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Hi Jean and Ededwel

Fancy getting a reply after all this time!  Lovely to hear from you   I’m not related to the Stead brothers but my gggrandfather Charles Stickley Ingram a police officer in Rochdale has kept me puzzling.

He used both or either surnames as did others in the family.

I hope you are all well. Like most of us I’ve had a busy few years and a lot less time to play on family history,  Also progress with Harlesden’s is slow anyway.

Also I’ve now moved back to our family home in ZSouthport not a million miles from Chorley and Tochdale etc but not managed even to get to Rochdale or Salford!

Even so I wonder if any of Charless stories might suggest any patallel clues for you?

Charles was born in Dorset and Ihave his army record discharged in the castle in Carlisle. I lived there for a while but strugglespd. I did find a couple of burials for Stickley buried in the cemetery. Turned out he’d been married briefly and his wife had died there

Then married my gggrandmother Margaret Muilville etc

Really struggled for a wife but some great researchers found him andMargaretunder variations in the GRO registers. After I

moved away in the RC chapel of the time in Carlisle!  She was Irish and it got me thinking Had he also been in Ireland. I’d really struggled with the early marriage but found the marriage in an online index for one of the large sites  Notlong before her death

I discovered Charles had been a police officer in a few Lancashire towns including Wiganand Burnley. I found that record in PrestonwhereI used to meet my auntie and research and natter!  It didn’t mention allthe towns

Most of the extra information came from the great website Lancashire Online Parish clerk. Amazing,  loads of transcribed mds.

Also early on Ifound a few intriguing entries in the Newspapersonline.

Since then many have been added  Last weekend whenFind my past was free for Remembrance Sunday I found a lot and screen shotted them.

Some good interesting snippets about his life at the time as a Bobby both his work and the places he was working. I also found his marriage toMargaret

Census in Carlisle  and certificates gave me the parents names.

One more snippet. I lost my information from police and army records in the move but it’s all online if I didn’t have it

Lancashire Lantern from the archives ?   Army record on forces records. Find my past.?

Sorry. Mostly from memory 

I’ll look at my copies and see if your Stead’s appear!

Keep well all

Emms  :)is

Hi

I used to live not far from Brook Street near Our Lady and St Joseph. In fact my original piano came from very close to your family’s house.

Before I moved ai researched many families from those few streets including a friends.

A couple ofthungs. Many families with the name Dunn I’ve come across were descended from Irish and many were RC.

Has anyone looked at the RC register for you?  If not, if you’ve got good dates Carlislle library might do a lookup for you.

Also you say a child was later baptised in Ven Beds. Do you know that denomination?  Is it Venerable Bede?  It sounds like an RC parish name.

Just a few thoughts. Good luck with the hunt

Emms 

PS Hiya Gan yam

PS

I checked.  The link leads to the search result and a form to request more information

I just ordered information on ,my own gg grandfather

Good luck!

Emms

Hi Luke

I have a gg grandfather a police officer in the area and I got my best information including various family information and military reference which then lead to a service and Chelsea pensioner record from a brilliant resource in Lancashire record office

This was a police record for Lancashire. There was nana index and they sent me a copy of the full entry a few days later.  I was visiting the office


This was na few years ago and I think it may be at least indexed online, even if you have to ask for a copy.  Also check it hasn't been moved to Manchester.

My relative was in Rochdale and other local towns

Best wishes

Emms

PS

Just noticed. If I looked in the right place Ithink this is your first post.

Welcome to Rootschat,

You’ll get loads of help - and enjoyment on here

I have!

Enjoy it!

Emms