complicated. Does anyone know if this was usual practice?

Thanks
Gaynor

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