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Hi,  no - only have a Mary Catherine     Michael Doyle (who married Mary Galvin)  was the son of James Doyle and Catherine Bryan.  In 1861 they were living at 8-2 Court Mount  Vernon View West Derby Liverpool,  only the two youngest children are shown as born Liverpool.  Michael is a basket maker and Catherine is a lace worker.  Michael is shown as a Stone Mason aged 17.

Regards Dot

I am helping someone trace their LEEF/LEAF ancestry and would like to hear from anyone else researching this name in and around Portsea.  William Henry LEEF and John Henry LEEF were both baptised at St Mary Portsea, both listed parents as John and Mary.  I cannot find any more information on their parents - William Henry remained in Portsea and married and had a family, he is on the 1841 census with his wife and children.  John left the UK.

Is there anyone on this list who can connect to the family?

Thanks,

Dot

Thanks for the speedy replies!  Yes, that is the right family from the 1841 Durrisdeer (Durisdeer) census records.

The Thomas is the younger brother who also made his way to Newark, Nottinghamshire.

I cannot find any record in trade directories for Andrew senior, but then you had to pay to be included and although the sons stated he was a Farmer he may not have had much land..

I read somewhere that in the early 1800's a lot of Scots were encouraged to become Drapers to get them into employment away from the land.  Does anyone know if there was such a campaign held in Dumfriesshire?

I think my gt gt grandfather John probably provided the funding to get his younger brothers started in the Tea business, before he retired he was a Master Draper with a couple of shops and owned houses which he rented out so was presumaby quite successful.

Dot

Hello Barbara - not my work but from a site already on the Internet -http://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/dolphinh.htm

and two more pieces from the Frances Frith website which has pictures for sale:

Selected extracts from books on Dolphinholme & Lancashire
The name Corless is associated with the family who lived at Springfield House, Pilling. James Derham owned Corless Mill in Nether Wyresdale, 6 miles from Lancaster, and in 1801 he manufactured gas to light the mill and his workers' cottages. Dolphinholme was the first village to be lit by gas, and its first gas lamp is preserved at Derham House. At its peak the mill employed 1400 people, who worked shifts, day and night. Four hundred of these workers combed wool in their homes at Forton, Scorton and Nether Wyresdale. The lavish use of stone in these cottages (it came from quarries at Tootle Heights near Longridge) was made possible by the plentiful supply in those days. This 19th-century terrace is typical of Lancashire villages in this region backed by long ridges of Pennine hills. It is identical to Club Row in Longridge, which only came about through the tenacity of twenty Lancashire quarry workers who saved up and built the terrace.
Taken from: Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories

These 18th-century stone cottages were built for workers at the nearby mill, which was originally water-driven - its wheel was second only in size to that of Laxey on the Isle of Man. In 1811, the village and factory were amongst the first to be lit by gas, and in 1822 the mill was converted to steam.
Taken from: Lancashire Living Memories

Finally Genuki has a page with information on Dolphinholme -
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/NetherWyresdale/

regards,

Dot

Hello,

I am helping a work colleague research their family history and have found an ancestor who says he was born in Dolphinhulme.

William STEWART circa 1833.  I think he is one of the sons of John STEWART and Ellen PARKINSON who were living at Cockerham on the 1841 census.  John is stated to be a shopkeeper.

If this is the right couple then they should have baptised a son James, as well as children Jane, John and William.  There may be others in between.

John and Ellen married at Cockerham on the 17th November 1814.

Any help or suggestions how to find the baptisms would be very useful - I know that Dolphinhulme church wasn't built at the time of William's birth.

Thanks,

Dot