1851 Pontefract look up please

[Hunter]

Hi

I would appreciate it if someone could check out the following:

Surname
Hunter - Alexander age 36 Cutler  Attercliffe Yorks
ref: HO107/2330/-F50

also his family: Margaret age 27, John age 7, Catherine age 2

They were lodgers at Newgate Pontefract, I wondered if the original will give a bit more info than I already have?

Thanks in anticipation
Hunter

[Bee]

Hi Hunter

The only info extra to what you have given are the birth places .
Margaret born Dumfost? Scotland
John born Hull Yorkshire
Catherine born Woolwich Kent

Bee

[Hunter]

Gosh, that was quick!

Now I wonder where Dumfrost is?  The transcription I had said Damfoot?

Thanks very much Bee

regards
Hunter

[Bee]

Dumfost is what it was transcribed as but the only really legible part is the Dum, the next letter is probably an 'f' but the few letters after that could be anything, sorry

Bee

[Hunter]

Hi Bee

I posted a message on the Scotland site and a few suggestions have been made, firstly that it could have been misheard and was Dumfries, the second was a place called Damfoot in Roxburgh.

The Scotland link has thrown me a bit as I thought I had found Margaret's family in Wintringham Yorkshire following a search on the IGI records.

As she was born before 1837 it's all a bit vague -

Thanks
Val

[Bee]

Hi Val

Sorry you've not had much luck with this family, even though the actual birth place of Margaret is a bit uncertain, the census did clearly show Scotland.

Just thinking aloud, was John a fisherman, sailor or mariner? just a possibility that if he was, then with Hull being a port he could have met Mararet on his travels up the coast 

good luck
Bee

[Hunter]

Hi Bee

Margaret's husband was Alexander Hunter, he was a cutler born Attercliffe, Sheffield.

They did move about abit though - so far I have them married 1839 in York, 1841 in Knaresborough, 1844 in Hull (son John born), 1848 in Kent (daughter Catherine born), 1851 lodging in Pontefract, 1851/52 in Hull (son Alexander born), 1861 no sign of Alexander Snr but Alexander jnr and Catherine were in the York union workhouse.

In 1866 the workhouse ledger records that Margaret was the mother of Alexander jnr and Catherine, their father is said to have deserted them. (Maybe he's not worth looking for after all)

Margaret's father was called William Davison he was described as a Hawker on her marriage certificate.

Thanks for your interest
Val